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live for us there in mexico city. while mexico mops up the philippines and taiwan are preparing for what could be the most powerful typhoon for them. it's a thousand kilometers wide and expected to hit land on saturday. pretty likely they say the course flash floods early next week. more than a thousand boats return to port along the coast, and coastal villages have been preparing. >>> we'll tell you why more and more people in india are relying on computers to get by. plus team new zealand put on hold. we have more on that. >> well, russia is threatening to bring criminal charge against greenpeace activists who shift its storm to the bering sea. >> the group was protesting against drilling in arctic wat waters. now russia accused greenpeace of, quote, aggressive and provocative behavior. and then they seized the arctic sunrise. russia said it was being towed to the nearest port, a journey of three or four days. but the ship is actually heading in the opposite direction. >> the protesters' attempt to bored the arctic
live for us there in mexico city. while mexico mops up the philippines and taiwan are preparing for what could be the most powerful typhoon for them. it's a thousand kilometers wide and expected to hit land on saturday. pretty likely they say the course flash floods early next week. more than a thousand boats return to port along the coast, and coastal villages have been preparing. >>> we'll tell you why more and more people in india are relying on computers to get by. plus team new...
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reports from mexico city. >> we're on the sun highway from mexico city to acapulco. this is a major transit route. this critical link has been shut down for the past week because of a tunnel collapse caused by torrential rains. they have just opened this road and we have just seen the first cars coming north escaping from acapulco, escaping from the disaster zone and heading back towards mexico city or other destinations. but we have also seen over the past few hours are buses traveling, empty buses traveling south on the other side of the highway, traveling south towards ak pul co-where they are going to are -- acapulco where they are going to be picking up people stranded. government using commercial and military flights, they have been restricted by the number of people they have been able to move and there are still massive amounts of people, it's caused tensions in acapulco, we saw thousands of people waiting in line trying to get onto those military flights and those civilian flights. it's really hot, people have been waiting there with children, elderly all so
reports from mexico city. >> we're on the sun highway from mexico city to acapulco. this is a major transit route. this critical link has been shut down for the past week because of a tunnel collapse caused by torrential rains. they have just opened this road and we have just seen the first cars coming north escaping from acapulco, escaping from the disaster zone and heading back towards mexico city or other destinations. but we have also seen over the past few hours are buses traveling,...
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them in from acapulco to mexico city. they have been bringing thousands of people trapped in acapulco as the hurricane devastated the area. we've seen people walk through chest-high water. the mexican military is there conducting rescue operations, trying to understand the full extent of the disaster. we've seen two storms hitting mexico. manuel on the west coast and ingrid on the east coast. people dead and that death toll could still be rising. we're going to see military from mexico city continue to deploy into acapulco into the hardest hit area as they try to understand the fullest extent of the damage of the storm. many communities are cut off. the highways are cut off and are not expected to be back into operation until friday. >> adam raney reporting. for more on the bath of hurricane manuel, we'll go to dave warren. >> reporter: we'll keep it right there and look at mexico with both tropical systems. the first one, hurricane manuel. there is the baja california peninsula. right there in the center of the storm rea
them in from acapulco to mexico city. they have been bringing thousands of people trapped in acapulco as the hurricane devastated the area. we've seen people walk through chest-high water. the mexican military is there conducting rescue operations, trying to understand the full extent of the disaster. we've seen two storms hitting mexico. manuel on the west coast and ingrid on the east coast. people dead and that death toll could still be rising. we're going to see military from mexico city...
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vice president joe biden will be in mexico city tomorrow on a preplanned trip. he's offered american help in flood recover and i relief efforts. the mexican government will receive questions about why emergency response teams were not in place address of the storms. house of representatives passed a bill gutting funding for the affordable health care act. this is the 42nd time they have held such a vote. friday a temporary spending measure was add today fund the government until december 15th. without it the government will be forced to shutdown on october 1st. mike is in washington with more. >> reporter: here in washington party purity is the ideal. compromise is a sign of weakness. the result of all of this, congressional gridlock that threatens to shutdown the entire government. >> thank you. [cheering and applause] >> reporter: after a week of in fighting a show of unity from house republicans. >> we have victory today for the american people. and frankly we also is had a victory for common sense. >> reporter: their cause for celebration a vote to cut off f
vice president joe biden will be in mexico city tomorrow on a preplanned trip. he's offered american help in flood recover and i relief efforts. the mexican government will receive questions about why emergency response teams were not in place address of the storms. house of representatives passed a bill gutting funding for the affordable health care act. this is the 42nd time they have held such a vote. friday a temporary spending measure was add today fund the government until december 15th....
