Emergency aid will have to wait until the hurricane passes. Its absolutely, you know, catastrophic conditions, those weather what were seeing with the hurricane is absolutely overwhelming and were obviously getting our rescue crews that are in the bahamas as close as we can to help out, but the conditions there with the hurricane stationary over grand bahama island, theres no ability to get in there with any assets right now. Well, mandatory evacuations are under way in coastal communities from florida to North Carolina. More than 2700 flights have been canceled and the Orlando International airport has now ceased operations. Floridas governor urged everyone to get out while they can. People need to remain vigilant. If youre ordered to evacuate, you need to do that. From Palm Beach County all the way up to nassau, the florida georgia border, all those coastal counties have issued evacuation orders and its important that residents heed those calls. You know, get out now while you have t
And navigation equipment. It had a pilot onboard who was familiar with the local seaways. Why did it get into trouble so quickly after leaving its moorings, its docking . And i think youre going to look directly at probably one of the four ways in which the vection get in and out of the vessel. You know, it carries in excess of 4,000 vehicles. There are four ways in and out usually, and one of them may not have been tied down the way it should have been because this thing got over on its side awfully quickly. What do you make of the Response Time for the rescue two hours after the initial dispatch call . Well, i mean thats thats a little slow, but, you know, theyve had their hands full in that neck of the woods over the past week with the hurricane. The ntsb is sending a fairly small team to assist the coast guard. The coast guard is going to take the lead, but the ntsb will certainly look at the Response Time. That will be one of their areas. I mean this ship is enormous. What is it g
Unimaginable levels after dorian devastated the area as a ferocious category 35. We have our team live up and down the North Carolina coast and the bahamas. We start with catie beck in North Carolina. You are not too far from where dorian made landfall. Tell us what youre seeing. Reporter yeah, hallie, we are an hour and a half from where Hurricane Dorian made landfall. Torrential rain. Very, very strong. Hurricane force winds. We have been seeing this weather worsen hour by hour as it crept up the coast. Conditions have continued to get worse. We may not be through the worst of it yes. We expect an hour or two before dorian continues to move. Authorities say there is good news. No stormrelated injuries last night. No emergency calls. And minimal power outages. There are thousands across the state of North Carolina without power right now. As for the outer banks, they have fared fairly well. Evacuation orders that were given were taken seriously. Absolutely no one is on the roads. Very
Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 960 of the Trump Administration. That means we are 40 days from the 1,000day mark, which is equal parts mythical and meaningless, and around here it means, by the way, this broadcast first came on the air three years ago tonight. But i digress. This nation and our bahamian neighbors have spent this week tracking and dealing with and running from Hurricane Dorian. It also consumed our president s week, though, not in the usual way. He has spent days trying to prove he was right in warning that alabama was in the path for impact from the hurricane. Its very important to him. Hes returned to it about a dozen times on social media. Then there was this, of course, in the oval office, the map, the work of government storm forecasting professionals with an added handdrawn loop to extend the cone of uncertainty to include, you guessed it, alabama. Washington post reports that according to a white house official it was
Fbi, governor abbott, incredible, the job they did. Its tragic. But they did an incredible job under the circumstances. Another very sick person. So i just want to thank everybody involved. Laura alicia acuna is live in odessa, texas, where were getting new information today. Reporter hi, laura. More than 15 crime scenes were left in the wake of this shooting, that according to to december saw police department. Law enforcement also told us even as this investigation continues, they still have no motive, no reason, not at this time. At a News Conference that was held earlier today, police said while they have the identity of the suspect killed by police, they would not name him so as not to give him notoriety. Odessa police would only say that he is a white male in his 30s. Authorities say he shot a texas state trooper as he was being pulled over for not using a turn signal, then he took off 20 miles west to odessa where the shooting continued. The suspect eventually stole a mail truck