the virgin islands is part -- i will be politically correct. i might say other things on a different stage. we are part of the united states so i did not grow up reading caribbean literature. jericho: you should say those things. tiphanie: we are colonized by the united states. we are a part of them but we are technically "of" the united states. you often do not read literature from the place you are from or experience cultural things from the place you are from. a lot of the learning comes from the place that owns you. i wrote -- i read incredible literature written predominantly by white american writers and white british writers. i did not see caribbean writers or black writers or black caribbean writers or african-american writers. i did not have them as my availability. i thought when i became a writer that i would be the first one. that is how ignorant i was. [laughter] i know, right? but that is colonialism. i felt a lot the whole time like i was constantly looking for who i would belong to and what literary tradition i might belong to.

virgin islands accuses jpmorgan of facilitating and financially benefitting from epstein's traffickingyears when he was a bank client. jpmorgan denies wrong doing. it says it cut ties to him in 2013 but this filing from monday, it challenges that timeline. keep in mind the bank conducted its own internal investigation mere months after he was arrested in 2019. the virgin islands is asked the judge to require jpmorgan to share all of its information and research that is tied to that specific company probe. so now we will see what happens over the next couple of days. chris? >> thank you for that. >>> that's going to do it for us this hour. join us for chris jansing reports every weekday from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. eastern. our coverage continues after the break. 0 p.m. eastern our coverage continues after the break. one aleve works all day so i can keep working my magic. just one aleve. 12 hours of uninterrupted pain relief. aleve. who do you take it for? this is american infrastructure, a prime target for cyberattacks. but the same ai-powered security that protects all of google also defend

virgin islands. family believed she was beaten to death, claiming photos taken after she died showed apparent injuries to her face and skull. police say her boyfriend found her on the floor of their home in the virgin islands in february. authorities standing by their findings. >>> baseball hall of famer david ortiz claims he's being extorted. he says hackers have gained access to an old cell phone he hasn't used in more than a decade and threatening to reveal personal details. he says they accessed his bank records and made fraudulent charges. ortiz says the fbi and authorities in the dominican republic are all investigating. >>> when we come back here tonight, several retalls this ev evening, from pickup trucks to eye drops to a trader joe's recall, in a moment. that's me before dawn powerwash. soaking, scrubbing...that's life. was life. now, powerwash gives me the power of an overnight soak in minutes. i'm sorry, minutes? with 3 cleaning boosters... not found in traditional dish soaps that help br

virgin islands alleges to the federal judge that jpmorgan chase handled more than $1 million of payments jeffery epstein to girls for settlements. the lawyers from the u.s. virgin island attorney general's office detailed more than 9,000 transactions paid out to epstein accounts from 2005 and 2019 tha were not disclosed in the mandated evidence window in the statement to cnbc, jpmorgan chase said, quote, there is no proof this is accurate >>> it is the end of the road for the new "x" sign atop the headquarters norformerly known twitter. it was removed days after it was installed. the san francisco department of building and inspections received many complaints about the safety and illumination. it was strobie -- strobing did not please the neighbors >> i don't know what is going on with that. the name shift is interesting. a developing story we will have to continue to watch bertha, thank you. >>> turning back to earnings as we kickoff the busy week of the season more than three dozen names set to report today. it is all about chips, drinks and tractors seema mody and kristina partsineve

we begin with delicate, stacey pulaski, from the virgin islands. a former house manager during the second impeachment trial of donald trump. thank you for joining -- or for being with us, congresswoman. let's start with the second impeachment of donald trump. held in the aftermath of january 6th. you and your democratic colleagues argued trump incited an insurrection. those proceedings, in many ways, laid the groundwork for what we saw this week. so, i wonder what your thoughts were when the indictment did come down. >> thank you so much for having me, reverend. thank you for asking that question. this is really a culmination of so many peoples works and so many efforts throughout many generations. correct, of people who are protecting this democracy. in the aftermath of january 6th, if you can recall, i'm sure, members of the democratic caucus sat in a room, and scribbled are the beginnings of the impeachment article against then president donald trump. it was the speaker, nancy pelosi's belief, that he should be tried immediately, while he was in

