this all comes after the tornadoes ripped through mississippi and alabama. officials say so far at least 26 people have been killed. a pastor in hard-hit rolling fork, mississippi says nearly the entire town is completely destroyed. exodus total devastation. it is a wreckage like i have never seen. it s only a miracle of god there are not hundreds of fatalities in our town and in our area. houses leveled, houses completely destroyed. businesses like the majority of the businesses in our small town are completely destroyed. it is just terrible wreckage. alicia: and fortune of the severe weather threat for the region is not over urologist adam s life in the forecast said with the latest pickwick snowstorms continue to push across the south easily continued to the sunday. maybe even a lingering a little bit into monday. here s what we are currently looking at. some of the green polygons on your screen flooding and portions of north-central georgia. you see a severe thunderstor
Across america. Thousands of kids are returning to school after a summer spent learning to the beat of hamilton. We begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Irma is just about smacking another coastal area. Hurricane irma steam rolls through the caribbean. The most powerful atlantic hurricane ever recorded. Its a really frightening looking satellite right now. The damage could be catastrophic. Its hard to survive a hurricane that strong. The program known as daca is being rescinded. Theyre pandering to their shrinking base. Donald trump began his campaign by attacking immigrants. I have a love for these people and hopefully now congress will help them and do it properly. North korea may be preparing to launch another missile. This is a threat to the entire world. There are no good solutions. Major League Baseball is investigating after the Boston Red Sox allegedly stole signs during games using an apple watch. People are trying to win however they
Gauge the economic impact. Two key quotes from the boston district. Restaurants from the berkshires, cape cod, the shore, experienced staffing shortages those historically relied on Seasonal Workers needing h2b visas. Labor shortage had negative effect on revenues in the high tourist summer season. Political situation is negative influence on hiring. Health care reform was singled out as a source of instability as job applicants seek employerbased coverage as the top job benefit. The headline here again, from the beige book, in spite of a tough labor market, the majority of districts reporting limited wage pressure and moderate to modest wage growth. This is a recurring issue that has been troubling members of the Federal Reserve several months. Back to you. Trish one of the questions i have, what about Hurricane Harvey, too early to gauge any sense whether or not the hurricane will play into much Overall Economic activity . Yes. Trish we know it will but reporter we heard from a membe
Everybody. It will feel cooler. 50s on the lows. But the humidity continues to be pretty high. Even though the high temps have been coming down a little bit. Hurricane irma, category 5, moving into well, getting close to puerto rico right now and the leeward islands. 185 Miles Per Hour. The pressure bottomed out at 14 millibars or 29. 66 of mercury. That is amazing. The track looks to be now at least the gfs and the euro take it into about almost the florida keys. Just off florida. Then take it along the atlantic side. And then bring it inland monday morning, South Carolina and georgia. I think the update is coming in within the hour from the National Hurricane center. We will see if they still buy into that. Either way, there will be impacts for the weekend. Our low cloud deck is there. Higher clouds continue to filter in around the low that keeps the humidity factor high. Temperatures in the 60s coming down temperatures in the cities still coming down. 60s but coming down to the 50s.
Head start to our warming trend today. Because we have the red flag warning were watching for the highest threat of fire spread between noon and 6 00 when the relative humidity plummets below 20 . The winds kick up. Youll notice our quick warmup, 60s and 70s around the bay by noontime. Upper 80s inland. 680 through the walnut creek stretch. Nice volume so far this morning. We do have construction scheduled to wrap up at 5 00 at monument. Thats not slowing you down at the moment. I will keep an eye on that. Westbound 580 tracy to dublin, you are in the green still, 35 minutes. Slowly starting to fill in out of the Central Valley. Southbound 680 dublin to mission boulevard in the green at 15. Northbound 85 between 101 and cupertino 16 minutes. Well check on mass transit next. New this morning an abc News Washington post poll Shows Americans support daca by a huge margin. 86 of americans support a right to residency for undocumented immigrants who arrived as children. President trump deci