ed: it s worth noting just over a month ago congress passed a new round of sanctions against north korea and yesterday treasury secretary said he is drafting a new sanctions package to send to the president. all of this comes during what is expected to be one of the most challenging months for congress in the trump administration thus far trying to avoid a government shutdown, raise the debt ceiling to avoid a default and immigration and healthcare on top of that. ed. ed: that s a mouthful for sure. molly: nations around the world condemning yesterday s nuclear test by north korea and warning against possible plans to launch another ballistic missile. the u.n. security council meeting at this hour. rich edson is live in washington at the united nations
security council gathered to condemn the launch of the ballistic missile by north korea which flew over japan. yesterday north korea announced it had succeeded in miniatureizing a nuclear warhead attached to an icbm. hours later ed: some have strong words from the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley. you heard her a moment ago saying enough is enough. that the u.n. has spoken with one voice for a long time in standing up to north korea but north korea has been defying the u.n. for a couple of decades. i want to bring in daniel halper, a contributing editor to the washington free beacon and weekly standard. daniel, i was very struck by the statement from nikki haley saying that basically we ve kicked the can down the road long enough. there is no road left. this is obviously a call to action. she started off the first part of the speech laying out clearly about how north korea
people are probably the ones that already had medical conditions, for example and they don t have access to any medications. so a diabetic who has run out of insulin. a person on oxygen who lost their oxygen. ed: if you re diabetic, have blood pressure and need your medication and you haven t been out of your house in a few days or just got out and ran out to save your life, your family s lives and didn t grab your medication. what can you do? people tr trying to go to the convention center and supplies to get them. it may be limited. even if you get to a pharmacy no guarantee it will be open or that they got their deliveries. they re affected by the flood. so those are issues. now some of the bigger things are patients with cancer who aren t able to get their chemotherapy or patients with kidney failure that can t get dialysis. with dialysis you have to get it every two to three days to
rich was saying defense secretary mattis in the driveway of the white house laying out the stakes pretty directly? i thought it was a great statement by ambassador haley. she laid out the history lesson everybody needs to know. it should be an embarrassment to the united states security council as well. ed: for sure. there has been all of this talk and very little action for so long. something else that caught my eye is the fact that what north korea is at least claiming about this last test is talking about a powerful electromagnetic pulse that they say could knock out entire cities in the u.s. it seems to me the stakes have gotten higher when this is not just a hydrogen bomb, which is massive enough, scary enough, but when you walk through this what exactly is an emp? it s the burst of radiation when a nuclear weapon is detonated above the earth. no blast felt on earth but the
molly: the ripple effect of harvey being felt across the country as several oil refineries along the texas gulf coast remain closed with long lines in texas and higher prices at the pump. the national average for a gallon of regular is now up to about $2.64. here is good news as exxonmobile says it is making some progress in efforts to get those massive texas refineries back up and running. ed: as waters from hurricane harvey recede could threat en the united states. hurricane irma, what do we need to know about her? it continues to move this way but slowly at 14 miles an hour. winds up to 120 miles an hour. we re beginning to see a couple of watches and warnings being placed in the lesser antilles