Some a subtle change for sunday. some longer spells of rain at times, but the wind direction shift slightly coming in from the west. we ll still be mild, very mild, butjust not quite as mild as it is right now with temperatures of nine to m degrees. a bigger change coming later in the week, it will stay unsettled, low pressure drifting across the uk as we go to monday and then as that shifts its way eastwards, it will open the door to cold northerly winds, that is going to feel quite different i think as we go into tuesday and wednesday, single digit temperatures for all of us are a time when we should be seeing this this time of the year and some wintry showers in the north as we head through the rest of the week. more weather later and that is all for now.
Fast-moving lava flow approaching the highway. reporter: officials tried to predict when the lava would pass this major escape route for residents. kilauea s fury is a three-pronged pitchfork, assaulting the big island s air, land and sea. scott, how close were you able to get to the lava as it was going into the ocean? reporter: well, anderson we actually had a special permit that allowed us to get fairly close, a hundred or so yards offshore but you wouldn t want to get that close because the swells in that area are quite big, not to mention the wind directions can shift in an instant and with that in the air it can be potentially dangerous. we watched the wind direction shift from a northeasterly directions to almost a straight south wind when we were there in just a matter of moments. what s amazing to see out there is just how quickly in
Getting into that eye. let s see how wide the eye is. i haven t done this in a while. because the eye is going to go over the top of sarasota and tampa, too. last measurement, and the eye itself is now about 17, about 18 miles wide, brian. roughly half what it was at this time at one point it was about 30, yes. control room, if you can still get that periscope picture from marco island, there it is. it s grainy. this is through a window, what we can assume is hurricane glass. we ve already even in this rudimentary grainy picture we ve seen a wind direction shift, but if there s to be an eye and you can be convinced that s brightening sky, it will be quite obvious when it comes. perhaps not all regions of marco island will see it. perhaps this is more inland.
State. i had a waterlogged microphone. is this all right? all right. it is decidedly different. the signal is in and out and of course, they drive the lens at regular intervals, but watch this wind direction shift. we ve been watching and it s been coming from the left-hand side of the screen to the right. eventually it will be coming from the right-hand side of your screen to the left. in downtown naples is in the eye of the storm. the upper right-hand corner of the screen and they are smack in the center of hurricane irma. our camera crew, if there are no hefty trash bags left in florida it s because we bought them all to protect our electronic equipment. our camera crew is out on the street taking stock of
Seeing guszy winds and it will feel cooler. right now winds out of the southwest at 8 miles per hour. as far as the radioactive vapors are leaking from the nuclear power plant they are remaining offshore helping to be blown offshore because of the wind direction. those winds will be shifting geraldo. by tuesday we will see the wind direction shift from the northeast that. means you will have the radioactive vap tors blown on shore to japan. i am going to check with you in the next hour as well. kathleen brag deputy emergency relief coordinator, what would you like us to do now? what would you like, you know, if you could rally the united states the united nations banner to help japan out what would you have us do?