Announcer live where you live, this is abc 7 news. Its after 2 00 a. M. On the east coast right now, but you can see cars streaming north as more than a Million People are fleeing what could be one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the united states. Good evening and thank you for joining us. Im ama daetz. Im dan ashley. More on Hurricane Irma in a moment, but we begin with breaking news. Another Natural Disaster unfolding in Central America tonight. A powerful 8. 0 earthquake struck off mexicos southern coast. It was felt in mexico city where there have been widespread power outages. Active tsunami warning are issued for mexico, gaut mall ah and neighboring countries. You can see the light fixture swaying violently. Residents have gathered on the streets in the dark, fearing that buildings would collapse. Our meteorologist sandhya patel has more on the earthquake as well as the tu namy warning. Lets look at this earthquake. It is being revised. This is the very latest coming out of the earthquake and tsunami center. It is upgraded to it was originally 8. 1 when it struck off the coast of theres no threat to oregon. Theyre investigating the threat to hawaii, which is under investigation. A threat to the u. S. Main land is hurricane arm ah, a powerful category five storm. It is more ragged after it ripped through the turks and caicos. This is prompting warning for parts of florida. Maximum sustained winds with this powerful storm right now 160 miles an hour, expected to amove across the bahamas tomorrow evening and striking southern florida saturday evening through sunday. Drench ink rain expected to be the biggest threat with this. We also have hurricane jose threatening the Leeward Islands and hurricane katia working its way to the east coast of mexico. Thank you, sandhya. Irma claimed at least 13 lives already and devastated several caribbean islands including barbuda, where 95 of the buildings have been damaged. And tonight this photo shows the enormity of the threat posed by Hurricane Irma, taken by a nasa astronaut watching the storm from space. Incredible image. Lets begin with abc News ReporterMarcy Gonzales in new smyrna beach, florida. Hi, dan, ama. At least one shelter in south florida is at capacity. People are taking the warning seriously, especially now after seeing what this storm is capable of. Hurricane irma cutting a catastrophic path through the caribbean. How are we going to survive after this . The monstrous category five storm devastating st. Martin, damaging nearly everything on the tiny island of barbuda. The entire country has been decimated. Reporter and leaving about half of puerto rico without power. We were praying the whole time. Reporter still hospitals there taking in some of the injured rescued from neighboring isorida for what the governor warns will likely be an historic disaster. Remember hurricane andrew as one of the worst storms in the history of florida. This storm is much worse. Reporter from the gulf to atlantic coast, more than a Million People in the Sunshine State ordered to evacuate. Im very scared so im trying to get as far north as possible. Airports over crowded. No one really manning the desks. Pretty chaotic. Reporter traffic stretching for miles. The wait for gas hours long with stations running out. Pretty much on full but i want to top off just in case. Reporter more lines for plywood and essentials. I still have yet to find water. Reporter many store shelves left empty in the rush to get ready ahead of this deadly storm. Im ready. All you can do is be prepared and ready for it. Reporter and to give families time to prepare and to evacuate, classes and every Public School in the state are cancelled for tomorrow. In new smyrna beach, florida, Marcy Gonzales, abc 7 news well, talk about no rest for the weary. Right after local rescuers returned home from Hurricane Harvey in texas. Yeah, other members now of their team are headed to the path of Hurricane Irma in florida. Abc 7 News ReporterKatie Marzullo joins us live from menlo park with more. Katie. Reporter ama, dan, take a look at this truck. It is one much ten vehicles leaving tonight. You can hear the Engine Running now, leaving for florida. All of that gear plus dozens of First Responders all headed to hurricane number two. 60,000 pounds of gear was preparing to leave menlo park thursday night headed for florida and Hurricane Irma. 80 members of the search and rescue team are going. This is what we do. We sign up for this kind of stuff because we like to help. Reporter chris mosco is driving one of the trucks cross country. He got his deployment orders only a few hours after he returned from ten days in texas. He has no idea what awaits him in florida. Since weve been on the road we havent been able to keep on all we know is that it is getting worse and worse. Reporter the chief of the menlo park Fire District said a turn around has never been done this quickly before. It is not the preferred way to do it. Remember, the people down there, if they need help and assistance, you want to be there at the right time. Reporter more