Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Xq institute. Lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your financial future. The ford foundation. Or working with visionaries on thei frontlines of social change worldwide. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan it has been are rough day across northern florida, thanks to hurricane hermine. And now, much of the atlantic seaboard is under threat. William brangham begins our coverage. Reporter hermine barreled ashore in floridas big bend region, on the gulf coast, g around 1 30 this morning. It battered beaches with winds of 80 miles an hour and flooded towns with storm surge and heavy downpours. Oo we get out of bed, the water is ankle deep and go and open the door, flood waters coming rushing in. Now, the water inside the house is knee deep. Reporter adding to the mess the storm tore up trees and snapped power lines, affecting thousands of people. Governor rick scott declared a state of emergency for more thar 50 counties. The number one thing is to stay safe. Do not drive in standing water, stay away from downed power lines. Just because its clear outsidei does not mean its safe. Reporter from the gulf coast, the storm moved inland and weakened as it pushed acroso southern georgia and the carolinas. Its expected to regain some of its power if the storm moves out over warm water in the atlantic. That had North Carolina governor pat mccrory, and others, waiting, and hoping. Were going to see who gets hit the hardest, and hopefullyo no one will get hard hit at all. Our goal is to be overprepared and underwhelmed when it comes to this storm. C reporter the Midatlantic States may face the worst of hermine. Trm its projected to stall offshore this weekend, with the potential for historic levels of beach erosion and coastal flooding. Already, Labor Day Weekend events up and down the coast were being canceled or delayed. N but today, at least, officials in georgia said the effects were less damaging than feared, andre surfers even took advantage of big waves near savannah. Back in florida, there were other concerns. The state has already reportedal dozens of cases of zika virus, and the storms passage will now leave countless pools of standing water ideal breeding grounds for the mosquitoes thatr transmit zika. Sreenivasan william will be back with whats behind the recent absence of hurricanes hitting the u. S. Mainland, after the news summary. S in the days other news job creation in august came in lighter than expected. The Labor Department reports a net gain of 151,000 positions,it far below the gains of recent months. The Unemployment Rate for august stayed at 4. 9 for the third month in a row. The weaker numbers could influence the Federal Reserve to wait until years end before raising Interest Rates again. The man who ruled uzbekistan with an iron hand, islam karimov, has died of a stroke. Ka his government confirmed it today. Karimov took power in the Central Asian nation in 1989, and was widely condemned for brutally repressing all dissent. Even so, after 9 11, the u. S. Used an uzbek air base for air strikes on afghanistan. The deal collapsed when karimovs troops machinegunned 700 protesters in 2005. Russian president Vladimir Putin said today he does not know who hacked Democratic Party organizations in the u. S. The cyberattack led to the release of thousands of emails and documents, and u. S. S, intelligence agencies have pointed to russian hackers. But, in a new interview with bloomberg news, putin says the culprits could be from anywhere. translated there are sol many hackers nowadays, and they act so meticulously and so precisely, they camouflage their activity to pretend that they were some other hackers from other territories or others countries. At a state level, russia is definitely not involved in this. Sreenivasan putin also said moscow has no intention of trying to interfere in the u. S. N election. A gunman who killed a security agent at Los Angeles International airport will avoid the death penalty. Instead, paul ciancia gets life in prison, under a plea deal on murder and other charges. In 2013, he shot a federal screening officer a dozen times, and wounded three others. A former Stanford University swimmer walked out of jail today, in a Sexual Assault case that caused a national outcry. A brock turner served half of a sixmonth sentence, for attacking an unconscious woman after heavy drinking at a party. The victim complained thepl sentence was far too lenient. That sparked widespread criticism of the judge and the system, and this week, state lawmakers approved mandatory prison terms for what turner did. Samsung is recalling its brand new galaxy note 7 smartphones because the batteries can explode or catch fire. Todays announcement came just two weeks after the products launch. Samsung says there have been 35v cases of note 7s burning or exploding, out of 2. 5 million sold worldwide. So and on wall street, the Dow Jones Industrial average gained 72 points to close near 18,492. The nasdaq rose 22 points, and the s p 500 added nine. For the week, all three indexes, gained about half a percent. Still to come on the newshour what hermine tells us about weather patterns; rebuilding joplin, missouri, five years after a tornado flattened much of the city; delving into the f. B. I. s report on Hillary Clintons emails, and much more. Sreenivasan with hermine heading up the east coast of the u. S. , we take a closer look at the science, and frequency, ofnd these hurricanes. William brangham is back with more. L reporter hurricane hermine is the first major hurricane toi hit the United States in ten years. T sandy, which did tremendoussa damage in 2012, wasnt at hurricane when it came ashore. So why such a long period of time since the last major hurricane . Ng to help answer