Here. Reporter more than 1,000 people slept in the airport overnight. Waiting for a flight. They had nowhere else to go. There were no cots. No water, children were bathed in sweat. As their parents tried to keep them calm. My mother needs dialysis. And we have been here, 26 hours. There is a desperate situation at san juan airport now are you aware . Yes. The puerto ricos governor. He says he pleaded for more money from fema. So far, 1 billion has been earmarked for recovery. But not apparent here yet. The aid that comes to Puerto Rico Needs to be consistent with the aid provided anywhere else in the United States. Uerto rico dark. 85 of the power lines have been knocked out. It may be months before theyre repaired. Today the head of puerto ricos Telecommunication Alliance wrote to President Trump warning that things will get even worse unless there is fuel to supply generators. After a press conference today, President Trumps adviser for homeland security, tom bosert defended the gov
Disadvantage. And although they flew farther north than american combat aircraft have gone in years, they stayed 200 miles off the coast. Out of effective range of north korean antiaircraft missiles. In other word there was very little if any risk north korea could actually shoot down an american bomber. Still, north korea has intercepted american aircraft before. In 2003, this north korean mig surprised u. S. Reconnaissance plane conducting patrol off the coast. Its planes are a decade older and air force allowed to languish while kim jongun pours resources into Ballistic Missiles and nuclear weapons. According to one intelligence report, north korean pilots get as little as ten flying hours a year. The pentagon said the night flight by the b1st and f15s was response to missile tests as well as powerful underground nuclear explosion. And was intended as a sig naufl the many military options the u. S. Has the against north korea. One military officer said future bomber flights might co
Would create a diplomatic relations and that was the original purpose in the book. No one believed including my publisher thank you dan simon, i started to doubt it myself. When it happened i had to rearrange the book and i was fortunate to update it. Its arts with a detailed account of how it happened on december 17th, the beginning of normalization. The rest of the book is about the preceding 55 years or 60 years and i interviewed for many hours a former leader of the cuban revolution and government his daughter in havana said it should be called two old guys talking so i made that the initial chapter. Host tell us about ricardo. Guest you have to write this book because nobody knows him. If that is true, you are talking about a man who after many decades the Cuban Foreign minister, cute and United Nations representative in new york at the cuban head of Natural Assembly which is speaker of the house of representatives. He has been a public human figure, he knows more secrets, has bee
He dies under robert elys command and this is a devastating a devastating impact. He feels this loss very sharply. I am just curious how do they compare with characters today in washington . [laughter]. So i think he would find that interesting and i will take a pass on the question because it is just too hard because the civil war is just the meet period we can all agree that the country never has to undergo that again thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] host and thanks for watching booktv, 48 hours of Nonfiction Authors and books every weekend on cspan2. And today we are live on the campus of the university of Southern California home of the Los Angeles Times festival of books. Today there are several author panels ahead on the plushing industry biographies Publishing Industry, biographies of World Leaders and science, and well also sit down with tom hayden, travels smiley and hugh hewitt among others while they take your calls. You can get sched
Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well, this winter has a lot of folks crying enough already. And this morning, the northeast is getting hit with another storm. Light to moderate snow and freezing rain will make for another rough morning commute. It is the latest in a series of storms thats moved in from the midwest. This afternoon, the Severe Weather will hit new england. In chicago this morning, the order of business will be digging out. Up to 8 inches of snow fell there late in the day yesterday. Temperatures are expected to climb today. And that could lead to a different kind of trouble. Flooding. Some residents in floodprone areas have sandbags out already. An eightmile stretch of interstate in southwest michigan was shut down following a weatherrelated pileup. At least 40 cars and 15 trucks were involved in the huge Chain Reaction crash. The result o whiteout conditions yesterday and icy roads. Six people suffered minor injuries. Now, the Severe Weather has m