Speak. There has been some looting. Miami was on lockdown overnight to try to prevent it. Nine arrests in Fort Lauderdale. Now, the millions who evacuated do not know at this time when they can go back and what theyre going back to. Irma is now a Tropical Storm, still lashing north florida and georgia. It hits atlanta in a couple of hours. So why are stocks going up . It looks like a tripledigit rally about a half hour from now. Well, there are several factors at play. Irma bad, yes, it is. But perhaps not the epic catastrophe that it might have been. And the money that is pouring into texas and florida may help the National Economy in the long run. President trump is getting favorable reviews for his handling of the crisis. That may help the push for tax cuts. And finally, north korea did not launch missiles as feared. Add it up, and on this the 16th anniversary of 9 11 americans have pulled together to deal with backtoback disasters. Yes, they have. Varney company is about the begin.
Rajiv has the rare gift of being able to folk coast on shop palm details. He paints a broad pictures. He listens more than he takes. He speaks to generals frankly, but so do the grunts and the other minor characters who drive the plot of any major story. This month marks the tenth anniversary of george w. Bushs invasion of iraq. Nothing written or said better explains the resulting folly than rajivs book, life in the emrad city, the green zone. And yesterday again, rajiv, gives us detail, the new book, Little America. Right now these days, a shortterm sequester to find 80 billion, but over the next decade we have to scrape up three to five trillion, which is just about what we managed to squander on an iraq war that left so many dead and so many more people who hate us. So lets start there. In the front piece of imperial city, he quotes t. E. Lawrence who advised his british superiors in 1917, do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the arabs do it tolerably than you do i
Florida, the caribbean trying to rebuild amid growing frustrations of food and water shortages. This nursing home where authorities are investigating the deaths of eight elderly residents. Were all dumbfounded how this could have happened. What happened here is inexcusable. Daca is a symptom of a bigger problem. We do not have control of our borders. Democratic leaders and President Trump potentially reaching a deal to fix daca that does not approve funding a border wall. The idea that the Republican Party ideas are not represented in that room are just ridiculous. Identical to you in the United States and around the world. This is new day. It is thursday, september 14th. 6 00 in a hot and humid naples, florida. Its dark. Its dirty. But an order of magnitude better than it is in the keys. The big headline is in just hours, President Trump will come here to survey the catastrophic damage left by hurricane irma. The current count, more than 3 million customers still without power largely
Office into his investigation into the trump russia scandal. The special council is apparently ready to start interviews with a half dozen to a dozen white house personnel, including reince priebus, former white house Spokesman Sean Spicer and the Current Communications director, hope hicks. Were going to have more on that news ahead, including what we now know to be the special councils interest in some behavior by the Trump White House early on in the administration which we didnt know before now that the special counsel was investigating. Some of those dots have been connected in terms of that special council investigation. That story is ahead tonight. If you are a ford truck person im a ford truck person you may be familiar with the term king ranch. All full size american pickups come in lots of different trim levels now. Some of them are very luxurious given that these are trucks, but for a long time, even before the current luxury truck trend took hold across all the different tr
Could according to chad myers get that way in ft. Myers. For tampa, which is further north, expecting 5 to 8 feet of storm surge. Im on the Caloosahatchee River roogt now, probably 7 or 8 feet over the river so this little area would not be able to we wouldnt be able to stand here 24 hours from now. Chris, i imagine in the same location where you are, youre not going to be able to be there tomorrow either. No. Similar dynamics that you were identifying. Getting a little gust now. Its picked up, no question. But this is not the real deal as you rightly point out. The water ootzly overwhelmed this area when we got that first moderate band of stormtype rain here. Even though we see the shift in the path of the storm, its projected path, nothings a certainty here no ma matter how much they model. The officials on the ground have said do not come back and if you are in an evacuation zone c, the time between these bands as opportunity, do what you were told, make the choice for safety. Lets