our eyes are on the skies, and this peculiar sunday night mystery. hi, everybody, it s 10:00 in the east. glad you re with us. i m alina cho sitting in for don lemon tonight, and we begin with the bad weather bearing down on the southeast. tropical storm beryl fast approaching hurricane strength and near landfall. you can see the palm trees struggling against the waves. the wind earlier today. waves surging onshore. this is jekyll island, georgia you re looking at flooding obviously a big concern, and beaches all along the southeast coast are posting warnings about the dangers of rip currents. for the past 24 hours, lifeguards and emts have been working overtime rescuing those who have ignored the warnings. our jacqui jeras is watching it all for us. so, jacqui, a couple of questions. number one, pretty close to hurricane strength, right? yeah. and, also, how close are we to landfall? we re close. potentially an hour or so but landfall not so important with this storm
the showers and thundershowers have come in. they re getting very strong, and the heaviest storms are making their way on shore as we speak. so nobody really wants to be on the beach at this point anymore, at least not towards the jacksonville beach area. this is the area we re most concerned about. we re seeing augustine kind of sandwiched between there and jacksonville. as soon as this red stuff starts making its way onto shore, we can see wind gusts getting close to hurricane strength. 70 miles per hour, so that s dangerous. we already have reports in florida and south georgia of trees coming down and some power outages, and that s going to increase before the end of the night. the storm should make landfall this evening or overnight, and it will start to curb to the northeast. so the weakening is good, but the stalling not so great, and that s the concern, because we ll likely see some flooding associated with this. in fact, we could be talking anywhere between 3 and 6 in
the white house called the killings a vial testament to an illegitimate regime that responds to peaceful protests with unspeakable brutality. the video of some of the 34 children killed has surfaced online. the images are simply too graphic to broadcast, showing children under the age of 10, some with missing limbs, and severe head wounds. the syrian government denies responsibility and blames al qaeda terrorists for the attack. well, this was a scene in several syrian cities today. people so angry over the massacre, they risked retribution from security forces to turn out in force. channel 4 s alex thompson trand to houla today and caught up in the fight between security forces and rebels. reporter: houla today, so far the world has only seen sporadic glimpses from cameras. we re in the southern suburbs, not exactly controlled by the syrian army, but they re here. we can only film covertly. and they re scared, very scared. who knows how many dead bodies lie around here. wh