New reporting tonight, homes burning to the ground. The video. The famous nfl player claiming excessive force, saying police had no idea who he was. And breaking now. A massive Security Breach possibly affecting more than 143 million americans and your Social Security numbers. Good evening, tonight from south florida where this evening as we travel through miami, you can see it everywhere. Families, store owners, boarding up, getting supplies and in many places, searching for gas. This is a monster storm, and if new track just out shows a category 4 slamming into the city and all of south florida, and then moving right up the state. Already a deadly and devastating path across the caribbean. Just listen to the winds toni t tonigtonigh tonight. That is irma tearing across the island of anguilla, a category 5 storm right now. Winds of 175 miles an hour. On the island of barbuda, nearly every building and home damaged or destroyed as we come on the air tonight, irma is now plowing into tu
And storm surge, 127 Miles Per Hour wind gusts by sunday morning. So the latest track has shifted a little farther to the west. That means irma will likely be hitting southern florida by saturday afternoon and sunday afternoon as a category four hurricane, the latest track bring its up the center of the peninsula. That means the entire peninsula of florida will get hit by Hurricane Force winds and not making a second landfall but decreasing to a category one as it pushes north of jacksonville. The take away from irmas Impact Likely the worst damage since hurricane andrew in 1992, could be worse than that. Storm surge making places uninhabitable for months. And running out of time to evacuate. More coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Meanwhile Hurricane Irma has cut a path of destruction through the caribbean leaving as we mentioned at least ten people dead and thousands homeless. Tonight its headed straight for florida and mandatory evacuation orders are in effect for the coast
Irma, a category 4. And katia, a category 1. It is very active in the gulf and the atlantic basin. We said that earlier this year in june that we were expecting a very active season and Mother Nature did not let us down at all. Currently, we have really nice conditions. A couple of clouds, thats it. And current temperatures, 58 degrees. Coming up in just a bit, well talk about what to expect for the rest of today and through the entire weekend. Well, we have a report of an accident that i want to get you up to speed with. This is in Warrington Township at limekiln park. 476 at baltimore pike, more cars on the roadway, but still not a lot of problems to speak of as of right now. 76, 95, 467, average speeds in the 60, everything is in the green. Pretty easy going out there. Now to breaking news in mexico. Overnight, a deadly magnitude 8. 2 earthquake struck off the coast near the city of chipas. People more than 600 miles away could feel the quake. Residents immediately fled buildings, m
Reason why. This is what Hurricane Irma has already done to the caribbean. There is death, and as you can see, almost total destruction. This is truly a brutal storm, and its headed for the sunshine state. Thursday night, the big story on action news tonight is Hurricane Irma. First the story in the caribbean. Irma is currently pummeling the turks and Caicos Island known to be the most beautiful tourist destinations. The Dominican Republic is savaged by the storm. A minimummion people without power in puerto rico. St. Martin is the place of terrible damage. The death toll stands at 11 00. Ground zero for irma will be the state of florida. Heres governor rick scott. Look at the storm. Its wider than our entire state and could cost major impact coast to coast. Forecasters say it could slam into the miami metropolitan area home to 6,000,000 people and the condos could sway 12inches in Hurricane Force winds. The evacuation is on by road and by plane. The cruel reality is, hundreds of fligh
Karen rogers with traffic. Reporter we have clouds over the terrace right now and satellite mimicking that idea. A few clouds locally. There are clouds out to the north and west. Showers near pittsburgh may make it into the poconos and brief sprinkle into the closer northern suburbs, but not a big deal. 58 degrees on the bus stop in philadelphia. Temperature keeps on sliding. 52 in allentown and reading. 65 in cape may. This afternoon well, it looks good, well be cool by 7 00. 56 but by lunchtime, 6. Not a bad afternoon for recess. 73 on the way home from school this afternoon thats the high with partly sunny skies overall. Pretty nice. 72 degrees by 5 00 p. M. 7 00 p. M. , 69 there will be a breeze blowing at times. Hurricane irma is a category four as it pultz pulls away from the turks and caicos. The latest numbers coming up from the National Hurricane center and accuweather. What you got there, karen. Reporter its a shot where you can see the flashing lights. Penndot is zooming all