This is al jazeera america, live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. Tropical storm erika is plowing a deadly path through the caribbean and heading for florida. In fact the governor declared state of emergency just about an hour ago. This church collapsing under the fury of the tropical storm. Officials say they have found 14 bodies and several people are still missing. Erika dumped 15 inches of rain on dominica. Power and Water Supplies have been knocked out completely. Lets bring in kevin corriveau. Kevin when might we expect to see the outer bands of this in florida . Based on what we know so far and based on the current track, we think sunday night well start to see the feeder bands, and then monday morning, very early it will make its way from the south up to the north, but theres still quite a bit of uncertainty. You can see the storm is really not well organized and they have moved it several different times over the last 48 hours, which changes all of the tracks ahead of it.
Hot today at 74 to 8 around noon, and 72 at coast to 92 inland and 68 to 84 is the spread at 7 00. Our morning commute . Leyla . It is nice on 80 headed between concord and Pleasant Hill and up to highway 24 and if you head further south into the San Ramon Valley you are still looking at top speeds, clear conditions, and drive time traffic is 580, westbound, tracy to dublin, 34 minutes and a couple minutes tacked on to the commute with some slowing building away from 205, and 16 minutes from dublin to mission boulevard south and highway 85 in the south bay from 101 to cupertino is 17 minutes. Firefighters in san mateo are looking into the cause of a fire in an apartment complex that was the scene of a fire a few months back. Our reporter, amy hollyfield, is at the scene with the latest. Amy . The fire is out and there is no smoke or smoldering. Silt knocked out. Shear how the fire looked last night. They tweeted out a picture of emergency crews of san mateo firefighters faced when they
Trial after an elite New Hampshire prep school. Could he go to prison for decades or will he walk free . And the agony of track superstar usain bolt mowed down and bolts smooth revolverry today friday, august 28th, 2015. From nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in v rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today oifrment 7 00 on the west coast on a friday morning. Youre going to see that video of usain bolt getting hit fwha guy on the segue all over the place today. Its interesting video but this could have ended so much differently. Its incredible to stee how e recovered and what a good sport he was. The announcer said it best when he said mamma mia. If he was injured, that would be a different storey. Floridas governor declaring a state of emergency ahead of an expected hit from erika. Its a storm carving a path of devastation across the caribbean. Al tells us where erika is headed in a moment. First, we have a reporter in puer
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