Good morning class and welcome back to history 3290, modern American Military history. Today, we are going to continue our conversation about the second world war. And, specifically we will look at an aspect of the war through what we call the lens of industrial mobilization. And, industrial mobilization is often understood as the key to allied victories in this ward. It is often said that the allies win because they out produce the axis powers. Im sure many of us have heard this before and perhaps encountered it or read it. But, one of the problems with that line of reasoning is that if it is simply an amount of stuff that produces victory. But at the beginning of this war the axis powers possessed more. So that cannot absolutely establish ultimately the trajectory of allied victory. Because, the allies for a long time are deficient in that quantity of stuff. The other aspect of the material argument, if you will that the allies out reduced and overstated and under simplified. In a al
Activated 3,000 national and state guard members to help with the countless rescues. Abcs lana zach joins us live from houston with the details. Reporter good evening, the situation here in houston, continues to be very serious. By abcs latest confirmation, three people are dead and there are still thousands more waiting to be rescued. White house confirms that the president will be here, to visit the affected region on tuesday, and by all estimates it will still be raining then. Houston is trying to stay afloat, amid nearly 500 billion gallons of water. Sinkholes opening up, tornadoes touching down, this lake was once a runway at houstons airport. Already there have been thousands of requests for rescue. On your roof, to be taken from the air, wave sheets, towels, or anything to get our attention. Reporter National Weather service tweeting, this event is unprecedented and all impacts are unknown and beyond anything experienced. Follow order from officials to ensure safety. Overnight,
Other. Tonight we have Team Coverage, meteorologist Melissa Magee has the latest on the storms path but we will begin with brian taff in naples in the eye of the storm is passing, brian. Reporter walter and sarah this has been a absolutely surreal hour or two hours, here in naples florida right now. Forgive me as lie around as i stay out of the path of flying debris. We just passed through eye wall, the strongest wins of what was a category three hurricane. We clock the wind of a gust of 142 miles an hour. That is stunning. Wind speed by any measure. Things have incredibly calmed down, from that point, in just the last five minutes. That is how quickly this storm is moving. Five minutes ago we could not see those trees behind me, and now as clear as day. Jason, come on out here survey some of the destruction. From what we have seen in just the last, couple of hours, of these incredible, wind speed, that building behind us is part of its roofies torn off. Jason, go ahead, look down. Tho
The win, brunt of the storm came through, about 45 minutes to an hour ago, that is when the eye wall crossed over the top of us. That gave way to a surreal several moments worth sky were blue. Forgive us as we wiped off the camera lens as it gets socked with the rain as you see pelt ing in the back of me. Irmas now 5 miles north of naples. So about 30 miles south south east of fort myers. It is now a category two hurricane. It was every bit category three as it roared a shore sustain winds of 100 miles an hour. We have gust ted to 142 at one point and destruction has been widespread. A few moments ago when eye was above us and it had been calm, we took out drone six for just a couple minutes and try to launch it. Lets roll that now and give you a sense of what we saw. This is on the front side of the hotel, the commercial corridor, route 41, known as the trail, not a lot of people live there, fortunately. Destruction there limited to trees coming down here and there. Not the case on th
Jersey shore from sky six over Atlantic City high waves but overall, a beautiful evening out there, the storm will still have an impact on the jersey shore and delaware beaches but hermines shift is good news by and large. We have Team Coverage of the hermine we will begin with Melissa Magee and cecily tynan with what these changes mean, cecily. This image of hermine shows a few things. A wave. There we go, now this image shows, this is still, a very strong storm, maximum sustained wind 75, 70 miles per hour. It is near hurricane strength. It is very large. Tropical storm force wind fields about 500 miles across, but it is, way out to sea. This is the center of the storm, it is 335 miles, east of ocean city, maryland, and this track, is really shifted over the past 24 hours. To explain why, you really to have look at the what is going on in the upper atmosphere. This is snapshot of the 500 millibar level, 20,000 feet up. All week long we talked about how up thatter level low was going