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Landing. Good morning, everybody. Its wednesday, hump day, october 5th. Im betty nguyen alongside alex witt and louis bergdorf. Evacuations are set to begin today on the east coast of the United States as Hurricane Matthew barrels through the caribbean. The governor of South Carolina has ordered more than a million to leave the states coast beginning at 3 00 p. M. Today. Reversing four lanes of one of the states main thois facilitate that. The tell tale signs of a major stores as inland hotels f...

The president elect hasnt held a News Conference since late july. Its changing. What can you tell us . Tweet comes announcing this, will be having a general News Conference in big letters january 11th in nyc. Thank you. So this is obviously a News Conference thats been longanticipated by reporters. He campaigned constantly criticizing Hillary Clinton on how long it had been. It had been 270 days since she had spoken to the press in that format, for him, its going on 150 days or so, depending on ...

Of this little, lets call it a jog to the north after it passed over nassau, the bahamas. Every little jog, when a storm is coming, its paralleling a coastline, ten miles is the difference between historic, if it goes towards the coast or ten miles off shore maybe a moderate hurricane. It affects millions of people. Billions of dollars. Now, heres the forecast map. Weve been watching this little black line. Hurricanes wobble, especially the powerful ones especially when theyre having what we cal...

And good evening to you as we come on the air from jacksonville, florida, tonight. We are in the cross hairs here of Hurricane Matthew. In fact, families here are being warned of winds up to 125 Miles Per Hour in the coming hours. At this hour, 12 million americans are now under a hurricane warning, as matthew gets closer and closer to the u. S. Coastline. Take a look at the images coming in as we begin tonight. It is now a category 4. From hollywood florida, tonight, the deadly storm already be...

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Effort. Houston police say they have rescued more than 3400 people and counting. The red cross says more than 17,000 evacuees are in shelters across texas. Dallas opening a shelter just within the last couple hours. The predictions that harvey would drop 50 inches on houston are coming true. Homes below reservoirs could be flooded for weeks. It is spreading east. Hundreds of rescues last night in lake charles, louisiana. Today, on the 12th anniversary of hurricane katrina, new orleans is under a...

Government. The day started as it often does with tweets. I requested that Mitch Mcconnell and paul ryan tie the debt ceiling legislation into the popular v. A. Bill, which just passed, for easy i prooufl. They didnt do it so now we have a big deal with the dems holding them up as usual on debt ceiling approval. Could have been so easy. Now a mess. Then the president followed up about an hour later this with this. The only problem i have with Mitch Mcconnell is that after hearing repeal and repl...

Staffers who was helping guests get out went missing, and so far is unaccounted for. Mandatory evacuations continue through the night, and the effort has been epic. The citys mayor says more than 3,000 people have been rescued. The Sheriffs Office has conducted high water rescues by noon yesterday, and the images broadcast across the country have drawn people from across the state, louisiana, and beyond to help. Where are you from . Galveston, texas. What brought you down here . My family was hi...

Destructive Hurricane Irma is, and so does the sound, just listen. That image is from st. Martin, the island got hammered, so did nearby st. Barts. As always we should say that these numbers are very early and fluid. Elsewhere, just take a look. This is the island of barbuda, at least one death reported there. These are some of the first pictures of the devastation taken from a chopper flying the Prime Minister of barbuda and antigua over the scene. I spoke with the Prime Minister moments ago. W...

Like this. I mean, 15 feet of storm surge above the ground level, i dont know how you survive that. Right now that storm has already started to slam parts of south florida. Some areas already experiencing tropical force winds. People without power right now. Were told it will climb into hundreds of thousands if north north of a million. We just got the new advisory on irma. Here is meteorologist bill karins. Here is how it works, every three hours intensity, every six hours path update. Next pat...