that, im joinedj by Sean Sublette. He is a meterologist with thele Research Group climate central. So, sean, just take on this t question not that anyone is really complaining about this, but why have we gone ten yearss since the last major storm hit the u. S. . We really have been lucky at this point. Weather patterns change from year to year, and the Atlantic Basin has been active over the past decade or so, but the steering winds at any given time have largely directed the major hurricanes away from theth continental United States. Now, to remember, a major hurricane, by definition, is a category 3 or greater storm, a 3, 4 or 5. Her mean was a category 1 storm and like sandy did a lot of flood damage but did not attain what we technically define as a major hurricane. Brangham one of the things i know is the climate models predigged if the temperature globally goes up which it has and oceans get warmer, which they have, that we would see more of these storms around a greater frequency of the storm. Are these models somehow contradicted by this last decade . Not necessarily. N i think what most have begun to indicate if you go to the i. P. C. C. Analysis or the consolidation of the research is that theyre not necessarily going to become more frequent but there will be the tendency or likelihood that the ones that form will have more intense rain and likely stronger winds sos that the ones that do manage to develop will likely be stronger and the fact that sea level has continued to rise as a lot of the polar regions have seen the glacial ice melt, that will compound any kind of storm surge flooding that comes from hurricanes. Brangham so this last ten years and the models youre describing, they dont really help us understand what the next ten years could look like for the u. S. Yeah, for the very short term, there is not an awful lot of skill with those particular batches of climate models. The shorter term is really the area that most of the work needd to be done, but we do look for the longerterm trends when we think about Climate Change, as Climate Change is a longerterm phenomenon on the order of decades to a century versus several years to a decade. E brangham lets go back to hermine which is threatening the thravrng seaboard. Ng we have 30 Million People up ann down the coast that might be looking at a glimpse of the storm. What are we seeing this weekend and next week . Tomorrow, the center of theom storm goes up the southeastern coast, affects hampton roads, virginia, then going off the new jersey or del mar va peninsula and likely stalling for two or three days and may obtain hurricane status once again. But really the biggest storyt will be the tremendous coastal flooding if this system hangs off the new jersey and del marva peninsula, you will have a broad area of winds coming onshoreon that will likely do seriousr coastal flooding. Brangham why is the stalling important . Po we would prefer it to rush through more quickly . Absolutely. Most to have the time, once . The systems mush northward, they go back out to sea. The steering winds with this system look like they will set up looks like it will stall off the virginia cape and offshore only 100 miles or. Il so so if it just sits and spins in the counterclockwise direction, you have a continuou, fetch of water on to shore from the strong northeasterly winds and thats whats going to pile up the water along the coast. C Sean Sublette from climate central, thank you very much. Thank you. Sreenivasan storms, hurricanes and natural disasters clearly test the fortitude of any area, as were seeing this weekend with hermine, and just recently, with the rains and flooding in louisiana. We tend to focus on the immediate aftermath and relief, but the devastation can last for years. We have the story of how one h city, leveled by a tornado, has spent years rebuilding, and in some ways is better and stronger for the future. The tornado that struck joplin missouri on may 22, 2011 was one of the most destructive ever in u. S. History. 161 people were killed, 1,000 were injured and more than 7,000 homes were damaged. When the newshour visited four months later, people were still literally picking up the piecesp of their lives. It is certainly clean, compared with what it used to be. Sreenivasan jane cage, a businesswoman who chaired the Citizens Advisory Council to rebuild joplin, told us back then she was worried people wouldnt come back to the destroyed areas. In the beginning, everyone said i want to rebuild my house. And now, i think people are faced with the reality that their neighborhood, theirho friends may not be in that samea spot. Sreenivasan five years later, cage took us on a tour oe the same neighborhood. In some ways, this is one of the best recovered neighborhoods. Theyre nicer houses and bigger houses. Sreenivasan she says one of the main things that joplin got right in the aftermath, was t encouraging residents to stay. We concentrated on keeping our population in joplin, because we saw what happened ina other cities that experienced disasters. And i think one of the first things that we did to make that happen was, our School Superintendent made the promise that we would start school on time. Sreenivasan five schools were completely wiped out in the storm, including joplin high school. When we visited in 2011, classes had just begun in an abandoned shopping mall. Now, a brand new, stateofthe Art High School has opened on the original site. Si its just across the street from where sophomore blake deanse house was flattened. D. Dean described how he rode out the storm in a backyard shelter. Sure enough. To we heard this Freight Train noise. We just waited in the shelter until it blew over us. Sreenivasan his family chose to rebuild on the same lot. A bigger and better house. And he says the school is