jeanne moos, cnn, new york. cnn newsroom continues with jim acosta right now. you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. we begin this hour with 70,000 people estimated stranded in the nevada desert. they came for the normally sun-soaked and raucous burning man festival, but extreme weather crashed the party. a storm dumped two or three months worth of rain in just 24 hours. one death during the downpour is being investigated. attendees are now bogged down in thick, ankle-deep mud, making driving impossible and walking a slog for many people. they re being told to conservative water, food, and fuel at this point. earlier on someone, one woman described her efforts to escape the mudfest. it was kind of a crazy thing, but i hitched a ride with an atv that was heading out that needed to get somebody more important than me out. they were willing to let me sit in the back. so got a ride out to the main road. then when i got out there,
i ve been to mumbai, kolkata, sundarbans, rajasthan, kerala. this is a part of india that s different than any other part. it s fascinating and beautiful. oh, yeah. sweet. whoa, it s moving. end of the road. i ve always wanted to get as far away as possible from the place that i was born. far both geographically and spiritually. to leave it behind. tangier, it s morocco. but from 1923 through 1956, it was loosely governed by the major powers, an international zone. for years it seemed everything was permitted. nothing was forbidden. at the northern tip of africa, a short ferry hop from spain, tangier was a magnet for writers, remittance men, spies, and artists. if you were a bad boy of your time, you liked drugs, the kind of sex that was frowned upon at home and an affordable lifestyle set against an exotic background, tangier was for you. matisse, genet, william burroughs. many have come this way, staying a while or hanging around. but no one stayed longer
when i was a kid, my grandparents teach that there are some people who have been in madagascar before. they were very little people and they live in forests and they respect their environment. but then comes many people from other countries, from africa, from asia, spain, from france. many of us don t know the history. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, [drums] market. over the years i ve let a lot of extraordinary landscapes recede into a blur outside my windows. i ve looked, maybe seen, maybe noticed, then gone. we all carry different experiences inside us. we see things differently, don t we? madagascar, exotic unspoiled paradise. or microcosm for the end of times. antananarivo, tana for short, madagascar s crowded chaotic capital c
not going anywhere, the federal government. we are here to help as long as it takes. fema and the small business administration are here to help residents whose home and businesses are destroyed in the damage. you can determine whether you are qualified and how to get help. if you ve not been condo already you can go to disasterassistance.gov and register for assistance. if you have any damage go to disasterassistance.gov to register. earlier this week i visited the fema headquarters in washington to thank the personnel for working 24 seven here in florida and in maui and hawaii. i want to reiterate that appreciation today. i also convene my entire cabinet as part of a whole government response. that response is to increase the number and intensity of the extreme weather evidence and be aware we will use all the resources available in the government to do it. no one can deny the impact of climate crisis. no one intelligent can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore. ju
get started for just $49.99 a month. plus, ask how to get one free line of unlimited mobile. comcast business, powering possibilities. thank you. so much. for joining us tonight. happy labor day weekend to everyone and also more importantly, happy college football kickoff weekend for all of those who celebrate and of course roll tide. prime time with abby phillip adds right now. kaitlan, i have absolutely nothing to add to that conversation but good luck to you. have a good evening. i m abby phillip. tonight are some of donald trump s co-defendants already turning on one another. the move that is raising eyebrows. also in moments steven a. smith will join me on age limentsdz for lawmakers. who he says the democrats should think about as an alternative to biden. first, he is the proud boy who breached the capital on january 6th. and the titch of the spear of that tip of the spear. dominic pezzola, before he learned his fate he begged the judge for mercy saying he was don