. >> irma alan passed away two years ago. her dad wa death was difficult h to cope with but it was more difficult when she couldn't be laid to rest with their father. >> it was devastating. we had a lot of friends and family help us get through this. it wasn't easy. >> irma and william allen paid in full for a double kreft at the river edge memorial center. william was interred there ten years ago but his wife irma still isn't with him. >> to this day rivers edge hasn't returned our phone calls. rivers edge claimed they didn't receive the messages. >> nydia, this is too much. it's too much for everybody. it's hard on heart. >> after irma alan was temporarily buried the owner sent condolences and heartfelt apologies explaining the phone must not be working properly. i would offer to the family we would be glad to take the mother and place her with their father at no charge to them. after weeks of negotiating, irma alan had not been transferred to her final resting place. the alan children then sued for the cost of a temporary

we had a lot of friends and family help us get through this and it wasn't easy. >> reporter: irma andallen paid in full for double crypt at river's edge memorial center. william allen was buried there american 10 years ago but his wife irma still isn't with him >> to this day they have in the return any of our communications or phone calls. >> reporter: irma allen had to be temporarily buried at this cemetery after river edge claimed it didn't receive the family's messages. >> it is just too much. just too much. too much for everybody. it is hard on the heart. >> reporter: after irma allen had been temporarily buried the owner of the river edge memorial center sent condolences and heartfelt apologies explaining the phone must not be working properly. would i offer to the family that we will be glad to take their mother and place her with their father in the abby that they own. i would also offer to do that at no charge to them. but after a week of negotiating irma allen still had not been transferred to her final resting place. >> it is hard. it was utterly horrible. >> reporter: alle

[applause] ... >> just we thought we got there irma, marie was quickly approaching puerto rico. we were spared and are americans in puerto rico were devastated. like many of you in the room, i've been focusing on helping puerto rico recover and rebuild. have had the opportunity to visit twice since the storm. i felt firsthand the devastation on the island. i've tried to help the people puerto rico anyway i could. we have had hundreds of thousands of puerto ricans come to florida sense maria. my goal is for us to be most welcoming place for those displaced by hurricane maria. [applause] [applause] we have set up to help americans get connected to services. we made it easier for them to get enrolled in our schools, we remove barriers for professional licenses so they can get to work in our state. there's more we can do to help puerto rico and everyone impacted. patient proposing $12 million in funding to establish the english language learners academy. focus on reading apartments and making sure students to space bar hurricane maria have access to important learning programs. ask

we had irma, hurricane irma, which -- i don't know if any of you have been through -- it's a different kind of natural disaster, earthquakes happen. with hurricanes the news media have an opportunity to make you crazy, and it starts -- usually a couple of weeks before the hurricane bees there, shovel you the blob on the radar, and they are basically giving you two messages. they cover the -- in south florida-you wouldn't believe how intense the coverage is. basically two messages one is don't panic, two you're probably going to die. they're telling you, do things, take in all the objects out of your yard. we bring in disgusting objects out of or yard because they tell you that the hurricane winds can turn any object in your yard into a deadly missile. i've always wondered what would happen if you left a deadly miss until your yard. would the turk turn it into a harmless object? somebody should conduct an experiment to find that out. anyway, the real craziness gets going a few days before, maybe a week or less before, when after you have been watching these people on the tv, tell you ho

she was a member of the school rotc and helped rebuild lives after hurricane irma. aaron feis. the 37-year-old assistant football coach used his body to shield students from gunfire. a colleague says, quote, he died the same way he lived. he put himself second. joaquin oliver was 17. a family friend describes him as good hearted kid who loved his family and being around other people. 14-year-old alyssa alhadeff was a soccer star. her mother lori demanding action on gun violence. >> the gunman, crazy person, just walks into the school and knocks down the window of my child's door and starts shooting. shooting her. and killing her. president trump, you say what can you do! you can stop the guns from getting into these children's hands! this is not fair to our families. our children go to school and have to get killed! i spent the last two hours putting the burial arrangements for my daughter's funeral. she is 14. president trump, please do something! >> passionate mom. luke hoyer was 15. he loved basketball and mac and cheese. his cousin said he was always happy and smiling. 35-y