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we have more from mexico city. >> this is the result of days of torrential rains, dozens of bridges and roads laid to waste, thousands of homes destroyed, 10s of thousands of people made homeless. people wait anxiously for emergency rations. many having without food or water for days and are debt pretty 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. rescue teams are finding more bodies as they reach isolated areas. survivors say the mud slides came out of nowhere. >> 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 and it turned like a windmill. when i saw it was coming down to the field, i started running. >> the government is appealing to mexicans to help out. food banks have been set up across the country. >> we are at a collection center in the heart of mexico city and more than 30 tons of food and other goods have been collected, things do
we have more from mexico city. >> this is the result of days of torrential rains, dozens of bridges and roads laid to waste, thousands of homes destroyed, 10s of thousands of people made homeless. people wait anxiously for emergency rations. many having without food or water for days and are debt pretty 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....
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to mexico city. but i think they're going to keep lifting out until those who want to get out by air do get out. because the two highways that connect mexico city to acapulco are not passible. affected by mudslides and you can't pass by mexico city back to here. we're going osee the many next few days, the only way people can get back is through these free airlines or military. >> in the reverse if there was any way to bring additional supplies into acapulco, talk to us about the challenges that any rescue efforts would face. >> the challenge is quite huge not specifically for acapulco because it is an urban area on guerrero, but to deliver relief to the residents, this is a rural hilly state where authorities don't go to these very hard to reach villages. we're hearing reports of several people dead in a village that had a major mudslide, there is several people perhaps dozens still missing in that slide. we might see for days to come these very hard to reach villages that are cut off, also cut off
to mexico city. but i think they're going to keep lifting out until those who want to get out by air do get out. because the two highways that connect mexico city to acapulco are not passible. affected by mudslides and you can't pass by mexico city back to here. we're going osee the many next few days, the only way people can get back is through these free airlines or military. >> in the reverse if there was any way to bring additional supplies into acapulco, talk to us about the...
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for example, in mexico city. >> they look like stacks of pan cakes. they built row after row of these concrete buildings and mexico city is built around an island in the middle and a big lake and they filled it in, just like san francisco. the floors were stacked like this. it looked like a stack of pan cakes. >> how did this compare older buildings of the 1920's or 30's? >> they will have more reenforcing in them. they had a tendency to use more round columns with spiral hoops. they don't necessarily catastrophicly collapse. in a perverse sense, the 50's and 60's buildings, you don't want to be in. i am in a 1920 building >> i wanted to clarify, we have beautiful, very ornate buildings they are taller. a lot of apartment buildings. >> those are mostly steel framed buildings. in the 50's and 60's, they wanted to create open floor spaces and they went to concrete spaces and thought it was great until the san fernando earthquake and the earthquake came and the building disappeared. they said, oops and changed the code immediately. >> we look at it and s
for example, in mexico city. >> they look like stacks of pan cakes. they built row after row of these concrete buildings and mexico city is built around an island in the middle and a big lake and they filled it in, just like san francisco. the floors were stacked like this. it looked like a stack of pan cakes. >> how did this compare older buildings of the 1920's or 30's? >> they will have more reenforcing in them. they had a tendency to use more round columns with spiral...
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david mercer has more from mexico city. >> reporter: this is the result of days of torrential rains, dozens 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, sort
david mercer has more from mexico city. >> reporter: this is the result of days of torrential rains, dozens 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...
