Devastating impact on the carribean. The island of barbuda is in ruins. Stephanie ramos. Reporter there are people trying to make a mass exodus out of florida. Hurricane irma is inching closer and closer to south florida with winds 160 Miles Per Hour. The storm shifting significantly further west. The eye of the storm with the sights on the florida keys and tampa. The National Weather service tweeting this is as real as it gets. Nowhere in the florida keys is safe. Youre running out of time, the storm is almost here. If youre in an evacuation zone you need to go now. 5. 6 Million People have been asked to activate many living in lowlying coastal areas. As time runs out, people are still trying to escape the storm. Traffic so bad on the streets in south florida some have abandoned their cars because they have run out of gas. Those trying to get out by air stuck, for Fort Lauderdale airpt closed. Miami International Spending all flights. Those hoping to get a last minute ticket stranded,
Impact of Hurricane Irma expected to make landfall sometime tomorrow morning. Abcs Stephanie Ram mows live with the latest on the system. Reporter so many iconic miami spots are ghost towns, no traffic or people, so many homes boarded up as the deadly storm rages toward the coast. Hurricane irma is inching closer and closer to south florida with winds with 106 Miles Per Hour. The storm shifting further west. The eye of the storm with its sights on the florida keys and tampa. The National Weather service tweeting this is as real as it gets. Nowhere in the florida keys is safe. We are running out of time. The storm is almost here. If youre in an evacuation zone you need to go now. More than 5. 6 Million People have been asked to evacuate. Many in low lying coastal areas. Cars for miles. Reporter as time runs out people are trying to escape the storm. Traffic so bad on the three routes out of the of south florida, some abandoned their cars. Those trying to get out by air finding themselve
Luckily jumped in, fought off one of the dogs. Draper says once police got on scene he said they showed little compassion for his dogs injuries. This dog is my eyes. My eyes were laying on the ground bleeding, coughing up blood, was ridiculous. I wonder if the police dog was shot in the line of duty would the police wait an hour anda half to fill out the paperwork before they got their dog to the vet . At this point draper has not filed a formal complaint against the officer but says hes thinking about it. The pit bulls owner was cited for the attack, wouldnt comment on camera about why the dogs were outside without a leash. The sarasota parents in jail accused of beating and starving their children. Police say Kimberly Haygood and Anthony Jones didnt feed their three children. A investigator says a 4year old boy weighed only 22 pounds and looked like a skeleton. His sister weighs only 26 pounds. A lot of our fault we never said anything. From now on i think we should. If you have an i
Which means cruz is going to need an even bigger miracle to beat trump in the primaries here in february. Also it may be no coincidence, cruz plans several rallies in the upstate after an iowa win. Whenever youre not predicted to win and you win, its like the underdog. Basically theyre saying that he cant win. Ted cruz cant win. Ted cruz cant win. But it has been proven that he can win. And i think whenever you prove something through facts, theyre hard to ignore. God bless the great state of iowa. Darren and its worth mentioning following cruzs win in iowa last night, senator tim scott in South Carolina is and upstate congressman trey goudy support of course well have more from this cruz event tonight throughout our newscast this evening. Live in greenville, darren botelho, news 13. Darcel we have new information in a triple murder in buncombe county that happened back in october. A grand jury has indicted Pierre Griffin ii for the murders of uhon johnson, alexandra king, and tatianna
Identifying this man. Hes described aa a bback male, 44to50 years old, 5 feet8inches tall. And 220 pounds. Investigators say he tried sing hedge trimmers or bolt cutters to break into this home on north bend road but the man who lves there arrived home and fouud the thats when theereeident pullee is cell phone. Neighbors ay the suspect trred exxlaining hhs actions to the victii. Before running away. 3 mmr bullon he told him that he was on drrgs and he had a drug problem. But then riiht after he took that picture, i think it dawned on him that he took thh picture of him. And he ttok off like, like somebody covered him with hot water. I turned around and boom, he wassall the way down to the alley and turned left 3 if you have any information tte suspects identity r wherabouts call metro crimestoppers. That number is on the screen 1 866 7 lockup. And you can remain anonymous and could get a cass reward of up to 2thousannd dollars. Live in catoosvilll, keith daniels, fox 45 news, laae edit