try to read. that i. told her second five pm in washington d.c. i'm on your parm hell you're watching are to america we begin this evening with that horrific news out of vegas dozens of people murdered hundreds injured after a man opened fire on concert goers along

a popular las vegas strip today the country is trying to cope with yet another mass shooting incident this one the most deadly and modern u.s. history let's go over now to simone dollar sario who's in the newsroom simone as i mentioned this is the largest mass casualty shooting in modern history and the first of its kind of take place under president donald trump's administration what can you tell us about reaction so far on your first i want to just say that we're talking about at least fifty eight people that are dead about five hundred fifteen more that are insured the shooting happened overnight starting a little after one o'clock in the morning here in washington d.c. shortly after ten o'clock in las vegas we first heard from the president in a tweet six hours later offering his condolences and then later in the morning president trump delivered a national address in the diplomatic room of the white house he called the shooting an act of pure evil praise law enforcement first responders and then directed the.

to the families of the victims we are praying for you and we're here for you and we ask god to help see you through this very dark period. in moments of tragedy and heart of america comes together as one. and it always has it's. our unity cannot be shattered by evil our bonds can not be broken by violence and though we feel such great anger at the said slits murder of our fellow citizens it is our love that defines us today. for ever now the president plans to travel to los vegas on wednesday to meet with families and survivors along with law enforcement first responders the white house capitol hill even the new york stock exchange all holding moments of silence for

the victims today and there's been an outpouring of support from leaders around the world in the u.k. which experienced its own concert attack back in may that killed twenty two prime minister theresa may tweeted the u. case thoughts are with the victims and the emergency services responding to the appalling attack in las vegas french president also reaching out saying our thoughts are moved for our american partners and friends now two years ago a gunman opened fire at a concert in the theater in paris killing eighty nine canadian prime minister justin trudeau said words fail this morning the friendship and support of canadians is with the victims in las vegas and the people of the u.s. and we now know canadians are among the dead mexican president in the week opinion yet though expressed his deepest condolences with the people of the united states and russian prime minister dmitri medvedev tweeting i am shocked by the tragedy in las vegas the crime is striking in its violence and cynicism as we know the shooter

opened fire on a country music festival from thirty two floors up in the mandalay bay there were twenty two thousand people in attendance down below again more than five hundred people are injured at least fifty eight are dead and as the f.b.i. and other law enforcement continue to investigate the shooter and a possible motive i want to focus on the victims and the stories of heroes from overnight tennessee resident sonny melton died while trying to protect his wife shielding her from the bullets she told a local nashville station i don't know what to say son he was the most kind hearted loving man i have ever met he saved my life and lost his sandy casey was a special education teacher in the manhattan beach unified. district in california lisa or mero worked as a secretary at my emira high school in gallup new mexico another concert goer wrote on facebook that twenty three year old jordan mikel june from canada had died in her arms jessica clinch was a mother of four in vegas on

a trip with her new fiance and las vegas metropolitan police department confirmed they lost one of their own an off duty officer attending the concert two on duty officers were also injured now these are just a few of the at least fifty eight fatalities with the concert area under fire for so long it was hard to get medical personnel in right away so concert goers were also the first responders they were loading up victims however they could and transferring them on their own to the hospital and while there were heroes in the immediate aftermath there is now more heroes at least hundreds are lined up now to give blood to help the injured in las vegas and families of course though still scrambling to be reunited with their loved ones anya writes our sorrow reporting there and thanks so much we're going to go over now to natasha sweet who is on the ground in las vegas so what's the latest you can share with us natasha. well as you can imagine information continues to change by the minute but the latest number

from law enforcement is that fifty eight people have been killed and at least five hundred fifteen people are injured in hospitals all across the city here in las vegas and part of the strip remains closed as well and the thought of someone is shooting from the window of the mandalay bay hotel on the thirty second floor it was the last thing on the mind for so many and luckily for some it was only a close call now i want to give you a look at what when this is saw and heard as the gunshots rang in during the country concert last night's. thank you thank you. thank

you thank you. i cut my thank you the cut cut my the time i was actually working security at the event and what happened was i walked away from my post which i'm glad that i did and where i was supposed to be standing it was actually going to make it was in front of the main stage where the jury of this stuff was happening and. i left my house and i remember walking towards my friends when i heard the first round of gunshots and i thought to myself that it was the music when the second round of gunshots came it was clear that it was gunshots and it wasn't the music messing up. once i heard that and i seen people started running

