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even though we should note he's been through multiple other category five storms during his time in office. >> thank you very much. and thanks very much to all of you for joining us. our breaking news coverage continues with "ac 360." there is no other way to put it. one of the most beautiful places on earth is in terrible pain. still in the teeth of hurricane dorian, but already counting the dead. what is happening right now to the bahamas could be a sign of things to come soon to coastal florida. hurricane dorian hit the island chain as a category five storm and it is lingering. five people are known dead on the islands and entire community there is are badly damaged or flooded. people are trapped in their homes. we're talking to people there as well as in the larger towns, free port to bring you the unfolding disaster and minutes ago we got new information on the storm. let's go to jennifer gray.
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so explain what we've just learned. what's the latest? >> the latest information, the only change is the winds came down from 145 to 140. doesn't matter. it's still a strong category four stationary. this storm is sitting over grand bahama island and sitting there since yesterday when it impacted the west ever so slowly sitting stationary. if you can imagine, it's hard to believe the fact that a storm this powerful is not moving, anderson. >> how long is it likely to stay over the bahamas? is there any way to know? >> it will be there through the overnight hours tonight into tomorrow morning we should finally start to pick up a little forward speed by the time we get into tomorrow afternoon. look at this loop. six hours of time that goes by and you can see the center of the storm.
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it doesn't move at all. it's staying on grand bahama island and the bad part, the strongest winds around the eye wall are the strongst winds and they have been battering the island all day long. >> this is a dumb question but why does a hurricane just stall over an island? >> it's squeezed in between two areas of high pressure. there is no steering current for this storm to move. that should change, though, by the time we get into tomorrow. that's when the storm is expected to pick up a little bit of forward speed. now the storm is now located about 100 miles to the east of west palm beach. it's still very, very close to florida and the brush with florida is crucial because depending on how close this storm gets will depend on the impacts that florida will see. you can already see those outer rain bands pushing on shore. when that happens, we'll get heavier rains and stronger winds but the closer this gets to florida is going to determine
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how strong the winds will ultimately be. the storm surge and rain and you can see still a sliver of florida within that cone of uncertainty so the really not completely out of the woods yet. most of the models carry it just offshore but even then with hurricane forced winds extending 45 miles from the center, you're still going to be getting hurricane forced winds on shore and could have a major hurricane category three by the time tuesday into wednesday rolls around and then keep in mind how vulnerable the coastline is in south carolina and north carolina especially those outer banks where we could have a category two situation on our hands by the time the storm rolls over there and then also charleston, any push of water in charleston is going to mean a lot of devastation as far as storm surge and flooding. so the east coast is definitely not out of the woods, even if this storm stays a little offshore. >> jennifer gray, we'll keep checking with you. appreciate it. it's staggering because facing a storm of this magnitude, being
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in the thick of it for minutes or hours or a day or longer is something else entirely. that's what people are dealing with in the bahamas where the official death toll is at five. patrick is in freeport with us. explain what you're seeing now and what it's been like. >> reporter: it's been hour after hour of being battered. it was early this morning, late last night that the storm came in and it sounded like an airplane taking off, and that sound, it's really been the eriest thing about it. it's not gone away. it's a constant winding, screaming sound all day. now back into the night and here we are in an island with in electricity and we're very fortunate to be in a place that's protected. we're next to a concrete building, have walls on two sides of us. it's protecting us. if i walked a little bit this way, i would be blown into the ocean. there is category one or two her case forced winds blowing around
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us. ten, 12 hours after this hurricane came here, i've never experienced anything like it and, you know, we think about all of the tens and thousands of residents not in a secure place, in the dark for the second night in a row, listening to this wind perhaps watching the water rise in their home and who is going to rescue them? how will they survive tonight? it's going to be the worst night of their lives if they see the dawn. >> and i mean, there was no warning this would just stall over the island. >> reporter: no, there really wasn't. it came into marsh harbor right the next island over to us caused a lot of damage there and moved fairly quickly to where we are last night and it just stopped moving, and that is really, it is the worst imaginable scenario, anderson. you have a powerful first
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category five, now category four storm stalled out over low lying islands and it's causing a storm surge of over 20 feet in certain places. this island, the highest spot on this island, highest point of land is 30 feet. >> wow. >> reporter: so we're running out of area and high ground and earlier tonight, people came into the lobby of the building we're staying and they lived in the area and their houses were just under water and it was all day long watching the water rise and rise and their neighbors had to rescue them. one lady had broken her hip trying to get out of her house and carried her in. everyone was soaked. they were carrying pets and again, the idea people had to rescue themselves, there is no one coming and here we are again, another night total darkness, the screaming winds. it is desperate a situation as i've seen and i've covered a few of these and you just wonder when is it going to end? when is this hurricane going to move on?
