The strongest hurricanes in the atlantic. We start with the damage irma has already caused. Its already made land fall hitting several caribbean islands and its barreling towards puerto rico with the impact being felt on the coast of the u. S. Territory there. Well show you video from a Facebook Post from a television station. You can see cars and vehicles, city roads completely innundated with waters. Looks like the view from someones balcony. The harbor almost unrecognizable. This video from the Facebook Page showing the damage from inside one of the Beach Front Hotel there is in st. Martin. You can see people walking through that area, if we can hold up that video, you can see the inside atrium the hotel. The Glass Ceiling completely blown out. On the ground floor, there is an 8foot southern of water where the lobby used to be. After hitting puerto rico, Dominican Republic and haiti, the hurricane is expected to barely on through cuba and the florida keys. People at the into keys urging people to get out now the. Navy already evacuated 5000 people from the u. S. Naval air base at key west. In miami, there are long lines ever people trying to stock up on gas, food, water, other essentials. Communities along the southeast coast of florida, including Broward County have declared a state of merge circumstances also imploring people to get out. Its important not to focus on the exact path the storm. A storm of this side could affect statewide and everyone must be prepared. Hurricane irma is the strongest storm ever reported in the atlantic with sustained winds at 185 milesperhour, and gusts up to 210 miles per hour. We dont have the expect of the damage already in the caribbeans. We dont know if the storm already claimed lives in the caribbeans island its already hit but we are continuing to monster whats going on. Well have another update in about 30 minutes from now. Back to you guys. Thank you. Meteorologist mark meteorologist mark tamayo is taking a look at the irma. The track could be adjusted in the next few days w an intense storm like, this you would expect to see a very well defined eye and thats showing up right here with this hurricane. Here is the hurricane, moving to the westnorthwest at about 16 miles per hour. As you know, that is category 5 hurricane. This is the track over the next few days as a category 5 as you can pick out here. Eventually, that will approach the u. S. Out towards florida, potentially over the weekend, possibly as a category 4. But as i mentioned, by the weekend actually by sunday, there is a lot of uncertainty between now and then. A lot can change. In fact, let me can show you, backing this out, and well show you all those lines. Those are all the different forecast mo tell, clustered here. They have been shifting more to the right, a little more to the easement well see how that changes or develops over the next few days. Once again, as you know, that is powerful category 5 hurricane and could be major hurricane potentially, especially for the florida coast line as we head into the weekend. Well track the changes here with the forecast track. And also our weather pattern, talking about the possibility of a few showers. Well have that coming up in a few minutes. Thank you, mark. Stay with ktvu and ktvu. Com as we continue to track Hurricane Irma as it makes landfall later this week as mark just reported. Washington state it will file lawsuit against the Trump Administration over it decision to end daca. Congressional democrats showed their opposition to the president s decision. Senate and House Democrats held a joint News Conference at the capitol house. Minority leader called for House Speaker paul ryan and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell to bring a clean dream act to the floor for a sleep. Called the decision to end daca deeply shameful and heartless. We all agree that president trumps decision to end daca is a despicable act of political cowardice. Cowardice square because he gave the announcement to whisk attorney general instead of just making the announcement himself. House speaker ryan praised the president s decision saying that he is glad that congress will have time to fix daca. The president s decision to end daca was heartless and it was brainless. If this order stands, hundreds, hundreds of thousands of families will be ripped apart. Tens of thousands of american businesses will lose hard working employees. Schumer and pelosi met with the president after that News Conference. President trump says he believes congress will make something happen and also he wants to see a permanent deal. Rallies were held across the country today. This was the scene last night in San Francisco as protesters gathered to voice their opposition. Speakers include immigrant youth and Community Leaders and mayor ed lee who says that ending daca is a betrayal to the dreamers commitment to our country. San Francisco Police are investigating a shooting in the richmond district. It happened about midnight. The victim was standing on the eventual smoke when two suspects approached. They asked him for a cigarette. The victim said no. According to the victim, the one of the men reached inside his pocket. The victim got scared and he pepper sprayed them. He ran away. He witness said that he noticed he was wounded when he saw blood. We never have seen violent crime. There are some crime. Violence does happen all around sit isy the victim was taken to the hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries. No arrest has been made. A shooting happened on the sidewalk on story road near sunset avenue. This was around 9 30 last night. Police hope to find Surveillance Video from homes and businesses in that area. The victim was taken to the hospital where he later died. The suspect was not at the scene when officers arrived and investigators have not identified who they might be looking for. To the north bay where police are investigating a threat in a novato school. A jewel knife taken into custody. Several fake guns were found inside the teens locker at school and his home. New at snoop, Seahawks Michael Bennett hired earn. He was handcuffed last month art may weathermcgregor fight. He said that police singled him out, ordered him down. He says this happened because he is a black man in the wrong place at the wrong time. He has fired burst to consider a possible civil rights lawsuit over the incident. I made a request to the Las Vegas Police department for any video they have because i know your officers have hand shouldered videos. Im look for any of those. In want the names of the officers and the reports. I want to see if the officers have claimed that he was a reason to do that. Police let him go after realizing they had the wrong man. On wait to provide help on the way to Hurricane Irma. The bay area crews already off to florida. Welcome back. Mark, it was nice to see the fog back in the bay area. Yes, it was. Things are starting to look a little more like normal. This is what the camera looks like, looking towards san raphel. Well talk about more rain showers, adding green to those hills. You can see the green showing up on radar. There is the chance later on tonight and into tomorrow we could have a sprinkle or light shower, even a slight chance of a thunderstorm all because of this guy, this area of low pressure right here in the pacific, moving closer to the coast line. With that, that will be the main feature as we head towards your thursday to cool us off. Right now, we still have some scattered clouds near the coast, in the portion of San Francisco bay for your early wednesday afternoon. Lets check in with some numbers with livermore at 84 degrees. San jose, 81. Mountain view, 78. San francisco, well take that 7 and santa rosa in the 70s. Another live camera looking out towards oakland with mostly cloudy skies, lingering clouds, probably throughout the afternoon hours, skies becoming partly cloudy here but then still some stubborn overcast near portions of the shore line. A little bit of a cooler weather setting up for today and thursday. Im thinking that will be the coolest day of the week. That will translate to some 60s, 70s and some lower 80s as the system sticks around. And the trans of a sprinkle or light shower. Tonight, lasting into your thursday morning. Here is the forecast model. Not too aggressive with the rainfall. You can see some showers out to the east, out towards the sierra. Putting this into motion, a little bit of green showing here, light green or blue for thursday morning, 9 00. So there is that chance you might encounter a sprinkle or light shower and then thursday, still some lingering clouds out there. This is tomorrow afternoon, 5 00. As i mentioned, tomorrow probably one the cooler days of the week. Today, well continue to cool things off. The warmest locations may be approaching 90 towards antioch and brentwood. San francisco towards the 70s. May feel muggy out there as you will have some moisture moving towards the south. More neighborhoods coming up for you with san jose at 84 degrees. More clouds for your thursday. Temperatures in the 60s, 70s be a 80s. A few days ago, looking at the fiveday, we would be jumping for joy with that heat moving out of time. And then well warm us up by sunday, warmest locations in the upper 90s. Portions of florida, well track irma. Well have an update coming up. See you then. Thank you, mark. More than a dozen red cross volunteers from Northern California are on the way to help with Hurricane Irma. They left yesterday to be in place as the hurricane hits. They are preparing for the possibility of a worstcase scenario. Reporter truck loads of bottled water arrived at the Red Cross Office in santa cruz as volunteers are preparing for a possible disaster more than 3000 miles away. The red cross says that Hurricane Irma is a category 5 storm with a potential to hit florida so they are staging personnel. This is major dannys third deployment in six months. I love helping people. People in disasters, they need help. Thats what i like doing. Thats whale do when i leave this earth. Reporter this married couple in the 70s are part of the team. They met i work with somebody who has a great deal of compassion. When you are out there doing this kind of thing, you realize, thats what you wants next to you. There are a couple of times ive had to find him and and the emotions i had to go to him but normally, i can handle most anything. Reporter in oakland, 12 volunteers packed up six emergency vehicles also headed for white springs, in north florida. But the red cross says its mindful of keeping volunteers in california in case a wildfire here. Weve actually had a hold on deploying volunteers from california and the western states due to the wildfire concerns. However, with the massive response from harvey and now the massive second hurricane, irma, we want to be ready to respond there. Reporter