Now. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight from melbourne, florida. Good evening from it to our viewers in the west from the Central Florida coast, where we are just hours away from a direct hit by what officials are calling an unprecedented, even historic hurricane. Matthew, which has already killed over a hundred people in haiti, regained strength, as expected, earlier today, and is forecast to come ashore here overnight as a category 4 storm, the second highest strength, with sustained winds of 140 Miles Per Hour near its core. Some 2 Million People in the southeast have heeded the dire warnings to evacuate. All told 19 Million People will be impacted by this storm. Its slow march means the southeast coast could take a punishing hit that will last for 60 hours or more. Our team is in place up and down the storm zone, plus al roker with the latest miguel . Reporter lester, good evening. Just moments ago the sky here turned green, transformers are exploding. Thi
They have several air tankers prepared to deal with the flames, and as you can see its spreading over a fairly wide area and its awfully hot push begun 100 degrees up there which doesnt help. Our Spencer Christian has been obviously tracking our forecast all day, and he can perhaps tell us a little bit more about how hot it is and the winds in the area and what firefighters are facing. Spencer. Okay. Its very hot and dry there, although the steady winds, the constant winds, have not been very strong. 6 Miles Per Hour out of the southwest. Temperature has varied widely across the general area there, in the 90s mostly, but closer to the fire, the reading we have is 91, 92 degrees and winds out of the south at 6 Miles Per Hour, and there are occasional gusts up to 13 Miles Per Hour and, of course, its exceedingly dry. The relative humidity in the area of the fire is under 10 which is dangerously dry. So right now heat is an issue, of course. Relative humidity is an issue because its so lo
But fans of winter, we know youre out there, dont worry, this season will be making a come back. Meteorologist briers has a check of the forecast. Social meal ya split 50 50, some people really enjoying mild temperatures, the others saying wheres my snow . Something for everybody in the forecast, highs today for the mid and upper 50s, nearing 60 degrees in norwood, possibly even some of those grills being broken out for the patios this evening and you can see that mild air just to our southwest, pushing in and arch priv fig into tomorrow and we could actually break the 60degree mark in boston tomorrow, low 60s for some spots. Mostly cloudy overnight tonight and even our morning lows are warmer than our normal afternoon highs for this time of year. So, braking it down hour by hour, your 7 to 7 forecast, clouds increase the afternoon, slight chance of an isolated rain shower tomorrow, but look how warm those temperatures are, right around the 60degree mark, we keep it through the workwee
Time as mayor. He represented the eighth ward until the time of his death. Is Memorial Service scheduled to get underway at 11 00 this morning eastern time. We understand that it is running a bit behind schedule. Thel then, discussion on job numbers from washington journal. We are joined by the wall street journal economics reporter. , you talked about the data points beyond the topline numbers. The key one was wage growth. Lets start with that. Guest there was a lot of attention to the headline , 321,000n the report new jobs created. The most significant number in the report is nine. Muchcents, thats how earnings went up. It is twice the average the we have seen per month over the last year. On au look at it yearoveryear basis, it is not as impressive. Increase. Om a 2. 1 economists have been watching for any sign that wages are going to pick up. They have been so slow to grow over this recovery. We have different measures that show that they may be picking up. This is the first time
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