Retailer slashing prices on thousands of items what this could be signaling about the company and its rivals power lunch starts right now im brian sullivan, stocks are mixed this hour but on track for first losing week in three weeks. The dow is the only major average that is higher meantime the u. S. Dollar, the greenback weakening against most of the world major currencies, the dollar index now at its lowest level since january of 2015 kroger beating estimates but the shares getting pounded apparently because of aggressive discounting, chipotle taking another hit. Zumi sext. Soaring, a smaller than expected loss and beating sales estimates. Good afternoon, thank you, brian. Lets get you caught up on Hurricane Irma the white house set to hold a briefing in about 30 minutes from now the latest on the emergency efforts, well carry that briefing live. Meantime the president tweeting, warning everyone in the storms path to be vigilant and heed all recommendations from government officials
The win, brunt of the storm came through, about 45 minutes to an hour ago, that is when the eye wall crossed over the top of us. That gave way to a surreal several moments worth sky were blue. Forgive us as we wiped off the camera lens as it gets socked with the rain as you see pelt ing in the back of me. Irmas now 5 miles north of naples. So about 30 miles south south east of fort myers. It is now a category two hurricane. It was every bit category three as it roared a shore sustain winds of 100 miles an hour. We have gust ted to 142 at one point and destruction has been widespread. A few moments ago when eye was above us and it had been calm, we took out drone six for just a couple minutes and try to launch it. Lets roll that now and give you a sense of what we saw. This is on the front side of the hotel, the commercial corridor, route 41, known as the trail, not a lot of people live there, fortunately. Destruction there limited to trees coming down here and there. Not the case on th
Display than right here in naples florida. The winds of Hurricane Irma stronger than they were nowhere than here yesterday. We peaked at a wind gust of 142 miles an hour. But incredibly most of the damage is elsewhere in this state. Yes, the power is out, the trees as you see are down but the scars that you mentioned at least here are largely superficial. It was the worst storm that we stayed for. We were here for andrew in 92 and we were here for charlie in 2004. Reporter clay cohn spent much of today cleaning up outside of a house that just yesterday he was fairly certain he wouldnt have anymore. He and his family rode out irma at a nearby friends house fearful of the storm surge that gratefully never came. This is the storm, the behind my screenism Marilyn Gorman chose to ride it out in here house. She, too, is relieved today. God be with us. I thought we were all going to die actually. I thought the storm surge was going to come in and take us out. Reporter naples was also larged s
A big sigh of relief for so many people that this storm didnt leave the kind of catastrophic damage that was expected in places like this. But irma is still leaving its mark. Today flooding in charleston, savannah and breaking records in jacksonville. What was Hurricane Irma now moving north. While floridians statewide start to assess the destruction left by this giant storm. We got a lot of damage, a lot of cleanup. Reporter neighborhoods like this one in naples under water homes, airplanes and the front of this Senior Living center torn apart. Its unbelievable. Reporter trees uprooted, this one in bradenton taking part of a house with it. Its an incredible sight. Reporter the first image from the keys where irma made its initial u. S. Landfall as a category four yesterday morning now coming in showing houses barely standing, cars buried beneath sand with bridges closed, residents who evacuated are now trying unsuccessfully to get back. Very anxious and we all just want to go home and
Center. Theres plenty of cloud cover sweeping across the region. Not that we wont see some sun breaking through at times but high clouds begin to filter in and theres whats left of irma, no longer a Tropical Storm and anything we get out of this is probably going to be falling apart today. Tomorrow i think theres a better chance of some spotty brief showers popping through. 62 degrees in philadelphia, 52 in allentown, karens right yesterday we were down into the mid 40s in some of our northern and western suburbs. Not so this morning. 58 in wilmington. 62 currently in cape may and as we go through the afternoon, not too bad. Well see those clouds increasing as the day goes on but it will be warm and pretty comfortable. 76 degrees by noon. By 3 oclock, thats your high, 81 degrees. And by 5 oclock, 79. So, for the bus ride in this morning, you dont need to be quite as intense with maybe a jacket or whatever as there still isnt too much wind out there and temperatures are not quite as bad