Going as it should. I want to thank the people of fema. I want to congratulate him on his nomination. I hope that goes very quickly. It should go quickly. He has done a fantastic job. Maybe i will wrap up. And you can Say Something and we will take some questions. Here at you for being the fema National Response and coordination center. Ground, then on the entire administration has been preparing and we are responding. It is one of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit the country. The skill and expertise of the entire response and relief efforts are in the field today responding. Again, the best response to a disaster is one locally executed, state managed, and federally supported. We have strong partners in Governor Abbott and edwards to fight. You acted quickly to authorize for texas, louisiana, and arkansas. Prepositioned aspects, they are responding today conducting search and rescue assessments and other types of assessments. Customsdeployed protection as well. Another administrat
Commemorations within hours. Are under way in poland commemorations are under way in poland to mark the moment the Second World War began 80 years ago. We live from the first towns targeted by the german air force. French formula 2 driver, anthoine hubert, is killed in a high speed crash at the belgian grand prix. Five people have been shot dead and 21 others injured after a gunman opened fire from a vehicle in the us state of texas. It happened on a road between the towns of midland and 0dessa. The gunman has been shot dead by the police. 0ur north america correspondent, peter bowes, has this update. The latest information is that the Police Believe although it is not definitely confirmed, but they believe that this gunmam was acting alone. Since he was tackled and killed by the police, there have been no further reports of shooting. At one stage, there was concern, in fact, many reports that there could be a number of gunmen responsible for what was happening. It seemed like multiple
Not likable. Good morning. Dave youre right. Very un predipredi prediunpredi. Its not been doing what its supposed to do, not only in track but in intensity. Normally a storm that has wind shear of 30 knots would increase in intensity. Then a storm that makes landfall twice in one day over two mountainous areas would normally significantly weaken. The storm is still a major hurricane. Again, youre looking at mileperhour winds this morning. Obviously it looks for ragged than it did but as it works away from the coast of cuba, it will likely regain the strength that it lost and become a category four storm once again. In fact, thats the official forecast. Now, what russell is talking about with unpredictable is this. The storm is going to be just off of our east coast of our state, say just off Cape Canaveral friday morning with 130 mileperhour winds, right . Saying. This is where the unpredictable part comes. Its going to be moving so slow that the trough lifts out and a big ridge of Hi
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Late tonight or early morning. Our team is standing by in new orleans in mobile, alabama both understand hurricane warnings already this morning. We want to go straight to meteorologist chad miers. What are you learning. Just in at 8 00. 85mileperhour winds found with the Hurricane Hunter aircraft, tweeting about this, showing the radar that the aircraft is finding now, trying to get an eye. We talked about this earlier. As long as it doesnt have a really good defined eye, its not going to rapidly intensify. Its trying to get the eye. Its trying to intensify. The water is insanely warm here. 85 degrees in the water. Its not going to die but the only option it has is to get stronger. But does it have time . From new orleans to pensacola, thats the hurricane warning. Anywhere in that area, youre going to get damaged. This is the storm coming on shore in the next 15016 hour to hours. Youre going to have storm surge, kind of the surge of katrina. Just not as big as the surge of katrina. He