here we are 135, 36 days and you counts from maria, but we had irma before this and 35% of our peoplectricity. our children are going to school only part-time. about half a million homes are totally disrupted and either need to be rebuilt completely or need to have their roofs completely on top of them which means they lost everything inside. president trump speaks out of both sides of his mouth. on the one hand hes says he was to help puerto rico and on the other hand he imposed with his tax reform a 25% income tax on every good and service that comes from puerto rico into the united states. and he says we will be with you for the long run, and on the other hand, the fda, the fis tr to convince companies to leave puerto rico and go back to the united states. on the one hand he says he cares and came here and threw paper towels at us and on the other hand, he doesn't provide his administration with a clear set of goals to help puerto rico. yesterday fema said mission accomplished. ve accomplished.t mission they certainly they haven't accomplished the mission of doing what they are sup

. >> hey, irma ' so happy for every single one of you coaches, players, mr.the organization, for everything you guys have put yourselves through. from day 1ota's to the injuries, battling through the adverse at this this season, guys, i can't tell you how happy i am. i really am. you're world champions, man. >> can't hear it enough today. what a moment for coach peterson and the rest of your super bowl champions, the philadelphia eagles. >>> up next: looking at performances at the super bowl , including pink's rendition of the national anthem. >> justin timberlake's half time show. wasn't a lit with everyone, find out why some people were unhappy >> i got to tell you the performances during super bowl 512 were spot-on lan night. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> justin timberlake wowed the crowd during the super bowl half time show. the singer got the crowd up and dancing to some of his most popular songs including can't stop the feeling. my love. suit anti. also paid tribute to the late music icon prince born in minneapolis, not everybody, how much, was pleased with th

we had hurricane irma here in september. governor scott was on the phone every day with the mayors and with local elected officials. he was there to help. i will take him at his word. he said it on the record. what we need right now is the resources to be able to help this community recover. what all those resources are going to be going forward i don't have the specifics. we will have a long list. >> you are, indeed. >> we will take advantage of what is offered to us. >> the nation is behind you. our hearts go out to you. thank you, mayor, for being here this morning. the mayor tells me school is closed today. they are not sure when it will reopen. it may next week. it in fact may not. all of the victims from the mass shooting have been identified. a teacher and athletic director. a football coach and 14 teenagers with their entire lives ahead of them. 16-year-old carmen schentrup. a semifinalist for 2018 national merit scholarship. nicholas dworet. a 17-year-old senior. headed to the university of indianapolis on a diving

credit if anybody saw the news or watched what happened with hurricane harvey especially, but also irma and some others, they came together after katrina, seeing, you know, the problem, the hole there. and i love the name the cajun navy, but they came to houston for harvey and zello was first used because they have some attention and they've used, over multiple incidents, they've learned that zello works great. if you can help get on zello and if you need help get on zello. there were thousands and thousands of people who came from texas and nearby with trucks and boats and chain saws and fuel. as they're on the highway driving. they're finding zello channels and finding these dispatchers that emerged kind of bottom up sending them to the right places and as people are needing help, they're getting on zello channels and getting help. and it was exciting. zello was the communication tool for thousands of volunteers in the management efforts that they brought to bear that was so effective. >> so is this an example of the internet and new technology undercutting or supplementing the tradit

. >>> nearly five months after hurricanes irma and >> reporter: despite the devastation on the ground a sense of optimism from those who made it through irma and maria. >> we are frustrated but at the same time frustration becomes your source of energy to keep moving forward. >> reporter: this afternoon, an intimate gathering at the silicon valley community forum from mountain view. >> they are living with friends, with families and in some occasion, in a little room live six or seven persons. >> reporter: the foundation hopes to raise $3 million to help with the production and installation of solar powered generators. calling it a worthy project. >> it is fast. it helps an immediate need. but think about the people right now who have no access to medical care. this will help them. >> reporter: officials say 80% of the power was damaged. >> we are survivors. because the devastation of hurricane maria and the aftermath of hurricane maria was really painful. >> reporter: these visitors making a plea on behalf of the puerto rico people. in san jose chris nguyen abc7 news. >>> now we want

