david mercer has more from acapulco. >> desperate for help, hundreds of people have been stranded for days. many have gone without food or drinking water since severe flooding left them homeless. government provided rations are a lifeline, but people say it's not enough. >> we haven't eaten since it started raining. the water took away the children are sick. >> fisherman jose lopez was lucky to have gotten his disabled daughter out of their house in time. >> look at my house now. the water took everything. the bed, fridge, everything. we're homeless now. >> more than a million people were affected by two tropical storm. worst hit was get rather row, where more than 40 people have died. in some areas, two months' of rain fell in just two days. thousands have been forced to seek refuge in one montenegrin. here people wait for the waters to recede and mud slides to be cleared, wondering what awaits them when they return home. the government has a more pressing job to take care of first. >> 40,000 tourists have been trapped in acapulco since the storms hit. may not have been waiting in li

david mercer, al jazeera, acapulco, mexico. >>> we'll have a look at the weather now but after that we tell you about a set-back for silvio bers cone any. >>> the plight of india's widows cast out by their families with velthsz to survive on. there's more to financial news than the ups and downs >>> hello again. let's go to our headlines in al jazeera. >>> egyptian security forces have stormed a suburb of cairo. police are looking for more than 100 accused of violence following the overthrow of president mohamed morsi in july. >>> iran's president says his country will never build a weapon of mass destruction, and that he's been given full authority to negotiate a deal on iran's nuclear program. >>> president assad is ready to destroy syria's chemical weapons. speaking on u.s. television, he said he would fully comply with the chemical weapons convention, but he denied his government was behind last month's chemical attack near damascus. >>> well, international aid agency oxfam says many countries are falling short of what to give to syria and humanitarian aid. in june the u.n. launche

david mercer has more from mexico city >> reporter: manuel left a path of destruction in southwestern mexico has moved up to the northwestern part of the country. we have heard there could be up 30 to $0.45 meters of rain dropped in that area. we have heard that there could be heavy strong winds. there have been evacuations. the state is on red alert and schools are being cancelled. but so far up in this northwest region of mexico, we haven't seen the same sort of destruction as we did in the southern part of the country. on wednesday, i was in acapulco where around in that area where the majority of the people have been trapped. people who have been killed in landslides, it's been around there and some of these regions are incredibly remote and very mount nance and it was simply days and days of rain saturated soil that came down in landslides, in one landslide, more than 100 people were buried. now, although many survivors have been pulled out, there are dozens of dead and there are still many who are disappeared. these are the kind of situations. these are the kinds of scenes that

and david mercer has more. >> this is the result of days of torrential rains and dozens of bridges andds laid to waste, thousands of homes destroyed and tens of thousands of people made homeless and people wait for rations flown any by the military and without food and water for days and desperate for help. >> we just want medicine and support, something to eat. >> more than 1 million people have been affected by two tropical storms that slammed into mexico last weekend and teams are finding more bodies as they reach isolated areas. survivors say the mudslides came out of no where. >> translator: i was walking down the street near a store when i heard a loud noise. and i just stood there. i saw how the dirt and dust began to billoy up and it was smoke and it was like a wind mill and when i saw it coming to the field i started running. >> reporter: it brought other unwelcome surprises and crocodiles were spotted in the streets of alcopoco, a tourist destinations and they were washed out of a lagoon giving people something else to worry about and the government is appealing for help and