also s bigger and better. Its just amazing. Its so much bigger. So much more opportunity. Sreenivasan in fact, bigger and better is how many in joplin now describe the city as a whole. The population has actually grown by 1,000 people over the last five years. And fellow High School Football player Maurice Aubrey says the sense of community has become m stronger too. Now we have this single past experience that links us all together. Its made it so much better. My complex was here, and my building was right here. Di sreenivasan marcinda hempena is one of those people who took advantage of those new opportunities. She was living in an apartment and huddled in the bathtub whenu the storm passed through. The weirdest thing was after it was all done, it was so quiet that i thought, am i dead . Did i not make it . Is this what its like to be dead . Sreenivasan hempen, a single mom of two nowgrown boys, said prior to the storm, she couldnt afford to buy a house, butaf thanks to a 20 million federal loan program which helped her with a downpayment, she owns a home in one of the hardesthit areas. Its still a little unreal. I own this. I can paint a wall. I can do whatever i want to do, and nobody can tell me different. Sreenivasan the Community Wide effort, along with help a from all levels of government and hundreds of volunteer organizations from around the country, has changed the face of the city. Nearly 2,000 new homes have been built. 300 new businesses have opened. And thanks to 30 million fromn the federal government, the city has a new sewer system, new electrical grid and new stormw shelters in every school and public building. There are also new parks, n complete with basketball courts, playgrounds and water features. St. Johns mercy hospital, which was completely destroyed, has been rebuilt on a new site, and has 11 million worth of upgrades to protect from future tornadoes including windows that can sustain winds up to 250 miles an hour, fortified safe zones on every floor, and a 450foot reinforced tunnelfo which houses generators, wateren and data communications. But for all of the signs of newo growth in joplin, there is one area where the healing has been more difficult. Cases of mental distress and trauma have more than doubledle over the past five years, affecting people like marian kelly, who showed us the crawlo space where she rode out thee storm. At some point i felt the air getting sucked out of the crawlr space and i thought, this is how im going to die. Sreenivasan she was relatively lucky. Her house was damaged, but not destroyed, and she emerged with just some cuts and bruises. But the emotional scars have been much deeper. For me, the posttraumatic stress disorder has manifested itself in heightened emotional response to things. I get anxious or upset in ways i wouldnt have before. Also, the concentration issues are there. Thats why there are alarms for everything on my phone, thats why everything has to be written down. Sreenivasan she has been able to hold down a job, but she says thats thanks to medicatioe and regular counseling sessions. Shes not sure shell ever fulle recover. Its been difficult for me to accept that i might not get all of this back, the things that ive lost. Ive shaved off a few i. Q. Points and i dont know if i can expect to get them back. Sreenivasan while kelly still struggles with her memories of that terrible day, she is proud of the city for showing such resilience in the aftermath. She is also hopeful that the many young people who have moved to joplin since the storm, will Bring New Energy and life to the community. That new life is evident in the downtown which had been largely abandoned before the tornado hit. Ed now its dotted with hip restaurants, bars and lofts. Rachel grindle, who just moved to joplin from long beach, california, is impressed. Our first week living in joplin, we were invited to friday night wine share, which is this Networking Group for people our age who are careerge focused, and then we went to dinner. And i looked at my husband andd said i feel like were living more the la life here than we ever did in long beach sreenivasan reminders of the storm can still be found everywhere in joplin, whether its the memorials to the people who lost their lives, or the to the miles and miles of treeless neighborhoods. But five years later, the signs of progress that have emerged from that tragic day have become a model for other communities who have suffered catastrophic disasters. For the pbs newshour, im hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan stay with us. Coming up on the newshour the controversy over an nfl quarterback refusing to stand for the National Anthem; and mark shields and david brooks take on the weeks news. But first, today the f. B. I. Released two key documents about its investigation into the private email server Hillary Clinton used when she was secretary of state. One contains the agencys notes from clintons f. B. I. Interview; and the other is a 47page summary of the f. B. I. s findings. Nprs Carrie Johnson is covering the story and joins me now. So, whats new about the documents that were releaseder today . There are several new details, including a sense of what Hillary Clinton told f. B. I. Investigators in that three andh a half hour interview at f. B. I. Headquarters on july 2. She said she used the personal server as a matter of convenience. She never had a concern that she or anybody close to her was mishandling classified information. In fact, she actually doesnt recall attending a security briefing or any kind of training about open records lawsuits or open records laws, which is interesting because these materials only came out after a host of requests from news organizations and calls from republicans in congress. O sreenivasan one of the emails or at lea