For the latest on your weather. The hurricane is stronger. Its now a category 4 hurricane. Earlier this morning it was down to 130. A powerful storm. Getting outer rain bands throughout haiti, the dominican republic, and jamaica. Its moving north at 6 Miles Per Hour. Hurricane warnings still up for haiti, cuba, and jamaica. As it heads due north, its going to put ic west side. The weaker side. Still a strong storm. But unfortunately its going to bring the brunt of the worst weather. The worst storm surge to haiti. And the eastern portion of cuba. As we head into the middle of the week, it reemerges as a category three storm. Still a major hurricane. Travels through the bahamas. Slowly weakens off floridas east coast. Category 2 storm for friday and saturday. This storm is moving off the at this point, most computer models keeping this system off floridas east coast. It bears watching none the less. The Hurricane Center is literally watching it from the center of the storm. Heres the co
Numbers. The dow down 392 points now. After the Federal Reserve bank of bostons president made a speech today saying quote, a reasonable case can be made for a rate hike. Well keep an eye on this and let you know if anything changes. Now our 8 on your side coverage. The zika virus is the topic of serious discussion between Bay Area Health departments, experts today. Theyre learning the latest information to protect babies. Rod carter is covering this story live. What can you tell us . Reporter good evening guys. Dozens of people were getting the latest information about the zika virus this morning in florida. These are the folks who work front line, one on one with a lot of pregnant moms in the area. And they want to make sure these women have the best information to keep their information coming from the podium. Ill go over some basic information about zika virus. She works with Hillsborough County healthy start. A direct link to expectant mothers in the bay area. She answers a lot of
Marco rubio hoping to become the establishment candidate on the day he could knock his onetime mentor jeb bush out of the race. Meanwhile, on the democratic side, Hillary Clintons huge lead over Bernie Sanders in nevada, gone. That race too close to call. I have a feeling, folks, were going to make history tomorrow. Were going to win in nevada. As bill clinton comes to his wifes defense. Hillarys opponent talked about how bad i have been. Were live with both races. And direct hit. A massive cyclone hitting the island of fiji today. The top winds hitting over 177 miles per hour. And girls with goals team easily beating trinidad in tobago in the tournament. That means they have punched their ticket for rio. Today, saturday, february 20th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im craig melvin. And im Sheinelle Jones alongside dylan dreyer. Erica has the day off. I spent the week crossing the st
Restaurants or fun activities will stay until 8 oclock or 9 oclock at night the Host Committee is our partners but we know that between january 30th and february 7th those events happy with a mix of focus on the bay area in the first week and wednesday or thursday is the International Super bowl host event in both cities in the country a concert we know about that will be on saturday night at park i understand more concerts are planned but what is helpful when you talk about the Transportation Services ill highlight here the way that we provide the service matches the programming as we get the details from the host super bowl city is the event people heard about in the chronicle a Market Street festival and it includes little justin plaza within barbara hale and the Ferry Building going to Market Street and from washington to the embarcadero youll see this cultivation in the middle of the street and people coming and going i have to nullification how important safety has been in all th
Of the service question people riding in the rush how are you less satisfied it is not surprisingly but we need anymore frequent and spanishus service no surprise but youre customers are telling us first and foremost a couple of questions how do you know you were surveying muni as opposed to nonbe muni did you begin what a muni rider is. The way we sort of screen or qualify riders we ask them if theyve used muni in the past 6 months and if they did they qualify. It is not designed fortune that as bus and trains. If asked the interviews have details and muni e muni includes service cars and we asked about muni and most people know but they have information for this kind of qualifyer works well, sometimes for voters none wants to say i didnt vote but in terms of using muni that works well and i notice that taxi service was not in there im trifled to see we are up to 90 percent and fly wheel hopefully director reiskin you said that bring it on pawar i think taxi service is better than mar