Inferno, Princes William and harry continue meeting with victim. Plus a new fourth type of chocolate to rival flavors. Dark and white, can you guess what it is . Early today starts right now. Good morning. Im phillip mena. Im frances rivera. Potentially catastrophic, thats how Hurricane Irma is being described. As it barrels towards the united states. The category 5 storm is one of the most powerful ever recorded, packing sustained winds of 180 miles per hour. Puerto rico is buckling down as irma looms offshore. Businesses boarded up as residents stocked up on supplies. With dozens of flights canceled, stranded tourists say they are prepared to ride out the storm. Im prepared. I got my water. I got my food. I got my flashlights. I got my emergency stuff and im ready. Preparations are also underway in florida. Tourists in the florida keys have been ordered to evacuate with a mandatory order for residents likely in the coming hours. And throughout the state floridians are clearing store
Inferno, Princes William and harry continue meeting with victim. Plus a new fourth type of chocolate to rival flavors. Dark and white, can you guess what it is . Early today starts right now. Good morning. Im phillip mena. Im frances rivera. Potentially catastrophic, thats how Hurricane Irma is being described. As it barrels towards the united states. The category 5 storm is one of the most powerful ever recorded, packing sustained winds of 180 miles per hour. Puerto rico is buckling down as irma looms offshore. Businesses boarded up as residents stocked up on supplies. With dozens of flights canceled, stranded tourists say they are prepared to ride out the storm. Im prepared. I got my water. I got my food. I got my flashlights. I got my emergency stuff and im ready. Preparations are also underway in florida. Tourists in the florida keys have been ordered to evacuate with a mandatory order for residents likely in the coming hours. And throughout the state floridians are clearing store
Implications. The National Weather service is warning severe storm conditions will continue for much of central and western florida. These pictures from fort myers. You have irma knocking down trees and power lines seven million plus people being without power. The downed power lines and construction cranes like that one. Youve seen all of these roads and we can go to some of these flooding pictures i believe lets bring some of the more flooding pictures there. That sure looks like a river to me. Im confirming with our control room is my amy. This is in fact my amy. Miami. All this flooding. Thirtyeight people have died in the caribbean as a result of hurricane urban irma. There had been no deaths reported thus far in florida. We will get to the market and some of the construction stocks. They are looking up in part. Letters went to be a lot of rebuilding effort. Lets get the latest on the flooding right now. We find our very own the center of circulation may be gone but relate the eff
Dell gives a gift elderly americans are the focus of the carrying peace this morning during emergencies. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order recently the gulf coast and texas and florida and throw the caribbean a homes entire communities were destroyed and lives were lost. Weve learned the tragic news after irma seniors ranging in the age of 71 through 99 died in a florida nursing home that lost airconditioning because the power was knocked out. They describe the facility as a death trap because the elderly are susceptible to heat related illnesses. Last month this photo of residents in the assisted living facility in texas were trapped in waist deep water went to viral. As this makes clear Older Americans was before and during and even after the storm. In fact, when Hurricane Katrina slammed into the gulf coast 12 years ago more than half of those that died were seniors along with the senator from connecticut i lead a bipartisan investigation into the response o
Through 99 died in a florida nursing home that lost airconditioning because the power was knocked out. They describe the facility as a death trap because the elderly are susceptible to heat related illnesses. Last month this photo of residents in the assisted living facility in texas were trapped in waist deep water went to viral. As this makes clear Older Americans was before and during and even after the storm. In fact, when Hurricane Katrina slammed into the gulf coast 12 years ago more than half of those that died were seniors along with the senator from connecticut i lead a bipartisan investigation into the response of Hurricane Katrina at the federal, state, and local level. This resulted to reveal many weaknesses in the Emergency Response system. And i doubt very many people have read bill hall report now has an excellent summary so it was evidence to meet so we had a long ways to go. One of the weaknesses and the response system is the of failure on the part called lovells of g