Right now. Announcer katrina, 10 years later. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Reporting tonight from new orleans. Good evening. Exactly 10 years ago the streets behind me were virtually empty. Landfall of Hurricane Katrina was just over 12 hours away. A monster storm that would slam the gulf coast and knock this city to its knees. We will look back at katrina a bit later in this newscast. But its another storm named erika that we want to lead off with tonight. Right now hitting the Dominican Republic with high winds and heavy rain and beating a path toward florida, which is under a state of emergency at this hour. Tropical storm erika has already killed at least 12 people in the caribbean before barreling into puerto rico. Nbcs Janet Shamlian is in san juan. She starts us off tonight. Reporter devastation on the tiny island of dominica. 12 dead, as many as 20 missing after more than a fooft rain from Tropical Storm erika triggered 34udslides and flooding. Turning roads into
Path of the storm brings it over the dominican republic, haiti. It may start to shred because of the high mountains there. If it goes over cuba, it gets even more danger as far as its not being able to survive. Its then out into the atlantic, comes on shore sometime monday afternoon as a weak tropical storm, and then continues on up into the southeast. But again, lester, we still have to watch it. It still could intensify. So people arent out of the danger zone yet to the southeast. Al roker. Thanks very much. Now we turn to the crisis exploding overseas. Enormous waves of migrants, many of them refugees from wartorn nations, fleeing en masse to europe. But the journey is long and perilous with thousands dying along the way to what they hope will be a better life. Ron allen is following the story for us tonight from calais, france. Reporter today the bodies of desperate migrants washing up on shore who drowned in search of a better life. At least 2,500 already lost at sea this year. Th
Conditions against out Tuesday Morning. And also going to see that sort south bay as well level of the Golden Gate Bridge we have fog this morning so expect fog this morning commute as well. Heres what visibility and now but down to less than a mile but no problems yet with fog and sfo probably change to malls for Half Moon Bay less than half a mile and san jose. Yesterday we had no foggy conditions problems say but it were seeing it and the dawn for malls and fairfield. Also still watching the Coastal Flood Advisory still in effect through today till 3 00 p. M. In the afternoon. Also expect higher than normal times as king tides coming. That means also sing ocean waves over 20 thieves with the watch for the possibility of flooding in the lowlying areas. This is where the coastal morning and unpacks the entire San Francisco bay area. Specially that shoreline of huge cast for tracking showers for but potentially tomorrow for Christmas Eve. Tomorrow morning those of us looking oclock dec
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