. >> i'm david mercer on the streets of mexico city where thousands of people have come out to protestsed government reforms. >> reporter: and inflation in china, we will tell you why the price of pork will gauge what is on consumer's minds. and she does it again, coming up, in sports, serena williams the wins the u.s. open title for a 5th time. ♪ 220 people are being held hostage by gunman in a coastal city in the southern philippines according to the police. 6 people have been killed in fighting between security forces and fighters from the national liberation front. they want an independent home land for the country's muslim minority and we have this report. a shoot out in the heart of a bustling southern philippines city, government soldiers are exchanging fire with fighters from the morrow national liberation front. the battle of the city running for cover but some were killed in the cross fire. >> translator: i saw them roaming around and knocking at the door to my master's house and got the people inside and took them away. >> reporter: if broken away from the larger morrow fron

david mercer, al jazeera, mexico. >>> there's higher value crop. that's a pretty good deal. >> the group came here ten years go. they werafghan were dragging grn the ground. >> translator: it's good for us. the grapes are safe from the rain, wind and from rotting on the ground. before any thing could be clear, -- there used to be a giant crater right here. the organization have land mines all over the world. it's t -- it's -- the project isn't just help farmers grow fruit. >> with this market center and with the -- and system, they are able to -- >> a nearby school was built after her daughter collected 50 million u.s. pennies so afghan children wouldn't have to study una tree. the organization works with 50,000 farmers and all of afghanistan's 34 provinces and these people are the lucky ones. only 1% of afghan farmers have access to cold storage. most were brought against the market. the 300 afghans who work with her want the seeds to flourish and spread. all right t including swedish -- the tour of championship including $11 million-dollar fay da

. >> david mercer reports now from that village. >> reporter: rescue teams solely begin town earth whateath a disaster zone. the mudslide is huge. and there seems to be little chance of finding survivors. here they locate the body of a woman, one of many they expect to find in the coming days. survivors say the mudslide hit without warning. >> i lot my never as nephews, grandchildren, the whole house is gone i lost my entire family they were baking bread when the mumudslide hit 67 the hill slide collapsed sunday, brought on by tropical storm man well. tons of mud and rock collapsed burying dozens of houses more than 60 people are still missing. most survivors were evacuated to the shelter in nearby acapulco. although people are safe here, they say it's impossible to forget what happened. >> i never want to go back to that town it took way my mother and sister but need to go back to give them a proper burial. >> reporter: the government says emergency aid is ready to be delivered. more than 50 communities have been without food and without fore water fora week. washed out bridges and flo

david herre mercer has more. >> reporter: we are here on the so-called sun highway between mexico city acapulco. and this is a major transit route in the country of mexico. and for the past -- nearly the past week this road, this critical link has been shutdown because of a tunnel collapse caused by torrential rains. now, they have just opened this road, and we have just seen the first cars coming north escaping from acapulco, escaping from the disaster zone heading back towards mexico city or other destinations bench you what we have also been seeing over the past few hours are buses traveling, empty buses traveling south on the other side of the highway traveling south towards acapulco where they will be picking up people who have been stranded there for days and days. and bringing them back north. now, up until now, the government has been trying to move people using both commercial and military flights. but they have been quite restricted in how many people they have been able to move. and there is still a mass of people who need to make it out. and it's causing a lot of tension in

david mercer there in mexico city. thank you for bringing us up to date.ll check in with you in a little while. >> now, the cauldron that held tokyo's olympic flam in 1964 has been relit in celebration of the city's victory hosting the 2020 games. the japanese capital beat out istanbul and madrid, providing a lift for a company dealing with the nuclear disaster at fukushima. >> these intercollege games are coincidentally being held on the weekend japan found out they'd host the 2020 summer olympics. after the news organisers lit a flame in anticipation of the games returning to the city. somewhere in the crowd could be a future olimpian, competing on home ground in seven years. >> i was so glad tokyo won. i'll do my best because i want to represent japan in the marathon. >> >> translation: in 2020 i'll be 28, a good age to compete in discus. >> this was tokyo's moment. >> the international olympic committee has the honour of announcing the games of the 37th olympiad in 2020 are awarded to the city of... ..tokyo. (cheering and applause) >> and here is what

