Message to columbia, unite around the historic peace deal with farc rebels and heal your country. Brent im brent goff. It is good to have you with us. Tonight, the atlantics most powerful hurricane ever recorded is moving with deadly force through the caribbean, decimating entire islands in its wake. Now it is moving northwest toward the United States. At least 10 people have been killed. And in the u. S. State of florida, tens of thousands of people are evacuating. Irma is expected to make landfall this weekend, but there was no escape for isolated communities on islands like st. Maarten and barbuda. Correspondent the fiercest storm on record has brought near total devastation on barbuda. Almost every home on this tiny island has been damaged or destroyed. We just did a flyover and i have to tell you my heart sunk. This has been one of the worst days of my life. So i know how you must feel. The entire country has been decimated. Ive never seen anything like this before. Correspondent
Describe september 5 and tember 6 and your country in your country. Guest antigua barbuda is a to Island Country separated by 30 miles of water. Of the got the full eye hurricane. Hurricane irma was 375 miles wide when it arrived on barbuda. Barbuda is 62 square miles, six miles smaller than washington, d. C. The huge monster of a hurricane 375 miles wide over little miles persting at 220 hour as a category five hurricane plus. It devastated everything. At the end, not a single building left standing that was structurally sound. All of them were dangerous to enter. The only reason we did not have more than one fatality is because people had listened to the governments warning and went into shelters. They were Strong Enough to sustain them. We lost one life. A small boy, a toddler in his mothers arms as she was running to the shelter. Having left her house too late. People like to remain until the last moment. Childs outked the of her hands and the next morning it was found dead. We wer
Is a two island countries separated by 3 miles of water. It was the island but got a full eye of the hurricane. Hurricane. Her mouth was 375 miles wide when it arrived. There were 62 square miles and its smaller than washington, d. C. , so you could imagine dusting of 220 miles an hour as a category five hurricane plus. It devastated everything. At the end of the passage there wasnt a single building left standing that was structurally sound and all of them were dangerous to enter. The only reason we didnt have more than one fatality on the island is because people heeded the government forming and had gone into a shelter, which fortunately was Strong Enough to sustain them during the night. We lost one life, a small boy,s toddler who was in his guardians armguardians arms as running to the shelter having left her house too late because as you know, people like to remain until the last moment but the wind literally sucked the child out of her hands, tossed him into the air and the next
The afternoon. Right now though not expecting any of that rain to make it into central North Carolina. As a matter of fact we are completely dry. Pretty cloudfree skies as well. The official sunrise is an hour and 10 minutes away. Well wait to see what our day holds when the sunrises. 68 right now in durham. 64 in hender so many and louisburg. Upper 60s. Back to 70. 71 in wilmington and clinton. A. M. A pleasant start to the day. Just as hot as yesterday. Humid frimentd. We drop back to 87. More on the rest of your week coming up. Right now, send it to al lie. Good morning. Its 5 31 on this tuesday. Bright and early. Not much to worry about just yet. 540, 440, 40 moving well. A lot of green on the maps. The raleigh area. If youre going through fayetteville, no problems there. 95 able to go the speed limit. Flying out today, hopefully somewhere cooler than here. Good travel conditions. Flying through the major airports should arriving on time. Outside now the parkway just east of u. S.
Tropical depression. Right around 8 00 this evening but we will be watching it. In the meantime here around Central North Carolina were pretty much on the dry side. You can see that on our satellite radar. Any rain is going to stay east of our area. Lets go ahead and get to the current temperatures. 69 degrees in raleigh. Still in the low 70s. We have 72 in wilmington and clinton. 74 in faev pretty comfortable right now. Nearby roxboro is reporting 66 degrees. So heres a look at your forecast. Were at 71 at 8 a. M. 84 at noon and 90 for an afternoon high. Looks like normal for this time of year is close to 87 degrees. Well be back to 87 as we head towards 6 00 this evening. That will change by about thursday as we track a cold front into our area. Thats going to be our big weather maker. More details in about 10 minutes. Right now send it over to allie. Good morning. Its 4 31. Good time to get out there if youre up and at em. No delays to report to you there through durham. Roads look