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Evacuees showing up at hotels only to find there are no more rooms. If this hotel would just give us a room. I think they have Convention People coming in with reservations. Reporter and people preying on abandoned homes and businesses. One shop homer asking for help, showing looters going unpunished. This is houstons main evacuation center. There are already thousands of people here. We know that they set up 2,000 cots earlier in the day, and those quickly ran out. And still, people just continue to come as the rain will continue to fall. Reporting from houston, abc 7 news. Now, the historic flooding in texas is causing massive flight delays, of course, cancellations all across the country. Matt keller has a story from mineta san jose airport. Reporter today was supposed to be a celebration at Mineta San Jose International airport. Southwest airlines was ex ....
Reporter trees uprooted, taking part of house with it. First images from the keys where made initial landfall as category 4 coming in, houses barely standing, cars beneath sands and residents who evacuated trying to get back. Anxious, want to go home and see what is going on. Reporter second landfall on marco island. Whiteout out in. Reporter damage and gratitude. Getting predictions of 10 to 15 feet of storm surge, grateful we were spared. Reporter sentiment shared by many in the sunshine state. Not as bad as i thought. Reporter even while fpl says as many as 9 Million People without electricity at one point. No power, no internet. Living like savages. Reporter trying to have sense of humor as crews work to get lights back on for everyone. People are warned it could take weeks. Marci gonzalez, abc news, tampa, florida. Compelling images out of the states battered by irma. Art sandusky shot this from charleston promenade. Water ov ....
Us, it was a challenge because parents are driving their kids to school and theyre dropping them off. We want to get the clear information out to folks so parents can make a decision. Reporter the wind carried the thick black smoke up 1,000 feet and north and east blanketing the bay. Epa local agencies sent teams out to monitor the pollutants in the air on the populated benicia side, including simple elementary levels were low. But on the industrial side. Levels various times this morning it peaked up to ten times normal background. Reporter this is a live look at the same stack that was emitting all that flame and smoke throughout the day. As you can see, a great improvement here. Basically they have been burning off through the Petroleum Product that was in those lines when the power went out. Even though that outage lasted only 18 minutes, the effects since we have seen have lasted all day and were told by valero we can see ....
This had been a gentry fid neighborhood, rising rents the reason many suspect arson. Some people say gentrification is good for business, some say its not. Some say its leading to displacement and higher rent. Reporter hard times for the eateries on 23rd street. El burrito gordo should have been filled with construction workers. It looked like a ghost town instead. Used to get 20 of them. Now no more. Reporter in short, still more questions than answers. From oakland, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. Investigators will be looking at similarities between fridays fire and arsons in may and last july that devoured another apartment building. It was just two miles away on the oakland emoryville border. That building was also under construction when the fire started. Both in a sparewell. Theres a 110,000 reward offered to catch the arsonist. This afternoon residents near the big oakland fire got parking tickets when the cars were stuck in the evacuation zone may be getting a reprieve. After abc ....
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