massive damage but ortiz fear it will bring to wrench will rain and severe flooding a reporter maya schwager caught up with some people in virginia one of the states likely to be hardest hit many there are making final preparations for the onslaught . how to survive a hurricane get some sand put it in a bag repeat back all of those bags to your car to be stacked around your house gather the rest of your supplies and hope for the best and this is how a community for paris for disaster two hundred ten tons of sand as well as flashlights extra batteries water and of course food hurricane situation is always unpredictable but for now the city remains calm. this is not their first hurricane . virginians have learned from storms past not to take the reported changes in florence's course or the weakening of her wins for granted. don't seem too bad but i've also heard that it could stall with that in mind i think for us it was best to go and prepare it sandbags ready and all that the community seems pretty worried we saw what happened with matthew where it went a little farther north than they predi

maya schwager asked a gathering of trump supporters what they thought of the book and its author. the trump international hotel is an island of refuge for this meeting of trump supporters in the otherwise extremely democratic lucey of washington d.c. people here can bask in their mutual love of the president and ignore negative media like say a certain book by a certain legendary journalist as bob woodward's book hits the shelves it's already created waves among the president's detractors but for trump supporters this is simply a more negative media coverage and the other day of fake news for a president that they still very staunchly support it's a left wing attack getting ready for the elections to try to energize that side of the populous there's been so many books out but that's not going to step down from supporters we're very loyal to him because at the end of the day you know what we get if we don't get down on track we get that feeling snowflake ness he's not your average politician he's trying to fix things he's coming in from the outside and the establishment does not li

you know because maya schwager there reporting from virginia beach well did this is d.w. news still to come a new defense for endangered species these lion cubs are proof that it is possible . now crossing in no man's land just to get to school this is a daily reality for some peoples an eastern ukraine the armed conflict between government troops and russian backed separatists in the region has left a fortified front line in ukraine's east dividing communities and leaving many areas from their surroundings. calmly went to the front line village from need to meet the children who face mortal danger trying to get an education. and know the morning and they know the trip to school without any shots being fired. reason enough for people here to be thankful. for now the so called school ceasefire seems to be holding after leaving home on the separatist health side these people have passed through no man's land before crossing a narrow bridge and showing their passports. we're not allowed to film the moment the children and their parents cross the bridge or ukrainian military

maya schwager in a little bit city north carolina maya thank you very much. you're watching news still to come with the syrian government intent on retaking the country's last rebel stronghold there are fears of a looming humanitarian catastrophe in the province of italy will ask the head of the red cross what can be done to help civilians caught in the war zone. by first warnings from the head of the european central bank today ben you have more on that ten years on from the global financial crisis the e.c.b. chief mario draghi says there's no room for complacency calling for strong regulation to avert another financial crisis the bank is trimmed its growth forecast today while announcing it's set to wind back economic stimulus from october on words the monthly purchases of government bonds are going to be cut in half to fifteen billion euros these purchases are executed to keep troubled european economies afloat but the e.c.b. did leave its key interest rate untouched at an all time low of zero percent. and joins us now from frankfurt our financial correspo

has maya schwager is on the ground porous in elizabeth city on the north carolina coast and joins us now by a first of all what's the situation there right now. well as you can see we're being battered by very strong winds terry but the winds are really not the big concern here at least not the biggest concern the biggest concern is going to be the rain but we're in an area of the state that has not seen its share of rain yet that has mostly happened further south of us in north carolina and in parts of south carolina where according to one workers estimate they're expecting about eight months worth of rain in about one to maybe three days there's already been reports of around two hundred people having to be rescued out of housing cars that were flooded and as you said hundreds of thousands of people without power now up here in the northern part of the state things are a little bit calmer there are people who are sort of walking around in defiance of the hurricane some shops that are boarded up but still open and people simply just trying to go about their day as if this hurricane