virgin islands get hit by hurricane maria, we saw other u.s. territories impacted by hurricanes. ced us to rethink island-readiness. hawaii is very strategic to the united states. we increased the response capabilities and logistical capabilities on the islands, specifically in the pacific. we wanted the ability of not having to ship things from the mainland 3600 miles away. we wanted the ability to mobilize our equipment and our assistance within a matter of hours to the neighboring islands if they were hit by hurricanes or volcanoes or whatever it might be. in retrospect in 2018, the decisions to enhance the capabilities have played out hopefully in a positive fashion for the fires we have seen in maui. >> we will leave it there for now. thanks indeed for joining us. >> thank you. >> let's go to the airport on maui now and speak to the bbc's north american correspondent. people are trying to get off the island. what is the scene like at the moment? >> you are absolutely right. we saw it ourselves. people dropping their hired cars off, heading to the airport. the advice from auth

virgin islands and escort passengers through u.s. ll of that indicating just how wired in to the local government and the federal government on the island epstein was at the height of his powers. back over to you >> so, i have a bunch of questions. the first one is what do these emails really show en i don't mean to -- i would never defend jeffrey epstein, but jpmorgan in this instance, but it is unclear to me if somebody sends you an email, and it says, hey, i want to introduce you to this person, and you're more -- polite about it or more than polite about it, say, sure i'll meet this person, she's a real person, not like she's some -- somebody you wouldn't have a meeting with, i'm just -- i understand -- i understand it shows there is a communication that is taking place, but, a, it looks like it is communication instigated by him, and, b, i'm not sure that i wouldn't accept the -- first of all, you can't not accept the communication, the email comes to you i'm not sure what some of these things say >> yeah. well, look, i think wha

the virgin islands is part -- i will be politically correct. might say other things on a different stage. we are part of the united states so i did not grow up reading caribbean literature. jericho: you should say those things. tiphanie: we are colonized by the united states. we are a part of them but we are technically "of" the united states. you often do not read literature from the place you are from or experience cultural things from the place you are from. a lot of the learning comes from the place that owns you. i wrote -- i read incredible literature written predominantly by white american writers and white british writers. i did not see caribbean writers or black writers or black caribbean writers or african-american writers. i did not have them as my availability. i thought when i became a writer that i would be the first one. that is how ignorant i was. [laughter] i know, right? but that is colonialism. i felt a lot the whole time like i was constantly looking for who i would belong to and what literary tradition i might belong to. i

not only did we see puerto rico and the us virgin islands get hit with hurricane maria, but we saw tinianerritories as well that were impacted by hurricane yutu, and it forced us to rethink island readiness. and as a result of that, hawaii's very strategic to the united states. and we increased the response capabilities and logistical capabilities on the islands, particularly in the pacific, including hawaii. and we wanted the ability of not having to ship things from the mainland 3,600 miles away or more. we wanted the ability to mobilise our equipment and our assistance within a matter of hours to the neighbouring islands as they were hit with hurricanes or volcanoes, whatever it may be. and so in retrospect, in 2018, those decisions to enhance the capability hopefully have played out in a positive fashion for the fires that we've seen here in maui. indeed. well, we'll leave it there for now. brock long, thanks indeed forjoining us. thank you. let's bring you some live pictures now — this is the line—up of cars to get back into the badly affected town of lahaina. for many, this wil be t

