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Is a category 4 hurricane with wind speeds sustained at 150 miles per hour. thats just short of a category 5 hurricane. earlier fema administrator brock long was at the white house to brief the president. >> in this area this would be the most intense hurricane thats struck this area since 1851. some people may say its similar to an ef-3 tornado making landfall in areas that are close to the eye. >> think about that, similar to an ef-3 tornado making landfall. thats the force of the wind. this s...

The bush family is surrounding former first lady barbara bush as her health deteriorates. the 92-year-old is not seeking further hospital dream for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure. she . one dead after two tornados in north carolina. a line of severe storms across the state on sunday brought down trees, power lines hurt homes, hurt people. the one fatality was caused by a tree falling on top of the victims car. more protests expected today at a philadelphia...

This is over and above hurricane force strength. incredible, incredible power associated with the system. of course, snapping power lines, taking down trees. we talked about the fatalities a moment ago. and unfortunately, a big cleanup effort that is under way, as we speak, because there was a major coastal storm surge threat associated with this system, as well. pushing a lot of rock, a lot of debris, onto the immediate coastline there. heres the snowfall or rather the wind gusts that are takin...

Storm youre seeing here pummeled the region. >> it was a doozy of a storm. at least six people we know have died. all of them died from falling trees. the storms intensity took a lot of residents there by surprise, even those who are used to some very ferocious weather. they described what it was like. >> the house shook, and then we heard -- we heard a noise. we didnt know what it was. we ran out, my son was still in the car with the tree on top of it. >> we were just sitting down, the lights w...

Good morning. that storm in the northwest yesterday caused a lot of problems, at one point we had 140,000 people without power in the pacific nolt west. and now we have around 2. another storm is moving in. let me show you some pictures yesterday. we had a lot of down trees. we had unfortunately one fatality. a tree fell on a mother as she was driving her car. her sister in the passenger seat. seriously injured: the two-year-old in the back of the car was unharmed. in another case a tree fell on...

Government authorized 10-day waiver of jones act, puerto ricos governor requested the waiver arguing that it would expedite the shipment of much needed supplies to storm-ravaged areas. president trump is schedule today visit puerto rico next week. we are back with wall street journal mary anastasia ograd. how bad was it? >> 155-mile an hour winds hitting an electricity grid that was extremely vulnerable, old and fragile and as a result basically the island lost all electricity and it also had a ...

Stations. what other kind of help do people need down there right now? >> reporter: everything at this point. the entire island is without power. 95% of the island has no cell phone service. people are starting to run short on food if you go into the grocery stores and if youre able to find groceries, youll see lines that are three and four hours long. the there is no running water on the island. basically everything pipts becoming a desperate situation here. >> we see the crews cleaning up. hav...

Lot of down trees and flooding. we have neighbors that arent open yet that you cant get to. our newly rebuilt pier thats only a couple of years old took a serious, structural hit and of course, adding the no power and everyone is in the same boat there, and it doesnt make it easier with the temperatures that we have here. not a lot of structural, very, very minimal, structural and water main -- water pipe breaks and water main breaks just -- you know, its sad. in perspective, the fact that we di...

Tropical storm warping for -- warning for atlanta, georgia area. that has never happened in meteorology history. heather: thank you, janice. >> as power punch goes up the coast, the path of destruction causing rapidly rising life-threatening water levels. heather: could climb up to 15 feet, the biggest threat in naples, florida, thats where griff jenkins picks up team coverage for us. he joins us live on the phone. griff, how is it looking right now? >> hey, heather and todd, total carnage, comm...

At this point were seeing a lot of down trees and roughly half the county does not have power and i will say the police chief and ill get out here and walk so you can see. i will say that the police chief said this is almost like a really bad summer storm, that this didnt seem like a hurricane and my producer will have to stop the vehicle so i can walk out and show you just how substantial some of this damage is and a lot of the roofs in this area and if we can look here and we see at this point...