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the upsetter" by lee "scratch" perry. influential and pioneering reggae and dub producer and musician perry passed away sunday in west jamaicahe age of 85. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. hurricane ida, one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the united states, roared ashore sunday in southern louisiana in an area dominated by the oil industry that is also home to many native communities. e storm brought a seven foot storm surge, 150 mile-per-hour nds, and up to two feet of rain to the gulf coast. it was so powerful, it completely knocked out power to the city of new orleans and reversed the flow of the mississippi river. the category 4 storm hit on the same day hurricane katrina devastated the area 16 years earlier. it has been blamed for at least one death and more are expected. a system of dikes and levees that protects the new orleans region from rising waters is reportedly holding -- for now. much of it built since katrina. but still its underfunded and officials say they could be overwhelmed by a forecasted 20 inches of rain. louisiana's gulf coast is a major oil

. >> looks like right now the tropical storm has made it past haiti towards jamaica right now and going to continue to moves to the west and then next in its sights the yucatan peninsula. we'll see whether or not it's going to move into the gulf of mexico and affect the u.s. as we monitor that, we're also going to see our winds picking up for today and that increases our fire danger, especially in these areas where we see the red. well that indicates where we will have some of the highest wind gusts. the winds have shifted and we are even though right now getting some higher humidity and better air quality, we will be watching the fire conditions as we go into later this afternoon into this evening. we've been put on watch that p.s. could be going up for parts of the north bay. that means your power could be shut off within the next 24 hours. we'll be watching that. mike, you're tracking a crash in the north bay. >> i am. it sounds like a car went off the roadway, down into the ditch on the side. nothing dramatic but there was slowing as crews arrived on scene. there may be a lane blocked as they have to pull that from

this one as you can see was to the west of the country, but it was felt as far away as south florida. as well as in kingston, jamaicabout 80 miles west there. it's in a rural region. that's hard to get to right now because the roadways, average as we've been reporting over the weekend, are riddled with gang activity right now. we want to go ahead to our reporter there who is in cuba, nearby. ed augustin. and, what are you doing? i know yesterday when we talked you spoke with a friend who was in the capitol who is doing all right. but still did feel the tremors. they're more are we learning learning about the magnitude of the devastation? learning about the magnitude>> n havana. but in haiti the sun is now rising. that means that the rescue effort is going to be intensifying. lighting is a problem in haiti. the capital, port-au-prince, rescue efforts throughout the night so. today, we can expect that the rescue efforts to carry on. yesterday we saw professional rescue workers and even more citizens pulling friends, relatives, neighbors, people they don't know, out of the rubble. and that will continue today. meanwhil

jamaica. the u.s. geological survey says the epicenter was 70 miles west of port-au-prince. images from a coastal town of the south showed a church badly damaged, a crack running through the center. in a town not far from the epicenter amount rubble covers the streets. -- the epicenter, rubble covers the streets. the disaster follows last month's assassination of president jovenel moise. the declaring a state of emergency. government officials and representatives from the united nations are assessing the damage and usaid is deploying a team to haiti. president biden also naming usaid administrator samantha power to coordinate the effort. there are concerns haiti could face the same level of devastating destruction seen after an earthquake shattered the country 11 years ago, killing more than 200,000. >> the earthquake is larger than the earthquake in 2010, about two times more energetic. the impacts on human life and infrastructure will likely be devastating. >> now haiti faces the threat of another natural disaster as tropical storm grace heads toward the island. liz: abc 7

the u.s. right now, it's about 100 miles west of jamaica, tropical storm warnings are posted for western cuba.apidly intensify and rapidly move to the coast, potentially making landfall as a category 2 or 3 storm along the louisiana coast sunday afternoon. anybody from louisiana through mississippi needs to be prepared for this storm. david? >> all right, rob, thank you. >>> and when we come back here, the consumer alert, the salmonella outbreak across at least 17 states. what they're looking for. o seve, so the national eye institute did 20 years of clinical studies on a formula found in preservision. if it were my vision, i'd ask my doctor about preservision. it's the most studied eye vitamin brand. if it were my vision, i'd look into preservision preservision areds 2 contains the exact nutrient formula recommended by the nei to help reduce the risk of moderate to advanced amd progression. i have amd, it is my vision, so my plan includes preservision. is struggling to manage your type 2 diabetes knocking you out of your zone? lowering your a1c with once-weekly ozempic® can help you get back

