Very hot. Hot, hot, hottest. Lets check in with meteorologist. Reporter as you take a look at the high temperatures for today, youll notice we have the triple digits. They are going to be actually rising even more. So a bad situation will get worse tomorrow. Highs in record territory. 99 in san rufell. That was a tie. Plenty of triple digits inland. Heres what you need to know through the Holiday Weekend, the heat wave will continue. Theres a high likelihood of heat illnesses. Records are likely again tomorrow. Elevated fire danger and stay cool and hydrated. Heat advisory continues for the valley. And really excessive heat warning will cover most of the bay area, inland valleys, friday through monday, even the hills. Now the heat wave will continue into the Holiday Weekend but this is not just going to be an inland thing. The heat advisory now in effect for the coast and San Francisco earlier than previous indications. 11 00 a. M. Friday to 11 00 a. M. Saturday red flag warning for th
Missions, helping to save the lives of texans and express my gratitude to both individuals as well as First Responders from louisiana for being such tremendous humanitarians. A pressing issue in texas is the issue of fuel. Now, this is an issue that is pressing in part because of a reaction to some media reports, where the facts are that theres plenty of fuel, plenty of gasoline, in the United States of america. Theres plenty of gasoline in the state of texas. All that said, we are ensuring an even greater supply of gasoline so we can tamp down any concern about accessibility to fuel that people may want to access over the course of the coming Labor Day Weekend. Working with all sectors of the oil and gas community, from refineries to pipelines. From operators, strucking companies and retailers. We have worked in the past 2448 hours to alleviate concerns about access to gasoline and to ensure that more gasoline will be coming or is already coming to the state of texas. Working with our
Mainland confirmed just over an hour ago. Police in daisy west of ft. Lauderdale reporting a man died falling off the ladder preparing for the storm. Battling cuba and central bahamas with high winds and major surf. The storm is 380 miles southeast of florida with winds whipping at 155 miles per hour. Roads, look at that aerial. They are jammed. Gas supplies running low as those following Evacuation Orders head north. Weve got our reporters on the ground following every single move. Congressman Francis Rooney of florida represents the 19th Congressional District which includes the highly populated west coast of the state with big tourism. Could they dodge the bullet or get unexpectedly punched . Orange juice futures skyrocketing as Citrus Growers prepare for the worst. How hes desperately trying to protect 20,000 acres of oranges, grapefruits and hundreds of jobs. Wall street keeping a cautious eye on irma after 110point swing. You can see the Dow Jones Industrials hovering higher by 3
Good morning its still moving to the westnorthwest it will continue that track through bahamas and cuba these are the spaghetti plots. The actual track has it looking like it will make a landfall in south florida going into early sunday morning between now and then you will start to see conditions deteriorate you have really the rest of the day today if youre in key west f youre in south florida to finish preparations and get evacuations underway alerts going on. A hurricane warning issued overnight for south florida in the purple also for the bahamas, the northern coast of cuba as well and still for the Dominican Republic this is a huge storm out there thats making its way close to the continental United States. If did downgrade to a category 4 storm, but i want to talk about that what its doing now is going through an eyewall replacement cycle. So its weakening because the thunderstorms right outside the eyewall are growing stronger than the thunderstorms around the eyewall, its kind
40 miles away from key west. So thats when the devastating and inundation of storm surge comes on in here. So lets take a look at the satellite. You can see that. The eye wall regained and reformed itself here overnight and now waking up to a cat 4 hurricane with the potential of this storm paralleling the west coast of florida for miles. So this is not a good situation here in terms of storm surge. Lets head over to the weather graphics and ill show you the latest coordinates. This number updated in the last half hour. Its 40 miles to the south and east of key west. The National Weather service in key west says between 7 00 and 8 00 a. M. , thats when landfall will occur. Already weve seen conditions in the keys go downhill. Most of the keys, if not all of them, are without power right now. That roar, that really scary almost deafening roar of wind will take place in these outer rain bands. We saw a 94 mile per hour rain gust at smith scholl light. Sustained winds around Hurricane For