according to court filings these negotiations are ongoing in hong kong, canaanite and british virgin islandswe have reached out to evergrande that have not had conversation. to those who have wondered if they have ever thought of evergrande before it is china's huge property giant. they have about 1300 projects across 280 different cities in china and they invest in everything, not just property. they have an electric vehicle maker and a football club, but as i mentioned, 2021 was when we saw the company default on its debts, sending shockwaves across the global financial system and triggering a string of defaults from builders who owed money to evergrande or expected them to complete some contracts. we have seen 40% or the companies that make up 40% of china's housing sector defaults and as we understand it evergrande has about $300 billion in debt. it has lost $80 billion in the last two years and has even been in a trading halt since last year. indeed. and as we have been saying the property market very much in the focus in china right now. saw house prices dip for the first time since th

several people were hit by the bullets including fernando villavicencio, 59-year-old abilitity virgin islandsou see he gets in the back seat of the vehicle and at least 12 gunshots can be heard. many people are seen taking cover from the gunfire including his security detail. attorney general's office said at least nine people were injured in the attack including a candidate for the national assembly and two police officers. the current president guillermo lasso later said on social media that he is outraged and shocked. he called the attack an assassination and also september hisseptember -- sent his con dell lenses to his wife and daughters. and he says organized crime has come a long bayway but the full weight of the law will fall on them. in an interview back in may, villavicencio said drug traffickers had polluted the entire nation since at least 2007 and calling his own country a narco state run by the political mafia. the august 20th election will still go on as planned. back to you. >> rafael romo, thank you very much. >>> this morning sources tell cnn that fani willis is expected to

is arguing again that it is holding restructuring talks in places like hong kong, the british virgin islands, as well as the cayman islands and that should be recognize instead a restructuring hearing on september 20th. this move comes as evergrande's domestic unit has confirmed that it is under investigation by chinese authorities for a, quote, breach of disclosure rules. that unit didn't clarify much more, however, local media has been reporting that that could be suspected data manipulation and that adding further to the gloom, the mid-sized commercial developer, soho china which was once a target of black stone has said that its profits fell 93% in the first half of the year, due to the uncertainty, and it's a second half of the year to also be undermined by, they said, material uncertainty. >> yeah, eunice, uncertainty seems to be the word when it comes to the chinese property sector, and chinese equities in general right now. are there concerns we're going to see greater pushback from home buyers and chinese investors because of all of this uncertainty? >> yeah, we already have, as we

virgin islands. a document reveals that epstein's assistant emailed jpmorgan in february of 2019, many years after the bank had decided not to do business with epstein, and offered to introduce the bank to katherine rumler a former white house counsel to president barack obama. a spokesman for goldman sachs declined to comment today. a document shows a similar 2007 introduction by epstein to nick ribbus, a longtime donald trump casino executive a c a call to him was not answered this afternoon and a newly disclosed email shows that the former governor john de jong asked epstein for a loan of $215,000 i appreciate your willingness to help, he wrote to epstein. cnbc has not obtained a comment from him this afternoon. and an epstein employee was able to obtain a seal from the u.s. customs department that would allow him to access secure areas of the airport and escort passengers through u.s. customs and border protection, tyler so, getting a sense here of how this relationship on the island evolved, and

have a grand says it was restructuring talks under way in hong kong, reddish virgin islands, and caymanset for september 20th. the news of this filing had hit stock prices in asia. people were really concerned. so evergrande clarified to the hong kong exchange this is a technical move saying the application is normal procedure for the offshore debt restructuring and does not involve bankruptcy petition. there is a lot of concern and sensitivity right now but the real estate sector, and ever grant evergrande was hit by other news which is the optimistic property arm confirmed that chinese regulators are investigating it for what the call is a breach of disclosure rules and local media say suspected data manipulation. commercial sized development recently had been a target of reinvestment blackstone felt 93% in the first year due to uncertainty. and there has been a ton of op certainty these days. >> someday i would like to talk to you about all your anecdotal observations about things like that. we hear about empty buildings and stadiums, and everything else. and i know that you are not

