from an mess nbc rolled headquarters, welcome in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with the big story of survival and recovery, mostly in florida that state hit hardest by hurricane ian. the total death toll from that storm is estimated 78 people. power outage numbers are down from reporting last hour, now it s over 21,000 in north carolina and just over 7000 in virginia without power. 1200 in south carolina. search and rescue operations are still underway, with the coast guard leading most efforts as 100 of thousands struggle with basic necessities like power, water, cell phone service. here is fema director demon chris just short time ago. we have well over 2 million people without power immediately following the storm and the power companies there have done a numbing job of getting the majority people back online. i think where the difficulty comes in, jonathan, is that there are so many homes especially in fort myers beach, area that are compl
Water vapor than cold. You can get stronger storms. The atmosphere is about 4 12 than it was four years ago. That is an enormous change. It loads the dice for drought and they lose and downpour and flood. That is what were seeing all over the planet. We will go to haiti where Hurricane Sandy killed at least 50 people, devastating parts of the country still recovering from the 2010 earthquake. And we will look at the storms impact on the nuclear industry. At least 16 Nuclear Plants are in the path of this unprecedented storm. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from medford, oregon. Much of the east coast is shut down today as residents brace for Hurricane Sandy, a massive storm that could be the most powerful to hit the United States in decades. Hundreds of thousands of people have already been evacuated, millions could lose power over the next day. Meteorologists say it is rare hybrid
Julie they are considering raisin the stake in this company to 25 . Information. More i just wanted to bring you that headline initially as we get it read as the day goes on, things have gotten more negative. Initially, the read by economists was it was not as bad as it looked on the surface because Labor Participation had ticked up. Seasonally, we see september higher. That is not helping stocks. Stocks have continued to fall to their lows. You can see this on the oneweek chart. Today, stocks were dropping off. 9 10 for p is off weak. We are also watching the bond market. We have seen a muted reaction on the shorter end of the curve. Yields had briefly gone lower. The fed is on track to raising rates once more this year. Now we are going to get more details on that Deutsche Bank story. Written already had that some of the major shareholders and Deutsche Bank had been speaking with the bank about backstopping its liquidity issues. People are hearing from familiar with the plan who decl
Julie they are considering raisin the stake in this company to 25 . Information. More i just wanted to bring you that headline initially as we get it read as the day goes on, things have gotten more negative. Initially, the read by economists was it was not as bad as it looked on the surface because Labor Participation had ticked up. Seasonally, we see september higher. That is not helping stocks. Stocks have continued to fall to their lows. You can see this on the oneweek chart. Today, stocks were dropping off. 9 10 for p is off weak. We are also watching the bond market. We have seen a muted reaction on the shorter end of the curve. Yields had briefly gone lower. The fed is on track to raising rates once more this year. Now we are going to get more details on that Deutsche Bank story. Written already had that some of the major shareholders and Deutsche Bank had been speaking with the bank about backstopping its liquidity issues. People are hearing from familiar with the plan who decl
Julie they are considering raisin the stake in this company to 25 . Information. More i just wanted to bring you that headline initially as we get it read as the day goes on, things have gotten more negative. Initially, the read by economists was it was not as bad as it looked on the surface because Labor Participation had ticked up. Seasonally, we see september higher. That is not helping stocks. Stocks have continued to fall to their lows. You can see this on the oneweek chart. Today, stocks were dropping off. 9 10 for p is off weak. We are also watching the bond market. We have seen a muted reaction on the shorter end of the curve. Yields had briefly gone lower. The fed is on track to raising rates once more this year. Now we are going to get more details on that Deutsche Bank story. Written already had that some of the major shareholders and Deutsche Bank had been speaking with the bank about backstopping its liquidity issues. People are hearing from familiar with the plan who decl