Wilfred is the only name left. After that, they switch to the greek alphabet while Hurricane Sally pummels the south, the wildfires continue to rage in the west some 87 wildfires burning in 11 states the wildfires have scorched land roughly the side of new jersey so far we start, though, in the gulf. Mobile, alabama. Nbcs Chris Jansing is there emergency crews busy doing rescues there. What more can you tell us . Reporter its been absolute devastation in many parts of this city in ways they hoped wouldnt happen. If you look at this house next door, looks like nothing is really going on except for some folks in Yellow Jackets who happen to be Emergency Responders kevin, if you can follow me in here, the neighbor was kind enough to give us access to his back yard. Look at this oak tree, he says it may be 80 to 100 years old f. You come along the other sierksd it fell directly into the nextdoor neighbors house it took down another tree. Kevin is being very intrepid in climbing up there. You can actually see into the house. A woman was trapped in her bed, craig. This is the scene that has been repeated i just talked to one of the Emergency Responders kevin, are you okay . Yep, hes good just talked to one of the Emergency Responders he had been to an almost identical scene where he said the same thing, a woman trapped in her bed were told by the neighbors that she has been taken to the hospital, that shes okay miraculously here is another crazy thing. We keep hearing descriptions that almost sound tornadolike, people hearing something that sounds like a Freight Train. He said other than that, he never heard this come up, never heard it hit clearly, you can see the devastation that has been caused more than 100 trees like this have come down where im standing in this house, when i first came up, the generator was going. This area is without power about 265,000 people along the alabama gulf coast without power. We have not yet seen any crews go out weve really just started to feel the rain stop, the winds start to die down. They may be able to get people out to start worrying about the power lines. In terms of the trees that are down, unless you have someone who is in lifethreatening danger, they werent even sending people out as of 45 minutes ago. They wanted to make sure that the worst of this storm was over and then they would worry about getting out and getting the trees. But they have not only all the tree crews here, theyve hired outside contractors who are also ready to get out this is in many ways the worst Case Scenario they were worried about. Craig, as you know, this incredibly, almost annoyingly slow storm sitting over places for five, six, ten, in some cases 12 hours they think it will be, loosening those root systems. Then you had in this area wind gusts of up to 85 Miles Per Hour, and this is what happens you see a tree like this that has stood here for maybe 80 to 100 years, ripping up the fence. You can see the protrusions where the fence was in the ground and going onto the house next door. A lot of the neighbors have come out, obviously very relieved that woman who got the rudest, most dangerous kind of wakeup you can imagine is actually okay, craig. Glad to hear shes doing okay my goodness. Chris jansing for us in mobile, stay safe. Kevin, be safe as well, kevin her photographer there it really is hard to get your head around just how much rain the gulf coast is getting right now. Take a look at these images weve captured over the past few hours. This is nbcs sam brock. Hes covering the storm from pensacola. Just look at how much that area has changed in just a few hours time more rain, more water, and it is all happening so very quickly. Sam brock back with us now once again from pensacola weve seen significant changes so far this morning. How are things there now reporter craig, good morning. It has not stopped raining, and the wind is still slamming into us, as chris said, speeds up to 85 miles an hour this has been going on for hours. We were out here at 4 00 a. M. This morning there was no water in this parking lot. There was some water, some flow going out on the streets next to me now look at this theres a street over here im on a parking lot, as i mentioned. Theres a street down there. This might as well be a lake theres no separation between where one endsand the other begins it has been constant i just got off the phone with the safety director for Escambia County who is talking about the fact that this may be an alltimer, in terms of surge, but more specifically the rain totals they got a lot in 2014 hurricane ivan, this is the 1616th Year Anniversary of ivan that did billions in damage to this area this may eclipse both of them in terms of the footprint and the amount of damage it leaves behind they have no sense yet, jason rogers told me, because the rain is still coming down he specified, why not the mandatory evacuations. When you see cars over my shoulder covered up to their windows and streets impassable and the Pensacola Police saying there are more hazards than we can possibly list, dont leave their homes, why werent people moved outmanned torely ahead of the storm. His response was we didnt know where the track was going to be. If you look, new orleans, biloxi, gulfport, mobile, and now here we are in pensacola, because were on the dirty side of things, ended up getting what may be the steepest rain totals. Look around me right now, you still see things bending in the breeze you may hear the sails, there are yachts rocking back and forth. Those sails are flapping right now really loudly. This just continues to escalate. There are rescues going on right now, according to that safety director they are going in there with urban search and rescue teams from this state and neighboring states like florida, alabama, louisiana, mississippi, all of them collectively using their resources to try to help people. That is going on right now as we speak. Sadly, craig, he does expect there could be loss of life once all this recedes and once the smoke clears craig. Sam brock for us still on duty in pensacola, florida, where the rain is clearly not letting up, wind not letting up. Thats probably going to be the case for many more hours there sam, thank you more than two feet of rain so far in pensacola, florida, as we bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins. Bill, just a few minutes ago we got that 11 00 a. M. Update on the storm from the National Hurricane center any major changes . No. We were wondering if it would drop down to the Tropical Storm. Its still a hurricane at this point. Maybe the next hour or two, probably going down to a Tropical Storm its losing some of its punch with its winds, but still a huge rain event a lot of the damage has already been done overnight, incredible amount of rain when the storm was moving at two Miles Per Hour look at the rainfall totals these all have to get verified to make sure the rain gauges were accurate 28 inch in ft. T walton beach, orange beach, 24 inches we were told lifethreatening, historic rainfall totals we could possibly see 30 inches. Were close to that in some of these locations. The storm still has a ways to go its barely north of pensacola pensacola is going to go through the back side of the storm