Grow to a category three storm, which would make it the strongest hurricane to hit the United States since 2005, people in harveys path are gearing up, while others are simply getting out. No one was really worried about it, but then everyone at work was talking about it, so thats why i am just preparing everything, food and just in case, flashlights. We have water, we have enough food. If the power goes out, we have candles. Trying to be as best prepared as we can. Leland our man in the path of the storm, have we started to get those out or rain yet . You said it, we have been experiencing it all morning, we have been out here for several hours, and the rain is really coming down, the situation is deteriorating quickly, blowing in from the gulf, it kind of feels like pins and needles on your backer, but speaking of the gulf, all eyes are on it, and i want you not to take a live look right here behind me from galveston bay, forecasters with the National Weather service just issued an a
Which now has that storm plowing right through the florida keys overnight. And then the next target, floridas west coast, which could face storm surges of ten to 15 feet. Irma may still be hours away from making landfall in florida, but take a look at this video. So this is a marina just north of key largo, already dealing with more than a foot of flood water. Floridas not the only state bracing for irma, by the way. It could still be Hurricane Force by the time it reaches georgia. Authorities there have been evacuating thousands of residents today. And right now in he is terr row florida we have nbcs gabe gutierrez. Weve reports out all across florida. They are continuing to move. Gabe, let me start with you. Tell us whats going on where you are. Hi there, chris. Well, over the last few hours weve been reporting on this massive shelter that opened up here on the outskirts of fort myers. There were thousands of people waiting to get into this shelter. Some of them saying they were wait
Look at this American Flag the ocean. We have Live Team Coverage from janice dean tracking the storms path. Griff is live in port st. Lucie. Is there a change . Reporter the outer bands of dorian parked over there bashing the bahamas. We are on the seawall of the indian river and some large waves, the highest wind gusts with 62 miles an hour but that is producing with the king tied coming over breaking the seawall, on the outside hutchison island, mandatory evacuation but this is why officials are worried about a storm surge, 150 miles away is Tropical Storm windss, 45 miles out of hurricane winds. Should dorian move a little west it is going to make things even worse but flooding, this is the storm surge people are worried about, lowlying areas, a slowmoving storm is going to make it worse. In st. Lucie county, the Spokesman Says he is worried people will get complacent because they keep worrying about a storm. We are seeing crews to the state level making sure we have whatever suppli
Mike, good morning. Good morning, pete, jed and todd. Exactly a month since the last incomprehensive and sudden outbreak of bloodshed and it happened again, its happened again in texas. Five people are dead. 24 have been shot and that includes three Police Officers and a 17monthold girl. It was 3 13 p. M. , state troopers with the Texas Department of Public Safety pulled over a truck for failure to use a left turn signal. The driver slowed down, didnt stop and put a rifle out the window striking a texas state trooper. We have an active shooter. Negative. In a vehicle sphwhr what is the status of the trooper fnlt theyre working on the trooper right now. Shooter is in a toyota headed hd westbound towards 0 december ka. Odessa. He shot two more cop. He shot an inned on i20 and continued into east odessa. There was a lot of random gun fire there, multiple scenes of bloodshed. A lot of the bloodshed was along the highway. We adopt know the details of how he got out of his truck but he got o
this slowdown. as you take a look at the conditions right now, it appears as if there s any possibility out there, anything to take away the strength of this storm. not really. we got that warm water, we think if anything it s healthy. think about it, that type of major hurricane over an area for 36 hours, that s pounding major hurricane force winds. that s a rainfall that s 10 foot of storm surge. it s just an incredible dangerous situation. it looks like it stays strong. you really look at the onset of the tropical storm force winds about 100 miles from the center. even monday morning, you get the real brunt of it. you start feeling those effects,