very good tuesday mornm jim and i m poppy harlow. right now hurricane fiona strengthening as it sets its sights on another batch of islands. but as it moves past puerto rico and the dominican republic, the damage is devastating. look at those images. in puerto rico two people are dead this morning after most of the power on the island is out. it could be days before it is restored. we re looking for gasoline, water, ice. all of the supplies necessary for getting through this. we were hoping it wouldn t be so big. but, well, it was bigger than we expected. and you have to make do with what you have. been through this before. rescuers have saved more than a thousand people from the floodwaters. as much as 30 inches of rain fell on the eiisland. that is like two and a half feet. they try to get to people in more hard to reach areas. this comes five years, to the day after hurricane maria made landfall on the u.s. island. many people who lived through that catastrophe fear
conversation is proof or evidence that we have done some things right. back then for example, nobody had access to cell phone or internet. so we did some things right. but we do have say lot of work in front of us. you have said that the power grid in puerto rico, you ve described it as functional but fragile. and i wonder, are we seeing that here? that the repairs done in the wake of maria were not sufficient to prevent folks losing power again. yes. definitely. what happened after maria, we finished the emergency repairs which took about a year by the way. they were finalized around august of 2018. and then on the second stage of the process when we start thinking about making the grid more sill yent and strengthening it, we have a lot of ideas and we had a lot of discussions with fema. but very little progress made
highs only 81. of course you factor in the humidity, it felt well warmer than that. new york city s 100 gives way to 84. we have a few active areas of thunderstorms forecast to move in later on this afternoon and this evening. that will help keep your temperatures at bay. the highest we get, 87 degrees by late week. let s get a check on cnn business this morning. first a look at markets around the world. asian markets closing down slightly and european markets are tilting higher here. wall street, look at futures. they re up just a little bit. look, stocks have been rye sill yent. the dow is up 2%. for the year, it s impressive. the dow is up 16%. the s&p 50020% almost. the nasdaq really tech stocks have been leading the way here. the question is how long can this last? there are a number of factors here that could derail stock s
from here without bin laden who it seems to me, seems what we re getting out of the compound was clearly operational and in a command facility there. most definitely. there was sort of a public prevailing wisdom that he was disconnected and not part of the group. i think now that s been sort of shot down. he was still active. he was communicating with his followers. it s a loss. it s a loss for the group. it s going to have some negative impact. however, this is a foreseeable event for al qaeda. this is something that they knew was of high risk. it was likely to happen. all of these organizations tell to beery sill yent because they ve built in contingency planning. you might lose charisma or some special relationships. there s going to be people stepping into that void. i want you to listen to what tom donlin said on meet the
getting out of the compound was clearly operational and in a command facility there. most definitely. there was sort of a public prevailing wisdom that he was disconnected and not part of the group. i think now that s been sort of shot down. he was still active. he was communicating with his followers. it s a loss. it s a loss for the group. it s going to have some negative impact. however, this is a foreseeable event for al qaeda. this is something that they knew was of high risk. it was likely to happen. all of these organizations tell to beery sill yent because they ve built in contingency planning. you might lose charisma or some special relationships. there s going to be people stepping into that void. i want you to listen to what tom donlin said on meet the press yesterday. this is the largest cache of