Freeport. Strong powerful winds are all blowing all across the islands destroying homes and businesses. The storm conditions are a serious threat to the safety of everyone in the bahamas and elsewhere in the storms path. Other parts of the bahamas have seen the impacts. The hurricane made landfall as a category five storm on great avaco island yet yesterday. The winds ripped roofs off homes and brought down powerlines. Thousands of people evacuated their homes to seek shelter in schools and churches. The Prime Minister of the bahamas says at least one down of more than 6000 people appears to be under water. Authorities are just beginning to assess the damage. Three airforce are flying moderate recovery planes aiming for the eye so they can get the most Accurate Information on where dorian might be headed. They used radar and other equipment. The hurricane speed and direction as well as whether it is expanding or contracting. Teams are gathering information on the ground in the state of
Weather alert. That video showed you hail. There are no thunderstorms warnings right now. You are much better in fredericksburg but around the i 95 corridor, thats where the heaviest rainfall can be found. Over toward leonard town, we will track this for you. This is going to head to the south and east. Headed toward valley lead about 11 18, look at all the dang damage reports. A little bit of flooding, although the main signature of these storms was hail. In fact pingpong ball size hail. 2. 8 inches and this was really kind of the norm for these storms and particularly this one and the storm started to the north and heres a great picture from kevin in cup. Thats about 2 inches in diameter. We will come back and talk about if these storms will continue for the morning commute. Live in fair fax, storm tracker, hb, what have you got . What a crazy night it was. We have been out since this afternoon. We got hit with that large hail on route 7 on the shenandoah river. Want to show you some
ah. hello, i m tom mccrae. this is the news our live from doha. coming up in the next 60 minutes . at least 62 people are killed after a powerful earthquake, destroys homes and triggers land slides on indonesia, java islands. to key as president, hence it a ground offensive against kurdish fighters in northern syria. after a series of rocket attacks, south africa s appeals court orders form of president jacob zoom a back to prison after declaring his medical parole illegal. and on day 2 of the world camp england, a hitting for victory. currently 61 up against iran. i pulled brennan in finchley, north london, fans watching the english iran game. a match which is a conference are full and politics with we begin this new salad in indonesia where a magnitude 5.6 earthquake has killed more than 60 people. rescue work as a racing against time to look for survivors trapped under heaps of rubble. hundreds of people are injured. the center was near the town of challenger and west java
are under from our tiny gladiator family today. she shows you what she s really like. good evening. as we come on the air, president obama and republican presidential candidate mitt romney are in a duel over war and peace. 43 days before your voice, your vote the question is this, how does the united states stop iran from getting a nuclear weapon and taunting both of the candidates from the sidelines, the president of iran, mahmoud ahmadinejad is in new york, he s at the united nation. also abc s barbara walters will be here because she spoke with the president and mrs. obama but first, abc white house correspondent jake tapper at the united nations with what happened there. jake. reporter: good evening, diane. today s political back and forth represents the highest of stakes with president obama coming to the united nations meeting with leaders for the annual meeting of the general assembly. as president obama arrived in new york city today, mitt romney is focused on c
christian faith. reporter: youngstrom has worked at the chp for seven years. we ve been getting calls, whatever you need, we are here for you, banning together there s strength in young at this time. reporter: youngstrom was shot in the neck and is on life support his colleagues are trying to brace themselves for what is next. we ve been told the injuries are not compatible with human life. having been told that, that puts things into perspective. and it also prepares us for the inevitable. reporter: a vigil is planned for youngstrom and his family tonight in cordelia he and his family live in fairfield that will be at 7:30 tonight. chp officers tell me they never leave the side of an injured or deceased officer. they will stay there all the way until the officer is buried. amy hollyfield, abc7 news. at this point, authorities are not release the identity of the gunman. the jeep stopped by the chp officer on 680 is registered to a 36-year-old man whose last known