Hurricane harvey tops 63, we will look at the fallout from the historic storm in a spspecil report from houston, texas, the epicenter of the fossil fuel industry in the united ststates. We will take you on a toxic tour of the city from the flooded Oil Refineries spewing contaminants into the air of neighborhoods, so often poor commmmunities s of cocol. Plus, wewe attend a a fundraiseo pay for the e funerals of four rescue volunteerers who were electrocuted when their small boat was swept away by churning floodwaters. They were undocumented. Then we visit with the father of the Environmental Justice movement dr. Robert bullard after he returned to his houston home after a mandatory evacuation. How can we make invisible communities visible yucca those communities who have been inundated of pollution before the storm yucca when a storm like this, happens, it exposes that vulnerability. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report
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Industry in the United States. We will take you on a toxic tour of the city from the flooded Oil Refineries spewing contaminants into the air of neighborhoods, so often poor communities of color. Plus, we attend a fundraiser to pay for the funerals of four rescue volunteers who were electrocuted when their small boat was swept away by churning floodwaters. They were undocumented. Then we visit with the father of the Environmental Justice movement dr. Robert bullard after he returned to his houston home after a mandatory evacuation. How can we make invisible communities visible yucca those communities who have been inundated of pollution before the storm yucca when a storm like this, happens, it exposes that vulnerability. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. North korea carried out its strongestever nuclear test sunday, just days after the u. S. And south korea wrapped up their massive joint military d
West at 17. Napa airport west at 8. Now vacaville has a west. Finally the wind is turning. I believe underneath that there are areas of fog. Look how the system has formed to the west southwest of us. Getting drawn up by that system right there. The combination will cool us down and usher in a lot of cloud cover the next few days. Possibility of a little shower activity on thursday, he says. Stay tuned. 70s and 80s on the temps here. Coming down on the temps, sal. Thats good. A lot of people didnt want to live in phoenix for a reason. It felt like it. Right . Yes. Good morning. Everyone. We have slow traffic as you might expect on this tuesday that feels like a monday for a lot of people. 80 westbound we will start there with 80 westbound. Im going to move the map up a little bit to the gillman street exit. The latest incident is westbound 80 at gillman. I can bring in the camera and you can see that 80 will be quite a drive this morning, driving from the carquinez bridge. It looks lik
Administration calling it quits on the daca program , better known as daca. This was put in place so kids can stay in the country. Trump is said to have made his final decision over the past weekend. We are people of compassion, and we are people of the law. There is nothing compassion about the failure to enforce immigration laws. Many referred to as dreamers, rely on the program. The department of Homeland Security has now formally rescinded with a six month delay. Congress, according to the administration, now needs to address the issue. This is to go to legislation. The backlash has been swift in and in a unusual move, president obama has spoken and said these kids have done nothing wrong. Nancy pelosi calling the decision rule, and heartless. In the meantime protesters gathered around the country including new york city and the white house. I think he was ashamed of his actions, i think thats why he sent out Jeff Sessions to do the dirty work. They now have to figure out a solutio