david mercer has more from mexico city. >> reporter: this is the result of days of torrential rains,ens of bridges and roads laid to waste. thousands of homes destroyed, tens of thousands of people made homeless. people wait anxiously for emergency rations. many have gone without food or water for days, and are desperate for help. >> translator: we just want support, something to eat. >> reporter: more than one million people have been effected by two tropical storms that slammed into mexico last weekend. rescue teams are finding more bodies as they reach isolated areas. survivors say the mud slides came out to nowhere. >> translator: i was walking down the street, when i heard a loud noise, and i just stood there. i saw how the dirt and burst began to billow up. when i saw it was coming down to the field, i started running. >> reporter: the government is appealing to mexicans to help out. food banks have been set up across the country. we're hear in the heart of mexico city, and more than 30 tons of food and other goods have been collected. and volunteers are going through, sorting

david mercer al jazeera mexico city. >> reporter: and this is mexico, is it over the worst of it yet?t over the worst of it just yet. in terms of the strength of the winds rattling in across mexico i think the winds certainly that is the case. but if we look at the picture of mexico you can see how widespread sit on the map there, lots and lots of rain. possibility, the towns have been down but the possibility of a tropical storm developing just to the west of the yucatan peninsula and looking at heavy rain across eastern parts of mexico over the next couple of days and more flooding to come. >> no sunshine for the time being, thank you very much. we will see you later. well iran's president is ready to have talks between the syrian government and opposition writing in a u.s. newspaper president hassan wanted a policy of constructive engagement with the international community. he refused to rule out the u.s. barack obama at the u.n. general assembly next week in new york, the only jewish politician will accompany him. the relationship between judisim and iran goes back a long way and

david mercer, al jazeera, acapulco mechanism e-coe. >>> hardest hit areas of colorado had flood insurance. according to fema more than 7200 homes and businesses have been destroyed. residents are cleaning up searching through their mud soaked belongings for anything that can be saved. here is meteorologist niblg. mick ole mitchell. >>> here is the broader picture. we -- nicole mixon el. >> that's the damage you're looking at from acapulco and then it moved up the coastline to where it is now, just north of mazatlan. now we had about at the same time the tropical storm ingrid moving in from the other side. that's why we had that squeeze play. now a disturbance where ingrid had gone. the problem with the hurricane right now is it's pretty much just stagnant. it's not moving so much. so this is going to sit and dump rain, easily a foot or in some cases, so we're going ohave more flooding concerns there in mexico. it being pulls out into the bay of campeche. we'll have that complete national forecast had just a few minutes. are being richelle. >> thank you. >>> detroit's bankruptcy ask the su

. >> david mercer has this report from mexico city. >> three weeks of demonstrations and no end in sight. it started with mexican teachers opposing the government plan to introduce competency tests. soon the protest took to the national stage, creating havoc in the capital. now people are turning their attention to president enrique pena nieto's proposed changes to the tax system and the nationalised oil industry. >> translation: in reality what they are trying to do is increase taxes by all mexicans to replace revenue lost by selling the oil to foreigners >> pro-test leader called on mexicans to come out in force, to express their opposition, and tens of thousands of people showed up. >> translation: we are against the structural reforms, the et u kags and -- education and energy reformsment the administration tells us about the good parts. they'll only benefit politicians and big business. >> few things give mexicans pride than pemex. it provides security and gives jobs to 160,000 people. for this reason people are afraid of what opening up the oil industry to private enterprise could

tracy byrnes, jonas max ferris, john layfield along with david mercer. welcome to everyone. john, should unions get a pass and no one else? >> absolutely not, why would they? think about what they're saying right now. these are people that backed this law. they didn't read it. surprise, surprise, maybe some of these politicians should have read it. they're asking them to fix something that hasn't gone into effect yet. that's how bad this implementation process is going to happen. this is similar to the corporate tax put in in chicago. you put it in and companies say, we'll move to wisconsin. okay, we'll exempt all of you companies that have political influence. that's exactly what is going on here. if you have political influence, you're getting an exemption and a waiver. there have been 19 different amendments, waivers and exemptions already passed. this is ridiculous, hypocritical. what happens when politicians don't read bills they pass. >> you don't think this is a double standard, huh, why? >> they have a legitimate beef in the sense that they have a collective bargaini

