thirty two to paris of indian origin he published his first novel in one thousand nine hundred fifty seven and then went on to write dozens of books many of which dealt with colonialism and its legacy he was knighted by queen elizabeth in one thousand nine hundred and awarded the nobel prize for literature in two thousand and one he was. he watching the news live from by i mean you can log onto a website called for around the clock news and information thank you for watching. good job it is. your link to news from africa and the world your link to exceptional stories and discussion from the news of easy to our website d.w. dot com so much for joining us on facebook at g.w. for god. time for an upgrade. friday saw the biggest wave of industrial action ever to hit europe s biggest budget airline as ryanair pilots walked out on a twenty four hour strike at frankfurt on airport check in desks were unstaffed and passengers nowhere to be seen pilots unions representatives say the message is that ryanair must change. all the days not about defeating ryanair it s about sending a clear sign that defeating their own employees has to end. some passengers at berlin shona failed airport were forced to spend the night there many didn t know when they d finally be able to fly out but some are still sympathetic to the pilot s demands of the abyss and it s a bit unfair the pilots draw the short straw just because people want to fly on the cheap. i think it s a safety risk if someone s employed as a so-called freelance pilot then perhaps doesn t stay home when they re sick so i think it s justified. pilots in belgium ireland and sweden also walked out on friday in the airlines first coordinated europe wide strike a total of four hundred flights were canceled disruption of european airports was at the minimum though with passengers informed in advance of the cancellations. the u.s. reinstated economic sanctions against iran beginning tuesday a few weeks after u.s. president donald trump a taken america out of the multi-nation nuclear deal with the country the sanctions prevent the iranian government from buying dollars they also target the auto and aeronautical sectors as well as iranian exports a loan not explicitly targeted german companies exported goods worth three billion euros to iran last year and fear for their business. the e.u. has offered to support them but trump says any company dealing with iran will not be allowed to do business in the us car make a dime or became one of the first to suspend trade with iran. trade tensions the dust has yet to settle on the facebook cambridge analytical scandal in which the data of millions of users was harvested to further political agendas that facebook apparently now wants to collect detailed information on bank customers to broaden its range of services and increase user engagement on its messenger app which has one point three billion users the wall street journal says facebook has approached several major banks including j.p. morgan chase and citi group but many of them have turned their request down unhappy about the idea of passing client bank account data on to facebook. facebook has denied it s been asking banks for their clients account data. it insists it simply works together with banks as a way of offering users a connection to check their account balance or to check with their bank. a respected german newspaper reported this week that the black sea port of a desert is a hub of corruption many of the containers customs declarations are falsified zippers become shoelaces because shoelaces pay only a fraction in customs tariffs the charges are laid bare in documents made available to german daily sued doctored sites on papers are routinely forged many people are involved freight companies customs officers police and even the intelligence service as fee you that even though the port was supposed to become a flagship anti corruption project after the my down revolution twenty six year old civil rights activist. played a key role in the protests in the capital clear afterward she was put in charge of customs in odessa and was supposed to drain the harbor of corruption she said customs officers to the u.s. for training and the e.u. supplied modern scanners that were able to identify what goods are in the containers as well as contraband none of it helped the scanners were vandalized. chefs gave up her job frustrated in her resignation letter she said the ukrainian government had sabotaged her anti corruption drive. so corruption still flourishes on the black sea visit dodge site and report estimates the losses to the ukrainian treasury topped four billion euros a year in tariffs alone. the small town of nothing used to be a prosperous coal mining community but the old shafts in the former industrial region have long been shuttered now there s very little work in the county of west yorkshire a lot of the young have moved away only the local social club offers a little distraction run by former. rail workers pull green like green many here feel left behind and forgotten they don t see any benefits in european union membership. you think you re going to benefit from the money that you re paying in demand among cape town consumers. didn t talk when local people can for you say to me they need this in my the same studio you know something i got this through char . i got the words. by wind char when close i can come to challenge down to rise again some money i get really close. to success because for itself since twenty ten lou and his partners have opened three miles in cape town with a total of one hundred fifty independent stores. hot dry weather europe s recent heat wave has been perfect for the grapes at least here in germany s run hessen region famous for its white wine the high temperatures have had the teams out harvesting grapes earlier than ever before in saigon yarn was not special is that production started about two weeks earlier this year with harvesting at the beginning of august already will be finishing today the young one will be in the shops by friday that s great the market s waiting for it. like many here the vul family near mines specializes in a partially fomented young wind cold feet of ice because of the sun the grapes are especially sweet this year they ll yield a fruity wine with a high level of alcohol german wine makers expect the twenty eight team vintage to be exceptional they re among the few german businesses that might actually profit from climate change. the average annual temperatures are getting higher we can see that but some forty years ago in one thousand nine hundred seventy six we also had a very hot and dry year. so extreme highs so it doesn t mean that it s happening more and more often now that it s. maybe next summer will be very cool and wet let s wait and see. if the climate really is getting hotter and drier though right hasn t been you know its plan to start growing new varieties 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washington post good morning to wreck. does cohen s guilty plea mean that the president broke the law well it certainly makes it more likely that s people that investigators will figure out that he did break the law in case what cohen said was in fact true but whether that s going to have any legal consequences that s a totally different question ok the legal call a consequence of right now is the possibility of an indictment for the u.s. president how likely is that scenario. well that s an area which is not very likely at the moment because the department of justice has actually done a few analyses in the past and they ve always concluded that indicting we re charging a sitting president is simply impossible so you would have to have a prosecutor who s willing to take the risk to challenge that ok you know we ve seen legal troubles for the president before and for his associates i m thinking of general michael flynn one example is the cohen case different than that well a coin case is different because it directly implicates the president himself and that is to a large extent different because it could have legal ramifications legal impact beyond is true it could in fact leads to a criminal charges after. after the end of his term after the end of his term but not right now democrats of in these kind of situations especially with the michael flynn situation raise the possibility of impeachment is way too early to talk about that yet that is out there in terms of what the democrats to teach it interests are well it is too early to speculate about impeachment but certainly if the midterms change the political balance in washington and if the democrats take the house step becomes a possibility at least triggering impeachment hearings would become a possibility and in fact there are certain democrats who are already demanding to been struck yesterday more by the news of a cohen cohen pleading guilty done by demand afford burdick but also there might be some legal obstacles here because those are two very different cases you have a former long or one time campaign manager and then you have his lawyer and there are different legal implications for defending his person because they re still ok what are prison trumps political options right now you mentioned the midterm elections are coming up in november are they that much more of a higher stakes game for the political survival of the president well they could become that if the democrats decide to make that their rallying cry there are two options i think. either this could in bold trumps supporters who consider all of those investigations deeply unfair or it could impose on the democrats who managed a corruption involving officials and business leaders during her time in office. a powerful earthquake shook venezuela s northeastern coast and parts of the caribbean on a seven point three magnitude quake was the largest to hit the country in over a century but occurred so deep low the earth s surface that it calls the only minor . well as italy tightened its border controls in recent months spain has now become the main destination for african migrants find to reach europe and one entry point into spain is right in africa from morocco to the spanish on klav of say you to but it s no easy feat a six metre high fence barricades the eight kilometer long border spanish officials say migrants have resorted to violence in their attempts to make it across but for those do manage to get through it s no guarantee of an easy passage to a new life he wus all over salah falls a group who hope to make it to europe whatever the cost salif and his friends have to make their way to the high note carefully it s in the mountains of morocco near the border with sciutto. they say the police could show up at any time and destroy their camp the group have thousands of kilometers behind them now just a few hundred metres separate them from europe that fence this man from guinea oceans as deep cuts they are from his attempts to storm the water. my father is dead my mother has nothing not even food i m the oldest son and i want to try and make some money to help my mother that s why i left. they have been travelling for two years since leaving guinea ah now they are stuck here with some fifty thousand others all hoping to make the journey from morocco to europe. some been waiting six months for this chance say with us fans it s this final hurdle. i have many friends who have made it to europe. so many have recently crossed the border we trust in god that we will also make it someday. the fence is here to stop them it s eight kilometers long and fitted with razor sharp wire along with the enclave of milly s this is the only other e.u. border in africa on the other side is a crew sato from the spanish guard it s his job to secure this border but lately that hasn t always been possible. over six hundred migrants managed to storm the fence at the end of july the police are helpless and talk of unprecedented levels of violence makeshift flame throwers quicklime and grappling hooks are the migrants weapons of choice but recruit others we are going to they were very well prepared and organized. small there was so violent that we could not get to the fence. i mean they threw acid at us and did all they could to prevent us from closing the holes that they had cut into the fence. victory over the fence it s taken years for them to reach their destination. the temporary reception center and see you to is fit to burst they have to stay here for one year then they can continue on to spanish mainland only a few of them apply for asylum since hardly any of them have any chance of asylum in europe it s putting pressure on the city of eighty thousand people the number of arrivals is barely sustainable council representatives say the situation in seal to authorities