The man who prevented an Accidental Nuclear war. This is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im anthony mason. The Atlantic Ocean tonight is an alphabet soup of storms j, l, and m. Hurricane jose, tropical depression lee, and hurricane maria. Maria is the one posing the biggest threat. A category 4 hurricane, its aiming for caribbean islands that took a beating earlier this month from hurricane irma. Eric fisher is chief meteorologist at our cbs station wbz. How is it looking, err eric . Reporter well start with the storm weve been tracking for two weeks, which is jose. It looks like a noreaster. Its starting to lose some of the tropical characteristics. The track keeps it just off shore, but this will produce a lot of surf, rip current risk, not a worstcame storm here. The storm that has gone under rapid intensification these last 24 hours is maria. It was a Tropical Storm yesterday afternoon. Now its a category 4 hurricane, and we can look right in that eye. It cleared out this
57 news room at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Im anne marie green. Hurricane maria is a category 4 storm with sustained winds of nearly 155 Miles Per Hour and its expected to get even stronger. This morning maria is moving over the North Eastern caribbean approaching the Virgin Islands. A direct hit on puerto rico is looking more and more likely tomorrow. There is rationing of basic supplies and nearly 70,000 Puerto Ricans remain without power from the last hurricane. Last night it hit the islands of dominica. The winds are merciless and weve lost everything. He said roofs were being torn off houses including his own. Derrick fisher is following the storm. Well, the tropics still very active. Jose, the one closest to the u. S. Mainland, this is a system thats going to bring a grazing impact as it tracks offshore on tuesday and wednesday and stalls out. This will produce a lot of surf and heavy rip currents. But the big story really is maria. This is a storm that rapidly inten
Headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im anne marie green. Hurricane maria is a category 4 storm with sustained winds of nearly 155 Miles Per Hour and its expected to get even stronger. This morning maria is moving over the North Eastern caribbean approaching the Virgin Islands. A direct hit on puerto rico is looking more and more likely tomorrow. There is rationing of basic supplies and nearly 70,000 Puerto Ricans remain without power from the last hurricane. It hit the islands of dominica. The Prime Minister wrote on social media that the winds are merciless and weve lost everything. He said roofs were being torn off houses including his own. Derrick fisher is following the storm. This is a storm that rapidly intensified, made landfall last night. Now its traveling off to the north and west in a very dangerous storm system. Late tuesday into wednesday morning tracking very close to or right over st. Croix and the eastern end of puerto rico so this could be the first tim
Transition period. His statement provides the detailed accounts of meetings with the ambassador russian banker and lawyer. Donald trump jr. And Paul Manafort who were also in that meeting with the russian lawyer are negotiating now to provide closed door interviews about it as well. Sharrie. More news from the white house. Moments ago President Trump made a statement about replacing obamacare. He says senators are very close to having the votes needed to pass a new plan and he again blasted democrats for what he called obamacares failed promises. Seven years ago a small group of politicians and special interests in washington engineered a government takeover of healthcare. Every pledge that washington democrats made to pass that bill turned out to be a lie. It was a big fat ugly lie. The senate could vote tomorrow on whether to allow a republican backed replacement plan to reach the floor for debate. Abc news will have more coverage of the russia investigation and the latest on the eff
November 2nd, 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a morning morning, and a sad morning in new york. A joyous morning out in kansas city. And for everybody who watched the world series, a tired morning bus it because on late. And what a comeback for the royals. Inning. In a little while as we congratulate the royals, but lets start with our top storyry on this s nday morning. What caused the plane to break up over egypts Sinai Peninsula killing all 224 people on brd. Well, a top official is out with some headlinemaking claims this morning. Nbc global correspondent bill neely is in cairo. Bill, what can you tell us . Distress call from the pilot and that the plane broke up in midair. A lot of theories, but beyond that, very few facts. The krememn says terrorism cannot be rurud out and the airline says a mechanical impact was the cause. What does that mean . Its a m