Beach front hotels. Everybody is evacuating. Everybody has to go. Reporter are you planning to ride the storm out at the airport. If need be. This is where ill be. Reporter after seeing the devastating impact of irma in the caribbean most recently impacting cube the bahamas and the u. S. Virgin islands floridians on both coasts are heeding the warnings to get to safety. Lining up outside of shelters. We moved in together away from Hurricane Harvey but now were here and Hurricane Irma is coming. Reporter at least five of those shelters already at capacity. I dont know where were going to go. Reporter many of those evacuees are coming up from the keys which will start feeling the first effects of irma tomorrow morning. In New Smyrna Beach florida Marci Gonzalez channel6 action news. We continue to monitor the track of irma. We have our own action news crew on the ground in florida. Action news anchor brian taff is there right now leading our Team Coverage and well get to meteorologist ad
Power is now out to hundreds of thousands. Once the storm is over, the Power Company plans to unleash the largest number of workers in history to clean up. Nbc10 National Correspondent jay gray is live in naples. It approaches the keys and there will mover on to the coast. Violent winds and driving rain. Irmas assault begins hours before landfall. Hurricane irma is now impacting our state. Millions of floridians will see major hurricane impacts with deadly, deadly, deadly storm surge. And life threatening winds. 18 million or more could feel the effects of this massive storm. Winds gusting well over 100 Miles Per Hour. 12 inches of rain or more in some areas, and a storm surge that could reach 16 feet. This is a deadly major storm, and our state has never seen anything like it. More than 6 million residents were told to evacuate. The largest in u. S. History. Scary. I have never been through anything like this before. Tens of thousands moving into more than 300 shelters across the stat
Demand at the holidays. Obviously were anticipating more growth this year and thats why we have the need for all the additional folks. Three years ago, during christmas 2013, ups guessed wrong about the surge in Online Shopping and disappointed some buyers with after christmas deliveries. One driversupervisor remembers that year and says the Company Learned a valuable lesson. Get the holiday help in early. It created significant challenges for us. We worked to see a surge again. The u. S. Postal service is also on a hiring spree for holiday help now with hundreds showing up at job fairs in september in cedar rapids and des moines. The iowa usps district also needs 600 more people to get through the holidays and its not for cards and letters. Theres pressure for all the Delivery Companies obviously but postal workers are good about chipping in and making sure were successful. Have a good shipping experience. Extra help hired for the holidays might mean working only 4. Or. 6. Or maybe ei
Did they give you any specific examples of how to prevent crime at these unsanctioned events. This year they had more official events. They want to work with unofficial event planners to find out more about who theyre inviting and how those people are being ticketed. Channel 9 Eyewitness News. You can read more about how the ciaa and the city plan to work to strengthen the security next year. The statement is posted on our website at wsoctv. Com and look for brittanys story on the home page. Breaking news tonight. One confirmed case and one probable case of mumps at unc charlotte. At 5 00 we told you unc charlotte officials said a male student with mumps lives off campus and is in isolation at his home. A feel student was tested but is negative for mumps its the virus have been reported since the out break at lowes in mooresville. This private school in matthews was shut down today after 50 teachers developed symptoms of nor row virus over the weekend. They all ate lunch catered by a j
I do not have the capacity or the ability to put people under oath or to subpoena any information or documents. When it comes to the affairs will local government how much does the public have a right it know . We need to think about the rights of privacy and protection. Dr. Freeman is the dean of Knight School of communications at keeps university. And transparency maybe an issue he says not all documents are fair game. The hr divisions of most of the institutions city or county are bound to state statutes that protect those personnel records for very specific reasons to protect their personnel. Councilmembers plan to move forward with their inquiry. It is also very focused in the scope of who did receive that memo. And where it was originated. So i think there is a way to move this. While councilmembers have Center Tonight they are here for a Zoning Ordinance to talk about his episode it will show up on the agenda as an item next monday night when they have their regular business mee