Proportions. A dire situation expected to get even worse today wednesday, august 30th, 2017. From nbc news, this is a special of today, the impact of Hurricane Harvey with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaz and. Good morning. Welcome today. We have craig in for matt once again. Hard to believe this storm is still sitting on top of the gulf of mexico. Another busy morning. Lets get right to the latest on harvey. After making its third landfall just north of cameron, louisiana. More than 51 inches of rain has already fallen, its still coming down hard in places like beaumont, texas opini. That region seeing a years worth of rain. The official death toll is up to at least ten overnight with an undetermined number of people still missing. An overnight curfew is now being enforced in houston, amid disturbing reports that people are going door to door as policemen to lure them out to rob them. Reporter there are concerns that so much rain has fallen so qu
On the peninsula side between millbrae and san bruno. Its reportedly not affecting the other east bay lines and the other transit agencies are moving well. The roadways are also moving very well. Were talk about the preholiday lighter weeks flow but we do have this big problem southbound 880 getting a little better as this crash did clear that sig alert lasted just under a half an hour and they cleared lanes south 880 at tenia son. Its develop slow out of san leandro and into hayward clearing up just south of that san mateo bridge. But the early backup here may cause an issue over for the entire area so well track the bigger view coming up. Back to you. Thank you very much. 6 01 right now. Back to microclimate weather alert this morning as we track the heat waive hitting the bay area. An excessive heat warning will go into effect this morning for much of the bay area as we get ready for those triple digit temperatures. Records could be broke as temperatures soar. Today in the bay will
Might be wet, but we are expecting the return of sunshine. 59 degrees, its cool as you stepped outside. 57 in allentown. 56 in wilmington, 59 in trenton. 57 in reading, 62 in millville. 63 in cape may. The dewpoints are in the low 60s in millville. So not very humid and going to feel comfortable as he move through the morning and afternoon. Looks like 59 degrees by 7 00 a. M. Noon, 70. 3 00 p. M. , 74 degrees is the high today. Clouds breaking quickly this morning, 73 degrees by 5 00. Low humidity, a little bit breezy as we go through the afternoon. Nice weather continues in the afternoon straight through the weekend ill have the details in the seven day, of course the latest on irma which is still a monster and heading toward the southeastern United States. Reporter its a big story. Good morning, david, good morning, everybody, were live with kelly and live from sky 6, looking live from chester we are new jersey bound we were seeing flashing lights, the good news were not seeing flash
For catastrophic flooding. Tornadoes and a massive surge from the biggest storm to hit texas in more than 50 years. Our team is on the ground in the storm zone with the very latest. Good morning, everybody. Paula is off. Glad to have Abcs Amy Robach alongside me as well as abcs chief meteorologist ginger zee as were tracking the big breaking news on this saturday morning. The monster storm. Hurricane harvey and its tortuously slow march along the gulf coast. Satellite image of where it is right now. It is a category 1 hurricane about 30 miles southwest of victoria, texas, but it came ashore overnight as a ferocious category 4 storm, winds of 130 miles per hour. It made landfall around rockport where the high school we know was heavily damaged. This is the strongest to hit the United States in 12 years and already dealing a devastating blow. Heres what makes this storm so extraordinarily dangerous. Its not a normal hurricane that come as shore and whips people up and buildings up with h
Harvey made land fall and we are already hearing about a lot of damage right there. Reporter you can see some of this behind our hotel here, trees down, fences down every where and more significant damage. And while daylight will begin to reveal some of that, the slow motion disaster is far from over. A torrential rain, high winds, pounded the texas golf coast, harvey made land fall 30 miles northe of Corpus Christi as a category four her dane, the most intense storm to hit the u. S. In more than a decade. 125 Miles Per Hour winds, took aim at the town of rockport, a high school, a Senior Housing center and parts of historic downtown, all hit. Hours later, the monster storm made a second land fall, and started weakening, but it is on track to jump up to 3 feet of rain in some areas. As harvey approached officials urged coastal residents to evacuate, many boarded buses and headed inland. Trying to be strong because i dont want my children to sianni then they get scared, you know, they w