i could do it we just dropped everything and his friend. there was police officers maturity is everywhere actually ran. a complex and just remember going inside this guy's house and there was a whole bunch of people already in there and they had all the lights turned off and they were telling everyone to be quiet because it was still nearby and we didn't know if the shooter is walking around or not. thank. you. suspected gunman behind the country's largest mass shooting a sixty four year old steven paddock he came from a retirement home in mosquita and his license pilot with two planes has a hunting license in alaska now he has no criminal records however he is a big gambler and has gambled up to thirty thousand dollars

a day in vegas casinos and pacs brother says that while he didn't know that his brother would you know gamble for fun that he could never imagine his brother doing some something like this now take a listen to the exchange that he had with someone else being extremely defensive take a listen to this coming friday there's absolutely no i'm not even going to stick but. there's i've already told. there's you know it's like an asteroid belt out of the sky. if it has troy to go right here you would still be exact same way as i feel right now there's no no no the beach for me where my brother would have done. there's room but. there's not i don't think i mean i could let you look at the texts i mean.

at least ten rifles were recovered from padlocks room and now he rented two different rooms one facing the north end and the other of the east however authorities say that they are still looking for a possible motive. the number of people that have died associated with this event has increased right now we're using the number of fifty eight i just was informed that it may be fifty nine of an individual that may have expired at sunrise hospital so the number of injured we're using the number of five fifteen. and as you can tell as the hours go by that number continues to increase we have not received any additional intelligence associated with the suspect. we have completed the search warrant in the skeet i am not aware of any derogatory information that we can utilize to further its of this investigation at this point this is an individual who is described as a lone wolf i don't know how it could have been prevented if we didn't have any

prior knowledge to this individual it wasn't evident that he had weapons in his room we have determined that there has been employees going to and fro from his room and enough arius was noticed at this point that's what we know now. authorities say paddocks companion a sixty two year old marilou gamli has been identified as a person of interest has been listed as padlocks roommate and officials are tracking her down for information. concerning her a person of interest and we have been in contact with her and we plan to engage her upon her return to the country. now according to the f.b.i. padlocks father has been linked to previous bank robberies and for some eight years he was on their most wanted list but for padlocked however his motive is still being investigated as he shot himself when authorities close in on him back to you

anya all right natasha sweet reporting from they us on the ground for us we look forward to your reports in coming days thanks a lot. and police and first responders acted very quickly to come to the aid of the dead and wounded far more on this response let's bring in retired d.c. metro police officer ronald hampton ronald in your experience as a police officer is there anything with which stands out to you in terms of the police response to this it seems like they were dealing with a pretty impossible situation and a pretty well planned attack well first of all i'd like to send my condolences out to the family and many friends of the folks people who've lost their life as well as though that have been injured no it doesn't look like it was kind of the kind that have been that you could play in or prevented from happening this in the bill today with some planning it's obvious that some planning went into the process of doing this but he picked he picked the. target that was is so

exposed unbelievable twenty three twenty to twenty five thousand people at a concert all out in the open area was fenced in there was controlled interest in x. of the to the to the consulate so he he was perched up twenty or thirty some stories in the hotel and so it was this laid out target in terms of what he was doing so you know i don't know you not think that there were probably. noted there were police assigned no were forty even a self in in the should have been but it was no way that they probably could have prevented this law known that this was going to happen right there not expecting something of that on such a scale that we heard share. bardot say they couldn't prevent this admitting it. upfront but it sounds like then the best thing you can do to prepare is be ready to respond in terms of medical assistance and. finding the shooter well it seemed to me then that was followed in this morning that the medical. people

responded i mean they had they were there in a very short period of time the the office of responded officers on the scene now would there they respond and then they didn't have like the long rifles the heavy kind of rifles that you would need to shoot down that situation that from a distance in the. officers got in a very rapid then once they got there they were dispersed and went to the hotel and track down of very quickly where the shooter was in then when about the business of getting into his room so i think in terms of their behavior in the response is really outstanding in terms of what they would do in in in a given putting their own life on the line because they didn't run away from the situation they were into the situation in order to identify in the capture of the individual who had done the shooting let me ask you this when we hear about a civilian using such a sophisticated weapon. we hear instances like this often

being used to justify the further militarization of the police for example after orlando there was talk about how this means we need more equipment sent to departments we know president trump recently reinstated a program which provides military grade equipment to local police departments that equipment actually help situations like these or is that you know just a payout industry i'm not sure that that kind of equipment would have been very useful in this situation their strategy that these officers use was the best strategy at the time first of all you want to protect the people you want to keep them out of the way of the homes when the new. i want to address the issue in terms of they don't want to have an attorney wouldn't help them to get to the thirty second floor have in the range of some never rams or door garage it wouldn't help them in this regard they did exactly what technically those kind of squat to do when it comes to addressing

