Take a look at thehe l cone of uncertainty. The storm, the center of the storm can really travel anywhere in between those two white lines. But notice that now it is staying out to sea. It is not clipping the yucatan peninsula areas like cancun. So, as it entered the warmer waters of the gulf, that will help to feed the storm and likely increase it to a category 1 hurricane later tomorrow, very early sunday. You can see as it makes land fall, likely somewhere around louisiana or mississippi, so parts of louisdreyfus lieu, mississippi, the alabama and florida coast line really under the gun with this storm. The biggest concern will be storm surge flooding. Take a look as it continues to move toward the north, northeast eventually. And then get this easterly component impacting our area on monday. Here we are looking at rain, not seeing a lot of wind in the forecast, but it could be a weather alert day. More on the impacts from nate coming up. Now to doug thank you, it has been 12 hours
More after the president announced the assailant had died, Pete Williams reporting the assailant, james hodgkinson, age 66 with an illinois drivers license, died about an hour ago. Pete williams reporting it was unclear if police were able to speak with the suspect en route to the hospital. There were five people here that were transferred to a hospital earlier this morning the shooter opened fire at 7 09 a. M. It took three minutes before both Capitol Police and members of the Alexandria Police and Fire Department to respond and get it under control residents here say it sounded like construction. It sounded like fireworks in the beginning, but then it became very clear it was a fire fight to use the words of people in this area. Many of them called 911 and the response was very, very quick to that the president when he spoke a few moments ago urged a message of unity in the wake of this moments events. Take a listen to what the president said this morning. We can all agree that we ar
Two Capitol Hill Police officers who were shot according to our justice correspondent Pete Williams, and Pete Williams, those officers are expected to be okay. Again, all of this unfolding just after 7 00 a. M. On the east coast in alexandria, virginia. This is just outside washington, d. C. The situation right now, though, according to Law Enforcement officials, stable. This is a situation that is under control. They believe they have the lone gunman in custody. A number of folks who were there at the field describing him as a middleaged. Were told he was wearing blue jeans, a blue shirt, and he had a riechfle. We heard from congressman joe barton from texas a few moments ago. He said that it also appeared as if the gunman had a pistol as well. Perhaps even a semiautomatic pistol, said that the shooting went on somewhere between five and ten minutes. A number of other eyewitnesses say at least 50 shots were fired. It would seem as if, as the morning has gone on, that 50 number may be
120 degrees. Plus a terrifying wrongway crash captured on dash cam. That and more on a special edition of early today. Good to be with you on this thursday morning. Im frances rivera. House majority whip Steve Scalise is in Critical Condition this morning after a gunman opened fire on members of the republican congressional baseball team. Scalises left hip was hit with a shot, the bullet fractured bones, injured internal organs and caused severe bleeding. Scalise has already received multiple pients of blood and doctors say hell need further surgeries. Several others were also injured during the shooting. Matt mika, a lobbyist for tyson foods was in Critical Condition. Congressional aid Zachary Barth was also shot but posted a facebook and said hes okay and recovering in the hospital. His boss representative Roger Williams from texas suffered a sprained ankle during the incident. Two Capitol Police officers on scalises security detail were hospitalized. One shot in the ankle but in Goo
Would be premature for us to respond any further. In an hour and a half, well come back together and give you an update on what we can speak to and perhaps maybe answer some questions. Chief, any other shooters out there . This is a stable situation at this point. Theres no additional threat. We consider this incident to be a closed incident under investigation. Thank you very much. And the suspect in custody, correct . The suspect in custody . There you have it. The first weve heard from the Alexandria Police and the chief of the u. S. Capitol police. A press conference in an hour and a half, in which well learn more details. Theyre bringing investigators together, trying to find out everything they know. As we have said throughout this morning since we heard about this, it is always better to be cautious about what you know until you hear officially from people who have the responsibility to know. Police were certainly cautious there, saying its an active, hot investigation. They wer