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we are feeling the strongest winds in my location that we've felt all day. it's not getting better, it's getting worse. >> we talked to folks in abaco island a few moments ago and they were saying that they had people, private citizens out in, you know, heavy earth-moving equipment trying to rescue people from their homes but it's not like they are seeing a lot of police and authorities. >> reporter: no, the police -- again, these are all very small islands. there is 700 islands in the bahamas and when you're on an island, help is not coming because the airport is shut here. we came in on one of the last flights. you can't come by boat. you're on your own. these islands have police. they do have local authorities but they are not out. it's too dangerous. it's falling on to people in these communities to rescue themselves if they can and many
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are just not able to be rescued tonight. they are on their own. >> patrick, stay safe you and your team. kelly machi rode out the storm. i spoke with him by phone a short time ago. kelly, thank you so much for joining us. i'm so sorry for what you're going through. is the storm still hitting you? >> yes, i'm in my wcar. it's very windy. we cannot see at all. the only thing we can really see is the u.s. coast guard helicopter circling around us at the moment. they are taking out ones that are seriously injured and pregnant women. >> we're looking at a video you shot. we see trees ripped apart. it looks like the whole area
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you're in as really been devastated. >> yes, sir. if you were to go any more down the hill from us, you would be trapped in water. it's flooded everywhere, so basically uphill on higher ground is the best place to be at the moment. that's only if you have a good coverage right now. let's say you have a good roof that's not leaking or anything. >> i saw there was a picture there of a caterpillar vehicle. it looked -- are there -- was that a private citizen just trying to help move stuff around? do you see people from the government there out and about? >> they were trying to help us evacuate our homes in the eye of the storm. the eye of the storm is the e eeest part. they came to try to help all of us that couldn't evacuate our homes. there were so many power lines, we couldn't walk or drive our cars. they came and started picking up
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people and took us down to a shelter. >> you were able to go back to your home today. what did you find when you went hom home? >> basically, just debris everywhere. down to my room from upstairs, down stairs, everything is c completely destroyed. there is three or four inches of flooding in my home because we're up on top of a hill. the water didn't really go that high in my home. >> i'm looking at video of somebody driving in a vehicle and i mean, they are just driving through waves of water. it's almost like they are on the ocean, i guess, roads are just swamped. >> yes. that was before the hurricane even started and hit us fully. that was the surge. i'm sorry.
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that's the surge. i'm sorry. i'm really out of it. >> it's okay. >> i'm sorry, man, i'm really overwhelmed with everything going on. >> how are you holding up? >> pardon? >> how are you holding up? >> i'm trying my best. we have a lot of family and friends who are currently missing at the moment. we have a lot of babies who are trapped in homes. everybody is just separated from each other, man. it's horrible. >> can you -- i assume you can't really communicate with other people with friends, with family or neighbors unless you go over and see them? >> yeah, correct. and that's if they are even there or if they went somewhere else. >> in a situation like this, and i know you've seen people desperate, you know, trying to take food supplies from stores, doing whatever they can, people need supplies here.