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we have this report from mexico city. >> weeks of protests with teachers in mexico city resulted in a long stand off with riot police. police used smoke to disperse them from the capital of main avenue. they have been camping out and holding daily march ons highways and avenues to protest against an education reform, a reform taking hiring and firing power from the main teacher union giving it back to the government. the plan changes also includes an evaluation system. could just be a cover for the government to privatize schools teachers say but the president say this is needed to improve the mexican students chances of competing in a globalized marketplace. protests have gone on for weeks but wednesday was different, a day after the reform was put into law. >> we won't take a step back in applying our education law. rather, we'll make sure we move forward faster to guarantee the right of all and youth to a higher quality education. reporter:>> the teachers don't care. they're now out to repeal the law. >> during the resolution and the war for independence everything was done at this
we have this report from mexico city. >> weeks of protests with teachers in mexico city resulted in a long stand off with riot police. police used smoke to disperse them from the capital of main avenue. they have been camping out and holding daily march ons highways and avenues to protest against an education reform, a reform taking hiring and firing power from the main teacher union giving it back to the government. the plan changes also includes an evaluation system. could just be a...
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>> i had the privilege of seeing the brt lines up in mexico city. it was truly impressive. it carried 850,000 people a day and it makes a huge difference. the comment was just made about freeing up room for the cars is exactly right. this is amazing. i think there is a lot of work to do, i for one intend to support it. >> okay. so members of board, ramos, you want to make a motion? >> yes. >> we need to do the amendments first. >> yeah, i would certainly make a motion to adopt the amendments that are proposed for the resolution we are voting on. >> on the amendment, all in favor say, "aye". >> aye. >> then on the amended resolution. >> thank you chairman nolan. i want to echo the comments that have been made with the kudos that should be given to the cta for getting us to this point we are inventing the brt wheel with this project and we are learning as we've been going along, but it's been challenging and i think we have a fantastic project that we are going to be voting on today. i want to thank the mta staff that helped chip in when called upon to make this thing work an
>> i had the privilege of seeing the brt lines up in mexico city. it was truly impressive. it carried 850,000 people a day and it makes a huge difference. the comment was just made about freeing up room for the cars is exactly right. this is amazing. i think there is a lot of work to do, i for one intend to support it. >> okay. so members of board, ramos, you want to make a motion? >> yes. >> we need to do the amendments first. >> yeah, i would certainly make a...
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he admitted that lee harvey oswald had never been to mexico city. all this information about him being there was invented. >> why would the president assassinate the president or have something to do with assassinating the president? >> whatever the reasons are, we can only speculate about that. i'd like to not speculate. it was clear that john kennedy was going to disband the central intelligence agency. he made that plain. i worked closely with his brother bobby in that campaign. close with bobby or regularly with bobby. it was bobby's position and john's position. bobby told me this on more than one occasion when kennedy had power, not just being president, but maybe reelected for certain he'd be okay, he was going to disband the central intelligence agency. he was going form a new intelligence agency which would do what harry truman wanted the cia to do when he formed it and that was not to be an operational organization but be an organization which examined the facts and made those facts available to the president, not to ever take position tha
he admitted that lee harvey oswald had never been to mexico city. all this information about him being there was invented. >> why would the president assassinate the president or have something to do with assassinating the president? >> whatever the reasons are, we can only speculate about that. i'd like to not speculate. it was clear that john kennedy was going to disband the central intelligence agency. he made that plain. i worked closely with his brother bobby in that campaign....
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chair avalos mentioned our visit to mexico city brt's and they were surprised how long our approval process was. i also wanted to say i think the rapid network we're creating in san francisco is critical for many areas that lack strong public transit support like the west side of the city. so with the van ness' brt's hopefully speedy imelementation that we can work towards the gary brt networks as well. i wanted to say i'm appreciative that the center lane alternative has been the one that's going to be proposed. i think it's the superior brt, the more effect ive ones according to the transportation and development policy that sponsored our trip to mexico city. those that cut corners and don't support the center lane alternatives, i think usually get the weaker ratings and are not as effective in connecting up the city with speedier, more reliable and higher quality transit. i'm glad the van ness brt is including some of the safety improvements that commissioner yee mentioned, but also tremendous street scape improvements as well. so i'll be looking forward to supporting the approval of the
chair avalos mentioned our visit to mexico city brt's and they were surprised how long our approval process was. i also wanted to say i think the rapid network we're creating in san francisco is critical for many areas that lack strong public transit support like the west side of the city. so with the van ness' brt's hopefully speedy imelementation that we can work towards the gary brt networks as well. i wanted to say i'm appreciative that the center lane alternative has been the one that's...
