Covering. Reporter beaches will be open again in new york city for the 4th but closing down again in parts of texas, across much of southern california, the bay area and florida. Off limits in miami beach, and the mayors message . The hardest things to deal with are these mixed messages coming from the state and local government and the president. Were telling people there is nothing more american than making a sacrifice by staying home. Reporter wednesday 50,000 new cases across this country for the first time. Yesterday it happened again. And id like to just announce reporter the president says its just more testing. Its not. So what is it . Its very difficult to say that this particular demonstration or that particular rally or that particular holiday at a beach did it. But something happened to make the spike go way up like that. Reporter and different states, different stories. In arizona, more people are now being killed by covid19 than ever before. Vermont hasnt had a covid19 pa
Would begin here briefly with our meteorologist bill karins, who has the very latest from the National Hurricane center update. Hey, bill. Hey, brian. We are watching this storm closely as its bringing a tornado threat. Were getting high winds. Were hearing reports of water being overwashed onshore. Then were going to deal with this storm for the next 24 hours up the eastern seaboard. First off you can see the position of the category 1 hurricane right along the South Carolina georgia border where it meets the coast. Weve heard significant reports of damage near bald head island. The worst of the heavy winds right now is right over the top of wilmington, north carolina. Thats where weve had a couple of tornado warnings near that area too. Weve even had some damage with that. So as far as the forecast, 85mileperhour winds. I want to talk about how slowly this storm is going to lose its steam. Tipically these storms make landfall, and they quickly reduce. Not this one. Even tomorrow morn
Position of the category 1 hurricane right along the South Carolina georgia border where it meets the coast. Weve already heard of significant reports of damage near bald head island. The worst of the heavy winds right now is right over the top of wilmington, north carolina. Thats where weve had a couple of tornado warnings near that area too. Weve even had some damage with that. So as far as the forecast, 85mileperhour winds. I want to talk about how slowly this storm is going to lose its steam. Typically these storms make landfall, and they quickly reduce. Not this one. Even tomorrow morning at 8 00 a. M. , still 70mileperhour winds in between richmond and norfolk. Then even by tuesday evening, 60mileperhour winds outside of new york city. So what does all of this mean . Well, the Power Outages will be the story tomorrow at this time. Will it be hundreds of thousands . Will it be millions . Thats what were going to find out in the next 24 hours. If you are anywhere east of i95, that
As this white house is preparing for a storm that would test any administration while the ongoing political and legal anxiety continues to hang over this west wing, between the mueller effort, lets not forget the approaching midterms. First, to this approaching storm, it is poised to complete an intercontinental journey from the coast of west africa to the east coast of the United States. By this time tomorrow night we will be covering the hammering of the north and South Carolina coastlines that florence will deliver. The International Space station today used their widestangle lens to fit the entire storm in one frame from 200plus miles above the storm. It was hard to shoot that picture out the window. About preparedness, the president talked about that tonight while engaging in some selfcongratulation at the same time. We have some really big situation confronting us. Its coming in fairly fast. And its going to be one of the biggest to ever hit the east coast, one of the biggest to
Im lovely woman. Im not here to judge. I wish her well. I hope when i call her down there, she tells me everything is great. Come on by. Were actually open. But when you stay behind, if you make a miscalculation, its no longer just about you. There are people that have to save you, and their lives are going to be put on the line. They do it willingly, but youre putting them at risk as well. You know what . Every so often when im like driving, you know, on the fdr, which is here or on the west side, anywhere in manhattan, i look up, and i look for the twin towers because remember they used to be you could figure out where exactly you are. Youd look up, and youd see those twin towers. After all these years, its still stunning to me. I still look up expecting to see those towers. Ive never dealt with anything like that in my life, that kind of loss, being down there that day, seeing everything that happened and in the days and weeks afterwards. Totally changed my life. I got engaged 11 da