a barricade situation and i think that's what happens in most of these situations where the now the police department has access to this heavy equipment when it comes to working and working in our community the responses we hope a very small in terms of the number of times that they would have to use a but in general i don't think police departments that we need that kind of equipment to deal with the situations that we have another call some make in the wake of mass shootings like this is for gun control including higher penalties for gun possession as a former officer does this help who exactly does that target i don't believe so i think i think. the whole idea of america having a second amendment that you can buy a gun to curry guns all those things on an open i think we need to think about what impact that has had on our society in the balance as associated with it if you're going to have more guns you're going to have situations where people aren't balance

where they have mental issues and then if guns are available then they're going to use guns or some other kind of violence in relationship to their so i think we need to think about that we also need to think about what happens to people when we have more guns in our society longer synthesis and all those kind of things i don't think that they have reduced the problems that we have now and i think history has a relates to these kinds of legislative issues have been proven and they're going to be in a more effective if you put people in jail put them in jail to get out of jail or that hasn't had an impact on another so if you have a society where guns are as a vailable as they are in. american in chances are we going to have some of these kind of issues and sounds like even as a former police officer you're saying the problem is cultural or you or we need to address these issues beyond just using law enforcement america grew up on a gun in the steel containers do grow on the gun in the possession of and then they like that so yeah i think it's cultural and we have to look back and deal with that

i think we need to also look at some of the issues as it relates to how we address the issue of gun violence in our community and what do we use as a reference to deal with that but i don't think that that's going to solve the problem and i don't think more guns is going to mean that we're going to have less balance and less from when our community ronald hampton former retired a retired d.c. police officer we really appreciate your insight thanks very much. while the u.s. is only home to five percent of the global population it has experienced thirty one percent of mass shooting incidents worldwide since one nine hundred sixty six to discuss the shocking statistic earlier i was joined by a ton edwards security expert and executive director at the international preparedness network i started by asking him why he feels this is a symptom of a disease for which there is no cure take a look we have a culture in the united states that is generating these people like an incubator

for these types of folk to do this and we've got to begin to ask ourselves why and then we have to ask the n.r.a. a very powerful organization about what it's going to take for them to recognize that the people the people the people have a major problem in the united states and what are we going to do to modify the gun laws so that we can try to prevent these tragedies from happening over and over and over again how many dead children how many incidents like this is it going to take for them to recognize that something has got to be done to control this situation it's interesting you brought up culture because in the aftermath immediate. path of any tragic event like the one we've just witnessed the predictable partisan debate plays out in congress in the media over the issue of gun control and while the last ranks first by far in gun ownership worldwide as well as for mass shootings it out when i look at the data from those two factors internationally it doesn't

demonstrate a complete correlation between gun ownership and the frequency of mass shootings so what is it about the us which makes it right for these kinds of attacks it's what the number of different factors it's a complex situation and especially like in different communities and such right but you can look at a country like switzerland people have guns here in canada where that right now that people own guns here too but you don't see the frequency of these types of events so you have to look at the root of this and what is the root it's the american culture it's the american today anyway that means you can go back forty or fifty years and you didn't see these kinds of massacres and then you had the texas massacre back in what sixty six where you had the clock tower massacre for where were lots of folks were murdered in this way and then the frequency and in the magnitude of these events has increased i mean significantly over the past ten years and what we've got to look at is what has gone wrong in the american culture to produce these people that are doing this what's happening and how do we stop it

we've got to control some of these guns we've got to control people's access to some of the things that go with the guns and we've got to look at this aspect as well over unfortunately running out of time have about a minute last year in a country already so saturated with guns i mean it's amazing when you look at the statistics is it possible to enact meaningful gun control i mean how do we address these cultural issues you're bringing up well we've got to do a lot of things we've got to start by providing jobs for people in inner city communities that where we see a lot of the violence with the guns we've also got to figure out what is going on with these men who are doing this over and over and over again there's something going on that something. is wrong with the american soul that something that has died in our culture and we've got to figure out what it is and we've got to try to repair it because you know what the reality is but this is not going to be the last time that we're going to see one of these awful incidents and my heart goes out to the families to the survivors to the victims to everyone who had to deal with this

