Norm macdonald, the former snl stars long, private Health Battle Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening, everyone as a hurricane, it was shortlived, but now tropical storm nicholas is still delivering a dangerous punch along the Gulf Coast tonight, water and lots of it 5 Million people living under Flash Flood alerts, Rain Amounts as high as 20 inches possible as the storm makes a brutally slow crawl across parts of texas and louisiana after its landfall not far from houston early today with 75mileanhour sustained winds. In this very active tropical season, nicholas the 14th named storm, the 8th to make a u. S. Landfall, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses Morgan Chesky is in the Storm Zone for us tonight with late details. Reporter tonight, nicholas on a Gulf Coast Course crash first slamming into texas as a Category1 Hurricane more than 90mileanhour winds knocked out power to 500,000 texans its Storm Surge ripping asphalts ri
Northeast with record rainfall, Flash Flooding and tornadoes. The first ever Flash Flood Emergency was issued for new York City. It has now been downgraded to a flash flood watch. But the Citys Subway System is flooded with most lines effectively shut down. A ban is now in place for all nonemergency travel in the city for the next few hours. New York Governor Kathy Hochul says right now the situation remains dire. Weve engaged our utilities. First of all, we were actually preparing for the Hurricane Henri last two weeks ago. So we were already having the assets in place. So were not inexperienced in this. But it is always quite shocking when you literally see the streets of New York looking like the rivers flowing and people just in shock over whats going on. Especially the images of whats happening in the subways. So these are dangerous situations. We want to make sure people stay away from them. So we can take all the precautions in advance. And we did deploy assets to be on the grou
Newsroom. Im Jim Acosta In Washington for standing by for the Louisiana Governor set to give an update as Hurricane Ida barrels toward the gulf coast. The storm is projected to reach category 4 strength is expected to Pummel Louisiana tomorrow, the 16th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The national Weather Service urgently warning residents to complete preelparations today, adding, quote, some places are uninhabitable for weeks or months. Storm surge of 0 to 15 feet is expected along with winds as strong as 150 miles an hour. Mayor of New Orleans says if youre going to evacuate, now is the time to leave. Evacuation orders are in effect across the state. As you can see right there, look at this video. Highways in New Orleans look more like Parking Lots as people try to evacuate. Were tracking this hurricane from all angles. Cnns Derek Van Damme and nadia is on the ground. Tom, whats the latest forecast . This thing is strengthening, No Doubt about it . No doubt about it, jim. What weve
Good evening. We begin with breaking news and word that the storm named elsa is now a hurricane. With that, i want to go straight to our meteorologist. What s the latest on this story? within the last hour, hurricane aircraft have taken off to investigate elsa. Now it hasn t even arrived. It s just arriving now. Even without their valuable information and data, the national hurricane center went ahead and increased this value from tropical storm to category 1 hurricane based on information coming out of tampa. We knew it would happen sometime this evening. It will make landfall as a category 1. More on that in a moment. Our rain amounts are going to increase. We re going to see five to ten, maybe isolated 15 now. The very first hurricane warning issued today since mhurricane michael. We re looking at landfall right around sun rise up in the big bend. The last time we had a july hurricane for the west coast of florida was 134 years ago. That s how rare it is in july, it was 1886. When y
Hurricane based on information coming from the radar out of tampa. We agree, we knew it was going to happen this evening. It will make landfall as a category 1. More in a minute. We have activity still down to the south. That s going to follow suit. Our rain amounts are going to increase. 5 to 10, maybe 15. The first hurricane warning issued for the west coast since hurricane michael three years ago in 2018. For good reason. We are looking at landfall around sunrise in the big bend. The last time we had a july hurricane, for the west coast of florida, it was 134 years ago. That s how rare in july, it was 1886. When you look at the storm surge, big concerns. Now that we have a category 1, everything from this parallel north is under the gun as far as a surge of at least three, four, even five feet. When you look at the radar, we have had a lot of lightning around the core. That s another indication that things have been firing up and that core is intensifying. The crews at surfside are