you know i have had a struggle with cocaine in my past. i never went to a place to get the treatment. so the tv personality and former radio host surprised her studio audience as she tearfully went with her sober coach telling the only people that knew of her recovery situation were her husband and her son. 54-year-old williams used the moment to promote her non-profit organization, the hunter foundation, which provides grant for drug rehabilitation and pre investigation. she says the organization has already placed 56 people in recovery centres around the world. the investigation into boeing s 737 max jets continues to intensify in the wake of that deadly crash in ethiopia last week involving one of those planes, meanwhile, on the heels of that crash, president trump named a permanent chief of the faa. nbc s tom cost tell slo has
sea had it though. at the port the business of finding answers is under way fuselage piled in with fragments of life. and rescue vessels returning from the vast crash site unload body bags alongside debris. while workers begin the mammoth task of carefully laying out the aftermath of this tragedy rules of wallets and purses salvaged from the sea. indonesia s president visited the site today as the government and safety inspections on all the aircraft of the same model. officials briefing on the search and rescue described a complicated recovery situation. so far we have twenty four body bags with various parts in them they have been sent to
communities. she says there are still plenty of work to do. going from a massive response situation to a massive recovery situation. a lot of work to be done. if we thought we worked last week we are working double time this week. 19 people are killed in the floods. california governor jerry brown is signing legislation banning the name redskins from the public schools ports teams. the new law goes into affect in 2014. american indians say the term is offensive. the nfl s washington redskins have come under fire and they refuse to change it. and halloween is back after a short hiatus at public schools in connecticut. the district canceled halloween activities and replacing them with a generic celebration for kids who may not participate because of religious reasons.
really start making some good decisions on how we can go and get people back into a protected situation but also back into a recovery situation. so far some 200 rescues have been performed and over 500 roads and bridges remain closed. over 1,000 national guardsmen are on duty. meanwhile, hurricane joaquin, which did the most damage in the carolinas, has been downgraded to a category 1 storm with up to 85-mile-per-hour winds. the flooding, which submerged almost the entire state of south carolina, is the type of extreme weather event that climate models predict we ll be increasingly seeing more of. which is truly terrifying to think about. as the extraordinary becomes more ordinary with each passing day.
evacuations are under way in richland county, south carolina where yet another dam opened up this afternoon, sending water rushing into surrounding lake communities. local county sheriff telling nbc news that dams in the area are breaching so quickly officials can t keep track. the president tonight signed a disaster declaration for several south carolina counties after at least nine people have been killed in the catastrophic flooding that shattered rainfall records across the state. and at this moment tens of thousands of people are still without water and power. although the bulk of the rain appears to have passed and dams continue to be vulnerable, evacuations are still under way and officials are working to free trapped residents. the good news is that we are getting into the assessment and recovery mode. so a lot of that is where we can start to assess the damage to really start making some good decisions on how we can go and get people back into a protected situation but also