More from miami. Reporter its one of the strongest Atlantic Hurricanes ever recorded. Irma, a cat 5 storm battering the northeast caribbean hitting st. Martin, st. Kitz and several other islands with 185 mile an hour winds, churning slowly north threatening to the entire western caribbean. I have no place to go. I have to stay here. I will live or dye depending how this storm hits us. The storm projected to hit florida hard over the weekend. State and federal officials including President Trump warning residents not to underestimate the danger. The storm is bigger, faster, and stronger than hurricane andrew. Well know in a short period of time but it looks like it could be something that will be good. Believe me, not good. Preparations are already under way with supplies like water and gas running low. The highways are clogged as anxious residents hit the road afraid of being left behind if there is a repeat of flooding we saw this past week in houston. The storm is pretty bad so we wa
Us. Im jessica aguirre. And im raj mathai. Three elderly people died in San Francisco. The city might not have been prepared. New at 11 00, nbc bay areas gene elle has how they are under fire. Jean. Reporter San Francisco does have an emergency plan for an excessive heat wave and they say that plan should have been activated before the temperature reached 106 degrees. Now with three deaths linked to that heat wave, they want to know what went wrong. Im very saddened by that. Three deaths is three too many. Reporter San Francisco supervisor aaron peskin reacting to a report from the medical Examiners Office. Three elderly people between the ages of 80 and 97 died alone in their homes from heat related illness. The deaths happened during the record setting Labor Day Holiday heat wave and they add to a growing list of questions about how well city agencies were prepared. Peskin is already planning to hold a hearing to find out why more ambulances werent scheduled. Emergency calls spiked w
Upper 60s, also watching out for a little bit that rain moving through, the bulk of the showers and storms have been well to the north of the viewing area and moving away from us. So as we go into the day, looking at temperatures reaching into the upper 70s in san jose, mid70s for oakland, upper 60s for San Francisco with lower 80s in the trivalley. Dev definitely cooler, and ill talk more about that coming up. Mike is track a crash. Thauz thats right pu mensed there may be a light sprinkle that went through the area. They do report two crashes, one southbound ive been tracking thats just before you get to the summit, and another one coming on the northbound side. The details on that late ef one do seem different enough nauf there maybe a second crash in the same area right around the santa cruz summit on highway 17. Meanwhile getting over to the bay bridge, easy drive as well. A light flow of traffic and well track this build. Back to you. Now to the Hurricane Irma coverage rare deadl
Major highways are clogged with cars. You can see from the Helicopter Shot as evacuation orders are sending people inland and to the north in order to get out of irmas path. Local leaders say that people who chose to stay in the areas that are now under evacuation wont have any help later. We boarded up the house, and were hoping for the best. Thats all we can do right now. Its a mad house. I dont want to run out of gas on the road. If you stay, you think youre a tough guy, then youre on your own. We have Team Coverage this midday as the bay area already prepares to help as soon as irma hits. Lets start with meteorologist kerry hall. This storm track, is it still aim towards Floridas Atlantic coast. It is, and unfortunately we havent seen anymore shifts off towards the east, which would make it a lesser blow to florida that the point, but we are now seeing that major hurricane just to the north of hispaniola right now moving towards the turks and caicos and we have some more hurricane
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