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>> yes. we do. supplies are actually limited now. the hurricane actually destroyed most food stores here and everything in them so people was actually going salvaging what they can, and it wasn't really a pretty sight. >> have you ever seen anything like this where you are? >> in all of my years, i have never seen anything like this at all, and i pray to god we never experience something like this again. >> kelly, i wish you the best and i appreciate you taking the time to talk to us and i hope you find all your loved ones and all your friends and i hope help comes soon. >> yes, thank you so much. >> kelinto the night on cnn coverage continues. there is new information on the shooting rampage and the search for survivors with dozens
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really weird day. we had sunshine. we had really heavy wind at some point and then that would dissipate. sand blowing and kicking up ask cou would calm down. the weather can't make up its mind i guess. we're on the beach in singer island, part of west palm beach here in southern florida in the evacuation zone as you mentioned, zone b. we were called to evacuate yesterday afternoon, most people did. the beach is too dark to show you now but it's pretty key qui. there is nobody down here now. curious about the water behind me. i don't know if you can see it but it's really rough. it's a great area to snorkel in. the water is crystal blue. it would be a surfer's paradise and heavy winds coming our way. here in palm beach, the international airport is closed. the businesses nearby along the beach, they have boarded up, as well. it's not a great situation here
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on singer island, anderson. >> mandatory evacuations are mandatory evacuations but not actually usually mandatory. have most people left? >> reporter: well, i'm looking, the direction i'm looking in i can see the high rises that dot this beach and there are probably too many lights on to be honest with you. that tells me that not everybody did evacuate. the buildings here are built for hurricane winds. the building we're staying in can with stand 165 mile an hour winds on the lower floors but high up it's more dangerous. the building we're next to had serious hurricane damage years ago. the people had to move out for three years. so they are not all ready for a storm like this. if it does make landfall in this area but there are plenty of lights on, probably too many for officials to be thrilled with. >> randi, i know it's been a long day and probably a long night. be careful. we'll check in with you shortly.
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updating the breaking news, the prime fminister staiaid dor claimed five lives. president trump is playing golf. the 220th time he's been at a golf club as president and he was attacking political foes on twitter including paul krugman, the head of the cio and "the washington post." in the meantime, he also retweeted warnings from the national hurricane center, which is nice. the president of the white house says that the president received regular briefings about the storm while playing golf. cnn pamela brown is at the white house for us tonight. what is the white house's rational for the president being on the golf course as the hurricane moves towards the u.s.? >> well, anderson. the white house is only saying
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he was briefed hourly while on the golf course for several hours today. one of his golf clubs, not far from the white house in sterling, virginia but anderson, the president clearly doesn't care about the optics of being at the golf course and in fact, it was the second time he went golfing over this labor day weekend and that's drawn criticism for the president to go golfing while hurricane dorian is threatening the united states and critics also point to, anderson, the past comments from trump on president obama, as you recall on the campaign trail, he went after president obama for golfing. he said it was a waste of taxpayer dollars, that he should be spending his time otherwise focussing on government work and trump even said at the time that he would be too busy see to go golfing. this was his 227th day at one of his golf clubs since he took office. >> right, it would be one thing if he had not gone after the former president about golfing and said that he would never go golfing because he would be too
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busy see and doing too important work and winning so much. i mean, it's not us knit picking but using his own criteria for judging other presidents and by his own criteria, he sure is golfing a lot. he also made very confusing comments yesterday saying that this is not, that this is the -- i mean, this is not the first category five hurricane to threaten the u.s. since he took office and yet, he seemed to indicate that he had never heard of a -- of a category five hurricane. >> yeah, he seemed stunned by the fact hurricane dorian has strengthened to a category five, that he didn't know a category five existed but if you go back and look at his past comments, he's made five such comments since 2017 and there have been four category five hurricanes since trump has been in office. not all of those made landfall
