Heading further out west, looking at the westbound drive time, looks fine either way. You will see from the blue route to the turnpike an ongoing construction project. 4 01. 72 degrees. Right now Tropical Storm jose is churning off our coast and bringing high waves, flooding, and dangerous conditions. The impacts are being felt from the delaware beaches to the jersey shore. Nbc10s matt delucia joins us live from avalon. Weve already seen significant flooding along the shore, high tide last night. Fill us in. Reporter the good news is a lot of floodwaters have receded, although the big concern is once high tide strikes around 8 00 to 9 00 this morning. Were in avalon by the inlet bridge. You see by the jetties, weve got the waves crashing here. It does not look too bad at this point, although every now and then we get the winds picking up and waves crashing on to the rocks. Theres a coastal Flood Warning in effect until this afternoon and a high surf advisory, as well. There is encompas
Puerto rico as we speak. Were getting live pictures this morning. Heres our reporter for the Weather Channel standing in an area thats probably dangerous right now, i would say. Bill henley tells us a few minutes ago wind gusts are up to 70 Miles Per Hour and increasing, right, bill . The Storms Center is getting closer to where paul goodlow is standing in san juan. Its made landfall in puerto rico. Its going to be hour after hour of damaging wind there. Were still feeling the influence of a Tropical Storm. Thats jose. No longer a hurricane. High surf, the water running high, the potential for flooding at the jersey as jose continues to spin and churn up the seas off our coastline. Maria, you see maria moving through st. Croix overnight. Now its going right through puerto rico. The jersey shore, delaware beaches under the tropical impacts of jose, not maria. This will continue through thursday morning. Its a weakening storm system. Well see less and less wind, and the waves will settle
Im Natasha Brown in for rahel. Lots going on this morning, globally. I swear. Still looking at outside on the road, feel guilty talking about this construction, not much going on but matt, i know you are really busy. We are bus toy day, we had jose, that is starting to move away. We all are taking an eye, taking our eyes to maria, of course, is affecting puerto rico, already definitely affecting puerto rico. Tough to see but we are looking at margate beach, it is rough surf down here and here is storm scan three this is a live picture, maria now making land fall in the southe coast of puerto rico affecting many, many people down there, we will be looking for wind gusts that are close to 150 or so miles an hour, this is a very strong catastrophic category four storm making land fall along southeast coast of puerto rico. We are keeping an eye on maria affecting everybody in puerto rico there this morning. Temperatures close tore home, we have to talk about that, 60 s and 70s, warm and mu
On why they say major changes are needed. Plus u. N. Ambassador nikki haley joins us with what comes next after President Trump threatened to totally destroy north korea. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. People are now just hunkered down and hoping this doesnt bring too much devastation with it. The tame to evacuate was yesterday. Hurricane maria roars ashore in puerto rico. Maria is a beast, okay . Its a dangerous, dangerous storm. A powerful earthquake struck mexico. People ran into the streets as buildings crumbled. Rescue crews now facing the very grim task of digging through the rubble looking for signs of life beneath those collapsed buildings. Were going to kill every man, woman, and child in north korea . That doesnt advance the ball. They cant write this off as some red neck speech or crazy man speech. This was totally thoughtful. This family be sleeping elsewhere after a sinkhole swallowed part of their home. Deep into left field, go
Also, we have new information about the man charged with murdering a Temple University student. But the big story on action news is Hurricane Maria making landfall in puerto rico. The island is getting pummeled with lifethreatening winds and widespread flooding. As maria slowly crosses the u. S. Territory its toppling cell phone towers and snapping trees and tearing off rooftops. Thousands of residents fled their homes for the safety of shelters. And hotel guests were forced into hallways to stay safe from the storm. Reporter sara, Hurricane Maria is blamed for death and destruction in the caribbean and now making landfall in puerto rico and the danger is not over yet. Hurricane maria striking puerto rico headon with winds topping 160 Miles Per Hour. 7 15 in the morning and when you think we have experienced the peak of the fury, stronger winds, greater gusts abc reporter joe torres in the storm and this group from a Wedding Group is huskered down in their hotel room. Millions in the s