Im standing in, this is wil dloet chester west. They will have to rebuild. Their houses are subsumed right now. The first floors, driveways, garages, by water. The white house estimates more than 100,000 homes are either damaged or destroyed. T entire neighborhoods that were once green are now submerged with water. So, of course, there are concerns about contamination and diseases in these floodwaters. I can tell you, chris, the mosquitos are out in full force this morning. They, of course, thrive in this standing water and humidity here. Ill tell you what, really a sad picture of the tragedy is that where you are, if you look at that home behind you, thats almost the best Case Scenario right now for people, is that their home isnt completely saturated with water, but the neighborhood is unlivable and time is going to be the factor. This is not going anywhere for weeks. Alisyn, stay away from those bugs. Fema announcing they have approved assistance for nearly 100,000 people. Remember,
Merata, caven near key but not down in the south. Residents along that entry point are very angry. Take a listen to this resident. She has had it. I have a dog and cat and parrot and i cant get back to my home. There is nothing open. I have no food. I have no water. This is wrong. This is wrong. And Governor Scott was touring the area by air yesterday to assess how unbelievable this damage is that irma caused. Here is what the governor had to say. My heart goes out to the people in the keys. I mean, there is devastation. And, you know, i just hope everybody, you know, survived. Its horrible what we saw. Now, obviously, one of the big stories, guys, you will hear playing out is power restoration because nearly half or more of the state of florida without power, difficult conditions. But none like that playing out in the keys. Why so many stayed behind . Perhaps we will find out. But they have got to get in some food which could be running out soon by today. Water and other elements as p
Before completely empty. Officials estimate many home the damaged in the houston area. Across the region more than 72,000 people have been rescued. As of right now 47 deaths tied to the storm. In beaumont, the water system is out. Floods have disabled the pumping stations and a hospital had had to transfer its patients and shut down. On top of all of that, there is ir ma. A category 3 hurricane churning across the open atlantic getting stronger heading toward, well, no one knows exactly for sure. And that is a serious problem. We are watching all of this but we do have some breaking news this morning. I want to get to Miguel Marquez in the Baptist Hospital in beaumont texas where evacuations began yesterday. Reporter yeah. Were about to see the evacuations get underway. Expecting a helicopter any moment. They have 11 babies, two healthy babies born here in the last 24 hours. They have nine that were born prematurely that they need to get out. Just a short time ago we got seconds ago, r
Cubans dont get credit for being a first class Intelligence Service and they are first class. They have proven their worth time and time again over the last 20 years especially over the United States. In our world in the counterintelligence world the cubans are very aggressive and have been successful for years. Though they may not pose a military threat, a lot of times they can sell it to other countries. When we were about to invade iraq, cuba was communicating intelligence information because of their proximity of us to the regime of saddam hussein. Theyre very aggressive and theyre very good. The record suggests that cubans have been particularly successful in getting american citizens to supply them with information. There are a number of reasons for that but the one that strikes thus most is ideological reasons. They did not do it for money. Americans who grew up in the United States in the mid to late 60s, a lot of these men and women saw the vietnam war going on and at the bay
Theres evidence that vekselberg may have used his holdings to do the kremlins bidding in the past. Four years ago, the fbi warned a foundation controlled by him might have been acting on behalf of russias intelligence services. So all this led to speculation that vekselberg perhaps acting on behalf of the russian government or not was funneling money to cohen through Columbus Nova. Heres the thing, the Company Columbus nova stressed it is American Company run by american businessmen named andrew intrator. Vekselberg is his biggest client and his cousin. But the company says vekselberg was not involved in the decision to pay cohen. The claim viktor was involved or provide any funding for Columbus Novas engagement of Michael Cohen is patently untrue. In other words, how dare you . Columbus nova just wanted to pay Michael Cohen 1 million for a totally unknown reason which had nothing to do with their biggest client, a russian oligarch. Guess what . It turns out thought Michael Cohen and n