and our own i mean this. usually when both sides organize themselves well and everything goes well then we reach our goal. the young men in the mountains of morocco believe in strength in numbers saif and his friends are already planning their next attempt to storm the fence they re tired of the brutality of the hands of the moroccan police. they only find food at a nearby rubbish dump a soft drink a cucumber. amole potato life here is unbearable. morocco is teeming with police offices. all of my friends who left guinea with me made it to syria. what am i supposed to do here i ll stay here until i can get in. in america in one nine hundred forty nine concealing his nazi service from immigration officials eight years later his application for citizenship was granted but in the one nine hundred ninety s. investigators caught up with him he admitted to them having trained at a nazi s.s. camp in trav nikki the site of one of the holocaust worst massacres claiming the lives of some six thousand jewish citizens. a judge then revoked pollies american citizenship in two thousand and three a year later the u.s. authorities ordered his deportation. until now although germany had refused to accept him on the grounds that he isn t a german and also because german investigators say the evidence against him using conclusive. but the u.s. ambassador lobbied strongly behind the scenes saying berlin had a moral obligation to admit a man suspected of committing crimes in germany s name he s ninety five he s probably going to die at some point soon he s a little bit sickly and so we wanted to make sure that he didn t die in peace and comfort in the united states but that he was brought back somewhere to to face more justice on diplomatic rather than legal grounds the german government has now accepted that argument. sports now in germany football coach welcome love has presented his breakdown of what he thinks broke down a june s world cup the ball it did it in a private meeting with the german federation where discussions were said to be intense. on their way to a closed door summit the most influential people of german soccer they were hosted by the german football federation which needs a reboot after germany s disastrous performance at the world cup head coach here he moved and manager on of appealable were asked to lead the crisis side germany crashed out of the first round of this year s soccer world cup after winning it all in twenty fourteen shocking performances cause disbelief among players and fans as the reigning world champions fail to qualify for the knockout stages during the most intense exchange of recent years as the société later called summit live supposedly produced some answers as to why germany failed so miserably and presented his plan for the near future. two more meetings are set for this and next week the latter of which will be public as york remove also announces his squad for the upcoming us from nations league games. it s to the skies over lower austria now where it was sometimes difficult to actually see the sky because of all the world hot air ballooning championship action out there one hundred fifty below us involved in the week long event from thirty eight countries they go up twice a day the pilots competing in various events like flying their craft closest to certain targets or on doing a chase balloon this is the first time the biannual of that has taken off in austria. is here now and from hollywood balloons on to the hot weather on our planet exactly all over it s been a very hot some of brian and for central and northern europe it s actually been the hottest summer since nineteen seventy six and on top of that there was hardly any rainfall the heat and drought i ve been wreaking havoc for the upper culture sector not only here in europe but around the world to see just how dry it is take a look at these thing. from the international space station with no clouds and sites europe is popped and that means water shortages crop losses wildfires wide areas of australia are also stricken by drought of the worst in decades formosa finding it hard to even keep their animals alive and they are already getting stage aid and the u.s. state of california is also facing severe droughts water supplies have been declining there for decades but this year the situation is especially grim the result is that overall more wheat and corn will be consumed in twenty eight hundred than can be produced and reserves already twinkling. well let s bring in an expert now when it comes to heat extreme weather and the impact on food a matting time professor of international food economics and rural development i was doing a vessel in gutting and good to have you with us so we had a sweltering summer not only here in germany but it s been hot around the world and everyone is going on about just how hot and dry this summer was was a greenie that s unusual yes it was very unusual especially when you look at them over hemisphere northern europe and germany stations in every part of the august summer since the official recordings of weather data so yes this is an extreme case and it s very unusual when we compared with the past not be so unusual when we come here and with what s the climate change deniers are predicting for the future not only the mean temperature is but also more frequent whether it s streams such as the drop that we saw this year all right so there lies more i have to just in order to give us an idea i mean in terms of the economy how big is the damage that we see already can you put a price tag on that. well the price tag is currently difficult because they are cultural harvests are not all in yet so we have heard in your contribution that in some regions of germany yields are you know below average by seventy per cent but those are extreme pockets so the estimates for germany and all of them europe as a whole is that we may be twenty percent below the longer term average and that s of course a substantial. decline in comparison to what we usually have i mean what what you say how many such thomas can we handle before where we face the serious problems in terms of food security. when we have a few of these years in a row then we will certainly have a serious would security problem but i m much less concerned about germany because people in germany are rich enough so that even if prices go up or they can afford enough food a much more developed so the poor people in africa and so asia we are hunger and poverty. anyway even in an average year and will certainly go walk. prices go up and unfortunately i mean we are complaining here but all of our climate models are saying that the negative impact of climate change are all made repulsor will be much more severe and talk regions of so patient africa than in europe and that means the biggest impact negative impact will be where people already were and that s something we need to take very seriously exactly because of course that means the next migration crisis is just waiting for us around the corner professor. of international foot economics and rural development at the university and getting and thank you so much. from the threat of food shortage now to a more lighthearted talk it s game time this week in the german city of cologne with hundreds of thousands of gay most flocking to the world s largest event for computer and video games and power but it dived into the crowds for us and it was anything but the date. let s bang and you re inside the game not just on screen the recent may guide fortnight breaks with tradition rather than playing the survival game for games come visitors can test their real world skills playing is free anyway and has attracted one hundred twenty five million people in one year the community is why the game is so successful even little things like new emotes or new skins are very well received in that kind of explode within the community. and these features are what players pay for it. others have reached a point where they get paid for playing. hardcore gamers read the heart of games come when it started ten years ago and they still are but e-sports has brought them from the basement to the stage. that if. ever you like the much someone pull them on most but if we used to be happy to get a mouse pad or hardware or anything really now if you play in the national league it s one of the half to two thousand euros per month further up you can make five digits on this and we ll get them but you put your foot in it. it s the largest ever games come with over one thousand exhibitors ranging from p.c. titles on hard work to mobile products and console games. virtual reality is now developed mostly for amusement parks and movie theaters. at the lakes all saying that the rich are really hasn t really picked up in sales and it may be more of an experience game that if you like home what s really driving the markets high as an expert buys a car to the the older generation is the fastest growing user base those over fifty already make up a quarter of all gamers and that continues to grow. that means of course the supply of games for this target group is growing for dessert and. games for the mass market are often simple and don t require complicated skills much like these classics that are making a comeback as internet games or can be played directly on mobile devices. and one of the gaming is one of the reasons smart phones have made games accessible everywhere to everyone now new fears me i ve got some very important business to do here. as. well and here s a reminder of the top story we re following for you. this president trump is on the pressure up to two of his former allies payscale said he says while financial goals and campaign no violations one of them is his ex michael cullen. it watching the news coming from bottom billion more coming up at the top of the hour see that. from deeper to asians pose a real threat to some german companies that i.d.s. refugees will comprise more than ten percent of the firm soft reference there 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it will go to the u.s. senate but with a condition making sure that we do due diligence here we can. have a short pause and make sure that the f.b.i. can investigate. but first we begin in berlin where the german chancellor angela merkel and turkish president of type area won have taken a first step toward repairing the fractured relationship between their countries aired one pointed to a win win business project on the horizon and merkel said that she was hopeful on finding common ground in their press conference on friday we heard diplomatic words that were in sharp contrast to the insults and ultimatums we have heard over the past years with germany demanding turkey improve its human rights record an heir to one accusing german politicians of acting like nazis so is this now a relationship reset between two nato allies the critics are skeptical and on friday they were out in force. even in germany there are sometimes moments when journalists can t behave exactly as they please president adeline was in the middle of his press conference but chancellor merkel when a man stood up and revealed a t. shirt with the words press freedom he was quickly bundled out by security officers the brief distractions seem to amuse as well but his crackdown on journalistic freedom was one of the issues the chancellor raised with him at that meeting. it is no secret that there have been serious differences between us in recent years ago and there s still a lot. this is mainly about the rule of law and about press freedom. from the fog and oppressive by hurt double asked about the case of can do a turkish journalist now in exile in germany after one was defiant. they could be bush. used a loophole and fled to germany. but he s caught sentence remains valid. and this person belongs in jail because he revealed state secrets. she s. also the former editor of calm her newspaper which published a video purporting to show turkey s intelligence agency delivering weapons into syria rejects the accusations despite being accredited stayed away from the press conference after edwin threatened to pull the plug. it became clear to me one would use my presence as an excuse not to come to the press conference and face critical questions from journalists. they ve been mixed. outside on the streets of berlin protesters were also drawing attention to the lack of basic freedoms in turkey a number of demonstrations both for and against add on over the next twenty four hours but with thousands of police deployed in central there is determination that the street protests will not overshadow the diplomacy. german president steinmeyer greeted at one of bellevue palace this visit is an attempt to normalize relations when times are anything but normal turkey is holding