Savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. So good to have you with us on thursday morning. We have craig in for matt once again. For the first time in a week, for the first time in a week, the rain has finally stopped, but of course harveys fury is still being felt across the gulf coast. Lets get to the latest. Breaking news in crosby, texas, just outside houston. Thats where fire is burning at a Chemical Plant following two overnight explosions. Its owners had warned they were unavoidable after the facility lost power and its ability to cool those potentially volatile materials. Well go to crosby live in a moment. At least 28 deaths are being blamed on the storm, but that number is expected to climb sharply in the coming days. Houstons Fire Department is beginning a blockbyblock search of thousands of flooded homes today. In texas alone, 25,000 water rescues alone have been carried out since the storm started with Ongoing Op
Relief has finally made its way to the residents of madaya, syria. Today a convoy of trucks arrived in the besieged towns. Doctors without borders said that in recent weeks many people have starved to death. It is caught in the middle of the syrian war, and has been cut off from the outside since july. Caroline malone reports now from neighboring lebanon. Reporter aid has finally arrived. A convoy carrying desperately needed aid to the town of madaya. But there are demands that more needs to be done. Its not good enough. The United Nations have done this exactly three months ago, and look where we are at now. Reporter to the north, supply trucks, heading for two other towns. Both convoys had to arrive at the same time, as part of a deal negotiated with the Syrian Government a few days ago. Progovernment forces have blockaded madaya for months. And the other towns are cut off by armed rebel groups. People in madaya say they have been reduced to eating leaves, and grass, and dogs and cat
Bays number one news atiothis i the fox 13 6 00 news. Good evening thanks for being with us tonight im lloyd sowers. Im hayley hincez. Developing developing first tonight what would you do with 900 million. Thats the question that so many people are asking themselves tonight. The tickets have been printed all day as the powerball craze has taken over. Fox 13s evan lambert is live at a gas station in clear water. Evan, how is it going out there . Hayley, i can definitely think of a few things i would do. Just to give you an idea this place has been busy all day. We got a little bit of a line forming now but most of these people are buying those tickets. Wanting a chance at what 900 million and how could you want. We are going to talk about to wear about hear about the odds one in 192 million. Lets talk about things that are more likely to happen to you than winning that jackpot tonight. A couple things here. First being attacked bay slashing. The odds of that one in 11. 5 million. Dying
From our visit orlando to your camera, a lot of cloudy skies, low clouds and fog we had this morning, helped to stabilize the atmosphere atmosphere. Good news because it looked like earlier, a couple of days ago we might have strong thunderstorms rolling through and that is not the case. Now there are thunderstorms towards tampa and those are weakening, good news, this atmosphere is too stable across most of Central Florida. To sustain any kind of nasty weather. Outside, right now, first i have it zoomed into the orlando area. You can see portions of lake county, and Volusia County it shows we might be having rain and a lot of it is what we call virga, precipitation not hitting the ground and the top righthand of your screen, no lightning in the immediate area. Pan it out a little more and 17 strokes of lightning, all of which down towards tampa right now and pan out a little more, zoom it out an change the view one more time, and go further into the ocean and you can see stronger in t
Today. In beaumont where they got 26 inches of rain on tuesday, theyve lost the primary and secondary water supply. The u. S. Military is now sending warships and more aircraft to assist with those rescue efforts. Worst fears were confirmed yesterday for six Family Members trying to outrun the flood waters. The u. S. Navy and air force are staging a massive rescue operation, flying around the clock Search Missions and plucking men and women and children. It was like waving in the middle of the street. We were like so happy, like god handed us our prayers. Were blessed and thankful. Working with a state partner could potentially provide mueller with additional leverage to get manafort to cooperate in the larger investigation into trumps campaign. Coordinating with another guy with subpoena power, another guy who is fearless and not afraid of donald trump and guy who can bring charges that the president cant pardon for. Financial times reports that mueller interviewed the lobbyist and fo