As [ indiscernible ]. Reporter good evening from Miami Dade County where we have been seeing wind and rain for the last 15 hours or so and now tornado warnings. Folks know this is just beginning as millions of people in this state prepare for landfall. Florida is starting to feel the effects of irma. Hi winds and rough surf are pounding key west. The storm is tracking farther west after passing over cuba. Those along the gulf coast are in the storms crosshairs. Ken ward and his friends are scrambling to save his business in tampa. If the surge comes in, our bottom floor will be gone. Reporter more than 75,000 floridians are in shelters. Evacuation shelters along floridas west coast are filling quickly. Mike weaver fled to the other side of the state thinking he was escaping irma. The thought was that it was going to be on the east coast. Reporter others are trying to go back home creating reverse traffic jams. Reporter officials are warning residents that they are very much in danger. Curfews are in effect. Dont be that guy that gets hit by a team tree. Reporter residents are becoming more anxious by the our. We have insurance, everybody around us does not. Reporter officials are telling people to hunker down for 12 hours once irma makes landfall. It is not to shelters filling up, hotels are also selling out filled with evacuees writing riding out the storm. Kenneth, millions of people have been told to leave florida. This could be one of the largest evacuations we have seen. Where are they going . Reporter so many have left the state headed for georgia, south carolina, north carolina, also tens of thousands of them are in shelters all across the state. At least 75,000 people at last check. There are also folks hunker down at hotels like the one we are so staying in, many families have left their homes for more secure buildings. Kenneth craig in miami. Thank you. We are tracking irmas path right now, it is off the coast of cuba right now. It is down to a category three hurricane because it is so close to a landmass. Once he gets back out over the gulf and it had towards the keys it will reenergize and it will get back up to a category four storm which will now parallel the coastline, the west coast of florida, it is more of a problem for tampa than miami. The wind is 120 Miles Per Hour with gusts up to 155. Many of the florida keys may disappear with the storm surge. Landfall likely being at the florida keys and southwest florida tomorrow morning. Wind gust will be 60 to 100 miles our per hour plus. By comparison it does not look bad here. We have our own thunderstorms that we will cover in a few minutes. Continuing our coverage, [ indiscernible ] is here with the type of nelson that Hurricane Irma has caused. Reporter no island in irmas path was spared. Hundreds of thousands of people are without power and damage totals could top 1 billion. Once a popular tourist destination, the islands may be impacted for years to come. Hurricane irmas wrath and fury wreak havoc in the u. S. And British Virgin islands as once popular tourist towns are barely recognizable. 80 to 90 percent of saint bart and st. Martin are destroyed. We do not have any massive loss of life, we have horrible destruction. Reporter kristin has owned a condo and st. Martin since 1980 and she knows the type of damage hurricanes can reap on the islands. In 1985 we had a bad hurricane but this is worse. Reporter she shared this picture of the community with us showing this restaurant on the point is a twisted metal. The roofs of the colonial style condos were ripped open like tin cans. Hurricane shutters that were supposed to protect the building pulled off by the powerful winds. Devastated and sad. I want everyone to be safe. It is a Beautiful Island with beautiful people. Reporter military planes delivered muchneeded aid to the islands where emergency Officials Say five people died during the direct hit. We have structural collapses and debris and boats, just messed up. It is just bad. Reporter hurricane josi was forecast to hit the same area, but it appears the island will be spared as josi turns north. Katie nielsen kpix. Crews have arrived in florida to help restore power after the widespread outages are anticipated. They flew in from northern california. We have our batteries charging and our equipment and tools that we shipped by ground to get here. We can load those on the truck and get ready to work as soon as the storm has passed. Florida power and light has provided the trucks, the two utilities have a mutual agreement. Right now search and rescue teams from the east bay is in florida. Task force for has 80 members most of them are firefighters. They will be helping out with Emergency Response including several rescue boats. Task force for was in Southeast Texas where there was catastrophic flooding from hurricane harvey. Mixico is dealing with a Natural Disaster onetwo punch, hurricane katia spot strength into a category two storm before slamming into the coast last night. Two people died in the mudslide triggered by the high wind and rain. More than 4000 people have evacuated the area. Cleanup crews are hard at work after an 8. 