ground in puerto rico, a sense of optimism from those who made it through irma and maria. >> we arerustrated but at the same time frustration becomes your source of energy to keep moving forward. >> reporter: this afternoon, an intimate gathering at the silicon valley community forum from mountain view. >> they are living with friends, with families and in some occasion, in a little room live six or seven persons. >> reporter: the foundation hopes to raise $3 million to help with the production and installation of solar powered generators. calling it a worthy project. >> it is fast. it helps an immediate need. but think about the people right now who have no access to medical care. this will help them. >> reporter: officials say 80% of the power was damaged. >> we are survivors. because the devastation of hurricane maria and the aftermath of hurricane maria was really painful. >> reporter: these visitors making a plea on behalf of the puerto rico people. in san jose chris nguyen abc7 news. >>> now we want to share a warning from san jose police today about a video being sent by face

. >> irma ramÍrez lleva mÁs de 20 aÑos vendiendo flores y regalos para el dÍa de san valentin en la costanki. >> ink inki. >> ella cree que por los recientes operativos varios evitarÁn las calles, asÍ que durante esto tambiÉn se hablaba mucho de las redadas mi. >> una caÍda muy fuerte, muy fuerte, esperamos >> >> otra preocupaciÓn. >> vayan y hagan esto, hay que. >> >> >> fueron 42. >> tienes que ocupar un permiso, porque estÁ listo para, para los negocios que ya. >> esta tarde a las seis, sepa cuÁl sera sdinl de decenas de personas enes >> >> y cuÁl serÍa el pro. >> sdprrmg es. >> nuestra compaÑera investigÓ >> en. >> se ha debatido mucho un programa, especialmente con >> inicio de la construcciÓn del muro fronterizo en el calle de texas. >> >> >> >> >> la construcciÓn del muro fronterizo del presidente. >> esto el caso del seÑor juan que >> >> don juan, profesor retirado ha vivido en su rancho por 30 aÑos, su propiedad se extiende al rÍo bravo, todo parece indicar que pronto ten que venÍan de parte de. >> me que usteds en que el gobierno no iba a, tambiÉn recibieron cartas de expropiaci

it's been five months since hurricane irma hit florida. it's been four months since maria hit puerto rico and irma hit puerto rico as well. and, of course, before the florida hurricane of irma, you had all the problem of the flooding with another hurricane in texas and then later on the wildfires in california, and so i'm happy to finally be able to say that we have a path forward now on a disaster aid bill for all of these natural disasters. now, i can't count on the fingers of both hands how many times i've been out here and i could say the same of the letters and speeches that senator rubio and i have bothdes disaster aid and the need for it. and, finally, we are seeing some light at the end of the tunnel that there's a good possibility that this is going to happen in the senate within the next two days because the problem is that american citizens have been living without power, schools and businesses are closed, and this is in puerto rico, and the federal government has been dragging its feet to help them. people have been waiting and

including major hurricanes harvey, maria and irma. we are joined by deputy secretary of homeland security elaine duke and other mayors. we are here to talk about recovery after major disasters and their challenges. certainly mayor landrieu has insight and opinions on this issue as disaster recovery and resiliency has been a major focus on his tenure as lieutenant governor of the state of louisiana and mayor of new orleans. i can tell you as former head of the louisiana recovery authority which led recovery from catchy -- can shape our cities and our states in profound ways from the strength of residents who rise up to rebuild to the struggle of navigating a complex federal recovery system. which can challenge us all in difficult times. but we respond. we as leaders and you as mayors provide the leadership to work through those issues. there are short-term and long-term challenges and they can get -- create some of the most complex functional and political issues that you can imagine. after a response and recovery. so let's start a dis

