storm that killed one commuter last night. many witnesses record seeing a funnel cloud forming. check out these pictures. the storm hit during rush hour and as ryan cut through neighborhoods, he found this devastation. decades-old trees uprooted and falling on cars in the streets. rob, as i said, new york, very dense area. i used to work right near park slope. during rush hour? this blew up during the rush hour as this line of storms came over the delaware river and exploded over southern manhattan, brooklyn and queens. that moved through and we are watching this, hurricane karl, category 3 storm scraping the coastline of mexico, about to make landfall. we ll have the latest track on hurn igor.
believed she had pulled over to the side of the grand central parkway when a tree crushed her car. today a significant cleanup process is under way. believed to be 25,000 plus people still without power. unbelievable. peter alexander in new york city, which doesn t get tornados and things like that, amazing stuff. thanks very much. well, let s stick with weather because there are two big hurricanes brewing on the atlantic side of things and in the gulf while that third hurricane, hurricane karl, might slam into mexico. nbc news meteorologist bill karins joins us. you re tracking all of this. let s start with karl because this one suddenly is getting much stronger than even what you said that forecasters were saying yesterday. oh, yeah. i was saying category 2 at most and now it looks like there s an outside chance of a category 4. we only have probably five or six hours before landfall. you can see the storm here had a well-defined eye. now it s a little bit disappeared. it may b
trouble in the ic w three hurricanes are still spinning. karl has flooded mexico s yucatan peninsula. it s exd grone today and make ll a alomexi coa meanwhile, hu batter bermuda bynay. and julia is weakening but still has winds around 80 miles an hour. and as for the rest of the weather, milder in the ohio valley, where ten twisters were reported yesterday. thunderstorms, some severe, in eastern nebraska and western iowa. clear and warm along the east coast. showers across the northern mountain states. 65 in seattle. 67 in detroit. warmer in the central states. 82 in kansity. boston 10ton hot in colorado springs at 91. well, at age 60 most people are looking to retire, of course, but when mazerine wingate turned 60 he started a new job at a maryland post office. and yesterday he turned 100 and he is still there. mazerene still drives himself to work six days a week. as a custodian he does
to the side of the road because the winds were so strong and that s when the tree crashed down on her car. she was killed. a 60-year-old passenger in that car was seriously injured. but, today, is said to be doing just fine. you re absolutely right, peter alexander, thank you for that report. a similar scene throughout the midwest where heavy rain and winds brought down power lines and collapsed rooftops in wooster, ohio. they are confirming whether tornadoes touched down on the area. the wooster campus was forced to cancel classes today just to clean up after the storm. at this hour, two mega storms brewing in the atlantic. hurricane karl gaining strength and expected to make landfall in mexico and hurricane igor on a direct path to bermuda. in mexico, that storm has sparked severe flooding and power outages. in bermuda, winds and rip tides are kicking up as the residents are bracing for what s ahead.
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