By the brunt of the storm. Powerful winds reached speeds up to 185 miles an hour in the bahamas, ripping off roofs, tearing down power lines. Good evening, im julie haener. Now late today Southern California or South Carolinas governor ordered a mandatory evacuation of residents along the coast. Evacuations will go into effect for georgias coast tomorrow afternoon. Evacuations are also underway in some counties in florida tonight in Daytona Beach, people are bracing for the worst, boarding up stores, stocking up on supplies. A hurricane shelter opened in boynton beach, florida today 100 miles west of the baa a mas. Fox news Lauren Blanchard in Daytona Beach. But we begin with chief meteorologist bill martin for where the storm is headed now. Thats the big question mark here. Where is this storm headed . Its a massive storm and a record setting storm. In many cases it will be a historic storm in many different categories. This is a category 5 not seen in the atlantic. Raking in the baha
Freeport. Strong powerful winds are all blowing all across the islands destroying homes and businesses. The storm conditions are a serious threat to the safety of everyone in the bahamas and elsewhere in the storms path. Other parts of the bahamas have seen the impacts. The hurricane made landfall as a category five storm on great avaco island yet yesterday. The winds ripped roofs off homes and brought down powerlines. Thousands of people evacuated their homes to seek shelter in schools and churches. The Prime Minister of the bahamas says at least one down of more than 6000 people appears to be under water. Authorities are just beginning to assess the damage. Three airforce are flying moderate recovery planes aiming for the eye so they can get the most Accurate Information on where dorian might be headed. They used radar and other equipment. The hurricane speed and direction as well as whether it is expanding or contracting. Teams are gathering information on the ground in the state of
Carotenuto is a professor at ste university with which we frankly Work Together on african issues which also runs an Excellent Program in nairobi that just celebrate its 45th anniversary. Matt was there doing research and bringing some alumni alone on the trigger and then finally joining the panel is jon temin from freedom house, works on their Africa Program and previous work in the Obama Administrations policy plans to use institute of peace. I want to thank jon for outstanding article he coauthored in the Current Issue of Foreign Affairs on some of the new promising Democratic Movement in some of africas biggest countries which was largely aspiration for this event although we modified a little bit but we had kenya and tanzania to the list along with south africa, democratic republic of congo or as a peace corps volunteer 100 jews ago when it was still practically before Belgian Congo days, and also nigeria and ethiopia. So between the six countries with roughly half of africas popu
And the uk . It is incredibly unfortunate. Iwould say, ok, hunter said it was wrong, and yes it was wrong. I would have said Something Like it was unfortunate that if you look at it, it is very, this document should never have been leaked. What the uk ambassador said, how he looked at the Trump Administration and its many fallacies. And that is really where the problem lies. But in the uk must not be pushed by a foreign president as to who the ambassador should, who the ambassador shouldnt be. It is a very tricky situation. It is extremely difficult to resolve, the diplomacy that it is to go on between the us and the uk Going Forward , between the us and the uk Going Forward, look at the tweet on the Financial Times, there were many tweets about theresa may, but this one says the lucky ambassador of the uk. On the United States is not someone we are uk. On the United States is not someone we are thrilled about octopi dont have the ambassador but have been told he is a pompous full. Tha
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to brookings. Im mike ohanlon, here to welcome you about a discussion with possible wartime scenarios with russia and or china. This panel has a lot of expertise on these subjects. Im going to briefly introduce folks in a minute and hand the baton, so to speak, over to my good friend and colleague jung pak, who will be our moderator. Shell pose questions to the panelists. Were talk amongst ourselves for the first half of this 90minute event then go to you. The panelists have all been kind enough, as well as jung as moderator, to allow me to use my new book the senkaku paradox as the spring board for this discussion, but only the spring board, and the conversation will range much more widely. But let me just say a brief word of introduction to the subject before introducing them. Just so you know, at least where our starting point is in this project and this conversation today. I think back to something that my good friend Lieutenant General John Whis