Here along the jersey and Delaware Coast are starting to feel the effects from hurricane jose. Im ukee washington. Im jessica dean. We have live team 3 coverage, our alexandria hoff is in Atlantic City pu we start with kate bilo who has the latest on joses track. You can see the rain from jose is staying out to sea for now. The storm moving very, very slowly. Its also taking on notsotropical characteristics. It doesnt look like a hurricane even though winds are still sustained at 75 Miles Per Hour in the center of that storm. Its starting to lose the tropical characteristics as it moves off to the north and its moving away from the new jersey coast line. Another little tick to the east in the track tonight which is great news because it will keep the impacts even further offshore. We are still looking at coastal impacts, but the effects inland will be minimal from jose. Heres a live look at category 1, 75 mile per hour sustained winds, central pressure at 975 millibars. It has regained
Surrounding you. Reporter ukee, welcome to the show. People have been lining up, all day along the sea wall here in North Wildwood, right to the edge of the storm because you have these enormous 10foot waves, that are smashing against the sea wall, shooting up spray. Just an impressive shot. Pan over across the ocean where you can see it is just so churned up, one set after another of large waves, and were still several hours away from high tide, but we see waves are already going up against the dunes, it is causing beach erosion, so there is a wow factor and there is a little bit of the sadness as the cost is to the beaches. From watching, to dodging waves the wrong sea wall in north wild wood, this video by zeka shot high tide monday night shows a scene few have ever seen before a storm surge with tall waves that pounded the wildwoods northern tip. Wind where is coming over the wall, thank god for the sea wall when you see pictures like that. Reporter North Wildwood mayor patrick and
Im Natasha Brown. Rahel is off. Maria meantime came ashore this morning with winds of 155 miles per hour. It is one of the strongest hurricanes to ever strike the island. Cbs correspondent david filed this report as the storm hit. Reporter the building about 100 yards behind me there are pieces of that building that have flown off and are now flying through the air like projectiles. This video was taken just outside of our hotel room showing the force of marias violent winds. It was enough for the hotel to order guests down to the lobby level. The region was still rebounding from the last storm. Irma when maria rolled in. Weve never had any back to back hurricanes before. Reporter Yolanda Maldonado has been without power since Hurricane Irma two weeks ago much shes in a shelter in san juan. I passed through hurricanes but this one its going to be very hard. Reporter eddie and his allege year old daughter riding out the storm in hotel room. We are trying to dot best we can to survive. Y
Also, we have new information about the man charged with murdering a Temple University student. But the big story on action news is Hurricane Maria making landfall in puerto rico. The island is getting pummeled with lifethreatening winds and widespread flooding. As maria slowly crosses the u. S. Territory its toppling cell phone towers and snapping trees and tearing off rooftops. Thousands of residents fled their homes for the safety of shelters. And hotel guests were forced into hallways to stay safe from the storm. Reporter sara, Hurricane Maria is blamed for death and destruction in the caribbean and now making landfall in puerto rico and the danger is not over yet. Hurricane maria striking puerto rico headon with winds topping 160 Miles Per Hour. 7 15 in the morning and when you think we have experienced the peak of the fury, stronger winds, greater gusts abc reporter joe torres in the storm and this group from a Wedding Group is huskered down in their hotel room. Millions in the s
And debris all over the streets. The power lines are down. I assure you the damage especially down to the southeast is substantial. About 10,000 people checked in shelters last night and had about 500 open and that considers a low number considering how many people are in harms way of Hurricane Maria category four feeling the force of it now in puerto rico. Abc news san juan, puerto rico. Back here Tropical Storm jose is still causing heavy surf and dangerous rip currents on the east coast and that could continue for a few days and the work to clean up the battered beaches is underway. David murphy will join us in a moment but first gray hall in North Wildwood with the situation there. Reporter well rick, i can tell you this is not a good situation, the erosion is bad here. And in fact, the worst the mayor has seen in 10 years and the crews are here and assessing the situation and hope to start to reneckish the sand here at low tide but the erosion is bad and the sea is really rough. I