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And in the interest of protecting our public interest, i have asked the board of the power authority to invoke the cancellation clause in the contract immediately. >> the governors announcement comes two days after fema expressed quote significant concerns about how whitefish was awarded the contract. still, it has been six weeks since hurricane maria plowed into puerto rico and 70% still has no electricity. martin savidge is in san juan. how does this controversy impact the ability to actually ...

By earnestness he was devoted to his mother fredericka and with whom he shared a profound love of german language literature and music it cemented the bond between mother and son. the devoutly religious father leo uncial was a broker in the timber trade he forced his son to move from a german to a hebrew school pull suffered under his fathers orthodoxy poetry not prayer was his native element. chant of it halfway between kiev and bucharest krakow and odessa was the secret capital of europe where...

Within a few hundred yards of where theyre actually picking up the water. this is very close in fight that they have going on right here now. they are pouring everything into it. look over to the right here, how heavy that black smoke is, thats dense forest. it was blowing to the north, its blowing toward the south, and blowing toward communities not only here in santa rosa, but the city of sonoma itself. there are lots of evacuations up and down this valley here. >> this is a well known highway...

How are these evacuations facilitated, how do people do this? >> theyre pretty sophisticated and getting better at it. they have an alert system you can sign up for your phone. i signed up for it when i came up here. i signed up from all over the area. i got calls all night long about different evacuations. this is one of the areas, this is probably the hottest area right now in terms of fire, where theyre hitting it hard, mandatory evacuations went into effect here. you saw the video of the pol...

Subdivisions. >> oh, yeah. >> its wild. >> fredericka, this is that scene. >> this is extraordinary. this is a very concentrated residential area, and to see how many cars were left and possibly how many people were rescued out of that is astounding. earlier, we had an image from a nursing home, and it was in that very neighborhood as well, where the water had come in and the people who were staying in that nursing home, were in their chairs with the water waist deep. extraordinary work that you...

Them and hes going to have to navigate that every step of the way, fredericka. >> jim acosta, thank you so much traveling with the president in riyadh. a former extremist and counter terrorism analyst and former cia operative and security analyst. bob, let me begin with you because just as jim was underscoring, its going to be difficult to make everyone happy on this eight-day, five city trip. delicate nuances of international politics or was it setting foot on new guidance, now policies. >> i...

Far more equipped, better equipped than anything that the u.s. military faced. >> and so, mark, you know, while its mosul right now and isis being on its heels, do you see that potentially syria is next, particularly that de facto capital of raqqah? >> i think ongoing operations are continuing. in fact, i know they are in and around syria for the same kind of preliminary actions that have been occurring over the last few months encircling mosul, the same thing is going on in raqqah. truthfully, ...

Re-establish order, a prison riot broke out. they actually set things on fire, three of those inmates were stabbed to death, and one still remains in the hospital with injuries. >> and so how long is it expected those inmates or someone must have taken in order to dig that tunnel? >> reporter: yeah, you better believe that will be a key question of the investigation. when i called the prison this morning, they actually were not answering our questions, citing security, but what we know about tha...

So its going to give iraqi fighters some support. >> under siege in raqqa as well, is there a feeling that theyre almost done as a force to be reckoned with in that region? >> reporter: i think we need to look to history to begin to answer that question, fredericka, if one takes into account the fact that isis has had newspaper roumerous, previo incarnations, and they have only then managed to put themselves back together, re-emerge stronger, more sophisticated and more powerful than before and ...

We spoke to an eyewitness who lived a few houses down from where this all took place, describing a pretty terrifying scene. and he said that as he was fleeing with his family, they could hear people screaming, "please save us, were still alive." according to one particular house there, were six families taking shelter because the families cant leave. isis is holding them hostage. and sometimes the best they can do is try to get together in what they believe to be is going to be the strongest str...