Area into tomorrow we will cover the entire bay area. We are running well above where we were 24 hours ago on almost 11 double digits. You can see all the cloud cover so look for cloudy to mostly cloudy days. Eventually pushing in tuesday and wednesday meaning we have the possibility of lightning and thunder storms. 70, 80, 90s. Very muggy today. You have a couple things going on. Sal, what we have going on. We are starting on the ultimate crash because of a motorcyclist crash. I want to let you know how very slow it is on 580 and 205. Much slower than normal. Whether it is you are driving or perhaps you are waiting for someone coming in from the valley to get to the worksite, they are going to be late. I would say legitimately so because of the slow traffic caused by the motorcycle wreck. Not on 680 we had a truck that was there in the lanes. That has been cleared, however southbound traffic is still slow leaving pleasanton northbound 680 should start recovery. San mateo bridge we had
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
Speak. There has been some looting. Miami was on lockdown overnight to try to prevent it. Nine arrests in Fort Lauderdale. Now, the millions who evacuated do not know at this time when they can go back and what theyre going back to. Irma is now a Tropical Storm, still lashing north florida and georgia. It hits atlanta in a couple of hours. So why are stocks going up . It looks like a tripledigit rally about a half hour from now. Well, there are several factors at play. Irma bad, yes, it is. But perhaps not the epic catastrophe that it might have been. And the money that is pouring into texas and florida may help the National Economy in the long run. President trump is getting favorable reviews for his handling of the crisis. That may help the push for tax cuts. And finally, north korea did not launch missiles as feared. Add it up, and on this the 16th anniversary of 9 11 americans have pulled together to deal with backtoback disasters. Yes, they have. Varney company is about the begin.
Is a special edition of today Hurricane Irma with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Yes, welcome to this special edition of today on a monday morning. Were going to be with you for several hours this morning trying to figure out whats happening with this storm, where shes going, and what shes left behind. Its been a long night, long weekend for our friends in florida. Lets get to where things stand with Hurricane Irma. Its a category 1 storm now packing 75 mileanhour winds still. We are waiting an updating from the National Hurricane center. Theyll give a sense of where its headed. We were talking 140 miles an hour yesterday down to 75 today. It can still do damage. Nearly 5 Million People without power this morning. Record Power Outages for the state of florida. People could be in the dark for awhile. Florida power and light is warning customers this is not going to take just a couple of days to restore. This will tak
Hurricane irma has left a trail of devastation and claimed at least a0 lives. Its destroyed thousands of homes and has left millions without power and clean water. Now, britain, france, and the netherlands, which oversee territories in the caribbean, have been criticised for being slow to respond to the crisis. A state of emergency has been declared on the British Virgin islands where an aid operation is under way. The bbcs laura bicker has the latest from tortola, the largest of the islands. There is now a sense of desperation and fear in tortola. People are hungry, tired and in need of basic supplies. This was the line of traffic trying to get into the main town on the island. Most are heading to the supermarket for the First Time Since the hurricane, now that more roads have been cleared. Have you got enough food, water . No, cause everybodys fighting, and stealing and a lots going on right now. People are breaking into peoples homes, going with what they have. Its a state of emerge