Action news, delaware valleys leading news program with melissa magee, Jeff Skversky and walter perez. Protecting life is our top priority. No resource or expense will be spared to protect families. Hurricane irma is battered south florida, with strong winds and rain and the worst to come. Floridas west coast is expected to have the worst storm in its history. A potential deadly storm surge and possibility of tornadoes. This is a look from palm beach florida where the darkness serves as a bray lude of things to come. Its saturday night. Im walter perez. 6,000,000 people have been told to evacuate florida. If they have not now, its too late. The window has closed and the only thing to do is find the safest place. 75,000 people are spending the night in shelters. Its unlikely theyll sleep. We have Team Coverage of irma tonight. Brian taff is in naples which seems to be in the storms cross hairs. We begin with melissa magee. Well track irma tonight and during the overnight hours. You can
Downstream as they rushed to evacuate 70,000 people in the path of a failing dam. Its been three days since maria sent flood water cascading through streets. Nearly all of puerto ricos cellphone towers are down and it could be months before power is restored. A 6. 2 earthquake hit mexico today. People recovering from the other earthquake earlier in the street were forced to the streets. The after shocks could be felt 450miles away. Those in tuesdays quake claim the government is ignoring them. They dont want to help. They only have ordered to give a show to the media. We have more on the rescue operations coming up in a full report in our next half hour. Breaking news to pass along from north philadelphia. Gunshots were fired at officers there. It happened at 10 00 p. M. 13th and york street. We are working to get more details as to what happened. We know no one was hurt. Police are looking for two men who reportedly fled the scene. More coming up on action news. Police in philadelphia