Winds at 185 Miles Per Hour with gusts over 225 Miles Per Hour. The storm has pounded islands in the caribbean like st. Martin, the virgin islands. Its moving north of puerto rico. If it stays on this track over the next two days, it will expect to move right over the turks and caicos islands. By saturday, hitting northern cuba and turning northward forwards miami and the east coast of florida. If it stays on that path, its expected to continue up on monday as a category 3 hurricane, along the georgia coastline, hitting Population Centers psy s like savannah. This is going to be a devastating storm if it stays on this track for much of the southeastern u. S. And there is another hurricane, hurricane jose, a category 1 storm, but could follow a similar path. Dan . Spencer, thank you very much. Florida farmers are bracing for the storm, as well. Today, orange concentrate futures for november delivery rose to their highest point in four months. About 1. 47 per pound. Florida is the second
Thank you for joining us. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. Irma is one of the most powerful Atlantic Hurricanes ever. Its 1 s 185mileanhour winds wreaked havoc in the caribbeans. One death was on the small island of barba. About 90 of buildings and cars there have been destroyed. Irma is unleashing winds and rain on puerto rico and could make landfall in florida this weekend. Cars are lined up on the highways as people heed the warnings to get out. This is a much stronger storm that we have anticipated. Its stronger than what we experienced in the past, and its better to be safe than sorry. Florida has begun activating its National Guard with 7,000 members being told to report for duty on friday. Tomorrow, 100 pg e employees are scheduled to leave the bay area to restore power to people impacted by Hurricane Irma. We have Live Team Coverage for you. Leeann melendez is at sfo where some flight to florida will likely be canceled. But first, lets get to Spencer Christian with where the st
Just came by and moved out the rocks that were in the road, and, as soon as the sun came up. Power co will be, working to get lights back on, about a hundred thousand people, are without power in mississippi and florida, anal bam a. There was water inside these casinos because of the flooding and storm surge. That water has since receded but they, jan after lot of clean up to do as well. We saw a lot of the video there. Describe to us the most severe impact you are seeing this morning along the gulf coast. Reporter well, it is storm surge, because as the debris it left behind. Along one road between gulf port, biloxi which is a 15 to 20mile stretch, there are light poles in the road,piers from beach that he is blew off we cannot access those road because is there too much debris. We have seen the flooding, inside casinos and parking garage, but the good news is all this is we have not heard of any casualties at this time , jan. Definitely good news, courtney. It seems like a lot of pre
Hearing. It is just over three hours. Hit the gavel. Give them some peace. Back in your cages. Take this free pass thing. The hearing will come to order. Thank you all for coming. Heres the order of the day. S the order of the day. Ill give a brief Opening Statement along with senator whitehouse and well have senator grassley and feinstein follow us in questioning, and it will be sevenminute rounds initially and try to a second round of five minutes. To both of the witnesses, thank you for coming. Well try to make this as reasonably short as possible and if you need a break, please let us know. So, people wonder what are we doing, what are we trying to accomplish . In january, the Intelligence Community unanimously said that the russians through their Intelligence Services tried to interfere in the 2016 american president ial election, that it was the russians who hacked podestas emails, it was the russians who broke into the Democratic National committee and was russians who helped em
Hearing. It is just over three hours. Hit the gavel. Give them some peace. Back in your cages. Take this free pass thing. The hearing will come to order. Thank you all for coming. Heres the order of the day. S the order of the day. Ill give a brief Opening Statement along with senator whitehouse and well have senator grassley and feinstein follow us in questioning, and it will be sevenminute rounds initially and try to a second round of five minutes. To both of the witnesses, thank you for coming. Well try to make this as reasonably short as possible and if you need a break, please let us know. So, people wonder what are we doing, what are we trying to accomplish . In january, the Intelligence Community unanimously said that the russians through their Intelligence Services tried to interfere in the 2016 american president ial election, that it was the russians who hacked podestas emails, it was the russians who broke into the Democratic National committee and was russians who helped em