had your natural disasters out here inin california but we had a roh working season we had hurricane irma which i don't know if any of you have been through but it's a different kind of natural disaster. the earthquakes, and ape half ad hurricanes the news media have it opportunity to make you cra crazy. it starts usually a couple ofn weeks before the hurricane get there they show you the bomb on the radar and basically they give you two messages. the cover in south florida you would not believe how intense the coverages. basically, two messages. one is don't panic, too, you probably willel die. and they tell you to do things and take the objects out of your yard and we bring in and discuss the objects out of our yard because they tell you that the hurricane winds can turn any object into your yard into a deadly missile. i've always wondered what would happen if you left the deadly missile inn your yard. with the hurricane turn it into a harmless object? someone should conduct an experiment to point it out. anyway, the real craziness gets going a few days for maybe a week or a little befo

we had the longest stretch of wind with hurricane irma. hurricane maria brought utter devastation, the longest blackout in american history. a third of the island, fellow americans, still without power now. then, we have the deadliest wildfire in california history killing 32 people in napa and -- 42 people in napa and sonoma. then, we have the largest wildfire in california history, and it happened in december, two months after when wildfire season was supposed to end because we have changed the world. because we are breaking it. in january, epic rains fell on the land made baron by those fires, in the mudslides killed 25 people. it is a different world. >> i didn't know we were supposed to be depressing people. if that is the case, then i can do better than that. [laughter] [applause] >> yes, and a few boos, but the reality is that he has the power right now. he is using that power or the -- for the fossil fuel industry and big oil and gas and coal. he is using that power to damage our communities. but here is a chart of new solar instal

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millones de fondos para el programa para subsidiar la recuperaciÓn de viviendas por los huracanes irmapara el manejo de emergencia, fema. la ciudad corazÓn en repÚblica dominicana no durmiÓ a noche con la celebraciÓn de los aguiluchos que se concibe trabajan en distintos puntopuntos puntos. >> la alegrÍa y el fervor se podÍa sentir en cada esquina de la [gritos] ♪ >> aquÍ estamos, skwcelebrando triunfo de las Á ♪ [gritos] tambiÉn en sectores populares de esta ciudad de san ti san tÍos logo fanÁticos aguiluchos se manifestaban de distinta manera. >> les metimos el bate. esa es la que hay. ay! se la va a pizarra. [gritos] reportero: desde muy temprano el a rea monumental las personas que disfrutaban de cada jugada. >> en la lucha las Águilas volaron alto, alto, alto. [gritos] y se fueron, Águila campeÓn. las celebraciÓn de los fanÁticos del equipo amarillo tambiÉn se han extendido a otros pueblos. como dice popularmente la leÑa estÁ aquÍ. es toda la informaciÓn, regresamos a los estudios. ilia: muchas gracias junior, vamos a hablar de las Águila, pero de philadelphia. la fiebre del sÚper

requesting the committee confirm the reappointment of irma lewis to seat two, the eastern neighborhood citizens advisory committee. miss lewis was appointed a few months ago by this body t serve out the remainder of a term and up for reappointment. miss lewis has been an active member of the dog patch community, working with our office on the cushioning process and in particular, advocating for green spaces. and toes and paws, for more dog friendly infrastructure in a growing neighborhood. supervisor cohen is grateful to miss lewis for continued involvement and asks for your support in that reappointment. >> supervisor safai: any questions from committee members? seeing none. so we'll just, i guess, before we do -- both at the same time before we do public comment? great. call up the second person, and who is actually here today, jolene yee. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is jolene yee, i brought my son and husband along, too, atlas and jeff. i am very excited for the opportunity to serve on the eastern encac. my background, i've been working the last 4 or 5 years advocating f