a number of germans as political prisoners not to mention thousands of its own citizens many politicians worry the owners go too far but of course from the peace i think there s a piecemeal costs and to me it smells like appeasement is totally wrong because it betrays all those who are victims of oppression and there are hundreds and thousands of them in turkey. many m.p. s boycotted the state banquet at germany s presidential residence the empty rows were filled with of the guests with germany s leaders determined to keep the show together but the differences remain deep and certainly unmistakable. and part of president obama s program on friday included a state banquet in his honor hosted by germany s president frank. if you some pill is outside of bellevue palace where that banquet is being held and here with me is the turkey correspondent yulia han with some analysis in the studio charlotte i d like to turn to you first because i d like to talk about the banquet it s significant not only because of who attended but also because of who did not. that s right sara number german opposition politicians announced ahead of the state banquet that they would boycott it as a sign of resistance of opposition to the turkish president s state village state visit a number of people have also pointed out that the german chancellor angela merkel is not taking part not been taking part in the the state banquet that has to be make clear is not something that s especially on usual she doesn t usually take part in these statement because it s not any kind of signal being sent so your father we heard that the banquet had been going as planned fairly smoothly although there have been reports the president added one in his speech at the banquet went slightly off script there were reports that he reprimanded the german president. apparently upset angry flush dimas reference to political prisoners. and of course to a number of politicians a number of german political prisoners that are currently behind bars in turkey reports are still emerging but it appears that there was some anger at that state arquit no shortage of controversy with his visit here in fact many germans also highly critical of the fact that area one has been welcomed with full honors to the country and without of like to turn to you yulia because it also comes at a very interesting time for turkey this visit what is erica want hoping to achieve in germany let me say one thing sara looking at looking back at what happened today this is already one of the most controversial if not the most controversial state visits to germany this year quite a number of scandals that we saw today and that outburst of anger there by mr out on the child that was just mentioning again there are just reports we have not been at the banquet we have not listened to his speech but that s what coming out what s coming out and media report. now is one of them and it s probably not exactly what he was hoping for for sure he was hoping for some glamorous pictures he was received with military honors earlier today by the german president he was handshaking with machall and for sure he wanted these pictures because it shows he is respected and received as a statesman here in germany europe s economic powerhouse and my feeling was that he was looking forward to these kind of pictures to reassure financial markets to regain trust to show that he s among the europeans he is well respected there a difficult time for the country we know for example they are pretty much to. the country the country very much under a lot of economic pressure coming to germany hoping to increase the economic cooperation between germany and turkey also with europe just generally speaking and and charlotte you know not everyone in germany is happy about that in fact you were on the streets today and there were protesters out. that s right there were tens of thousands of people on the streets today what they were looking to do was to counter that image that you see it was just talking about that image of president ad one as a statesman being welcomed in jimmy the protesters wanted to show that there are loads of people who feel very strongly against his visit the name of the protests that took part that was going on could add one was not welcomed people walked through the streets but the streets were closed off to make way for them as they headed towards the presidential palace where they said that they wanted to make their voices heard by president out of one another would people from dozens organizations taking part in this process including getting far left organizations people he s told me that they were increasingly concerned by president ad what they say is president at once increasingly authoritarian rule we spoke to people who were concerned about press freedom and free speech political prisoners there were also a number of cote pro kaddish protesters as well on the streets here who said they were angry by this military offensive against kurdish militia in syria so a number of different groups here but what unites them with anger at the fact that essentially we re quite literally germany had rolled out the red carpet for president so a lot of concerns on the table as these two leaders i mean we know the day one was on friday day two tomorrow saturday and you ll be i d like to turn to you because there was a press conference between air to one and merkel you live in turkey you know you re viewing this through that lens and i d like to know if you see the possibility of progress here in this relationship i mean is this a relationship reset between the two countries do you see the political will. i see some political will i see that mr advani in general has changed his language remember last year he accused the german government and chancellor merkel all of the nazi practices of being enemies of turkey so he has tuned down this. sharp criticism and now we approach is them saying he wants to revive the friendship and so on and there are reasons for germany and turkey to call parade of course economic reasons geo strategic reasons let think about syria the migration crisis but as the german chancellor said today there are profound differences they remain and these differences appear when they talk about the rule of law and human rights and there are really have the feeling that they don t speak the same language mismatch bring that up and then missed out on later on says well we have a stable constitutional democracy i don t know what you re talking about basically so in order for this relationship to get any better to improve they need to you know orange to speak the same language basically and i think it s a lot of work that remains to be done there are you turkey correspondent yulia han and charlotte charleston pill joining us from the field thank you so much to both of you. in the united states the senate judiciary committee has voted to advance brett kavanaugh supreme court nomination to the senate floor the committee voted along party lines eleven republicans against ten democrats that one day after a dramatic test in a testimony by cavanagh and one of the women who has accused him of sexual assault christine please you forward now despite passage to sherry committees cavanagh s nomination could hit further trouble republican senator jeff flake says that he will only back the appointment of cavanagh if the senate agrees to give the f.b.i. a further week to investigate the allegations against trump s nominee have a listen but i will only be comfortable moving on the floor until the f.b.i. has done more investigation than they have already. it may not take them a week i understand that some of these witnesses may not want to discuss anything further but i think we are we owe them due diligence. news of the potential delay reached president trump during a meeting with the chilean president a journalist asked trump what he made of flake s conditions for voting for cavanagh . the sort of handle that will make good decisions very good doing a good job professionally. i m just hearing a little bit about it because i ve been with the president of chile and we re talking about some very important subjects but i m sure it will be very good i guess the vote was a positive vote but there seems to be a delay. let s get more on this now. joins us with the latest from washington maya how much closer is brett kavanaugh to becoming a supreme court justice today closer sara actually despite the hearing yesterday the roadblocks that have been thrown the way he is actually a step closer now there has been another delay as we ve heard about. the senator jeff flake agreed it seems to vote to advance his nomination to the full senate floor in exchange for another week for the f.b.i. to investigate these allegations against him. whether or not this investigation will actually take place still remains to be seen and sort of a double edge sword for many many reasons but he has actually taken one step closer to getting to that supreme court bench which is something that the republicans really really want prior to the midterm elections there are just so many factors conspiring here to push them forward miles let s listen in to some of the reactions from senators after the vote and then i want to get your take. kevin i was going to be on the supreme court he s earned it he looked everybody in the eye and said i think this is not for him to change the poor guy think he s been a victim in many ways of the fuse process and the evidence is what it was before and i never felt better about it in terms of process if it takes a few more days it takes but you ve got a little bit of a problem and are you have you got you some will happen well i would hope and i would hope so. if you re seriously trying to speed this up you re still british for going through the investigation using this case. so we see they are one of cavanagh s strongest supporters and strongest opponents the views from both sides of the aisle there but maya ultimately what this comes down to is how likely are we to get an investigation by the f.b.i. of this incident what happens next this is really uncharted territory for the senate this is something that at least in my memory has never happened before a delay of this sort the senate very well could simply push forward with a vote that is completely within their purview and in fact we know that they are teeing up to make the vote happen at some point in the very near future there s going to be a vote tomorrow on the procedural aspects of the next full senate floor vote. and mitch mcconnell the senate leader. really has no obligation to make this happen as we ve heard from president trump he s going to let the senate quote decide what s going to happen and like i said earlier this is a real double edged sword delaying the vote for another week could allow several both democratic and republican senators who have announced that they re on the fence about kavanaugh time to be persuaded against him which would not work and the republicans favor and then on the other hand this f.b.i. investigation could go forward and it could turn up nothing which in that case the republicans were able to turn to the democrats and say see what you did we had you know the supreme court that didn t have a full budget and you just delayed it and now we re going to simply vote to nominate him to nominate him to the bench anyway and the party dynamics are interesting because we ve seen suddenly here senator jeff flake of arizona been thrust right into the middle of the straw earlier today in fact he was confronted by protesters in an elevator and i want to play that tape and then get your reaction. how do you feel like we know what you re. doing when you re. losing the early. part of the cut. you are the first. time we believe in you be our hero. and after that confrontation we saw him call for the f.b.i. investigation going against the party line high emotion surrounding this process is he getting to the politicians in washington. we ve definitely seen the politicians themselves getting emotional particularly during the hearing yesterday during both dr blaser flossie ford s. testimony and during judge happened last test a monet. it s unclear what was going through senator flakes have there but is his proposal of an f.b.i. investigation really looks like an olive branch to the democrats he had previously announced that he was that he was on the fence about voting on judge kavanaugh and so he did ultimately vote with his party and advance cavanagh to the full senate vote but in the wake of this he said look democratic colleagues i see what you re going through i understand here we could have this week and we could have this investigation that you ve been calling for. are there with the latest on this confirmation vote for the