Well a monster storm is barreling toward indias eastern coast tonight. Cyclone phailin is heading toward the bay of bengal. Its heading toward the region of andhra pradesh. How are people getting ready for this storm . People are batoning down the hatches so to say or they are getting out of town. The people on the coastline in the neighboring state are being evacuated since early friday. We have learned since the north of the coastal city where we are now, 12,000 people have arrived at one of the emergency shelters set up by the government and there is another 40,000 expected there by saturday. Fishing villages dot the coast lean focoastline for hundreds of miles and more than 10 Million People may have to be evacuated from those areas before the cyclone hits. Is the Indian Government working with the armed forces to prepare for this storm as well . They definitely are, john. They are trying to prevent a repeat of 1999 where thousands of people are killed. . Rmplethe indian army has b
Wins the Nobel Peace Prize. And the Spanish Court decides to investigate chinas former president for againside in tibet. Welcome to al jazeera, lets go first to the developing story in the mediterranean. Where a boat capsized between the islands. Its the latest in a series of accidents in the area. Lets get more now. Karl, so reports of another migrant boat capsizing what more can you tell us . Reporter it is indeed another migrant tragedy in the mediterranean between the islands of lampedusa and malta which has become the front line for migrant arrival in the past month. And putting both islands in serious logistical problems to handle such migrants at about 1700 hours the boat was spotted, shortly afterwards the crew aboard the aircraft saw the boat lift and capsize sending all of the people on board into the water. A maltese navy boat reached the boat in about five minutes. These are migrants who have no experience with the water. Some had life vests on and others didnt. However, wh
The monster cyclone phailin heading state for the state of odissa. Hundreds of thousands taken to government shelters. Tourists have left beaches. Phailin is so large its the size of france. Twice the size of Hurricane Sandy and fills almost the entire bay of bengal, supercyclone one of the biggest india has ever seen. Said to expect sustained winds of 167 miles an hour and gusts of 200. Seth jamil has more from indias coast. These are the waves that people come to the beach to look at. Couple of meters high and much more frequent than they usually are. This is literally the calm before the storm, cyclone phailin. Now, the outer edge it is really to the north of here where the main part of phailin is expected to hit. There we hear hundreds of thousands have been evacuated into shelters and several units of the National Defense forum have been stationed there. This is not going to be a repeat of 1999 where thousands of people were killed. Theyre telling people to get out of the area now
However the principal requirement is to reduce the Carbon Intensity. Over the next few decades, we must drive the Carbon Intensity down near zero. There is one country that has done a good job, sweden. Sweden has decarbonized its electricity, which is provided by Nuclear Power and hydropower. They have one more big step to make, to make liquid fuels from electricity. Thats actually not difficult, but they are a small country and have not developed that industry. Why is the rest of the world not driving Carbon Intensity down . It is because fossil fuels appear to the consumer to be the cheapest energy. Fossil fuels are not really the cheapest energy. They are not required to pay for the human health costs of air pollution and Water Pollution or for the costs of Climate Change. The public picks up the tab. So the required policy is to put a gradually rising fee on carbon, collected from fossil fuel companies at the first domestic sale, at the mine or port of entry, and 100 of the money s
Forward to taking their money and buy school supplies. But once they removed all of that, by the time my children got to be 16 years old, they in my we call this crack. They started off with smoking marijuana, and then they would put Something Like embalming fluid, where it would make you get a more potent high. Host debra, thank you for that background. Whats the in your view, whats the current status of the situation . Caller the situation is, they have to get back to putting their children in more afterschool programs. They got to get their children with their lives being upsidedown, these children need to find some kind of way to say, okay, the house is falling down, my life is not that my future. Guest absolutely. There has to be more support for kids in all kinds of ways. Something that somebody brought up about the cutting back this is in a prosperous community, too cutting back on the choices i think reaching high school, that you could take art but you couldnt take do athletic