World news america, splendid in orange today. Like an orange popsicle. Its fantastic. Friday, the 13th. We need something cheerful. Thats why we have steve on with numbers. Well crunch the numbers. With steve radnor. Mike barnacle and donny. The frames. The whole package. Hes very subdued today. Straight out of fashion week. This is a serious show of journalism and sometimes you guys are light and i thought i would bring some gravitas to the set today. You always do. Lets talk about serious news. The jersey shore, another devastating blow for a place that cant use it. Just recovering from Hurricane Sandy, a raging fire now under control finally after it destroyed a large portion of one of the states most famous board walks. The fire began at 2 00 yesterday afternoon at a frozen custard stand in seaside park. Quickly spread to other businesses because of those winds. 80 of the boardwalk destroyed. Including 50 local businesses. The fire comes after months of a massive rebuilding effort
Try to assess some of this damage. Kcnns Martin Savidge is standing by in biloxbiloxi. How are things now . Reporter doing better. Doing better. Lets talk about the storm surge because i think that is the real story when daylight comes up. Give you a sense of where it was. It stopped about here. Okay . So gulf of mexico is all the way across four lanes of roadway there. It came roaring in around midnight last night and when i say surge, it surged. I mean, at one moment, you thought, all right, its okay, its right there. Then about one minute later its washing around your ankles and pretty soon up around your calf. A lot of debris in that water too. Tore up a number of piers so a lot of heavy debris that was floating down u. S. 90. Now you can see by the traffic that water is all gone and drained away quickly but the debris is still there. They just started a frontend loader moving down the roadway here so they have not only got to clear a lot of stuff but a lot of the beach that is on
They committed crime. Internal video from google shows the companys reaction to the 2016 election. Is there anything positive you see from this Election Results . [laughter] boy, thats a really tough one right now. Steve this is a fox news alert. All eyes are on Hurricane Florence which is closing in on the carolinas and the east coast, now a very strong category 2 hurricane. Lifethreatening could cause desks. More than a Million People are in the crosshairs of this powerful hurricane. Pete we have Team Coverage along the east coast this morning. Griff jenkins is live from Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, where they are expecting 110 mileperhour winds. Steve todd piro is in myrtle beach, South Carolina talking to people who will not leave. Jedediah janice dean is here passing florences path but we begin with griff. Good morning, guys. Can you see the wind picking up here. In fact, the coast guard in moorehead conditions, no ships in, no ships out. The threat from that storm surge 9 to 1
Kim jongun says he wants a second meeting with President Trump. Meanwhile, today, the remains of two u. S. Soldiers recovered from north korea were identified. A colorado meat packer is recalling more than 132,000 pounds of ground beef. As part of an e. Coli outbreak that has killed one person and sickened 17 others. The robocall problem in the u. S. Is an epidemic. A new report predicts by next year, nearly half of all calls made to cell phones will be a scam call. Newly released documents show the prototypes for President Trumps border wall are all vulnerable to being breached. In at least one case, teams were able to make the wall unstable and it almost collapsed. Test test tested today the an versary of Hurricane Maria which devastated puerto rico. It is almost like we have woken up from a severe trauma. Glor this is our western edition. Good evening, im jeff glor. Were going to begin tonight with a mass shooting today in maryland. It happened at a riteaid Distribution Center about
Know, they dont exactly know when theyre going to get that power back. And that causes all kinds of problems. You know, no food. The food you have in your house spoiled. No electricity obviously. You cant get the airconditioning on. So its going to be miserable here for a while. The problem is everyone says, okay, well, you know, its a Tropical Storm now. So thats okay. Thats good news. It is partially because the winds arent so high. So youre not going to get as many flying project ills. Youre not going to get as many homes that are battered or structures knocked down. But what you are going to get is a lot of rain and youre going to get some flooding. We keep talking about it because here on the beach were talking about the water. Ive been walking the beach and periodically on the beaches you see these storm drains that come in from, you know, the nearest street and it attaches to the system in the city. And then it just rolls out to the ocean. Well, they dont have that inland. So th