nation s highest court a lifetime appointment there to the supreme court thank you so much for your reporting from washington. well earlier this week we saw u.s. president donald trump at the united nations urging world leaders to reject globalism and to embrace patriotism he launched a stinging attack on china s trade practices later even accusing the country of meddling in u.s. midterm elections today china firing back here s the foreign minister weighing ye at the u.n. general assembly. through to protectionism only hurt yourself and you know literal moves will bring damage to all. regarding trade tensions more with china stands for proper settlement based on rules consensus through dialogue and consultation on an equal footing china will not be blackmailed cool yield to pressure whom you polish and weighing also saying that china s trade dispute with the u.s. was no cause for panic he stressed beijing s commitment to multilateralism that commitment was also echoed by the german foreign minister heikal moss and he spoke with alexandra phenomena in new york the mass democrats mr mass the american president has again made clear how little he thinks of multilateral solutions of international solutions what s the reaction of the german government what position should you take with its union. six i was first of all we have to take note of it but it s not really new it s been an issue in the international community for a long time so we know that on many issues the american government has chosen a different path for itself and is placing more emphasis on you know not really isn t taking solitary and sometimes lonely decisions. i. don t. think that s right in a world in which the borders are disappearing more and more we live in a globalized world that s true for business kind of digitalize and that doesn t recognize borders it s the same for climate change and the question of migration can only be solved internationally so we firmly believe that we need organizations like the united nations to surmount all these challenges. so we work to keep organizations like the united nations and the european union functional because we need them now more than ever. yes me i didn t you send the deal to me germany is on the un security council for the next two years what s the priority as a. current events will probably decide the priorities means crises and conflicts the ones we know can possibly others we don t know about yet. we want to take on responsibility and contribute to overcoming crises and ending conflicts conflicts and in addition we want to systematic change to the work of the security council so that it works more in prevention to stop conflicts and crises arising in the first place or conflict. and stephen feel peace and security are important issues but so is climate change which should play a bigger role of the united nations. all the issue of women in conflict which in our opinion gets too little attention. these are our issues and i think they ll keep us busy over the next two years. and that was german foreign minister speaking earlier with alexander fundament. china is facing a crisis of confidence over safety and supplies of vaccines this follows the discovery last year that chinese pharmaceutical company had manufactured substandard vaccines that were then injected into tens of thousands of children the crisis has been blamed in large part on regulatory failures by the chinese authorities our next report looks at a group of parents fighting for the rights of their children who they say are disabled by the faulty medication. she should to spend whatever time she can at the hospital visiting her two year old daughter when faced with on going treatment she can t crawl or stand she only makes sounds the official diagnosis is infant teil spasms the first symptoms appeared after she was vaccinated against it theory a tetanus and hooping cough. shots how it s difficult the treatment is very expensive. it s all i work for. there s no way out i hope the government finally takes notice of the children and the parents it s out. early and i in chandon province is home to more than ten million people more than two hundred thousand children here are suspected to have been affected by faulty vaccines authorities have described vaccinations as ineffective many of the parents we meet say injections that were meant to protect their children have now scarred them for life the parents have organized themselves on social media and say they re willing to talk to us the show is documents vaccination cards they cry they are desperate their children are old severely disabled all with similar symptoms. after our interviews the families contact us and withdraw their permission to be featured we later find out that the local police have put pressure on them to keep quiet. that. only she has to choose doesn t withdraw her consent. thought only about how even if they find russia i won t be afraid the truth is in here i m sticking to my guns. she also shows us her daughter s vaccination record on it of the names shank shown biotechnology and who hanged shall two companies accused of producing defective vaccines amid mounting public anger eighteen managed. it s been taken into custody state television reporter china s president xi jinping touching the topic and the people come first he said we must ensure this doesn t happen again for many of the parents such comments dunk us off they have gathered in front of the state hospital in beijing to chant stop the fax nations and bring back our children the police have reportedly already removed some parents and returned to their homes provinces. and without you are up to date now on the day as ever the conversation continues online you can find us on social media either acted up you news my handle is at farrah kelly t.v. don t forget you can also hash tag the day thank you so much for watching have a great day. in west africa there goes a truly magical beam cast a spell on people the world over but. yet west africans don t reap much of the profits. they wind up in the pockets of big multinationals. can we enjoy chocolate no holds barred how one man s redeeming the guilty pleasure of chalk. next w. . the 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much smaller than the great colosseum in rome itself. surrounded by the desert wastes of central in a region constantly whipped by the wind the colosseum stands like a mighty fortress. the focal point of the modern day town of l.g.m. it is a monument to the flourishing civilization of rome and. steeped in legend this dress was once one of the biggest cities in africa the people revered the goddess africa and dinosaurs the god of wine who was a small child rode boldly on the back of a tiger as if it were the most natural thing in the world. it was with the same courage that the peep. all of his just began work on the coliseum at the start of the second century a.d. the city was at the peak of its prosperity power and influence the skills of its a triumphal procession a dazzling theatrical production with allusions to the venerated gods africa dion isis diana the god of eternity. to the cheers of the crowd the gladiators made their way into the arena for rich rewards they risked their lives in combat with wild animals. organized entertainment of the citizens corresponded to the way of life of a prosperous civilization whose parameters were success strength and the courage to take personal risks. heroes were respected and revered especially those brave men from the province of sisters who are. the years and a reputation as outstanding chariot drivers and who competed in all the great arenas of the roman empire including rome itself. the colosseum formed dress traditional arab culture merged with roman architectural skills. the funds for building the colosseum came from the olive trade over a period of two hundred years since the time of julius caesar the north african desert had developed into one vast all of growth this barren windswept region had become the roman empire s most important source of oil. because of its commercial success has just exerted great influence of. money rule the tiny metropolis money acquired with ambition and in the end place demonstrative leon shows through construction of the arena here the success of the clever business minded people of the province of his dress is made manifest in. no historical source can come up with a sound reason why a flourishing city should have a risen here of all places construction of the arena alone must have taken enormous within the space of just a few decades the culture of the magnificent oasis decline and sisters became history centuries later turkish conquerors blew up the riverside of the golden crown of africa because the citizens rebellious to the end had dug in in the arena later generations used the ruins as a quarry. what remained is the wind which still howls through the arcades unabated and the myth of the games which lives on in the mosaics pride passion and courage made history as a cultural center of ancient africa. full volume. low power. and lumps in the lungs so fine. a mish timed. this stunning band has been rocking the world for more than two decades. please explain the secrets of their success. come. now my last passion. none of these seventeen men can actually sing but they do it anyway with lots of enthusiasm. of a. joke told kelson cotton from hamburg shows the news it comes from the hospital even when it s on for. sixty minutes. create yourself with d. w. s interior design channel on. here s what s coming up in the book is so much movement to. make up this. sentence told you. this much psycho but all that means for the taking of course. i m going to sleep every weekend here on t w. every journey begins with the first step and every language the first word political nico losing germany to montreal. why not
category two. instead he exploded in veracity to a category four. it s going to cause a huge amount of damage. our hearts go out to those folks. sandra: that s it for us. special courage continues here on the fox news channel with shepard smith. hurricane michael, it s on the way and it is expected to be historic. i m shepard smith on the fox news deck. often in programming including outnumbered will not be seen today. hurricane michael is a major category 4 storm set to make landfall somewhere around panama city beach, florida. it is expected to be the most powerful storm ever to hit the region. it is but an hour or two away. let s get a live update from the national hurricane center in miami. back to the national hurricane center, this is ken graham on the operant center. it s noon eastern, 11:00 central. the latest information on the hurricane michael. a couple of things to make note here, the latest information we have wins still at 150 miles power. the pressure has dropped. we have the hurricane hunters in the system giving us the latest information, so we are constantly being updated. we are now 35 miles southwest of mexico beach, 40 miles south of panama city. getting closer and closer to the shore. i did want to mention, as well, we are looking at the apalachicola airport getting wins 45 miles per hour sustained gusting at hurricane force. the waters coming up, as well. the national ocean service has a water level stationed there at apalachicola already reporting five and half feet of inundation. it is getting closer, we are seeing the impacts. we can see the focus here, most people tend to focus on the eye. we are looking at that movement we have been forecasting turning more to the east, as it happens. landfall somewhere early this afternoon around mexico beach. let s be careful, because we look at the hurricane-force winds away from that center. it will be a larger swab then just that center. it will be bigger. some of those rain bands are producing hurricane-force wind gusts. that s where you will see the danger of the wind damage but also the tornadoes. we concede some of these areas. we are getting closer and closer to land, and, again, have to focus on the big picture. you can see rainfall as far down as tampa, being impacted by the system already prayed let s look at the forecast with time again, tropical storm-force winds, 175 miles away from the center. a very large system. that s what we need to think about, not just the point. not just the cone. we are really looking at this as a swath of wind and impact. this hurricane making landfall, major damage. catastrophic damage. all the wind, you will see trees down, power outages for literally weeks in this area. you see damage to buildings, roofs off, some buildings could be destroyed altogether. remaining in hurricane with time. not just along the coast. anybody watching england on the alabama-georgia line, still moving into georgia. even the tropical storm