Wind Hit News Today

North carolina. Here tonight headlines. Track and the urgent situation of dangerous storms, strong winds and excessive heat as thousands of flights are delayed or canceled. You details after helicopters collide with firefighters responding to a brush fire. Although this was a tragic death, we are also thankful today that it was not worse. Terms lawyers push back against prosecutors and their request to limit what the former president can say, arguing it is in effect asking the court to cr his po...

just after 3:00 p.m. east coast, the eye crossed over a barrier island near ft. myers, florida. this is a live look at the satellite right now. you can see the immense size and strength mof the hurricane. the winds are 150 miles an hour. thats just shy of making this a monstrous category 5. this was the scene just ahead of landfall captured by a storm chaser in pine island, florida. these conditions are expected to worsen in the coming hours, believe it or not. more than 850,000 custom...

Delayed and more than 1400 canceled. airports from atlanta to new york experience ground stops this afternoon forcing the faa to reroute flights around the storms. more than 30 million americans in nearly a dozen states are under a tornado watch is from north carolina to new york. and tennessee downed trees like this outside the city of maryville that left tens of thousands without power. meanwhile in the south, unrelenting heat is scorching residents from coast-to-coast. cbss meg oliver will st...

Youve got to get in this trailer." and i had to make a choice between never seeing fia again and getting ally out. so i turned her loose and i said to thomas, "turn em loose, turn em loose. its the only chance they have." and i didnt look back. you would think mother nature had a watch because right at midnight, the wind hit, and it hit hard. and it just -- the fire exploded. and that was when i could hear it. it sounded like the roar of a freight train. i looked up past the trailer to look at t...

Theyre starting to get jumpy, and theyre starting to get dangerous. theyre 1,000, you know, 1,100 pounds of muscle, and theyre starting to jump around a little. >> when i heard that the fire was going to start moving at 60 miles an hour, i knew it was time to get the horses out of here, so i came down and i opened the trailer and i started to load them. the first horse loaded right in no problem. and then it was time to load fia, and she didnt want to go in. she knew i was upset, and she was get...

Midnight, the wind hit, and it hit hard. and it just -- the fire exploded. and that was when i could hear it. it sounded like the roar of a freight train. i looked up past the trailer to look at the mountains and where it had just been an orange glow, i could see flame. >> it was literally a firestorm. so were bracing ourselves against the wind. were hearing the roar, yelling to each other what to do. it went from a fire that was moving at, you know, maybe three miles an hour to a fire that was ...

Go in. she knew i was upset and she would put one foot in and back out. two feet in and back out. i tried cookies and grain and everything. i was pleading with her. you have to get in this trailer and i had to make a choice between never seeing fia again and getting alley out. so i turned her loose. i said turn them loose. its the only chance they have. and i didnt look back. >> you would think mother nature had a watch. right at midnight the wind hit and it hit hard and the fire exploded. that ...

Local media reporting they are seeing water on hollywood boulevard already washing in to homes. >> hmm. sorry to hear that, sir. mayor, as you know, it could go on for some time. you said youve been talking to residents there. i cant imagine your first responders are out right now given the force of this wind and the rain. have you been receiving a lot of calls asking for help? >> i think everyone knows that there has been a curfew and everyone made aware once the wind hit 45 miles an hour susta...

We would hope that it would sort of veer to the right and go out to sea. at one point, it became apparent this was our window of opportunity to move north. to go north. so, we drove north until just today. >> all right. hurricane irma, i want to show you what its doing to cuba here. i believe we have some pictures coming into us. of what is happening there. you see the trees blowing, patrick oppmann is there, he said it felt like a jet engine as the wind hit him making landfall on to the norther...

In the cross hairs. basically you had 15,000 people being evacuated. traffic at a stand still. also a run at the grocery stores all prepared for the monster storm that never came. we got the rain but not the storm surge and the high winds associated with damage and winds and a lot of flooding. what we did however get is a storm that hit right down there about 60 miles in those mountains. very sparsely populated. also very rural. when the wind hit there, basically cut that storm in half. thats wh...