Editor, howard. This week, as a cover story you are looking at Hurricane Harvey. You knew the storm is coming, but how did you plan for this coverage . Howard weaver going to wait and see with the storm is like. When we were planning over the weekend, the storm had not yet quite hit. We slowly got the news in a slowly built. By sunday it was clear it was a huge disaster. Who is back from vacation is our great synthesizer, our resident economist. He can take almost any story and look at it from an economic angle and a very human angle. Peter was perfect for this. There was also a story that was going on. Chris lindell had been doing work with fema and with reporting on National Building codes and have a place like houston and taxes in general, they are allergic to building codes. The combination of those two, peter talking about the general, largescale big picture of the economy in houston, and looking how things are put together, their cando attitude and how this patchwork of Flood Con
Week, you guys, as a cover story, you are taking a look at Hurricane Harvey. Knew thiseekly, you storm was coming, but how, as a weekly did you plan for this coverage . Howard we were going to wait and see with the storm is like. When we were planning over the weekend, the storm had not yet quite hit. By sunday it was clear it was a huge disaster. Peter coy who is back from vacation is our great synthesizer, our resident economist. And he can take almost any story and look at it from an economic angle, but also from a very human angle. So peter was perfect for this. There was also a story that was going on. Chris lindell had been doing work with fema, and reporting on building codes, and how a place like houston, and taxes in general they are allergic to , building codes. The combination of those two, peter talking about the general, largescale big picture of the economy in houston, and looking how things are put together, their cando attitude and how this patchwork of Flood Control ca
Are the latest. The i carries a warning about the potential Terror Threat posed by drones. The paper claims its only a matter of time before so called Islamic State launches an airborne attack in the uk. The Daily Telegraph says an investigation is under way into a massive cyber attack on us Credit Rating firm equifax, amid fears hackers may have stolen the personal data of up to 44 million british customers. The independent reports that up to half a million americans have been told to evacuate their homes ahead of Hurricane Irma hitting the us mainland. The daily mail claims that english charities are given far less lottery cash than their counterparts in scotland. The sun leads on allegations concerning a bride to be who it claims jilted her would be husband at the airport. The mirror also carries those allegations on its front page. The guardian carries a warning from the nato chief, Jens Stoltenberg that the world is more a dangerous place today than it has been in a generation. An
Into national politics. But why did he do it . And what might have happened if the killers had been shown on tv as planned . Heres reagans last movie as a matter of fact, i have been permitted to choose my own words, and discuss my own ideas regarding the choice that we face in the next few weeks. In 1964, a middle aged hollywood has been called Ronald Reagan went on tv to speak in support of the republican candidate for president , Barry Goldwater. We are spending m5 billion on welfare. Do some arithmetic, and you will find that if we divided the m5 billion up equally among those 9 million poorfamilies, we would be up to give each family 4600 a year. And this, added to their present income, should eliminate poverty. Reagans mix of wit, warmth and rapid fire statistics made it one of the most effective political addresses in us history. Direct aid to the poor, however, is running at about 600 per family. It seems there must be some overhead. And it launched him into a stratospheric car
Yorkshire has said it can no longer manage them. Wakefield city academys trust is said to be the First Academy chain to make such a decision. The department for education will work with the trust until a new sponsor can be found. The nhs in england has issued new guidance to terror attack victims, after some were subjected to vile and upsetting abuse online. It warns about the pitfalls of using social media and also says people need to be wary of journalists. But it adds that social media can also play a positive role in helping victims and families after attacks. Before we go, welljust show you with these pictures. In some parts of florida, last minute preparations for the arrival of Hurricane Irma include the corralling of pink flamingos. As you can see, theyre not easy to catch. At the miami zoo, officials have been busy making sure their nearly 3,000 animals are safely out of harms way. Most of the animals, including these pink flamingos, are being carefully moved to concrete Holdi