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he admitted that lee harvey oswald had never been to mexico city. all this information about him being there was invented. >> why would the president assassinate the president or have something to do with assassinating the president? >> whatever the reasons are, we can only speculate about that. i'd like to not speculate. it was clear that john kennedy was going to disband the central intelligence agency. he made that plain. i worked closely with his brother bobby in that campaign. close with bobby or regularly with bobby. it was bobby's position and john's position. bobby told me this on more than one occasion when kennedy had power, not just being president, but maybe reelected for certain he'd be okay, he was going to disband the central intelligence agency. he was going form a new intelligence agency which would do what harry truman wanted the cia to do when he formed it and that was not to be an operational organization but be an organization which examined the facts and made those facts available to the president, not to ever take position tha
he admitted that lee harvey oswald had never been to mexico city. all this information about him being there was invented. >> why would the president assassinate the president or have something to do with assassinating the president? >> whatever the reasons are, we can only speculate about that. i'd like to not speculate. it was clear that john kennedy was going to disband the central intelligence agency. he made that plain. i worked closely with his brother bobby in that campaign....
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they want those in mexico to come out in the streets, at we're seeing on this day in mexico city we are noting just teachers but unions and electrical workers, students groups, and those identifying with the opposition coming out there. they're keen to block namely energy reforming. the teachers groups and others groups are saying that it's bad news for mexico because it would privatize the long-held state-run oil company. it's politically open, they're saying they're going to repeal the law but that's just really partly what they're asking for when they hit the streets. >> why have these reforms been so controversial, what is a stake, and why has the government been so insistent it push them through even though you see mass protests? >> well, i'll start with that second part first. first, the government has been incitizen tint because mexico's education system is abysmal by any international standard. their students are just not prepared to compete. they just can't compete when compared to students around the world. the oil company is seen as an inefficient oil company. the president s
they want those in mexico to come out in the streets, at we're seeing on this day in mexico city we are noting just teachers but unions and electrical workers, students groups, and those identifying with the opposition coming out there. they're keen to block namely energy reforming. the teachers groups and others groups are saying that it's bad news for mexico because it would privatize the long-held state-run oil company. it's politically open, they're saying they're going to repeal the law...
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adam joins us from mexico city with the latest. adam how bad are things today? >> reporter: they are still pretty bad. we're not -- we're still seeing the fallout mainly from the storms that hit mexico last weekend. the storms that have been threatening in the last couple of days aren't nearly as bad as far as the level of rain that is falling. it is still be determined though, it should still leave thousands more homeless. but right now we're still seeing military and other rescuers find signs of missing people. huge mud slides outside of acapulco. take a look at this report from my colleague. >> reporter: this is the result of days of torrential rains. dozens of bridges and roads laid waste. tens of thousands of people are homeless. people wait for rations flown in by the military. >> translator: we just want 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 bodice as they reach isolated areas. survivors say the mud slides came out of nowher
adam joins us from mexico city with the latest. adam how bad are things today? >> reporter: they are still pretty bad. we're not -- we're still seeing the fallout mainly from the storms that hit mexico last weekend. the storms that have been threatening in the last couple of days aren't nearly as bad as far as the level of rain that is falling. it is still be determined though, it should still leave thousands more homeless. but right now we're still seeing military and other rescuers find...
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david mercer, al jazerra, mexico city. >> a typhoon is bearing down on taiwan. weather 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 eno
david mercer, al jazerra, mexico city. >> a typhoon is bearing down on taiwan. weather 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...
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al jazeera mexico city. >> reporter: finally the olympic flame is lifted in greece, four months ahead of the winter olympics and it was the birth place of the olympics and the torch is set to cover 65,000 kilometers before the games and it will make it by dog sled and a trip into space and this is our website at al jazeera. >> believe it or not, an increase in bonuses may be part of the problem. this is real money.
al jazeera mexico city. >> reporter: finally the olympic flame is lifted in greece, four months ahead of the winter olympics and it was the birth place of the olympics and the torch is set to cover 65,000 kilometers before the games and it will make it by dog sled and a trip into space and this is our website at al jazeera. >> believe it or not, an increase in bonuses may be part of the problem. this is real money.
