Rometty on what they say are major changes needed. Plus u. N. Ambassador nikki haley joins us with what comes next after President Trump threatened to totally destroy north korea. But we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. People are now just hunkered down, hoping that this doesnt bring too much devastation with it. The time to evacuate was yesterday. Hurricane maria roars ashore in puerto rico. Maria is a beast, okay . Its a dangerous, dangerous storm. A powerful earthquake struck central strtsic m asex buildin crumbled. People were screaming, people were crying, people just running in every direction. Rescue crews now facing a very grim task of digging through the rubble, looking for signs of life beneath those collapsed buildings. Noise and threats we are going to kill every man, woman and child in north korea. That doesnt advance the ball. The president s tough talk getting reaction on both sides of the political aisle. They cant write som
And threatened to total a destroy north korea. Rocket man is on a Suicide Mission. U. N. Ambassador nikki haley here live to respond. And violent hazing scandal. The College Football players turning themselves in facing felony charges accused of abducting, beating and abandoning their teammate leaving him severely injured. One of the accused the son of a former nfl star. The Major Investigation this morning. And good morning, america. We have two big breaking stories this morning. The death toll is climbing. From that massive earthquake in mexico. So much destruction and you see right there, the desperate Recovery Efforts continue right now. And millions in puerto rico are in the path of Hurricane Maria trying to find shelter from the deadly storm looking live at the hurricane right there slamming the island as we speak. It made landfall just moments ago as a category 4 storm. And the governor is warning it could be puerto ricos most catastrophic hurricane in nearly a century. Right on
Trumps defiant u. N. Speech as he hammered iran and threatened to total a destroy north korea. Rocket man is on a Suicide Mission. U. N. Ambassador nikki haley here live to respond. And violent hazing scandal. The College Football players turning themselves in facing felony charges accused of abducting, beating and abandoning their teammate leaving him severely injured. One of the accused, the son of a former nfl star. The Major Investigation this morning. And good morning, america. We have two big breaking stories this morning. The death toll is climbing. From that massive earthquake in mexico. So much destruction and you see right there, the desperate Recovery Efforts continue right now. And millions in puerto rico are in the path of Hurricane Maria trying to find shelter from the deadly storm looking live at the hurricane right there slamming the island as we speak. It made landfall just moments ago as a category 4 storm. And the governor is warning it could be puerto ricos most cat
The country. Dean has been in this job since 2014 having earlier served as managing editor and washington. Chief of the times. He also edited the los angeles times, and won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting for the Chicago Tribune and started his newspaper career way back when as a Young Journalist at the time stick you in new orleans. Martin baron, marty to most of his friends come join the Washington Post in 2013 after 11 years editing the boston globe. Both papers under his leadership harvested 12 Pulitzer Prizes. Baron also in order times helped edit the los angeles times, the New York Times and the miami herald. Allow me to start our discussion tonight with a simple proposition, that in a democracy such as ours, if freedom of the press is jeopardized, then democracy itself is jeopardized. Since one is intimately linked to the other. During the president ial campaign of 2016, candidate donald trump routinely criticized the press or the media, humiliating a number of reporters, bul
Angeles times, the New York Times and the miami harold. Allow me to start our discussion tonight with a simple proposition that in a democracy such as ours if freedom of the press is jeopardized then democracy itself is jeopardized since one is intimately linked to the other. During the president ial campaign of 2016 donald trump routinely criticized the press humiliating a number of reporters, bullying others, challenging the very concept of freedom of the press as written into the First Amendment of the u. S. Constitution. If he won it would inevitably change. That is the way it has always been. He won and it has not changed. It has gotten much worse even on occasion frightening. I use that word deliberately. The word of a president is much more consequential than the word of a candidate. I know other president s have had their quarrels with the media but donald trump crossed a bright line when he accused reporters of being the enemies of the American People forgetting it was a favor