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Live for americas news quarters im theres new details and the suspect of the shooting of three people in pensacola florida. falvey air force member invited three sally flight students to dinner earlier this week and watched videos of mass shootings. authorities say its too early to still call the attack terrorism, meanwhile northern command is calling for an increase of a random security checks at all military bases in america. a new study finds that the worlds oceans are struggling to breathe a...

Harbour. how bad was it out there? what did you see? >> reporter: wolf, the scale is unimaginable. there are communities there, there are two communities called the mud and pigeon peas where a lot of the haitian community lives, blocked, colorful houses brightly painted, they look like piles of legos there the way theyve been scrambled. we just heard from u.s. air force general terrance oshaughnessy of northern command who says the air force is working with the bahamian government to reestablish...

They are coordinating resources from all of the agencies. this will be a whole government support to i think the bahamas from dhs to the coast guard to northern command. and again, people who want to help, i know what people donating items are great but i think cash is best. its fast, it gets where we need to go and were still very early into rescue operations. the primary focus right now has to be on saving lives and stabilizing life safety. as you heard earlier, this is going to be a massive e...

What damage has been done. tracking dorian, still a category 5 storm. well see it category 5 over the next several days. tuesday we see the decrease into a category 4 storm. we are confident that the steering mechanisms are still in place, that we will see the turn. well see that turn to the north and also to the west. category 3 storm off the coast of florida. well talk more about that a little bit later but we still have major concerns along the coast. you need to prepare now. >> thank you. we...

Again, the whole federal response mechanisms from our partners with the coast guard, northern command for any dod missions, theyre all on these conference calls listening to what the counties are saying as they get ready for this storm. >> listen, there are lots of resources. talk to us about that. what kind of resources go into preparing for a hurricane like this? >> well, the first is supporting any kind of evacuation. thats primarily going to be state and local government but, again, fema can...

Administrator, mr. greg fugate. pleasure to have you on. unfortunate we have to talk under such circumstances most time. hurricane dorian has proven very difficult to track. there is a huge cone of where it could make landfall. all 67 counties in florida under a state of emergency. so can you take us behind the scenes right now? what is fema doing now across that state? >> well, theyre already staffing the state emergency response team up in tallahassee with governor desantis and theyre looking ...

If you look at it -- the republicans are going to define as socialists. theyre going to do that. we have to draw clear line and say we are not socialists and beat trump in ohio, michigan, north carolina, we need somebody who is a pragmatic progressive and someone who can demonstrate they have a record of achievement and are able to bring people together. >> what are you going to do about the presidents comments? yes, theyre outrageous and offensive that he would be willing to accept dirt informa...

Scramble more american f-22 jets to intercept them. norad said russia resumed these bomber patrols in 2007. it flies seven a year. u.s. air force flies bombers and spy planes off russia as well as more than 250 american fighter jets and aircraft along with 10,000 troops arrived in alaska for war games and probably why russia decided to fly patrols. the northern command released a photo of american b-52 bombers moved to alaska for the training. the time of the release a coincidence. for the first...

National security issue at the border. in fact, the head of northern command made it clear there is no military threat coming from mexico. the military threats are across the globe. the readiness for those threats have to be undertaken at posts here in the united states. thats where we should be investing the money. it is no longer an academic trade off. these are specific projects at specific posts all through the united states. i hope my colleagues pay attention. >> acting secretary shanahan w...

Overdoses. much of it is coming across the border from mexico. we know that southern command and northern command, ive served on the armed services committee, are desperately short of funds to stop the drugs coming in. and so maybe there could be an additional plus to work on stopping those drugs from coming in, on working at the border crossings where those drugs are coming in. but there wont be funding for the wall. >> very interesting. so you are serving in your last few days of congress righ...