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embassy in mexico city has no hard numbers on how many americans are in acapulco, but there are reports hundreds of u.s. tourists are stranded. we get our report tonight from nbc's stephanie gosk. >> reporter: mexico is drowning after a double blow. two tropical storms slammed into opposite coasts. torrential rain for days caused the worst flooding in years. facing danger residents used every means necessary to get to safety -- from jet skis to zip lines, parents carrying their children. at least 80 have died and hundreds are missing. acapulco was hit the worst. when the waters rose, the vacation hot spot was cut off. >> the main highway, the only highway from acapulco to mexico city and the rest of the country has been destroyed by landslides. >> reporter: the acapulco airport is submerged. the international ticket counter abandoned in waist-deep water. even dry land can be dangerous. multiple angry displaced crocodiles have been caught roaming the streets. tens of thousands of tourists are still stranded. military planes shuttle people out, but flights are infrequent. some wait hours
embassy in mexico city has no hard numbers on how many americans are in acapulco, but there are reports hundreds of u.s. tourists are stranded. we get our report tonight from nbc's stephanie gosk. >> reporter: mexico is drowning after a double blow. two tropical storms slammed into opposite coasts. torrential rain for days caused the worst flooding in years. facing danger residents used every means necessary to get to safety -- from jet skis to zip lines, parents carrying their children....
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. >> we are here at a collection center in the heart of mexico city and more than 30 tons of food and other goods have been collected, i think they have been donated by individuals and companies and volunteers are going through, sorting these things so they can go out and air lift to the areas where they are really needed. >> reporter: some say the government was unprepared and has not done enough to help them. it's the most vulnerable they say that are paying the price. >> translator: it's kilometers long with old and sick children. >> reporter: the government's work here is far from over, david mercer al jazeera with mexico city. >> reporter: a thousand wide is bearing down in the philippines and, taiwan and there are fears of winds and tore -- torrential rain and i am saying it's a thousand kilometers wide. >> if you compare it to the size of the united kingdom, life on the south coast up to northern scott land, it's big, you can see how well organized the system is and clearly defined eye of the storm which will pass just to the south of taiwan within about 24 hours or so. so the
. >> we are here at a collection center in the heart of mexico city and more than 30 tons of food and other goods have been collected, i think they have been donated by individuals and companies and volunteers are going through, sorting these things so they can go out and air lift to the areas where they are really needed. >> reporter: some say the government was unprepared and has not done enough to help them. it's the most vulnerable they say that are paying the price. >>...
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so when supervisor wiener and others went to mexico city at any time clear you get on and off a lot call your next witnesser so that would be helpful as well. thank you very much i like our honesty about not knowing your answer to the question and your flowery words you called it the perpetuate team >> very quickly i know you've got to take public comment but we're only talking about one train and i was wondering can he do more than one train for a pilot? >> if you accounted repeat question. >> so we were talking about potentially connecticut doing one train for point pilot and i think potentially we get a lot better data if we account do more than one train could we do are more than one train. >> we're trying to balance the car count and because i want, you know, we're at 1 fourteen i clearly don't want to reduce the schedule and i want to get the 3 car trains and put away a unsettle into the schedule. so i suggested the timing two rec that are come back. so if we could do the design make up to make sure we can make changes safely and then agree on, you know, some of the evaluation crit
so when supervisor wiener and others went to mexico city at any time clear you get on and off a lot call your next witnesser so that would be helpful as well. thank you very much i like our honesty about not knowing your answer to the question and your flowery words you called it the perpetuate team >> very quickly i know you've got to take public comment but we're only talking about one train and i was wondering can he do more than one train for a pilot? >> if you accounted repeat...
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embassy in mexico city has no hard numbers on how many americans are in acapulco there are reports hundreds of u.s. tourists are stranded. we get our report tonight from nbc's stephanie gosk. >> reporter: mexico is drowning after a double blow. two tropical storms slammed into opposite coasts. torrential rain for days caused the worst flooding in years. facing danger residents used every means necessary to get to safety -- from jet skis to zip lines, parents carrying children. 80 have died and hundreds are missing. acapulco was hit the worst. when the water s rose the vacation hot spot was cut off. >> the main highway, the only highway from acapulco to mexico city and the rest of the country has been destroyed by landslides. >> reporter: the acapulco airport is submerged. the international ticket counter abandoned in waist-deep water. even dry land can be dangerous. multiple angry displaced crocodiles have been caught roaming the streets. tens of thousands of tourists are still stranded. military planes shuttle people out but flights are infrequent. some wait hours, hoping to get a seat. th
embassy in mexico city has no hard numbers on how many americans are in acapulco there are reports hundreds of u.s. tourists are stranded. we get our report tonight from nbc's stephanie gosk. >> reporter: mexico is drowning after a double blow. two tropical storms slammed into opposite coasts. torrential rain for days caused the worst flooding in years. facing danger residents used every means necessary to get to safety -- from jet skis to zip lines, parents carrying children. 80 have...
