course, which is, again, why we are monitoring it. jesse: the comey spy balloon airspace and fingers around a joystick and flying it towards major cities but we are not shooting it down. you said this is violating our airspace so why not take it down? yeah, so, you know, clearly as we assess options and considering the size of the pay load on this, looking at the potential for debris and the impact on civilians on the ground or property damage, and so out of an abundance of caution, cognizant of the potential impact to civilians on the ground from a debris field right now we are going to continue to monitor and review options. biden was against the bin laden raid and now he is against the balloon pop. he missed his shot over montana. what s the worst it can happen it hits a guy s barn? cut them a check like you did with covid. now it s heading into illinois? do you think it s going to last over chicago past midnight couple strays and that thing is in lake michigan. ch
Good morning, its wednesday, september 20th. We are following a number of stories. President trump was America First se u. N. And steps up his warnings to north korea meanwhile, republican as far as see daylight on Health Care Reform. Some gop governors arent so sure about that. The Russian Investigation rolls on with new details on whos paying the president s legal bills but first, two Natural Disasters unfolding in real time. Rescue efforts happening right now in mexico after a powerful earthquake ripped through that country yesterday and Hurricane Maria about to slam directly into puerto rico. Well go straight to meteorologist bill karins with a check on the storms latest track. Bill. Power knocked out. Roof damage done, structural damages beginning as the strongest weekends are moving on shore in puerto rico. Overnight, can you see the storm, 124mileperhour winds in st. Croix. Now the storm is about to make
landfall. Lets get into the zoomed in radar. You see san juan to the north
chief, when this symptom comes in and it s packing 60, 70, 80 marin 80-mile-an-hour winds, you tell people to evacuate, correct? yes, when a storm is really bad, we have to take the first responders, we have to move in out of the bad weather so we can make sure we can respond to the calls. the people that decide not to evacuate, they have to remember to shelter in place. you are going to be on your own until the weather dies down and then we will be able to come back out and rescue you. if you are going to stay at home, shelter in place. above we prefer you move out of the way so we don t have to be tied up making rescues, get back up and going as soon as possible. reporter: the worst thing you can do is put other people in danger and our officers and firefighters and rescue teams will be put in danger if someone
lose control, hit an embankment and that truck goes airborne. it gets launched. they crash up on to i-35. texas dps goes rushing in to try to start making rescues, they try to break out the windshield. they initially pull out the 12-year-old boy, the passenger. then you will see they pull out a bloodied critically injured illegal immigrant who is inside of that vehicle and, after that, they pull out the 15-year-old driver. just take a listen to some of the sound from the scene. you can hear just how young these boys were. my brother is 14. my brother is 14. please help me out. please. and i m told that everybody inside of that vehicle ended up surviving including that critically injured illegal immigrant. the boys are u.s. citizens from san antonio and law enforcement tells me they believe they were both recruited by a smuggling organization on social media. something that is becoming a huge problem at the southern
us. pieces of roof has been peeled off and so we had to take sheltary little bit out of the elements, but we re still getting it. i can tell you that there are about 500 shelters set up across the island, 50,000 people have taken refuge in them. some people we spoke to told us they are hunkering down in their homes. they ve boarded up. hopefully, they are okay. we know there are tourists out here on the island that are trapped. that were not able to get 0u6789 out, that are at hotels, fema set up a command post. $300 people search and rescue from the occupation, they re here, fema will be passing them. as soon as the eye of the storm passes over, they will be making rescues. undoubtedly, there will be rescues to be made. to let you and your crew know, have you four hours until that eyewall is expected with