Officials say they will need help from the mainland. Remember that you are part of us, even if you are not here. Dont forget us. An emotional plea. I am concerned that we may not get to everybody in time. In the face of an unforgettable tragic storm. Lets get over to nbc10 first alert meteorologist tammie souza. The storm has been downgraded to a category 2. Dont get too excited about that. It has spread out in size and the eye is moving offshore to the north and west of puerto rico trying to restrengthen. Here is a closer look. The big eye is moving right by st. Croix. We dont have pictures from there yet but i think there is probably a lot of devastation on st. Croix. As it moves across puerto rico you see the eye disappearing, it downgraded from a category 4 to a category 3 and now a category 2. It has probably another, oh, 12 hours or so before it will start to reintensify. A couple things about it. It has winds between 96 and 110 miles an hour. Its expected to restrengthen. The wi
This storm is smaller in size but its based on the central pressure. I have to tell you it was st. Croix and the islands around and puerto rico itself that bore the brunt of this huge storm. Look at the eye. It falls apart as it moves across the mountains. On the other side of puerto rico there it is. The eye is trying to reform. That means this storm is trying to restrengthen. Lets look at maria. It will be expected to restrengthen to 130 to 156mileanhour winds. Its headed toward the turks and caicos. It will graze the northern side of the Dominican Republic and then north along the eastern coast of the u. S. And it is the tenth most intense atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 906 millibars, 175mileanhour winds. That was last night. This was an incredible storm. When we come back in a little while well take a closer look at where the track of maria will go. Back to you, jacqueline. Local families are on edge as they watch the storm pound puerto rico. Commu communic
Straw. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im Anthony Mason. Were coming to the end of a week that saw the deadliest attack on u. S. Soil since 9 11, and we seem to be no closer to an explanation for it. The police said today theyve chased down more than 1,000 leads, and none led to a motive. The f. B. I. Said it will put up billboards asking the public for help. There were more vigils for the 58 killed. Nearly 500 were injured. Scores are still in hospitals. Jeff pegues has the latest on the investigation. We are looking at every aspect, from birth to death, of this suspect in this case. Reporter las vegas metropolice Department Undersheriff Kevin Mcmahill expressed frustration that five days later, its still not clear what prompted the massacre. In the past, terror attacks or mass murder incidents, motive was made very clear, very clear in most of those caizs by a note that was left, by a social media post, by a telephone call that was made,
The routine traffic. Were looking at the east bay commute. Hayward getting slow traffic and were also looking at Contra Costa County commute over to highway 84 looks pretty good. 680s getting pretty crowded. At 6 01 lets go back to the desk. Thank you sal. A controversial measure declaring california sanctuary state is making its way to the capital. After clearing the senate. Ktvus rob malcolm joins us now from pittsburgh east bay city where its become a topic of complaint. The city has coming in the process of deciding its sanctuary status. This is what we know so far which happened at the capital, the state senate yesterday approved the legislation 2712 by party lines. This is very similar to the sanctuary policies of other bay area cities like San Francisco, oakland, and also an jose which preents local and state Law Enforcement from using their resources to arrest people for immigration violations. But the policy is facing opposition from police groups. Amended the measure to allow
Baby thrown to rescuers below. Tonight theyre all safe thanks in part to a brave and quick thinking young girl. Eyewitness News Reporter josh einiger is in sayreville tonight with their amazing escape. Its a long way down from that second floor of this building for these young kids to jump to escape these flames but tonight their family is crediting the first responding Police Officer with catching them and saving their lives. Smoke and towering flames i tried to get up the stairway but it was fully engulfed. Reporter sayreville Police Officer brian gay knew there would be no time. Family members trapped upstairs started to jump. I looked up in the air and she was already jumping. As she was on her way down i caught her. Reporter the fire broke out around 2 00 this afternoon on jacobsen street. Gay was the first on scene but might never have made it in time through your mind . That i was going to die. Reporter the 12yearold lived in the house and was there with her cousins and aunt whe