. >> after being battered by hurricane irma and maria, millions are without power. despite the hardships progress is being made. linda lopez traveled to the island with her act actress and singer jennifer lopez. >> reporter: in his state of the union address president trump said -- >> we are with you, 'love you and we'll pull through together. >> reporter: yet that same day, it was reported that fema would cut off emergency food and water to the island. when they were their four months after hurricane maria. traffic lights are down and some of the signs of people living without electricity and power and the basic necessities are not going to see them for a while. >> roughly a quarter of the island's residents are without electricity. hundreds of thousands of people. blue tarps covering thousands of homes. congress' newly disaster package is a portion to be shared by all areas. >> we have to battle texas who have a big delegation, florida, who has a big delegation, california, as well. many a-list stars passionate about bringing much. hamilton creator raising much ai

irma cree que esto le hubiera servido a su hija y sus nieto cuando se aventuraron en el difÍcil recorrido dÓnde se construye el muro fronterizo lugares con provisiones de agua, sombra natural y posibles kon ditas. fernando asegura no es tan buena idea, porque no es tan fÁcil traer un celular. >>> es inÚtil, es pÉrdida, lo pueden cachar a Él. lo pueden agarrar. >>> muchos consideran que la intenciÓn es buena, la aplicaciÓn puede ser un arma de dob doble fi lo para los que buscan llegar a estados unidos. >>> una aplicaciÓn no te puede ayuda, una serpiente cascabel una caÍda. >>> el desierto es impredecible. de repente llega un asaltante, ellos consiguen esta informaciÓn. los grupos del crimen organizado y utilizan la aplicaciÓn para encontrar al migrante que estÁ cruzando. >>> la aplicaciÓn estÁ en desarrollo, la polÉmica ya estÁ servida. >>> en los Ángeles, marÍa paula ochoa, noticias telemundo el flujo de guatemaltecos es uno de los mÁs alts en especial de menores de edad. que viajan solos. francisco cuevas con los detalles. >>> en el mes de enero el nÚmero de arrestos de 36 mil inmigrant

ayuda a los damnificados despuÉs de la tormenta "irma".aÑos que hizo declaraciones a una publicaciÓn. era un niÑo que estaba en su primer aÑo en la escuela marjory stoneman douglas. todavÍa no tenía idea quÉ querÍa hacer con su vida. segÚn su familia, ahora lamentan que nunca van a saber quÉ pudo haber sido de su vida. estos servicios fÚnebres comenzaron el viernes. ha sido una maratÓn de velorio si funerales en esa comunidad tan adolorida. despuÉs estaremos en el los diferentes erarios y los mantendremos al tanto de lo que estÁ aconteciendo aquÍ, en el condado de broward. estamos en coral springs, cerca deparkland donde ocurriÓ el tiroteo.. javier: muchÍsimas gracias. claramente nuestro sentido pÉsame a las familias y a la gente que perdiÓ a alguien een esa tragedia. aylen: la verdad es que te rompe el corazÓn ver estÁis imÁgenes. a todos los padres y los compaÑerosque estÁ llorando, se acercaron para llevar algunas flores, tarjetas o dar un abrazo. sus momentos dolorosos para las personas que forman parte de esta escuela y para los que l

una joven que le gustaba hacerservicio comunitario, aparentemente fue voluntad despuÉs del huracÁn irmas estos de la tormenta. entras tanto, a quien estos momentos parece ya estar terminando el servicio fÚnebre para el joven luke fawyer el niÑo de 15 aÑos de edad que hizo declaraciones a una publicaciÓn. era un niÑo que estaba en su primer aÑo en la secundaria y todavÍa no tenÍa idea quÉ querÍa hacer con su vida. pero segÚn su familia,ahora lamentan que nunca van a saber quÉ pudo haber sido de su vida. estos servicios fÚnebres comenzaron el viernes, ha sido un maratÓn de velorio se podrÁ le aquÍ en esta comunidad tan aturdida. maÑana tambiÉn continÚa todo con una de las Últimas hispanas de este tiroteoy nosotros estaremos en todos estos lugares y les mantendremos al tanto de todo lo que estÁ aconteciendo aquÍ en el condado de broward, estamos en vivo en la ciudad de fort springs. regresÓ ahora con ustedes. javier: patricia, muchÍsimas gracias. tambiÉn otro mÁs sentido pÉsame a todas las familias de toda la gente que de una otra manera perdiÓ gente en esta tragedia. presentadora: la verd

