And storm surge, 127 Miles Per Hour wind gusts by sunday morning. So the latest track has shifted a little farther to the west. That means irma will likely be hitting southern florida by saturday afternoon and sunday afternoon as a category four hurricane, the latest track bring its up the center of the peninsula. That means the entire peninsula of florida will get hit by Hurricane Force winds and not making a second landfall but decreasing to a category one as it pushes north of jacksonville. The take away from irmas Impact Likely the worst damage since hurricane andrew in 1992, could be worse than that. Storm surge making places uninhabitable for months. And running out of time to evacuate. More coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Meanwhile Hurricane Irma has cut a path of destruction through the caribbean leaving as we mentioned at least ten people dead and thousands homeless. Tonight its headed straight for florida and mandatory evacuation orders are in effect for the coast
Is on cspan3 every weekend. Here is a clip from a recent program. Agent maccarthy, you are modest when i asked you about beingshot and possibly run over by the president s limousine, but you went to the hospital. Did you ever get a chance to talk president reagan about that . A little bit lighter than what we had to discuss come and if you have questions, please come up and i will call on you. I was in the hospital for about 10 days. I did not have a meeting with the president or anything like that. He was injured more seriously and was there longer, but on the last day i was in my hospital, my wife and two of my children came up to get me. My daughter brought her nursing kit to make sure everything was son jeff was my acting like a doctor, so they came to get me and i had a message before i leave to come down and see the president. It sounded like in order to me. Down. Mptly went you werent wearing one of those horrible hospital gowns . I wasnt, but he was, and mrs. Reagan was there.
The executive director of James Monroes home, highland, and she has been the executive director there since 2012. I see that the college of william and mary has moved into their backyard because highland is a department of the college of william and mary. Prior to assuming the leadership at highland, she worked as Archaeological Research manager at monticello down the road from 19992012, so she has been on that road for a long time. When i was in law school, i lived on brown mountain, so i know the area very well. She earned her ba magna cum laude from the university of arizona, then headed east and did her phd at the university of North Carolina chapel hill, and she has also taught at chapel hill in the university of virginia, so we are delighted this afternoon to have sara bonharper, executive director of highland. [applause] sara bonharper what a warm welcome. Thank you. It is a pleasure to be here and a pleasure to be on this lineup and a group that knows so much about monroe. I am
Obama answering reporters questions for the First Time Since last weeks election of donald trump. Nbc 10s erin coleman is live in our breaking news center with more on what the president had to say. Erin . President obama reiterated his commitment to help prepare president elect donald trump to take his place in the white house. The president said his team will finish what they started in his last weeks in office. President obama speaking at the white house before taking off for his final foreign trip as president. The president said he would speak with foreign leaders about his successor, but he says when it comes to world affairs, the United States influence is not just the result of the person in charge of the oval office. There is enormous continuity beneath the daytoday news that makes us that independenceable nation when it comes to maintaining order and promoting prosperity across the world. That will continue. You can continue to watch the president s speech live on the nbc 10
This evening is a big turnaround and cool down is expected to follow. Meteorologist Melissa Magee is at the accounts news big board with the first check of the accu weather forecast, melissa. Walter, rain started in the northwestern suburbs along that i95 metro area and continues to work its way eastwar. Heres Storm Tracker six live double scan radar. We are tracking cluster of activity thanks to the cold front, strong showers and rumble of thunder to the south of philadelphia down in south jersey and delaware and secondary push of moisture out across central sections of pennsylvania. A tighter view on Storm Tracker six street level you can see rain there in philadelphia, same thing for media, chad forward. In wilmington a pocket of moderate if not the heavy rain moving through south jersey through salem, elmer, also pressing very closely to millville and would i expect this to continue, through the early evening hours. With the passage of the cold front the wind are starting to pick u