500 shelters open but the governor warning that the daner is not over. We have not experienced an event of this magnitude in our modern history. Officials are bracing for storm surge of up to feet in puerto rico and the u. S. Virgin islands and in some areas two feet of rain. This as authorities in the caribbean begin to assess the damage done there. The deafstration in dominica dangerous and no electricity or running water. And the death toll so far stands at nine but puerto rico officials tell us there are no reports of fatalities however they are concerned about what happens next and that is flooding than is what kills people. They are asking people not to leave their homes until they are told it is safe to do so. Channel 6 action news. Thank you. Maria of course remains a monster hurricane even as it move as way from puerto rico, the big question now is where does it go next . Meteorologist, adam joseph is joining us now. The eye is back over open waters and will be open waters for
Confirmed dead. Officials say 52 people have been rescued from the ruins of more than 40 collapsed buildings. The Mexican Government has declared three days of national mourning. Resident trump spoke with the president of mexico to express his condolences. Reporter the priority is to keep rescuing people who were still trapped and to get medical attention to the injured people. Crews are rushing to rescue a little girl trapped in the rubble of a school on the south side of mexico city. 25 people were killed there, most of them children. Workers have been trying to get her free now for hours. Many in the bay area have personal ties to those people in mexico. Allie has this report from people who experienced the terror of that record first down. Reporter josi and his family were glad to be back in the bay area a day after a 7. 1 earthquakes hit central mexico causing widespread damage. The quake became more intense as a win on this man explained to us. It lifted us off the ground and peo
For post storm rescue missions and lay the ground work for the long term recovery effort. The fema organization will do quick assess many try to find out where the most damaged areas are so we can get the teams out in the street and do much good quickly. Time zest essence. Reporter millions of residents here continue riding out the storm, many others headed for the mainland. They say they didnt want to leave their homes but they are putting safety first. It was just time for to us get off. We didnt stay for maria. Disastrous situation for the island. It will destroy some homes. Reporter right now the destructive winds are causin the most damage but in the followup to this storm there could be major flooding, storm surge of 9 feet and potentially deadly mudslides. In san juan, puerto rico, steve harrigan, fox news. And so here at home philadelphia sizeable Puerto Rico Community is watch and waiting for word from familiar and friends on that battered island. The fair hill section of cour
Limit for tweets. Twitter is doing a slow rollout and donald trump is not in the test group. If trump had more than 140 character he could fit his whole message into one tweet and i personally would miss the dadadada. I wonder how they figured out who would be in the test group. Hughie dylan he said he was in the group. Did you try maybe were in. Anything i want to say i can say any 140 character. Im not in it nope. Do you even really like the idea. Nope not a fan. Maybe they know that. Theyre like shes not going to do it so d this is why emogis and shortened versions of things exist. Idk. Emogis. I dont know. I dont know. I dont know all these. Smh. I dont know what that means. Shake shaking my head. Smh. Im sure theres a quiz you can take. I go whatever. Take it away before this goes off the rails i have acronyms. Too late. All right. Were looking ahead to a nice day. First things want to point out i did not have a chance to grab my coat on way out here since i was running a couple s
When you head out to your vehicle you will feel that difference. It is much cooler out there. Only one issue today. Southbound 880 we did have just a minor collision reported. That has been removed. We have one, two, three vehicles and its friday light. Well check on drive times next. Some north Bay High School students will show up to a campus crawling with Police Officers. Redwood high school is responding to a threat. Amy hollyfield is live. School is open today. They will have a lot of Police Officers on campus watching over all of the students and the staff. When the school faced a bomb threat. Threat. That was last week. Today, friday, they found the statement yesterday. A note was sent home. While it is unfortunate that we must deal with such circumstances this provides an opportunity to discuss the serious nature of statements that threaten harm to anyone. And how important to report anything unusual. If Police Advise administrators to cancel classes, parents will to cancel cla