China, ill just say this. This summit was not about china. That was not the purpose of the meeting, but china came up. Not to say we dont share concerns about the economic coercion or heightened tensions caused by china, put this summit was about our relationship with each other and deepening cooperation across an entire range of issues that went beyond the immediately issues we raised. It was about a more peaceful and prosperous indopacific, a region quite frankly would benefit everyone living there and Around The World if we get it right. Its not just here. It has impact. Anyway, i wont get going. Itll take too long. Today is just how committed we are to see this vision take place. And i think this relationship we put together, and i think youre going to see it expand. This is a historic meeting, but were about to lay in place a longterm structure for a relationship that will last and have a phenomenal impact not just in asia but Around The World. Someone once said in a different con
on hurricane hilary. our meteorologist chad myers is in the cnn weather center. chd, when will the storm reach the u.s., and what can we expect once it s here? i think the rain probably starts tomorrow afternoon, and we hope that s the case. and i ll tell you why. because we hope the ground is wet before the wind blows 60. because if the wind is blowing 60 in a desert in a place that hasn t seen a lot of rain this summer at all, you could see fires before the hurricane ends and comes to put these fires out, so these are called prec precursor rains. they come in before the hurricane. 2:00 advisory 145 miles per hour. the hurricane hunter aircraft just flew through this. it left biloxi and a prop c130 flew all the way up to the storm but it found the pressure was not as low, and it found the winds were not as high as the
built up more recently, they have hurricane windows and have been built at a higher building code. so people felt more confident that they could ride out the storm. right now in broward county, about 10,000 remain without power. black, thank you so much for the update there and the good news that the ft. lauderdale airport will be reopening at 11:00. thanks, blake, for all that. joining us by phone, dawn walker, a good morning to you. how good is it where you are? well, i don t think we re domging the bullet like they did in south florida. the center of the storm is about 50 miles off the coastline, but the bands of the storm reach into the gulf of mexico. so we re looking for a day-long event. the storm is moving about 14
moon passes below the sun and the earth. really beautiful. i haven t seen it live and in person, but when i see it on video, really beautiful. you have to wear those special glasses because you can really damage your eyes and it s a really small area that will be able to see it. the best viewing was actually easter island and there was this huge following where people do this as a tourism thing. they ll do this for their vacation and plan it with the timing of the solar eclipse. the next total eclipse, by the way, doesn t happen until 2012 in november. so you ve goatt a ways to go. if you re planning your next vacation, you may want to take that into account. we ve got stormy conditions across parts of the midwest. you can see the watches. our little sliver of a tornado watch from about kansas city extending to the st. louis area, a couple thunderstorms, two of them that are severe and they re producing some damaging winds and probably some good hail with this one, too. we ve seen