Page 46 - Eye Wall News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Category 1 hurricane saturday. we're in the eyewall of hurricane hanna, which is making landfall right now on the coast of south texas with 90-mile-per-hour winds. those winds knocking over big rigs, shredding roofs and sending fences flying. in corpus christi, first responders rescuing three people, two of them in their 80s, from a sailboat. they used a flashlight to send an s.o.s. the storm reducing that marina to a pile of boards. >> there's a lot of damage out here right now. a lot of people out of a place to live. >> reporter: up to 14 inches of rain submerging neighborhoods and stranding...

Right now but a very impressive rain field. like you said, the real threat here, even if the winds get to 45 or 50, the real threat to puerto rico and the virgin islands will be significant rainfall. this could ramp up way over 10 inches of rain just because of the size of the storm right now. puerto rico is that island right there, so this is much larger than it even looks, and where it was yesterday, much larger than that. it is forecast to travel over the east side, but it's so wide it will be like a bowling ball over the entire island and over the bvi as well. 45, maybe 55 miles an hour as...

Thousa people without power. another look at the bahamas. look at the devastation behind. so much left behind there. each new day brings clear how bad the destruction is there. hundreds of people are still missing. the death toll has risen to 30. and the country's health minister warns the final number will be, in his words, quote, huge. let's get the latest on where the storm is and how strong it is with karen mcginness. >> george, something very interesting is taking place right now. we got an update from the national hurricane center. it is moving more quickly. the wind associated with th...

Or so. you can hear the wind as it's picking up and increasing during this live shot. there was an evacuation order given for this area where we are. most of the residents that we saw were heeding that warning. then yesterday afternoon they didn't see the strength of the storm l increasing. this area had been hit hard by florence, the downtown area had a lot of water filling up the streets. we didn't see that yesterday. but since 2:00 this morning, that has moved through. we believe the eye wall is getting ever closer to this area. it'll be interesting to see what happens as we get closer and ...

Good morning, allison. >> winds are sustained at 90 miles per hour. places like morehead city which didn't get a real landfall but they've been in the eye wall for quite some time and are going to stay that way until the storm continues at the northeast until 14 miles per hour. flooding is expected to be the main concern. we have flash flood warnings and flood watches out for half a dozen states as the flooding threat continues. not just here in the carolinas but this will slide up into the northeast as well. the heaviest rain is located along the outer banks and portions just east of greenvil...