i spoke earlier with steven brill, founder of courttv and the american lawyer magazine. the author of tailpine the people and forces behind america s 50-year fall and those fighting to reverse it. steven, you had an epiphany after lappedi inlanding at kenn. what was it? about 2 1/2 years ago my wife and i landed at kennedy, coming in from europe. we trudged through one of the terminals and there was water leaking, it was crowded. the bathrooms were filthy. we got into a cab and took the van wick expressway which is the expressway from kennedy into the city. and it was ugly and filled with potholes, jammed with traffic and in the middle of the expressway, there s a tram that i know cost $3 billion or $4 billion and the tram goes from kennedy airport about eight miles into queens. not in the center of the city. and i made a joke about that to
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this is the theater district. that s the hard rock cafe guitar you see swirling over my shoulder. flooded. the asquare yum down here. this is a five-star hotel called the lancaster. a historic hotel in downtown houston. it now has water leaking into its lobby. all of this to say that people around here can find spots of dry land, but getting around houston is nearly impossible. we only found one thoroughfare to come in, and at the convention center they are opening their arms wide. 1,000 cots ready to accept people. we saw busloads of families coming in yesterday to drop them. by the way, just getting into houston at this point. we had to go around a herd of cows that were being driven through the center of dayton, texas, to higher ground. it was an incredible sight. back to you. contessa brewer for us live
a scare of water leaking into his helmet on wednesday s outing. they installed 400 feet of cable and two separate antennas. the equipment would allow two astronauts to dock at the space station. the leader of venezuela says his country has detained several on suspicion of espionage. brian ennis is live with more on just how bad relations with venezuela is getting. brian? reporter: venezuela s approval rating is at an all-time low. the economy is tanking and he s blaming the u.s. for all of it. in a national speech, he said all americans need a temporary visa and must pay a fee to visit venezuela. the u.s. embassy will have to cut the number of diplomats in the country and must seek approval for meetings.
where the damage and trouble spots are. talking to folks out of their homes, have they told you what they are seeing? right. well, we ve not seen any damage from where we stand right here at the pier but we understand some people are in hotel rooms that have water leaking in. there was some flooding, certainly flooding on hatteras island but we re off the island. we understand that dare county officials were going to be going out and checking out the problem areas they had, also wanted to restrict people coming into the county at one point because they wanted to make sure that there was enough room for everybody who needed to be working on the problems to get around. they lift that had restriction and now a restriction for hatteras island. they don t want people going on the bonner bridge and frankly a lot of areas there are flooded right now. still, as it may be getting better, can you still i can almost feel the wind gusts as i m watching you. still there s a bit of a lot to