still getting into the carolinas. if you take that wind, you will have trees down, power outages. florida, georgia, and maybe even getting into the carolinas. rainfall is always an issue, and that s part of the reason we are going to see the rain, 6-10 inches. that s part of the reason we will see these. you will have the actual damage from the winds right there on the coast. with time, you put 4-6 inches of rain saturating the soil, you got tropical storm force wind gusts. you can see tree damage along this entire path. write in here, 6-10 inches of rain, just catastrophic. and the storm surge. we have been talking about that. half the fatalities are from the storm surge. these values are just staggering. life-threatening storm surge. we are already seeing five and half feet and we ve got a long way to go. 9-14 feet possible in these areas, from tyndall air force base along the cost of the river. that s a staggering amount. that s above ground, and you look at that and the waves on top of it could add another couple of feet. 6-9 feet in areas toward cedar key, even down to tampa. to have been 4 feet of inundation. i want to make note that it s not even just on the coast, it s on these barrier islands, they will get water. forcing northward. the red here as above 9 feet of storm surge. look how far some of that surge reaches england. we ve got to be aware. even if you think you are inland, that you still could be in danger. this is ken graham here at the national hurricane center. a speed when i m shepard smith in new york with continuing fox news coverage of this. giving details of what we are seeing. let s go over to the big wall and i will show you how this hurricane has developed. these pictures go back, this is a satellite loop. watch this, this is the latest image. watch when this reloads. see here? the eye wall is not very well formed. in the last eight to ten hours, that has really changed. you can watch that eye wall come together, it s a very significant, almost completely round eye wall. it stretches 15 miles across. remember, the highest winds when they talk about maximum sustained winds, 145 miles per hour, that s an extremely powerful and catastrophic window level. 145-mile-an-hour winds are all around the outside of that i wall. the eye wall is 15 miles across. everything the eye wall goes across will, in theory, experience winds maximum sustained at 145 miles per hour. with wind gusts to 165 miles an hour. what does that do? wind at that level i have lived through them, and there are statistics from the national hurricane center to back this up winds at that level pick up rocks and boulders and send them as projectiles through the air. that s what causes so much damage and destruction. those rocks and trees break windows, they break into houses. the sustained pounding is one of the most serious problems. where is this going, exactly? you had the national hurricane center talked about it. we are talking about a large area that will be affected. this is the coast itself, talking about an area from about tampa all the way up over to pensacola. you can see it is raining in pensacola. the rains are coming in tampa. i want to zoom in and show you what the storm has been doing prayed here as grand-based radar. here is florida, apalachicola. these are where the oyster beds are that are so famous. panama city, the miracle mile resort in panama city, but 180,000 year-round residents. i think that s right. 180,000 or so. in the county itself, 185,000. about 36,000 live in panama city itself. i want to show you what this i wall has been doing. i will zoom all the way in. this is ground-based radar that is coming to us from here. you can see this very well-defined eye wall, the center of simulation is here. everything clear in the middle. the worst of the winds around the outside. here is the worst of the rain. right now, just to the north. where is decided? there is panama city itself. this is the very tightly-net high density area for this community. remember, these are small towns all along here. it looks like from the last terms you heard the national hurricane center say, rather than going north, which would get panama city in a bad way, the eye of the storm at least appears to be moving toward mexico beach. this is mexico beach. here is panama city. tyndall air force base. i will talk about that just a minute. mexico beach. it looks to the national hurricane center like the eye of the storm is going to make a trip just like this, somewhere between tyndall air force base and mexico beach. that is not to say anyone else is out of danger, because, remember, the hurricane-force winds that means winds above 74 or 76 miles per hour are extending 45 miles from the center. tropical storm-force winds extend 175 miles from the cente center. this entire region from gulf breeze into destin, south walton county, panama city beach, down into port saint joe, apalachicola, around to the big band, and certainly once you go inland to tallahassee. here is tallahassee. the storm is expected to move in this direction. this will be a tallahassee storm without any question. the mayor of tallahassee will be on with us in just a little while. the productions from the local authorities there are people even from the tallahassee area could be without power for weeks on end. this coast is in extreme danger. exactly where it comes ashore is going to make a significant difference because of where the population centers are. i want to zoom in here. actually, let s turn that off and clear about. zoom in here to show you exactly what we are talking about. here is panama city and panama city beach. oof, i hate it when it does that. note here the typography of this land. if the storm is coming in here, which they now believe here is panama city if the storm is coming in here into this area, they get the backside. remember, the storm is circulating this way so the water would be coming out. that could drain all of these areas here. st. andrews bay, grand lagoon, all the rest around panama city. if they think the storm is going to come ashore here, the worst of it will be to the right. that is not to say these communities aren t in some sort of jeopardy. i want to switch to the satellite version, here. this is rosemary beach and seaside south walton county. the locals call this area 30a. it s largely a second-home community, people from atlanta, nashville, points north. michigan, ohio. they have settled here and second homes and in some cases retirement areas. these used to be very moderately-prized, small-town communities with houses on stilts. very quiet, sort of beach community area. that has all changed. from seaside, down to seacrest and rosemary beach. sunnyside, laguna beach. all of this 30a area is now heavily populated, lots of high density right around the beach. it is an upper-scale area. down here is port saint joe. the rest of this is largely rural. fountain, this is an area where i worked and lived for years. my parents my mom lived here for 32 years. there is a lot of poverty in this area. the great concern moving into this storm, from the locals there in bay- county florida and beyond, so many people have made a decision not to evacuate. the last big storm, probably oval. way back in 1995, it was. it hit way over here to the east of pensacola. but they got a lot of really bad weather because of it, when it hit. 23 years ago. they haven t seen anything like this ever on this coast. if it moves into the east of panama city beach in the next couple of hours, which they seem to think it will, all of this will have a lot of trouble. mexico beach, these small communities. a bigger problem may end up being inland. inland is the area where there is so much poverty, and so little help for people. then you move over to the state capital of tallahassee. tallahassee has 181,000 people, leon county around it is a total of about 290,000 people. it is obviously the center of government in florida, with a huge election coming up. they are expecting this storm to move in this sort of a direction when it comes ashore. it is expected to come ashore right to the east of panama city. here is the storm right now. it is expected to move in this direction. moving just like this, and in the general direction of tallahassee. the news is better for fort walton beach and destin, though they will get very strong winds and very high waves. it will be a serious event or they are. panama city beach could very well be in hurricane-force winds, and everything to the east of it. all the way down the big band of florida. this entire region, from cap all the way up to pensacola, going to have a serious and historic day today. griff jenkins is in alligator pointe, florida. that is a beach community local located. the weather he is a so bad. but see if we can hear from him. the weather is deteriorating. can you hear me? i am in alligator pointe. we want to give you a look from an iphone. it is really that storm surge what they re talking about is really going to be hitting us anyway just the water coming [no audio] shepard: well, it is on and off. we will try to get there. our reporter nicole in south florida is actually an panama city beach now. let s listen into nicole. back to you guys. nicole, thank you. meantime, from all over, the storms on coming into the news. our team is having coverage with some of those images. omar? this afternoon we getting video showing those conditions worsening. getting reports of downed trees, downed power lines in some areas. areas. with stickies to some video from shell pointe beaches afternoon showing those streets starting to flood there. the wind began. we are hearing that nearby and the town of mexico beach, florida, they have artie lost power. people now without power. those winds gusting as you saw. a lot of live shots. we are also hearing that of course trouble in this area is greatly impacted by all of this. several airlines already canceling flights to many of these areas. we are talking about airlines like united airlines, delta, as well as allegiant airlines. it s affecting travel across this entire region. you are looking at video from shall pointe beach, that is in the panhandle. they are starting to get those first impacts from the storm. you see the flooding right now. we can tell you that there are downed power lines in certain areas, also. we are following the story, of course, all afternoon. as soon a son anymore video comes in, we will be sure to bring that to you. shepard: we can go live now to the zone, i have been talking to about apalachicola. here is panama city beach, and here is this oyster area. a community of about 2200 people near what used to be a big paper processing plant. apalachicola, famous in the region. phil keating is there. phil, it looks like apalachicola is going to have an awful day. absolutely. this is the worst it has been all morning, and it is only predicted to get worse than this over the next three or four hours. that is water. i was doing my live shots yesterday. as you can see, it s three to 4 feet under water right now. as you pan off to the right, that s a parking lot our hotel. it is also practically saw a-d. all of the vehicles have been moved to the highest point in the parking lot. frequent county on the southern tip of the big bend of florida is so low-lying, most of the counties under 15 feet of elevation. the whole county is under a mandatory evacuation. clearly, we saw plenty of people yesterday. a lot of people did evacuate, by far, not everybody. it s supposed to get possibly nine to 13 feet storm surge. take a look at what s over here. this is the apalachicola river. you can see the waves going from right to left. that is from the gulf, inland. upstream. this river needs to be flowing out. but the surge and the winds are putting it all back up. without forecast, is that upland it s going to be flooding there. that water has got to go somewhere. these are some strong winds coming through. the hotel lost power about 45 minutes ago. i guess that is the beginning of that. the cell service is still working, but it is certainly the most extreme wind and rain that we have had here today. it is a little too dangerous to be walking around in this, there is all kinds of debris floating around that has blown off of these storage buildings and a shrimp processing building. it s dangerous out here, for sure. that is why this whole county is under a shelter in mandatory warnings. everyone, stay inside. that s the order. law enforcement, first responders will not come to you. it s too dangerous for everybody. there is really only one road in and out for apalachicola. highway 98. ticket north, west, up to panama city, or east toward telecast tallahassee. it s close on east until further notice, until long after hurricane michael blows through