so armed with food and portable shelters, these volunteers drove off to florida not knowing whats ahead. Its anxious because you dont know what youre going to find there. You are dying to get out there and help because you know how to do that. But you still dont know what youre going to see. Its different every time. Reporter she also added, after this deployment, your heart comes out full saying, that because of the disaster, you see the best of humanity. And the Santa Rosa Fire Department tweeted out this photo showing some of their firefighters along with members of tax force 4. The caption says, the unit had been on their way home from deployment with harvey when they were turned around in new mexico and they are now on the way to help with irma. Hurricane victims are dealing with more than just floodwater in south texas. Hurricane harvey has created Serious Health risks because of spillage. And just a few hours ago, the Senate Overwhelmingly passed a package for relief. The republicans cut a deal with democrats to raise money. The president and i believe it should be tied to the harvey funding that our First Priority is to make sure that the state gets money. It is critical. Reporter the overall damage from Hurricane Harvey is exabout expected to cost as much as 190 billion. And with hurricanes hire ma and harvey fresh on their mind, state leaders have released their own plans. Mayor licardo released his own plan. We are looking at houston and soon to be florida. The reality that is with all of these cities, we are recognizing that there is a challenge with shelters so close to each other. You have to have more portable pumps. These are things that san jose is taking notes for. Reporter the mayor also says that san joses Emergency Action plan is focusing on improving the Warning Systems which failed in february before the coyote creek flood. He says that the new system will get warnings out digitalally in multiple languages and a team will go door to door. A team experts released the most detailed report on the oroville dam. Inspector relied too heavily on visual inspections and virtually ignored blue prints, construction records and other critical information that could have warned them about the damages troubled Flood Control spillway. A large section of the spillway collapsed forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people. And the gap closes some stores in focus on other brands. 200 Department Units and garages will add. The b. A. R. T. 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Other also cuts in san diego, texas, massachusetts, colorado and india. The termination, set to take effect next month. Gap announced plans to close 200 gap and Banana Republic stores in the next few years planning to shift its focus on several other bland, old navy. Old navy has been the bright spot for the clothing retailer, posting rising sales. Old navy is on track to surpass 10 billion in sales in the next few years. Taking a peek at stocks here. We have been in the green throughout the session. Dow jones industrial gaining more than 88 points. San franciscos taxi drivers are getting a boost. 5200 cab drivers will be given 4point p Million Dollars instead of using the money in an Advertising Campaign encouraging people to use the taxis instead of ride sharing like uber and lyft. The board of supervise ors will hold a meeting to see if the aif they will allow a sale of a street. The home own, association filed lawsuit challenging the sale and is asking the board of supervisors to rescind it. Still ahead, caught in the act. The search for the thieves responsible for a series of grabandrun robberies, some caught on tape in an upscale San Francisco neighborhood. We help someone literally take about 2000 worth of merchandise off the rack. What merchants are demanding from police. And putting the spotlight on the bay areas biggest city. A proposal to bring a landmark to san jose. Hey bee to hive to the comb combing that honey into some gold take that gold and make it an o good goes around and around and around hey bee to hive to the o oat from the farm is the yum in yo bowl put in the good and the good will grow good goes around and around and around hey good goes around good goes around and around and around. Hey state and local leaders in florida are calling on cents to either stock up on essential or leave town depending upon where they live in that state. They are faced with the strongest hurricane in the atlantic. Reporter Governor Scott has given a press conference. Federal regular layings have been lifted so that gas can get to the florida area quickly so people can leave. He activated flagstaff guard members to help people get into shelter and help with search and rescue efforts. People with special needs are evacuated now with more evacuations expected to be announced in the next 24 to 48 hours. This is y this is why state and local officials are so worried about. Take a look. That is a deafening roar of 185 mileperhour winds with Hurricane Irma. Its already struck several island. This is video of a Facebook Page of a station. You can see the devastation art hurricane hit st. Martin. Some videos were posted of people going to the Beach Front Hotel. The atrium of that hotel is innundated with water. This is video in miami as people in long lines are waiting to gas up. People are waiting to get into some Grocery Stores in that area. 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