Rico right now. And tonight this is just one of three hurricanes in the atlantic. Now at 11 00 one of the most powerful hurricanes in history is pounding puerto rico. Tonight this is just one of three hurricanes in the atlantic. Good evening. Im veronica de la cruz. Im ken bastida. Lets get right over to kpix5s betty yu for the very latest on this. Hurricane irma which is about 450 miles wide is now the most powerful storm ever recorded in the atlantic ocean. Irma is blamed for at least three deaths so far in the caribbean and tonight florida, georgia and South Carolina are all bracing for potential devastation. Puerto rico took a being from irma beating from irma wednesday. It is home to more than 3 million people. Wind gusts whipped across the u. S. Territory knocking out power and toppling trees. Irma flooded and battered the French West Indies with st. Maarten taking a direct hit. The rain and high winds were so strong they almost completely obscure the camera lens. Millions of flo
Most powerful storm ever recorded in the atlantic ocean. Irma is blamed for at least three deaths so far in the caribbean and tonight florida, georgia and South Carolina are all bracing for potential devastation. Puerto rico took a being from irma beating from irma wednesday. It is home to more than 3 million people. Wind gusts whipped across the u. S. Territory knocking out power and toppling trees. Irma flooded and battered the French West Indies with st. Maarten taking a direct hit. The rain and high winds were so strong they almost completely obscure the camera lens. Millions of floridians are in irmas path. It will likely hit somewhere in florida saturday or sunday. The governor is sounding the alarm. This is not a storm you can sit and wait through. Reporter residents of the florida keys were ordered out. Im scared, category 5, never been through one. Reporter the major concern here is storm surge. The islands average about 6 feet above sea level. The surge from irma has the pote
Mode in terms of your son and you care about their safety. Reporter many students we talked to had not heard about the incident. Im concerned about it just based of the fact of the amount of, you know, white kids that live here and its a very, very small amount of africanamericans. Kind of disgusting. Like to go to a school with such diversity and for someone to put that up there is just like [ pause ] reporter Alameda Police are asking anyone with information or Surveillance Video to call them. Live in alameda, henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. You may recall that Alameda Police are investigating a possible hate crime at a synagogue on Bay Farm Island last month. Somebody used a rock to smash their front windows and damage a door at temple israel. The damage was discovered august 17th. Police say the suspect wore a black hoodie with a white print or design on the front. He also had a white tshirt, black sweatpants and black tennis shoes. Now to our coverage of Hurricane Irma. The National W
Preparing for the worst. Preparing the house isnt bad. Its getting on the road and not knowing what were going to run into. We are hoping to get out of the state of florida. Reporter thats gridlock on highway as thousands evacuate the keys and mandatory evacuations are ordered for the Barrier Islands of miamidade. The storm will be bad so we want to get out while the going is good. We are going to be stuck down here with no provisions so we want to get out while the going is good and i have my whole family, my whole crew here, going to georgia. Reporter long lines are forming at gas stations and Grocery Stores where people are stocking up on plywood, water and sandbags. Its just scary. You know . We want to get to higher ground. Um, never had a cat5. Never experienced it. Its just scary what could happen. Reporter the governor of florida is waiving the tolls on allstate highways for drivers as they try to get out. The last time florida was hit with a cat5 storm was hurricane andrew in
Is the bigger fog bank lifting and pushing well inland leading us to a cooler day. 60s on the high side but the lows are mild to warm. I cannot get cool off the house. 61 in kelsey, 68 in napa, 66 novato. Underneath all of this we have a breeze, 25 gusting up to 33, the strongest in a long time. 62 at the San Francisco buoy and 64 at the Half Moon Bay keeping that community high. Cloudy to mostly cloudy with one system moving out and another moving in. Warming up by the weekend, 60s, 70s and 80s now. Not 90s and no 100. I like this. That 80s were good to me. Good morning everyone. Looking at the salon of commute, 80 westbound, vacaville and cordelia, not a bad commute. Interstate 80 has had a challenging few days and today we hope for better. We have had a few minor things, on the road early not much slow traffic coming through. When you get to the bay bridge toll plaza, traffic is light. Driving, we have fog on this picture, interstate 80 northbound and southbound looking pretty good