Next to me has the siding ripped off, the chimney tossed on the lawn here and as you make your way across the street, weve seen so many homes just like this that had their roofs completely torn off. And i want you to take a look at some video that had the hardest hit areas. The city leaders are calling it a catastrophe. 450 homes damages, 100 homes considered a total loss but nobody in this neighborhood was killed. Thank god is all you can say. Theres no other way to put it. Its the grace of god. I dont care who you are, what you believe, what faith you believe, its the grace of god. Residents also giving a lot of credit to the sirens in the area as this tornado ripped through this area with winds of 170 and 180 miles per hour. Now, like i mentioned, no fatalities here but in nearby garland, eight People Killed when their cars were tossed off of an overpass in this tornado. One woman was a mother of four and she was on the phone with her husband when the tornado hit. She started scream
South. You see it over the carolinas its been lingering the past couple of days. High pressure has moved off the coast and will allow that moisture to move up the Chesapeake Bay and move our way from the southwest toward the northeast over the course of the day tomorrow. So what does this mean for your thursday and our temperatures . We will answer that with your seven day forecast coming up later in the broadcast. In the meantime, find an excuse to get outside. I need one. Thank you, kathy. Skyfox over the scene avenue body found in the Delaware River. It happened just before noon in the torresdale second of the city. So far police have not released the persons identity but they do tell us its the body of a hispanic teenaged girl. They say the body was found in the area where they had been searching for a missing teenaged girl but again they have not released the persons identity. We of course will keep you posted as we get any new information. One person is dead after an accident in
Michaellnd i know a lot of you were probably upset but we saved a lotot of lives, south florida. We saved a lot of lives. A lot of you at home finally got to deal with what Severe Weather really tastes like here in sevendaysouthflorida, unfortunately. We saw showers and damage with storms that became tornadic over Coconut Creek. The worst of the weather is moving toward West Palm Beach but aerial fod advisory over portions of broward until 1 45. We have very strong storms indicated over Deerfield Beach. You can seeust west of that area we still have a severe thunderstorm watch box in effect over portions of broward. Now the main influence for the last couple of hours has been all across parts of broward. Thats because the wind flow is the northeast. So all of these showers and storms have moved in from the gulf of mexico and have been headed towards portions of broward. Miamidade you havent seen much in the way of rainfall t you so i wanted to zoom outand show you exactly whats going o
Theres also a business called basically it has bagels and its called not just bagels we spoke witness owner of that business and theyre trying to get a better look at everything but the owner tells us shes really worried that she lost everythi everything. We do know at this point that from fire investigators they tell us that no one was injured. Thats the good thing here. No injuries here but, again, a four alarm fire and the Fire Department tells us that they actually had to deal with the cold and wind and really hampered their efforts to knock the fire down. But they were able to get it down. A couple hot spots that theyre looking fire is under investigation. Theres no word of a cause but good news, no injuries and some business openers hoping they can get a look at their property but as you said, this is a big area for thanksgiving and a lot of Business Owners are really worried that theyre just not going to be able to help out lot of people as they get ready for thanksgiving dinner
In your testimony that the state department was in the lead, as we just confirmed, for the effort to get back libya on its feet, one of the things that has been encountered in the investigation of the state Department Conduct in libya is the overwhelming normalization, whether it be the attempt to reduce security personnel at diplomatic facilities or socalled normal levels or attempt to view the government of libya as normal host nation partners capable of providing protection like my colleague from texas just talked about. Did you encounter this normalization philosophy during operation odyssey guard . Yes, sir, i did. Could you elaborate a little bit on that . Yes. Or instance, there was a desire to create a new normal within , which wasnment basically redefining of what i would consider suboptimal. Would you consider it hostile . Yes, sir. Ahead, continue. The hostile environment we were dealing with, our interaction certainly was not with our interagency counterparts, but the low p