[ bleep ] and a Woman Leads Police on a highspeed chase in a police car, but its how she managed to escape that is shocking. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. This morning, Hurricane Irma is moving like a buzz saw through the care bayne bean and will probable hit florida some time this weekend. It left most of the island without power. At least eight deaths on the island of saint martin are blamed own the storm. Irma, a category 5 storm is moving westnorthwest and just passed puerto rico. Its expected to hit the bahamas by tomorrow night. In southeast florida people are scrambling for supplies, gas, and a way to get out. A mandatory evacuation for Miami Dade County including miami beach takes effect this morning, and meg oliver is in miami beach. Meg, good morning. Reporter annemarie, thats right. Mandatory evacuations took place at noon. Were stand at one of the remaining lifeguard towers left.
Where the landfall will take place. Its a 150 right now category 4. Some of the outer bands, some of that terrain might be weakening a little bit. Everything says that somewhere around there, the middle keys are around marathon. There is a slight westward jog, though. So well see. A lot can change. Low cloud deck but thats just a low cloud deck. The high clouds are gone. Santa clara, 57 degrees. 54 felton. So cal, 57. Saratoga, 59. The humidity as been going bongers crazy. Should be per but better but still warm here. 6 01 and sal tells us things are what . Okay . Yeah, things are okay. There is congestion. People still have to go to work but just a little bit of the edge taken off as some, a percentage of people do the fourday week. Friday, they take the day off. This is westbound on the carquinez bridge. It only takes 19 minutes to drive that stretchs which the best time that we had all week at this time of the morning. Traffic will be busy on the bay bridge. We are look at the east
Tony blair calls for tougher immigration rules numbers without the need for brexit. Sir mo farah becomes the first athlete to win the great north run four times in a row. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. After battering its way through the caribbean, Hurricane Irma currently a category four storm has slammed into the lower florida keys, lashing the island chain with winds up to 130 mph. The hurricane made landfall in cuba late on friday. It engulfed villages, causing widespread damage and leaving whole communities homeless. The eye of the storm has now reached the florida keys, bringing extreme winds that are expected to last for the next few hours. All residents had been ordered to leave amid fears that a storm surge reaching 15 feet could hit the islands, most of which are only a few feet above sea level. One person has been confirmed dead in the florida keys. As the storm is expected to move north to mainland florida, more than a million homes and businesses are without power
Debris that is cluttering the sidewalks and the streets making it difficult to get around safely. We are helping our fellow americans in florida. Reporter our weekend to a Tropical Storm. Storm surge bringing flooding to the jacksonville area were people had to be pulled from flooded homes. Nearly the entire state of florida is now reeling with homes and property destroyed and many communities left swamped. Just because the storm has passed, we are not safe. We have debris all over the state. Reporter 20 20,000 people are in emergency shelters and more than 6. 5 million homes and businesses lost power. Officials are warning it could be weeks before electricity is restored. The florida keys were hit hard with 130 mileperhour winds. Officials are warning there is no fuel, running router water or power. We have a lot of damage and cleanup. Reporter we are back out here. Those are three trees in addition to the one that you saw. This is an australian pine tree. That sidewalk helped and pre
The end of the week. A more immediate threat, though, is to the caribbean islands, including the Virgin Islands, and puerto rico. High winds are tearing through the eastern half of puerto rico right now. Well get to our team of nbc correspondents who are in irmas path, in puerto rico, in florida, in just a moment. But lets start with al roker, who is standing by. Al, how dangerous is this storm this size . Well, craig, right now, as you mentioned, and you heard, this is the most powerful atlantic hurricane ever. And so we cant stress enough the danger, the potential danger there is with this system. This is the latest from the National Hurricane center. It is a category 5 storm. That is the top of the chart. You cant get any higher than that. Right now about 35 miles east of st. Thomas. 185 mile an hour winds. Only 5 Miles Per Hour below the strongest winds weve ever had in an atlantic hurricane, moving we westnorthwest at 16 Miles Per Hour. So heres what were looking for as far as eff