In the first quarter. Be sensible. Stay calm. Most of people are heeding the warnings. Many are crowding into hurricane shelters. Shop owners boarded up businesses and used sandbags to keep out the rain. It is too soon to tell if it will do any good. The hawaiibound travels in the bay area are on edge, with some canceling their vacations and others rebacked for other destination. Flights in and out of hawaii airport were experiencing only delays of 15 minutes or less. We will go to sfo for what our reporter is seeing. A robot createed by sunnyvalebased company is live tweeting the storm in the waters off the coast of hawaii. The hurricane is showing approaching the island. You can follow our wave glider at abc7news. Com. Our coverage continues on Twitter Twitter abc7newsbayarea. President obama is authorizing airstrikes against the militant group in Northern Iraq to prevent them from advancing and harming thousands of refugees trapped by the militants. The military is back in action in
It looks like a direct hit. Hurricane iselle slamming into hawaii, bringing high winds and high surf. Heres the live look from hilo bay on the big island. And while power is on here, thousands of people are sitting in the dark tonight. Good evening. Im dan ashley. And im ama daetz. The storm is just moments from landfall. Spencer christian is tracking hurricane iselle and hurricane julio with live doppler 7 hd. Spencer . The last official word is that landfall is imminent with hurricane iselle bearing down on the big island of hawaii right now. Its a category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds at about 75 Miles Per Hour with gusts to 85. And you can see its position in the eye just about there on the big island. Meanwhile, hurricane julio, a category 3, is not far behind. Lets track iselle first because this is the storm were concerned about right now. Again, just beginning to make landfall on the big island. It will pass over the island out to sea tomorrow moving due west south
Anchor Spencer Christian who is tracking the storm. Spencer . Here is how things look on the radar image. Two storms approaching the big island. Iselle, hurricane category one hurricane is just about ready to make landfall within the next couple of hours. Let me give you some statistics of the two storms. Hurricane julio is a powerful category three, but thats far off right now. Were looking at iselle which has a center only about 95 miles east southeast of hilo, maximum sustained winds 75 miles per hour. Probably will be a category one hurricane. It will pass over the ill aslad move quickly over the chain of islands over the next couple of days and then Tropical Storm julio moving north of the island. It may be far enough away that it wont deal much of a blow at all to the islands, but once again, expecting landfall from iselle within the next couple of hours. That would be around, oh, 8 00 p. M. Hawaii aleutian standard time. Tropical storm warnings in effect for the remainder of the
Big island. Meanwhile, hurricane julio, a category 3, is not far behind. Lets track iselle first because this is the storm were concerned about right now. Again, just beginning to make landfall on the big island. It will pass over the island out to sea tomorrow moving due west south of the remaining chain of islands. But then julio comes behind, and thatll be either category 1 hurricane or a Strong Tropical Storm as it passes north of the islands over the weekend. If it stays on this track it will have very little effect on the island except for some gusty winds and light rain. But right now were in the island and all the residents and visitors are brafting for the brunt of hurricane iselle. Ama and dan . Thank you, spencer. Right now on the big island of hawaii those beautiful beaches are closed asisll moves in. More than 10,000 Hawaiian Electric light customers on the big island are without power right now. State officials have opened shelters on every island, but at least one of tho
It looks like a direct hit. Hurricane iselle slamming into hawaii, bringing high winds and high surf. Heres the live look from hilo bay on the big island. And while power is on here, thousands of people are sitting in the dark tonight. Good evening. Im dan ashley. And im ama daetz. The storm is just moments from landfall. Spencer christian is tracking hurricane iselle and hurricane julio with live doppler 7 hd. Spencer . The last official word is that landfall is imminent with hurricane iselle bearing down on the big island of hawaii right now. Its a category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds at about 75 Miles Per Hour with gusts to 85. And you can see its position in the eye just about there on the big island. Meanwhile, hurricane julio, a category 3, is not far behind. Lets track iselle first because this is the storm were concerned about right now. Again, just beginning to make landfall on the big island. It will pass over the island out to sea tomorrow moving due west south