i can say no, i don t think he s up to the job. this is a guy the coast guard shuts down the skimmers, the state itself sits down there till they count life vests. vacuum cleaning. speaking of general honore, what he said after katrina applies to this situation. he said we re stuck on stupid. the federal government and bp is stuck on stupid and there s still not a sense of urgency. and now we ve got hurricanes churning away and they will be all summer long. you know there s very little break. julia, john, appreciate you being on. thank you. update on breaking news we ve been following. hurricane alex, making landfall short time ago. winds over 100 miles an hour. we ll have a live update, take a look at where the storm is headed next. also ahead, breaking story out of portland, oregon, police saying they have reopened their investigation to former vice president al gore, allegations of sexual misconduct. new details on that coming up.
other. you don t have a central command literally or figuratively. we talked about general honorare on the show before. i m not an elected official. i can say no, i don t think he s up to the job. this is a guy the coast guard shuts down the skimmers, the state itself sits down there till they count life vests. vacuum cleaning. speaking of general honorare, he said we re stuck on stupid. the federal government and bp are stuck on stupid and there s still not a sense of urgency. and now hurricanes are churning away and they will be all summer long. there s very little break. julia, john, appreciate you being on. thank you. update on breaking news we ve been following. hurricane alex, making landfall short time ago. winds over 100 miles an hour. we ll have a live update, take a look at where the storm is headed next. also ahead, breaking story
we re following right now the first hurricane of the season. hurricane alex. there it is, upgraded to a dangerous cat 2 in the process of coming ashore. chad myers is monitoring late developments from the weather center. we begin with reynolds wolf in the thick of it on south padre island, texas. reporter: the hurricane is making landfall about roughly 100 miles to the south of our location. it looks like texas will escape the mere brunt of the storm. but that is not to say that they weren t scathed by this thing. strong winds have come through here. so strong, we had to shut down some of the bridges that go back to the mainland. on the other side of the intercoastal waterway, we ve got widespread reports of tornadoes dropping down in some places but i ve got to tell you, the city of brownsville was prepared. they did hand out over 60,000 sand bags in the area. they ve got, again, shelters supplied for roughly 2,000 families and governor rick perry declared 19 different counties in
i do! i do! do you mind? got to make sure this is oh. uh. okay. everybody say awkward. protecting your family fun. now, that s progressive. call or click today. we re continuing to follow breaking news tonight. hurricane alex hitting about 100 miles of brownsville, texas. winds of 105 miles an hour as we mentioned, rough seas have made it impossible to skim off oil from the water, burn it or coracorap corral it with boom. they can t lay dispersants on the water s surface. nothing to keep the oil from coming ashore. with high winds and waves, fears that it will be pushed deeper on shore or deeper into marshes.
want to update you on the breaking news in the gulf. hurricane alex making landfall 100 miles south of the u.s./mexico border. it s a category 2 storm, winds 100 miles an hour. reynolds wolf joining us from south padre island. what does it look like? reporter: the wind has picked up quite a bit, intermittent showers coming through. at times, heavier downpours. it truly is amazing. at the center of the stormings as you mentioned, 1 h00 miles fm this point. as these bands come through, they re bringing with it heavy rainfall of the at times, very strong winds coming through. wind gusts in the area topping 60 miles an hour. what we have been getting here, also widespread power outages in brownsville. strangely enough on south padre island, the power has still been on. they had temporary outage at the police station. things are going well all things considered. brownsville, they ve had tornadoes. tropical systems make their way on shore, one thing that often happens, tornadoes can and wi