And meet the football coach born with no arms or legs honored with the prestigious award. Who says i cant . Nobody. Yeah his message this morning. Good thursday morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us. We begin with the line of storms now swirling in the gulf of mexico. Forecasters say the storm system could become a hurricane as early as tomorrow and flooding is a major concern. That system has already triggered this waterspout that touched down on lake pontchartrain. The big question now is whether the postkatrina 14 billion upgrade to the levees around new orleans completed less than a year ago will hold up. Abcs trevor ault begins our coverage. Trevor, good morning. Reporter good morning, janai and kenneth. This very well could be an early start to the Hurricane Season for the gulf. Some areas like in new orleans have seen well over half a foot of rain and thats only from round one in this series of storms. This morning parts of new orleans underwater. Heavy downpours turning the
Dealing with and why it will take so much time to be repaired. It is expected to stay closed through tomorrow afternoon. Eastbound evans is reduced to one lane through that area. So some traffic is getting through, but drivers are told to stay clear. Give them time. Denver water says its not exactly sure why this happened. The pipe that broke, 67 years old. You can see the size of that sinkhole. It is significant. Its massive. Yeah, yeah. Evans is never a fun afternoon, but right now just find another way. Go away from evans, absolutely. Sunshine this afternoon across the metro area, but some areas could get some rain. Meteorologist belen deleon is in the 9news backyard. What can we plan for the evening . Hey, jonathan, more of what we seemed, a chance for some showers in the city, but right now the strongest storms are kind of spinning around the front range. Yesterday we were talking about counterclockwise fashion around the San Luis Valley and over colorado. Right now were starting
Clark County School district of the man killed in a scaffolding collapse at tivoli village. Remembered their loved one. Ricardo nicolas baustista was thirty years old and had three small children and a wife. Fox5 has been investigating this case. We sent fox5s adam herbets to check into the construction companys history. He joins us live to tell us what he found. John christine at this point its too early to say whether there were osha violations in this we took a look at the companys history. Sorry no verbatim the victims family did invite fox5 to the viewing. But going on camera was understandably baustistas brotherinlaw did tell us Workers Compensation is taking care of todays viewing expenses, and the family is speaking to a lawyer. Police say a man was shot inside a Sams Town Hotel room early this morning. And it was an accident. They say four men where in the room when the gun accidently went off around 140 a m. The victim was taken to the hospital and is expected to be okay. Off
Ju a massive explosion. All nine passenenrs were killed. Were there as investigators try to piece together what caused this crash. All bets are off. Two of the countrys largest Fantasy Sports websites ordered to cease and desist in new york. The e mpanys vowing a fight. It the beginning of the end for an industry already with tens of millions of players and growing every day . The. And 30 down, 20 to go. Als crosscountry quest to hit all 50 states in a week goes south, literally, and with eight more states on the rokerthon to do list al is swamped today, wednesday, november 11th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good momoing, everyone. Weweome to today on a wednesday morning its veterans day. Willie is in for matt this good to be with youou we have some of the countrys great veterans groups represented out on the plaza and well spend a good deal of time with them. Al will be, too. Rokerthon 2
Morning. Good to be with you. We have some of the countrys great veterans groups represented out on the plaza and well spend a gogo deal of time with them. A awill be, too. Rokerthon 2 has a veterans day theme, too. An hes startg out there, too, in the waders. Yes, good morning. Do they make me look fat . They are very slenderizing. Thank you very much. Got this nice little cinched belt but were so excited. As you mentioned, well be going throughout the south and into the southeast and stopping at a lot of great military installations and saluting our veterans and our military as rokerthon rolls on. Als well pasthe Halfway Point. All downhill from here, al. See you the rest of the morning. Now lets move to todays top story, the Republican Debate, eight top candidates facing off and as promised we saw a very different bush on the primetime stage and donald trump was up for his usual sparring. Weve got all the angles cord and well talk with senator marco rubio and lets begin with Peter A