Our team is on the ground this morning tracking every development. President trumps stunning decision striking a deal with the democrats on Harvey Relief and the debt limit. Now the new backlash from his own party. Houstons hero. Oneonone with nfl star j. J. Watt. Now hes making sure hurricane victims get the nearly 30 million hes raised first on gma. And its backtoschool time for the little prince. George hand in hand with his dad this morning. Why mom princess kate is sitting this one out. Good morning, america. Hurricane irma showing no mercy right now. Lets take a look at what it looks like on the ground in the Dominican Republic. This morning, there it is. Thats just the outer bands of the hurricane. It is not going to be a direct hit on the Dominican Republic but you can see how powerful those winds are. And those first images of the storms power, george, are extremely scary. Just listen to it and also this morning, were seeing so much destruction already and hopefully everyone i
And shocker on center court. The moment an upandcoming star takes down her idol, Venus Williams. Now the allamerican showdown coming to the finals. We do say good morning, america. As you can imagine it is a very busy friday morning. Hurricane irma continues on the move, targeting the entire state of florida. It is being called a worst case scenario. Take a look at the storm hitting turks and caicos overnight. So much destruction across the caribbean already and its not the only hurricane in the atlantic basin. There are now three for the first time in seven years, irma, jose, and katia. Were taking you inside the hurricane talking to a Hurricane Hunter as he flies through the giant storm. Incredible footage as you can see right there. Heres what we know. This is the latest. Irma is a powerful category 4 storm with winds up to 155 miles an hour. The storm is being blamed for 13 deaths so far. The eye of the storm is expected to move right over florida, more than a Million People there
Is where the storm is coming in atlanta. First a check to david of the weather. We have been watching irma to continue to fall apart over the last couple of hours its still packing winds about 60 to 65 miles per hour, but it is continuing to pass out of the region and starting to weaken through the next couple of days. I want to talk about what weve been seeing with irma here were going to start off by talking about what the damage currently looks like you can see what the pictures looked like earlier, where we had strong winds as this came ashore into portions of florida with some very strong winds. Right now it is down to Tropical Storm force. It is expected to stay a Tropical Storm force level for at least the next couple of hours and then as we head through the next couple days, well continue to weaken into a tropical depression. One of the concerns weve had is whats happening in jacksonville easterly and southwesterly wind, so its packing the water up the st. Johns river and leadi
Of restoring power to 6 Million People, getting gasoline back in these ports. Jim and david, going to be a big story in port tampa bay later on today, which handles 37 million tons of cargo a year a third of all cargo that comes in and out of florida, 5,000 acres, the largest port in the state, in physical size. Were going to talk to the president of port tampa bay, Paul Anderson later in thelogis airlines and fdr saying specialty retail, 10 of their coverage universe is affected by irma versus only 2 in harvey. One more indication how large the wind field was in this storm. Guys carl, thank you of course, carls down there all weekend monitoring the storm, and going to be fully part of the show as he always is. Right but bring us up to date on all the things he just mentioned, jim i guess in some ways a sigh of relief, strangely enough. Right, right. Could seemingly have been worse. Yeah. I mean seemingly could have been a lot worse. It is strange on the start of a week to see futures
Tropical storm colin is lashing the gulf coast with high wind and heavy rains. Watches and warnings extend the all the way to the outer banks of north carolina. David begnaud in clearwater, florida for us tonight. David. Tropical storm colin expected to make landfall in the gulf coast within two to three hours. Here on Clearwater Beach where we are, relentless rain band hatch brought wind gusts 50 niles per hour. Significant flooding in cedar key, florida. In the tampa bay area, reports of flooding. Nearly 7 inch in 12 hours. A funnel cloud touched down on bonita beach today. No matter where you live in florida you saw rain part of the tropical system. Floridas governor, declared state of emergency in half the counties here in the state. Along the beaches, red flag warnings have gone up. But that has the not deterred tourists and thrill seekers. Scott, the storm tonight is starting to peck up speed. We are told remnants could be over South Carolina as early as tomorrow morning. A storm