year. tropical storm warnings up for parts of texas. we re going to see some heavy rainfall in certain parts. we re going to tell you where and what that means for drought conditions. and a massive fire erupts at a boat yard in massachusetts. what we re learning about the fire and the damage that s been done. welcome to your weekend, saturday, august 20th. we re grateful to have you. thanks so much for waking up with us. great to be with you, amara. i can t believe it s august 20th. i wait for the weekends to know what the date is. i m realizing, oh my gosh, we re close to september. that s good. cooler weather, please. we were just talking about that, yes. it s almost halloween. good to be with you, boris. of course. we have a lot of news going on. we begin with the intense situation surrounding the z zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. that lies on the front lines of russia s war against ukraine. the fighting around the area have intensified so have concerns abo
thank you for joining me this saturday. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin this hour with officials in new york city announcing plans to address the influx of asylum seekers arriving from texas. new york expects at least 1,000 children will enter the city s school system this year. they are among the thousands sent there by bus from the lone star state at the direction of governor greg abbott. but this week the governor doubled down on his decision. before we begin busing illegal immigrants up to new york, it was just texas and arizona that bore the brunt of all of the chaos and all the problems that come with it. now the rest of america is understanding exactly what is going on. cnn s jean casarez is following this for us from new york. jean, how is new york responding and what is the plan? reporter: well, there is a plan and it s called open arms. it really facilitates what new yorkers feel about having them come from texas. here s what happens. the bus, as you see r
Large parts of spain. And in bullets they get full full live sake, their new signings made light work of your own berlin and take the capital clubs, impressive on beef and home record in the process. All the goals and more coming up in sports the unpopular felony as welcome to the program. Ukraine says its made a significant breakthrough and its kind of offensive in the side of keith says its forces have decisively breached russias 1st offensive line in this operation. Region. Just a week ago, ukrainian troops reclaimed were bought in a kit k village on the front line there. The latest reports of an advance with mark a significant boost for ukraine and made concerns from some of its allies that the kind of are offensive is full tray. And then another Major Development in the war, ukraines president of the mirrors. The landscape says hes replacing defense minister alexi resnick offices. The landscape did not comment on the reason for the re shuffle, but said new approaches were needed i
Went up in flames killing more people and destroyed 7 years later. Author sc gwynne opened book in england on october 4th, 1930, what was happening there that day . Well, in october 4th, 1930 a 770foot long air ship, largest thing that had ever flown, inow fact, something larger than the titanic by volume is about to take off from one trip in india as part of a scheme hatched by the british empire. It was for its they it was kind of a moon shot. A moon shot, a scheme that you call it. One of your chapters is called pipe dreams and imperial vision. How much was this airship . Actually a nice combination of all of them. Itit was air ship as it turns ot were a bad idea. They were competing with airplanes in the early centuries. Starting in the first decade of the century because nobody knew what where you say going to be the few houren of aviation. Both of them crashed all of the time. The problem with air ships as we will as we will say as we talked to is that it was a fundamentally flaw
Happening that day . October 4, 1930, is 770foot long airship, the largest thing everer clung, larger than the titanic about to take off on a trip which was in india as part of scheme by the British Empire and it was kind of a moonshot. One of your chapters is titled dream and imperial vision, hows much was the airship . A nice combination of all of them, airships as it turns out were competing with airplanes in the early century, starting in the first decade. Nobody really knew what was going to be the future of aviation back then. Both of them crashed all of the time. The problem with airships as we will see as we talk today is that there was a fundamentally flawed idea that essentially 40 years to play out completely, the airplanes crashed all of the time in the early days and they were fundamentally sound that could be improved. Part of what i am riding about is the two writing about, it is the focus of all of this effort to persuade people that airships were the way to go. A good