'BradCast' 9/13/2018: ('Disaster is at the Doorstep')

Published: Sept. 14, 2018, 1:18 a.m.

b"On today's show: An update on Hurricane Florence, now a dangerous Category 2 storm that poses an extraordinary and potentially catastrophic threat to millions of Americans from winds, storm surge and rainfall, flooding and a host of toxic threats. Coverage of Wednesday's reported primary results in Rhode Island, the last federal primary election day of 2018. Reports of widespread voting problems in the New York State and local primary on Thursday, in which voters say they did not appear on the rolls at precincts as expected, or their party registrations were inaccurate. We discuss what we know (and don't) about widespread voter registration problems being reported today, which echo massive disenfranchisement problems during the 2016 Presidential primary between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Despite persistent claims by many Sanders supporters, no evidence exists to tie the illegal and unlawful purge of more than 100,000 voters in 2016 by the NYC Board of Elections to either Clinton or the Democratic Party itself. The President of the United States is now a Hurricane Maria Denier \\u2013 today he issued a twisted and wholly fabricated claim disputing the official death toll of nearly 3,000 Puerto Ricans in last year's Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. We report the actual facts behind the (conservatively low) numbers, along with some of the condemnation in response to his false claim from both Democrats and a few Republicans. Desi Doyen has the latest 'Green News Report' on the fingerprint of climate change in today's outbreak of tropical cyclones around the world, Trump's latest undermining of action meant to curb global warming, and a new dire warning from the U.N. Secretary General regarding the rapidly growing threats of climate change..."