1 magnitude earthquake shook mexicos coast two days ago. The death toll is up to 64. It was one of the strongest ever recorded to hit the country. Buildings crumbled sending debris flying. Mexicos president has called for three days of mourning. The threat of a major earthquake definitely hits home in the bay area and when it does hit you will wish you had gotten ready now. We have information you need to know to keep your family safe. Reporter for a generation of kids who have never experienced a quick first hand. The big shaker was a demonstration of mother natures power. There have been minor quakes that they have experienced and we just practice getting in the doorways and getting under the table. Reporter Kathleen Johnson brought her children to the alameda countys Disaster Preparedness there to help teach them how to respond to an emergency. You never know since the bay area was rock. The loma prieta [ indiscernible ] sponsored the event. We are probably next in line for the next big earthquake. We need people to take this seriously. We need people to prepare. We need people to be able to sustain themselves. Reporter the message was not limited to Natural Disasters. Organizers also wanted to help people prepare for everyday emergencies like a house or apartment fire, demonstrating how difficult it could be through a haze of fire and smoke to find your way out of a burning building. You always want to stay low. The smoke will rise. If you stand up and inhale the smoke, that will cause you to pass out. Then who knows. Reporter simple but potentially life saving. Kpix 5. Stopping violent protests. What Berkeley Police are asking to use that has been offlimits to them for 20 years. Hurricane irma barreling towards florida. How they are looking to get animals evacuated to safety. Commentator comes to uc berkeley. This time. Ben shapiro is berkeleys chief of police wants to repeat prevent a repeat of violent protests when a conservative commentator comes to uc berkeley. This time [ indiscernible ] is scheduled to speak on thursday. Police want clearance to use pepper spray. Reporter that is right. Even though the speech will take place here on cal campus, Berkeley Police will be called in to help out if the demonstration gets out of hand like last time. That is why the Berkeley Police chief is asking the city council to give them permission to use pepper spray for crowd control. Berkeley police already care pepper spray. Right now they can only use it to arrest unruly suspects. They are banned from using the spray for crowd control. The city Council Voted for the ban in 1997. The protest now are very different, anarchists often turn peaceful protests into bloodbath in berkeley. The police chief is asking the Current City Council to overturn the 20yearold ban to allow his officers to use pepper spray on violent protesters. At the Farmers Market next to city hall, the opinions are evenly split. He is the chief of police, he is the expert, i would be inclined to go with the expert opinion. No. Reporter berkeley native [ indiscernible ] supports the use of pepper spray. He says the city should not handcuff officers from doing their job especially when dealing with violent and arcus. And arcus. Everything here was [ indiscernible ] until they arrived. Reporter for this uc davis grad, any mention of pepper spray reminds her of this scene at her campus. A campus officer indiscriminately spraying peaceful protesters. I think there are better ways to control a crowd. I would be concerned about any increased motivation. Reporter while those against saying using pepper spray will escalate the situation, the police chief says it will help to protect peaceful demonstrators. He says teargas hurts everyone in the crowd but they could use pepper spray to target individuals. Anyone who is committing violent on another human being should be taken out of the crowd. Reporter the city council is having a special meeting on tuesday to talk about this topic. The police chief is hoping they will lift the ban on tuesday so that the option to use pepper spray for that thursday event. Live at the uc berkeley campus, kpix 5. Check this out, 25 foot flames were shooting out of a east bay home early this morning. The fire broke out around 3 45 on st. Clair lane. When crews got to the scene the upper floors and attic were fully engulfed. Firefighters attacked the flames head on. 11 units were called to battle this fire. As Hurricane Irma creeps closer to floridas coast. Zookeepers are scrambling to safeguard their animals. We are very concerned about the generators working, we have life system supports for pumping the aquariums, if they shut down the animals will die. Smaller animals have been evacuated but large animals are staying put. They had fortified closures after hurricane andrew in 1992. We have the covered the wares and winds of Hurricane Irma but we have not showed you what is happening in cuba. Overnight last night and through the day Hurricane Irma pounded cubist coast and it is still skirting the northern part of the island. People are just assessing the damage as they walk around what is left after wind of up to 130 Miles Per Hour scraped the island. Now it is on the way to florida. We will continue to track that for you on the 6 00 news tonight. In the meantime they have hurricanes, we have some the most stable weather in the country. Concorde is at 90, oakland 71, San Francisco 66, santa rosa 84. Heres how it looks on the west coast, that low pressure is going to combine with the high off shore and give us an offshore push. That means with warm air coming from the interior numbers will climb tomorrow and then the low reasserts itself so by monday night and tuesday we could get moisture from down south. Tuesday there may be a thunderstorm in the bay area, maybe not. It is something a little different. Tomorrow we get a heat spike it will warm to 100 inland, clouds and cooler on monday. Then thunderstorm chance comes in by tuesday. Theres a lot going on this week and from the chocolate festival temperatures in the mid and upper 70s, Mountain View the garden Wine Festival 85 it will be nice was sunshine and warmer conditions on sunday thanks to the [ indiscernible ] festival, 88 and plenty of good weather. Tomorrow the prime parade is in oakland sunshine and 86. And opera in the park sunday Golden Gate Park mostly sunny skies a temperature of 78 and that is not all. The walk to end alzheimers which we proudly sponsor sunday morning it will be