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but still, it is notable so if any president should have i intimate knowledge of a cat gore five hurricane, it should be president trump which is why fema headquarters drew scrutiny, the idea he was so baffled by a category five hurricane and that exists. >> forgive me, i don't have the read in on this because i was overseas but correct me if i'm wrong, at some point over the last day, was he also tweeting after debra messing, the actress about comments she had allegedly once made to him about how grateful she was for the apprentice? >> absolutely right. i believe that was yesterday, if i'm not mistaken he was targeting debra messing over twitter. to put this into context, he went after her but he's going after the head of a union, a prominent head of a union going after james comey once again and been going after many other s -
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targets. many other issues outside of the core issue right now which is hurricane dorian. remember, he cancelled his trip to poland, this important trip to poland over the weekend so he could stay in the united states and monitor the hurricane and get those updates but he clearly has other things on his mind. >> he's monitoring the debra messing situation and his memory of that. yet again. it's incredible. a number of our guests and reporters refer to rescue operations including help from the u.s. coast guard and helping set up more than a dozen kitchens and he sent out this video yesterday with the crew getting ready as the storm was intensifyin
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intensifying. >> this is going to be one of the biggest ever -- >> sadly, as we reported a moment ago, at least five people on that island have lost their lives. i spoke with chef jose andres who has an organization called world central kitchen. he worked in houston during harvey. he really kind of perfected it, sadly, in the aftermath of the hurricane on the devastation in puerto rico. i speak to him a few moments ago. jose, you're in the bahamas now and rode out the storm from there. what was it like at the storm's peak and what are you seeing now, what kind of devastation are you seeing? >> listen, the storm i was in nassau so we were really on the edge of the hurricane but even being on the edge of the hurricane, we saw winds in the north of 80, 90 miles per hour.
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imagine what the people in the grand bahamas were going through? so here in nassau, you know, some water flooding but nothing compare to what we're seeing on the videos that everybody is sharing in social media right now. we cannot wait to right there, here you see already volunteers helping us get food ready. we have one boat that is going to be filled up with food and equipment. we have helicopter and also here in nassau and we hope tomorrow it will be the day that we can finally arrive and see what's going on and start finding the kitchens and start cooking. >> this is something you have been training for now for quite sometime. i mean, i saw you in houston during harvey, of course in your extraordinary work with a lot of chefs and a lot of volunteers in puerto rico. explain how your work and where
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you are now, clearly you're in the kitchen. you already have volunteers do you have food? are you already making meals? >> we are already making sandwiches because that's easy. tomorrow i'm going to go in quick ride in a helicopter and bring a lot with us so that's the first arrival. but what is really what we're doing is we have a lot of support already, the government of bahamas talking briefly to the prime minister yesterday a lot of the private sector, we're in the kitchen at atlantis, the biggest report and employee on the island. they are giving us all the support. we have a lot of volunteers here as tourists that decided to join us and start helping us. so right now getting ready making sure we get communicati n communications from grand bahamas and have hotels there that did okay during the hurricane. we're going to use those hotels
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for making relief kitchens to start feeding the people in the different shelters and i think we'll be here for quite some weeks. >> i remember very distinctly and thought was important, what you're doing is not just feeding somebody, you're making a connection with somebody and you're saying to that person essentially we see you, we care about you, we're thinking about you. we know about you. >> you know, sometimes when we start going to every community every single day in the moment that they see that food is coming, people began opening to you and learning of the people and people that need generator because they need the breathing machine. all of this sadden when you connect with the communities, you learn about the reality of the communities and then we don't do that but hope to make sure we're providing everything communities need. we have a kitchen ready to go in wilmington if the hurricane keeps moving forward.
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we have multiple teams ready to take care of the people in the bahamas but also in florida and beyond if necessary. >> what do you need from people? do you need? >> everybody is generous. everybody start sending things. we need to make sure we follow the lead of the prime minister of the government of the bahamas. i remember seeing entire container of advil pills in puerto rico was so much advil they have enough advil for the next 100 years. we need to make sure that we follow the people that know best and that we start donating for, you know, feeling good. >> so your plan for the coming days is what? >> my plan for the coming days is making sure that we have kitchen on the island and this kitchen here so we can be sending some food through helicopters.
