out around 6:00 a.m. on the east coast, the first two places that picked it up were r.t. and sputnik, both controlled by the russian government. isn t that interested? it s very convenient. thanks. nice to talk to you. hope you come back. thank you. shepard: democratic leaders have tried to promise to filibuster the confirmation of neil gorsuch. but now two democrats say they will support gorsuch. if more democrats follow, it could be smooth sailing for judge gorsuch as he tries to reach the highest court in the land. the next move? that s next. umbrellas!!
interstate bridge collapse in a raging fire last night. one witness said he heard explosions and felt the ground rumple when the bridge collapsed last evening. a transportation official said the fire started in an area used to store construction equipment and supplies. they didn t know how it started though. the fire was i enormous. look at those pictures. nobody hurt. repairs could take months and traffic is a disaster. a 700 ton ferry that sat at the bottom of the sea for three years is now in a port in south korea. they will search for the missing bodies of nine passengers. more than 300 people died when it docked. and this is on the east coast of australia. officials issued a warning there that a big storm would hit. and your symptoms have left you with the same view, it may be time for a different perspective.
after terrifying incident at hong kong shopping mall. upward bound escalator increased speed, sending many shoppers tumbling. at least 18 people were injured in the incident. going very fast there, isn t it? well strengthen tropical cyclone is approaching the east coast of australia. and meteorologist harry joins us now with the latest on the storm, what do we know? we know the storm system is strengthening pretty quickly. this is something we think in the next 12 hours could get up to category 2 storm and measuring the storm system and cloud feel from the northern fringe to southern fringe. if you were to place this along europe, it will stretch out towards warsaw. the winds with this, will land to category one hurricane.
welcome back, everyone. the new mad max fury road opened in movie theaters over the weekend making more than $109 million worldwide. not bad kiddiconsidering the la movien the series came out 30 years ago. this installment, stars tom hardy and chalize theron and directed by the man who did the original. here s a look at what went into creating fury road. we wanted to shoot in australia, in broken hill where we shot the other movies in the outback of australia. we were about to shoot, but it rained for the first time in 15 years, big time. so we had to move from the east coast of australia to namibia
traffic hour. train services were suspended, flights were delayed. look at the wind just whip up that salt and foam from the ocean. just gives you a good indication of how strong this storm was. by the way, that dam overflowing as well from the heavy rainfall. looking back at my computer models, you can see on the latest water vapor imagery that clockwise rotation along the east coast of australia. that s the low pressure system in question. very typical to form this time of year. it s just that we ve had a couple of consecutive east coast lows, as they re referred to. and we ve had, if you recall, about eight days ago some significant flooding near the sydney area. that shading of brown on this water vapor imagery is actually the drier air starting to settle in. so, conditions are set to imfrov sydney to brisbane as the low moves off the east coast. high pressure settles in. then we say hello to another storm system that s going to impact southern portions of australia into victoria.