situation and unfortunately we're going to be dealing with it again sadly some time soon until we get to the until we get to the root of it all we're never going to see an end to this it certainly does get exhausting having this conversation again and again and john edwards security expert and executive director of the international preparedness network thank you so much thank you while much emphasis has been placed on the tragic number of people killed or physically injured in last night's attack the true impact will reach much further joining me now to discuss how survivors cope psychologically after these types of events is dr marion clyde a mental health expert author of is entity how to eliminate chaos stress and discontent in your workplace dr clyde a we're looking at over five hundred injured at this point those are simply the people in the hospital with physical injuries we're talking about twenty two thousand people in attendance at this contrie

country music festival last night what can you tell us about the psychological toll and reaction in the victims in such a tragic event. well you know i heard your last step last guest talk about the something wrong with the american soul and i just have to say that i was so gratified by the response of the victims that that i don't i don't really think there's something wrong with the american soul the american soul is wonderful but the fact that many of those people stayed around to help each other the fact that they were in danger themselves scared themselves but they were laying on top of each other to protect each other they were helping each other out they were helping each other hide and i think that says an awful lot of the. for what's deep inside the american soul it comes out in a tragedy like something like this where. you know nine one weiner or another

shooting or something we do care for each other on a very deep level i think yes it's true these tragedies often bring out the best as well as the very worst in humanity but i'm wondering if you can talk now about the fact that thousands of people i mean over twenty thousand people were in attendance at that event last night what kind of issues beyond the physical problems many are dealing with this evening are people dealing with well i am sure that every single one of them is struck up man. a tough buys done some. any television what what went wrong what's what's wrong with this guy you know when and how did that happen so they're dealing with trauma they're dealing with shock for dealing with steel here and and they need to learn how to move forward having had this huge loss loss of a sense of safety loss of

a sense of security loss of life loss of. health you know for some of those that are injured and so forth i have hundred in fifteen that are injured fifty eight or fifty nine as as you were saying dead that they have to deal with all kinds of losses and all kinds of the foundation on which they live day to day expecting they're expecting to be safe is shaky and shattered and that's that's going to take a lot of healing you follow the development of other events similar to this for example the one thousand nine hundred nine columbine shooting what do you think is important for the media to include when covering these tragedies when you know we always do jump to should we have gun control and should we be more cognizant of mental illness and it's it's interesting that this is mental health meant mental

health awareness week in the united states and and we should be aware of. what's going on inside of us are we practicing coping mechanisms are we being grounded very often when we report on these kinds of things we look at what's wrong with that person what's wrong with that bad person what how does that person get labeled mentally ill how does that person get labeled p.t.s.d. we need to all pay attention to our own inner. strength and grounding so that we you never know when something like this is going to happen and yes that all the hurricanes boom boom boom one right after the other you can sort of prepare for them but you can't prepare for something like this you just have to prepare in ways that ground you as a human being around you to something bigger than yourself and connected to all

other human beings we need to acknowledge that we're we are brothers keeper all right on marianne clyde mental health expert thanks so much. well in recent years we've seen mass shootings like this take place of all across the nation usually carried out by lone wolves like in the recent case of these vegas attack with time thousands of americans have been left dead in tragedies many believe could have been prevented if stricter gun laws were implemented let's take a look back at some of these mass shootings happening in the u.s. over the last couple of decades with our two correspondent ashley banks on june twelfth two thousand and sixteen twenty nine year old all marmont teen opened fire in a game night club in orlando florida killing forty nine people and enjoying fifty eight others at two am more than three hundred people were inside a pulse nightclub one of the teen want in an open fire with an automatic rifle at one point my team took several club goers hostage officers were able to free some

while others were able to escape a gun battle between meting and orlando officers ensued he was been fatally shot bringing an end to the rampage this attack is one of the deadliest mass shootings and recent u.s. history just six months prior to the orlando attack on december second two thousand and fifteen so you had faruq and his wife touched seen my leak open fire during a holiday party in san bernardino california as a result fourteen people were killed and twenty two others were seriously injured and eleven am authorities received a call of a shooting at the end the regional center of the syllabi serving people with developmental disabilities police say peruke in the week fired sixty five to seventy five rifle rounds and to a crowd of seventy people as soon as they spotted officers they fled the scene police were able to catch up to them and for rukun malique then began to engage in a shootout with police shortly after they were both pronounced dead on the scene

