The Recovery Efforts from Tropical Storm harvey. Theyre speaking to a crowd in Corpus Christie. This has been a total cooperative effort. Again we will see you soon. I will tell you this is historic, it is epic, what happened but you know what, it happened in texas and texas can handle anything. Thank you all folks, thank you. Cheryl the president making comments in corpus. They arrived in the capital city of austin. They will be briefed on Disaster Relief efforts across the state. Well take you live for that previousing during this hour. This is all happening as more than 40, almost 50 inches of rain hit parts of state. This is the most rainfall from one event in u. S. History as louisiana braces for impact. There is new details on another big story were following. North korea, in another act of defiance launching a new ballistic missile. The president says all options are on the table, ashley. Ashley deep breath. Lets get back to the markets. The dow making a comeback ending up some
Warnings from 8 00 tonight to 8 00 saturday morning over the higher elevations. We will give you a closer look at how bad it will be in a few minutes. Thank you, spencer. Live in the east bay where schools are adjustings schedules and pg e is gearing up for outages. Most noticeable things today is the haze in the hills in central contra costa county. Leslie . Dan, you can see mount diab low for the first Time Starting to emerge from a heavy haze. It is obscured all afternoon long. Almost invisible from every angle. Because of that haze coming from a distant fire. Things here are just starting to warm up. As it heats up on the outside, it gets even hotter on the ideas of this dry cleaners in walnut creek. With just a light breeze, workers are surrounded by hot steamers. We have the staff come in early in the morning and begin all of their pressing and the cleaning process. What are time early . Normally we start at 6 00 a. M. Today being a hot day we start at 3 00 and 4 00 a. M. That ar
Today is just the start of a heat wave that dominates the sevenday forecast. The haze that is blanketing the bay area and the smell of smoke. Its everywhere. We have live team coverage. Lets start with spencer christian. Some of that haze is because of smoke from the north and much is because of unclean air. Its just that simple. Sunny skies and hot conditions. Even at this hour, temperatures at or above 100 degrees. San ramon and concord and upper 90s in many other locations. Its going to get worse. The 24hour temperature change shows most bay area locations from 13 degrees to 22 degrees warmer than they were yesterday. On we go to the heat advisory for much of the day area through tonight. Some of the areas outlined in red is excessive heat warning. Speaking of that, we have a warning for all of the bay area except the coast from thursday through monday. Hottest spots see temperatures between 105 and 115. There will be a heat advisory for the coast from 11 00 to 9 00 p. M. High fire
Missions, helping to save the lives of texans and express my gratitude to both individuals as well as First Responders from louisiana for being such tremendous humanitarians. A pressing issue in texas is the issue of fuel. Now, this is an issue that is pressing in part because of a reaction to some media reports, where the facts are that theres plenty of fuel, plenty of gasoline, in the United States of america. Theres plenty of gasoline in the state of texas. All that said, we are ensuring an even greater supply of gasoline so we can tamp down any concern about accessibility to fuel that people may want to access over the course of the coming Labor Day Weekend. Working with all sectors of the oil and gas community, from refineries to pipelines. From operators, strucking companies and retailers. We have worked in the past 2448 hours to alleviate concerns about access to gasoline and to ensure that more gasoline will be coming or is already coming to the state of texas. Working with our
Mainland confirmed just over an hour ago. Police in daisy west of ft. Lauderdale reporting a man died falling off the ladder preparing for the storm. Battling cuba and central bahamas with high winds and major surf. The storm is 380 miles southeast of florida with winds whipping at 155 miles per hour. Roads, look at that aerial. They are jammed. Gas supplies running low as those following Evacuation Orders head north. Weve got our reporters on the ground following every single move. Congressman Francis Rooney of florida represents the 19th Congressional District which includes the highly populated west coast of the state with big tourism. Could they dodge the bullet or get unexpectedly punched . Orange juice futures skyrocketing as Citrus Growers prepare for the worst. How hes desperately trying to protect 20,000 acres of oranges, grapefruits and hundreds of jobs. Wall street keeping a cautious eye on irma after 110point swing. You can see the Dow Jones Industrials hovering higher by 3