david mercer has more. >> reporter: this is the result of days of torrential rains, dozens of bridges roads laid to waste. thousands of homes were destroyed. people wait anxiously for rash shalls flown in by the military. >> translator: we just want medicine and support. something to eat. >> reporter: more than one million people have been affected by two tropical storms that slammed into mexico last weekend. rescue teams are finding more bodice as they reach isolated areas. survivors say the mud slides came out of nowhere. >> translator: i was walking down the street near a store when i heard a loud noise and i just stood there. i saw how the dirt and dust began to billow up. it was like black smoke. when i saw that it was coming down to the field, i started running. >> reporter: the government is appealing to mexicans to help out. food banks have been set up across the country. we're here in the heart of mexico city and more than 30 tons of food and other goods have been collected, things that have been donated by individuals and companies, and volunteers are sorting these things so

david mercer has more from southern mexico. >> reporter: thousands of people are finally able to escape from the disaster zone. this critical highway has been closed for near lay week to a collapsed tunnel and it's just opened. this is a huge relief to people who have been trapped in flood-ra*flood-ravageed alcupco. >> we spent three days under a bridge. we couldn't get out. the good thing is we are going back home to see our relative whose are very worried about pups. >> reporter: more than 40,000 tour sr*eus relied on government and civilian aircraft to fly them out. many have waited in lines for days where heat and frustration have caused tensions to rise. with the around 20 to 30,000 vehicles expected to travel out on the high way on friday, the government expects this to release pressure. as these people slowly start to make their way home, more than 35,000 others have no homes return to. and it's these people hope that the government having opened up this road will now be able to refocus the relief effort on them. >>> the ice levels in the arctic are considerably higher than lasti

. >> there was david mercer in mexico city. >> an un report to be released later today is expected to confirm that chemical weapons were accused in syria. it -- were used in syria. it will not place blame. un inspectors prepared the report on the attack outside of syria's capital. the obama administration blames syria's president bashar al-assad, but he denies responsibility for the attack. the u.n. secretary-general will share the report with un member nations in a closed-door session. the relief of the findings comes two days after russia and the u.s. agreed upon a framework for the emoval of syria's chemical weapons. the next step to remove the chemical weapons is an un security council meeting. that will be discussed with british and french counterparts. here at home the agreement is not sitting well with everyone. jean reserve has that part of the story. >> president obama appearing on abc is this week says a remarkable distance has been travelled in a short period of time to prevent a use of chemical weapons in syria. he acknowledges we are not there yet. the president says russ

david mercer al jazeera, acapulco, mexico. >> fewer than 6,000 people in the hardest hit colorado counties of larimer and boulder have fled. more than 7200 business he have been damaged or destroyed. residents have cleaned up searching for their mud soaked belong is to see if anything can be saved. meteorologist nicole mitchell. >> what we're seeing in acapulco has caused problems all the way along the mexican coast. this x is where it originally made landfall so that was kind of the time frame when it was causing the problems in acapulco. similar time frame we had another storm moving in from the east coast and that was that squeeze play that caused all the flooding in the mountainous terrain you remember us talking about earlier in the week. manuel has continued up the coastline by mazatlan, it is stationary and will dump rain. it is a hurricane over land and lose some of that intensity and diminish. moisture plume into texas anything will be beneficial because of the drought conditions there. but while we're watching all of this we also have another little disturbance. you can see this