isis claimed responsibility for this attack on july twentieth two thousand and twelve james holmes opened fire and a movie theater in colorado killing twelve and entering seventy. others while moviegoers are watching a midnight screening of the film dark knight rises homes a prop the movie theater door opened and through an tear gas canisters once those exploded to even open fire on the crowd using an a r fifteen an a twelve gauge shotgun according to authorities after seven minutes of shooting holmes surrenders to police outside the theater he's been taken into custody and then forms officers his apartment is equipped with explosives according to police home's apartment had been booby trapped with a trip wire at the front door if touched it would have set off explosives and his unit on august seventh two thousand and fifteen holmes was sentenced to life in prison without parole on december fourteenth the twenty twelve twenty year old adam

lanza opened fire on sandy hook elementary school in newtown connecticut killing twenty six people including students and falco eight lanza was carrying an assault weapon and i handgun when he shot his way into the school building around nine thirty that morning he then opened fire on both a kindergarten and a first grade classroom lanza then took out a hand gun and shot himself twenty students ages six and seven and six adults were killed that day authorities say lands also killed his mom before opening fire at the school. on november fifth two thousand and nine major in the dale middle because someone an army psychiatrist opened fire at a crowd at fort hood and central texas killing thirteen people and injuring more than thirty others has on opening fire on soldiers who are either being deployed overseas or returning from deployment the shooting lasted for ten minutes before has gone with shock and taken into custody by civilian police has gone toward a judge on america's war on terrorism was a really

a war against islam he was trying to protect muslim and taliban leaders in afghanistan so he gunned down soldiers at fort hood who are being deployed to that country on august twenty third two thousand and thirteen a jury found his son guilty of forty five counts including premeditated murder he was sentenced to death on april sixteenth two thousand and seven twenty three year old son who challenged senior i've virginia tech open fire on the campus killing thirty two people and quoting students and thousand eight on april twentieth one thousand nine hundred ninety two teenagers opened fire at columbine high school and denver colorado killing thirteen people and injuring more than twenty others and eleven nineteen in the morning eighteen year old eric harris and seventeen year old dylan clear bold began shooting the fellow students outside of the school while wearing trench coats they've been moved into the school shooting most of their victims in the school library after the shooting rampage the two teens turned the

guns on themselves and committed suicide every shooting that i mentioned sparked a national dialogue and debate over gun control sally as we can see not much has changed and these events keep repeating and it seems that right now there is not a clear answer as to what should be done to prevent these types of attacks from happening again and washington actually banks are tea. we're going to move on and checking arrest some other headlines now the canadian city of edmonton is in a state of alert after a suspected quote isis not of a to attack over the weekend the lone assailant is accused of attempting to kill a police officer and a number of best friends on saturday night using two vehicles and a knife as his weapon of choice is allison that joins us in toronto with the latest . alex so what can you tell us about this attack which happened over the weekend.

well we know that five people were injured in this attack a cli including one police officer let's go straight to the video other this sort of tells the story on its own just a warning to our audience this is a little bit disturbing to watch it all started when this police officer he was at a canadian football league games much like your n.f.l. we just have a different set of downs than the states do and the speeding chevy malibu went through a barricade hit the cop cars moat fifteen feet up in through the air the driver then gets out you see other people running towards a police officer the driver gets out and starts stabbing the cop on the ground the police officers my chair nicky's a ten year veteran then the suspect takes off on foot now hours later that same suspect is pulled over in a u.-haul then the police officer who pulls him over notices that the name looks like the suspect that they were looking for a couple hours earlier the van takes off plows and is just takes off plows into a crowd of four people four people injured in just basically driving around the

city of edmonton trying to hit people a whole slew of police cars following behind and finally pit maneuver tap the back of the car flipped over the truck flipped a right over the assailant was caught now as for the police officer we do know that he suffered many stab wounds occluded a stab wounds to the head and to his arms he's ok he's out of hospital for the. other people the four people that were injured a two are out of hospitals including one skull fracture and two as well as we know of sunday as of yesterday are still in hospital but that doesn't seem to be any life threatening injuries at this point canada's been you know it's relatively a safe country but we have had our number of terrorist attacks in the past few years i'm going to break a couple down for you october twenty eighth two thousand and fourteen martin couture rouleau he killed a canadian soldier injured another killed later by combat police he was a muslim convert and extremist october twenty second two thousand and fourteen

