Demand at the holidays. Obviously were anticipating more growth this year and thats why we have the need for all the additional folks. Three years ago, during christmas 2013, ups guessed wrong about the surge in Online Shopping and disappointed some buyers with after christmas deliveries. One driversupervisor remembers that year and says the Company Learned a valuable lesson. Get the holiday help in early. It created significant challenges for us. We worked to see a surge again. The u. S. Postal service is also on a hiring spree for holiday help now with hundreds showing up at job fairs in september in cedar rapids and des moines. The iowa usps district also needs 600 more people to get through the holidays and its not for cards and letters. Theres pressure for all the Delivery Companies obviously but postal workers are good about chipping in and making sure were successful. Have a good shipping experience. Extra help hired for the holidays might mean working only 4. Or. 6. Or maybe ei
To hit florida since 2005. Abcs Lauren Lyster is live in new smyrna beach, florida, with the latest tonight. Matthew heading straight for florida the brutal wind and pounding rain growing as the hurricane charges towards the coast the National Weather service saying matthew will be devastating potentially unlike any hurricane in the modern area. Floridas governor calling it a monster. Sot gov rick scott unfortunately this is going to kill people. Already, it has. Matthew taking the lives of more than 100 people as it swept through haiti. The death toll there skyrocketing as the floodwaters recede. In the bahamas. The shore battered by damaging waves. The rain and wind and the vacations of 3thousand tourists unable to escape and with the hurricane then heading for florida residents thursday filling up those final Sandbags Stores are boarded up. Their shelves bare and a fight to get fuel sot moss this is ridiculous i went to costo the lines out to the highway. i saw two guys fighting at
Kaj. Plan on a cool, windy day clouds will be around for much of the morning with clearing sky this afternoon. Highs will generally be in the upper 50s to lower 60s. The weekend continues to the 60s both days. No frost is expected this weekend, though temperatures at night will cool down to the lower 40s. Next week, the main theme is for warmer than normal conditions to continue. Moisture is very limited with the next front that arrives on monday night. Have a great weekend toda y gradual clearing. Cooler and windy. Wind nw 1525. High 60 tonight mostly clear. Wind nw 510. Low 41 tomorrow mostly sunny. Wind sw 510. High 65 tom. Night partly cloudy. Wind sw 510. Low 45 thanks kaj. Hurricane matthew has already prompted officials to urge evacuations for more than 2 Million People in the south eastern us. As reid binion reports, the first state to feel matthews impact this morning is florida. Florida were already starting to see the impacts. And its a monster. Hurricane matthew driving not
Already at least onerricanerel ported in port saint lucieflori . D the deathtolclimbing in haiti arly 300 killed . Entiremmunitiesh wards jasonville . T gov. Rick stt,oridatheres signifint ooding there. As off urge evacuations in parts of georgia and the carolinas sot male evacuee we needed to be safe and get out of there. Communities there bracing for the destructive effects of matthew next . Sot gov. Pat mccrory, North Carolina thats a lot of water, a lot of dangerous water. Sot gov. Nikki haley South Carolina i am begging you at this point to understand the seriousness of this storm tag too early to tell about the storm surge. Mg, abc news, when Hurricane Matthew slammed through haiti, it not only damaged homes, but also facilities used by a facilities in haiti. They lost half of its buildings, with only safet homes, made of metal, still standing. A medical and dental clinic, church, orphanage and school for about 450 children the organization built there were destroyed or damaged.
That could be vulnerable. Im Dianne Gallagher reporting. Members of a coralville based nonprofit clinic are planning to go to haiti next week to help with stormrecovery efforts. The Community Health initiative haiti has been making trips to the island nation since 2012 to offer free medical and dental care. Volunteers travel there five times a year and offer a week long clinic. The trip was already scheduled, but now theyre planning to bring extra supplies to help people impacted by the hurricane. The gr director says the area where they work didnt get hit as hard as expected. What we were hearing on the news that it was going to be rain and lots of wind, and fortunately for our area, we had more of a Tropical Storm and so we didnt have quite as much rain or wind. Weve posted more information, including how to help, on our website, kcrgdotcom. Hurricane matthew. Britley, what are the storm projections now . Lets go now to Meteorologist School ahead of their game tonight against linn ma