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we'll get a report from mexico city next. >> every sunday night al jazeera america presents gripping films, from the worlds top documentary directors >> this is just the beginning of somthing much bigger... >> this sunday...the premier of "do the math" >> these companies are a rogue force... >> one environmentalist says fossil fuels equal disaster... will his movement add up add up to change? >> we will fight it together... al jazeera america presents... "do the math" premiers this sunday 9 eastern. >> mexico is still struggling to deal with the aftermath, the storms have devastated acapulco and the surrounding area. more than a million people have been effected, and mexican authorities raise the death toll to 97. thousands of tourists stranded in acapulco struggle to find clean water as they wait at the airport to leave. >> reporter: well, after a path of destruction in the southwestern part of the country, tropical storm manuel moved up to the southwest part of the country and hit down just a few days ago. the authorities are trying to take preventive measures. they've declared a r
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riot police move in to end a three-week sit-in protest by teachers in mexico city. and patching up a serious health problem. the high-tech remedy that could help indians treat pa, but lows. ♪ ♪ >> five days after russia proposed a plan to bring syria's cheap cal weapons under international control, there are signs of diplomatic progress. the white house says that it's open to a u.n. resolution that isn't backed by force. the threat of military action was one of russia's main objections. but the u.s. d could still takes action without u.n. approval. talks are now going in to a third day in switzerland. u.s. officials have been quoted as saying both sides are coming to an agreement and that talks are at a pivotal state. meanwhile, the report by chemical weapons inspectors in to the attack in august, could be submitted to the u.n. security council on monday. the secretary general ban ki-moon said it will overwhelmingly show that chemical weapons were used in an apparently unguarded moment he also said what he thinks of the syrian president bashar al-assad. >> he ha
riot police move in to end a three-week sit-in protest by teachers in mexico city. and patching up a serious health problem. the high-tech remedy that could help indians treat pa, but lows. ♪ ♪ >> five days after russia proposed a plan to bring syria's cheap cal weapons under international control, there are signs of diplomatic progress. the white house says that it's open to a u.n. resolution that isn't backed by force. the threat of military action was one of russia's main...
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. >> i'm david mercer on the streets of mexico city where thousands of people have come out to protest proposed 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 mor
. >> i'm david mercer on the streets of mexico city where thousands of people have come out to protest proposed 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...
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in mexico city dave. >> reporter: thank you. >> and it appears things in mexico may get worse before they get better. al jazeera meteorologist dave warren joins us now from new york. >> meteorologist: yes, well manuel is now a tropical depression, but that does not take away the danger. it made landfall this morning just after 5:00 p.m. pacific time. just 5:00 a.m. category-one. it was not the strength of the hurricane, it was this, the movement, northeast at 11 mph, a very slow-moving storm, and now it's weakened from a tropical storm now weakened to a depression. it is slow moving over the area. the winds died down, but still a lot of rain with this, and only moving 7 mph. this slow-moving storm has put a lot of rain in the same area. four to six, six to 12, and 20 inches estimated. that has led to flash flooding and mudslides. it's slowly pushing off to the northeast, and it will slowly move out. it will take the rain with it, and this storm, despite the fact that it's weakening poses a big danger there. we go to a weakening storm to one that is developing. it does not look to be
in mexico city dave. >> reporter: thank you. >> and it appears things in mexico may get worse before they get better. al jazeera meteorologist dave warren joins us now from new york. >> meteorologist: yes, well manuel is now a tropical depression, but that does not take away the danger. it made landfall this morning just after 5:00 p.m. pacific time. just 5:00 a.m. category-one. it was not the strength of the hurricane, it was this, the movement, northeast at 11 mph, a very...