here. then you get your emergency responders to assess the damage. what is anticipated is massive power outages, as well as a lot of fallen trees. this part of florida doesn t really have all that many palm trees. it is more pine trees. those can be blocking roadways and power lines down. it can be really difficult for anybody to get in or out of here for a while. shepard: s cigarette there, i want to show our viewers where we are on all of this. this is where the storm is right now. this is the hurricane, and it is moving, generally speaking i should clear about, that s not exact the right. here is where the storm is right now. it s moving generally this is that it s moving generally toward mexico beach. here is apalachicola, where phil is. phil, they are expecting up to 15 feet of storm surge up there above high tide, which means a two-story building covered. phil, can you hear me? i hear you, sorry. shepard: a 13-foot storm surge there is a world-danger for you folks. absolute. for the whole town, the population is around 2500 people, just in apalachicola alone. about 16,000 in the whole count county. we were speaking to the sheriff last night. the police chief. they expect, they fully expect, that this is going to be that 6-12 inches of rain and the 9-13 storm surge. i mean you see the stop signs. it is already halfway up the stop sign. we still have a few hours of intensity to go. it really does portend to be the historic hurricane that fema as well as the governor of florida, rick scott, were warning the entire state all morning long. everybody who did not evacuate who should have is absolutely advised, do not even go out in this. close all the bridges along the coastline already, in the panhandle. big bend. palm fronds are flying through the air, i just saw one go by. curfew is in effect as of today. starting at sunset, to sunrise. franklin county will be under a mandatory curfew. we certainly expect many more counties in the florida panhandle are going to go into curfew mode as well. simply to get people off the street, what the first responders and law enforcement get out there and see the damage. there are 1,000 national guardsmen and women already activated. there are search and rescue that s what their mission is going to be they ve got both, they ve got atvs, 3500 florida highway patrol men are also working 12-hour shifts. each of them. the florida department of transportation has a lot of utility trucks prestage out in pensacola and in orlando, ready to get the power back on. that is the number one priority according to governor scott this morning. certainly, everybody is advised in florida to always have a three-day supply of food and water. that is because it is always a very real possibility that you will lose power for three days. down in miami last year, which was impacted by hurricane irma, it was only category 1 in miami. neighborhood still lost power for a full week. here we are talking about a really mean category 4, shep. shepard: i want to get the latest coordinates. up and just starting pray let s listen. on the florida panhandle as we speak. it s a very strong category 4 hurricane with 150 mile-per-hour winds. that s the latest update as of 12:00. it is finally making that north-northeast return at a slightly faster pace, 14 miles per hour. pressure has been whopping, a sign of a strengthening system. it is located 35 miles southwest of mexico beach, florida. here is the latest satellite picture. the eye is extremely distinct. you can see the rain. that is the eye wall, where you are finding the most destructive winds. once the center pushes onshore, potentially catastrophic wind damage is likely. highly likely, especially anywhere between apalachicola into panama city. it is definitely very close to making landfall. all of the same features are present to carry it into the florida panhandle. high pressure to the east, front, mid section. but it seems like this one, even as it interacts with land, will stay a hurricane for a longer period of time. possibly a category 2 system moving into sections of georgia. then, eventually a tropical storm around the middle atlantic states. we have new advisories that have been updated, four portions of north and south carol anna. here s a closer view. it is likely to make landfall between panama city and mexico beach. that will happen in the next hour or hour and a half or so. once it interacts with land, yes, we are expecting to gradually begin. by 8:00 tonight, still a category 2 system. a large area will and still be experiencing strong hurricane-force winds, consistent heavy rains, and then storm surge continuing to remain an issue. now, all of these locations under a hurricane warning. a tropical storm warning from crystal river, and into sarasota. including tampa bay. there is a tropical storm watch. now the tropical storm warning has been extended into north carolina. the local storm tracking radar picking up at the center is definitely getting very close to making a landfall. the outer eye wall is definitely going to be pushing onshore before this center does cross through. yes, we are keeping our friends in the panhandle of florida in our prayers. shepard: we all are. that s a meteorology team down at wsb on seven in south florida. i want to show you the eye of the storm again. zooming in. this is 15 miles wide, right customer gets 15 miles wide in every direction. it is moving at 14 miles per hour. wherever this side comes ashore and it s starting to look more and more like right around tyndale air force base for a solid hour in the center, they will have clear skies, almost no winds. if it incredible hundred 40-mile-an-hour winds, with 165-mile-an-hour, 170-mile-an-hour gusts have come through. in the beginning, these winds going in this direction and slamming into the panhandle there. that will do an enormous amount of damage. then, people will be able to go outside and look. no one should do that. because at some point to the backside of the storm will come. instead of winds moving in this direction, the wind will be moving in this direction. they will be coming out of this side. everything that was blown over that way is then pushed back in the other direction. that can go on for one hour around tyndale air force base. tyndall air force base is the home of the f-22 raptors, 125th fighter wing is there. the 44th fighter group, the 95th fighter squadron is there. this thing opened back in 1941 as a gunnery range. right now, 2700 people live there. 81% of everyone who lives there has a child, adults who live there have a child under the age of 18. a lot of children there. it covers about 15 square miles. if this continues, somewhere along mexico beach and tyndall air force base. here is mexico beach, here is tyndall. down here, apalachicola. all of this in for a very long day. keep in mind, as the meteorology team from wsb and was saying, as it continues, tallahassee will get extraordinary rain and potential for hurricane force winds. same up into bainbridge, georgia. as you move up into thomasville, tallahassee and thomasville share a highway and they are sort of intertwined in a number of different ways. all of that area there and apalachicola, we were mentioning the difficulties with escaping from mexico beach all the way down to apalachicola. just a minute, they will let me zoom in and i can show you exactly how that works. it is almost impossible to get out of here easily. you can see this is state route 65 that takes you all the way. you have to get here to get up to interstate ten. this is interstate ten, that crosses and goes all the way over to new orleans and all the way to the west coast. there are no interstates in this area. evacuations are very difficult and they are expecting so much of this area to be flooded. let s go to panama city beach, now. rick leventhal is life there. rick, conditions are deteriorating? by the minute, as expected, shepard. just wanted to show you a couple things from this vantage point along highway 98, just to give you an idea. the pine trees up there are blowing in some pretty heavy gusts, and we expect some of those to start snapping. you see a big billboard there, there are a bunch of those around us. more of a consumer concern aree power lines. you can see some of those now just bouncing around in the wind. we have seen some pretty significant gusts. this is giving us a concern, right here. this is the strongest hurricane they are saying to ever hit this stretch of panhandle. we don t know if signs like that are going to survive or if buildings are going to survive. this is 98, the gulf is about 2 miles that way. you can see the highway is virtually deserted. one of the big concerns for it county officials is that people were not heeding the evacuation order, at least not as many people as they wanted. about 120,000 people that they said were in the low-lying areas and should get out, and they said only about half of them, 60,000, had heeded that warning and were actually leaving the low-lying areas that include areas prone to flooding and also mobile home parks. you see these street lights are on, now. they weren t a short time ago. they are flickering on and off, and the power in our hotel also was flickering on and off. hardly any traffic. we saw a couple vehicles, that s about it. that s a good thing, because it is getting really hairy out here now. officials have told people, if you didn t evacuate, just stay in place. shelter in place. don t go out until after the storm passes. shepard: what side of the bridge are you one custom work are you in town, or in panama city beach? we are in panama city beach, but we are about 2 miles from the gulf, from the actual beach itself. it s just down the road about 2 miles that way. one of the many that you need to take this is 98. shepard: okay, got it. its u.s. 98. if you look around this way, i don t know if you can see it, but you can see that panama city is that way. there is a bridge over there. they shut the bridges down, as they get to 40 or 50 miles per hour. we are at that point now. a lot of the bridges around here have been close. we are starting to see some debris flying around, too. we want to not put ourselves in harm s way here, shep, but the situation is progress of the getting worse. the good news is that nobody is out here. the bad news is that they are in for it. it s going to be bad, it s going to get worse. shepard: it clearly is. here s where he is, this is highway 98. he goes all along the beach route to sunnyside, laguna beach, down to panama city. this is the bridge that takes you to panama city proper. rick is like here, and this is inland. i want to go to jeff, he is in panama city beach, as well. jeff, where are you and what does it look like? this is the road that runs right along the beach. as you can see, we are getting a pretty good here, right now. you were saying earlier, this is a town that had a tremendous building boom of these large buildings. this is really encouraging a lot of people say you know what? these things are built for these hurricanes. we can weather it out. not a problem. so there are a lot of people still hold up in these building buildings. i think a lot of them are having second thoughts right now. as we get the conditions of this, fortunately, right now, most of the wind is coming off the water and we aren t getting any of that debris. as you were pointing out earlie earlier, when that wind shifts around it we begin to see debris from the land. that is when it will be time to take some cover. we think we have a pretty good spot, here. in a tall, concrete building. that s where you want to be. if you re going to be in a category 4 storm i haven t been an actual cat 4 since hurricane hugo back in 1989. as you know, even those big buildings, those big hotels in charlston, they were blown through by the tremendous wind that hit them. the windows went out to, even huge buildings did not survive unscathed. that remains to be seen, but as you report, this storm is moving fast right now. we hope that perhaps it would weaken on landfall. as you know, when the storm is moving that rapidly, there is less of a chance for that to happen. you see police and vehicle still patrolling out here. i think they are about ready to come in, though. that would be my guest. shep? shepard: i would think. the scary part of all of this is that you are increase dramatically, episodically, over the next hour. every 10 minutes it will get much stronger. within half an hour, rock should be fun. i know. that s when we want to take cover. we have been looking at the direction of debris, and there is nothing coming at us at this point. as you point out, that is going to change. we are going to get as long as these winds are right now, it s nothing like what is in that eye wall. even if it doesn