to go and will go to the path of least resistance. folks hunkering down in those homes, be careful. around the lunchtime hour, you might see water creeping into your home. if that eye stays well off the coast here, maybe 10, 15 miles away, we could see wind speeds upwards of 100 miles an hour. if it gets any closer, it s anybody s ball game, anybody s guess where we could see 120, 125 sustained winds and those are catastrophic obviously. but right now we re getting a little stronger. i would say these are some of the stronger winds we ve seen over the past five, six hours and we re still well away from that eye. thank you, ron mott out on daytona beach. and david, what can you tell
completely submerged. earlier this morning, it tried to make it through these waters and got stuck. that s again, why the governor is asking people to please avoid traveling and to avoid roadways like this. i also want to show you the sandbags to my left. these are stores. this is the center of eureka, missouri, this is what the mayor told me is the heart of the city center, the center of entertainment, and these sandbags are five to six feet high. you can actually just see the top. and they re there to protect these businesses from the water creeping in around the doors now and around the windows. back to you. morgan radford, thank you for the update. one other developing story we re following today. the affluenza teen case. nbc news has learned ethan couch and his mother will not be brought back to the united states today. the u.s. marshals service says it could be two weeks before
streets here. and this has been a common scene playing out in fairfield all morning long. we took a walk down there to take a look at the cars. if you look down there, they re basically submerged under water. at least the fraont half of one car down there. the high winds took a really hard hit here in fairfield. we have downed power lines and trees as well. it s impossible to get around these streets. you really have to be careful. and, you know, just for the homeowners, a lot of people did try to ride out this storm. but now we ve got water creeping into the basements, into the front doors of these homes as well. so just not an easy situation to be in at all. again, you know, we ve seen emergency crews out here. but there s just not much they can do until some of the water starts to move out of the area. we should tell you also that fairfield, 98% of the town is without power right now. the local utilities, of course,
japan, news agencies and the internet are inundated with video accounts from bystanders on the ground who catch the wave s destruction on camera. we re actually seeing that moment of contact. this just terrible moment. the first wave of that ripple effect, what we call a tsunami. and that energy just climaxes and just pushes forward. starts just looks like high tide except it just keeps on coming. it just goes and goes and goes. a camera at the deserted sendai airport soundlessly captures the water creeping over the tarmac. imagine yourself, you re sitting there and you re looking out the window and your plane
that the nation has been on brink of this kind of crisis. let s go straight to capitol hill, our congressional current kate bolduan baldwin is standing by. the ability to finally fand a way out of this impasse and to avoid this looming government shut down and how this could all come out has to do with the big focus on the fema funding. the additional funding for federal disaster relief that democrats and republicans wanted to put in this short term spending bill. fema came out today to confirm that different from their prior predictions, that fema may be able to stretch their disaster relief funds that are much depleted and could run out, but they said they could stretch the funds through the end of this week. this is different than prior predictions which many had said would be depleted by the beginning of this week. in a statement, i will read you just in part, wolf, quote, estimates from over the weekend indicate the disaster relief fund could be fully exhausted by the