Inventories, a much bigger drawdown. A drawdown of 5. 9 million barrels, compared to the survey calling for a drawdown of 3. 1 million barrels. Whats happening now, Hurricane Harvey, of course, took refineries offline. That, of course, caused oil to be in less demand building. We are seeing a bigger build than expected. Gasoline not produced through the refineries. A bigger drawdown. He would not be surprised by this report because he thinks some of the economists surveyed probably did not have the u. S. s exporting activities influenced. We did not the ports were closed, so we were not able to export or import oil. Take a look at the intraday chart of oil, not that much of a reaction, about 0. 5 on this report, first down day in five days. Has had a pretty big rally recently. Today, taking a bit of a breather. Sometimes it takes a while for the reaction to come in. Lets take a look at the major averages, slipping between small gains and flipping between small gains and losses on the d
Theres a tiger in the yard. Full size tiger. A tiger terrorizes an Atlanta Neighborhood attacking one womans dog. This morning the mystery over where it came from now solved. All that plus dropoff. Prince george showing up for his first day of school. Tom brady and nfl gets set to kick off a new season tonight. And Roger Federer upset at the u. S. Open. But its an all american semifinal on the womens side for the first time in nearly 40 years, today, thursday, september 7th, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Morning, everybody. Good to have you with us on a thursday morning. Its 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. Most people are talking about irma. We want to get right to that storm. The strongest atlantic storm ever roared by puerto rico overnight lashing it with incredibly powerful winds and flooding rain. We know half of that islands 3 million residents are without power. We are getting our first lo
Down the street getting ready to leave his home and he told me he was packing like he wasnt going to come back for a long, long time. For the folks there obviously scrambling to get out of harms way do you know where theyre evacuating to . A live look now at the dark sky over florida. Again the storm is toward reporter a lot of people are leaving the state entirely, but that is not an option for a lot of folks. So the first step is to get away from the coast, get away from where we are and to go somewhere inland. Others are making their way up to Central Florida and orlando and those parts, but that could be in the path of the storm as well, so thats not necessarily a safe place either, a tough choice. Kenneth, thank you. Lets take a live look now at, well, the sunset in florida. Again the storm clouds are gathering there. It is tracking toward the southern part of the state. Where it could slam miami this weekend with a life threatening storm surge and major wind. Hurricane irma batte
With a very nice, comfortable day. We can see it is a large storm but it is now a category 4 hurricane with wind speeds of 155 miles an hour. It is still moving fairly quickly to the west northwest at 16 miles an hour and is just now north of cuba. If this moves a little bit closer to cuba that could change what miami could expect. The possibility of a slightly weaker hurricane but its still going to be very powerful and more on this and the track coming up in a few minutes as we head over to mike now, an update on the bay bridge. You talked about the fog. For the cars as well, let me show you on the map getting into San Francisco. A disabled vehicle limping its way off the bridge. Just before you get to the tunnel, theres a work zone heading westbound. The rest of the bay moves well. Theres a crash here on highway 9. Its in a remote area. Were tracking that on the chp report. Back to you, marcus. At 4 32 before we get to new developments on irma start with breaking news out of mexico.
Ill have a complete update on Hurricane Irma coming up as we head to mike now. Not a major concern for the rest of the world. I know you said youll bring more updates on irma. Here to the rest of the bay, a smooth drive. The nimitz freeway, we have one issue in oakland. One lane is still blocked. Folks are slowing down as well as getting into downtown. Toward the bay bridge other than that is not a major problem. Traffic flows well. Head through town. Back to you. Thank you, mike. Just hours ago Hurricane Irma was down graded to a category 4. Irma is still expected to devastate florida which is directly in its path. Nbc news has confirmed at least 12 deaths throughout the islands including six in u. S. Territories. As that storm races towards florida we have team coverage. Kari is tracking irmas path. And rick boone talking about bay area teams heading out to help. Set the scene there for us. It looks beautiful right now. Reporter its a Beautiful Day here in miami. Not a cloud in the s