unfortunately, due to the damage from hurricane irma, the cemetery was damaged and the installation of his head stone had to be put on hold. thanks largely in part to the volunteers who cleaned up and led the recovery after the storm, i'm pleased to share that first class john william little will finally be receiving the recognition he deserves as his families and members of the community come together with the homestead air force base honor guard to place a proper head stone on his grave later today. little was part of what we call the greatest generation, and the name is rightly deserved. at a time when human dignity and basic freedoms were under attack, he and millions like him put their lives on hold to ensure our way of life would be protected for generations to come. . the way of life we enjoy and the continued existence of our government institutions are because of the sacrifices made by men and women like private first class little. i'm proud of my staff's hard work to secure this recognition or one of our fallen heroes. and to honor him in person today, but i look forward to v

and medical surge capacity was highlighted during this hurricane season, after hurricanes harvey, irma and maria. we led federal medical and public health response and recovery activities under the framework, working closely with fema with hhs disaster medical assistance teams as well as va and d.o.d. assets. we learned from these disasters that aspr need to update incident command and deployable medical capabilities as well as enhance our support for the health care infrastructure across the country. as with medical countermeasures, the nation's health care delivery infrastructure is mostly a private sector enterprise that must be effectively engaged in proving readiness. to address the potential catastrophic medical consequences of the 21st century threats, we need a tiered regional system that's based on existing local health care coalitions and trauma centers that integrates all medical response capabilities, including federal assets, as well as emergency medical services, the front line of our response capabilities. we must expand specialty care, expertise and trauma, behavioral h

she volunteered at a church and helped victims of hurricane irma last year. luke hoyer played basketball. his cousin told the new york times he loved his mother and father with all his will power. 17-year-old juoquin oliver had just become a u.s. citizen. the father of a 14-year-old wrote this on facebook, hug to all, and hold your children tight. 17-year-old who just earned a scholarship to the university of minneapolis. he planned to compete on a swim team. and alyssa described by her mother as a creative writer. >> a crazy person, a gunman knocked down the window of my child's door and starts shooting her and killing her. president trump you say what can you do, you can stop the guns from getting into these children's hands. put metal detecters at every entrance to the school. what can you do? you can do a lot. this is not fair to our family that our children go to school and have to get killed. i just spent the last two hours putting the burial arrangements to my daughter's funeral who's 14. president trump please do something. do something, action! we ne

alaina petty helped victims of hurricane irma rebuild. nicholas dworet a student. scott beigel, athletic director, helped other students escape. >> he will be forever my hero. he saved my life. >> reporter: teenagers gunned down14 teenagers and three adults gunned down all being remembered. >> funeral services are being arranged. >>> powerful politicians from both sides of the aisle had different ideas about how to respond to the tragedy. >> let's try to do those things that can keep these powerful weapons out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them. and this young man is a classic case. >> we need to think less about taking sides and fighting each other politically and just pulling together. this house and the whole country stands with the parkland community. >> house minority leader nancy pelosi tweeted: we must act to end gun violence. meanwhile.. oakland unified school district will be holding an "active shooter training" later today.. for staff at cole elementary. it's been scheduled for months.. but the timi >> oakland unified school district will be h

and urban development says it's awarding the island $1.5 billion to help it recover from hurricanes irmaia. the money will be used as grants to support long term recovery of seriously damaged homes and businesses. officials said earlier this week that nearly half a million customers still remain without power on the island even now. >>> all right. lauren, so i'm telling you it has just been a nasty couple days. >> yeah. >> we can't see any sun. is it anywhere in our future. >> dreary. look out the window you're like should i go outside? no. >> no. >> skip it. again tomorrow things will be the same. the heaviest rain does arrive tonight into the first half of our sunday. but right now still have clouds in place. we are barely dry at the moment in center city philadelphia. 46 degrees with those northeasterly winds up around 9 miles per hour making it feel a more like 41 degrees. add that damp factor, yeah, just doesn't feel so great and it has been a wet february thus far. month to date precipitation, over 5-inches of water, in the about 3-inches above our average and we're going to add to

