Citys largest single outbreak. Today the citys homeless shelter looked much like an emergency medical ward. Some residents were ferried to hotels the city has secured stoisolate vulnerable populations. To isolate vulnerable populations. We had plans to staff up hotel rooms as rapidly as we possibly can in case an outbreak occurs. Reporter for weeks, a number of city supervisors and helpings advocates had been pushing for broader use of hotel rooms ahead of such an outbreak. We need to move people into hotels now. It is absol inevitable that were gonna have outbreaks in all the hospitals. Reporter the Mayors Office resisted that approach, using hotel rooms on a more tactical scale, arguing the city does not have the staff for housing the homeless at large and at will. If you cant selfcare, youre still gonna come inside somewhere. But we need more care wrapped around you for that to be successful. Staff enough people, everything from monitoring to security to medical to counselo all of t
Going on there. And were tracking a rally for ramaswamy. Vivek ramaswamy surging in a new fox poll ahead of the first gop debate now just days away. Today he hits atlanta, but first he stops by here. Can he break out in the first the debate, and he turn his traction with voters into cash from donors . Well ask him. Welcome, everybody. Im neil cavuto, my thanks to my buddy Charles Payne for filling in last week, always appreciate that. Meanwhile, we will be having Vivek Ramaswamy a little bit later on this hour and get a gauge of where hes going in this race and his latest sort of commandments that maybe he and other republican candidates might be a good idea to follow. Theyre pretty interesting, pretty revealing. First right now to Craig Herrera in san diego, california, where theyre bracing for hilary, i guess. Whats the latest, craig . Unbelievable, neil. People have been getting san bags ready, theyre getting ready for the rain event. Its a category four storm right now, hurricane.
Ravaged the caribbean islands. It pounded turks and caicos overnight. Abc news molly hunter is in any smyrna beach with the latest. Molly . Reporter its relatively quiet where we are on the east coast and those waves are getting progressively big as we wait for irma. Hurrican irma churned through the caribbean devastating the islands. Its the strongest recorded storm to hit the atlantic. I would not want to see it like this again. Irma stayed largely offshore in st. Maarten and the tiny island. Barbuda taking direct hits. The entire country has been decimated. Reporter irma with winds at more than 1507 Miles Per Hour now taking aim for the bahamas and cuba, and tomorrow south florida. Here on the coast of florida, you can see people are boarding up their houses. Many of these houses actually empty. People are heeding the call to get out of town. More than 1 Million People ordered to evacuate, desperate to stock up on gas and food. Im very scared, so im just trying to get as far north a
Keys and the southern tip and then it will start to track northward p dropping to a 3 as it hits towards tampa, bringing still heavy rainfall through florida. By tuesday morning, it will start to head towards atlanta, bringing rainfall even to the carolinas, past georgia as well. Total rainfall amounts for irma, saturday through monday, anywhere from 10 to 20 inches possible. Even up to 25 inches in some isolated locations like key west, so we will be tracking for you that, will tracking irma today and over the next few days, chris. Thank you. And developing in the caribbean, where Hurricane Irma is slowly moving past, now touching the florida keys. Satellite pictures show the incredible size. Shes left 20 people confirmed dead in cuba. These pictures of whats left of the island of barbuda translate to the massive damage irma is capable of. Its because of that power that over a half a Million People have been evacuated from the georgia coast. Well have a live report from miami in just
Clear is summer skies across the bay area, suddenly interrupted by something we dont see here very often, lots of lightning, even thunder. Thats how it went. Good evening im dan ashley, ama daetz is off. The unusual electrical storm is causing power outages. Roughly 9,000 people without power, pg e crews working to repair the damage. Urging santa inez and ramona to shelter in place because of the live wires on the ground causing extreme safety hazard. Well let you know if shelter in place is lifted. Pass it along. Just a few of the many spots reporting Lightning Strikes this evening. Check this out. Central county Fire Department tweeted out damage on a chimney. Sent a pile of bricks crashing to the ground. Thankfully no reports of any injuries. Sandhya patel is here with more on the Strange Weather. Summer storms put on a show. Look at live doppler 7 right now and you will notice that most of the thunderstorm activity has started to push off the coastline here, starting to see activit