Ft 100 of fractionally. Asia overnight markets are lower with the exception of japan which was up about a fraction. Devastation in puerto rico. The entire island this morning is about power after Hurricane Maria slammed catastrophic flooding. Very serious. Both territories are basically without power and will be for a very long time. They both had very fragile power systems. We dont have a good handle on the search and rescue at this point from the standpoint of fatalities were people trapped theater folks are moving out as soon as the weather allows encoding to be performing delayed safety missions. Maria we are following marias path as the storm battered the dominican republic. A daring operation underway in mexico. Rescuers in a race against time this morning to free a little girl trapped under the rubble of her School Following tuesdays devastating earthquake. The latest from mexico city coming out. President trump continues to deliver strong message in your beard the commanderinch
Starting the clayton fire will appear in court. Damen pashilk is being held on 5 million bail while serving a 5 year sentence for drugs and weapons charges he worked for four months as an inmate firefighter. An update at the clayton fire, at 35 containment this morning. The middle of the week, august 17th. Good morning. Its 4 31 and we want to check in with steve on the weather. Boy, doesnt sound like this weather is helping the fires up and down the state. Not at all. Not unless theyre on the coast. Right. Thats it. I mean, otherwise its hot. Probably why its not burning along the coast. Well, the one in monterey. That was a little inland. Right, started inland. But still, they could use we could use the cooler weather and its simply not happening for inland temps. They continue to be hot, yet the coast stays cool to cold for some. It does look promising here this morning. 57, 82 relative humidity, thats good, but that humidity goes down and the temperature goes up fast and another ea
Hello, everybody. 5 00 in the morning. Were glad you are here with us this 21st. I was pleasantly supplies surprise walking out this morning. Full sunshine and southerly winds. Were still running extremely warm at this hour. 50 degrees in boston. 44 in worchester. 38 degrees in providence. We have some clouds to help trap that daytime heat. We are running lower in all yesterday. 13 degrees warmer and lawrence and 12 degrees warmer and concorde. We will have are right around 48 degrees for the rest of the day here. 50 degrees by 3 pm. The wind kicks in from the bring in slightly cooler air. Overnight tonight, a chance for rain. We will go through that hour by hour timing and let you know when we could be tracking our next chance of soaking rain. We do have breaking news. Seven people are dead following shootings in the kalamazoo area. Police arrested a 45yearold overnight and found weapons in his car. Police say the shootings were random. The suspect opened fire in multiple locations in
Before you head out. 33 33 we want to give you a quick traffic update as you head out good news. There are no trouble spots to report in or around the capital city. But as always. We will continue to keep our eyes on the road and update you for your morning commute. Abc columbia wants to help you jump start your day. We have a quick rundown of your top morning headlines. So, lets get started. The road to the white house is passing through the palmetto state. Republican president ial hopeful donald trump will be campaigning in florence today. Hes holding a trump for president rally at the florence civic center. The event starts at seven and doors open at five. The Campaign Stop comes just weeks before the gop first inthesouth primary. Set for february 20th. Trump is coming off a second place finish in the iowa caucuses. And even though he didnt win in iowa. Trump still has a good shot to take New Hampshire. According to a new poll. Trump is leading the field of republican candidates wit
Good morning and welcome to al Jazeera America, im morgan live from new york. This morning 26,000 commuters in new york city suburbs have to find another way to get to work. This after a train derailed yesterday just outside of manhattan. The accident left four dead and Dozens Injured and ntsb investigators have now recovered the trains data recorder and trying to determine exactly what caused the crash. Our mission is to understand not just what happened but why it happened with the intent of preventing it from happening again. Reporter the train jumped the tracks just as it was getting ready to leave the bronx and cross into manhattan and 7 cars derailed with the lead car feet away from the hudson river. It happened along a curved section of the track and trying to figure out the excessive speed played a role. An al jazeeras john is here live from the bronx, john . Morgan good morning. The hudson line of Metro North Railroad is one of the busiest Commuter Rail routes in the world. 26