Activated 3,000 national and state guard members to help with the countless rescues. Abcs lana zach joins us live from houston with the details. Reporter good evening, the situation here in houston, continues to be very serious. By abcs latest confirmation, three people are dead and there are still thousands more waiting to be rescued. White house confirms that the president will be here, to visit the affected region on tuesday, and by all estimates it will still be raining then. Houston is trying to stay afloat, amid nearly 500 billion gallons of water. Sinkholes opening up, tornadoes touching down, this lake was once a runway at houstons airport. Already there have been thousands of requests for rescue. On your roof, to be taken from the air, wave sheets, towels, or anything to get our attention. Reporter National Weather service tweeting, this event is unprecedented and all impacts are unknown and beyond anything experienced. Follow order from officials to ensure safety. Overnight,
Get out of your contract with up to a 500 credit to help cover your early termination fee. Go to fiosgigabit. Com chester, pennsylvania, native and professional basketball player tyreke evans returned home to host a free basketball camp. The memphis grizzly opened it for anyone from fourth graders to High School Seniors to sharpen skills. This is now a fouryear tradition. Time for a check on sports. Jeff skversky is here. And a new sheriff in town, rhys hoskins. Suddenly the worst team in baseball is a lot of fun to watch. Rhys hoskins on pace for 99 home runs. Thats crazy. About chance to play the entire season, 99 home runs on pace for. Absolutely ridiculous. Even rhys hoskins cant explain it. The phillies rookie phenom is off to the best start in baseball history. Homers again today. Incredible. 11 homers in his first 18 games. Nobody has ever been that hot to start a career. How about rhys hoskins . Busting on to the scene. Against the cubs today, there you go. Hoskins making the d
Sports sunday. Im Jeff Skversky with the one and only Mike Missanelli from 97. 5, the phanatic. Well, well, well, mike schmidt, barry bonds, hank aaron, babe ruth. Whatever. Not even the greatest home run hitters in baseball history have done what phillys rookie rhys hoskins has done. This is incredible. 11 homers in his first 18 games. I have to ask you, did the phillies wait way too long to call him up . Or was this the perfect chemistry, the perfect combination . Cant argue with their timing. Hes come up and done this. He was doing it in aaa. He was. But at the time when they thought tommy joseph was a hot hitter. They didnt bring him up because of that reason. Theres no question. Hes got to play. When he comes back, hes got to be the every day first baseman. Joseph has to sit. I dont know what to do with joseph. But this guy is unbelievable. And, you know, a lot of people say, well, once the pitchers adjust to him, hes going to have problems. But his swing is pure. Off his shoe top
The win, brunt of the storm came through, about 45 minutes to an hour ago, that is when the eye wall crossed over the top of us. That gave way to a surreal several moments worth sky were blue. Forgive us as we wiped off the camera lens as it gets socked with the rain as you see pelt ing in the back of me. Irmas now 5 miles north of naples. So about 30 miles south south east of fort myers. It is now a category two hurricane. It was every bit category three as it roared a shore sustain winds of 100 miles an hour. We have gust ted to 142 at one point and destruction has been widespread. A few moments ago when eye was above us and it had been calm, we took out drone six for just a couple minutes and try to launch it. Lets roll that now and give you a sense of what we saw. This is on the front side of the hotel, the commercial corridor, route 41, known as the trail, not a lot of people live there, fortunately. Destruction there limited to trees coming down here and there. Not the case on th
Hurricane irma made land fall with winds of more than 100 miles an hour in the keys. Homes have been reduced to piles of wood. Parts of the city of miami now under water. And now irma is targeting tampa. Which hasnt been hit by a hurricane in 90 years. And tonight much of the state of florida is in complete darkness as the storm rolls through. Nearly three and a half Million People are without power thanks to irma. And were told it will be weeks, maybe months before all the power is restored across florida. Sunday night and the big story on action news is the devastating impact of Hurricane Irma. The storm has been battering florida all day long with the worst at this point right now in north florida. Team coverage of the storms impact. Meteorologist Melissa Mcgee is tracking the path. And Christie Ileto spoke to a couple who survived the storm in the caribbean. But brian taff in naples once again that took the brunt of the storm. Reporter good evening. Irma was a monster of a storm as