Ground zero for irma will be the state of florida. Heres governor rick scott. Look at the storm. Its wider than our entire state and could cost major impact coast to coast. Forecasters say it could slam into the miami metropolitan area home to 6,000,000 people and the condos could sway 12inches in Hurricane Force winds. The evacuation is on by road and by plane. The cruel reality is, hundreds of flights are being canceled. Gas stations are being shut down. The governor of georgia ordered 540,000 coastal re residents to move inland. Said one local official, if a Freight Train is coming at you, get off the tracks. Until now hurricane andrew was the hardest to hit florida, but irma has staying power. Its still a category five hurricane. Maximum sustained winds, 165 Miles Per Hour and irma, over the past 24 hours, has actually expanded. Its now 650miles across. Put that into perspective, irma is big as the state of texas. Its moving northwest quickly about 16 Miles Per Hour. This is the la
Reason why. This is what Hurricane Irma has already done to the caribbean. There is death, and as you can see, almost total destruction. This is truly a brutal storm, and its headed for the sunshine state. Thursday night, the big story on action news tonight is Hurricane Irma. First the story in the caribbean. Irma is currently pummeling the turks and Caicos Island known to be the most beautiful tourist destinations. The Dominican Republic is savaged by the storm. A minimummion people without power in puerto rico. St. Martin is the place of terrible damage. The death toll stands at 11 00. Ground zero for irma will be the state of florida. Heres governor rick scott. Look at the storm. Its wider than our entire state and could cost major impact coast to coast. Forecasters say it could slam into the miami metropolitan area home to 6,000,000 people and the condos could sway 12inches in Hurricane Force winds. The evacuation is on by road and by plane. The cruel reality is, hundreds of fligh
Houston just lifted an Major Concerns of major looting. We are live on the ground there in moments but first. Ainsley lets get to janice dean who is tracking the latest path. Janice another path you mentioned in cammeron louisiana and still not out of the woods in terms of heavy rainfall for not only Southeast Texas but louisiana and you were valley. Houston your days of drying out begin today. But there is a tornado threat. We actually had a tornado warn storm west of new orleans. We are watching this future radar. Still this area of low pressure, Tropical Storm harvey will remain stationary and then it will start to move begin not guilty next 12 to 18 hours it will be picked up by a cold front, a trough that will move this north and eastward over the weekend. We still could see upwards of a foot of rainfall across the Mississippi River valley as well as louisiana. Look at houston this morning. We are reporting no inches of rainfall but still the river waters, the bayou waters are goi
This is a transcript of episode 10 of The Conversation Weekly podcast “The zombie company problem and what it means for our economies”. In this episode, why some economists are worried about a growing army of “zombie companies” with lots of debts – and what this could mean for the shape of our economies. And researchers have found a new way to prevent predators from eating endangered birds and their eggs – via a form of biological, psychological warfare.
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Gemma Ware: This week, why some economists are worried about a growing army of companies with lots of debts – known as “zombie companies”. We speak to two experts on what this could mean for the shape of our economies.