Where the landfall will take place. Its a 150 right now category 4. Some of the outer bands, some of that terrain might be weakening a little bit. Everything says that somewhere around there, the middle keys are around marathon. There is a slight westward jog, though. So well see. A lot can change. Low cloud deck but thats just a low cloud deck. The high clouds are gone. Santa clara, 57 degrees. 54 felton. So cal, 57. Saratoga, 59. The humidity as been going bongers crazy. Should be per but better but still warm here. 6 01 and sal tells us things are what . Okay . Yeah, things are okay. There is congestion. People still have to go to work but just a little bit of the edge taken off as some, a percentage of people do the fourday week. Friday, they take the day off. This is westbound on the carquinez bridge. It only takes 19 minutes to drive that stretchs which the best time that we had all week at this time of the morning. Traffic will be busy on the bay bridge. We are look at the east bay commute. So far so good on free ways like interstate 880 and 580. Traffic on aint interstate 880 looking good. Live look at 280 northbound which is on the right of your screen there. Lets go back to the west. We begin with one of the most powerful earthquakes to hit mexico. It happened late last night. It was magnitude 8. 1. At least 18 were killed. Christien kafton is in studio. You have been monitoring that. Reporter absolutely. It hit on the Southern Coast of mexico on the pacific ocean. Hundreds of buildings collapsed or damaged and power cut to millions of people. We have been monitoring the developments in mexico including social media. We get a sense of how violent that shake is. Now that sun is up, we are expecting more video to start rolling in. It struck in the state of chapias, struck at 11 49. Hundreds of buildings collapsed. Power cut off to more than 1. 8 Million People in mexico city. More than 600 miles away, buildings swayed and electricity was knocked out. President Enrique Pena Nieto says it is the strongest quake to strike mexico in at least 100 years. And that quake was larger than the 1985 mexican state which killed 10,000 people. speaking spanish . Reporter the mexican president talking there about some of the damage that was done and some of the fatalities. The latest reports out of mexico report that 15 people have been confirmed dead. Among them, two children from the state of tabasco. Those numbers, though, could very well go up as the day progresses and as crews get a chance to get into some of the more damaged areas. The usgs is monitoring the aftershocks. Some of them are 5. 7 in magnitude. The Pacific Tsunami Center warns that waves 3 feet high were measured off the coast but no threat to california or oregon. This quick struck as mexican emergencies were preparing for hurricane katia to make landfall. That storm is expected to be a category 2 storm which should make land fall saturday, the same way we are expecting irma to impact miami. Clearly, mexican authorities will have their hands full trying to handle a hurricane 2 on this side the country and an earthquake on the other side. We have trying to see what the developments are in guatemala. You can so that epicenter was right off the coast, very close to the junction between guatemala and mexico. Surely, there is some damage in guatemala as well. We are waiting for reports to start coming in from those countries to get a chance of how big the earthquake impacted them as well. You and i were talking as well. We will so many people here in the bay area from we have some people here in the bay area from guatemala and el salvador. Have you heard any reports . So far, only mexico. We are not getting a lot information out of guatemala or he will value door yet. That could be that there is not much damage which we could hope for but also can be that communications might be difficult coming out of these regions right now. Well look into that and see what we can find out more about those two countries. Thank you, christien. Thats one of our biggest stories this morning. To put that quake into perspective, take a look at this many the loma prieta earthquake measured 2. 9, considered whats called a strong quake. Once you get above magnitude 8, earthquakes are now categorized at great. Meantime, Hurricane Irma is slamming the caribbeans and taking aim at florida. That storm is responsible for devil deaths. After slamming the island of turk and caicos, it has been downgraded to a category 4. It will hit cuba. There is widespread detrucks in and theigua and barbutta. Every building was damaged in barbudda. Look at the pictures in the dominican republic. Look at that. And we have video of the Dutch Military carrying out pa throws via helicopter over st. Martin. Irma caused, quote, enormous damage there. The dutch navy sent a ship to the dutch colony to deliver aid to the people who live there. Irma reportedly killed four people and injured 50. Now there is concern that hurricane jose could hit the Popular Island destinations in the next few days. Right behind irma . Right. This could be one the nations worst natural disasters ever. Joe waldman is in miami beach with how people are bracing for the hit. Reporter the National Hurricane center says that irma will make a direct hit on florida. This is what the storm did on the virgin islands. Landfall on the main land is expected on saturday or sunday. We have water. Plenty of water, plenty of food, plenty of snacks. Reporter even North Carolina