That region. This was disrupted by the storm. Jeff flock first with whats going on in lake charles, louisiana, i saw the wind whipping around a little earlier today, jeff and that looked pretty strong. That looked very strong. Reporter pardon maya experience but ive been in a hurricane and youre absolutely right and how strong . Well, look what its done. I mean, power lines down, trees everywhere. Look at this tree here. Im always fascinated by up close and personal with these things. Thats the definition there, of a tree snapped like a match stick. 150mile an hour winds can you see what it did through that house . Right down through the middle of the house and this is a story in a lot of places. Everything, you know, trees everywhere down, power lines down. They are going to be forever trying to get the power back restored here, and i think these are one off. Every house that i have seen, i said this two hours ago and ive been looking at houses since then, and ever since then, ive not
Until the end of the year. A city on edge after unrest over the Police Shooting of a black man. Wisconsins attorney general made public the name of the officer who shot jacob blake seven times in the back. Im brent goff. To our viewers in pbs in the u. S. And around the world, welcome. Vladimir putin says the leader of belarus has turned to moscow for help. He says his counterpart Alexander Lukashenko has asked him to prepare a russian law enforcrcement contingent to be sent to belarus if necessary. Police have arrested dozens of antigovernment protesters. 20 journalists have been detained. Among those is a dw correspondent. Day 19 of the protests against the belarusian president saw dozens of women stand in the chain of solidarity to highlight another last point of the police crackdown. The showdown, they were in minsk where tensions are running high the night before. Security forces arrested around 50 people. When dozens of others sought refuge inside this church, Police Locked them
Wisconsin protests. World Central Bank Leaders coming together virtually, Federal Reserve chair jay powell speaking at key economic conference and investors closely watching what he has to say. Ahead of the speech, few hours are lower. We are taking a look at decline at start of trading. S p and nasdaq hit record highs again yesterday. This morning dow futures down 88 points. Mornings with maria live right now. Global markets this morning are red across the board. Take a look at european indices, the cac quarante down 31 and the dax index lower by 52. In asia overnight markets mostly lower, worst performer was korea down more than 1 . Top stories that we are watching this morning. Night 3 of the Republican National convention honoring americas bravest, devoting their lives defending our freedom. Since 9 11 ive seen americas heros up close. Some of them saved my life. Service, its more a word to me, its a way of life. Maria meanwhile mike pence touting President Trumps economic success
Afghan Officials Say at least 300 inmates have escaped and 29 People Killed and i saw the tag the high security prison. Back in business zimbabwes Stock Exchange reopens giving some hope for the economys revival bus disagree major fires will be going on for a couple of days a wildfire in Southern California forces thousands of americans to flee from their homes. The World Health Organization has issued a stark warning that there may never be a Silver Bullet to end the coronavirus pandemic the w. H. O. Has want people against pinning their hopes on a vaccine saying basic prevention measures remain crucial to finding a way out of the crisis. And we all hope to have a number of effective vaccines that can help prevent people from infection however there is no Silver Bullet at the moment and then might never be for now stopping outbreaks comes down to the basics of Public Health and Disease Control testing isolating and treating patients and tracing and quarantining their contacts do it on
Could jimmy carter, obama, stop them . Democrats downplaying the riots. Top democrat jerry nadler saying antifa violence in portland, a myth. Joe biden called the protests peaceful. Rioters are embedded in them. As democrats continue to blast the president for trying to stop the destruction. People are warning there is not peaceful or mythical about officers being assaulted with power tools, commercial grade fireworks and lasers that blind them and buildings being set on fire with people inside of those buildings or cop cars being burned. Also tonight, you would think the twoyear trumprussia probe was based on high level russian firms with connections to russian intelligence the way the media and democrats talked about the story for three years. Turns out that is not the case as knewly revealed government documents detail. Senator Lindsey Graham, the fbi sourcing for their probe was pretty lame. It is going from bad to worse. Senator graham is saying that there is evidence that fbi off