And dont get me started. Oh. Nd a presented by toyota. Lets go places. Welcome to cbs this morning. A powerful and deadly hurricane is slamming haiti right now as the southeastern United States braces for a possible direct hit. Hurricane matthew is hammering caribbean islands with dangerous winds of up to 145 miles an inches of rain. Wow. The violent category 4 storm is headed for eastern cuba and the bahamas today. North carolina and florida have already declared states of emergency. Mark strawsman is in kings stop, jamaica, tracking the deadly threat. Mark, good morning. Reporter good morning. Jamaica dreaded jamaica for the days but the apparent bulls eye is haiti. Theyre warning it will be life uthwest hait torrential rains and more than 130 mile per hour winds slammed into haiti. Roads became rivers in the poorest nation in the western lu hemisphere. Across the island in Santo Domingo dominican, republic. The deluge dropped sheets of rain forcing cars to drive driu through floods.
Choice. We know today the Supreme Court said the funding mechanism was unconstitu tional. Not the law itself. Funding can be fixed. So walk us through the next steps in this fight. You believe this will create a new goldrush of educational innovation. What do you mean by that . What about the other sides argument that esas will hurt our Public Schools . Legislators will come up with an acceptable funding mechanism. paul joncich thanks again for coming in. Lets send it over to tedd tedd florendo skies are starting to cloud up a little from the south and we see some moisture come in from mexico. Possiblities for the region tonight. We see temps cooler than yesterday and winds remaining light for now. Dewpoints and humidity still remain quite low but will go up tomorrow as more moisture works its way up from the south. Tonight expect temps staying warm to mild. Cool by clouds developing and shower chances tomorrow. Tonight clouds will increase but winds will remain light for the most part
adlib adlib first les krifaton joins us with a quick look weather 247 forecast. Normal again tuesday under sunny skies. The system that pushed the cooler air into our area is heading away. Its being replaced by High Pressure by the end of the week which will take us back to seasonal temperatures. Before then a few weak systems will help develop breezy conditions wednesday evening into thursday morning. Good morning. Heres a look at solutions lets begin with your drive here are the accidents to watch out and alternate routes you can use listed on our maps here are the construction areas to look out for and alternate routes listed on our maps back to the news desk october is Pedestrian Safety month and metro want to remind everyone of the importance of Pedestrian Safety but they also want to have fun at the same time. Their annual National Night out events are taking fox5s peter dawson is live near Cashman Middle School where a special parade will march through the neighborhood. Clark Co
Exposure. Thats where we begin tonight. Im Sharie Johnson, thanks for joining us. As the Investigation Continues the epa has now upped the amount of mercury discovered on campus. Brittany edney is live with what the epa is telling us about about the discovery . Brittany Edney when the news first broke about the amount discovered. We were told it was no larger than the amount found in a thermometer. This evening we learned that the epa has collected around a inside the school. Just to give you an idea, this is how much that looks like. So just imagine if this was all toxic liquid metal. Brittany Edney continued cleanup means no class for students at Johnson Junior High School on monday. Theres still some areas of campus specifically the gym where crews are making sure all traces of potentially harmful mercury levels are removed. randy nattis, epa take place, and then theyre going to start with reconstruction. Brittany Edney so far 60 homes have been screened for mercury and one of them
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