andgeorgia are bracing for the worth. The uncertainty has people like paula garric worried. When we leave, we dont know what we are coming back to, thats pretty rough. Hundreds of floridian requests are heading up north. People are heeding evacuation orders since staying put means staying in danger. There is no guarantee that we can keep people safe with a 185 mileperhour hurricane. No way. Reporter whats waiting for the other side of the storm . Utility crews preparing for widespread power outages. You could be talking about weeks, if not longer to rebuild the entire electric system, if that what is we see. Reporter floridas governor ordered the closures of all schools, including universities, through monday. Reporting from miami beach, joe waldman. Former president bill clinton stopped in the bay area tonight. Coming up in 30 minutes, the reason for his visit on the honor to a long time rep lidge just leader. And data breach at equifax. This could affect you. Well let you know if your information was part of that hack. We have a little bit cooler pattern which settled in yesterday. Today, we are still okay but what about the weekend . Well take a look at that. Food. Water. Internet. We need it to live. But what we dont need are surprises, like extra monthly fees. I see you, fee, played by legendary actress anjelica huston. You got me, mark. We just want fast internet for one, simple rate. For all the streaming and the shopping and the newsing, but most of all. For the this. Internet for one everyday simple price and no extra monthly fees. South korea standing by this morning as another Missile Launch is expected from north korea. Officials in south korea believe it will some time in the next 40 hours. Tomorrow, north korea celebrates its founding. President trump says military option is an option against north korea but he would prefer not to take that route. An Appeals Court based in San Francisco ruled against the Trump Administration in a lawsuit filed over the president s travel ban a three judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of appeals upheld a Lower Court Ruling that grand parents, cousins and some uncles of u. S. Residents should not be denied entry to the u. S. Back in march, the u. S. Supreme Court Allowed the president s ban on travelers from six muslim majority countries to take effect for 90 days but the court said that ban should not apply to those with a bona fide relationship with u. S. Residents. The ceo of equifax is apologizing for a data breach that could affect 143 Million People. The breach was discovered july 29th but was just made public yesterday. Equifax executives say that hackers broke into its systems and gained access to its data from midjuly to may. Anyone affected can get into their website. S that dispinting event and one that strikes at the heart of who we are and what we do. I deeply regret this incident. I deeply apologies to our consumers. Three Senior Executives stole millions of dollars worth of stocks days before that news was released but equifax claims that executives were not aware the facts at the time. Well talk to an expert on Identity Theft and flawed protection coming up at 9 00. Find out if your information was involved, go to ktvu. Com and click on weblinks. Sal, some say that our tv signal are messed up. We understands dish network, not cable system. Thats what we are hearing. So people with satellite. Yeah, they are working on it like you are working onwatching our commute. Call your friend with dish and tell them to stream us. There you go, ktvu. Com. We stream every day. We hear from people all across the united states. Thats right. People who were former bay area residents still watch us. Lets head to the free way and the macarthur maze. There is no delay there on to the span but there is a delay here at the toll plaza. 880, oracle arena looks good. We are beginning to see that this friday is a little bit lighter, volume wise. At 6 16, lets bring in steve for the weekend forecast. Thank you, sir. Well get to the forecast here. This is what looks to be headed towards west florida late saturday into sunday. The storm surge is something else. This is her measured over this is measured over international water. In these Little Islands that are surrounded by water. But in florida, they are measured on land. Miami, guts up to to right now. Marathon, key west. Marathon looks to be the where the focus is but everything then drives it straight up, almost all of florida. Dogs not matter where it makes land fall. It is still going to make a huge impact. It is a huge system. It has weakened up a little bit coming up cuba. But its still a category 4. Right now, 150 moving west northwest. Its about ready to take the jog. It flows around the bermuda high. At some point, there will be an area of low pressure which is overmain land, over the easement that will start to draw north ward and thats what we are expecting to happen. The water temps are warm enough. I have heard there are pockets of 87 or so. That will be lots of fuel, if you will, for that warm water to maintain its intensity. The european model seems to be not delve champions right now. There is widespread between miami and over towards key west. The middle keys, somewhere around the everglades looks to be where its going to go. This is going to change even in the next couple of hours. We do get a low cloud deck that will burn sooner. 60s and 50s on the temps. Yes, the humidity is still there but not as bad as it has been. 57 santa clara. 