than 100 members of the Silicon ValleyAir National Guard are leaving for florida friday morning. Many just returned from Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. The consensus as far as emotion is concerned is however big or small the task at hand we understand what is at stake, which is lives. Reporter most of task force 3 is flying to florida. Those driving the trucks expect to get there in twoandahalf days. In menlo park, Katie Marzullo, abc 7 news you can head to our website or download the abc 7 news app for the latest on Hurricane Irma and that magnitude 8 earthquake off the coast of mexico lets move on now. It is a hack affecting nearly half of the u. S. Population, maybe you. Ek which fax, one of three major credit burros, could be the victim of the largest Security Breach ever involving Social Security numbers. Abc 7 News ReporterLisa Amin Gulezian is here to explain what it may mean to you. Reporter it means we should all be careful. We all use Something Like ek which fax to apply for a credit card, get a lone or rent the apartment. Some employers use them to check you out before hiring you. Theres a lot of personal information they have on all of us. I just worry about someone taking my identity and it is very scary. Reporter this is exactly what nearly 143 Million People could face now that equifaxs files have been hacked. The breach lasted a month and a half. Equifax found out about it july 29th, but only went public today. It is clearly a disappointing event and one that strikes at the heart of who we are and what we do. I deeply regret this incident and i apologize to every affected consumer. Sorry does not cut it if my information has been stolen and my identity has been compromised. That does not it does not fit the bill. Reporter equifax is offering a way to find out. At this message says your personal information was not impacted. Another says you may have been impacted. This one, which is causing frustration, simply tells you to enroll in their free credit monitoring service. A Customer Service rep told me the Company Knows this message is confusing and that enrolling is highly recommended to those users for a reason. Jeff bliscall is a fraud and Credit Report expert. It is all of your personal, Social Security, the most sensitive stuff. They really should have better security i would think. Reporter so what should you do . Aside from using equifaxs free offer of Identity Theft protection, he suggests putting a security freeze on your Credit Reports. This way no one can open an account in your name. We also have a link on our website at abc7news. Com if you want to see if youve been compromised. Dan. All right. Thats helpful information, lisa. Lisa amin gulezian. Equifaxs stock value plummeted more than 12 since word of the breach went public and at least three Company Executives sold off stock before that happened. They all sold e kwurks uifax stock for at least 145 per share in early august. They discovered the breach in late july. Tonight eqiifaxs stock has fallen to 124. 80 per share in after hours trading. Prosecutors must now decide if fourteen age boys will face arson charges after a wildfire sparked by illegal fireworks near gilroy. That fire broke out near the eagle Ridge Housing Development on sunday evening. The fire is now fully contained after it charred about 100 acres. Police say the boys are 14 and 15 years old. Thaechl been released to their parents. A busy night as you can tell. More ahead on abc 7 news at 11 00. Who wouldnt want 50,000 new jobs . Several bay area cities join a growing list tonight vying for amazons Second Headquarters, plus a big reason to smile in oakland tonight. The first of its kind center thats going to provide Key Resources to the Lgbtq Community and tired of that midweek grown right here in california, with absolutely no antibiotics ever. A better way to grow, a better way to eat. And it starts with foster farms simply raised chicken. California grown with no antibiotics ever. New at 11, in the east bay tonight oaklands first lgbtq center had its first grand opening. Abc 7 News ReporterCornell Barnard was there. O say can you see reporter the kmor us used kicked off the opening. No one will be turned away. Reporter said it was the only area without a resource center. Lgbtq community has been here. Reporter cofounders jeff myers and joe hawkins knew there were plenty of resources for the community in San Francisco but few in east bay. I have lived in this community for 17 years and they never had a center, ever had a center thats all inclusive. Reporter joe hawkins says the opening at the center comes at a time when bigotry is on the rise. According to new statistics from the department of justice. Hate crimes went up 11 , and the top two categories were africanamericans and lgbtq people. Reporter the mayor cut the ribbon for the center which will providee range of services, mental health, Substance Abuse cancelling and transgender advocacy. This center gives real assistance and hope, support, comfort, safety to this incredible community. Reporter what the center doesnt