pay. arthel: well, that happened in russia with crimea. nothing was done. what is the united states play here?where is this heading in the long term? the chinese realize we have defensive agreements with taiwan. we did not have defense agreements with the ukraine. what we did though have a something that was thrown under the bus. that is the united states, russia and the uk guaranteed ukraine their political sovereignty if they were to give up their nuclear weapons. which they did. then the russians took crimea which was part of ukraine at the time. at the time part of ukraine and that, really through the agreement under the bus. with taiwan, were that to happen, that would not be a leak in the dam it would be the dam collapsing. arthel: so, if the dam collapses, then perhaps there would be some sort of military action in which the united states would get in on taiwan s
opposition honestly terrible. machine workers in mexico believe survivors of the recent earthquake remain trapped in the rubble of collapsed buildings. rescue crews are working nonstop to try and find people and free them. at least 298 people are now confirmed dead. the scene in puerto rico, buses are evacuating thousands of people in the northwestern part of that u.s. territory near a dam that is in imminent danger of failing. the governor there says a crack developed in the dam in the wake of the hurricane maria and heavy rains and floodwaters there. if that dam collapses, it is feared that water could surge into low-lying areas. iran says it successfully tested a new ballistic missile capable of carrying multiple warheads. it reportedly has a range that can reach israel, saudi arabia. president hassan rouhani says iran will keep strengthening its missile capabilities and military defenses. china says that it is immediately severing some trade
last hour, they are saying in king street, a little small town right off of i-95 and towards the coast, this is now about a five to six square mile area they are evacuating. getting everyone out of there. the creek that goes through there is going to be at house levels from now through about friday. a lot of the water that fell up state in the columbia area, sumter, all has to flow down this way. our estimates here, they even put it themselves right around 19 to 20 inches of rain. that s one area we are concerned with. there are still evacuations. even though the rain is turning off, water levels are still going up in some areas. thankfully charleston the water is way down now. they went through their hide tide cycles the last weekend. columbia the water starting to ever so slowly go down. the flash flooding from the dam collapses with be that water is now gone throughout the region. heaven rains have shifted. here s myrtle beach. thankfully the clouds are starting to clear out in some
video here. this is highway 17 near georgetown. somehow they were able to get down the left side of the road. you can see one van that they passed there. this is the highway. this is highway 17 along the coast in south carolina. wait until you see the water levels here on this suv that got trapped. obviously these people either barely escaped or a fire department had to come and rescue these people. this is the story at ft. jackson, just east of columbia, south carolina. this is a dam collapse. looks like rock, kind of an earthen dam, we ll call it. that collapsed. that s in like a downtown area. there s no water left in the lake. this is downtown columbia, south carolina. in columbia you had six inches of rain in a short period of time last night and it is still raining now. plus, we had numerous dam collapses. that water s all piling up in the city of columbia. this is charleston, north carolina. this image was sent out by the city of north charleston. this is the scene taking place
class and they have a very different conception of the kind of information they deserve and the kind of recognition that their sacrifices deserve. a generation ago people died in china in very large numbers. 171,000 people died, for instance, in a single cascade of dam collapses. today you have this was in the 70s. in 1975. today you have a group of people, 154 passengers and their families now, who are demanding information about what happened. they re asking their own government. they re asking the chinese press. and of course they re asking the malaysian government. the youngest person on board that flight, describe that family. his name is wong moa hung. he was just shy of his second birthday. his father worked for the boston consulting group, mother worked in the technology business before she decided to stay home and raise their children. they come from a very specific part of the chinese middle class and that is afrom a generation raised to believe you can go online,