michaels i have to be bold kill the canadian soldier at our national war memorial in ottawa tried to storm parliament's a six cop shot him dead including one officer within parliament itself he was a muslim convert and said to be radicalized he also had a criminal record which had absolutely nothing to do with his religion august tenth two thousand and sixteen aaron driver he detonated explosives in a taxi cab in small town ontario he was shot dead by police self-proclaimed isis sympathizer and then we have january twenty ninth two thousand seven hundred six men killed as you might remember in a mosque in quebec city he was a far right extremist by the name of alexander be so nets and just most recently june third two thousand and seventeen toronto area woman she was in a store started whacking people with a golf club she had a knife on her she's in courts now and she says she is a sense sympathizer she does not believe in the system she wants to be tried using shari'a law all right alex do we know anything about the suspect in the admin type back. similar supposedly isis flag was found in the white chevy malibu

he is a somali by the name of abdulla hassan a sharif thirty year old and supposedly back at work according to reports back in two thousand and fifteen he was investigated by police for espousing is extremist points of view they didn't have enough to arrest him or to do what they thought you know if this case is over they did were following me around obviously this guy then decided to do what he did over the weekend this guy that he this this is an interesting point he's a convention refugee that means he was allowed to canada because somebody in the country that he was from there in somalia he was deemed unable to return to his country because he was he was there when the canadians believe he would have been persecuted if he was to be sent back and this is what ends up happening here in canada with that same individual he is right now charged with five counts of attempted murder four counts of dangerous driving and dangerous operation motor vehicle one count of weapons related charges and there is

a good chance he might be charged for terrorism as well he's scheduled to be in court on tuesday but anyway you turned this i mean nobody died by canada's really not used to these type of attacks and a few have happened the past few years and that is traumatizing people especially in a city which is smaller and way north like adman alex for hell of it reporting for us in toronto thanks so much thank you. coming up on our it's a florida as governor declares a state of emergency as thousands are fleeing the island of puerto rico for the moment i have the details in just a moment. there's a real irony going. to let them think they are responsible only in the people and there is always in the words what the terms that it was it always seems realistic. or airing out wholesale surveillance is there you know i'm on a mild president who's in this instance has used a cell phone. well i always thought the story was it's garbage in the real.

thing. but politicians do such things to. put themselves on the line. they did accept the reject. so when you're one of the first injury. or something wanted. to try to be closer to see what the fuck are you the more people. interested in the lawyers at the. city. i think the average viewer just after watching a couple of segments understands that we're telling stories that are critics can't

tell when you know why because their advertisers more let them. in order to create change you have to be honest you have to tell the truth parties able to do that every story is built on going after the back story to what's really happening out there to the american public what's happening when a corporation makes a pharmaceutical chills people when a company in the environmental business ends up polluting a river that causes cancer and other illnesses they put all the health risk all the dangers out to the american public those are stories that we tell every we can you know what they're working. welcome back to our team america florida as governor has declared a state of emergency and light of frederica's growing humanitarian. he says the

declaration comes as tens of thousands are expected to flee the island following devastation caused by hurricane maria president donald trump meanwhile is traveling to the u.s. territory tomorrow nearly two weeks after the category four storm hit leaving at least sixteen people dead for more we cross live now to argue marina fortnight in miami marina president trump will be visiting puerto rico and mounting criticism of his in a rather amid a mounting criticism his administration has been ineffective and painfully slow in reponse responding to the disaster there he also insulted the san juan mayor in several tweets over the weekend is this visit expected to be warm and fuzzy. no i wouldn't count on it three point four million americans on the island are experiencing their thirteenth day largely without power according to the pentagon fifty five percent of the island still does not have access to drinking water only ten out of the island sixty nine hospitals are running on electrical power and many

of puerto rico's mountainous areas remain in a sense in the accessible leaving residents there trapped some running out of food and water now on friday the mayor of san juan carmen ulan cruz publicly pleaded for help accusing the trumpet ministration of killing puerto rico with inefficiency america's commander in chief responded via his favorite social media platform publicly criticizing the very people struggling to recover over the weekend president trump wrote quote such poor leadership ability by the mayor of san juan and others in puerto rico who are not able to get their workers to help they want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort refusing to be distracted by bullying the mayor of san juan says she remains focused on saving lives encouraging the u.s. president to visit hardest hit areas on the island when he comes to stay i hope

that he has a chance to go into the. areas that are most devastated and i hope he gets a chance to really look at people. look at people's face see them drinking from the creek. and know that we may be small but we are in value you're going to see would never again i think that yes border regions are being stigmatized but in reality we're doing everything possible to help her so neat. amid such a frightening and vulnerable situation puerto ricans have come to one another's aid sharing food and emergency supplies removing debris from the streets to make roads possible these are american citizens asking for their federal government for assistance and unity they are not asking for a handout now officials on the ground helping with recovery efforts say progress is

