Thank you for joining us. We are tracking the tropics. Many of you keeping a close eye on these storms in the atlantic. This morning, we have hurricane gaston and also invest 99l which could become a tropical storm. So lets turn it over to meteorologist leigh spann for the latest because it is busy out there, leigh. It. And this is the time we expect it to be busy. This is when the most hurricanes and tropical systems are formed over the many, many decades. Hurricane gaston, just after midnightam hurricane of the season. Not an impact to anyone which is good news. We do have en9l. And its already bridging some heavy rainfall to puerto rico and the Dominican Republic and has an 80 chance of developing in the long term. Let me show you the latest on gaston, 75 Miles Per Hour winds now making it a hurricane and expected to weaken and then restrengthen. But again, staying out to sea. Those are the best kind of storm, right . Basically a tropical wave. Pretty sure its going to head toward t
A dramatic new outbreak of twisters in the midwest. One taking down this starbucks in indiana as customers were seeking shelter. Incredibly, everybody got out alive today, thursday, august 25th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Its thursday. Nice to have you with us. Two big weather stories this morning. Al is about to join us. Hes keeping an eye on those tornadoes that you talked about. Then he has that storm hes looking at down in the tropics. Lets go right to this overnight investigation into the devastating earthquake in italy. As we just mentioned, the death toll jumped dramatically overnight. The search for survivors being slowed by hundreds of aftershocks that have shaken that region. One area of focus in amatrice where a hotel is expected to have dozens of guests trapped inside. Lets get to nbc correspondent bill neely in that hard hit town this morning. Bill, good
On poorly formed invest 99 l. This tropical wave coming into the southern bahamas. But only a 6 chance over the next five days that it will continue to develop. Thats good news. Plus theres Tropical Storm gaston out there. We got the latest information on it. Its expected to regain its category one hurricane status. Strengthening to a category two. Heres bermuda. Its way out to sea and it stays there. Thats good news. When you look at whats left here, this is a ve this point. And it will eventually head into the bahamas. Now, the visible satellite imagery is easier to pick out the spin in the atmosphere. You can see it right there. Not a lot of cloud cover on this side. You want to look for a counterclockwise spin. All the storms are on the southeast side. Thats the area of low pressure. Thats what we would consider the center and what were tracking. Thats going to head into the at that point, its going to not only enter the warm waters of the gulf of mexico. But its also going to ente
Man he is, this is not something he would ever do. The reporter he denies making threats about the president . Absolutely. The reporter right now, garguilo is accused of violating a restraining order by having ammunition in his home. Home. But the indictment also points to concerns over drugs, threats, and extreme views. His lawyer wouldnt rule out its all related to an ongoing custody dispute and did add this. Theres a long the mother of his children. The reporter and his lawyer did say that garguilos views were not exceptionally radical, but perhaps were not mainstream either. He also said his client had owned a Real Estate Appraisal business. He is locked up for now, but epstein spent does have a detention hearing set for wednesday. Rear live outside the federal courthouse in south boston, sharman sachetti, fox 25 news. Vanessa breaking right now, firefighters are battling a sky fox giving us this look at the scene just off of main street. The Fire Department tells us roughly two ac
Pulling contaminated water out of the aquifer and pushing it back into the plant where it will be used to process the fertilizer. They have an Extensive Network of monitoring wells they say and the contaminated network has not reached the monitoring wells indicating much of it has been captured. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection was mosaic has notify firstdegree federal eps as well as polk county. We have a crew on the way. This gypsum stack was built back in the 90s with a liner. But when a sink hole develops beneath it, there is no way the liner will hold. Steve andrews live in our tampa news room. Thank you. More breaking news now. A fatal crash is causing some big problems on i75 in hernando county. Newschannel8s paul lamison is in eagle 8 right now over the more about it. Paul . Reporter good evening keith. Here, take a look. We can finally see the accident. These are three of the six cars involved. You can see the back car hit the middle car, crashed up against a