6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ignition. lift off. say again? stage two. the air was fair at cape kennedy. there is noce weather at all. the only problem was a leaky fuel cell. out in the atlantic something else was brewing. dawn, august 27. a florida bases, navy, weather bureau, air force planes are warming up. astronautsverhead, are still alone in space. but not quite alone. from the first day on they have been scouring the sky, circling, clicking their pictures back-and-forth. on the 27th they make a discovery. tropical depression at 13 degrees north latitude. the astronauts see it first. do you have any kind of report on that possible threat? stormis a rather large with heavy activity. we can see air to ground lightning. it doesn t have an eye. name of that is betsy, in case you have not been told. a hurricane is born and christened betsy. in two places the news travels. the national hurricane center in ismi, where gordon done checking reports. and in houston they
on our when on our way. stage two. the air was fair at cape kennedy. ey clausen warm august spy sky as gemini five took off. in outer space there is no weather at all. the only problem was a leaky fuel cell. out in the atlantic something else was brewing. a rising bunch of winds soon to be known as betsy. dawn, august 27. a florida bases, navy, weather bureau, air force planes are warming up. 180 miles overhead, astronauts are still alone in space. but not quite alone. from the first day on they have been scouring the sky, circling, clicking their pictures back-and-forth. on the 27th they make a discovery. tropical depression at 13 degrees north latitude. the astronauts see it first. do you have any kind of report on that possible threat? ahmed tropical depression? we passed right over it. it is a rather large storm with heavy activity. we can see air to ground lightning. even in the daytime. it doesn t have an eye. name of that is betsy, in case yo
book tv. each week, american history tv s reel america brings you archival films that help provide context to today s public affairs issues. 50 years ago on september 9th, 1965, hurricane betsy made landfall at grand isle, louisiana, near new orleans. it was a category 4 storm with winds up to 155 miles per hour. a hurricane called betsy is a 30-minute defense department film documenting billion-dollar betsy, the first storm in u.s. history to cause over $1 billion in damage. a storm surge of over ten feet led to breached levees, the flooding of 164,000 homes, and 76 deaths. similar to hurricane katrina in 2005, many residents had to wait for rescue on rooftops and relief shelters were overwhelmed. four, three, two, one, ignition liftoff. on our way. say again, jimboy 5? stage 2. the air was fair at cape kennedy. lacy clouds and a warm august 5. gemini v took off for space when there was no weather at all. the only problem, a leaky fuel cell threatened to cut th
louisiana closed or closing early. we have meteorologist pedram javaheri joining us live in the cnn weather center with the latest. p.j., what s in store? this system is going over warm waters over the next 12 hours. we think strengthening is possible. it is not very organized or impressive system. thunderstorms on the western periphery of florida. 65 miles per hour. 5:00 a.m. update talks about the storm system at 65. no changes made to the update. you notice 17-mile-an-hour winds to the north/northwest. that is the area we are watching. that is a rapidly moving system which gives it little time to intensify beyond category one if it makes it there at landfall. when you talk about slow moving systems. harvey was five miles per hour. it produced 30 inches of rainfall in cases. when you speed the system up, chances of rainfall drop dramatically. that is the case with gordon with the rainfall amounts on the lesser end. water temperatures in the upper 80s. all of this is condu
(CNN) — Severe storms are battering parts of the South with torrential rain and damaging winds, threatening tornadoes and creating “life-threatening” flooding.
Crews were responding to “10 to 15 high-water rescues” in the eastern Texas city of Kirbyville early Wednesday, the Jasper County Sheriff’s