theres barely any rain. But still gusty winds. Now that huge rain shield and even the threat of tornadoes from panama city, apalachicola, florida, northwards to enterprise areas of georgia are stilling to get wet, too the storm is now moving at five Miles Per Hour thats a little better here is the new forecast path. Notice how quickly the winds die off. Looks like you have to go south of montgomery. The odds of Power Outages in montgomery are pretty slim areas towards dothan, if you get the thunderstorms that could contain weak tornadoes, thats one thing well have to watch. Hopefully keeping the heavier rain south of atlanta. We could see Flooding Issues there. The flash flooding emergency continues from the east side of the mobile bay, through pensacola, destin, ft. Walton beach, panama city towards dothan thats where lifethreatening flooding is happening right now. Then the flood watches extend up, 26 Million People included from norfolk, virginia beach, ral leigh, columbia, greenville, atlanta is going to get hit with a lot of rain. Here is the additional rainfall forecast, its potential, another five to ten inches weve already seen that 30 inches down along the coast. We have to watch out for tornadoes. Craig, this is the time in the storm coverage where all the meteorologists take a deep breath and we like to look out and see whats next. Well, this is teddy. This is a hurricane way out in the middle of the atlantic its a category 2 storm. This one is going to be a major hurricane by the time we get to thursday and friday. Its going to take a little hook and come very close to bermuda by the end of the weekend and into monday. A few models bend this toward the canadian maritimes, possibly too close for comfort in areas of new england well deal with that in the days ahead. Thats the next storm to watch relentless, relechbtless so far this hurricane season. 2020. Yeah, 2020. More breaking news, the west coast dealing with its worst wildfires in more than 30 years. In california alone, in fact, there are more than two dozen major fires burning right now, at least 25 people have died so far, thousands are homeless. On tuesday we reported that the haze from these fires had reached the head coast get this scientists now say that same haze has actually made its way to Northern Europe nbcs Steve Patterson is in irwindale, california, where the bobcat fire continues to burn. Steve, that fire has been burning for some ten days now, i believe. Firefighters any closer to containing that thing . Reporter no, craig in fact, theyre literally further away than they were days ago. For a long time this fire was about 6 won tand, fcontained. Firefighters had gotten a little bit of a handle on it. The containment is reduced to 3 as this fire has rapidly expanded the last time i spoke to you from this fire, it was burning less than 10,000 acres it is now over 44,000 acres. Its burning incredibly steep, incredibly dangerous area where terrain is very unaccessible for firefighters its expanding on all fronts the battle right now is for a mountaintop, for mt. Wilson. Several structures up there, one is the mt. Wilson observatory. That is a 100yearold structure, a historic structure for astronomy. Theres about 18 historical telescopes up there. Albert einstein studied there. Edward hubble used it to discover that the universe was still expanding. Historical material at stake the fire is literally on the doorstep as we speak theres also infrastructure. Theres millions of dollars worth of telecommunication devices, cell phone towers, radio towers, Television Transmission towers. Firefighters are worried about trying to contain that and save that because, if the fire burns, there could be a communication blackout in this area which would make the firefight even more of a struggle lucki luckily, i just spoke to firefighters they say they have it about 85 wrapped around, a huge line preventing the fire from moving forward. Weve seen this fire jump several times in the past ten days including jumping the highway the other day which is now threatening communities. Firefighters in a dogfight at this point not to mention, as you mentioned, the smoke its so disgusting, the toxic nature, the cloud that you see, the sunrise through it you can barely see the sun because of how thick it is and its not only here, but really across the state of california as firefighters are doing their best to contain these horrific fires. 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This framework is from federal Health Agencies and the Defense Department as part of a report to congress. In just a few hours, democratic president ial nominee joe biden will lay out his vision on how to safely roll out a vaccine nbcs mike memoli follows the Biden Campaign for us. Nbcs monica alba is at the white house for us monica, ill start with you there in washington. President trump said he hopes to have a vaccine in the next few weeks which coincidentally would be just ahead of the election. Mr. Trump facing voters tuesday in that town hall. Walk us through the president s message on the vaccine specifically to voters, monica reporter craig, he made the dubious claim that even without the vaccine, the coronavirus could go away on is own, in his words, disappear his own Health Experts dont believe this he referenced herd mentality when presumably he meant herd immunity, something his closest advisers including dr. Anthony fauci have cautioned against thats not a strategy the United States is pursuing they are hopeful for a vaccine take a listen to what the president said specifically on that timeline and the promise something could coalesce in the month of october very close to having a vaccine. If you want to know the truth, the Previous Administration would have taken perhaps years to have a vaccine because of the fda and all the approvals. Were within weeks of getting it could be three weeks, four weeks, but we think we have johnson johnson, pfizer, Great Companies and theyre very, very close. Reporter while the president continues to project optimism on that, his own hhs officials and other federal agencies held a call this morning, and they wouldnt commit to any specific timeline in terms of october or november, but they said once a vaccine is approved and the fda has granted emergency authorization, they would be able to mobilize that within 24 hours, so showing you how quickly it could happen once we get that green light they stressed theres no indication that will happen immediately. One of the leading trials is waiting to get Critical Data from how its going at the end of the month of october, and only then will be able to make a determination. This is something the president continues to push politically. Hes been asked whether thats the motivation for promising it ahead of the november election he says he simply wants to see it happen as fast and safely as possible but many questions, craig, on how this can really come together when you see thats the timeline you see set forth the president and the Vice President both hopeful that could coalesce we asked chief of staff mark meadows whether an october promise is realistic, and he again repeated that the Health Officials have said january 2021 is a far more likely target. Craig. Again, kind of ma