Security. He is here to talk about disasters. Dorian has been a slow motion case study of a hurricane and government response to that hurricane. Keeping in mind the horrible devastation it has done in the bahamas so far, what are the initial early lessons we are learning of the government response to it . Great problemshe for Emergency Managers in these situations is getting people evacuated. Socalled mandatory evacuations, voluntary evacuations. One of the biggest problems this has been such a slow moving hurricane that it has been on the radar screen for over a week now, and there may be some emergency fatigue, that is to say people have, for example in florida when they thought it was nowg to hit first and it will hit the east coast, people have been sheltered for a week and are getting antsy. Citizenshe response by to the evacuation orders has been very good, but i think the Emergency Managers are starting to worry that just when it is about to hit the us coast, there may be people
In the central or eastern time zone, we want to hear from you. T 202 7488000 if you vote and identify democrat in the mountain and pacific time zone, we want to hear from you at 202 7488001. Keep in mind we are always reading at social media, twitter cspanwj and facebook, facebook. Com cspan. Once again, Democratic Candidates is towards their next set of debates and the question. S electability thats a lot of a democratic voters are talking about and is being taken on exactly by the recent article in the atlantic. The article says this, ask any New Hampshire democrats which of any of the two dozen democrats the replyng for, usually isnt a name, but a list. A few candidates they like, perhaps, or maybe a couple they ruled out. Ask them the most important factor in their choice and the response is instantaneous, universal down to the words that they use, who can be trump. These are the electability voters and they are now driving the democratic primary. Theyre the biggest reason,erhaps e
Announcer news to build a better bay area. This is abc7 mornings. Good morning, everyone, it is sunday august 18th. We are starting our morning with quick look at our forecast. Heres meteorologist lisa argen, good morning. Good morning to you. We have had a combination of clear areas. Now the fog is beginning to move back in. Heres live doppler 7. Check out santa cruz. It was plain old cloudy a while ago. With the mist and drizzle it looks cool out there. Inn sfra, sun, 64. 67 in oakland, partly cloudy. We are 0 in gilroy, low 60s in san jose. The golden gate, yep you are beginning to see an beyond shore flow. We will have a cool day. Right now it is in the upper 50s for much of the north bay. Napa at 61. Petaluma at 61. Mid 60s in the inland valleys. Heres san jose. The rest of the day today featuring more sun. The committeesal clouds. Low to mid 70s around noontime around the bay and inland. The coolest day today out of the next seven. Then we will talk about the warming trend, where
Today. Not too much traffic. New this morning, firefighters are cleaning up after a twoalarm garbage fire in san jose. Fire Officials Say it started around 1 00 in the morning between homes on 12th and 13th streets north of jackson. The fire spread to an out building and threatened a number of homes. You can see from the aerial satellite map just how much trash was in that back yard where the fire first started. The cause of the fire right now is under investigation. Fortunately no one was hurt. Developing news this morning, Hurricane Dorian is a category 5 storm with sustained winds of 185 miles an hour. Right now dorian is still slamming the bahamas. A live look at lake worth pier provided by surf line. Thats where people are preparing for heavy rains as the storm is headed north. Dorian is tied for the longest hurricane landfall on record. The officials are calling the damage in the bahamas catastrophic. Boats ending up on rooftops and uprooted trees there. The Prime Minister said y
They each took 16 threesecond puffs of ecigarette liquid without nicotine. What they found was that it temporarily damaged that persons blood vessels. This is the artery before the ecigarette, and this is the artery after. After vaping the blood flowed slowly, in some cases the effects lasted for minutes. Researchers are calling for more review to see if this behavior, repeated enough over time, could possibly have lasting effects down the road. I think its so clear that theres a shortterm risk that if you extrapolate a bit, it only makes sense to think that there is a longterm risk. Certainly decreased circulation to the heart muscle is going to result in heart damage. Our thanks to gio benitez. Ecigarette maker juul is saying this study called for vaping that is, quote, unrealistically high in volume with limited time between puffs. And the president of the Vaping Association says shortterm changes dont necessarily say anything about longterm use. Weve seen a lot about vaping in the