welcome back you re watching a special edition of velshi and rue as which cover hurricane irma making it say up florida. just moments ago when we got the 11:00 update we were looking at the storm making it s way over the florida keys. we have to take a moment ali think about all the weather we ve seen. monsoon season last in month. you saw people in southeast asia with more water than they ve had before. wildfires on the west coast and two weeks ago hurricane harvey devastatesed texas. there are 78 wierlds right now, 8 million acres burned in the united states. 7 firefighters died. 26,000 people are fighting fires in montana, oregon abwashington and california. of course you ve seen the la tuna fire outside of los angeles. irma isn t starting in fl st. foms, st. martin, barbeda.
black people are disproportion atly killed by the police. are you going to continue this story in 2016? yes. our reporting led to the fbi declaring they need to keep these stats better but their program isn t starting until 2017. we ll continue doing our project next year. walter lowry, thank you for that update. the wife of bill cosby will testify in a civil case against her husband. what could happen when she takes the stand? santa has a magic snow globe for every family. and this year, look at what he put in our driveway.
sports need money, they re simply told by basketball and by football tickets here is a problem. when a fellow is on a basketball scholarship or a football scholarship says to his coach, coach, i can t make it on time because i ve got some classes to finish. i ve got some work to do, the answer is if you re going to start on my team, i m not telling you what to do but you better be on time. if a white fella or any other group who isn t starting says i got some work to do the answer is real simple, see you when i see you. so ultimately, the fellow who is giving the scholarships to everybody else having one himself ends up driving a forklift to have to graduate so on the one side we ve got 2% giving scholarships to everybody that comes to the universities and then on the other side, when we don t get the 2% in school,
economy just nobody sees signs that it is finally fixing itself. it has been fits and starts. like i said, to borrow our pollsters phrase, failure to launch. everybody time you think, something fizzles it out. what is the president trying achieve at blair house meeting with the business leaders. the top business leaders are being more positive about what they are hearing at the white house? the white house is trying to mend fences and wondering why the jobs, why the hiring isn t starting. that is what the dialogue is supposed to be about. how do we jump start hiring. the end of the day, the number one political problem for the president is jobs. the number one political problem for the republicans in six months could very well be jobs. it is in everybody s interest folks start wondering where are the new jobs going to come from. the $2 trillion, a number a lot