Inferno, Princes William and harry continue meeting with victim. Plus a new fourth type of chocolate to rival flavors. Dark and white, can you guess what it is . Early today starts right now. Good morning. Im phillip mena. Im frances rivera. Potentially catastrophic, thats how Hurricane Irma is being described. As it barrels towards the united states. The category 5 storm is one of the most powerful ever recorded, packing sustained winds of 180 miles per hour. Puerto rico is buckling down as irma looms offshore. Businesses boarded up as residents stocked up on supplies. With dozens of flights canceled, stranded tourists say they are prepared to ride out the storm. Im prepared. I got my water. I got my food. I got my flashlights. I got my emergency stuff and im ready. Preparations are also underway in florida. Tourists in the florida keys have been ordered to evacuate with a mandatory order for residents likely in the coming hours. And throughout the state floridians are clearing store
Inferno, Princes William and harry continue meeting with victim. Plus a new fourth type of chocolate to rival flavors. Dark and white, can you guess what it is . Early today starts right now. Good morning. Im phillip mena. Im frances rivera. Potentially catastrophic, thats how Hurricane Irma is being described. As it barrels towards the united states. The category 5 storm is one of the most powerful ever recorded, packing sustained winds of 180 miles per hour. Puerto rico is buckling down as irma looms offshore. Businesses boarded up as residents stocked up on supplies. With dozens of flights canceled, stranded tourists say they are prepared to ride out the storm. Im prepared. I got my water. I got my food. I got my flashlights. I got my emergency stuff and im ready. Preparations are also underway in florida. Tourists in the florida keys have been ordered to evacuate with a mandatory order for residents likely in the coming hours. And throughout the state floridians are clearing store
Dell gives a gift elderly americans are the focus of the carrying peace this morning during emergencies. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order recently the gulf coast and texas and florida and throw the caribbean a homes entire communities were destroyed and lives were lost. Weve learned the tragic news after irma seniors ranging in the age of 71 through 99 died in a florida nursing home that lost airconditioning because the power was knocked out. They describe the facility as a death trap because the elderly are susceptible to heat related illnesses. Last month this photo of residents in the assisted living facility in texas were trapped in waist deep water went to viral. As this makes clear Older Americans was before and during and even after the storm. In fact, when Hurricane Katrina slammed into the gulf coast 12 years ago more than half of those that died were seniors along with the senator from connecticut i lead a bipartisan investigation into the response o
Through 99 died in a florida nursing home that lost airconditioning because the power was knocked out. They describe the facility as a death trap because the elderly are susceptible to heat related illnesses. Last month this photo of residents in the assisted living facility in texas were trapped in waist deep water went to viral. As this makes clear Older Americans was before and during and even after the storm. In fact, when Hurricane Katrina slammed into the gulf coast 12 years ago more than half of those that died were seniors along with the senator from connecticut i lead a bipartisan investigation into the response of Hurricane Katrina at the federal, state, and local level. This resulted to reveal many weaknesses in the Emergency Response system. And i doubt very many people have read bill hall report now has an excellent summary so it was evidence to meet so we had a long ways to go. One of the weaknesses and the response system is the of failure on the part called lovells of g
Now. Its mostly cloudy with a few scattered showers. Things will change this afternoon. Gearing up for a stormy second half of the day. Heres whats going on. Partly sunny skies light scattered showers at times. The system that will bring the wind and rain is still offshore. A lot of moisture in place right now. But the rainfall will move in later today. Look at Storm Tracker. We do see an increase in the rain in portions of the north bay. Theres rain falling over areas like santa rosa. Lets squeeze and closer. Moderate rain east of santa rosa. Fairly widespread along highway 101. To the east we have some in napa around american canyon. Stretching into San Francisco. Crossing over the bay bridge into the east today. Between oakland and san leandro along 880 we find wet roads. Into the second part of the day the system will continue to march our way. By 11 am it comes study and the stormiest conditions expected the second part of the afternoon into early evening. The full forecast coming