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i think we're going to have some areas they will be difficult to reach by the road for the next few days, few weeks so i think if we can have this kitchen here and be sending the food, in puerto rico in the early weeks. so we'll have three kitchens if i can in the next week ten days and we'll reach as many people as they will need the food. >> so just on a personal level, jose, you're one of the most famous chefs on the world with restaurants all over the place. this is not something you have to be doing. what -- i mean, i know you started this became something you were interested in doing and kind of learned how to do it and invented a new way of doing it, what keeps you going in this? >> i mean, i -- you know, i don't do these because it's fun, i do it because i believe our expertise is needed.
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the thing is the to do a little bit for the betterment of others. i'm blessed to have teams committed not only in america but around the world. we were in indonesia, venezuela, colombia. why not use the talent to bring relief to fellow citizens. this to me is not my work but a passion to provide meals is great but i love to provide meals to the many and quite frankly, that is what i'll keep doing for the rest of my life. >> jose andres, glad you're there. thank you. >> thank you. we have more breaking news just ahead up next surprising new details in the moments before and after another devastating mass shooting by a man who had been stopped for minor traffic violation in west texas and went on to kill seven and wound 25. your eyes won't show it. new super stay concealer from maybelline new york.
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breaking news tonight authorities in west texas where wrestling with the aftershocks of another shooting. seven died and more than two dozen are injured and truly bizarre information surfaced today including the fact acco according to authorities the gunman called 911 twice as the rampage was going on. ed has details. >> oh god, they are shooting
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there. >> reporter: 15 minutes before the 36-year-old gunman engage in a deadly shooting spree, he called a fbi national tip line with a rambling incoherent series of complaints. he had been fired from a truck driving job earlier in the day and called 911 but left the office before police arrived. even before being fired, law enforcement says he was starting to spiral. >> he showed up to work in a very distressed mental state, so it's not because he got fired. this did not get happen which he was fired which other active shooters have. when he showed up to work, he was already engaged. >> reporter: there is troubling questions where the gunman obtained the assault style rifle used to randomly murder seven and wound at least 25 others in odessa, texas. investigators say the gunman failed a background check but still somehow managed to obtain the firearm. investigators have not revealed why he failed the background
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check. >> the atf and federal and local agencies are aggressively following up on the source of the supply for the firearm on this. >> reporter: the shooting started saturday afternoon after a routine traffic stop. the gunman started firing randomly as he drove around the city. authorities say he then shot and killed u.s. postal carrier mary before taking her mail truck and continuing the shooting spree through the city. mary was face timing with her twin sister when the shooting erupted. >> she was screaming, so i mean, i was hoping that he could have been just a dog bite, you know but it wasn't. it was something worse. >> reporter: the call then went silent. >> she was laying there. i just wanted to run to her and hug her, you know, kiss her. >> reporter: did you? >> i didn't. i didn't get to. they wouldn't let me get close to her. >> reporter: cnn sat down with a one on one interview with christopher combs who said he
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seen too many mass shootings up close. he gets emotional trying to talk about how this should be a wakeup call to the country. >> the phone rings yesterday. you get the call about this. and whatever is going through your mind makes you tear up, which is not something we normally see from the fbi. >> i can't. i'm sorry, man. there is no way. >> what more can you tell us about the survivors of the attack? how are they doing? >> reporter: we have a couple updates on some of the 25 people that were wounded in this shooting rampage. the 17 month old girl, anderson davis you heard so much about, she was the one that had to be airlifted to a hospital in lubbock to receive treatment. she was wounded in the mouth. we're told she's out of surgery and already returned home here to the odessa area and that she
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is doing well. we've also been told by ocdessa police, their officer james santana wounded here at the very end of the chase of the suspect, this is the back of the theater where it all ended on saturday afternoon, james santana is also doing well and that officer we're told will be released from the hospital tomorrow, anderson. >> that's great news. appreciate. we'll talk to a teacher that knows that little girl's family about how exactly she's doing. it's amazing she's alive. breaking news tonight in the diving boat fire disaster off the southern california coast. eight people now confirmed dead after flames swept across the boat near santa cruz island. it was in the middle of the night. authorities said a short time ago they are working to recover four of the victims from the ocean floor, more than 12 hours later, 26 people are still missing. the flames tore through the 75-foot boat as you can see after 3:00 a.m. local time. many victims were below deck in
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may seem like light years ago that news broke that president trump wants to buy greenland, it was actually just two weeks ago. greenland is not for sale, it's part of the kingdom of denmark. the whole story prompted conan
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o'brien to make the trip over to greenland. watch. >> do you mind if i say a quick prayer? >> yeah. >> dear god, may greenland soon become part of the united states, whether they want to or not. amen. hey, kids. did you have a good day at school today? what did you learn? nothing. you're going to love america. you're going to love america. >> conan o'brien's news special premiers tomorrow night at 10/9 central. when you first heard that president trump wanted to buy greenland, i kind of thought it was a joke and of course it turned out to be real. what made you decide you should go there? >> well, first of all, trump is a real estate man, president trump. he knows real estate.
