us i m eric shawn. ian made land from the south carolina coast just over 24 hours ago. it was weaker than the category monster that stamped entrance lamp florida. ian did plenty of damage with high winds and storm surge flooding. ian s remnants are now bringing heavy rain to the mid atlantic and northeast. areas of west virginia and those are at risk now we are told a flash flooding today. ask newest team coverage alexandria hoff is in fort myers, florida. molly and pawleys island, south carolina. rich edson with the latest on the federal response. but first we are going to go to adam tracking the storm s path what is the most important information that you have to give us now, adam? it is still a rainmaker print yes it s no longer a tropical storm. running over to the mid atlantic eventually up into new england all through the weekend as it makes its move. this is a future forecast. you can take a pay attention to the time step in the quarter. the heaviest rain over easter
It is raw and, yes, it is sometimes inspiring. Your money is affected. Refineries are shutting down, and that is cutting the supply of gasoline. Prices are rising. How many drivers nationwide will gas up as a precaution today . Just like they did after katrina. And, yes, there is a political element as well. President trump says he will go to texas tomorrow. Should he go in the middle of the rescue operation . He will want to avoid the negative publicity that greeted president bushs flyover after katrina. There you have it. Cando texas, perhaps the most dynamic state in the nation, hit with a catastrophe. President trump faces his first Natural Disaster. Watch it here. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart you are going to be seeing a lot of video like this on the lefthand side of the screen and a lot of weather maps like one on the righthand side of your screen. More rain is coming, and rescue operations are, indeed, underway. I should tell you, it is still raining in houstonen x t
Tornado Warnings Issued for south florida. For more and on our local weather, lets turn it over to rosemary. Lets take a look at where oma irma is at the moment, stretching in toward areas over georgia. It will continue its northwestern projection through the next two days. Right now moving northwest at 17 miles an hour, and the wind is near the eyewall reported at 60 miles an hour. We are seei the wind ing in and around the air with lord up still breezy. Daytona beach reporting wind gusting at 36. We have atlanta reporting wind gusting up to 56 miles an hour with savannah at 43 miles an hour. That is in store for this area today as we continue to see this moving out of the area, brushing alabama into tuesday. It will get weaker as it moves northwest toward wednesday. At home we have active whether we are looking at with the possibility today and tomorrow as we look at your local forecast coming up. 200 people from the bay area are in place to help florida now that the worst of irma ha
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Storm of the hammering that is taking place. Behind us its completely dark. It was lit up, but now the power is gone. This hotel is running completely on generated power. Its an island of lights surrounded by a sea of dark ness. Its the winds now that are just taking things apart. You can see the trees that have now been snapped off. They havent just sort of broken up at the top. Theyve been snapped off at the base, and it goes out as far as you can see, and of course those are just the trees. You can imagine the devastation being done to structures. We know that downtown is suffering in lake charles. The water that had stayed away is now beginning to come in in certain areas. Understandable because the storms moving. The winds shifting, and as a result of that, thats part of why you see a new round of destruction. Those things that had been weakened by bending in one direction for several hours now thrust suddenly exactly the opposite direction, and it becomes too much for them to tak