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we re in the middle of what s called a heightened earthquake alert. true. it means the odds of a massive earthquake hitting us in the next day or two are as high as 1 in 11 in 100. or it could be 1 in 100 million. they ve been telling us for years you can t predict an earthquake, now there s an alert all of a sudden. most of us ignore this stuff but some people are taking it seriously. in san bernardino they closed city hall for the next two days because of this earthquake chose city hall. that annoys me. i don t live there but you don t see businesses that have to turn a profit closing because of an earthquake alert. you don t see color me mine closing shop. they have a lot of stuff that would break in an earthquake. [ cheers and applause ] city hall, they re like, to hell with it, come back wednesday. meanwhile, we have a lot to live as of friday, california now has an official state fabric. and that fabric is any decembers? guesses? our official state fabric is d ....
she was born august 26th, but zoo officials decided to let the public name her. after donating $1, you could select. amani won by a landslide, nearly $7 million was donated, and the zoo matched the number and the funds go to a sanctuary in the democratic republic of congo. wise to give a list of names rather than saying we ll go wit that s worked out not well in previous cases and we can t say the names. absolutely. i could just imagine the names. coming up, a first at the white house. they called it the south by south lawn festival. president obama hanging out on a bench and with some more well-known guests. oh. details straight ahead. the toy mom is with us for arts and crafts and tell you how to do some too. but first, here s a look at world news now weather brought to you by united health care. i m only in my 60 s. i ve got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn t pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. ....
and we do say good morning on this tuesday and start with that weather situation in the caribbean. a catastrophic strike from hurricane matthew is imminent for haiti and parts of jamaica. you can see the storm on the radar swirling in the sea, packing winds of more than 140 miles per hour. overnight in jamaica the outer bands hit kingston sending a wave crashing into the coast. gas stations closed as polic rescue people and try to take them to higher ground. we have this video from haiti in the meantime, taken right before sunset. the sea is already rising even with the storm well offshore. three people have already died in the caribbean because of the storm. people in cuba are also preparing for the worst by boarding up buildings and filling sandbags. the storm is then expected to head toward florida s east coast. accuweather s paul williams is tracking it for us. what can you tell us? good morning, kendis, diane. we take a look at the latest spaghetti models. ....
between cuba and haiti. remember, it s not just the eye. it s the entire area we re talking about. a lot of tremendous wind with this. this is the positioning at 8:00 tonight. it will then work its way through the bahamas as we head through wednesday, thursday, and eventually on friday starting to work its way toward the southeastern part of the united states. where does it go after that? it s starting to look like it s going to skirt right along the coast as a category two hurricane. how will that impact us? as we look at our spaghetti model, tracking the various coer happens. it s tracking into our area as we talk of this weekend. this is a bit of a change. yesterday it was looking like it would be here. now it s looking like it s going to be a closer run. we have to keep a very close eye for later this week. nothing happening until the weekend. happening right now, a lot of gray skies, drizzle, and temperatures today, they re going nowhere. just holding pretty much a ....
from nasa. the eye is small. but the whole storm is 500 miles across. let me show you what it looks like on satellite. it s difficult to see the eye, but it is right there. that s why sometimes when we talk about hurricanes, we focus too much on that absolute center, because remember the strongest winds are outside the eye. they extend way out here. so that s why we re watching it so carefully to see where it s going to be moving up the east coast. maximum sustained winds right now 145 miles per hour. it s going between haiti and cuba over the next couple of days. as we head towards wednesday, late tonight into early wednesday, it starts to work its way into the bahamas. again, remember how big this is. the impact is still going to be felt for quite some time even as we talk about parts of cuba and into haiti. where s it go after that? as we head later on this week, a category three storm, a recent update from the national hurricane center. this is as we head towards fr ....