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Sfloos right you're looking at more than 300 texas roadways covered in wert. so difficult to get around. jornl howell live for us in houston. as if one hurricane wasn't enough. yet another major hurricane has its eye focused on the united states. let's bring in meteorologist derek van dam good morning. what's on the way. >> good morning, dave, renae. it's important that we keep this in check here because we are still 7 to 10 days out from any potential threat to the lower 48. but nonetheless this major hurricane which is formed across the atlantic in and out a capturing 3 sustained winds of 11...

Area. roughly 40 miles. still a chance of severe threat. that's not the context of what i'm discussing at the moment. let's hop to the other side of the world, the philippines and talk about their natural disaster. been an active tropical season for the western pacific. guess what? there's another typhoon that has its eye set there. this is a country with 100 million people. lieu zahn is the most populous island. that en konl passes manila. look at the string of this typhoon. it's expected to increase in intensity over the next 24 hours. it will stall out and produce a significant amount of ra...

Emergency crews. the search and rescue efforts going forward will be very difficult. look at this astounding picture out of that area. here's the latest on the storm. 45 mile an hour sustained winds. tropical storm erika over the caribbean sea. it is moving away from this leeward islands but has its eye set on puerto rico, as well as the u.s. and british virgin islands. that's where we could see anywhere between 200 millimeters of rainfall in some isolated locations. and the possibility of flooding exists across this area. we have flood watches in effect for puerto rico and the virgin islands....

Think. i'm not excusing him. he was a comedian. >> al franken in 2000 was starting to prepare to run for office. i mean obviously he had his eye set on office. i thent he went on air america. he was becoming politicized. he didn't say this on the stage of saturday night live. he said this in a magazine and article specifically pointed at him assessing the 2000 field republican field. there is no comparison by where they are in stature. i'm just saying people that are running around with their hair set on fire need to have as a footnote there is a sitting senator in the united states who said t...

Insults the fabric of what america is built on. >> it does. i mean i would never say it. i would tell donald and everybody else who does say this to immediately apologize and take it back. even though when donald said it he said it in a way that sounded like a joke. everybody laughed. then he kept rolling. i just do -- i keep going back to what al franken said in 2000 when doing an interview, a man obviously very interested in politics who had his eye set on the united states senate. >> joe there's no comparison to what al franken said. are you really comparing al franken to who was a comedian...