Proportions. A dire situation expected to get even worse today wednesday, august 30th, 2017. From nbc news, this is a special of today, the impact of Hurricane Harvey with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaz and. Good morning. Welcome today. We have craig in for matt once again. Hard to believe this storm is still sitting on top of the gulf of mexico. Another busy morning. Lets get right to the latest on harvey. After making its third landfall just north of cameron, louisiana. More than 51 inches of rain has already fallen, its still coming down hard in places like beaumont, texas opini. That region seeing a years worth of rain. The official death toll is up to at least ten overnight with an undetermined number of people still missing. An overnight curfew is now being enforced in houston, amid disturbing reports that people are going door to door as policemen to lure them out to rob them. Reporter there are concerns that so much rain has fallen so qu
Good monday morning, im frances rivera. Im phillip mena, great to be back. Harvey is hurling towards tennessee. Creating a wake of devastation in its path. In some areas of texas the water is still rising, impacting an estimated 100,000 homes. 38 deaths are blamed on the storm and rescue missions are still under way. The coast guard chopping away to save a mother and her four children trapped in the home. But the water is not the only threat. A flooded Chemical Plant near houston is under a 24hour emergency watch. After two explosions. The owner says eight more chemical containers could possibly explode. Home owners within a 1 1 2mile radius were urged to evacuate. Epa air tests reportedly found no concentrations of toxic materials. And in another glimmer of hope, the countrys biggest fuel supplier has announced a fuel pipeline that supplies 40 of east coast fuel could be reopened by this weekend. Possibly averting a national gasoline shortage. White house Officials Say President Trump
Many bay area neighborhoods today. Kpix5s Juliette Goodrich is in pleasanton where a familiar landmark has been pretty hard to see. Right . Reporter thats right. This landmark were talking about is mount diablo right over my shoulder. You can still see the haze right now. Its a little silhouette along mount diablo, but on a day when people are supposed to relax and barbecue this air quality has been deemed unhealthy. This was much of the bay area on this spare the air day. Active children and adults and people with respiratory disease such as asthma were advised to stay indoors and avoid prolonged outdoor exertion, sometimes easier said than done for those used to staying active like the reyes family. Were more younger. Its probably the older people, more sensitive. The typical labor day barbecues coming on yet another spare the air day. What youre seeing in the air in the bay area lately is a lot of pollutants primarily coming from wildfire smoke and soot. Sky drone 5 will take a view
Decision that has hundreds of thousands of dreamers caught in a nightmare this evening. Crowds are gathering on bofort abort boost both sides of the bay. Shielded people brought to the u. S. Illegally as children. Under todays white house decision, Homeland Security will now work permits for the estimated 800,000 Daca Recipients. It will give congress 6 months to find an alt tear native. Alternative. Im not going nowhere. This is the home, you are all my home. Im your neighborhood. Im the person that rides the bus with you. Alesion i cant is studying at underthe dreamer program. She works with a nonprofit tutoring by bilingual students. New at 6 00, our executive kpix 5 usa statewide poll found 58 of respondents think daca is good. Only 3 think its bad. And 63 think that congress should pass legislation to continue a version of that protest. The big protest the taking shape right now. Chopper 5 flew over the scene. Turner is live in the thick of it looking at the legal factors behind t
Theyre crowded now, but we have a lot of plans of how to increase the capacity of the system. Reporter do we even have the b. A. R. T. Cars to handle the people once they live here . We seem to have a hard no and those b. A. R. T. Cars are coming, albeit very slowly. Reporter now b. A. R. T. Will be getting 169 new cars next year. Those 8 and 9 car trains that you see in the morning will become 10 car trains. If. Reporter but they will still need another 300 cars. We wish we had all the funding today, but we dont. So well need to continue to work on that. Reporter and one of the plans for trying to get that funding is called regional measure 3 and it is something thats making its way through the legislature now and could be on the ballot for us to vote on next year. It would require a 2 increase on bay area bridge tolls run by the state. The idea is to generate money and a good part of that money would go to buy b. A. R. T. Cars and other improvements needed so that people can take b.