. >> david mercer has more. >> cases of torrential rain poured down in mexico leaving a trail of destruction on the pacific side tropical storm manuel unleashed two months worth of rain in a couple of days. up to 11 were killed when a building collapsed and a landslide landed on top of them. there has been scenes in which up to 2 metres of water has been left on the streets, massive flooding. the storm is decreasing on the other side of mexico, over on the gulf coast, hurricane ingrid is expected to make landfall early monday morning. now, the authorities evacuated about 6,000 people, but already the rivers there are overflowing. a couple of people have been killed when they were pulled down stream by fast-moving water, and with half a metre of rain expected to fall in the next few days in this region. it's imagined there'll be more casualties to come. >> seven people are thought to have died in severe flooding in colorado. emergency workers have tried to evacuate people from some of the 14 counties. tamara banks reports. >> today is no ordinary sunday for this wane weary congregation. timbe

david mercer, aljazeera, mexico city. >> in asia, the most powerful storm on the planet is churning toward the south china sea on track to pass between the philippines and taiwan friday and then head for hong kong. the massive storm is 680 miles wide and packing 127 miles an hour winds. it's caused flooding and torrential rain in northern japan. we are joined live now from hong kong by craig leeson. is hong kong prepared for this? >> in the philippines, they are beginning preparations, stock paying food, moving people out of villages that are quite exposed in the northern part of the island. in taiwan, they are issuing travel alerts and in china, they're issuing maritime alerts. the problem we have is that today is the mid autumn festival, a traditional holiday where people go away from the long weekend, from hong kong to china and visit relatives in taiwan. this is expected to hit hong kong on sunday, disrupting travel plans. >> i have lived in hong kong. there are tall buildings there, it's a relatively small island. are the buildings there built to withstand that type of storm? >> they

david mercer, al jazerra, mexico city. >> a typhoon is bearing down on taiwan. officials issued warnings think it's expected to make landfall on saturday with winds of up to 175-kilometers an hour. ♪ ♪ >> now we are hearing that at least 20 people have been killed in an attack at a military camp in yep en. al qaeda and the a rape i don't know peninsula expected to be behind the two car bombs, it happened in the south. information is coming in and we'll bring you the latest when we get it. syria now where the deputy prime minister says the civil war has reached a stale made. he told the guardian newspaper in the u.k. that neither the government or opposition are currently capable of winning the conflict. he also called to an end of external helps if they agree to stop. battling the free syrian army for control of a borden town have agreed to immediate ceasefire and the fire led turk toy shutdown the crossing with syria. here is more. >> reporter: one of the oldest and most established free syrian army brigades in nort northern a the only one large enough to attem

david mercer has more. >> reporter: while it might look like a perfect holiday destination, but hereulco one of mexico's premier tourist destinations, people are desperate to get out. more than 40,000 people have been trapped here for the past three days. while major storms have dropped heavy rainfall and caused flooding and landslides in the area around here. now supplies are getting short, people are trying to get back. we are here at the military air base, and we've got military planes that are taking people out by the hundreds. they've got plans for one plane every hour, they have used the plane to his bring supplies in and now using the same plane to his get people out. people are desperate and want to get home. they want to get out of here. >> demands for modern art from africa is on the rice and nigerian artists are getting at tension. now a report on one artist helping to drive the popularity. >> reporter: she is one of the budding modern artists. her exhibition is called unmatched beauty. the paintings include diverse themes and not stereotypical images from africa. in this

. >> thank you, thanks, david mercer there in mexico city. we thank you, david. >>> still to come in this news in al jazeera. >> reporter: in the southern philippines we'll be meeting the youngest victims of the conflict of zamboanga. >> and israel approves a plan that could get thousands of palestinians into work, but some say the move isn't enough. >>> and in sport we'll tell i couldn't a winter world cup in qatar is looking ever more likely. >> time now to get some news from europe, and hundreds of people have gathered in greece for a funeral of a hip-hop artist killed by someone affiliated with the extremely gold dawn party. we report now from athens. >> reporter: 3the 34-year-old ws laid-to-rest. many came and shouting death to fascism. others singing the artist's lines. the neighborhood where the killing took place is tense, and the police on full alert for reprisals. heavily guarded and scattered throughout the area as reminders when anarchists and attack banks and pawn shops. residents of the neighborhood are still stunned at the killi

