everyone. welcome to today on this monday morning. i m natalie morales. and i m lester holt. the two of us are sitting here together, it means one thing, it s a monday holiday. we re laboring away. matt and meredith will be back tomorrow. always good to be with you. the b team. no, we re the a team. b-plus. anyway, this time last week, of course, we were watching tropical storm and then hurricane earl made a real close pass to the east coast and now we re looking back in the gulf there is a new storm to worry about today. that s right. it s tropical storm hermine which formed in the gulf of mexico overnight. it s the eighth named storm of the season. tropical storm warnings have been posted already for northern mexico and south texas, which could get hit with severe flash flooding. we re going to get the very latest on the track of the storm in just a moment. then, it has happened again. another woman has had acid thrown in her face, the second time in less th
seems like some good news. good morning. welcome to today on a friday morning, i m matt lauer. and i m ann curry in for meredith. tgif and earl has arrived. the storm is lashing the coast of north carolina and virg virginia, but fortunately the eye is still about 85 miles offshore, earl with top winds of 105 miles per hour was downgraded to a category 2 from a 4 overnight. so far the storm surge has been minor. the flooding, we understand, is minimal. cape cod and nantucket are still in its sights and expected to get hurricane force winds later today. we ve got this storm covered all up and down the east coast this morning. let s start with al roker in kill devil hills on the outer banks of north carolina. al, good morning. what s going on? hey, guys, i tell you, this is this is a near miss. if this had been right on point, it would have been a mess for us. right now, we ve got wind gusts of over 70 miles per hour and it s a sand-driven, wind-driven rain that is