We will go to houston and port arthur texas for the latest. We will speak with george about the crucial questions hurricane is not being asked about. Another suspect in the brutal beating of Deandre Harris. He has been arrested. Why has it taken so long when the beating was caught on film . We will speak with the reporter who interviewed deandre. There was all of this chaos going around. I felt myself getting hit. Every time i got up, i lost consciousness and fell. And tooks picked me up me over there so i can get help. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In texas, Tropical Storm harvey made a second landfall wednesday near the border with louisiana, bringing more rain and catastrophic flooding to the gulf coast as the death toll from the unprecedented storm rose to at least 38. On thursday, the city of port arthur, texas, which is 100 miles east of houston was completely under water. Flooding even for
The devastation from the largest rainstorm to hit the United States is growing. More than 38 people have died. We will go to houston and port arthur texexas for the latest. We will speak with george about the crucial questions hurricane is not being asked about. Another suspect in the brutal beating of Deandre Harris. He has been arrested. Why has it taken so long when the beating was caught on film . We will speak with the reporter who interviewed deandre. There was all of this chaos going around. I felt myself getting hit. Every time i got up, i lost consciousness and fell. And tooks picked me up me over ththere so i can g get. Amamy all that and more, comimg up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In texas, Tropical Storm harvey made a seconond landfall wednesy near the border with louisiana, bringing more rain and catastrophic flooding to the gulf coast as the death toll from the unprecedented storm rose to at least 38. On thursday
The earthquake in mexico. More than 200 people are known to have died in the disaster. Most of the casualties are in mexico city the epicentre of the quake was to the south of the city, in puebla state, approximately 120 kilometres away. The rescue operation continues most urgently at the Enrique Rebsamen Primary School in the south of mexico city. Aleem maqbool tells us what he can see. We have travelled across mexico city and have seen lots of places where there are piles of rubble and soldiers and volunteers trying to find signs of life in those places and we have seen volunteers, regular people with shovels by the side of the road when they hear there might be people trapped, they try to hitch lifts to places to try to help people. But this is where there is the greatest activity, whether Primary School is and it is just a couple of blocks back but this is where there are the most volunteers and soldiers, we have seen rubble being removed but there are lots of people here to suppor
Repeal and replace the Affordable Care act. Then well look at the military crackdown against Muslim Rohingyas in burma. Because myanmar has refused access to human rights investigators, the Current Situation cannot sorry, cannot yet be fully assessed, but the situation remains or seems the textbook example of ethnic cleansing. Amy and we go to havana, cuba, where the officials have slammed trumps attack on cuba during his address to the u. N. General assembly, saying trumps comments are disrespectful, unacceptable, and meddling. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In mexico, a massive 7. 1magnitude quake struck 100 miles southeast of mexico city tuesday, collapsing dozens of buildings around the capital city, trapping school children, workers, and residents beneath the rubble. The government said this morning at least people are dead, but 217 that number is expected to rise as rescuers with sniffer dogs w
Duke University Historian professor Nancy Maclean, author of the new book, democracy in chains the deep history of the radical rights stealth plan for america. Maclean also uncovers the instrumental role the late libertarian economist James Buchanan played in the Rights Campaign to eliminate unions, suppress voting, and privatize schools. Buchanan was an economist to train at the university of chicago and went on to a number of virginia institutions over the years. He won the nobel prize in 1986 for his original contributions to our understanding of political economy. It was James Buchanan who taught charles koch for capitalism to thrive, democracy must be in chains. Amy President Trump says the Environmental Protection agency will roll back and obama policy environmental policy. Pres. Trump the socalled waters of the United States rule is one of the worst examples of federal regulation and it has truly run amok. Amy this comes as the intercept reports the person trump has tapped to be