slowly being made with nearly half of grocery and big box stores open and more than sixty percent of retail gas stations also open for business however nearly nine thousand people are still living in shelters while food shortages and a general loss of power still plagues the island all pretty ricos not the only one suffering as a result now florida's governor rick scott has declared a state of emergency today to help prepare for the influx of puerto ricans he anticipates will be migrating from the territory to officials expect citizens to eventually abandon the island well even before hurricane maria puerto ricans were leaving the island for the mainland in record numbers and the largest migration has been to florida the main factor pushing the exit is was puerto rico's economic crisis now residents on the island are dealing with several new devastating factors florida's governor declared a state of emergency in every florida county on monday to help the state provide

services to puerto ricans fleeing the island additionally disaster relief centers at orlando international airport miami international airport and the port of miami will open tuesday to aid those seeking refuge in florida the emergency order essential allows state officials to waive regulations as needed to help puerto ricans and it could also help bring more federal funding to help the state of florida cope with the aid efforts well speaking of coping with aid efforts is the white house close to finalizing an aid package for puerto rico. very important question according to reports the trumpet ministration is preparing to ask congress for around thirteen billion dollars in new aid to help puerto rico and other areas hit by natural disaster disasters the request is expected to be made next week additional requests from the administrations are also expected for a longer term assistance of puerto rico as well as texas and florida which were also hit by hurricanes last month i did only puerto rico's federally appointed financial oversight and management board is expected to assess how the damage from

hurricane maria will alter the u.s. territories long term economic picture the seven member oversight board was established last year to basically lead the restructuring of puerto rico seventy four billion dollars debt but right now that debt is clearly not a priority saving lives on the island is a priority and helping to rebuild it so at least we know that the board is meeting and that there is a package coming down to puerto rico in the near future hopefully really important thanks for keeping on continuing to bring us updates on puerto rico. thank you. moving on to some international news now in the catalonia region of spain of violence erupted moments after the polling stations there opened while people were standing in line to vote here's a recap of what happened on sunday. my

. my . in the wake of mass violence a video circulating online appears to show an officer trying to remove a woman and twisting her wrist in the process she claims her fingers were broken intentionally after a day of massive violence in catalonia protesters are taking to the streets declaring decrying rather police brutality artie's medina kosha nova has been at

one rally in barcelona this is classic at leo where you can see the protests continue here on the iconic swear i'll be barcelona says he hundreds of students have gathered behind my back to protest against the events that we saw here sunday protesting the independence of the council on their clapping their shouting slogans including by mr president let it out now if they are trying to remain peaceful and they are also protesting. and possible to track down all these things are still. on a sunday and indeed there are a lot of unhappy people here on the streets of wasilla now we didn't deserve this kind of treatment i think our people deserve more freedom and not the oppression that one hundred is putting us under in the because we have seen a lot of repression against the people people who are just waiting in line ready to vote as i have seen brutal scenes on the pole of police on the side is wrong it's.

not place children and now the people i front of the public and stations. some of my friends were in schools the barricades to defend the polling stations from us on these my friend told me that she was grabbed by police and this one. he was also he had but i think this extremely known to the public. we have been receiving more reaction coming out from the consul on a story to us this monday now the president of council on and said that the government has decided to create a special commission to investigate the events of sunday and to create a special commission to investigate possible crimes against humanity that might have taken place here on over the weekend he also believes that in order to find a compromise between madrid and barcelona independent party is needed so as you can see the comp the situation here is so complicated that even authorities are ready to acknowledge that there are unable to find

a way out without the help of another independent side now the president of consul on the demands that the forces of national police will leave the region he says that for many years and many times people of conscience on the work protesting and never there has been violence on the streets so it is really the biggest constitutional crisis spain has been in decades and it really seems that it is time now for both parties to sit down and try to negotiate in order to avoid further escalation. now deputies from the european union have now proposed holding a session over what happened in catalonia however european officials have remained largely silent previously stressing that the issue is an internal one for spain artie's polly boyko has been taking stock of the international reaction well it's been quite a muted european reaction the european commission has finally come out with a statement today but it condemned the violin but packed up the draped in

