Triple digits. The welldefined eye, you can see it, clearly visible on radar. The heavy wind and rain started hours before landfall. Thousands of people evacuated the area before conditions deteriorated overnight. We have Live Team Coverage on arthur this morning. Accuweathers mark mancuso is standing by with the hurricanes track. But we begin with abcs marci gonzalez, live in nags head. Marci, good morning. We are feeling it here on the outer banks with the strong wind gusts and sustained winds up to 75 Miles Per Hour. And we are bracing for the eye to pass through here any minute. Hurricane arthur lashing North Carolinas coastline. Making landfall overnight near cape lookout, as a category 2, with more than 100mileperhour winds. The storm, breaking flooding, widespread Power Outages and reports of tornadoes. First thing when i got my kids in the living room. Then, we took them to the bathroom. And we were headed into the bathroom, the ceiling was just collapsing behind us. Reporter a
See it, clearly visible on radar. The heavy wind and rain started hours before landfall. Thousands of people evacuated the area before conditions deteriorated overnight. We have Live Team Coverage on arthur this morning. Accuweathers mark mancuso is standing by with the hurricanes track. But we begin with abcs marci gonzalez, live in nags head. Marci, good morning. We are feeling it here on the outer banks with the strong wind gusts and sustained winds up to 75 Miles Per Hour. And we are bracing for the eye to pass through here any minute. Hurricane arthur lashing North Carolinas coastline. Making landfall overnight near cape lookout, as a category 2, with more than 100mileperhour winds. The storm, breaking flooding, widespread Power Outages and reports of tornadoes. First thing when i got my kids in the living room. Then, we took them to the bathroom. And we were headed into the bathroom, the ceiling was just collapsing behind us. Reporter arthur then moving north up the coast. Nearly
Sunsets. We have life Team Coverage tonight. Nbcs Jennifer Bjorklund is in a very stormy honolulu. We begin with jeff ranieri who is tracking hurricane iselle. That storm right now does have behinds of 75 miles per hour. Its not showing any signs of weakening. In fact, were expecting the next update within the next couple of minutes. As you get a closer look at the storm, we do think throughout the 11 00 hour, it likely will make landfall to the south of hilo near the hawaiian Volcanos National park. Now when you get a look at the wind right now associated with the storm system as it bears down on the big island, the thing youll notice here, its not extremely gusty. Winds tend to about 36 miles per hour. Thats because the storm has a very tight core wind field. So until this storm moves right across the island, were not going to see things ramp up substantially. Its going to take some time for the winds to again increase. Here are the impacts for the big island taking the worst brunt o
Live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Here we go again. Tonight, the president authorizes new military action in iraq. Christin ayers on what the president had to say tonight. Christin . Reporter yeah guys t last american combat troop left iraq three years ago. The president says we might start fighting there again, but only from the air. Isis militants are surging across northern iraq. Today, they claim to capture 15 more towns, a military base, an the countrys largest dam. The military ran down their guns and ran away. Civilians fled their homes. 15,000 members of a religious sect are on a mountain surrounded by militants threatening to kill them if they dont convert to islam. They are also advancing on a city where american diplomats are based. They are just 25 miles from a city where 150 military advisers anne makovec unknown number of diplomats have been operating in a city once thought safe. We intend to stay vigilant. Reporter the president was quick to clarify
Anchor Spencer Christian who is tracking the storm. Spencer . Here is how things look on the radar image. Two storms approaching the big island. Iselle, hurricane category one hurricane is just about ready to make landfall within the next couple of hours. Let me give you some statistics of the two storms. Hurricane julio is a powerful category three, but thats far off right now. Were looking at iselle which has a center only about 95 miles east southeast of hilo, maximum sustained winds 75 miles per hour. Probably will be a category one hurricane. It will pass over the ill aslad move quickly over the chain of islands over the next couple of days and then Tropical Storm julio moving north of the island. It may be far enough away that it wont deal much of a blow at all to the islands, but once again, expecting landfall from iselle within the next couple of hours. That would be around, oh, 8 00 p. M. Hawaii aleutian standard time. Tropical storm warnings in effect for the remainder of the