Made famous by robert de niro. Hurricane maria is tearing through the caribbean leaving a wide swath of destruction. It devastated pr uerto rico wit heavy winds and rain. Ty wary of the damage it brought to anyo dominica. 70 of homes had their roofs ripped off and the island is without water, power or cell phone service. Were dealing with it. Its a major category 3 hurricane. Maria bearing down to the north of the Dominican Republic. As the storm worked its way over puerto rico, the eye looks more ragged, not as organized. But the winds are still strong. Classifying this as a category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds right at 115 miles an hour. The movement has slowed down. Thats not good news. The longer it takes to move out, the more rain well see. Were still dealing with flash flooding. Looking at the track, the impacts on the turks and caicos later today and possibly to the north of the bahamas by friday. And the weekend, so far, so good for the east coast. But something to mon
And that breaking news is in las vegas where police say theres a report of an active shooter on the strip. This is video of a reporter with the abc affiliate there. Police say the shooter is near or around the mandalay bay resort. Its a large crowd of people running. Affiliates reporter on the scene said police and ambulances are everywhere. Theres no word right now on any possible injuries. Well continue to stay on top of the surgery and bring you updates on the abc7 news app and live pictures from the ground there in las vegas of and you see a lot of Police Activity and on the strip. Things blocke off. This is always very busy up and down the strip. Well of course bring you the latest as we get it. In this news cost, abc7 news app and mornings starting at 4 30. Good evening. Im eric thomas. We begin with the other top story. A deadly accident outside sams chowder house. The restaurant is along highway 1 and we have more with what people are saying after a man was killed by a chp car
Delaware. A fire retractortrailer accident shutdown i 295 northbound just north of route 141 in newport. The rig slammed into concrete barrier and sparked a huge fire littering the highway with debris. Amazing the driver escaped and will survive. Crews are on scene trying to caleer the wreckage. North of route 141 right now lets get to the accu weather alert. 6 00 a. M. On sunday, gray is off. Jeaneatte reyes joins us. Chris sowers with all the winds and rain moving in get ready. We got a good old fashion coastal storm developing over the next few hours. And that means, a lot of rain today. Then a lot of wind overnight tonight through date tomorrow. Flash flood watch has been issued by the National Weather service up for the counties that you she highlighted in greens mainly areas east and north of the city of philadelphia. Were something one to three inches of rain from the system and that could cause low lying flooding areas of poor drainage flooding and especially near the smaller c
Is in the process of pushing through now, it is raining quite heavily across sussex and kent counties. It should be into south jersey shortly and into philadelphia the next hour or so followed by another round of rain later on. Philadelphia west heavy rains along 322. Heading into Chester County. All the way down to oxford and down to the Mason Dixon Line and further south. This is round 1. Round 2 arriving probably around 2 00 or 3 00. The call from accu weather, soaking rain, not a driving steady rain, when it comes down, it will come down at a good clip, street flooding is likely in parts of the area, 68 is the forecasted high. What ive done here, kind of broken it down hour by hour. To give you an idea of when we are expecting those heavier bands, from now right through lunchtime expect a soaking brain, then a lull from 1 00 to 3 00. Only to see the next round move in and that continues to Late Afternoon and early evening, totals could range anywhere from one to three inches. Then
Its reaching the point where its of watergate size and scale. Two days ago, the Washington Post reported that the president gave russian officials highly classified information from israel. Yesterday, the New York Times said comey had memos indicating he tried to talk him into dropping the fbi investigation of his former security adviser, michael flynn. You know, its obviously, its no small matter when were talking about impeaching the president of the United Statesmembers of both parties are now asking to see comeys notes on his oval office encounters. House Oversight Committee chairman Jason Chaffetz scheduled a hearing with comey next week. But tweeted that the former fbi chief has changed his phone number. Our democracy has become a mess. The turmoil in washington triggered a sell off on wall street. Stocks suffering their biggest one day drop since last september. I think were at a point where it seems like the presidency is starting to crackle and become vulnerable. I think wall