have is funding. Right now we dont have any money. Weve been funding this thing out of our own pockets. Reporter but there were surprise gifts. A check from the aids Health Care Foundation for 10,000 and another for 1,000 from oakland pride. Until they can hire employees, 200 volunteers have stepped up to help out. In oakland, Cornell Barnard, abc 7 News Northern californias four biggest cities appear to be contenders to serve as amazons Second Headquarters. They plan to make their Second Headquarters coequal to its existing main office in seattle. The online giant plans to spend five billion dollars to build the Second Headquarters to house 50,000 employees. It is considering sacramento, san jose, San Francisco and oakland. Were always looking for opportunities to lift up this community, to add prosperity. So, of course, we are going to explore the Amazon Headquarters opportunity. Economists expect amazons presence to generate thousands of other jobs no matter where it opens its Second Headquarters. All right. It is time to check on weather. We are getting closer to the weekend and so much going on across the country. There is. And meteorologist sandhya patel is tracking it for us. Dan and ama, fortunately here in the bay area we dont have to deal with hurricanes or that massive earthquake in mexico. I want to show you from our emeryville camera what it looked like this evening as the sun was ready to set. Yes, there were a few isolated drops earlier today. As you know, we had some showers. Theyre long gone. Generally speaking from zero to only under a tenth of an inch of rain is what we government. Is that spectacular or what . That is all tropical air, dying Tropical Storm lidia fell apart and we had the moisture left over. That moisture will be leaving but not immediately. Here is a look at your planner. Tomorrow morning still humid and you will have to deal with spotty drizzle along the coast. Temperatures primarily in the 60s at noon time, filtered sun, and for the afternoon nice and mild, mid 60s to mid 80s. A live look from our abc 7 news exploratorium camera, and you can see that there are some low clouds around at this hour. A look at live doppler 7. You will notice those low clouds near the coast, but we also still have some lingering high level clouds, which is keeping a bit on the humid side. Here is a look at whats left of it. Thats not a whole lot. So until this passes through, which will be later tomorrow morning, were going to keep it on the humid side to muggy side. Here are the dew points. 62 degree dew point in oakland right now. 60 to 69 is humid. San jose mountain view, also 61 degrees. If you havent been sleeping well, hopefully you will sleep better tomorrow night. Temperature also right now in the 60s here in the bay area. A live look from our emeryville camera now. Notice that the visibility is not that great, so tomorrow morning during the commute look out for that. Muggy through tomorrow morning. A sharp warmup this weekend and were looking at a chance of showers early next week. Hourbyhour you will notice what is going to happen. Clouds at 11 00, which is right now. We go into your morning kmult and the clouds will be around but you might see a drizzle at the beaches. As we head towards the afternoon hours, clouds will hang tough near the coast. The rest of you will see brighter skies and feel that dryer air. It will feel better tomorrow afternoon, but not tomorrow morning. Still on the humid side. Temperatures upper 50s to mid 60s, as you check out highs for friday numbers will be really on the mild side, mid 60s to mid 80s for your friday. Hope you dont get too used to it because as you check out the accuweather sevenday forecast, that mild weather for friday will give way to warmer conditions saturday as those temperatures rise on saturday, the humidity will actually drop. It is going to be dry heat. Mid 60s to low 90s by sunday. It is heating up. Triple digits inland, low 70s at coastline. Monday night into tuesday it will get interesting. Yes, still hot you will notice. Warm at the coast. But late monday night into tuesday, computer models want to bring in the possibility of some showers. Yes, stay tuned. You can download the accuweather app and keep track of live doppler 7. Temperatures will trend cooler heading into wednesday and thursday of next week. So talk about extremes. We went from the heat wave last week to the summertime showers today, and here we go going into another round of possible summer showers early next wee. Where each drop was formulated to be smarter. Even smarter than that. So if a color didnt go on evenly, it would balance itself out to reveal its truest, richest state. If a paint could realize the fullest potential of any color. You have to wonder. Is it still paint . Aura interior from benjamin moo®e. Only available at independently owned paint and hardware stores. Hi leaving a career to follow a calling takes courage. A personalized Financial Strategy can give you confidence to take the next step. Hi guys aw yeah see how access to j. P. 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