Tonight, breaking news. As we come on the air in the west tonight. The states of emergency. A major hurricane moving in. Hurricane michael rapidly gaining strength at this hour. The new track just in tonight. Racing toward the american coast. The fastmoving storm could make landfall as a category 3 hurricane. Mandatory evacuations coming. Long lines for gas already. Tonight, cruise ships out at sea changing course. Meteorologist ginger zee has the hour by hour when this hits. Also tonight, we have new reporting here after that deadly limousine crash. 20 people killed. Among them, four sisters. What authorities have just revealed about the driver tonight. And about the limo itself. And tonight, what weve learned about the owner of the company. You will see the undercover video of him as an fbi informant. Also breaking tonight, the new Supreme Court justice, brett kavanaugh, at the white house this evening. The ceremony with the president. What the president said to his new Supreme Court
unfolding inside the white house. the president was justice kavanaugh beside him, apologizing to justice kavanaugh. reporter: and his family. he says that kavanaugh was the victim of a campaign, quote, of lying aies and deception. and david, with all eight other justices looking on, he said kavanaugh faced historic scrutiny and he said, you, sir, were proven innocent. david? jon karl live at the white house tonight. jon, thank you. there is also a new and dire warning tonight about climate change from a nobel prize-winning panel of scientists and the united nations. their report found that time is running out, they say, before climate changes are, quote, irreversible. by 2030, in just 12 years, they report the earth s temperature could rise one more degree, at which point the negative impacts could be unstoppable. to avoid that, the report says countries must make, quote, unprecedented changes to cut carbon emissions. there is a new beginning tonight for former olympic star bod
the three assistant coaches. he was an even lower-level guy. i m skeptical this was an andre mcgee-operated operation. rick, thank you. appreciate it. thanks, kate. seven years after bernie mad-off s ponzi scheme was discovered, those who invested up to $1.1 million will get it back. this includes more than half of his victims. madoff pled guilty in march 2009 to running a ponzi scheme. he s currently serving a 150-year prison sentence. former olympic star oscar pistorius was released from a south african prison overnight. nbc s jeff rawson has the latest. reporter: in the darkness of night, oscar pistorius was rushed out of prison, surrounded in secrecy. prison officials sneaking him out so early cameras wouldn t be there to see it. this morning, pistorius s
quickly as possible given the proliferation of drones in the airspace. kate, back to you. does sound complicated. thanks so much. a story we ve all been talking about today. southwest flight 2010 was forced to make an emergency landing at l.a.x. yoefrnovernight. eyewitnesses say a male passenger started choking a woman in front of him after she reclined her seat. here s what the pilot said when he radioed back to the tower at l.a.x. evidently we ve got two passengers that are in a physical altercation. so we need to get turned around back to l.a.x. the fbi has confirmed one individual was detained for questioning after the incident. no arrests so far. former olympic star oscar pistorius is expected to walk out of a south african prison tomorrow. pistorius has served a year in jail for killing his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. tomorrow pistorius will begin a new phase of his five-year sentence. for the next four years he ll be under house arrest at his uncle s home. he ll be allow
consumers may have to play more for slacks of beef. meat packers paid record prices jumping 10%. futures are at their most costly in more than two years. why? it s all thanks to the weather. the youth full unemployed may want to go west to seek out their next job. ihs global insight revealed seven of ten states with the fastest job growth will be in the west thanks to housing, technology and tourism strength. walt disney is taking a stand. the company will cut funding to the boy scouts of america in 2015 because of a policy that bans gay adult leaders among its troops. it is expected to be one of the most watched murder trials in history. former olympic star oscar pistorius is accused of killing his model girlfriend. south afrikaans are dubbing it the trial of the century. chapman bell is live outside the courthouse for us. chapman, good morning. reporter: good morning,