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david mercer al jazeera mexico city. >> reporter: and this is mexico, is it over the worst of it yet? >> not 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 w
david mercer al jazeera mexico city. >> reporter: and this is mexico, is it over the worst of it yet? >> not 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...
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to mexico city where thousands of teachers have taken to the streets again after the president signed a new law about education reform the protests have been ongoing for a month and see right here resulting in clashes and paralyzing much of mexico city the new law will see teacher's salary said just an outside monitors will evaluate and grade their performance. now more than a million people have turned out in the spanish region of catalonia pushing the claim for independence by forming a human chain of four hundred kilometers from one end to the other the calling on the national government to let them hold a referendum on separating from the rest of spain from barcelona with more. well the human childhood is so let's just. let's say it was good to have a lady up in the building with the rights to the cats a lady a little guy i meet a mold this action to put pressure on the spanish government could close catalonia independence referendum and only of course the catalonia to become an independent state the big question for everyone watching this around the world why do you guys want ind
to mexico city where thousands of teachers have taken to the streets again after the president signed a new law about education reform the protests have been ongoing for a month and see right here resulting in clashes and paralyzing much of mexico city the new law will see teacher's salary said just an outside monitors will evaluate and grade their performance. now more than a million people have turned out in the spanish region of catalonia pushing the claim for independence by forming a human...
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. >> he was killed in mexico city. >> yes, he was kidnapped in mexico city and his body was in a nearby state. >> what about you? you travel with two bodyguards? >> well, yes. since i publish this book in 2010, i have received death threats. not from the head of the cartels, the threats i received came from the chief of police. >> how do you know that? >> because i have an informant that called me in december 2010. he said, it is really urgent to see you. he said, i'm coming from a meeting of the police and that their were talking about trying to contract some police to kill you. simulating a car accident or something like that. and he is offering better salaries and better positions in the police if they do it. that information really saved my life. the national commission of human these ordered to put bodyguards with me. >> i want to ask you about the issue of how widespread the violence is in mexico. about a year ago we had a foreign former dutch former foreign minister and we asked him about the drug war. he said that while it was tragic and it was a mistake of the calder own admini
. >> he was killed in mexico city. >> yes, he was kidnapped in mexico city and his body was in a nearby state. >> what about you? you travel with two bodyguards? >> well, yes. since i publish this book in 2010, i have received death threats. not from the head of the cartels, the threats i received came from the chief of police. >> how do you know that? >> because i have an informant that called me in december 2010. he said, it is really urgent to see you. he...
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horses stampeding in the streets of mexico city after getting scared by a car engine? or the giraffe chasing a cyclist because it didn't want its picture taken? >> the winner is the giraffe with over 57% of the vote. the horses second and the slap third. >> thank you all for responding and have a great weekend, folks. >> "fox & friends" starts right now. bye-bye. >> good morning everybody. actually the teleprompter says thursday but i have a sneaking suspicion that it's tgif! all right. fantastic. i haven't been here for a lot of fridays. i hope you have a great friday. charlie daniels is here. he's going to be here talking to us, i don't know if he'll be fiddling. >>> support fading fast for the president's man to strike in syria. in fact, even the press starting to push back. a tense briefing at the state department as the president promises to continue to move forward. >>steve: new backlash against senator mccain voters explode at a town
horses stampeding in the streets of mexico city after getting scared by a car engine? or the giraffe chasing a cyclist because it didn't want its picture taken? >> the winner is the giraffe with over 57% of the vote. the horses second and the slap third. >> thank you all for responding and have a great weekend, folks. >> "fox & friends" starts right now. bye-bye. >> good morning everybody. actually the teleprompter says thursday but i have a sneaking...
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juarez, once known as a booming industrial city and a model of economic progress in mexico, has become infamous as the murder capital of the world. >> since i came here there was something really heavy moving in the city. it was a chaotic collapsing of forces. >> the official story is that the sinaloa and juarez cartels are battling for the city and the access it provides to the us drug market only a few hundred meters away. >> now there's an estimated 100-200 thousand addicts in the city. that means every street corner is worth killing for. cause every street corner is a point of sale now. every little tienda is a point of sale. >> more than 8,000 people have been killed here since 2008, the year mexican president calderon sent in the army to carry out his offensive against the cartels. 3951 people were recorded murdered in 2010 alone. we traveled to juarez try to understand how human life here came to be worth so much less than the drugs being trafficked through. >> my question was, at the beginning, okay the whole country is in a fight, why has juarez been the bloodiest? this must b
juarez, once known as a booming industrial city and a model of economic progress in mexico, has become infamous as the murder capital of the world. >> since i came here there was something really heavy moving in the city. it was a chaotic collapsing of forces. >> the official story is that the sinaloa and juarez cartels are battling for the city and the access it provides to the us drug market only a few hundred meters away. >> now there's an estimated 100-200 thousand addicts...
