Rick Astor News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Puerto rico. Joe bastardi on what were looking at here. I had a chance to talk to the powers that be in puerto rico and theyre gearing up toe get people hunkered down right know. This has a chance to be the worst Natural Disaster recorded in puerto rico. This storm is likely to be a category five and bisect the island from southeast to northwest. I cant imagine a worst case scenario. Hugo in 1989 was a category four on the extreme northeast hip of puerto rico. This will be worse than hugo. It appears to be Getting Better organized this afternoon. The pressure is falling and puerto rico will ta...

The number over the last year, you keep track of this. you did in your days monitoring these worldwide. how has earthquake activity been besides places in haiti and elsewhere where it could be more dangerous and disastrous given the fact that they have so few structures able to withstand minor tremors? >> right. what is changing in the world so that we have much larger cities and more people in harm's way. so it's a race against building smarter buildings and public education and the geological inevitability of larger earthquakes. >> shepard: just as you were guesstimating, rick, we are gettin...

Right now that has been a constant. the other big natural story here, and that is a massive earthquake striking central mexico, particularly in an around mexico city. whatter wi er witter with -- w right now, it happened in morelos south of mexico city. causing smoke to be in mexico city and around buildings that appeared to have chanced. office buildings shaken and widows shattered. let's go to rick astor. rick, this area is no stranger to earthquakes. they had one that was fairly significant a couple weeks ago. this in a much more populated region. what does this tell you about what happens ...