sunny and a temperature of about 67. Heading out of the bay area the numbers range from 103 in redding, 95 in fresno, we have mostly sunny conditions a little windy but the numbers will be warm mid80s, chicago 69, new york 75. Overnight lows not bad temperatures in the mid 60s, son up 12 minutes before 7 00. Temperatures 80s to 90s and much of the bay area. In the extended forecast after a warmup on sunday the numbers begin to cool on monday and a storm chance on tuesday and then the latter half of the week very average week for the bay area after wednesday. In the meantime it will be interesting. Coming up next in sports, the [ indiscernible ] season put to the test. And the raiders longest tenured player and lands on the injured reserve has now landed on the injured reserve. Fo ndo. After holding character tryouts and lowering Sebastian Jenna koski salary he had landed on the injured reserve. Former [ indiscernible ] will take over the kicking duties. For more on the matchup with the titans here is vern glenn in tennessee. Reporter welcome to music city. We are going to get some answers about the football team. Derek car against marcus mariota. The big question centers around the defense, can they stop the run. Can they stop the tide in . The team has had it with that line of questioning. I am more confident than a lot of other people. Talk is cheap. No sense in trying to claim anything. You play with what you got. The bond and the energy that everyone is moving with i feel like we are going to shock a lot of people. Reporter this will be the first game for both quarterbacks car and mariota since each broke their legs on Christmas Eve games. I hope he waits a week. That will be nice. He is a good athlete. I just hope he does not show up until sunday. Reporter kick off 10 am tomorrow right here at nissan stadium. In nashville Vern Glenn Kpix 5. [ indiscernible ] and their firstyear head coach is coming off an impressive when on the road. Today they open their season at home against a pretty tough as the esteem scs team. Secondquarter the bears and we were state tied at 10 [ indiscernible ] breaks through for a 50 yard touchdown run giving towel a 1710 lead. Later in the quarter wildcat [ indiscernible ] he finds a wide open [ indiscernible ] for a 55 yard touchdown to tie the game. Weaver state would actually lead 2017 going into the fourth quarter. 2020 under 10 minutes left. The bears retake the lead 27 20. Two minutes left in the game after the cal defense stop the wildcats inside the 50 they put the game away with a 73 yard td run. He finished with 195 yard as cal wins 3320. New san jose state coach visited texas. Secondquarter 70 longhorns. Chris warren breaks through the line and breaks free for a 40 yard touchdown run. He rushes for 166 yards and two touchdowns. Texas leads, late Third Quarter [ indiscernible ] is picked off by holton hill who returns it to the house for 45 yards, the longhorns crush them 560 out getting them 623 yards, san jose state faulty 12. The last time there was an allamerican womens final at the u. S. Open was back in 2002 when Serena Williams beat her sister venus. This year one of the rising stars in tennis eliminated venus and the semis and hopes of winning her first glance grand slam final. Venus and madison keys each making their first grand slam appearance. [ indiscernible ] taking the first set now leading 40 the second set. She wins the rally with a drop shot at the net. Later at matchpoint for stephens, keith hits it into the net and stephens finishes off her first major title with a 60 win and a second set with the magic taking 61 minutes. Stephens becomes the first woman, American Woman other than serena and Venus Williams to win the u. S. Open since 1998. The fans were dressed to impress for a doubleheader at the coliseum. Oakland and houston scoreless in the second. This is dropped into the right field corner, matt olson comes into score. The as lead 10. 61 bottom of the eighth, astros [ indiscernible ] he walks five straight oakland hitters. The last three were with the bases loaded, the as crews to 111 when. Game two of the doubleheader is about to get underway. North of the border facing [ indiscernible ] toronto [ indiscernible ] 64th minute already to nail toronto. [ indiscernible ] heads in his second goal of the match. Toronto wins or her nail for four nail. B ale of the year with the new sleep number 360 smart bed. It senses and automatically adjusts on both sides. The new 360 smart bed is part of our biggest sale of the year where all beds are on sale. And right now the sleep number queen c2 mattress now only 699. Ends sunday about 6point3 Million People in florida have been ordered to evacuate. More than 75 thousand are the latest on Hurricane Irma at least 24 people have been killed by this powerful storm, 6. 3 Million People in florida have been ordered to evacuate, more than 75,000 are taking refuge in shelters. Tornado warnings are in effect in parts of southwest southeast florida. One touchdown in Fort Lauderdale and there is more ahead. Thank you for joining us. We will see you back here at 6 00. Quijano irmas first punch. The monster hurricanes outer bands lash south florida, ahead of a direct hit sunday morning. This is a deadly storm. The state has never seen anything like it. Quijano the storms projected path shifted west, and now cities along the gulf coast are in the crosshairs. Now is the time to execute on your plan. Its time to punch out. We need to get out of here. Quijano but millions across the peninsula face the threat of buzzsaw winds, blasting rain, and an enormous surge of sea water. Evacuations are not meant to be convenient. Theyre meant to keep you safe. Quijano officials warn tonight its too late to escape. I didnt remember is here
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