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interesting [inaudible] trip to review the mexico city brt. actually a comparison of the van ness proposal helped illustrate what is wrong with the plan. average stops facing at least twice that of the van ness system. times savings up to 60 minutes, versus 7 for the van ness. van ness cars still average 10 miles per hour. in the short van ness corridor with high density crossing traffic and transit lines,you can't do better without compromise to the other crosslines in traffic. a ten point penalty would be assessed for this plan due to low commercial speeds. basically it's not rapid transit. [inaudible] bike or other muni trips, but auto transit time is 2/3 of the brt time. this is not transit growth. aversion from walk, bike does not make sense. more than 50 percent of the trips which start in the corridor are already walk or bike. it's the greenest most economical choice. finally, we know it's likely this proposal will be approved. we appreciate the board for et its efforts related to our traffic concerns. we remain fundamentally opposed --
interesting [inaudible] trip to review the mexico city brt. actually a comparison of the van ness proposal helped illustrate what is wrong with the plan. average stops facing at least twice that of the van ness system. times savings up to 60 minutes, versus 7 for the van ness. van ness cars still average 10 miles per hour. in the short van ness corridor with high density crossing traffic and transit lines,you can't do better without compromise to the other crosslines in traffic. a ten point...
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. >> 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, peo
. >> 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...
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the highway from mexico city to acapulco is total reply cut off and not expected to be back in operation until friday. >> i'm meteorologist dave warren. we'll keep it there in mexico, and watch the tropical storm that are there, the first one is manuel, pacific coast of mexico it's right there the center of the storm really blew up today and slowly drifting north dumping a lot of rain over the same area. only a little further south now we have just rain and thunderstorms over southern mexico but this cluster here is what we're watching for next few days. this could show some intensification and could become a tropical storm. where it heads from here is very important to watch. the area can't take much more rain. as it best fiez, we will see the -- as it intensifies, it could either turn to the northeast or go south. if it goes back over the gulf here and stays just off the coast of mexico that could be a problem, putting more rain and leading to landslides. we'll watch as how this storm develops and we'll have a forecast in a little while. >> boston proceeds as it prepares for its first
the highway from mexico city to acapulco is total reply cut off and not expected to be back in operation until friday. >> i'm meteorologist dave warren. we'll keep it there in mexico, and watch the tropical storm that are there, the first one is manuel, pacific coast of mexico it's right there the center of the storm really blew up today and slowly drifting north dumping a lot of rain over the same area. only a little further south now we have just rain and thunderstorms over southern...
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and in landslide killed more people there. >> more to come, adam raney live in mexico city. >>> coming up in this news, north korea calling for talks on its nuclear program. but with a catch. and in sport there is a first for barcelona's team and coach in the champions league, and we will plain that and the rest of the sports if you stay with us. you. >> time to get news from europe now. let's start in greece where the death of left wing hip-hop artist has brought protests. police say that a man understood to be a member of the far right party has confessed to the murder. [ protesters ] this demonstration came out after a 34-year-old greek rapper and anti-fascist campaigner known as killer p died in hospital. he was stabbed by a man allegedly under arrest. >> ththese people have shown thy don't want democracy. they undermine it. they don't just disagree with their political opponents. they execute them. we must isolate them. >> reporter: there have been renewed calls fo, of the governt giving dialogue in legislation. >> we need to stand together in the face of victory and if these grou
and in landslide killed more people there. >> more to come, adam raney live in mexico city. >>> coming up in this news, north korea calling for talks on its nuclear program. but with a catch. and in sport there is a first for barcelona's team and coach in the champions league, and we will plain that and the rest of the sports if you stay with us. you. >> time to get news from europe now. let's start in greece where the death of left wing hip-hop artist has brought protests....