t hit right here, if it s east of us saw him as you know, got some debris coming by. it s going to be quite an event. quite an event. shepard: you are not you are close twoyards from the beach. you are right on it. the first thing to hate will be you. exactly. that s the thing. we wanted to be close, obviously. i have gotten down to the beach earlier to see what the surgeon was like, and, you know, it s not coming directly at us right yet. we don t see any evidence of the surge coming over the berms, but that can happen. as you point out, we ve got a long way to go. we are just starting. the real fun stuff, now. shepard: i hear what you mean about fun stuff, but it doesn t look like this is going to be fun. it looks like you are going to be just on the west side of the eye, which means the dry side. your wind will be coming eventually from the shore. enormous force. exactly. we are seeing these big high-rises out here. to the other side of the road, there is a lot of regular homes. regular roofs on them. god knows, they are the kinds of buildings that will start to come apart. that s when we will start to see debris watching back this way. that is, of course, when we will be careful to take cover. you know, none of us are out here because we don t want to be here. we certainly appreciate these tremendous displays of mother nature. those of us that cover the storms come as you know, and as you have done many times yourself. you have to have an appreciation for this. frankly, not to speak editorially, but i would much rather cover man against nature of van man against man, any day. shepard: i am with you all day. jeff, thank you. nicole and slot on the beach in panama city, panama, city beach with some damage now. you might be able to see the winds and the trees, it is absolute shooting through here. a little while ago i don t know if you can hear that. that sounds like roof or something. something is going. i m not really sure if the microphone could pick that up. boy, that was really loud. you could tell that was not wind. that was something that was starting to move. okay, another transformer just blew. i m just being told. let s walk down here. again, we are undercover. we are okay. i want to show you now, the water now you can start to see all the debris that is in the water, that is flying this way. flying toward the gulf. there you go, see all those people? that metal? none of that was here. there s another one. it feels like the wind is coming from the north. there went something else. see all this debris? none of this was here 5 minutes ago. you might be able to hear it shepard: that s because as the storm approaches, remember, the eye of the storm is to the east of where she has. she said it feels like the wind is coming from the north. it is. because there is counterclockwise circulation around the eye of that storm. they are the storm is to her right as you look at a map. the wind would be coming off shore. remember, the coastline of northwest florida is like and east to west thing. the wind is coming out of the north. offshore, into the water. eventually the beaches will have no water on them for some. as that eye moves to the east of panama city. let s go straight to the national hurricane center. ken graham is there. ken, you have been saying as far as i wall crossing, it s looking more like mexico beach, which is east of panama city and east of tyndall air force base. getting really close to mexico beach. you can take a look at here, just write off. that is the area where you have the highest winds. the latest reading is 150 miles an hour, getting really close to the coach. coast. even the rain bands at the center, apalachicola just gusted to 80 miles an hour. it s around this eye wall, incredibly damaging. the structural integrity of the structures could collapse. you can have some roof damage. in critical power outages associated with the trees down, as well. shepard: looking at that particular area, you certainly hope the eyeball doesn t go over a heavily-populated area like panama city. it looks like it will go east of there. ken, that is not to say catastrophic damage isn t ahead for that whole coast. it really is. when you talk about a cat 4 hurricane, and you look back in history, shep back to 1851 in the records we have, we haven t had a category 4 in this area. it s unprecedented, extremely dangerous. you think about the wits, when you step back a second and look at the tropical storm force wind extending come of the latest we have is 170 miles. her case force winds around ther pray the way to look at it isn t that center point. it s a swath of winds. the singer again, even as georgia. much as those power outages and damage on coast, even in central georgia. to be when you look at the scum of the rings are all the way up to montgomery. that s 100 miles of coast. this is going to cause enormous water. atlanta, it s on the way. you look at the rain fall, that s one of the problems we have. we have been taking a look at the storm surge, but the rain, as will pay look at this swath. 6-10 inches right on the coast, the panhandle, stretching into georgia. this is the other problem. 4-6 inches of rain that stretches from georgia into the carolinas. you take hurricane-force winds, tropical storm force winds, you saturate the soil with a string, he will drop the trees. you will have power outages deep into the inland areas. run on the coast, apsley catastrophic. the category 4, unprecedented win. shepard: what would you expect to see along the coast where that 15 miles of eye wall crosses? at 145, 150 miles per hour? you are going to see all the trees down. you see power lines down through the power outages will last for weeks. you will see structural damage, roofs off houses, buildings collapse, buildings completely destroyed. part of it is the rain, but even the storm surge damage, it could be as damaging as well. think about this inundation, 9-14 feet, that s not even just the waves. that s the inundation above ground. he put the waves on top of that. those areas, the waves plus that water, that s actually destructive, as well. that storm surge can actually destroy houses and structures, as well. shepard: ken graham at the national hurricane center. thank you, the forecasts have been right on track. remember, the difference between the storm of the last one the last one came ashore, it wandered around, it sat, it spun, it became 40 inches of rain in some areas. the wind area of highest winds was smaller, so it kind of damage once he got to shore. we were talking about a categor. it finally got for sure as a category one. the difference is enormous. this will hit as a very strong category 4. it will hit within the next hour or hour and a half. never in recorded history of this swath of land in america has a storm of this magnitude hit. i want to show you what we are learning now. this is the local radar. this shows exactly where the eye of the storm is right now. it is moving at 40 miles an hour. the front end of the eye wall, here, is about 15 miles away. about an hour from now, the eye wall is going to hit. what does that mean? 150-mile-an-hour sustained winds. in other words, as it crosses, it will cross over particular area. the eye itself is only about that wide. about a mile wide. if it crosses, they will get that level of wind, the highest, strongest winds, for just a few minutes. 10 minutes or so. 10 minutes of 150-mile-an-hour wind with gusts to 175 can destroy everything. exactly where the eye goes across. remember, this is 15 miles across. where is it going? we can now see where it s going. moving in this direction. the pattern is very clear. it has not deviated in any way. it s moving to the north, northeast. what does that mean? that means this is panama city beach, here. panama city beach, it looks like, will be on the left side of the storm. part of the eye wall, it might. see this large area of rain? this is extraordinarily strong rain, with wins at about a category to trend this far out. we know that because hurricane-force winds extend for 45 miles. panama city beach, panama city, parker, callaway, the east bay, all the way up to highway 22. cedar grove, even up to the lagoon. shell island. all of that is about to get hurricane-force wind. the eye of the storm itself, if we can see now, this is local radar. this isn t some speculation about tomorrow. it is moving. it s moving in this direction. tyndall air force base will get a direct hit from the storm. alan ten as well, down to davis beach. mexico beach is right here come also. a direct hit from the storm. the eye wall is 15 miles wide. that s where it s going to go. to the right of this, look at all this wind. apalachicola with a huge band of rain coming right now, hurricane-force winds, especially gusts should be there. the rest of the day, the story is inland where the population centers are so much larger. tallahassee will still be to the right of the storm, that means hurricane force winds, extreme rain, very heavy and sustained rain for tallahassee. there hurricane center, power outages, potentially for days or weeks. bainbridge, georgia. as we move north and east, albany, georgia. columbus, georgia. montgomery. it s all on the way. hunker down now. phil keating s life for us now, panama city beach. phil i should say come apalachicola. phil, the worst is an hour or so away, but now it s bad. the cat 4 beat down is well underway here in apalachicola. what you are looking at down below us, this is water street. that is a paved street. people watching at home may think that is just a river. it s not part of the river. that is just the floodwater, and the storm surge being blown in by the latest, highest gusts recorded for apalachicola with 87 miles per hour. it is projected to get potentially even stronger and worse. i tell you, the rain is flying horizontally. we are in that big outer rain band right now. i guess, at this point, it is an inner rain band. but the raindrops feel like bullets. it hurts. come over here and check out the river again. apalachicola river flows north to south into the gulf of mexic mexico. typically, on the left side of your screen to the right side of your screen, that s the way the water would be flowing. the wind of the hurricane and the storm surge are shoving all of that water. it is a ferocious look at it. this river is heading back upstream. it s going to have to get out of the banks somewhere. most of franklin county is extremely low-lying. in fact, all the counties around this area are are very low-lying. shepard: phil keating, please be safe. i m cutting you off only because the president of the united states is speaking. ten seconds from now. landfall of this hurricane is within the hour. here is the president speaking from the oval office. reporter: when he update you on hurricane michael prete is about 40 miles off the coast, starting to feel the effects now. it is a very dangerous category 4. just to remind the press. hurricane harvey, irma, and michael are big storms. it will have the panhandle come as you can see here, and will go for georgia. it will be expected to rain in carolina. could be additional flooding. fema is leaning forward, as we are it s ready to go. very quick contact with state and local authorities. also the governor and local officials. moreover, even to unfortunately this is a gulf coast hurricane of the worst kind because all of the elements associated with hurricanes come into play. as you see on the left, the storm surge estimates are anywhere between nine and 14 feet. storm surge is going to be the worst where the eye makes landfall just to the east or south of where the eye makes landfall. it s projected between panama city come up logical. not only will being 14 feet of ocean water and coastal flood in addition, they will be wave action on top of that which is the primary factor of why we evacuate, sir. coupled with that you ve got over 145-mile-per-hour winds. structures built before 2001 are not designed to handle that type of wind, typically. it unfortunately will push through the state. we are asking citizens in southwest georgia, central georgia, to be vigilant and make sure what s about to come. this area is going to see a cat 1, cat 2 storm as it moves inland. with the vegetation, what we are anticipating is a lot of downed trees impacting the power grid. here again, we are going to see a lot of devastation along the coast. structurally, and then as it moves and you are going to see power outages throughout the state. then, unfortunately, you re going to see rain fall into south carolina and north carolina. cape fear was projected to start receiving from hurricane florence two days ago, and this will exacerbate the problem and add to it. we are going to keep those waters from receiving a little bit by