all of which are unlike puerto rico, virgin islands, warm, and when all else fails, a am seems to be there to pick up the slack during a lot of these natural disasters. are any of us concerned that major owner manufacturers have started considering phasing out a and radio, some of the first course like we appreciate that, we encourage others to fall asleep. mr. chapman, when all else fails, how essential is a amaretto during a natural disaster? >> congressman, thank you, for the question. the central point in a large disaster depends on p e p, primary entry point stations. the majority or 75% are in radio stations. and again, it was the design of the system at that point in time which they continue to evolve today, and made essential for 8 am radio stations because of the things we already discussed to be part of that. in more recent times, what we are dealing with local alerts, it is only the a m stations that go into great detail. two quick examples. recently, and alexandria, which is just -- near indiana, twice in one month, we had what we believe was an active shooter in the scho

virgin islands. what will this be used for?ere thrilled when the inflation reduction act passed and it included about $500 billion for the bureau of land management to do restoration projects, climate related restoration projects. we were thrilled when we heard it finally came out yesterday. the money will go towards projects to go after invasive species like i was talking about with the joshua trees in southern california. it will go toward the ability should and the northern rockies, and the caller was from florida, are coral reefs in florida are warming up and we are losing them. the waters are too warm for them right now, and there are several projects going on right now to restore the coral reefs, so there are some areas that are being affected by climate change that can be restored, and we can get those ecosystems into a better place. so, this money will go towards some of those efforts within so many national parks. host: nelson in pembroke pines, florida. caller: good morning. can you hear me ok? host: yes, good morning

people who, you know, take advantage and park take advantage of that and park their money in the virgin islandsike that. i'm the labour i'm sure people in the labour party be very party wouldn't be very happy about all. no, about that at all. but no, i mean this is a huge problem and it's, you if there's 100 it's, you know, if there's 100 or 1000 odd people to the or 1000 odd people coming to the country illegally, you know, it wouldn't problem. they wouldn't be a big problem. they shouldn't do it. but it's now it's because there's hundreds of thousands communities can't cope because hotels because you're getting hotels filled up. you're getting staff in those hotels being kicked out of home office comes of jobs as the home office comes in takes them over. in and takes them over. and there's associated crime, i think people just go along with it . it. >> people are taking absolute liberties anyway. you are watching listening to gb watching and listening to gb news me, emily news sunday with me, emily carver. got lots more carver. we've got lots more coming up on today's show. but before get all

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the federal assistance will be significant withjoe biden seeing the islands will get everything they need to recover. virgincompleted its first space tourism flight from a site in the united states. for the first time, a mother and daughter headed to the edge of space. they won their tickets in a sweepstake. also on board was 80—year—old jon goodwin. he bought his ticket for 250,000 dollars back in 2005. the company has sold more than 800 tickets. we're joined now by nicole stott — an american engineer and a retired nasa astronaut. thank you for coming on the programme. thank you for coming on the programme-— thank you for coming on the programme. thank you for coming on the rouramme. ., , _ ., , thank you for coming on the rouramme. ., , programme. happy to be here with you toda . programme. happy to be here with you today. extraordinary _ programme. happy to be here with you today. extraordinary day _ programme. happy to be here with you today. extraordinary day for _ programme. happy to be here with you today. extraordinary day for those - today. extraordinary day for those three peeple _ today. extraord

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virgin galactic takes off. >>> good evening, everyone, thank you so much for joining us on this thursday, i'm linsey davis, in for david. we begin with the staggering losses on maui, as wildfires race across the island, with a speed and ferocity that took everyone by surprise. hundreds of homes and businesses destroyed. the death toll jumping overnight, and there are fears it could go even higher. nothing but a chimney left of this home. and new video from the first hours of the emergency, you can see buildings and shrubs catching fire, sparking flames. maui's famous front street reduced to embers and smoke. questions about if the island's beloved banyan tree survive. the satellite image from june, and this is what it looks like today. and at the already crowded airport, more buses arrive with tourists desperate to go home. tonight, we have team coverage across the island from maui's front street to hard-hit neighbors to the shelters and the airport. the weather forecast. and when the fire threat will end. abc's gio benitez leads us off from maui. >> reporter: neighborhoods in maui tonight in ruins. fire-ravaged communities reduced to rubble. embers still smoldering. those explosive fires claiming d