some four months after hurricane irma struck. tonight workers from delaware are getting ready to head from newark to puerto rico's hard-hit region there as tim furlong explains. they know they will have their work cut out for them. >> reporter: this right here, trucks and gear from ac electric, pepco and delmarva power on a barge headed south to puerto rico. these guys right here -- >> i enjoy helping everybody. i enjoy helping people. >> reporter: they are the local power workers who have volunteered to go south with that gear. they'll go deep into puerto rico helping people who still don't have power. a full five months after hurricane maria. this atlantic city electric employee here to help send off her co-workers on their way to help her family and so many others back on the island. >> so for them to go, it's -- we don't know how to say thank you anymore. >> reporter: the team will leave our area sunday and be in puerto rico for at least 30 days. they'll be deep in the jungle and getting the lights back on for very appreciati

entre ambos equipos programado para el pasado 9 de septiembre tuvo que ser cancelado debido al huracÁn irma esta vez dando lo mejor en un concurso de baile durante el juego de los rockets ante los mavericks. vaya que lo disfrutÓ todo el mundo. mÁs esta noche en contacto deportivo. ♪ presentador: asÍ nos vemos como pero regresamos maÑana en punto de las seis con mucha mÁs informaciÓn. a continuaciÓn llega el noticiero nacional. ahora ustedes estÁ muy bien informados. que tengan todos muy buenas noches. hasta maÑana, si dios quiere. ilia: muy buenas noches. ♪ pamela: gracias por la compaÑÍa y la confianza en el equipo de "primer impacto". patricia: bienvenidos, hoy es lunes 12 de febrero y estas son las principales noticias. los inmigrantes toma cada vez mayores riesgos para llegar a estados unidos y se juegan la vida. en mÉxico los rescatan hacinados. comenzÓ el debate migratorio en el senado. uno de los sindicatos de nueva york se declara santuario. comenzamos. ♪ locutor: este es su

although it has to be del old irma, it is trying to save its cast iron facade. >> thank you, trang, for that update. >> woman is recovering after she is shot in the drive by shooting in grays ferry. this happened last night on the 2700 block of reed street and grays ferry. police say the victim is a innocent bystander, was sit ting in her car when someone opened fire more than 20 shots were fired. the woman was hit in the arm. police are still searching for the gunman. >> police are loose looking for the manor on your screen who attacked a pregnant woman in the china town section. >> this happened saturday morning, outside of the dunkin donut at tenth and arch. investigators say the suspect hit the woman who is five month pregnant in the stomach. she told police the suspect asked her for $2, when told him she didn't have the money that's when he attack her. we're told the woman is okay. >> if you live in pennsylvanian plan to vote this year, chances cents are you may have been moved into a new congressional district without even leaving your home this is the old map, which the state sup

elena petty, junior rotc, helped after hurricane irma's devastation. peter wang, rotc member. peter pollack, future college student. helena ramsey, 17, champion in academics. and both the school marching band and orchestra. this was the 18th school shooting in the first 43 days of 2018. following this terrible tragedy, the surviving students have organized to take action and are demanding that their leggors -- legislators take on common sense gun reform. these students have organize and will lead the march for their lives here on march 4, 1:00 p.m. they've invited students to plan satellite marches and students here have answered that call. it's a show of support of the students here and throughout the university who have said, enough. their call to action for not one more seriously brings tears to my eyes. not one more child shot at school. not one more teacher, who has to make the choice to jump in front of a firing assault rifle to save the lives of their students. not one more family who has to wait for a text or a call that never comes. these students have said that they

alaina petty helped victims of hurricane irma rebuild. her family says she brought peace and joy to those that had lost everything. gina montalto volunteered as a friend for kids with special needs and was on the color guard squad. an instructor called her "the sweet soul ever." carmen schentrup was a semifinalist for a national merit scholarship. joaquin oliver from venezuela had just become a u.s. citizen. peter wang was shot holding a door open so others could flee. 14 teenagers in all, filled with promise. three adults were lost as well. geography teacher scott beigel, athletic director chris hixon, and football coach aaron feis all died trying to asset lives of their students. we remember everyone of them tonight. and 14 others were also injured in the attack. seven of them are still in the hospital. today, we got some new details of exactly how this attack unfolded yesterday, and manuel bojorquez is here with morthis. manny. >> reporter: well, jeff, this afternoon, the broward county sheriff told us nikolas cruz took an uber to the

