Nearly two years ago. In this hour, well have a live report from puerto rico where three Million People are hoping for the best as the storm has shifted slightly to the north and where tens of thousands of homes still have blue tarps covering damage left over from maria. Heres a look at where dorian is right now. You can see maximum sustained winds are at 75 miles an hour. So a minimal category one but with higher gusts. The Storms Center is in the vicinity of st. Thomas. Lets go to the Fox Extreme Weather Center with Rick Reichmuth. Rick . The radar picture here, you can see the center of it. St. Thomas right there. Just to the east of puerto rico. Puerto rico will get definitely some strong rain from this. Well see flooding on the eastern side of the island. San juan probably not as bad. Injury not as close to this. The satellite image, you can see begins to look like a hurricane. They were just in there flying around and found the winds at 75 miles an hour. So they did that upgrade. What weve been seeing the last couple days is that center of the storm be displaced towards the north. So we saw that yesterday here. Every time that happens, they go in and find the center. When the next computer models run, theyve got to recenter where the starting point of the projection goes out after that. Thats why weve been seeing the models change quite a bit. Well probably see that again. Center of the storm is there. You still see a lot of the worst convection to the north of it. Still a little bit to the north of the bbis. Well watch this storm move north and across the bahamas. This area is more favorable for strengthening than it has been in the caribbean, this is a warmer body of water. Less upper level winds to tear it apart. A better environment for us. What were watching is one of the most reliable computer models and pulls this across florida and out here in towards the gulf, which would make it have a second landfall. This water is incredibly warm. Another one of our reliable models curves this a little bit here closer towards the coast. Thats why north florida, georgia and the carolinas have to watch this. Were about five days out from this getting to the mainland u. S. A. That is a lot of time just to change. Notice a really big spread here. Its a low confidence forecast at this point while the strength of it puts it at a category three storm. Ill also tell you thats not a super strong forecast intensity. Forecasting is still not what were as good at and the water is certainly plenty warm and conditions are ripe. We could see, you know, additional strengthening of that. This information tells us five days out, we have something here. That means you should be making your plans for a couple of days from now when we can pinpoint where this is going to go. People can put the plans in place. Shep . Shepard sounded like your teams hope yesterday was well, from an American Perspective is the mountains in the Dominican Republic would break this up. Or puerto rico. That would have been much better. It didnt happen. Going right over the bbis, those are not enough mountains or land mass to disrupt it. So it hasnt had the land interaction to cause it to unravel. Thats while it will remain at the hurricane strength and all of our guidance says it will get stronger. Shepard better sense by friday . Yeah, by friday well have a better sense. A lot of things five days out that contribute to where a storm is going to go, including features, atmospheric features across the pacific, not even over a land mass yet. Keep in mind, for all of our forecasting that we do, most of that comes because we launch air balloons from land. We dont have all of those places in the water to put up air balloons to get information. So we dont get as good of information until a disturbance or a weakening in the atmosphere gets over the mainland u. S. A. Where we start to send up the balloons and get better information out, in to get better information out. Shepard thanks, rick. Well be watching. As dorian appears ready to skirt by the american territory of puerto rico, its not hit somewhere around san juan. President trump is calling the island one of the most corrupt places on earth. He added, by the way, hes the best thing that ever happened to puerto rico. Those clearly are opinions as opposed to facts. The president repeating his false claim about the aid that puerto rico has received. Heres his tweet from yesterday. Wow, yet another big storm heading to puerto rico. Will it end . Congress approved 92 billion for puerto rico last year, an alltime report of its kind for anywhere. That is decidedly not true. We checked with sources including federal Emergency Management agency or fema. The latest numbers show that as of the end of june, the federal government has allocated 42. 7 billion for puerto rico. Of that, about 21 about 21 billion is binding. In other words, congress has to pay it. Of that, puerto rico has received less than 14 billion. So 14 billion or less. Not 92 billion. That 92 billion is actually an estimate of how much money the island could need in the decades to come. The president also claimed its an alltime record for anywhere. It is not. In 2014, the Congressional Research service estimated that congress provided roughly 120 billion for the aftermath of hurricane katrina, which devastated the mississippi coast and flooded new orleans. Theres another piece of this as well. The storm threatens both puerto rico and the east coast of florida and who knows georgia, up the shore, we dont know yet, the Trump Administration is diverting money from disaster aid to the southern border. Hundreds of millions of dollars at the peak of hurricane season. John roberts reporting live out on the north lawn. High, john. Shep, good afternoon. This idea of reprogramming, moving money around from one agency to another, depending on the need, is something that has happened in each of the past four years in regards to the border going back to the Obama Administration. A little less than a month ago, dhs notified congress that it went to reprogram a total of 271 million to address the crisis on the southern border. Of that, 116 would be reprogrammed to put up more single adult detention beds. Heres the point of controversy here. 155 million of that would go to temporary immigration facilities on the southwest border under the new migrant protection protocol that money would be reprogrammed from the fema Disaster Relief fund. Now, fema told fox news that that money will come from what is called the Disaster Relief fund base account which covers predisaster declaration surges. That surge has already occurred in puerto rico where famous prepositioned a lot of supplies. There was 602 million left in that accounts. Fema says taking 155 million for the border will leave enough to cover any expected predisaster surge in the next month when the funds gets replenished again in the new budget by about 474 million. Theres also historical precedence for doing this and during hurricane season. In august of 2014, the Obama Administration reprogrammed even more fema and dhs money to address the Central American migrant crisis on the border. It was a total of 405 billion. 267. 