Into the coast. Hurricane matthew proving to be as dangerous as advertised. Good evening everyone, im chris oconnell. Im dawn timmeney. One of the hardest hit areas in florida so far appears to be saint augustine. This is what the streets there look like right now. Some have turned into raging rivers. This is video of the water rushing past casablanca inn on the bay where at least a couple dozen people are trapped including a number of children. The mayor there predicts damage to the city will be widespread. Many homes have been pounded by waves and the storm surge could only get worse. Fox news says five people have died so far as a result of the storm. Two of those were medical related deaths in saint lucy county. They happened after the county was forced to suspend its emergency services. Also right now, at least 600,000 people are without power and this could be the worst Hurricane Impact since 1989 and hurricane hugo. President obama reminding people today this is a slowmoving sto
Haley is pleading with residents to evacuate. This is the last time you will see me before we are actually in storm mode. So please evacuate, even if its to a shelter. Even if you suddenly are sitting at home we have shelters in charleston and in every county on the coast that we can have and take care of you doing this process. But we are now getting ready to see really tough weather. Many areas want people off the streets from midnight until Early Morning on saturday. They dont want to risk anyone getting in the way of Emergency Responders doing their job during the storm. Meanwhile, in haiti, the death toll continues to rise. Officials say 842 are dead after the devastating hurricane. Meanwhile in our country, president obama warning residents as the hurricane works its way up the costa meeting with with fema the president said the weakening of the storm is still very dangerous and tens of thousands of homes and businesses are already without power in florida. President obama says t
Declar declared. Tragedy in texas. Photos taken moments before the debtliest hot air balloon crash in history. More on the 16 people who lost their lives and how it happened. Olympic athletes and fans arriving in rio. Preparations in full swing. Will the city be ready to host its most famous party ever. We headed to copacabana beach to find out, today, august 1st, 2016. Announcer from nbc news this is a special edition of today, countdown to rio with matt lauer live from Rio De Janeiro, brazil, and Savannah Guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a special split edition of today on a monday morning. The 2016 Olympic Games almost at hand. We made our way to rios copacabana beach. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Take a look at that. Copacabana is beautiful on a perfect day and by the way, lets get something straight off the bat. In the United States, some people say Rio De Janeiro. Here they call it Rio De Janeiro. Tomato, tomato. Its freaki
Winter. I guess we have to. Cydney long is live in lafayette hill. It looks like its all things spring out there. Reporter it is. Here they made room for they shifted gears for the easter spring flowers, mulch and soil. With this pending snow look, they are clearing space in the front of the store and look what they brought out of storage today. Shovels. Thats really depressing. Reporter call it inconvenience or nuisance or backwards, a spring storm to steal the show with Snowfall Forecast for sunday, the first day of spring. At a park today families out enjoying the sunshine, it certainly feels like spring is in full swing. The clear skies gave sky force 10 a perfect view of penndot crews brining 95 north near the airport. Mother nature likes to throw a curveball. Now were digging out the salt and shovels. Reporter flowers will move inside to the greenhouse and shelves that have spreaders and soil will move over for salt and shovels, anything winter to come out of storage shed in case
Travellers, withdrew nighted technologies and verizon among many other major companies. As for the economy, one important report of note. September Housing Starts and Building Permits out at 8 30 eastern time. Okay. We have a couple of stories were watching this morning. Apple ceo tim cook making a couple of headlines at a Big Technology conference in california. The tech giants new Music Streaming Service has reached more than 6. 5 million paid users. Another 8. 5 million are participating on the free trial. Are you still free trial. I dont know. I dont know if its been three months or not. Maybe not. My son downloaded 59 songs and three albums. And its good. Its alternative but its good. I got all new stuff to listen to. My music life is good. Changed. Its good. Its more robust. Thats for sure. But millennials like spotify. Thats what i hear. Im still on spotify. But youre a millennial wannabe. I just got there first. Cook suggested orders for a fourth generation apple tv would be ne