David muir, amy robach and our Abc News Team spread out across the storm zone. A special edition of gma starts now. And good morning, america. Florida has never seen a storm like this. That is naples. That is drone footage of naples. The destruction there yesterday. Right now the storm hitting jacksonville and expecting a powerful storm surge there. At one point sunday the entire state was covered by this storm. Such a massive force. Now making its way toward atlanta where theyre facing a Tropical Storm warning. And we are now just starting to see images from the areas hardest hit being the keys. It hit there first and hit there hard. Hurricane irma has claimed five lives in florida, 27 across the caribbean. It was a category 4 storm when it first made landfall in florida shortly after 9 00 a. M. Yesterday with wind gusts topping 140 miles an hour. This morning more than 5 million customers without power in the state. World news tonight anchor david muir is leading our coverage on the
David muir, amy robach and our Abc News Team spread out across the storm zone. A special edition of gma starts right now. And good morning, america. We are live for our viewers in the west. That is our drone footage of naples, florida, this morning. Look at that devastation. It has been a tough morning for so many in florida. Irma has been downgraded to a Tropical Storm, and not a hurricane. It has led a path of destruction across there. They are seeing record storm surge, and you see that water. At one point, the entire state of florida was covered by the storm. Such a massive force, and now its barrelling toward atlanta, and they are facing a Tropical Storm warning there. We are now just starting so see images from the areas hardest hit, that being the florida keys. Heres what we know right now. Irma has claimed at least five lives in florida, 27 across the caribbean. It was a category 4 storm when it made landfall in florida, wind gusts topping 140 miles an hour. This morning, more
I like it watch weeks later. Its relevant yeah. The wisdom. Absolutely. Global markets report lets check in on how were coming out of the overnight session. Looking at u. S. Equity futures the dow, s p a bit lower implied for the open same for the nasdaq. Coming off records again yesterday. How about overnight in asia. Well see how they react to the feds tightening yesterday which did not phase markets. The nikkei is up 0. 2 . I believe they had an earthquake in japan overnight as well the shanghai down about a quarter of a percent european equities, seeing how the theyre continuing, green pretty much across the board. France and italy leading the way with a half percent of gains ftse just a bit higher crude is coming off a flinday win streak you know, crude for wti is over 50 a barrel brent over 56 a barrel both down a quarter of a percent. Small declines for nat gas well talk about Hurricane Maria. Just thinking, japan, mexico, maria. Think about the last 30day period i know. Normall
Speed down that bicycle path, and struck bicyclists, and pedestrians. There will be more injuries, as people selfevacuated, and we will determine that later as we do our survey. But thats the patient count and the deaths as we know it now. All right, at this point, were going to take some questions. Miles. Hold on, miles. [inaudible] john, ut to talk about the you want to talk about the program a little bit . As you know, through the shield program we do a very wide outreach. We have just under 20,000 members after isis, ramia magazine came out. Listening to the press conference in new york city, the mayor of new york city, the governor of new york. The police and fire commissioner. Getting an update on how this terror incident took place in lower manhattan. It took place almost two and a half hours ago, where it person started going down a bike path. Hit people, injuring two students, injuring two adults, brandished a handgun, and was taken down by an officer on duty nearby. One of th
Also this hour who ewe looking at . How sheep can be trained to recognise a familiar face from a photo including barak 0bama and the bbcs fiona bruce. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The future of the International Development secretary, priti patel, is in doubt after details emerged of further undisclosed meetings she had with israeli politicians. Ms patel is currently flying back from africa, after being ordered to return to the uk by the Prime Minister. She apologised to theresa may on monday about unauthorised meetings with israeli politicians in august, but it appears she did not reveal details of further meetings held in september. Joining us from westminster is our assistant Political Editor norman smith. Is there any course of action open to theresa may other than to sack priti patel . It is very hard to see any other outcome, all the signs are priti patel, when she landed back in london, will be summoned to meet the Prime Minister, and she will be asked to give her