Announcer live where you live, this is abc 7 news. In the caribbean tonight, category five irma bears down on its next target after flattening and entire island. Tonight thousands if florida are trying to get out before one of the most powerful hurricanes ever seen in the at lan timesunion heads north toward them. Im dan ashley. Im ama daetz. Hurricane irma is pummelling puerto rico. Nearly 950,000 are without power. Also dealing with flash flooding. The National Weather Service Warns of a high threat to life and property. Irma is blamed for at least three deaths so far in the caribbean. It december mapted the island of barbuda, damaging or destroying every building. Maggie rulli has the latest. Reporter Hurricane Irma is tearing through the cribbual with 180mile an hour wind. It is really ripping right now. Ive covered hurricanes for more than 25 years. This is unlike anything i have ever seen. Reporter the streets of tourist hot spot st. Martin under water. The airport reportedly des
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It december mapted the island of barbuda, damaging or destroying every building. Maggie rulli has the latest. Reporter Hurricane Irma is tearing through the cribbual with 180mile an hour wind. It is really ripping right now. Ive covered hurricanes for more than 25 years. This is unlike anything i have ever seen. Reporter the streets of tourist hot spot st. Martin under water. The airport reportedly destroyed. Were here outside, shaking the doors. Reporter on the small island of barbuda, seen in the center of irmas eye, the Prime Minister says some 90 of the islands buildings are destroyed. In puerto rico, potentially the worst storm to hit the island in a century. Now florida is gearing up for a direct hit. Never had a cat five. Never experienced it and it is just scary. Reporter the florida keys are under a fullscale evacuation. This is what interstate 75 looks like right now. Reporter at the airports, it is a mag crush to get out. So far more than 1,000 flights have been cancelled to
Harvey. They were on their way home when they got turned around and told to head to florida. Initially started heading towards home and then things changed and we ended up getting turned around. We made it to new mexico, and now we got a phone call late last night. Pg e will start packing up this morning and then when they get to florida, theyre going to help restore Power Outages that are expected from the next hurricane. We will be here when they start loading up. Stay with us as we continue to cover this developing story. Reporting live in hayward, amy hollyfield, abc7 news. Thank you, amy. Airlines are already canceling flights and offering passengers a chance to rebook free of charge. Some have even added cheap flights to help the evacuation. Some florida residents have already left their homes. We were at sfo where some arrived yesterday. Sandbags, as much as i could possibly do. We took everything from outside, all the valuables, all the perishables i got rid of. My family is th
Counterprotests. Theres been a Large Police Presence here. They have been here all day made up of ucberkeley police, police from other uc campuses, and city Police Officers. They have been walking in large groups of about 6 or 7 or 8. Now they are kind of dispersed in different spaces. Some groups opposed to the shapiro appearance scrawled messages on sidewalks and signs around campus. Others have said the barriers, closed sections of campus, clusters of police [ pause ] have militarized the campus. University Officials Say they have two goals here, protect attendees and protect everyones right to free speech. Reaction now from people on all sides of this debate. Berkeley has a responsibility as an Educational Institution to provide this Free Exchange of ideas of intellectual diversity not just feed their students one side of echo chamber of one ideology. We have conservatives on this campus. We engage with them. The difference is we do it in a productive way that involves community di