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Westward, something since we were just focussing on the track that also came out in this advisory, get this, hurricane joses been upgraded to a major hurricane, category three, making its way towards the islands that have been decimated. weve heard from the prime minister its barely habitable. hurricane watch is in effect. and these people have nowhere to go. there is no convention center like there was in houston. keep them in your thoughts and prayers. its hard to imagine that, but it looks li...

Good morning, welcome to your "new day." we begin with breaking news. there is a monster hurricane already battering parts of the caribbean and bearing down on puerto rico. as you heard, possibly heading towards florida. hurricane irma and its impact is expected to be catastrophic with a devastating storm surge as you just heard the governor talk about. also there will be life-threatening winds and dangerous flash flooding. at this point the massive storm is already talking 185-mile-per-hour win...

It just went over the island of barbuda. you have the storm surge, the winds and flash flooding. at this point puerto rico, the dominican republic, haiti, cuba, all in the direct line of fire as you see on your screen. the big question mark, florida. >> so florida is under a state of emergency even now as irma approaches. people are emptying out store shelves, dealing with long lines at gas stations. were also this morning following two other big stories for you. thats the fallout from president...

And of course, you know, i think the storm will get up to a category five inside the next 24 hours if not through the next couple of days. the official forecast does keep it as a very healthy category four, on the cusp of a cat five. a lot of people get fixated on the numbers assigned to the storms. i want to note that about two-thirds of storm fatalities with tropical systems are water related, whether it be flash flooding or storm surge. dont be too concerned necessarily about the winds associ...

Landfall in texas. we had water rescues south of nashville, 20 to 25 people were taken there because water got in their houses. it looks like flash flood warnings continue at this hour. then, of course, we still have to worry about our next storm. this is the peak of hurricane season, this is the start of our month of september. this is when we see the most frequency of a strong hurricane. we have one out there. this is irma forming rapidly yesterday, up to 115 miles per hour t. reason this is o...

Governor chris christie post sandy might disagree with you about that. congressman, the most important thing is that lives be saved and then moving forward that people do get the help they need. we thank you so much for taking the time to talk with us. >> thank you, i wish it were under more pleasant circumstances. >> as do i. lets go to wnbc meteorologist steve saucea and take a look at another storm in the atlantic. whats mother nature got in store? >> unfortunately, the weather is following...

Building and theres only one architect in new york city thats allowed to work on that building, only one. that architect in washington d.c. is mitch mcconnell. theres no getting around mitch mcconnell. thats a public service announcement from the white house. now lets bring in our meteorologist, bill karins. bill, the remnants of harvey still making trouble in places like tennessee. >> new pictures from nashville. this is south of nashville. last night heavy rain caused flash flooding. look at t...

Lets go straight to bill karins for the latest. >> where garrett is, that water may be there until september 20th. thats incredible. thats another three weeks. the story is still unfolding. most of the water has been receding, but in some areas, a record crest, and in beaumont, their water system is going to fail in the next couple hours, the water pressure, that river near them is not going to crest until the upcoming weekend, five feet above record heights. the storm is over louisiana. the con...

Blue, thats two inches of rain. when you get to three inches, the river and the small streams start going up quickly. when you get to the five enchz of rain, thats when you start to have the problems. the forecast for memphis to jackson, thats where we could get the five inches of rainfall, and thats where they are most concerned we could have life-threatening flash flooding and maybe even some water in homes this evening. we actually have what we call a flash flood risk map, and that high risk ...

What is their biggest worry? >> they will indeed, erin. their biggest worry is the 4,000 homes in this area that have been flooded by the waters by these two major reservoirs in west houston. we are standing at the top of this dam. and if you look over here, this is the reservoir. look at all of this water. it is exceptionally high because of the incredible amount of rain. so to prevent that water from flowing over its banks and resulting in more catastrophic flooding, they have had to do a cont...