desperate hours in the search for the missing titanic sub. still no sign of the craft as oxygen quickly runs out. plus a deadly tornado strike, three people killed in north texas, the state s second fatal storm in less than a week. and president biden is welcoming narendra modi for a state dinner even though some of his policies may be a little tough to swallow. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with just hours remaining until the air runs out on that titan submersible. the sub went missing sunday morning less than two hours after its launch to tour the rec of the titan . they had a 96 hour supply of oxygen and that is due to run out this morning. if they are still alive, and we re looking at dwindling oxygen, that the decrease in oxygen getting to the brain and that increase in carbon dioxide is a very panicky situation. you feel your world closing in. paula newton is live in halifax. what is going o
and this is significant because in houston, if this 97-mile-per-hour wind gust at houston s airport actually confirms, this would be a record wind gust for that particular location. to put that into context, this kind of wind hasn t happened since hurricane ike back in 2008. and this was not associated with a hurricane. it was associated with a thunderstorm and that would be equivalent to a category 2 hurricane for instance. there is a thunderstorm watch in place across eastern sections of colorado. we have 5 million americans under severe weather threat today including denver. so head s up. thanks, derek. just ahead, new revelations in the idaho college murder case, what dna evidence at the scene points to. plus a dual threat, two tornadoes on the same horizon. but first, deep sea rescues, challenges of saving the titan crew if they can find it in time.
now. wrightsville beach in the direct path of the hurricane. i asked the mayor about the conditions on the ground now. we went out there this morning and was surprised. wind hasn t picked up yet but the erosion is way more significant than you would think at this point the storm because it really hasn t come ashore yet. which is distressing because we just put $11 million worth of sand on the beach four months ago as part of a four-year deal we do to kind of protect public safety, property and all that stuff. i got a feeling that might be a pretty big issue for us. yesterday, it looked like a ghost town. it is, it s a ghost town today. there were a few people over there. not many. very few. power outages expected wide spread. yes. how are you going to decide when people get to return to their holes and businesses? what will happen is after the storms the storm will sit here for an extended period. we will send up drones and do
this is late tonight. notice the bright white shaded area. that s the area of hurricane force winds. you re looking at the keys in that, every bit of the keys, key west all way up into the tip of florida at 90 to 80-mile-per-hour winds at a pretty constant clip. gusts in west palm beach, melbour melbourne 32 miles per hour as well. now 8:00 a.m. on sunday. bright white hurricane force wind. that white shield move up. look at those numbers, 114 miles per hour at a pretty steady clip in key west. 119 in key largo. now you re getting that hurricane force wind band. that windshield almost moved. it is in homestead, even though the center of the storm is on the west coast. look at the winds at that point around ft. myers around 53. the storm, wind hasn t gotten there yet. by 3:00 p.m. on sunday based on the current forecast, look at that bright white area. that s the strongest winds with the storm, 102 miles an hour in
wind hasn t been bad as i thought it was going to be or they predicted. don, have you given any second thought to having stayed behi behind. you re in a mandatory evacuation area. and we all can sympathize, you want to be there with your home, be able to protect it as best you can. but sometimes mother nature is going to trump that. i think most of the people around here have left. driving through yesterday, a lot of the businesses are boarded up, a lot of homes are boarded up. there s very few people here. and the people that are here, i guess are like me, they wanted to make sure they protected their property. yeah. okay, don so wind has not been a problem. tell me the kind of home you live in. is it an apartment, is it a home, does it have shingles? we ve seen shingles flying off the roof south of you. it s a house, it s right on the, i have a lagoon right in my back yard. we have shingles. it s a typical cape cod-style house. no problems at all, as far as the integrity of t