Party. Several injured. Among them, reportedly, a pregnant woman. And the nurse arrested for refusing a Police Officers order inside the hospital. The outrage. And tonight, the nurse is speaking out right here. Good evening, and its great to have you with us here on a labor day monday, and we begin tonight with all eyes now on this new hurricane. The new storm track just in, and late today, Hurricane Irma was upgraded to a category 4 hurricane. Florida is already preparing tonight. Very likely in the path, and several other states getting ready too. Hurricane irma as you can see now, sweeping toward the caribbean. Winds up to 130 miles per hour, and expected to strengthen even more. A state of emergency just declared in florida. The new models just in showing several tracks that could make u. S. Landfall. Anywhere there from the Florida Panhandle up to the carolinas. Tonight already, residents in florida stocking up on water, on food, fuel, store shelves empty there. Having of course,
Hour. The car into a crowded labor day party. Several injured among them reportedly a pregnant woman. And the nurse arrested for refusing a Police Officers order inside the hospital. The outrage. And tonight, the nurse is speaking out right here. Good evening, and its great to have you with us here on a labor day monday, and we begin tonight with all eyes now on this new hurricane. The new storm track just in, and late today, Hurricane Irma was upgraded to a cot goir 4 hurricane. Florida is already preparing tonight. Very likely in the path, and several other states getting ready too. Hurricane irma as you can see now, sweeping toward the caribbean. Winds up to 130 miles per hour, and expected to strengthen even more. A state of emergency just declared in florida. The models showing several tracks that could make u. S. Landfall, anywhere from the Florida Panhandle to the carolinas. People stocking up on water and food, and shelves empty there. The families just witnessed the destructio
Lets begin with will ripley live in tokyo. You just return from your 14th trip to north korea with all of this going on. Reporter john the impression i got from the north koreans this is not a country that is backing down. This is not a country that is afraid but it is defiant and furious with the United States and ready to back up their fiery rhetoric with action and there are indications according to south korean lawmakers and intelligence officials north korea is moving an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile to a location along the korean coast, with a trajectory over japan like last week or fire a missile in a more southerly protra jectry targeting the Pacific Ocean including potentially the u. S. Territory of guam, home to 160,000 american citizens, Andersen Air Force base, naval base, guam. North korea said theyd conduct a missile test near guam, not threatening to attack guam but extremely unsettling and provocative for the u. S. The threat in north korean state media talks about
After tearing through the caribbean the past few days Hurricane Irma is currently churning off the coast of cuba. Wind speeds are still in the neighborhood of 150mileperhour with gusts oon stronger. The southeastern bahamas received the bulk of the devastation today. The storm surge reached as high as 20 feet in some areas with up to a feet of rain. The combined death toll from irma currently stands at 17. Looking forward, irma appears to have the south coast of florida directly in its path. Were going to get the latest on the track from nbcs al roker in just a moment. White House Homeland Security adviser tom bossert warned residents dont under estimate this storm. Its not only a dangerous storm, weve already seen loss of life. This storm has taken lives already. Its going to take more, unfortunately, if were not prepared. So please take it seriously. At this point this is a large storm and whether it wobbles left or wobbles right, you need to at this point start thinking through your
State with heavy rain, high winds and dangerous flooding. Al, was this squall line part of your forecast earlier tonight . Oh, yes. We are just getting into this. This rain is hitting me. Why dont you get under the overhang. The storm is about an [ inaudible ] 400 miles wide. We will feel it everywhere. Wow. I got to say, guys, this is the strongest. In fact, im just going to take a knee for a second. Its kind of like exhausting to stand there for a little bit. I want to bring in meteorologist right now because we have the newest update. What is happening with this storm . We still have a strong storm out there. It has only gotten larger. We heard about Tropical Storm force winds 400 miles from the center. This storm is just getting going for our northern neighbors. Northward up through georgia and South Carolina where the storm surge is still yet to come in. Flooding, damaging winds still on the table here and the tornado threat, as well, as we go through the overnight hours. Whats th