david mercer is here. >> we're on the sun highway between mexico city and acapulco, a major transit route. for nearly this past week this critical link has been shut down because of a tunnel collapse caused by torrential rains. they've just opened this road and we've just seen the first cars coming north escaping from acapulco disaster zone heading back towards mexico city or other destinations. what we've also seen in the past few hours is empty buses traveling south towards acapulco where they're going to be picking up people who have been stranded there for days and days and bringing them back north. now up until now the government has been trying to move people using both commercial and military flights. but they've been quite restricted on how many people they have been able to move and there is still a mass of people who need to make it out. and it's causing a lot of tension in acapulco just a few days ago we were there and we saw a very high tensions, we saw thousands of people waiting in line trying to get onto those military flights and those civilian flights. it's really hot, pe

david mercer, one of the first to make the journey, i would expect they're anxious to get supplies down there as quickly as possible in. that's right. we're on the sun highway, as it's called, and well, it doesn't look that dramatic necessarily right now, but about five, ten minutes ago there were a few waves of cars that passed through on their way from acapulco going north towards mexico city. so these would be some of the up to 60,000 tourists stranded in acapulco for nearly a week now. what happened here was a tunnel collapsed and the roads have been shut down. this is a major artery, a majority link for those down on holiday in acapulco. we've seen lots of buses traveling down towards acapulco. we've seen big trucks carrying relief goods. the idead with the buses, they can pick up people and bring them back to mexico where they can get to wherever their homes might be. up until now they've been having to fly people out which has been a difficult operation, and they've been able to take thousands of people out that way, but it's also a lot of people who haven't been able to get on t

david mercer has more. >> reporter: after leaving a path of destruction across southwestern mexico, tropicaltorm manuel has moved up the coast where it touched down early on thursday. and what -- what we have didn't -- what we have been told is there could be winds as high as 125 -- kilometers an hour. and that could lead to more flooding, we haven't seen that yet, but they are expecting rain for the next 24 to 48 hours. the state is on high alert, schools have been suspended in the state. meanwhile down towards southeastern mexico, on the southeastern gulf of mexico, there is a tropical depression that is hovering and could convert into a tropical storm. so there is a possibility that mexico could be hit from both sides yet again. there are rescue relief efforts underway. we're here in front of a center -- a center that is being set up in mexico city to gather food that is coming from private individuals as well as businesses. so far since last sunday, they have managed to collect 30 tons of food. and this food will be going out to the people who need it most, people in areas where they can

. >> i'm david mercer here on the streets of mexico city where thousands of people have come out to protest proposed government reform. >> and coming newspaper sports, she's done it again. serena williams wins the u.s. hope for a fifth time. >> and the southern philippines 220 people are being held hostage by muslim rebels. members of the national libation front are fighting with government troops. at least six people have been killed so far. the group wants to establish an autonomous region for muslims. >> exchanging fire with fighters from the liberation front. the battl civilians running forr but some are caught in the cross fire. >> i saw them roaming around and knocking at the door of my master's house. they got them inside and took them away. they want self rule for muslims. it's broken away from the liberation front which has been in talks with the philippine government. the mmlf felt left out. >> we want the conclusion of that. we want to establish our own government. not autonomous government but we want independent nation. >> a military spokesman said the fighting happened when ta

david mercer, aljazeera, acapulco, mexico. >> acapulco was struggling even before this latest weatherisaster. once considered a destination must for travelers, gang and drug related violence has taken its toll. 90% of visitors to the area now come from within mexico, often from mexico city. acapulco has a murder rate of 142 killings per 100,000 residents, 28 times higher than the u.s. average. mexico is still a top traveler spot, but cab bow san lucas and cancun are where tourists are flocking to these days. for more about the storms, let's bring in the meteorologist now. they cannot catch a break. >> we've had a 1-2 punch and could have a third on the way. i had someone just a few weeks ago ask me about traveling to mexico this time of year. you can get phenomenal deals, but have a chance of these tropical storms out there. late september and october the peak months for that. manuel is now a hurricane. wedding grid move on the east side just last week and we were dealing with that earlier in this week and we're also watching a disturbance right now. let's look at a couple of these ar