the country saturday morning. b aerie aftershocks, tremors felt as far away as cuba and jamaica. a tsunami warning was issued but lifted a short time later. the epicenter was 78 miles west of port-au-prince. images from a coastal town in the south showed a church oddly damaged, a crack running through the center. major devastation also in another town, not far from the epicenter. this disaster on the heels of last month's assassination of the haitian president. the countries prime minister already declaring a state of emergency. government officials, relief agencies and you and representatives -- un representatives assessing the damage. president biden has named an administrative aid to coordinate relief. now, tropical storm grace is headed toward the island and there are concerns haiti could face the same level of devastation scene after an earthquake shattered the country 11 years ago, killing more than 200,000. dion: this country has been through so much. we spoke with the woman in the capital city of port-au-prince who felt the earthquake. it is about 100 miles from the epicenter and not hit as hard as other parts of the country, even so, the quake sent people runni

small i'll of use of the south west and end of the caribbean island nation. toppling trees and tearing roofs from buildings. it was also some flooding and landslides, in jamaica for cost to say, i do. will maitland fall in the u. s. is a dangerous category for hearken. generating winds of 225 kilometers an hour and dumping several feet of water on flood probably new orleans. it'll be the 9th named storm and force hurricane of the 2021 atlantic harkins season gillian wolf in our ports. the fierce winds batter cuban coast as the streets of the capital. havana light empty. hurricane ida hit the caribbean island south west toppling trees and tearing roofs off home where the strong winds have been weeping all over. it took a roof there. winds of nearly a 130 kilometers an hour forced people to take cover, but many felt relief saying it could have been worse. the category one hurricane is now heading for the united states, but expected to make landfall as a category for. we do have a major storm heading our way. we are activating every single resource at our disposal so that we are prepared to respond from mississippi to florida state are on high alert with the us

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the bay area. that will be under a red-flag warning later tonight. >> okay. latest on grace here. max. winds are about 50. so it's a tropical storm just west of jamaicaa beeline, as you can see to the yucatan peninsula. they have a hurricane warning that's been posted. it looks like a striking about the next 24 to 36 hour zone category one now when these systems go over land, they lose a lot of strength becomes a tropical storm. but over the bay up they have camp haiti middle come back again to a category one storm that water is real warm and tropical systems. love it. then over the topography of mexico. it's really going to shoot up a lot of the next thing you're going to hear about as a lot of flash flooding mudslides. all that business. the thing about the sometimes they can fortify the southwestern monsoon. this particular go around. hardly anything is going head out the pacific without incident. fire damage. we're talking about red flag warning the east bay hills up in the north bay as well. peninsula actually not impacted were still in those onshore. wind territory. but then they flip after about midnight offshore. they come and aloft will be q

the slaves who were brought from west africa to the americas was the caribbean. the greater caribbean. early on barbados was one of the great centers of the slave trade. jamaica would end up being one of the greatest. another for the french imperial system called sandemang or today's terms, haiti, the crown jewel of the french system. to the caribbean, almost 5 million people were shipped. almost 5 million. 4.2 million arrived alive. that's almost half. that's almost half the total. it is not an accident that this was the great center of sugar production. the sugar industry drove the slave trade for many many years. it was an especially brutal regime, as you know. the second most important destination was brazil. portuguese, brazil. also the home of a very lucrative plantation system. to brazil, roughly 3.5 were loaded on the ships and 3.2 million arrived. this is about 36% of the total, a little more than a third. so overwhelmingly, the caribbean and brazil are the two most important sites of the slave trade. if you're just keeping track of the numbers as i give them to you, you'll see these two areas account for the overwhelming majority of the slaves shipp

west of the heavily populated capital. the powerful quake rocked not only port-au-prince, it was also felt in cuba and jamaica.to pull people from the rubble and just bring them out to safety. here are a couple of kids saved. the latest death toll is more than 300 now, that's a number expected to grow and potentially9 into the tens of thousands. the largest haitian-american community in the u.s. is in partnership miami. >> those people are really poor. imagine crumbled houses with no parents or no family or no kids. i'm a survivor, so i know how they feel. i'm having chills. goose bumps right now. >> reporter: eleven years ago a 7.0 earthquake devastateed port-au-prince killing an estimated 300,000 people. the country has been rebuilding ever since. saturday's quake happened west of the capital, and that that's where most of the heavy damage is anticipated but with getting there is still a challenge. the u.s. geological survey said the only positive was that the energy from the earthquake went westward. special sunday services are being held for the victims and survivors today here in little haiti in miami as