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These combat will never leave anyone behind but sometimes confusion become so much you dont know what happened until sometimes the dust settles. >> you got a couple initiatives in the heart of africa, one is chad basin initiative five countries training five african nations they have been going after boko haram and another organization have formed and gelled into this new group jim just said, isis in the sahal. whats interesting is when you talk about five or six or seven special service soldier...

Here, the military, fema and others. once we have stabilized ourselves in terms of relief, that we are really going to need the support in terms of our rebuilding and being sure the virgin islands and puerto rico can really be a beacon in the caribbean basin of american greatness. >> so once you were able to outline for him in detail what exactly the u.s. virgin islands need, but in addition to that, show him what the u.s. virgin islands need, did you feel he understood, do you feel that you are...

I dont really know what he cut me with. to me it dont matter what it was that cut me. he cut me. >> after a search of yard four the scene of the 16-year-old slashing, staff believe the shank has been recovered. >> the object that was used to do the slashing was dropped into this drain here. however, the drain has a large basin in the bottom so it was able to be recovered. >> this was recovered from the storm drain out in the pod yard yesterday, which may have been involved in the initial slashin...

>> judge napalitano: can arrange some thing up about senator mcconnell questioning how bad is it that he and his pack spent $8 million and alabama, all gone, all wasted? >> katie: thats another lesson here. how much money did the establish an republican sector of the conservative side of the political spectrum going to continue throwing at these candidates, whether its jeb bush, luther strange. it also proves that money is not everything. >> harris: we sought on november 8th of 2016. when i also...

>> anthony: long a refuge for people from all over the caribbean basin and latin america, miami was also an just wanted to get off the grid, own rules. if you have ever read the excellent travis mcgee novels, you will remember travis, the mystery solving boat bum who lived on a houseboat in miami. the busted flush. people used to live like that. less and less today. >> travis: when my wife passed away a few years ago, i was living in a condo and didnt want to do that anymore. now im on this piec...

Janice dean joins us right now. and janice, we can see it is skimming just to the north of puerto rico right now. its going to make a turn. the big question is where. janice: where is it going to make a turn? interestingly enough, history has been broken with this storm. it was category 5 storm with 185 mile-per-hour sustained winds for 33 hours. that has never happened in any basin across the world. so thats how intense this storm is. so its at 180 mile-per-hour sustained winds right now. still...

Its one of the strongest hurricanes weve seen in a decade. check this out. the international space station cameras captured this view as irma moved across the atlantic today. a government plane took this video as it flew into hurricane irmas path to monitor progress and strength. states of merge already in effect in florida, puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands. these folks in florida wasting no time getting ready. some supermarkets there already reported running out of water. adam klotz live...

A lot of people not happy to hear that. lets bring in our meteorologist karen mcginniss with more. where is the storm right now and where does it look like its headed? >> well, its very impressive on our enhanced satellite imagery. its situated just about over the mid-atlantic basin. here are the leeward islands, also puerto rico. its not even close to there yet. but it does look like the computer models are bringing it in over the next five days. at least rushing by those islands. anything can ...

Dam live in richmond texas. we should mention some good news. the nrg center has opened up their doors. they say 10,000 residents could fit in the new the shelter thats some good news amidst a lot of bad. >> they need all the space they can get. as harvey makes landfall again it is set to pick up speed and move out of the area a bit faster. lets bring in meteorologist karen mcguinness. >> yes weve got the basin, the big water shed that is harris county and the surrounding county. here is the hou...

Now hes in the field looking at the rising rivers here. what is the level and is it continuing to rise? >> the latest level we have is 41.1 feet, and its slowly rising. we are hoping in the next hour or two, it will slowly deaddy off and crest. >> if it crests? the prediction is 42 feet. how are you predicting such a very difficult thing to predict? >> each river point we have the measurements for can differ by how wide the basin gets. the land gets flatter and the water can spread out. even jus...