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Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell

SIPA USA

Hurricane Idalia kicks FEMA while it’s down

With Hurricane Idalia hitting the Gulf Coast of Florida and Georgia, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is readying its response but finding itself stretched thin.

Idalia weakened from a category 4 to a category 1 storm before making landfall but still plagued the Sunshine State with severe flooding. It is moving through Georgia and up through the Carolinas, with local officials warning of potentially catastrophic storm surges from rising waters.

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Boris Johnson's days are numbered as UK PM; Blinken, Biden, Putin & Ukraine
Boris Johnson's Resignation Looming | Blinken's Visit to Ukraine | World In :60 | GZERO Media

Boris Johnson's days are numbered as UK PM; Blinken, Biden, Putin & Ukraine

Ian Bremmer shares his insights on global politics this week, discussing Boris Johnson's tenuous status as UK PM, US Secretary of State Blinken's visit to Ukraine, and the volcano eruption in Tonga:

Will Boris Johnson resign?

It certainly looks that way. He's hanging on by his fingernails. He's losing members of Parliament. He's giving shambolic media interviews. In fact, I think the only people that don't want him to resign at this point is the Labour Party leadership, because they think the longer he holds on, the better it is for the UK opposition. But no, he certainly looks like he's going. The only question is how quickly. Is it within a matter of weeks or is it after local elections in May? But feel pretty confident that the days of Boris Johnson are numbered.

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The history of disasters
Ian Bremmer Explains: The History of Disasters | GZERO World

The history of disasters

It's easy to judge the Pompeiians for building a city on the foothills of a volcano, but are we really any smarter today? If you live along the San Andreas fault in San Francisco or Los Angeles, geologists are pretty confident you're going to experience a magnitude 8 (or larger) earthquake in the next 25 years—that's about the same size as the 1906 San Francisco quake that killed an estimated 3,000 people and destroyed nearly 30,000 buildings. Or if you're one of the 9.6 million residents of Jakarta, Indonesia, you might have noticed that parts of the ground are sinking by as much as ten inches a year, with about 40 percent of the city now below sea level.

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The 2020 pandemic was hardly “unprecedented,” says historian Niall Ferguson
The 2020 pandemic was hardly “unprecedented,” says historian Niall Ferguson | GZERO World

The 2020 pandemic was hardly “unprecedented,” says historian Niall Ferguson

"We've been dealing with pandemics from the earliest recorded history. Thucydides writes about a pandemic in the history of the Peloponnesian War. So the last thing 2020 was, was unprecedented," Stanford historian Niall Ferguson told Ian Bremmer on GZERO World. Ferguson, whose new book, "Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe," believes that the world should have been better prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic based on the numerous health crises of the 20th century, from the 1918 Spanish flu to influenza and HIV/AIDS. He provides perspective on how the COVID crisis stacks up compared to other pandemics throughout history.

Watch the episode: Predictable disaster and the surprising history of shocks

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