first hurricane for the 2015 season has turned into a category 3 storm. jennifer gray, it s getting stronger? yes. this is a category 3, 115-mile-per-hour winds with gusts up to 125, making that westward march in the atlantic. this is a very small storm but it s very powerful at a category 3. widen out a little bit and it will continue the track to the west impacting the leeward islands and headed for puerto rico. it s supposed to weaken as time moves on, becoming a category 2 by saturday morning. category 1 by sunday and then by monday, possibly just a tropical storm. it has a lot of hurdles it has to overcome to maintain strength and it doesn t look like it s going to be able to do that. for one, we have very dry air in place that s not a favorable environment for storms to thrive. and so that is going to kind of rip it apart, cause it to
calling for better protection. take a look. oh. it was the terrifying moment at this week s arizona diamondbacks game. pitcher archie bradley hit in the face by a 115-mile-per-hour line drive. bradley telling us it happened so fast. i remember throwing the pitch. the next thing i know i was laying on the ground. this former pro pitcher says he knows what it s like. the chances of being able to move your glove to protect your face pretty slim to none. that hit martinez. now, more and more major league pitchers insisting on protecting themselves. some wearing kevlar lined baseball caps. mets alex torez wearing this massive padded helmet. but it s not just the pros who are concerned. little league sluggers may not hit with the same power but those metal bats they often use pack an added punch. we fired a 65-mile-per-hour ball from a pitching machine at this
take a look. oh. it was the terrifying moment at this week s arizona diamondbacks game. pitcher archie bradley hit in the face by a 115-mile-per-hour line drive. bradley telling us it happened so fast. i remember throwing the pitch. the next thing i know i was laying on the ground. this former pro pitcher says he knows what it s like. the chances of being able to move your glove to protect your face pretty slim to none. that hit martinez. now, more and more major league pitchers insisting on protecting themselves. some wearing kevlar lined baseball caps. the new york mets alex tore ez wearing this massive padded helmet. but it s not just the pros who are concerned. little league sluggers may not hit with the same power but those metal bats they often use pack an added punch. we fired a 65-mile-per-hour ball from a pitching machine at this batter.
bracing for more air strikes. after hamas rejected the truce plan, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said israel had no choice but to respond more forcefully. on live tv, he said, hamas chose to continue fighting and will pay the price for that decision. the military is now urging residents in several parts of gaza to leave their homes this morning ahead of more rocket fire. the largest hospital in gaza already overwhelmed with patients. israel says it s only targeting militants, but according to the united nations, four out of five palestinians killed during the military offensive have been civilians. meanwhile, hundreds of rockets were fired by hamas from gaza. shrapnel from one hamas rocket killed an israeli, the first since the latest fighting began. at least seven people have been killed by the strongest storm to hit the philippines this year. typhoon rammasun shut down the capital of manila. its 115-mile-per-hour wind gusts tore the roofs off homes, downed
myself. i had to have a police officer help me. just wake up to it and say, man, i m in the midst of a flood. what do i do? only thing i could do is grab the little item that i thought was important. my goodness. near atlanta, flash flooding turned roads in rivers, leading police to shut down some roads because of the high water. for drivers, it led to a difficult choice, try to find another route or risk a really dangerous, potentially deadly journey. i don t know. i don t know whether to risk it or not. i don t know. i m not used to going through rivers to drive. so i don t know! do not risk it. that s the advice from indra petersons. this storm system also responsible for damaging winds and tornadoes. take a look at these pictures from mississippi, not far from jackson. eight people hurt. more than 70 homes damaged across that state. several tornadoes touched down, including an ef-2 twister with 115-mile-per-hour winds. indra petersons has a look at the forecast. is it goi