closes. dropping two points. the nasdaq eeking out a gain. good enough for a record. by the way, it s six in a row. speaking of natural calamities, tropical storm nate barrelling up the gulf coast. could be in mexico later tonight. could make landfall sometime tomorrow. we re on top of that and all of these developments with live coverage at 10:00 a.m. eastern time on fox news. a special two-hour edition. bill there with the gang to sort of pick apart with everything going on here. not only the latest developments out of vegas but the markets and the incredible performance in the face of this, the developments that we re getting on the business community and their generosity and dealing with it. much more after this. hi i m joan lunden. today s senior living communities have never been better, with amazing amenities like movie theaters, exercise rooms and swimming pools, public cafes, bars and bistros
out some agreement but it s not going to be easy. but all sides here seem to want to come to some sort of agreement to avoid this nuclear standoff that s been going on with iran and the world powers for at least a decade now. ali arouzi, nbc news, jaeb, switzerland. all right, thank you very much for that. let s get to the breaking news from the philippines where typhoon haiyan, the biggest storm recorded slammed into the island nation. more than 1200 people are recorded dead at this point. officials expect that number to rice. the winds there were at least 190 miles an hour. gusts over 200 miles an hour. both are stronger than anything katrina brought to the gulf coast for perspective there. now coastal residents in vietnam are evacuating their homes as the storm heads for southeast asia expected to make landfall sometime tomorrow. joining us is aaron aspy, an emergency communications officer with world vision. right now, aaron is on the central philippine island of
category 2 hurricane. we re going to have the latest track of the storm for you. and for the first time in history, a commercial spacecraft linking up with the international space station. let your geek flag fly, folks. we are going to take you live to outer space in just a moment. hi, everybody. welcome to early start. i m ashleigh banfield. look who s here! good morning. nice to have you here. i m alina cho. zoraida has the day off today. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. on this friday before memorial, we ve got lots of news. we do, so let s get right to it. this is a big story. for the first time in 33 years in fact, the anniversary today new york police may finally have their man in the murder of etan patz 33 years ago. he is 51-year-old pedro hernandez. he is under arrest and is expected to be charged with second-degree murder. he was 19 at the time that 16-year-old the etan patz disappeared while walking on his bus stop in 1969. hernandez was working in a
but i can not. are you ready? states of hnemergency are in if effect from north carolina all the way to connecticut. it could be a very rough weekend. so let s head right to atlanta and check in with jackqui jeras. once again it s a little later than usual, so i m scrambling to get it all out to you. hurricane watches now posted from the north carolina/virginia border to sandy hook, new jersey. so that includes delaware bay, chesapeake bay. we also have hurricane warnings in effect from little river inlet north carolina northward to sandy hook including delaware way, chesapeake bay, south of smith point. so that includes basically everybody from long island on southward. so this is a developing situation. of course. second thing that s new here that just came in, the intensity of the storm. category 2. look at that number. 110-mile-an-hour winds. the threshold between the two is between 110 and 111. 111 makes it a major hurricane, 110 makes it a think not major hurricane, b
taking a look at the radar that was just mentioned. does that sound like where it s going to hit. reporter: i hope he has a fox news rain slicker. it s going to start to get a little messy over the next few hours. let s take a look eight. he was pretty right. we have tropical warnings from matagor to texas all the way down to the mouth of the rio grand. this is tropical storm dawn, 50-mile an hour sustained winds. waters are warm we could see additional strengthening over the next couple of hours. we don t have a lot of time before the store makes landfall sometime tonight. there is the big orange blob we are talking about. starting to see outer bands moving across texas into louisiana. they need the rain, they need so much rain from this tropical storm, unfortunately they are not going to get the bulk of the rainfall. we think mexico is going to see the worst of the rainfall and it could be a beneficial to them and parts of south texas. there is that cone of