Harvey. They were on their way home when they got turned around and told to head to florida. Initially started heading towards home and then things changed and we ended up getting turned around. We made it to new mexico, and now we got a phone call late last night. Pg e will start packing up this morning and then when they get to florida, theyre going to help restore Power Outages that are expected from the next hurricane. We will be here when they start loading up. Stay with us as we continue to cover this developing story. Reporting live in hayward, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. Thank you, amy. Airlines are already canceling flights and offering passengers a chance to rebook free of charge. Some have even added cheap flights to help the evacuation. Some florida residents have already left their homes. We were at sfo where some arrived yesterday. Sandbags, as much as i could possibly do. We took everything from outside, all the valuables, all the perishables i got rid of. My family is th
And storm surge, 127 Miles Per Hour wind gusts by sunday morning. So the latest track has shifted a little farther to the west. That means irma will likely be hitting southern florida by saturday afternoon and sunday afternoon as a category four hurricane, the latest track bring its up the center of the peninsula. That means the entire peninsula of florida will get hit by Hurricane Force winds and not making a second landfall but decreasing to a category one as it pushes north of jacksonville. The take away from irmas Impact Likely the worst damage since hurricane andrew in 1992, could be worse than that. Storm surge making places uninhabitable for months. And running out of time to evacuate. More coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Meanwhile Hurricane Irma has cut a path of destruction through the caribbean leaving as we mentioned at least ten people dead and thousands homeless. Tonight its headed straight for florida and mandatory evacuation orders are in effect for the coast
Network is. Tom just in the last 90 minutes. To go back and look at the different panels, frustrations, the studies of terrorism experts in the recent months after paris to move forward. You really wonder how they will adapt, how europe will adjust to now london and paris and now brussels. Francine yeah, and there are questions about the authorities, if there was anything they could have done. Lets get straight to vonnie quinn for the latest on this terror attack. Vonnie thank you. Multiple explosions reported in brussels; a number of dead and wounded. Two explosions the departure hall at the airport. There are local reports that say at least 13 were killed. As of now, the official death toll is just one. The airport has been evacuated, the archers stopped, incoming flights diverted to other airports. Brussels has closed all their subway stations after a report of an explosion. The city has been on high alert since the weekend; it had been on the highest alert following the man believe
Digital producer and cohost bringing in all of your feedback, you know, we talk a lot about predatory lending and it is terrible, but when you look at the numbers that some of these Service Members are getting stuck with, loans at 200 perspires. Crazy. It is insane. We have talked about this before. We were both shocked to see how specifically effects veterans. We got some Great Stories from veterans. We gave this fact out, a 2014 reports that 26 of Service Members sometimes have difficulty making ends meet. Alison tweets in as a former u. S. Military wife, i can attest to this, that most Service Members qualify for women, infant, and Children Food statutes and it is reprehensible. A lot of stories about how this is effecting families military service people, and they have no one to talk to. The department of defense may ask congress to amend the lending act, a law that kept Interest Rates at 36 , because apparently it isnt enough to stop lenders from preying on members of the military
Digital producer and cohost bringing in all of your feedback, you know, we talk a lot about predatory lending and it is terrible, but when you look at the numbers that some of these Service Members are getting stuck with, loans at 200 perspires. Crazy. It is insane. We have talked about this before. We were both shocked to see how specifically effects veterans. We got some Great Stories from veterans. We gave this fact out, a 2014 reports that 26 of Service Members sometimes have difficulty making ends meet. Alison tweets in as a former u. S. Military wife, i can attest to this, that most Service Members qualify for women, infant, and Children Food statutes and it is reprehensible. A lot of stories about how this is effecting families military service people, and they have no one to talk to. The department of defense may ask congress to amend the lending act, a law that kept Interest Rates at 36 , because apparently it isnt enough to stop lenders from preying on members of the military