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While much of the media have turned away from the ongoing disaster of Hurricane Florence,\xa0 flood waters continue to rise, as does the storm's death toll, with new toxic threats developing. On the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria's deadly landfall in Puerto Rico -- in which some 3,000 U.S. citizens died, despite Donald Trump's denial -- disaster historian SCOTT KNOWLES of Drexel University and the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware offers some of the political and civic history behind focusing on such natural disasters (as Trump and others do) as singular, limited events, and lessons learned from more recent disasters like Hurricanes Harvey and Maria last year, and Florence this year. Knowles cites the politically powerful U.S. construction industry at the state and local level in helping to ensure that threats, like those linked to the impacts of global warming, too often take a back seat to commercial development, particularly in states like North Carolina. Next, an update on the battle over U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and whether Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused him of sexual assault in the 1980s, will testify before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee next week.\xa0 Plus Desi Doyen has the latest 'Green News Report' with the growing toxic toll of Hurricane Florence, the long road of recovery that lies ahead, and the Trump Administration's announcement of still more rollbacks to methane regulations...