Residents displaced by the now post tropical cyclone are trying to make their way back home some of the hardest hit areas are still without electricity and cell phone service in many parts of Florida is severely limited Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Brock long is urging evacuees to remain patient this is going to be a frustrating event it s going to take some time to allow people back into their homes particularly in the in the Florida Keys if you look at what happened in in Florida obviously Monroe County took the brunt of the hit and a majority of the holes there have been impacted in some ways with several of them destroyed and many more with major damage long will meet with the governors of the u.s. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico today those areas for the brunt of hurricane. Rainfall and storm surge from what s left over Irma has caused historic flooding and downtown Jacksonville Ryan bank of member station. Reports rescue teams are searching for people strande
Good afternoon you re listening to Delaware public media I m your host Nick Shaleen Oh a new scholarship fund at the Delaware Community Foundation will honor the memory of Corporal Steven Ballard a Delaware state trooper who was killed in the line of duty earlier this year Delaware Public Media s Kelli Steele has more corporal Ballard was shot and killed while investigating a suspicious vehicle at a while while in bear on April 26th the Delaware Community Foundation president and c.e.o. Stuart come stock Gay says the scholarship fund will honor Ballard s life and service the inspiration for the scholarship came from an anonymous donor we work with who was moved by Corporal Ballard story and wanted to do something to honor the corporal and that s the beauty of this kind of work that we do that donors $100000.00 gift will create an indelible fun to create the scholarship which will provide 5000 dollars each year to a junior or senior majoring in criminal justice at Delaware State Unive
For here and now comes from networks creators of Matlab and Simulink software accelerating the pace of engineering and science learn more at Mathworks dot com from n.p.r. And you are Boston I m Magnetar I m Jeremy Hobson It s here in their league coming up rescuers in Houston are turning to helicopters to try to save those stranded by rising waters the Coast Guard is using the freeway surface as a landing zone and so you see them coming down and then they ll bring the soaking wet victims out sometimes elderly and we ll Cheers Also we ll talk with the Houston family this is the 3rd time their home has been flooded in just 2 years you both did not about the way they d are imposed never for I think so they have they can t let their this is where they are called this every living their lives have rescued so far we re not there these stories and we re President Trump s new strategy work in Afghanistan coming up here and use it 1st. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m Lakshmi Singh Pre
Those are promising to try to get to everyone today still awaiting rescue in the used an area this woman has taken in all her flooded out neighbors young and old have about 20 ranging from age from 7 to 96. All different abilities and so we re just trying to make things work thousands already rescued have been taken to used ins convention center many of the evacuees come holding plastic garbage bags of clothes food and personal items most of them what for me to the floodwaters or rain they tell you to meses with the Red Cross making it was their basic information like any address phone number and how many people are with them and their agent may have plane tickets or concert time we have that meters mean played inside one issue is pets which are not allowed at this shelter officials are still trying to figure out the logistics Triborough a.b.c. News Houston President Trump plans to visit tomorrow this is a.b.c. News so you get this idea for your company great but then it s too expensi
C m So how s a more enough cemeteries to stick with I m Robert Siegel Baltimore s Confederate statues tomorrow afternoon on All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I and you can listen to all things considered today at 4 on Delaware Public Media. And in the forecast today mostly sunny with a high near 77 you re in Dover. Tonight a chance of showers mainly after 3 am mostly cloudy with a low around 65 Otherwise it s 2 o clock thanks for listening to Delaware public media you can stream us online it s all of our public dot org Our follow us on Twitter and w d g 911. It s 2 o clock and over. Funding for here and now comes from Mathworks creators of Matlab and Simulink software accelerating the pace of engineering and science learn more at Mathworks dot com from n.p.r. And I believe you are Boston a magnet for Jeremy Hobson It s here and now. Coming up we ll have the latest from Texas where public safety officials are dealing with rising waters in Houston. To be healthy no. More need to ge