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and so, yeah, the media likes to mock a lot of his ideas. i thought there could be something here and a lot of people, like yourself, were making jokes and i thought, why make jokes. someone should go there, someone responsible, someone revered, trusted, should go to greenland, kick the tires on this deal and see if we can make it happen. so i jumped on a plane and got there and looked into it. because that's what i do. >> i was in greenland years ago doing a story on climate change. and i -- i pooped in an igloo. >> are you okay? are you having a breakdown of some kind of? what's wrong with you. you look like a very tiny wizard. >> it's all i can do in nine days off. >> it looks like you briefly dipped your chin into a sugar bowl. it looks fantastic, though.
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>> i call it the blitzer beard challenge. >> well, he won. wolf shaves every morning, and that grows in the next two hours. that's what happens when you have a name wolf. >> everybody is off today in management, so i feel like they're not watching. back to greenland. >> i went there and i wanted to see -- how do they feel about it? americans were very self-ininvolved. so i went there. it turns out they are not for it. they love their country the way it is. i had a lot of difficulty. i tried to make the deal. >> did they know who you were? when you went to south korea, i remember you getting off the plane and being greeted at the airport, you were like elvis. >> yeah. >> and then you were in a k-pop video. did people in greenland know who
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you were? >> they thought i was cate blanchett. >> i thought they would thought you were tilda swinson. >> i'm a shape shifter. a lot of younger people do because of youtube. and they actually -- what's interesting, i announced on my show i'm going to greenland, so they knew i was -- that i had said i was going to come. what's amazing is how surprised they were that i actually came. they couldn't believe that i came. they said nobody comes here except for anderson cooper about 12 years ago and they talked about your incident. >> i want to play another clip. you're very worldly. you like to immerse yourself into cultures. when you were in mexico you delivered your monologue in
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perfect spanish. you tried to read the weather in greenland, i believe. >> i didn't try. i did. i read the weather. in the icelandic language, which is very difficult, imagine someone poured vowels into a shotgun and shot them at you, that's what it sounds like. >> i want to play the clip. >> this went out all over the air. >> let's watch. [ speaking foreign language ] >> good evening. i'm conan o'brien and i'm bringing you the latest weather report here in greenland. i will give the report in the greenlandic language. how hard could it be? [ speaking foreign language ]
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[ laughter ] [ speaking foreign language ] [ laughter ] >> we left it early. wow. >> yeah, and that actually went out all over greenland. that was their weather report for the night. and so then i left there and i was going to, you know, try and record some other segments around the capital and people were yelling out their car windows, just saw you do the weather. it was -- and i think i actually got three words right, so good for me. >> i'm surprised they didn't ground all of the planes after
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that weather report. i don't know what you were saying. >> i'm not welcomed back, let's just put it that way. i did manage when i was there to visit a real estate office because i really wanted to make this happen. i visited government officials. i attempted to bribe them. that will be in the special. and i visited a real estate office and offered to split the deal with the realtor and he agreed. that would be $30 billion for each of us. that would make him good for the whole year. >> conan o'brien, it's always good to have you on. >> very nice to see you, anderson. keep growing that beard. you're five years from having a full beard. >> you can catch conan in greenland tomorrow night. we're watching hurricane dorian inch toward the u.s. we've got teams there along with the newest forecast, next. psori,
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