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policies overnight, but we can and we should pass the dream act as soon as possible. and that s why we need more members of congress on both sides of the aisle ready to roll up their sleeves and get this done. because every single day that republican leaders refuse to bring the dream act to the floor to a vote, another 122 young people lose their daca status. they lose their ability to work legally. and they lose their protection from deportation. that means every day 122 of our neighbors, students, coworkers, friends could be forced from the only country they know despite the promise the federal government made to them when they signed up for daca. and despite their immeasurable contributions to our schools, our hospitals, our universities, our stores, our farms, our churches, and our offices and so much more. that means small and large businesses are forced to lay off daca resip yentsdzs recipients each day. vital employees that businesses have invested money in to ....
a drone flying just under southwest of us. where were the drones coming from and who is responsible? and from tears to elation. the baseball player who just days ago broke down on the field thinking he had been traded hits a dramatic game-winning home run for the team he loves. and it s gone! he did it flores! we have a feeling he s not going anywhere. today, august 1st 2015. from nbc news this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. welcome to today on this saturday morning. i m erica hill. i m craig melvin alongside sheinelle jones and dylan dreyer is here. you are right. wilmer flores has been with the mets since he was 16. you can play at 16? well farm system. he was in the farm system. you are thinking you missed the boat? i could have played at 16. it c and ferocious noise. reporter: about 70 miles away same story, different terrain. crews moving to contain the fire that has been torching forest pines. we see flames in ....
page that shows the middle of the eye. and here s why. imagine this. we re going to do a comparison. this is the category 5 hurricane with winds about 185 miles per hour extending outward 50 miles from the center. then they turn into lesser winds all the way outรง to the site. so imagine you re right here and you re enduring that. you re not doing it like a tornado. that would be an ef-4. maybe a weak ef-5 if there s such a thing. that moves by very quickly. it s through. but imagine that you are now having to endure thoeds winds for 30 or 60 minutes as this slowly passes by. now yacnot only get them coming but you get them going. that s a comparison. as to the power of this and what you would have to fwo through standing in a tornado for 30 to 60 minutes. that s pretty much what these folks have had to go through in parts of the islands and approaching puerto rico. now right now, 185 mile an hour winds moving west to northwest at 16 miles per hour. the pressure has dr ....
the mother of two who mysteriously vanished just before hurricane harvey and now the investigation. did someone use the storm to cover up a crime? and reunited. thousands of pets displaced in houston, the families desperately trying to get them back. michael is there for an emotional reunion, how to keep your animal safe as hurricane irma approaches. we do say good morning, america, and a lot of news to get to on this wednesday morning. we re getting our first look at hurricane irma hitting the caribbean islands right now. one of the most powerful storms ever in the atlantic. and we want to show you the image of the hurricane from space right now. there it is, it shows the eye of this now category 5 storm. it is moving toward puerto rico right now then florida, states of emergency are already declared and some cities have ordered mandatory evacuations. officials call this a worst case scenario for the florida keys. as you can imagine the lines are growing in flo ....
our team is on the ground this morning tracking every development. president trump s stunning decision striking a deal with the democrats on harvey relief and the debt limit. now the new backlash from his own party. houston s hero. one-on-one with nfl star j.j. watt. now he s making sure hurricane victims get the nearly $30 million he s raised first on gma. and it s back-to-school time for the little prince. george hand in hand with his dad this morning. why mom princess kate is sitting this one out. good morning, america. hurricane irma showing no mercy right now. let s take a look at what it looks like on the ground in the dominican republic. this morning, there it is. that s just the outer bands of the hurricane. it is not going to be a direct hit on the dominican republic but you can see how powerful those winds are. and those first images of the storm s power, george, are extremely scary. just listen to it and also this morning, we re seeing so much des ....