Gathering in the streets of mexico city. Hundreds of miles away from the epicenter. The earthquake has created a potential tsunami threat to several Central American countries. Including the pacific coastline of what a mullah honduras mexico el salvador and costa rica. The threat braced to nominate was being evaluated for hawaii mom and other pacific islands. There are reports of Power Outages in mexico city. To put it into perspective. The earthquake which devastated the bay area in 1989 was a sixpoint nine. That was considered a strong quake. Once you get above 8 on the Richter Scale it is considered great. That kind of earthquake reduces major damage and destruction to buildings. And is felt over large regions. We will continue to follow developments. Hurricane irma moving to the north of cuba and expected to make landfall in florida on sunday. The governor warned it could cause catastrophic devastation. Category 5 storm has decimated islands in the caribbean. Including barbuda. And
President trump doesnt rule out military action against pyongyang. Hopefully we dont have to use it against north korea if we do use it on north korea it will be a sad day for north korea. Good morning its friday, unfortunately were dealing with a lot of national catastrophes on this morning mexicos been struck by a strong earthquake the 8. 1 magnitude quake was felt in the capital city forcing people to evacuate shaking buildings. At least five people have died the epicenter is located off the west coast of mexico with tsunami Warnings Issued along the coast of mexico and other Central American shores. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said tsunami waves have been observed. We are joined by Frank Jack Daniel can you tell me what you have observed the quake struck here before midnight it wuas felt strongly i mexico city. It shook me and me family out of bed. The same for millions of other people in the city who took to the streets very quickly and stayed there until the tremors were o
By sunday morning. Here is the latest. National Hurricane Center has just issued hurricane warnings for south florida and the florida keys. There is a mass exodus underway as floridians heed the warnings and evacuate. Right now the hurricane is over the turks and Caicos Islands and is approaching the northern coast of cuba and the Outer Islands of the bahamas. The new evacuation orders. And the new difficulties. Reporter right now so far the hurricane has killed at least 11 people in the caribbean. Evacuations have spread in florida. The governor ordered all schools colleges and universities to close. Time is running out. And so are resources. Reporter Hurricane Irma immense power pounded the caribbean. At a relentless and record breaking speed thursday. The winds swept past the Virgin Islands after bringing distractions and death to places such as st. Martin. The Dominican Republic not even in the past also felt the fury. In antigua the category category five damage could be seen from
And could cause major impacts from coasttocoast. Regardless of which coast you live on be prepared to evacuate. Governor of florida warning everyone who can to get out now. Those that cannot are stocking up. Shelves are wiped clean of bottled water and supplies and sandbags and people are waiting on long lines at gas stations some have run out of fuel. As Hurricane Irma inches closer to the coast thousands of people are ordered to evacuation and thousands packed airports trying to catch a flight out of the storms path and more than 4,000 flights are already canceled. Gray hall is live now at the Philadelphia International airport where some fortunate evacuees were able to get a flight to physical. Reporter those passengers able to make it here to philadelphia. They are thankful they are safe but tell me their thoughts and prayers are still with the people stuck in florida. Really scary, you know it can turn at any minute. Its safer to get my family out. Two little kids. Im sad because
You knew all about it. The ridge of High Pressure is beginning to move in from the western side killing of some showers and underneath the clearing skies we end up with a quite cool night, especially in east anglia. After an early dip temperatures pick up underneath the cloud. Eventually the trailing front brings rain and cloud into Central England and wales and falling on behind the blustery day with lots of showers and the odd rumble of thunder. The rate taking its time to really get them to east anglia and hanging on to the brightness there. More for you in and about half an hour. See you then. Hello. This is bbc news. The headlines Hurricane Irma is battering cuba with heavy rain and winds of more than 150 Miles Per Hour hitting the north of the country after already devastating several caribbean islands and killing at least 20 people. Meanwhile officials in southern florida have told 6. 3 Million People a quarter of the states population to evacuate their homes before the storm ar