As it heads towards the u. S. Mainland. Good evening, im julie haener. And im frank somerville. The good news is that Hurricane Dorian only caused limited damage today as it passed the Virgin Islands and then puerto rico. The hurricane did knock down trees and caused scattered Power Outages across the northern caribbean but there is no official flooding or excuse me no major flooding and officials in puerto rico say they are breathing a huge sigh of relief tonight. Chief meteorologist bill martin is here now with a look at the storm. Dorian is now a herrick and as you know. Checking out the last 10 hours or so as it moves by puerto rico and they dodged a bullet here. This went right between the islands, not a lot of damage at least so far on san juan, puerto rico. But we are looking light in thi the forecast for dorian as a category one for it to turn into a category three as we get to the weekend here and look at the focus of the storm. Category two as it moves in through the bahamas
According to this latest engineering report, there are 68 different buildings owned by uc berkeley that engineers now find problematic. Its an issue that is so serious cal berkeley officials this afternoon sent out this faculty and staff, sometudents, 50,000 people in all, detailing these latest findings. When students moved into their dorms last week, they likely had no idea that dozens of buildings on berkeleys campus now are considered by experts to pose a serious danger of collapse in the event of an problematic, the very dorms these students were moving into. Jack meile is professor of Structural Engineering at cal berkeley, an expert at making buildings able to withstand earthquakes. Weve learned more about what earthcake ground motion close to a fault could be like. Were now incorporating that new knowledge into the assessment of these buildings. And as that new knowledge comes into play many buildings that were deemed safe in the past now have some open questions. Reporter look
Time it makes landfall. We have more on how people are preparing for it. Reporter florida os governor, ron desantis has declared a state of emergency for much of the state. Outside of the National Hurricane center in miami, he urged floridians to keep close track of the path of Hurricane Dorian. Have your plan and make those preparations right now. You have to assume that if youre affected by this storm, that you will lose power. Reporter the advice is that people in the storms path should have enough supplies to be self sufficient and possibly home bound for the at least seven days. People in florida are boarding up their homes and businesses. There are long lines for gasoline and fuel. People are stocking up on food, water, and other emergency supplies. The georgia coast, all the way down to the keys, all of florida, will have to Pay Attention to the system. We can see the impacts all over the state. Such an important point i want to make. Dont think this is just coastal. We think ab
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