Right now. Announcer katrina, 10 years later. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Reporting tonight from new orleans. Good evening. Exactly ten years ago the streets behind me were virtually empty. Landfall of Hurricane Katrina was just over 12 hours away. A monster storm that would slam the gulf coast and knock this city to its knees. We will look back at katrina a bit later in this newscast. But its another storm named erika we want to lead off with tonight. Right now hitting the Dominican Republic with high winds and heavy rain and beating a path toward florida, which is under a state of emergency at this hour. Tropical storm erika has already killed at least 12 people in the caribbean before barreling into puerto rico. Nbcs Janet Shamlian is in san juan. She starts us off tonight. Reporter devastation on the tiny island of dominika. 12 daerksd as many as 20 missing after more than a foot of rain from Tropical Storm erika triggered mudslides and flooding, turning roads into r
Right now. Announcer katrina, 10 years later. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Reporting tonight from new orleans. Good evening. Exactly 10 years ago the streets behind me were virtually empty. Landfall of Hurricane Katrina was just over 12 hours away. A monster storm that would slam the gulf coast and knock this city to its knees. We will look back at katrina a bit later in this newscast. But its another storm named erika that we want to lead off with tonight. Right now hitting the Dominican Republic with high winds and heavy rain and beating a path toward florida, which is under a state of emergency at this hour. Tropical storm erika has already killed at least 12 people in the caribbean before barreling into puerto rico. Nbcs Janet Shamlian is in san juan. She starts us off tonight. Reporter devastation on the tiny island of dominica. 12 dead, as many as 20 missing after more than a fooft rain from Tropical Storm erika triggered 34udslides and flooding. Turning roads into
Path of the storm brings it over the dominican republic, haiti. It may start to shred because of the high mountains there. If it goes over cuba, it gets even more danger as far as its not being able to survive. Its then out into the atlantic, comes on shore sometime monday afternoon as a weak tropical storm, and then continues on up into the southeast. But again, lester, we still have to watch it. It still could intensify. So people arent out of the danger zone yet to the southeast. Al roker. Thanks very much. Now we turn to the crisis exploding overseas. Enormous waves of migrants, many of them refugees from wartorn nations, fleeing en masse to europe. But the journey is long and perilous with thousands dying along the way to what they hope will be a better life. Ron allen is following the story for us tonight from calais, france. Reporter today the bodies of desperate migrants washing up on shore who drowned in search of a better life. At least 2,500 already lost at sea this year. Th
Announcer katrina ten years later. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Reporting tonight from new orleans. Good evening. Exactly 10 years ago the streets behind me were virtually empty. Landfall of Hurricane Katrina was just over 12 hours away. A monster storm that would slam the gulf coast and knock this city to its knees. We will look back at katrina a bit later in this newscast. But its another storm named erika that we want to lead off with tonight. Right now hitting the Dominican Republic with high winds and heavy rain and beating a path toward florida, which is under a state of emergency at this hour. Tropical storm erika has already killed at least 12 people in the caribbean before barreling into puerto rico. Nbcs Janet Shamlian is in san juan. She starts us off tonight. Reporter devastation on the tiny island of dominica. 12 dead, as many as 20 missing after more than a foot of rain from Tropical Storm erika triggered mudslides and flooding. Turning roads into rivers. [