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David muir, amy robach and our Abc News Team spread out across the storm zone. A special edition of gma starts now. And good morning, america. Florida has never seen a storm like this. That is naples. That is drone footage of naples. The destruction there yesterday. Right now the storm hitting jacksonville and expecting a powerful storm surge there. At one point sunday the entire state was covered by this storm. Such a massive force. Now making its way toward atlanta where theyre facing a Tropical Storm warning. And we are now just starting to see images from the areas hardest hit being the keys. It hit there first and hit there hard. Hurricane irma has claimed five lives in florida, 27 across the caribbean. It was a category 4 storm when it first made landfall in florida shortly after 9 00 a. M. Yesterday with wind gusts topping 140 miles an hour. This morning more than 5 mil ....
Down by 10 an ounce, but above, 13 1300 an ounce. David here now is your morning brief. Sachs willgoldman lay out its plans to turn around performance in core bond trading. Apple will be launching a new iphone. Willuropean president deliver a state of the union address. We will get u. S. Economic data on retail sales and inflation. Lets get an update on headlines. We have emma chandra back. Weakenedricane irma overnight after battering south florida. The storm had been downgraded to a category 1 with top winds of 85 miles per hour. It is northeast of naples and is expected to weaken further to a Tropical Storm today. The damage is unknown. Turned into rivers in miami and almost 5 Million People without power. Severe damage in flooding in the florida keys. Research has slashed estimates of total damages from 200 billion to less than a fourth of that. The u. S. Has water down p ....
Home turf. Betty hello and welcome to daybreak asia. I am betty liu at Bloomberg Global headquarters in new york. Been on thes u. N. Voting on these tougher sanctions against north korea, but not tough enough, right . Of the oil embargo falling far short of that that was talked about were discussed by north korea. Still, this is going to cut north korean exports by about 90 , and that is still going to have some bite on north korea. Haidi absolutely. Looking at these numbers, the sanctions cutting 55 of north korean death, diesel, and heavy fuel. Energy short of that embargo as well as the freeze on his assets that have been sough t. It is a little bit of a compromise because it was widespread expectation that the sanctions would not have gotten the vote of china and russia. Betty ahead of all of this news, which was widely expected, the market had a steady day a seller day. A record for the s p, with leadingls and techs the way ....
Coverage of this storm we are in Bonita Springs and Jackie Deangelis out there and diana olick north in atlanta we want to start right now with carl good morning to you. Reporter good morning to you. As becky said, the storm is very much a force in northern florida, will be in georgia later. Were in southwest florida landfall was southwest of naples were on a bridge overlooking one of the waterways the good news if you can call it that, the estimates of storm surge, 10 to 15 feet, didnt really happen. You have all of these condos, hotels, gated communities that dont look that much different from the pictures that we shot here yesterday of course, im going to give that a big calf fee at given we dont know the fate of tampa and tampa bay. When this was considered to be a doomsday scenario in miami beach, the impact there was very real, when it was considered to be a direct hi ....
Of restoring power to 6 Million People, getting gasoline back in these ports. Jim and david, going to be a big story in port tampa bay later on today, which handles 37 million tons of cargo a year a third of all cargo that comes in and out of florida, 5,000 acres, the largest port in the state, in physical size. Were going to talk to the president of port tampa bay, Paul Anderson later in thelogis airlines and fdr saying specialty retail, 10 of their coverage universe is affected by irma versus only 2 in harvey. One more indication how large the wind field was in this storm. Guys carl, thank you of course, carls down there all weekend monitoring the storm, and going to be fully part of the show as he always is. Right but bring us up to date on all the things he just mentioned, jim i guess in some ways a sigh of relief, strangely enough. Right, right. Could seemingly have been ....