Have been retired, those starting with i have been retired morep that any other letter. 14 in all. if idalia strikes the land at a cat 3 or stronger, it will be only five who have been a category 3 at landfall except for one, the catastrophic 1935, labor day hurricane. it was unnamed storm that hit the florida keys as a category 5 and then made its way up the west coast passing 30 miles west of tampa bay while still a category 3, and that hurricane killed at least 485 people, including 260 world war i veterans on an evacuation train that was derailed by the high winds and storm surge. by several measures, it remains
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Saved. molly hunter has the details. reporter: tonight, the peruvian government says most of the foreign tourists trapped at machu picchu have been evacuated. some of the american tourists making their way out on foot. about 300 people aboard this evacuation train later stopped in its tracks, unable to pass. evacuees forced to walk around massive bolders. that s american brian vega, captain in the miami-dade fire rescue, who s been stuck at the base of machu picchu for almost a week. after four days of hiking last week, amy madden was stranded. we walked 18 miles to the nearest house that we could get possibly to bus out of. so, we got onto that bus and we hit a road block. reporter: from there, things got tense, she says. then we all got out. and the mob of people started coming towards
Contributor reuben johnson disappeared. while driving to the train station, he says he was ambushed and his car riddled with bullets. miraculously he survived but he says he was robbed and captured by russian soldiers and detained at gunpoint for two full weeks. reuben johnson joins us now to tell us story. first, reuben, you must feel so lucky to be alive. tell us what happened when you were driving to the train station near kyiv? well, thank you for having me, first of all, and thank you for staying on this very important story. what was happening was we were driving to a train station to try to get an evacuation train that would have taken us to the west of ukraine and eventually to poland, and the road that we were told was open was blocked. when we tried to go around the roadblock, there was no one present but as soon as we tried to skirt the roadblock out of nowhere appeared russian soldiers and they just began shooting. they never asked us to stop.
Working in a place that is a lifeline when the most dangerous places in ukraine. a couple days on where there was an explosion over the railway station that we were at, and it was i think very telling about what we saw, the evacuation train was ready to go, hundreds of people on board, the rail workers scattered, they were terrified, on the train where you had the people and the shelling, they just sat again, they were silent, and they sat through the window and you could see all the rail workers were pretty much people that came out of this prison ready for evacuation were deep in the throes of it, and. what a thing to get used to, to be okay with the sound of shelling because it is a regular occurrence in your life. lisa stay safe, thank you very much for your reporting, louisa bureau chief for the washington post base now in ukraine while