6 million of that coming from femas Disaster Relief fund. Other money came from the coast guard, tsa and u. S. Customs and border protection. Back then, democrats didnt complain about it. But they sure are complaining now. Chuck schumer saying taking these critical funds from Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Efforts threatens lives and weakens the governments ability to help americans in the wake of natural disaster. I talked to them both and fema and dhs says thats not true. It does not go in effect when Chuck Schumer says it will. Theres money left in the base account to preposition any supplies needed between now and the end of the year, september 30th. Theres also a second account in the Disaster Relief fund called the majors account that is the account that funds Disaster Recovery and fema told me that in that account, theres currently 27 billion. Shep . Shepard john roberts live. Thank you. The president made Border Security a main stay of his message dating back to the campaign with build that wall and mexico will pay for it. The last promise is long gone. Despite the president s claims to the contraircontrary, there wall. Existing barriers have been replaced. Same span. The total of repaired barrier is about 60 miles along that 2,000 mile border. In some cases with a new wall system as customs and border protections calls it, new tech and new lighting, but not in new areas. The pentagon approved another 20 miles of wall for arizona and california. Still it seems the president wants more progress on his promise. An hour ago, he tweeted that the wall is going up very fast despite obstruction by democrats. Today the Washington Post reports the president is telling his aides to use imminent domain to seize private land and ignore environmental laws. That he told senior aides that if he doesnt get it done, it would be embarrassing. When staffers explained that some of his requests would require them to break the law, the paper reports he responded that if anybody gets in trouble, dont worry, ill pardon you. The post reports one official told the Washington Post that the president was joking. Just moments ago, the president tweeted that the report is, as he put it, fake news. The president also said in the tweet that the wall is going up rapidly. It is not. As we just reported, theres no new wall. Only replacement for walls which were in need of repair or upgrade. Those are the facts. A string of suspicious deaths at a veterans hospital. A person of interest is now under investigation. Next well report what they found in an autopsy after they dug up a grave. And general james mattis speaks about his time as defense secretary and what he says America Needs to change to protect its people. Thats coming up as our reporting continues on this wednesday afternoon. Lets see, aleve is proven better on pain than tylenol extra strength. And last longer with fewer pills. So why am i still thinking about this . Ill take aleve. Aleve. Proven better on pain. Liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. I wish i could shake your hand. Granted. 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He said that all americans need to recognize our democracy is an experiment and one that can be reversed. We all know that were better than our current politics. Tribalism must not be allowed to destroy our experiment. Jennifer griffin reporting live. Jennifer . Shep, former defense secretary jim mattis quit when the president announced that he was pulling all u. S. Troops out of syria. Breaking his silence, mattis addressed his decision in an except from his upcoming back. He said his successor, mark esper, would not weighin on mattis saying the internal divisiveness posed the greatest threat to american democracy. Chairman dunford a month from retirement, went a step further. I will not now, nor will i take off the uniform make judgments about the president of the united states. I wont do it. Mattis and general dunford served in concert together as u. S. Marines. Shep . Shepard we reported the concern about a new north korean sub. What are you learning about that . In his First Press Conference as secretary, mark esper was asked about north koreas new weapons and recent missile tests. Were concerned about their Short Range Ballistic Missile tests. We want to understand what theyre doing and why theyre doing it. On the other hand, we wont overreact. Well take a measured response and make sure we dont close the door to diplomacy. He wouldnt say if the new images could one day launch a Nuclear Missile and change the u. S. Militarys calculus. The images appeared when kim jongun visited the shipyard and stood in front of a modified 1960s era submarine to one day fire a ballistic missile. While north cree has not test add long range missile since 2017, the seven launches of short range missiles have allowed japan and south korea and the u. S. Now Satellite Photos show that north korea continues to build out their other nuclear platforms. 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Shepard veterans tying under suspicious circumstances at the same v. A. Hospital and now the feds are investigating. They were all patients at the v. A. Medical center in corksburg, West Virginia. Investigators dug up one body and found insulin in his abdomen even though he wasnt a diabetic. Then his death was ruled a homicide, a shot of insulin can kill somebody that doesnt have diabetes. We reached out to the v. A. And a spokesman told us that theyre cooperating with the inspector generals investigation. Jacqui heinrich with the rest of the news live from new york. Jacqui . The feds are looking into ten deaths, one is confirmed rule a how many side. The attorney for one family says that the d. A. Hid the circumstances of how their father died. The retired Army Sergeant mcdermott was admitted to the v. A. Center in West Virginia with pneumonia in april. According to a lawsuit, he was improving and died suddenly three days later. It wasnt until six months after he was buried that his daughter heard from the office of the inspector general, a watch dog group that oversees the v. A. Asking to dig up his body saying his death was suspicious. The family agreed. The coroner ruled that his death was a homicide. The respect of an insulin shot he didnt need. The family says that he had no history of diabetes and there was no order for the shot. Thats when the family found out nine or ten other patients that died at this same hospital writing the employees of the vamc were aware of each of the deaths. Each of the nine or ten patients had received a wrongful injection of insulin. The family says the other victims had dementia, too. Shepard i mentioned the short statement from the v. A. What else are we hearing from them . The v. A. Would not comment on whether theres a person of interest in this case writing allegations of potential misconduct you may have heard about in media reports do note involved any current louis a. J. Son v. A. Medical center employees. Senator joe manchins office says theres a person of interest and theyre no longer in contact with any patients. Shep . Shepard Jacqui Heinrich live. An american couple arrested for murder now on the run after they escaped Security Officers as they moved them to a different prison. Cops say blaine and Susan Barksdale overpowered private security guards in blanding, utah, which is about 40 miles north of the arizona border. Theyre accused of killing a man and burning down his home in tucson back in april. Cops arrested them in new york and guards were transporting them to a facility in arizona. Police are wa