90 Miles Per Hour wind gusts to miami and enough rain to flood some of the areas roadways. Its just not safe to go outside. You could step in a puddle or step in, you know, a very light patch of water and it could be completely electrified with a live power line and it will kill you. Reporter millions are without power and now neighboring states are bracing for the storm. Stay in place. Make sure theres a secure place as much as you can do so and stay off the roads. Reporter georgia declaring a state of emergency for all 159 counties. Heavy rains expected throughout areas of the state monday including in Metro Atlanta where many schools and businesses are closed. An in alabama, officials also prepping for the wrath of irma. This is an all hands on deck event. Reporter Hurricane Irma spent a record three days as a category five and is the strongest Atlantic Basin hurricane ever recorded outside of the gulf of mexico and the caribbean sea. Were here in naples where this is what people wo
A big sigh of relief for so many people that this storm didnt leave the kind of catastrophic damage that was expected in places like this. But irma is still leaving its mark. Today flooding in charleston, savannah and breaking records in jacksonville. What was Hurricane Irma now moving north. While floridians statewide start to assess the destruction left by this giant storm. We got a lot of damage, a lot of cleanup. Reporter neighborhoods like this one in naples under water homes, airplanes and the front of this Senior Living center torn apart. Its unbelievable. Reporter trees uprooted, this one in bradenton taking part of a house with it. Its an incredible sight. Reporter the first image from the keys where irma made its initial u. S. Landfall as a category four yesterday morning now coming in showing houses barely standing, cars buried beneath sand with bridges closed, residents who evacuated are now trying unsuccessfully to get back. Very anxious and we all just want to go home and
East. We had some earlier thunder in the overnight hours down there. Not picking up any of that right now although another lightning bolt or two would not be out of the question. Pretty much the rest of the area is dry. There might be a little light sprinkle up around maybe southern Delaware County near i95 and northern wilmington. But Everything Else here appears to be ground clutter and not on the move. As we take a look at the wide view, we are going to start out with a fair amount of clouds and there is the chance anyway of some of those showers continuing down the shore but as we go into the later morning and afternoon hours were hoping that these clouds begin to break up a little bit and were going to get some sunshine back into play. 55 degrees to start out in philadelphia, 46 allentown, 49 friend49in trenton. Mainly cloudy skies mainly dry if youre not down in the extreme southern areas and 50 degrees by 6 oclock. A jacket required this morning. As we roll through the day thing
And i see the pain it causes and its definitely a problem. We need to make sure and try to irradiate that. That will forever change our campus. Or a family doesnt have to make a tree memorial again. Reporter we did show you those toxicology numbers in the package. One of the students in the car, joshua lee was not drinking. There was no alcohol found in his blood. The other student that survived they dont mention her alcohol because that was not released. Ive been following the postings of all after these families all day. They are heartbroken and it hurts to bring this up again. They said they hope that other families find closure from this as well. Live in spartanburg county, brianna smith, 7 news. Thank you for that. A teacher is step g stepping down after lewd pictures wither found on her cell phone. This happened at the career and Technology Center in union. Leigh an arthur is being investigated. Through her phone while she was monitoring the halls between classes. That student fo
Dr 3 heres a live look at the s. C. D. O. T. Cam on 3 its been 6 weeks since the South Carolina senate took up a bill to raise the gas tax and fix South Carolinas roads. With still no vote. And upstate Business Leaders growing frustrated. 3 but opponents of the gas tax increase say the money is already there to fix roads. Isnt being spent wisely. 3 Fox Carolinas Andrew Reeser joins us live from outside our station along i85. Andrew . 3 its been more than a year since Governor Haley rolled out her plan to reform the and raise the gas tax to fix roads. And while the house has a plan in place. The senate hasnt even voted on one. 3 3 3 are paying more for our roads the road to better roads in South Carolina. Is paved with political gridlock. 3 3 while potholes and Weather Damage plague the states thoroughfares. 3 3 debate over whether to raise the gas tax in the palmetto state to pay for roads has the senate at a dead end. 3 3 3 01 03 00the people of South Carolina need to realize that the