Position: 23.9N 64.8W [10:00PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: West-Northwest [295°] near 7 mph [11 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 115 mph [185 kph].
Wind Gusts: 130 mph [210 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 185 miles [295 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 80 miles [130 km].
Minimum central pressure: 948 mb.

Currently about 580 miles [ 935 km] South of Bermuda.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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Position: 28.0N 39.6W [10:00PM CDT 0300 UTC].
Movement: North [010°] near 12 mph [19 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 80 mph [130 kph].
Wind Gusts: 90 mph [145 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 125 miles (205 km].
Hurricane Wind Radius: 15 miles [ 30 km].
Minimum central pressure: 984 mb ↓.

Currently about 1295 miles [2085 km] Northwest of the Cabo Verde Islands.

Here’s the link for NOAA’s latest satellite images.

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September 11^th, 2001

In the intervening years we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars, trampled on peoples rights, created huge new government bureaucracies, and can’t respond as well as the third world to a natural disaster.

It seems like we are constantly being told that every new group that appears anywhere is capable of another 9/11 attack, so what is the point if we are no safer?

Richard Clarke: “Your government failed you. Those entrusted with protecting you failed you. And I failed you. We tried hard. But that doesn’t matter, because we failed. And for that failure, I would ask, once all the facts are out, for your understanding and for your forgiveness.“