5 had felton. 57 so cal. These are cooler than we have seen in a while. Low pressure system got kicked out yesterday. That gave us a drizzle. Another low dropped in drifting to Southern California and come back. On monday and tuesday, we get rain because this low sure looks like its going to do exactly what the one we had yesterday do. Warmer saturday and sunday. Monday, clouds start to roll back in. 60s, 70s 80s to near 90 degrees. Temperatures which cooled off big time yesterday. We were down 30 to 40 compared to where we are last friday. 73 alameda. 85 gilroy. 79 san jose, East San Jose about 81, 82. 60s at the coast. Quick warmups especially on sunday. I think cloudy, more likely monday, tuesday could be our first widespread light rain. Hmm . Good. This earthy . Im probably the only one who will say that because thats the way i am. Thats the way i roll. [ laughter ] youre right most of the time. Roll. Its been most its hard to forecast Something Like that. Its been the most unusual weather year, hotter than normal here, cooler, rain earlier. You can go back a year. Record rain and snow and then record hot. Everything has been unusual. Thank you, steve. New information now about that wildfire in gilroy this week and what may have caused it. Four teenagers have been arrested. They are accused of starting it. Authorities say they were playing with firecrackers on sunday and that started the fire. The boys tried to put the fire out but the flames spread quickly burning 100 acres of very steep and rugged terrain. No homes were damaged. The fire has been fully contained. Some beautiful beaches in Monterey County are now under a Health Advisory because of higher than normal levels of bacteria out there. Monterey county Officials Say that pebble beach, Still Water Cove under invitesry right now. Warning times are posted just alerting beachgoers about the bacteria. It may have come from marine life, rain runoff or storm drain. Just so you know, you can become sick by coming into contact. Well, there is an upset in the National Football league. The chiefs overpower the patriots. 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All five living former president s are raising money for campaign releast. The campaign is called one america. This announcement rang during last nights game. It featured former president s george bush, clinton, carter, george w. Bush and obama. In the video, former president bush says that we have more love in texas than water. And we have a big telethon called hand in hand airing right here on ktvu, tuesday september 12th, including george clooney, beyonci, the rapper bun bee and many others. We hope you join us next tuesday at 8 00 p. M. The California Assembly passed a bill that would reduce the punishment for intentionally exposing someone with hiv from a felony to a misdemeanor. Supporter says that current law discriminate against People Living with hiv and deter people from being tested but opponents worry that change will put people at risk. The bill must be approved by the governor before moving forward. Time is now 6 26. The sect river education the secretary of education wants to make a controversial change. And crowded out there. We are seeing a little bit of a break compared to the first four days of the week. San mateo is crowded on the way to the peninsula. A lot of fog and low clouds but the higher clouds are gone for now. Humidity is not as bad. Well see whats in store for the weekend. Ah, dinner. Throughout history, the one meal when we come together, break bread, share our day and connect as a family. [ bloop, clicking ] and connect, as a family. Just, uh one second voice guy. [ bloop ] huh . Hey . I paused it. Bam, family time. So how is everyone . Find your awesome with xfinity xfi and change the way you wifi. 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. Good morning, we are closely watching southern mexico where there is an 8. 1 magnitude earth quick. People have gone on social media and posted videos the quake and the shaking. Take a look there. Hundreds of buildings have collapsed or are severely damaged. The usgs record the at least 100 after shocks of. Severe shaking all the way in mexico city. Christien is checking in guatemala and he will sal va door. Welcome back. Good morning to you. Thank you for joining us on mornings on 2, friday, september 8th. Im dave clark. Good morning. Im pam cook. Its now 6 30. We have warrant to check in with steve because weather is the big story. Locally and what will be across the country. Yes. Its been a busy couple of weeks. Not as much humidity but its still there. I do think that will happen by this time next week but until then, we have to deal with a pretty good fog bank. Its making a strong push. Another low dropped in. Not a lot of support for that. Look at that. Coolest in over a week. One week ago, you were 160 degrees. Oh, yeah. Low 60s for oakland, also alameda. 56 up in lake port. 57 in sunny vale. This low drops to Southern California and comes back probably monday for maybe another round of clouds and possible light rain or showers. It is closed but it is tracking a little south allowing High Pressure to build over the weekend. I have not heard anything. Anything new or usual . Its like your forecast. Your forecast is what i expect now. This is bay area weather. It is. But a week ago, that was not. In my humble opinion. Yours and others. You will notice as you get on the road, although it is not completely light, it is lighter.