U. S. Officials saying Military Cargo u. Planes dropped 38,000 meals in pallets over gaza. The u. S. Military airdrop coming in response to the killing of more than 150 palestinians this week. During a chaotic encounter when israeli troops opened fire on people in gaza during a crush to secure food aid. United states eruption to gaza in court nation with our international partners. We double our efforts to open up humanitarian maritime corridors to humanitarian assistance by sea and an Egyptian Government telling nbc news to highlevel delegations are expected in cairo tomorrow for discussions on a possible truce tween israel and hamas. The source saying as part of these discussions, israel may begin to allow the entry of humanitarian aid and fuel to gaza. Right now, activists are staging a series of rallies across the United States. In support of palestinians. And several more marches are scheduled to kick off in the next three hours. We have reporters someplace around the globe, cover
off of the gulf coast there. we re not going to get a sense of it until tomorrow. but yes, it looks pretty path down in. and we ll be talking about this later in the hour. thanks, chris. and thank you for joining us. hurricane ian continues to create a swath of in made landfall just after 3:00 this afternoon in southwestern florida, near k o connor, a island off of the coast of fort myers. ian came ashore as a category four hurricane with 150 mile per hour winds. just a few miles per hour shy of a category five. only for hurricane stronger than that have made landfall in the united states ever. but it is not just the strength of the storm, it is the size. this is the view of hurricane in from the international space station this afternoon. just showing how massive the storm is. the national river describes in as battering the florida peninsula with tied and winds, and flooding. ian has just now weakened to a category two storm with maximum sustained winds of 105 miles
off of the gulf coast there. we re not going to get a sense of it until tomorrow. but yes, it looks pretty path down in. and we ll be talking about this later in the hour. thanks, chris. and thank you for joining us. hurricane ian continues to create a swath of in made landfall just after 3:00 this afternoon in southwestern florida, near k o connor, a island off of the coast of fort myers. ian came ashore as a category four hurricane with 150 mile per hour winds. just a few miles per hour shy of a category five. only for hurricane stronger than that have made landfall in the united states ever. but it is not just the strength of the storm, it is the size. this is the view of hurricane in from the international space station this afternoon. just showing how massive the storm is. the national river describes in as battering the florida peninsula with tied and winds, and flooding. ian has just now weakened to a
victim compensation fund, and also worked with victims of the bp oil spill. ken good to see you, and do you agree with the governor s assessment? well, i think this is a government problem. the government must come to the rescue. these programs, like bp, or katrina, those were privately funded programs. with private donations from bp or from citizens all over the united states. what the governor is talking about is massive government relief, through fema, or other sources, to help with the reconstruction of whole communities down there. very, very different from what we did in 9/11, or what we did in some of these other tragedies. largely, you believe it will have to be federal assistance to the tune of billions of dollars to help this entire swath of, a good portion of south texas to rebuild and recover?
rick: bottom of the hour, glad you are with us, the top headlines, white house calling for the immediate release of an american contractor, allen gross, a cuban court sentencing him to 15 years in prison for so-called crimes against the state. and the u.s. says he was simply working to improve internet access for cuba s jewish community. arthel: hawaii s governor issuing an emergency proclamation as the tsunami floods hotels and holes and businesses, the damage estimated at $3 million. rick: and recovery efforts continue in japan, the nation rocked by another powerful aftershock. the epicenter, just about 80 miles from a damaged nuclear reactor. arthel: and the massive earthquake and tsunami raf vandaling a huge swath of ravaging a huge swath of northeast japan and will be sometime before the true extent of the disaster is known, a reporter survived the quake and