. >> reporter: 14-year-old elena petty helped with the cleanup after hurricane irma. nicholas dwrks waret was looking forward to competing at the university of indianapolis. >> this is our school where they're there every day. it's unbelievable. >> reporter: promises of tomorrow gone sore so many teachers and children who gave their lives trying to protect their students. aaron fooeis. >> he laid down his life to help other people. >> reporter: a community just beginning to understand the loss and process the heartbreak. >> yesterday, my heart was broken. my home away from home was attacked brutally and tragically. >> i don't know what i do next. we are broken. >> reporter: broken but determined to heal together. a go fund me page set up yesterday has already raised a million dollars for victims and their families. and tonight here at the hospital, the last victim in critical condition has turned a corner and is improving. lester? >> yeah, no parent imagined sending their child to school and them not coming home. catie beck, thank you for that report. >>> we'll take a

so we saw with harvey and also irma and another example in puerto rico, and another one in mexico. now everybody has a radio. anyone with a mobile phone can download the app. it makes this possible, it is reliable and superfast. it is available to everybody. not only that, they don't have to be on site. what we saw was these dispatchers that emerged and put together within hours and amazingly effective process for who gets help, what is the structure like, what are the rules? these dispatchers didn't need to be in the tent. half of them were out of state. one of the best was in new jersey working from their bedroom on a mobile phone. it is this wonderful infrastructure that we can take advantage of that is going to happen bottom-up because people can get to it and want to help. mr. goodlatte: and that is not how most people are using it. it is something families are deploying so they can talk to maybe a parent or someone else living by themselves. there means of communicating with families. mr. moore: there's so many use cases in a really broad demographic of the kinds of people wh

it wasust with hurricane irma and things got bad, there was no gas. imagine something like maria.i just knew it. >> reporter: he was right. most of their town still has no power, and lines are down all over the rivera's property. their household just one of more than 1.1 million displacedr by hurricanea in puerto rico. many survivors chose to come to places like connecticut. the state has deep puerto rican roots, with waves of migration that date back to the 1940s. re in haford, connecticut's capitol, 34% of the population identifies as puerto rican. the federal emergency management agency has placed almost 4,000 families in hotels acro 41 states and puerto rico, 168 of them in connecticut. most of the displaced filed aiclaims with fema and areng to hear if they qualify for financial or other additional assistance. the rira's came to hartford with that money, isrl bought a car that cost $300, insurance, food, and warm cthing for the family. israel found a job as a machine operator at the window factory within days of arriving that pays about $365 a week. but it wasn't enough, and

we had the longest stretch of extreme winds, 185 miles per hour with hurricane irma. hurricane maria brought utter devastation, longest blackout in our history, a third of that island, our fellow americans, still without power now. then we had the deadliest wild fire in california history killing 42 people in napa and sonoma and we had the largest wild fire in california history, and it happened in december, two months after wild fire season is supposed to end, because we've changed the world. because we're breaking it. in january, epic rains fell on the land, made barren by those fires, and the mudslides killed 25 people. it's a different, different world. >> i didn't know that we were supposed to be depressing people. and if that's the case, then i could do better than that. >> now, now, yes, and a few boos, but the reality is that he has the power right now. and he's using that power for the fossil fuel industry and big oil and gas and coal, and he's using that power to damage our communities. but here's a chart. of new solar installations worldwide. and next to th

. >> 14-year-old alaina petty was a church volunteer who helped the victims of hurricane irma last year>> 15-year-old luke hoyer was described by his cousin as an amazing individual with a contagious smile. >> other students among the victims, 18-year-old meadow pollack, 17-year-old helena ramsey, 15-year-old peter wang, and