island to help with the response. for many people on maui, though, any response may well be too little, too late. richard galpin, bbc news. in the last half an hour, virgin*s first flight has taken off in mexico. the flight is expected to touch down in about an hour from expected to touch down in about an hourfrom now. john expected to touch down in about an hour from now. john goodwin expected to touch down in about an hourfrom now. john goodwin is a former limbic athlete with parkinson's, he is on board. the other two passengers are the first mother and daughter, is one of the first people from the caribbean, to head into space. we can bring you pictures from inside that craft. you can see them next to the windows, looking out. that is the view from inside the craft, as we expect the separation from the craft that has actually taken them, and the rocket park that takes them to the edge of space. i will put the sound up in case we can hear anything on board. there was a philanthropic fundraising sweepstakes. their mission was to send... irate fundraising sweepstakes. their mission was to send. . .- fundraising sweepstakes. their mission was to send... w

virgin gallactica takes tourism into the outer sphere. >>> and now, restaurants sneaking in service charges and how patrons are fighting back. >> we begin with breaking news. >>> the devastating wildfires with 36 people dead on the island of maui and that number is expected to rise. hundreds of buildings destroyed and other people evacuated with the town of lahaine and now showing charred buildings and homes across the town. >> these satellite images are what lahaine is what it looks like. the president spoke about the fires today. >> the prayers are with the people of hawaii, but not just the prayers, because every asset is going to be availabo them, and theusinesse h been destroyed and thet loved ones, and it is not over yet. >> there is a race to get people off of the plane, and now there a plan to fly stranded travelers off of the island. and now, in a moment, we will speak with two maui business owners, but first, we go to dana griffin outside at a shelter. >> we are at a large evacuation center in maui with 300 to 400 people sleft overnight, and many escaping the flames in lahaina and many telling me that their homes are destroyed and many are coming here with a positive attitude expressing gratitude for still be

island. thousands have been forced to evacuate as some fled into the ocean to escape the smoke and flames. >> and a virgintic pioneered rocket plane is due to fly from new mexico today, carrying an eight year old british olympian, along with an aberdeen student and her mum, into space. if all goes well, it will be the company's second commercial flight and the first to carry paying customers instead of trained astronauts . instead of trained astronauts. >> i'd love to go on that flight, wouldn't you? that's oh yeah, an absolute bucket list dream for you is a bucket list. >> i tell you what, i can't quite get my head around. is that mother and her daughter going up for two reasons. one is, after what we saw with the submarine and you sort of think families doing that sort of very risky thing together. but the other thing is the money. yeah, the money. well, i spoke to richard branson about these flights , oh, i don't know, 4 or flights, oh, i don't know, 4 or 5 years ago now. and they were then a quarter of £1 million each. yeah, that's a lot of money. so they forking out half £1 million to go up on that.

now, in previous summers, the bidens vacationed in south carolina, nantucket and the us virgin islandsre sign says the a's are moving to las vegas and the city of oakland cannot stop it. the city's lead negotiator in the howard terminal talks resigned from the position she had been in negotiations for the past four years. the a's paid the city $2 million a year for negotiating expenses, including her salary. but the team stopped the reimbursements in may when the a's announced it was only focused on relocating instead of staying rooted in oakland, companies known for building sports facilities, including san francisco's chase center, will help build the new a's ballpark in las vegas. the a's selected two companies, mortenson and mccarthy, to manage all the construction. mortenson worked on chase center. the two companies combined to build the las vegas raiders home. allegiant stadium plans call for a one and a half dollars million 30,000 seat ballpark at the current site of the tropicana right along the las vegas strip . it's projected to open in 2028. critics of pga are warning the ut