This is Aljazeera America and im morgan radford. For the first time in 17 years, the u. S. Government is closed for business this morning. The clock that just yesterday counted down to a midnight deadline is now counting up, tallying the number of hours the government has been shut. So far, seven hours and still counting. Republicans in the house and democrats in the senate couldnt agree on a temporary budget to keep thins running. Theyre not expected back on the hill until a few hours from now. Federal agencies have already started shutting down. Harry reid placed the blame squarely on the tea partys shoulderrers. It is embarrassing that these people, who are elected to represent the country are representing the tea party, the anarchists of the country and that the majority of the republicans of house are following every step of the way. This is an unnecessary blow to america. Earlier on monday night, president obama called the hundred speaker of the house john boehner to ask him to p
[inaudible] will have the most National Guard provide a fema recap. After updates you have about an hour of questions pertaining to response efforts and updates with one following question. Identify yourself and your outlet when asked a question. You can contact at fema. Va. Gov for russians that may not be answered. We will forward you a link that will be in the reporting and we ask, we have an asl interpreter today. Keep them in your camera shot. Good afternoon, im the associate minister for the office and recovery of fema. Thank you for joining us today and continued attention to florida as well as South Carolina people impacted by the end. Want to thank the leader standing up today. Partnerships across the family enable Effective Response of the disastrous and ensures the radiance until carolinians the help they need during these unimaginable difficult times. Our hearts are with floridians as they endeavor on this long difficult recovery. Our resolve has never been stronger. Togeth
Boarding up their homes. If you have not done it already, it is probably too late. These pictures were taken in the outer banks. The outer bands hitting there. Lets get the latest forecast. The 5 00 a. M. Update from chad myers. Im glad you said, john, the storm is still growing. Because it is growing in size. Yes, we only have 110mileanhour winds in the eye. The eye is not the problem. The eye is where the most fierce winds are located. The storm is getting bigger in the overnight hours. North to south. East to west. Getting bigger and wetter. It is a rain event. 40 inches of rainfall as the wind now is coming onshore. Heavy rains will proceed the wind getting the ground saturated and trees will fall down. Roots will be completely saturated. The winds in wilmington by tonight and tomorrow morning. That is where it will turn left. The lefthand turn we talked about yesterday. It will happen. It will go all the way to myrtle. Down to the inlet near charleston before it turns back to the
The strongest hurricane of the 2023 season so far has already hit Category 5 strength and is expected to remain a major storm for the next several days.