tv Charlie Rose PBS September 11, 2017 12:00pm-12:10pm PDT
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>> rose: welcome to the program. we begin this evening with hurricane irma which swept through with devastating consequences several caribbean countries, now moving towards florida. we begin this evening with cbs news. south florida's last-minute evacuees stampeded into gridlock on the florida turnpike. traffic stood still for miles. >> rose: turning to politics we talk to jonathan swan of axios. >> here's the real question, there are something like 50 or 55% of americans who cannot stand donald trump. the question is, if he starts doing more things that chuck schumer and nancy pleasey would like him to do, do some of these people then start to say, oh, well, maybe this guy is actually pretty good and maybe i'll vote for him. i don't know the answer to that question, but he's surely going to lose some of the people who
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voted for him if he moves more in their direction. >> rose: "the deuce," i talk to david simon, george pataki, maggie gyllenhaal and james franco. >> labor is the product. you have this product that is street pornography. to this day there is no regulation of sex work, obviously, and you have this moment where an industry springs rapidly into being, and these people are the pioneers. >> rose: we conclude with an excerpt with my conversation from steve bannon former c.e.o. of the trump campaign and chief strategist in the white house who is now back running breitbart news, to be seen on cbs "60 minutes" on sunday. >> economic nationalism is what this country was built on, the
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american system. >> rose: hurricane irma, jonathan swan, "the deuce" and stevensteve bannon, when we con. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> glor: good evening, i'm jeff glor in miami. anthony mason is in new york. tonight one of the largest evacuations in u.s. history is reaching a critical point.
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more than 2.5 million people live in mandatory evacuation zones in georgia and florida and highways are jammed as people head north to escape the worst of irma. this is what the hurricane did in the caribbean, home after home destroyed. irma has sustained winds of 155 miles an hour and now the forecast models seem to agree south florida will take a brutal hit this weekend, the entire state may face hurricane-force winds. late today, the national weather service tweeted "this is as real as it gets. nowhere in the florida keys will be safe. you still have time to evacuate" >> we will have the latest on i remember e's path in a moment. first, let's get to our team of correspondents. we begin with mark strassmann in miami beach which is strangely quiet after so many people left. mark. >> south florida's last-moment evacuees stampeded into gridlock on the florida turnpike.
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traffic stood still. shelters overflowed with pets and people. at this miami high school, 40 shelters in the area, 1,000 people turned away. >> the buses won't be picking you up. we'll find a place for you to be safe. >> people stood in line to buy propane, water and food. a storm of price gasping hit the state and florida attorney general bam bondi called -- pam bondi called on some companies by name. >> 7-11, this isn't the time to make a buck, help your fellow citizens. >> miami-dade county ordered people to evacuate. >> i'm really afraid. i have to be honest, i'm afraid that there might not be much. >> really? it's that worrisome? >> tony and rachel codington will ride out irma in their
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condo. they live in a 15th floor of a miami high rise with a full week's supply of food, hurricane shutters and a good view of the storm when it barrels through. >> i'm not sure if it will be good or bad but we'll see what's happening. >> tough call? very tough. i want nothing but to be safe for my wife and dog and i think we can manage to a degree but it is scary. >> it's friday night in south beach. the sidewalk should be packed with people but take a look, this place is closed for business. jeff, anyone in irma's path here should be in a safe place by noon tomorrow. >> mark strassmann, thank you. meteorologist craig with our station in miami is tracking irma. craig? >> the latest advisory at 5:00 showing winds still at 155 miles an hour. the category 4 is a little deceiving because the speed only has to increase by 5 miles an hour to make it category 5 again
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so it's right on the edge of category 5. heres the wind field. the red area is the hurricane force winds and inside the core, the worst part of the hurricane, the eye wall is the most destructive part. the forecast track shows the storm battering the cuban coast through the night tonight, the day tomorrow and then comes to a key turn right there starting to move north toward the florida keys. the latest advisory is calling for strengthening category 5 going into the keys sometime during the early morning hours on sunday and then after that it's to the north. this is the sunday 2:00 p.m. time frame, closest approach to south florida and miami. any shift to the east could bring that destructive core right into the metropolitan areas, then the rest of the state is under the gun, up in the tampa area where there's increasing concern for storm surge there, atlanta the wind threat and finally begins to wind down. the keys have not been hit by a
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category 5 hurricane since 135 and that was catastrophic. category 5 hurricanes are very, very rare. >> craig from w.f.o.r., thank you. the island of barbuda all but wiped out by hurricane irma is in the path of hurricane jose, another category 4 storm. barbuda was home to about 1600 people. laura bicker of bbc news was there today. >> the island of ba barbuda was once a caribbean paradise. now it is lost. hurricane irma has reduced it to rubble. the ruins lie scattered, torn and ripped apart. having survived the worst storm in living memory and knowing another is on the way, people are exhausted, hungry and just desperate to leave. >> everybody is just gone.
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the prime minister traveled from a antigua to provide reassurance. he knows there's a race against time before hurricane jose arrives in a few hours. the fragments of people's lives lie in ruins. they can only hope to one day call this island home again. now they must leave by any means possible including this towed large. laura bicker, barbuda. >> coral gables, population 50,000, some chose to ride out the storm aboard boats in canals. we checked in with them through the police chief ed hudak. >> i don't know if anything in the water will be safe. this is four times larger than something that came through here 25 years ago. >> all the boats that are here are not normally here. people tucked them in and tied
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them up along the mangroves to protect them. the mangroves should provide a natural barrier and they think the boats will be okay. unfortunately many people made the decision to stay on the boats. >> why are you staying? i think we'll be all right. you think you will be all right? >> yeah. we have 1,000 gallons of water in the boat to keep it down. we'll sit here happy as a fish. >> not recommended. yeah, i know. if they choose to stay, and this is a tough decision they will have to make, there is going to be a time in this area that we're in that it could be up to 72 hours before we can even come down here, and if they yell for help, we can't provide it, which is partly why we give the evacuation orders. >> it is one of the heartbreaking realities for police that once winds reach the sustained level of 45 miles an hour, they cannot and will not respond to emergencies until that wind goes back down again. some of florida's first responders are just back from another devastating storm, and
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