Media this morning that the Hospital Systems are inundated right now with burn patients. Those suffering from smoke inhalation. She says theres no 911, service cell service is down phone service is down as well. The coast guard has confirmed that theyve had to pull 12 people from the water so far that ran into the ocean to escape the heat and the flames. La hina has been devastated. One resident says all boat owners have been asked to rescue people from the water. And here you can see in this video from a viewer there to our sister station on maui. That. Traffic is backed up. A lot of the roads in some cases blocked by downed power lines and by fallen trees, all courtesy of the extremely strong winds that were generated from hurricane well to the south of the island chain will get more from john in a minute on the weather and all of this. But look at this devastation that you see on the screen. The latest video coming to us from maui state of emergency has been declared, as you can ima
Its great to have you here ralph, on cspan. Guest thank you. Host im very hardded to be able to interview on this new book return to sender. Is that an homage to elvis presley. Host thats the point these days. Guest its a message that 103 lettered sent to president bush and president obama from 2001 to 2015, were with very few exceptions not acknowledged and not answered. And so i thought id embarrass myself by putting them all in a book and raise a bigger issue which is the most Democratic Media is when a person writes a letter to an elected official, like a mayor governor, senator president , cant be censor order not distorted and not to respect it and to try to answer it or even to acknowledge it so that people know its not going to some dark hole, is major issue, i think and most young people dont realmize that a written letter to pool particular has far more impact than an email. They get lots of letters. I income a half million a week. Guest yes. Host certainly you dont expect th
President bushs experience after katrina. Was that racial . I dont think president bush was being racist with his handling of katrina. This was the hurricane that of course affected so many of minorities and lower income people who were hurt by the storm in louisiana mississippi. Particularly in the ninth ward of new orleans. We saw people people on rooftops waiting for help. I think, and even president bill clinton in this book, he says i dont think it was an issue of racism, his policies just did not help elevate people in poverty. Now we talk about katrina. President bush got in a lot of trouble for the fact that he was caught up in the state right issue. The state had to deal with it and that was what bogged him down. Because people felt disenfranchised from their government, they felt left alone. Because people died, people died, he did get in trouble. Barack obama is the first, probably not the last africanamerican president that you will cover but his grade isnt as high as bill
Going through town and they would end up in my dads big restaurant. They talked. They talked about sports, yankees, red sox, local factory situations or politics in general. I realized that even though they would always answer whether they were epublican or democrat or neither, that isnt the way they talked. They talked in terms of what people react to when they work and live in a community. So, it was not ideological. I began to realize that they didnt come in with labels, red state, blue state mentality. They just came in talking about things on the ground. And when you go from the abstraction of ideological clashes which the manipulators love to divide and rule us down to where people live on the grounds it is a different type of conversation. Host how long did you work for your dad in the restaurant and what was your age . Guest i was in high school. And in summers from princeton. And in summers from Harvard Law School until the great flood destroyed the main street in 1955 and my
There are a lot of laws in place to protect us against banks, but now the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is taking action against other financial firms that could have predatory business practices.