reiterating that the referendum in catalonia was illegal under the spanish constitution yesterday's vote to cut the loan you know was not legal this is an internal matter for spain that has to be dealt with in line with the constitutional order spain well essentially we can see the e.u. that is sticking to the same line it's had all along that when i was a very well and just in brussels and hides a lot of questions about the e.u. tongue tied respond to the crisis in haiti and now we have a double standard in the freedom of expression once found out four thousand. in other sound out for. you condemn it when they shut down cambodia daily but you stay silent when a member states starts playing with freedom of expression. private websites if they start arresting jewelries how can you say this is cost efficient although we don't

have anything to say i mean this is supreme over expression anything else that we can help you with today where you can see the spokes person squirming there and there is a sense that collectively european leaders are squirming over this crisis as well there's a degree of discomfort it seems that few have come out and condemn the violence the belgian prime minister the slovenian one but critics say that over the world the response has been much milder than say it was. if this crisis was unfolding in a new european the state hungary or somewhere like cold gary now in terms of the media reaction star you really wouldn't have this intense interest oh what a sweet that many think or have said was in the first three so you can see it up on your screens now it said the people of catalonia finding out what happens when and

the legal referendum is held the tweet was deleted soon after it was put up but not before quite a few people managed to screengrab it and express a lot of anger about it as well people online have seen the news out of support saying what they see as violent oppression in catalonia others have called it disgraceful and some food it probably shifts at the very least it does seem unfortunately. it carries sort of an air of i told you so about it there's a suggestion. of some sort of a little cold alignment to madrid side of the argument and probably a degree of insensitivity given that some nine hundred people in catalonia were injured in clashes with the spanish police yesterday and before we go don't forget to tune in at nine pm for larry king now tonight's guest is new york times best selling author brendan burkhardt talking about his latest book on the habits of

successful people here's a snippet of what's to come the great baseball general manager branch rickey once said luck is the residue of design i love make you look it's very true and we found that this is you know a long term academic sort of a research project and over one hundred thousand subjects interviewed pulled the data did everything we could and there's no question luck isn't the thing it's the bees people have deliberate habits they do on a consistent basis and they've given the edge and where did they form the the naturally. no a lot and by necessity they just they're they're back at the wall and suddenly they need to see clarity or they got really got burned out so they had to figure out how to manage their energy or they weren't as productive as their peers so they had to learn to get productive or nobody listened to them so they learned they had to get influence most people don't know that these are the habits they need so that's why we came out the research but most people who had it almost didn't know it was almost unconscious competence and this is performance in all areas high performance

is basically how do you succeed over the long term beyond standard measure so how do you get your peers how do you beat your performance last year but the challenge is i think most people are just kind of happenstance they show up every day and they say well just be myself and i hope that is enough but a lot of people work hard or they're passionate or they follow their strengths and yet they're not breaking through and they're not breaking through because they didn't know what to do and that's going to do it for now for more on the stories we cover going to you tube dot com flash r.t. america also check out our website on board flash america you can also always follow me on twitter add on your part. i. i. i.

i. will do according. to. democratic representative al green from texas wants to force a house vote to impeach the president greene says he plans on filing a privileged resolution that will automatically trigger a vote basing it on trump's remarks on and i felt players who protested during the national anthem in the us constitution the standards for impeachment are spelled out in article two section four where it says the president vice president and also of all officers of the united states shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors

according to greene those high crimes and misdemeanors don't really mean actual crimes greene says that congress can impeach the president now for his behavior that has an adverse impact on society that is what impeachment is all about he said now a lot of constitutional scholars would beg to differ but greene isn't alone in this new impeachment effort in fact another house democrat california brad sherman already introduced articles of impeachment on the floor back in july and measure h.r. four thirty eight which greenback sherman accused the president of obstruction of justice for his firing of komi in connection with the miller investigation in order for a president to be impeached the house has to vote for it and then the senate has to boat to convict so far only two presidents have ever been impeached by the house andrew johnson and bill clinton both of them were acquitted by the senate and remained in the white house so if green and or sherman's efforts actually do pass

in the house a lengthy trial in the senate would then have to happen and we're talking about a republican led senate so already there is little chance they'd actually impeach president trap also if impeachment is based on sure. case of obstructing justice there's a little problem of you know the investigation is still going on and obstruction still hasn't been proven that's what the investigation is for and if the impeachment is based on green's case that trumps behavior is just bad for society well some might say that will be a little hard to prove from a legal basis and even many democrats in the house are rolling their eyes that green some pietschmann talk saying it just gives people fuel for the argument that democrats are putting political posturing over actual issues like health care and the economy but that's not deterring green from finding every microphone he can and crying impeach into it now will have to wait and see whether or not his fellow congress men will bother to listen.

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