Live report about whats going on there right now. Reporter good morning. Here in new smyrna beach, florida, conditions have started to improve as Hurricane Dorian continues the trek north. Evacuation orders still in place through the outer banks. Officials say just dont risk it. Hurricane dorian turning its fury on florida. Already knocking out power to thousands. Right now you can see in front of this light here how bad the conditions are getting. Reporter lamb Mark Zuckerberg the east coast with wind gusts nearing 60 miles per hour. In the bahamas were getting our first look at the scope of the disaster and utter destruction dorian caused. After stalling, spinning over these islands for more than 48 hous. Going through it was terrifying. Were happy to be alive. Glad my family is safe. Reporter homes left splintered, water engulfing the island. This is what grand bahama island looked like before, then after dorian. Much of the island now under water. The coast guard helping out, leadi
Is looking unfinished for a facility that was supposed to carry passengers this year. Getting the construction finished as part of the job. Have to give them your make sure the trains run. And that it is safe for everyone. Today they publicly acknowledge that the project is further behind schedule and a new manager has taken over. The deeper job is to get this done. That will start with what amounts to a physical exam. Im looking at the project from top to bottom. What is left and what are the complications of getting the remaining work and asked . That review will last six weeks. At that point, they will have a realistic idea of when the trains might start rolling. Also any future delays. The contentious relationship with the contractor. Part of the job of figuring out the schedule means sitting down and having a conversation with the contractor. We started to have real productive conversations. The street level work is still expected to be finished by this fall. And delays into next
Moving forward finding solutions. This is abc7news. This has superseded the camp fire of 2018. That was the deadliest. Now this fire is the deadliest. Over the last 10 years. Now at 9 00 devastation in maui continues breed the death toll for the wildfire for the wildfire coming overnight. It is sunday, august 13. Im stephanie sierra. We will have more on the aftermath in maui in a moment. We begin with the weather. Lets get to meteorologist lisa argen. Good morning everyone. Waking up to plenty of sunshine unless you are right at the shoreline. Live doppler 7 shows all the fog along the coast and high clouds coming in from this sierra nevada. Santa rosa has been a bit as well as Half Moon Bay and the golden gate bridge. This view from our former peak camera is beautiful. Air quality moderate east bay. Upper 90 santa clara valley. Low to mid 90s at a fire danger index brings us to a moderate level as we get into the warmth today. The upper elevation, the hills, very, very dry brush. War
Like a cooler, right . I like it. Yes all right. Yes. Cool. Has settled in and i think its here for the bulk of the week. We are seeing a pretty big fog bank again, not as much drizzle. So far. 50 on the temps, 56 to 59. So we have fog, pretty good breeze and maybe some tropical clouds might play into the forecast highs today. 6070s and mainly low 80s. All right. Sal is here. Hes going to tell you and me. I hope its quiet out there. Yes things are light and the san mateo bridge, were going to start there because it looks good. Yesterday, we had a tough day on that san mateo bridge. And today it is much better. You can see traffic is flowing. Well and hopefully itll stay that way. This is a look at the bay bridge toll plaza that looks very good getting into San Francisco. Go at 401. Lets get back to the headlines. All right, sal, thank you. New this morning, fast moving wildfires are burning. Homes and forcing people to evacuate on the Hawaiian Island of maui. About a thousand acres hav
The developing news. Amber, whats the latest . Well, were at the intersection of eighth avenue and irving street. And let me tell you, there is still a very active scene out here with firefighters keeping an eye on those buildings that were damaged. The fire chief tells me the fire broke out at 815 tonight in a multi unit apartment building. It spread to a second residential building and the back of a Hardware Store damaging both. We spoke with the owner of the store. Well was sitting on the couch with my father watching the giants game. And we got a text message from a friend of ours, gave us the text and jumped up and drove down here and got the saw the news and saw the windows busted out. It spread the building that, you know, our Hardware Stores, the i guess the back room and the break room, i guess caught some of the brunt of the of the damage. Fire Officials Say 100 firefighters and more than 30 rigs responded to the scene. I asked the fire chief why the massive response . Becaus