her a great deal. investigators would not comment on what motivated her to do it. shortly after that incident, a woman in arizona said someone threw acid in her face. local reports have dubbed it a copycat attack. police there say only it was likely a separate incident. seven workers that worked for a french nuclear company kidnapped from their beds. the victims, five french nationals and two africans working near uranium mines in the northern desert region of niger. the kidnapping comes after a bomb threat earlier this week forced paris police to evacuate the eiffel tower. we re told investigators did not find any explosives but france s interior minister saying today there s mounting evidence the country is facing a high terror threat. a fox news weather alert now and we are tracking something very rare in the tropics. three hurricanes at the same time. check out these nasa images showing hurricanes igor and
up somewhere inside johns hopkins medical center, which is a massive facility. they are evacuating the hospital right now. there is no word on the doctor s condition. obviously, no word about the status of the gunman, whether he is in custody right now or not. the only word we have is that a doctor has been shot inside johns hopkins medical center in baltimore. the suspect, believed to be holed up inside somewhere. can you imagine, it is a very chaotic scene. we re on top of it, we ll try to get you more information as it becomes available. in the meantime, hurricanes igor and julia get some company. karl has now reached hurricane strength. the latest on this tropical triple threat. we re live in the fox weather center. and the twilight movie series, a huge hit with teenagers, obviously, but the average pare films and books actually could be altering teen minds. we ll explore that in depth, ahead.
weekend. meanwhile, hurricanes igor and julia continue to churn out there in the atlantic. igor is now a cat 4 storm and could hit bermuda directly this weekend. igor s strong winds and potentially dangerous surf should hit the east coast tomorrow. hurricane julia is a category 3 storm but does not at this point threaten land anywhere. back to back right now when you look at that weather map. this is the height of the season. it really is. now here s the rest of your forecast. fierce conditions in nashville and the eastern great lakes. powerful winds, hail, and tornados are possible. rain for much of florida. thunderstorms in west texas and srs irthwcf13sltcf1o& alo c shington that time of year. the blue whales are migrating past on their way to the warmer waters off of the baja peninsula. wow. yesterday between 10 and 15 of these massive mammals were seen cavorting in the pacific near
julia both roaring across the atlant atlantic. closer to land, hurricane karl now moving over the gulf of mexico. chief meteorologist rick is live in the fox extreme weather center. rick, where are these three headed? yeah, in different directions. start with karl because it s the most immediate one here. this is karl right now and it s strengthening. fortunately, it doesn t have a whole lot more time over water. if it did, it would strengthen a lot. it looks like it potentially could go through some rapid intenseification, probably right around 24 hours from now making landful at vera cruz. igor and julia. julia not looking that impressive. this storm, though, is a monster. still a category 3. likely getting up to a category 4. you see both igor and julia making this right-hand turn, only real area is bermuda p potentially in the path of this
peninsula. it s starting to weaken because it s over land, 60 miles per hour. this is moving along pretty good. rainfall totals 3 to 5 inches and max up to 8. flash flooding can be expected and power outages, and larger tree limbs could come down. this will move over the bay of campeche later tonight and into tomorrow and probably intensify again and become a hurricane. you can see the forecast track with the second land fall later this week on mexico s mainland. texas, keep a heads up in case it takes a northerly track. you might get outer bands but nothing major for you. let s talk about the other two storms. this is really interesting, i think, tony. igor a julia, both category 4 storms that are producing 135-mile-an-hour wind speed but look at the differences. igor is about twice the size. yeah, in fact, i just saw a