The floor because there mustve been hundreds of police in that basement that sunday morning. Watch our interviews on oral histories, sundays at 7 00 p. M. On American History tv on cspan3. Right now, residents in the u. S. And caribbean are recovering from the effects of Hurricane Irma. The centerweek, for strategic and international withes held a discussion foreign diplomats and u. S. Officials on Recovery Efforts. This is about an hour and a half. Great. Welcome, everyone. Im the director here at the center for strategic and International Studies for the americas program. Its great to have you all here today. We need to make the requirement emergency announcement. This is a special program on Hurricane Irma and jose and the massive response that is already underway. Weve seen the pictures of the tremendous damage that has been done on barbuda and st. Maarten and the British Virgin islands and u. S. Virgin islands, cuba, florida and elsewhere. Disasters like these hurricanes always pr
The computer forecasts are clear cut for a while. Going straight to the north, not moving in our direction and then making a bit of a right turn. This helps protect the United States. And then an eastward motion farther offshore into colder water so it should continue to weaken. Then, we have more uncertainties. Well get into that part later. But in the meantime, a Tropical Storm watch in effect for the delaware beaches and the jersey shore as the storm tracks a couple of hundred miles offshore and weakens into a Tropical Storm over the next couple of days. More on the detailed impact hour by hour coming up. And at the jersey shore, people are preparing for jose. Not long after the beaches took a beating from Hurricane Irma. Jersey shore reporter Ted Greenberg is live in longport. Another potential problem that could be created for the shore, coastal flooding. Reporter it is, jim and jackie. And the wind is picking up. We have these waves are getting bigger day by day. For some people,
Today, the viewer of the program we like to call good hat. I never wear visor. Day philadelphia a chore. Lets go back to the eagles yes. One of these two guys from yesterday. Played football in the nfl. Okay. Moral victory and all, do you trust doug . Do you trust Doug Pederson. Yep. Okay. Ill be Doug Pederson, we do you trust the process. Im not talking about the passed 56 times yesterday. Sixers im talking about the yeah. And we ran 13. Eagles. In doug do we trust. Umhmm. G, that doesnt seem right. Dont say that we have to it is in the right way to go back there. Go. Doug was a quarterback. Yes, yes. He believes in throwing the no. Yes. Is what our second ball. He has all these trick play assignment. Second is, it is National Cheese burger day. That he is thinks will work. Is what your go to cheese it is not good for a game for burger place. Im not, im not, i will, i. A team when you run and throw the ball all the time. You get off balance. Other team know you will throw what . Spit
Im Natasha Brown. Rahel is off. Maria meantime came ashore this morning with winds of 155 miles per hour. It is one of the strongest hurricanes to ever strike the island. Cbs correspondent david filed this report as the storm hit. Reporter the building about 100 yards behind me there are pieces of that building that have flown off and are now flying through the air like projectiles. This video was taken just outside of our hotel room showing the force of marias violent winds. It was enough for the hotel to order guests down to the lobby level. The region was still rebounding from the last storm. Irma when maria rolled in. Weve never had any back to back hurricanes before. Reporter Yolanda Maldonado has been without power since Hurricane Irma two weeks ago much shes in a shelter in san juan. I passed through hurricanes but this one its going to be very hard. Reporter eddie and his allege year old daughter riding out the storm in hotel room. We are trying to dot best we can to survive. Y
Months before the electricity is even restored. Puerto rico go puerto ricos governor imposed a curfew and the san juan that we knew is no longer there. This is what it looked and sounded like when maria hit puerto rico early yesterday morning. The fury of the winds ripped palm trees and blew down doors in the rain flooded streets. Katy, local people have been left unable to contact their loved ones on the island. You can imagine how nerve wracking it is for them. Some of the images are just jaw dropping, the amount of damage this storm has caused. Its leaving people in our area incredibly nervous because they cannot confirm if their loved ones on the island are okay. Here are some of the most recent images from the island after the hurricane made landfall. People there are knee deep in water. This storm dumped nearly two feet of water there and the entire island is without power. Its the strongest storm to hit there in more than 80 years. A 24 hour curfew was lifted only a few hours ag