Hawaiian islands are facing delays, cancellations and risk. Alec savage is at the airport. In two minutes he will tell us what folks flying out this morning are telling him. Good morning. Lets talk about weather and traffic. Steve, i know you are focused on our weather. You are watching the big storm . We are, indeed. Hurricanes dont hit the Hawaiian Islands that often. September 11, 1992. The last one usually they go south or north. There is two of them. One is definitely taking aim at the big island. Thats iselle. Wind 90 Miles Per Hour so its category 1 and its heading south of helo. The second one is heading to the north. Now, again, it will weaken a little bit as it moves over the higher terrain. The mountain areas are going to get hammered with a lot of rain. There will be a foot of rain, probably mudslides, damaging wind as well. When it comes out on the kona side, if the path is correct, a storm watch for kawai. Tropical clouds moving on out as we say. The low cloud deck is def
Hurricane iselle it looks huge in that picture as it makes its way to the hawaiian island. The direct hit probably on the big island ever high high. And of hawaii. Right now is about 400 miles away. In the bay area it is a hot topic at sfo this morning. And were at the airport live talking to people heading to hawaii and he just talked to a family headed to the middle of it all. Thank you for joining us. It is thursday august 7th. Im pam cook. And im dave clark. Back to fog and low clouds. But lets talk about iselle, a category 1. Its really accelerating northwest at 18 miles an hour. The Mountain Areas and the Windward Side of the island looks like theyll take the brunt of this. But hurricane warnings out for the big guy lands and there will be a lot of rain. It will weaken as it moves over the Mountain Areas. But theres Tropical Storm warnings as it skeets and go south exits and go to maui. The low clouds and fog is gone. Back to a normal pattern for us. Low 60s for some and 50s for
But we start with how hawaii is bracing for impact. Reporter residents bracing for Hurricane Force winds and a foot or more of rains that could mean mudslide. Prone areas will take appropriate actions. Secure vessels in anticipation. Reporter hurricane iselle will make land fall tonight. It will be a category one storm, winds of 80 Miles Per Hour. A hurricane warning is in effect for the big island. Making it the first warning for hawaii in 22 years. Folks in the big island need to realize this storm is anticipated to hold together and make a land fall on the big island today as a hurricane. Hurricane julio will follow and expected to lose strength as it approaches over the weekend. Residents appear to be taking the warning seriously. This seems to be busier than normal. Reporter while the storms move closer they were rattled this morning by mother nature. The u. S. Geological survey reported a 4. 5 earthquake off the coast of the big island. No immediate damage was reported. Now to kt
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The roads are slick and getting slicker. Indeed. It has not had an impact on traffic yet. That is good news. The metering lights are turned on at babe and we have a high wind advisory issued by c. H. P. So if you are traveling from the east bay to San Francisco keep both hands on the wheel. Walnut creek along 6 southbound is building. A vehicle crash in tracy. More on that ahead. Breaking news from 4 30 a 3. 1 earthquake shook the peninsula at 3 44 centered in the Emerald Hills area of redwood city. So far, no reports of damage or injuries. People who felt it say it felt like an intense jolt rather than a rolling. Now storm watch from san rafael camera you can see the rain has let us but still, wet and coming for the north bay and the entire bay area today. Our reporter continues our coverage from healdsburg which was hard hit by the last big storm in december. The rain comes and goes here in healdsburg and we are getting a little bit of a sprinkle and i have video we took this morning