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Im looking at something that was printed out from fema talking about even in terms of donations, people are donating -- they donated rather four times more to harvey and yet theres only twice the population in houstons greater area than there is in san juan. im just wondering why you think the lack of cohesive approach to puerto rico, via the federal government and those charitable donations? what is it? whats the difference? >> out of sight, out of mind. most people in the states did not know t...

Municipal bankruptcy in u.s. history. two things will make it worse. no electricity. major airlines still cant fly into puerto rico. san juans international airport has no power and damage the radar. only ten commercial flights each day. theyve managed to fly in emergency supplies. starbucks, verizon, google all donating. at&t are waving cell phone fees. >> meanwhile voters in alabama heading to the polls in a matter of hours to fill the senate seat left by jeff sessions. the choice of former wh...

Puerto ricos economy ill equipped to deal with this. years into a financial crisis. largest municipal bankruptcy in u.s. history. two things will make it worse. no electricity, most, still in the dark and it could get worse if people leave the island. theyre going to need skilled workers to rebuild. now right now, few can leave. le major airlines still cant fly in. airport has no power and damage the radar. only about 10 commercial flights every day. but american, united and jet blue have manage...

Order to get them to talk more about what they know about the russia interference in the election. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> kerry, let me start with you, to jump off what natasha was just saying about the significance of this fisa warrant news, if it, in fact, bears out. >> right. so first i have to say, chris, the release of fisa information, this is really highly sensitive national security information. so it looks like were in another information where classified information has been le...

Here. ended up going into water that wiped out the entire family. in fact, he was the only one able to survive. shows you the death toll. meanwhile, what are private companies doing to help out? a lot. ainsley: air b and b is saying if you want to rent one of our places until september 25th, can you stay in one of our place force free if you are one of these families thats displaced because of the water. brian: the rockets are also helping out. roll that back. houston rockets. the astros are als...

>> over 50,000 people have donated to this thing. its rising by the minute. every time you refresh the link, it goes up and up and up. thank you so much to everybody who has donated, to everybody who spread the word. its incredible. the most difficult times seem to bring out the best in humanity. thats showing through right now so much. keep sharing. keep donating. whatever you can do, $5, $500, anything helps. >> they will be on the field for the final preseason game tomorrow night. its moved t...

From amendment over the world donating, reached the $200,000 goal less than two hours. they crashed the website, were working to get the website back up. were trying to raise as much as we can so once this storm is over we can again the rebuilding process and get these people back on their feet. >> and clearly if you can raise $200,000 in two hours youre going to raise a lot of money going forward. peoples homes are going to be destroyed, the water damage is extraordinary throughout houston and ...

And we want to be back in houston so we can help. its tough to watch your city go through something like this and not be there to help. >> it is. and the images just horrifying when you see the water and number of people who had to be rescued. people being rescued from their rooftops. and you have raised all this money and now youve increased your goal. talk to us about that and what youre hoping to do with this money. >> we wanted to get out ahead of it. in a situation like this we all know the...

Working people. but it wont be easy. instead of tricking people into donating, it should give something people to believe in. then show how they can only win together. it is in that part of the problem? democrats so havent formulated a message since i last lost. >> i think the point was mom made at the beginning here. the republicans run the government. all three branches. they have a vast majority of governors, vast majority of legislators. the democratic party is the out party. big news is tha...

Joined others when he talked about the dangers that we face with north korea. >> a war with north korea would be terrible, however, a nuclear weapon donating in los angeles would be terrible, we are appointing it time, where choices will have to be made, one way or the other, none of these choices are particularly palatable. >> north korea normally likes to peg these tests with important dates, and this test is no different, they celebrated their 64th anniversary of the end of the korean war, it...