Plus, the sports stars making the relief effort a team effort. And blazing battle. Firefighters fighting the largest wildfire in los angeles history. Hundreds of people forced to evacuate their homes. Theres a lot of fuel here in the mountains. The battles from the air and on the ground to save people, pets, and property. We say good morning on this sunday morning. We want to get right to the breaking news overnight. A fresh provocation from north korea. It could be extremely concerning. The regime announcing it has carried out one of its most powerful Nuclear Tests yet. In fact, its most powerful test yet. Theyre calling it a quote perfect success. They claim it was an hbomb capable of being mounted on an intercontinental ballistic missile. They released this photo showing and inspecting the loading of the hbomb into a new longrange missile. North koreans seen cheering in the streets when the announcement was made. The specific claims have not been verified. The artificial earthquake
Into delaware and south jersey. Now, lets talk about irma. This storm bombed out over the past 24 hours. Maximum sustained winds 185 miles per hour. This is a strong category five hurricane. If you look at it you can see the eye of the storm clearly well defined wraparound convection thunderstorms and its very close to antigua. Its only about 135 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands continuing to move to the west. To put this in perspective weve only had one storm in recorded history stronger than irma. That was allen back in 1980. Ill talk about the latest path of irma and what it means for the u. S. Coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Monica and rick. Thank you, cecily. With irma bearing down on the united states, preparations are well under way in the miami area tonight. Folks are stocking up onas, water, food and the cash in the event that south florida does take a direct hit. And in texas, the recovery continues more than a week after Hurricane Harvey hits gulf coast
International space station and finally this is irmas eye as seen from a nasa satellite three different views but all say the same thing, this is a potentially catastrophic storm and its headed towards the united states. It is tuesday night the big story on action news Hurricane Irma preparing for landfall as a category five storm. People in puerto rico and florida are seriously battening down the hatches with irma producing the most powerful winds ever recorded in the atlantic ocean. The storm could reach florida by the weekend shells are already emptying out in grocery and home stores. Authorities are readying evacuation orders and Florida Governor rick scott has declared a state of emergency for all 67 counties before irma gets to florida she will pumpel small caribbean islands like anguila and here is the most frightening thing we heard the governor of puerto rico is calling it more dangerous than harvey and go to cecily tynan for the latest on the storm. No doubt about in this is
Temperatures in the upper 50s, low 60s as we move forward today. Not going to see a ton of warming outside. Today will be about drying out and staying cool. As for irma, we have the potential updates that include now the landfall across the u. S. Our cameras moving through new jersey, through camden. Right here is the ben franklin bridge toll plaza. You see these bright rights right here. Were clear over the betsy ross bridge, too. Back to you. Hurricane irma bringing its power and furry to shore. This is on st. Martin in the middle of a category 5 storm. Irma is the most powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history. At least ten people are reported killed. The monster storm roared by puerto rico last night knocking out power to more than a Million People living there. Irma is now northwest had of puerto rico poised to impact haiti and the dominican republic. It tore a path of destruction on several islands. This video from guadeloupe shows debris and cars submerged in the wat
Ground zero for irma will be the state of florida. Heres governor rick scott. Look at the storm. Its wider than our entire state and could cost major impact coast to coast. Forecasters say it could slam into the miami metropolitan area home to 6,000,000 people and the condos could sway 12inches in Hurricane Force winds. The evacuation is on by road and by plane. The cruel reality is, hundreds of flights are being canceled. Gas stations are being shut down. The governor of georgia ordered 540,000 coastal re residents to move inland. Said one local official, if a Freight Train is coming at you, get off the tracks. Until now hurricane andrew was the hardest to hit florida, but irma has staying power. Its still a category five hurricane. Maximum sustained winds, 165 Miles Per Hour and irma, over the past 24 hours, has actually expanded. Its now 650miles across. Put that into perspective, irma is big as the state of texas. Its moving northwest quickly about 16 Miles Per Hour. This is the la