An hour ago to a category 4 but a serious and deadly storm that will have the target of the West Coast of florida in its sights sometime later tonight and early tomorrow morning. Im Bill Hemmer in orlando. We do a split show today. Dana you are missed but glad youre there. This is americas newsroom, im dana perino. You have covered many of these hurricanes, bill. I think that even you are saying wow, this one is big and monster by comparison even. Bill you know, i think it is storm 21. Im back at a hotel where i was five years ago. Florida will take a wallop here. They were predicting earlier today there will be a part of the West Coast of florida that will have a Storm Surge of eight to ten feet. Think about that now. Those low lying Barrier Islands that have been so built up over the past 50 years. The Population Increase on the West Coast of florida. This is going to be a doozy. Experts describe milton as a once in a Century Storm and folks in tampa are taking heed. Very tough. We r
the devastation in very direct terms. the impacts of this storm are historic and the damage that was done has been historic and this is just off initial assessments. take a look at fort myers, close to where ian made landfall. you see the downed trees and the boats tossed around like toys. storm surges as high as 7 to 10 feet swept through surrounding areas making streets look more like oceans. ian has left more than 2.5 million floridians without power. folks who were in shelters are leaving to see if they even have a home to return to. the focus is now on the people who did not evacuate. finding a lot of the roads are impassable. we have a lot of power lines down, a lot of flooding going on. i don t want to speculate on fatalities, but we have had some reports being called into us in reference to potential bodies being found. right now the storm is moving eastward through florida with the carolinas and georgia in its sights with flash flooding a major concern. you c
Front of his home just last night. Deanna durante is live in that neighborhood. The two men who did are still out there. Reporter they are, police are asking for information as to who they are. They were seen running away from the scene after investigators say they shot a 38yearold man even after he turned over his wallet. A husband and father to two little girls, a small neighborhood is grieving his loss tonight killed in a robbery attempt as his daughter was cry ing in the backseat of the car. Sources say he died protecting that child. To have this happen is inexplicable. Reporter ae arrived home with his daughter in the car. He was outside the car when he was robbed. Sources say the crime was caught on tape with him turning over his wallet. Then shot in the face. Sources say they think the robbers were after the car and he opt he. Wanted to get his daughter out. Its frightening that it happened that close to where a lot of families still are and a lot of college kids. People who liv
Security Council Takes action following north koreas missile test. Those stories, but first lets go outside to meteorologist chris sowers, is it fall, chris . Reporter feels like that. Good afternoon to you and nydia. We have a gentle breeze blowing a little bit of cloud cover upstairs, its delightful out here, especially compared to the last several weeks. Where we had high humidity levels. 70 in allentown. 64 in the poconos. 75 in dover. Cape may, 75. A transport a comfortably cool 73. Heres satellite and radar along with action radar, you can see the high, thin clouds approaching from the west in advance of the next system. Most of the moisture held back across the ohio valley, some of that gets in here as early as 11 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning. Especially west of philadelphia. Clouds and sun, thats the call from accuweather the rest of the way. 80 degrees is the forecasted high in philadelphia, 79 down at the jersey shore. Cooler in the Lehigh Valley, allentown and bethlehem youre t
Her during a photo shoot, but hes counter suing her for gettg hem fired from his job gm is recalling nearly ry. 700,000 silverados and sierra trucks. The automaker says the vehicles may have a Software Problem that can cause them to lose electrical power steering assistance. Those are some of the top stories on this monday august 7th. From abc news, this is world news now. Were going to start this half hour with what is a massive cleanup effort taking place in tulsa, oklahoma, new orleans and parts of the midwest after a particularly destructive set of storms this weekend. Currently they are over the ohio valley and pushing eastwards toward the east coast. Abcs Richard Cantu has the latest. Reporter the ef2 tornado ripped through tulsa in the middle of the night with winds over 110 Miles Per Hour. Twister roaring into a Shopping Mall with three stores still open. Dispatch started getting calls of people who were trapped in the restaurants, because the roofs had started collapsing in on