Resort island of barbuda is in ruins. Stephanie ramos live in florida with the latest. Reporter this morning there are people trying to make a mass exodus out of florida as the monster storm raging closer to the coast and grows stronger. Irma is inching closer to south florida with winds 160 Miles Per Hour. The storm shifting farther west the eye of the storm on keys in florida. Nowhere in the florida keys will be safe. Were running out of time, the storm is almost here, if youre in an evacuation zone you need to go now. Reporter more than 5. 6 Million People have been asked to evacuate, many living in lowlying coastal areas. As time runs out, people are trying to escape the storm. Traffic so bad on the three main routes out of south florida, some people abandoned their cars because they have run out of gas. Those trying to get out by air finding themselves stuck, Fort Lauderdale airport closed. Miami International Spending all flights. Those trying to get in hoping to get a last minut
Impact of Hurricane Irma expected to make landfall sometime tomorrow morning. Abcs Stephanie Ram mows live with the latest on the system. Reporter so many iconic miami spots are ghost towns, no traffic or people, so many homes boarded up as the deadly storm rages toward the coast. Hurricane irma is inching closer and closer to south florida with winds with 106 Miles Per Hour. The storm shifting further west. The eye of the storm with its sights on the florida keys and tampa. The National Weather service tweeting this is as real as it gets. Nowhere in the florida keys is safe. We are running out of time. The storm is almost here. If youre in an evacuation zone you need to go now. More than 5. 6 Million People have been asked to evacuate. Many in low lying coastal areas. Cars for miles. Reporter as time runs out people are trying to escape the storm. Traffic so bad on the three routes out of the of south florida, some abandoned their cars. Those trying to get out by air finding themselve
President just saying on air force one that after republican failure on repeal of obamacare, he is forced the work closer with democrats just to get something done. More on what he may or may not have agreed to with Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi coming up. Also the rich may have to pay for. President trump doubling down, now saying wealthy americans are not his priority when it comes to tax cuts. Melissa the president just making comments aboard air force one on the surge in stocks and says that he respects fed chair janet yellen. The dow closing at another new record high. Lets go straight to Nicole Petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Nicole, what was the day like down there . Feels pretty great. We did have that back and forth action. There was a lot of pressure on a lot of parts of the market. As you noticed, we had a mixed close. The russell is lower, but the dow brings it in, third day in a row of records. It was up four days in a row prior to this, up nearly
There are a total of 13 fires burning in napa and sonoma firefighters struggling to get containment. Here is a closer look at the that is the buyer that is threatening the oakmont area. It is only 1 contained. ÷nt fires is north of glenallen, about 10 miles east of santa rosa. Also, the Sugarloaf Ridge state park and the crane creek also, the sugarloaf ridg6 state 571 structures have been destroyed just in that fire and 16,000 o nare still threatened. Here is a quick look at the atlas fire, everything inside the red line is whereuhb;u kit spread. It is stretching as far north as robertson ski vineyardshae, al the way down to skyline wilderness park. So far it has destroyed 125 buildings. That fire just 3 contained. Pxoionthen there is the partrid fire. The v5eievlatest informat shows it has burned at least 6000 acres so far. It is also spilling down into it is only 1 contained with 5000 buildings still threatened. There are new mandatory evacuations or parts of Sonoma County 7clodthi
These fire so far. They continue to burn this morning out of control. Good morning, i am darya fosom. I am james fletcher. The wind has shifted a little bit and we have new Evacuation Orders to update you on this morning. Lets begin in the north where there is a mandatory evacuation right now including the area you see outlined here. This is the northern portions of Sonoma County. Take a quick look. Several areas in that area out of out on location. If you live north of grant street, you are actually, north of the River Rock Casino, you are being told to make plans to evacuate right now. Lets look at another map with another area. Actually, not another map, but specific streets that are impacted by mandatory evacuations this morning in case you know anyone on nutter rolled, fullers road, fay ranch, fox ridge, vineyard road , willow ridge, ram hill and rockmouth road. Those are under mandatory evacuation this morning. Also in geyserville impacted is deerpath road and lakewood lane. Thos