david mercer reports from mexico city. >> thousands of teachers have been gathering here in front of the public education ministry, since the early hours of this morning. and what is happening is that the government will be pushing through mandatory evaluations, for teachers, in an attempt to try to improve mexico's failing education system. the teachers here say they are not opposed to the evaluations but what has angers them is the lack of consultations. >> what they want is to get rid of the teacher whose have been fighting for public education for 15, 30 years. the government wants to privatetize education. many teachers have been camped out here for weeks now, and they say they are not going anywhere, dead spite the harsh conditions and the cold evenings they are not giving up, they are not stopping the fight, and in fact, there's major prots planned here in mexico city, and throughout the country. the city opera is millions of dollars in debt, and the local arts community is appealing for help. >> when new york city opera was launched 70 years ago, then mayor la guardia dubbed

david mercer, aljazeera, mexico city. >> now to asia where a super typhoon is barreling down on the philippinestaiwan and hong kong. one of the strongest storms of the year packing 127-mile an hour winds and torrential rains, the massive storm is 680 miles wide and has already caused major flooding in northern japan. we are joined live from hong kong. craig, what types of preparations are you seeing there? >> in the philippines, they're already making sure that village is stocking you on provisions, and getting out of the most exposed areas. last year, a typhoon hit the philippines and killed 1100 people. they get hit by about 20 typhoons a year, so very much are used to dealing with them, but it doesn't stop the damage that's caused. the philippines will be first hit. as the typhoon moves across the straight,ify was not will be hit. it's on track to slam into hong kong, where we are at the moment on sunday. if that happens, then it will cause a lot more damage in the southern parts of china in an area already severely damaged by tropical storms this year. >> all right. craig reporting live fro

. >> david mercer in mexico city, thank you very much. >> for more on ingrid and national forecast, weurn to nicole mitchell. >> part of what we're seeing is a squeeze play between the two tropical systems. you can see manuel with the flooding and the loss of life is now remnants of that system, but there's still moisture, it doesn't have any sort of a circulation associated with it anymore. then we have ingrid making landfall now. there's mountains in the middle in this part of mexico, so kind of like what we saw in colorado. when you get moisture heading up the mountain, the uplift can wring out even more moisture out of those storm clouds, so flooding is one of our biggest concerns, even landslides as these two systems continue to bring moisture to that portion of mexico. that's what we have going on here, the rest of the tropics pretty quiet except for a possible disturbance in the atlantic. the other system is close enough to south texas that we've had bands of rain coming this direction. most of that moisture stays to the south. you can see the rain going by here. heading north,

goldman sachs saying it, mercer saying it, donald trump atrump --richard trumka at the o saying it's creating part-time nation. record people are part-timers. >> davidrgan, here is where i will blame the president. past democratic presidents that followed policies that haven't worked changed the policies like bill clinton, for example. bill clinton, the first couple of years, it wasn't working. then he started working workinga not a moderate, newt gingrich. republican newt gingrich led congress with a democratic presidency, bill clinton. got real reform. for example, welfare reform. >> yeah, he should take a look at that. look at the polls. we have seen the demographics, the popularity has gone down in the last couple of months. in large part, the policies haven't been working. to more precise. we haven't seen a lot of policies. to rick's point a lot of that is congress is striking stuff down. one of the policies that president obama was looking to push through was an infrastructure bill. and that would have created construction jobs. when you look at the most vulnerable demographics of the american workers it's the folks that lost their constructio