friday. president trump: they are reporting this is one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit our country. is that actually a fact? in this area, it would be the most intense hurricane that has struck this area since 1851, if i remember correctly. it s a big storm. intense. for to make a very intense. president trump: is the wind going to be the problem? storm surge and wins. they are going to say high it in then macy sustained cattery 1, category two train wins higher gusts. we are expecting a lot of damage inland as well. we have governor scott, down in florida, they have been leaning forward as well. right now there is no identified shortfalls when it comes to prepositioning. we have teams, equipment, and personnel not only with an embedded with the state of florida staff and some of the local county emergency managers, but we have equipment teams staged in maxwell to atlanta, to orlando, ready to move in, once the push through. then we can get intact. listen, really quickly, 14 states, utilities of 14 states are already ready, ready to help with the energy. president trump: electric companies from all of the country, they are lined up come as soon as it goes by. they re going to be working. we have got food supplies, food chains we are working with all the states. let me ask you starting a week ago, this was a small storm in an area they never thought, and that grew into a monster. speak of the first indications from the national hurricane center started coming in around saturday. they picked it up and started raising the flag that, hey, the system is going to go from a wave to a depression and could potentially rapidly intensify. unfortunately, that is typical of the gulf coast. when they do this, citizens have less time to prepare or heed the warnings. we are concerned that many citizens chose not to heed those warnings, but we are prepared with search and rescue teams to try and go in and do what we ca can. president trump: any questions? reporter: are you concerned concerned we were concerned that we did not like the level of the evacuation activity that we were seeing. governor scott kudos to him. healing forward, use the new emergency alert capabilities that we have. sent out texts, text messaging last night. leaned forward and said hey, get out of there. we were trying to get people to really take the storm seriously. a lot of people did heed the warning, but then there are those that chose to stay behind. unfortunately, first to first s may not be able to go in and rescue those who dial 911 at this point. [indistinct question] president trump: i have, and they are all either contacted or in the process had a long talk with rick scott, a governor scott of florida. very well cornered with all of the states. one of the things that must be said is it s not so easy for some of these people, some of the areas are very poor. not easy for a person without the necessary money to leave. what we have done is we have sent buses. we have sent a lot of different we are doing a lot of different things to try and remove people from the area. a lot of people are very poor and certain of those areas. it is very tough for them to leave. that s one of the problems you are finding, i guess. yes, in some cases what we asked to do is ask people who may not have the means are the mechanisms to get out of town to register with their local emergency management agencies, and florida has been pretty robust in doing that. so we have some idea how to preplan for that. we do what we can to be able to support the movement of people. when it comes to georgia, we are not evacuating for storm surge in georgia. this is going to be high wind. we are asking people to get within a facility that can withstand the winds, and try to shelter in place or seek out public shelters that may be open in southwest georgia. president trump: take a look at that, the red area basically is the area that is going to hit pretty heavily. that is a lot of sure. it s a lot of land. there will be storm surge all the way down in tampa bay. as you know, it is very low-lying and floods very easily. to give you that idea of the breadth of its past, it is quite large. president trump: is almost the entire size of the gulf. when you look at it topically, it s almost the entire size of the gulf. they haven t seen that maybe they haven t seen that at all. nobody has seen that before. of the eye diameter is pretty wide, which, unfortunately, is not good news as it makes landfall. some people may say it s similar to an ef three tornado making landfall in areas that are close to the eye. reporter: the infrastructure, is there any way they would struggle to deal with not necessarily. irma did not heavily impact the florida panhandle. most of the hits from irma were in the southwest portion of florida. then it moved up and created some issues in the jacksonville area, northeastern portion. but this area, it s been a long time since it has been hit. vegetation hasn t been stressed. we will see a lot of damage and devastation, unfortunately. we have to set the citizens expectations that the power will be out for a while. fema s role in that, as a e was saying, our partnership with those directors we work with the florida power lines, the gulf power, the southern compan company, the georgia power to help facilitate their aid to come in. they ve got power crews coming in for multiple states across the country that are already prestaged. we work with them to do what s called the first push debris to get the roadways open so we can get down the roadways to start fixing the power. that will take some time. [inaudible question] president trump: we don t know. i was going to pennsylvania, it looks like there were thousands of people already lined up. probably we will do that tonight. we re going to go down here as soon as we can. we don t want to interfere with anybody, but we want to go as soon as possible. you have come a right nearby, we have thousands of people going tonight. they have already many are there already. what time were you going to be there? what time are we planning on that? probably 10:00. about seven. president trump: i don t know what to do, because you have so many people already there. it sort of unfair to them. it is a mix. shepard: moving onto other topics, i want to show you now that there are changes that are significant that are happening. this is the local radar. they make their forecast as close as they can. you are at the national hurricane center say we think this is going to hit in a particular town, mexico beach. that s what they thought it would do. this is live radar. this isn t a projection, this is what the storm is doing. that is the eye moving in real time. this is a time lapse, and that last view is where it is at that moment. it is not moving to the northeast in the way that was suggested before. it is to the north, northeast. it is moving in this direction, and it appears now, if it continues on this track, that the eastside of panama city meaning calloway and parker in the east bay in panama city, everything to the east of that, it is appearing now that the eye wall might actually cross over. there is a possibility, now, that the western edge of the eye wall itself may cross over parts of panama city and panama city beach. remember, panama city beach is this way. here is panama city. you come across a bridge here, and get over toward panama city beach. it s this long stretch. if memory serves, it s about 27 miles of white sand beaches. some of it is residential, with older residential homes on stilts. some of it is high-rises. some of it is sprawling resorts. but it is 27 long miles. again, all of that is to the west of panama city. we aren t talking about the eye hitting that. look at this i come here. it s coming this direction. here is panama city. here s the city, here is the beach. it is looking like this going to here is tyndall air force base. it is looking like the eye of the storm may clip panama city. that means the suburban towns of parker and calloway. not large populations, but parker and calloway, at least, may get a touch of this eye wall. same with cedar grove and springfield, and maybe panama city itself. not the western side of panama city like over by the bridge, but on the eastern side of panama city. i am going to back out now so you can see where this is going. this is the eye wall itself. this is real-time movement. here is tyndall, here s mexico beach pray the national hurricane center has been singing the last hour, it looks like mexico beach may take a direct hit. this is moving this way, and tears mexico beach. instead, to the left of mexico beach. could panama city be hit by this? the town itself, not the beach? it could. look at this rain wrapping around. this is extremely heavy rain. all of this area is still hurricane-force winds. for instance, panama city beach would have wind coming off the land and onto the water at 120, 110, 130-mile-an-hour plus winds. rather than the winds going onto the buildings on panama city beach, it will be coming from the land and off because of that counterclockwise circulation. everything to the right, this is where the more serious storm surge would be. ten to 13 feet, they said. all the way down to apalachicola. look how far the rain extends, now. is that? all the way up to alabama, which is basically, auburn is right there. that s auburn university, that s montgomery, alabama. columbus, georgia. it s on the way to tallahassee, macon, georgia. this is headed in that direction and it is going to be disastrous. phil keating is in apalachicola now, and the conditions are deteriorating. phil? they certainly are, shep. some hellacious wind and rain happening right where we are. this is another view looking westerly from our second-floor balcony here at the hotel. incidentally, this hotel is now surrounded by a moat. three to 4 feet and rising. no one can leave, unless you want to wade chest-deep out to your car. off in the distance you can see the cars in that parking lot, the water is already up to the wheels. that is the highest ground of the parking lot. heading back over here, this is water street again. that s an exit sign here at the hotel that was coming off. there has already been a lot of debris and trash washing up the street. that s water street again. you see the buildings, these 10-roof buildings, peeling back now. there has been gutters on this hotel falling off. as well as things flying through the air. the danger of the wind speed, because everything that is picked up by the wind flies at the rate of speed of two-thirds that of the wind. you have 150-mile-an-hour hurricane, that s 100 miles an hour of two by fours and whatnot flying in her direction. that s why everybody has been ordered in this county. in fact, all the counties in the big bend and pensacola panhandle area. shelter in. stay home. it is an order, not a recommendation. everybody. nobody is on the street throughout this entire region of florida. it is simply too dangerous and you can look right there and see why. it is too dangerous to go down to that water. the water is moving fast. the wind is whipping, the rain hurts, and we will show you again the apalachicola river which runs down into apalachicola bay. st. george island to the southeast of here, that is an extremely low-lying island. according to the sheriff s deputies that i was speaking with last night, everybody evacuated that island very smartly. wow. that s the river that should be flowing left or right but instead is being blown back upstream. that s why this entire region is expected some serious flooding in the next day or two, if not r than that. the water has to go somewhere and right now it s not going where it needed to to go to the gulf of mexico. shepard: it has passed to the north and west of you, so the winds are going to shift. absolutely, the winds coming from the golf, once the rotation changes we are going to get the wind and the waves and the storm surge coming from the west side. shepard: that will be happening very, very soon. it s almost time for a top of the hour reset. this is fox news channel, america s choice for news and information on cagle cable. our coverage continues right no now. shepard: it s 1:00 on the east coast, 10:00 a.m. on the west coast and high noon on the florida gulf coast where a storm of historic proportions is now barreling down. it s not about predictions now, this is a live look. this is the storm, with rains extending from st. petersburg all the way up to birmingham and hoover, alabama. hundreds and hundreds of miles of rain but here s where the storm is. this is live weather radar from the land showing not a prediction but the actual location of the eye of the storm, and here it is. their projection was just about an hour ago that this storm, the