bracing for impact good afternoon, im melissa caen, in for kenny and im michelle griego hurricane florence takes aim at the carolinas today. millions of people are bracing for impact. it is the calm before the storm. you're looking live at carolina beach and north carolina as hurricane florence inches

closer. the storm weakened slightly to a category three but it is still extremely dangerous. from space, watch how this monster hurricane churned across the at scientist at 130 miles an hour atthat time of the picture. we have team coverage first. mary lee is tracking the storm. mary? >> reporter: all eyes are on this powerful storm. you can see the outer bands now reaching the carolina coast there. i want to show you the latest on hurricane florence. as michelle mentioned, it is a category 3 storm with sustained winds of 125 miles per hour. it is currently 435 miles southeast of wilmington north carolina to the northwest at 60 miles per hour, it does not look like it strengthened. this is the projected path with hurricane florence.

strengthening backup to a category four storm before it reaches the carolina coast. likely it will make landfall as a major hurricane. we are lookro storm surge as well as damaging flooding. those are the impacts associated with hurricane florence, as much as 10 feet and major hurricane landfall with significant inland flooding with 10-20 inches of rain in some spots, possibly 30- 40 inches of rain. melissa? widespread evacuations underway in virginia and the carolinas as hurricane florence inches closer. >> reporter: it appears the majority of people have heated the warnings and evacuated. like every storm, there are some who choose to ride it out. emergency officials are stressing today is the last good day to evacuate. the streets of wrightsville

deed ono hier ound before florence arrives. >> we are off island at noon today. a long trek.he plans to ride out the storm with family in charlotte. florence is a powerful herrick -- category four hurricane with met them sustained winds of 130 miles an hour. the expected to make landfall late thursday or early friday in coastal carolina. >> it might stalwart makes landfall and move very slowly south down the coast. this could mean parts of north and south carolina the coast will experience hurricane force winds for 24 hours or more. >> reporter: and many other coastal towns have mandatory evacuations but not everybody heeds the call. this man is staying put. >> i have a generator, gas, food, water. we will see what happens.

>> reporter: state and local officials are urging people to listen and get ready for the storm of a lifetime. >> a storm surge higher than many homes. the national weather service has just said it will be unbelievably damaging. >> reporter: the view from outer space shows the enormous size of florence. forecaster say it could drop 15- 25 inches of rain as a tracks inland. while florence is expected to make landfall thursday night into friday the lingering impacts of florence could last at least a few days after that with widespread rain and flooding expected. president trump says they're totally prepared for florence but fema funds have

been converted to ice. >> reporter: a video message in -- for those in the path of hurricane florence. >> we are fully prepared with food, medical, everything you can imagine, we are ready. >> reporter: phenyl already staged recovery supplies around the coast and is ready to deploy to despite that, president trump is still urging people to take shelter. >> bad things can happen when you are talking about a storm this size. it is called mother nature. >> reporter: the president has already declared a state of emergency in the carolinas and virginia, clearing the way for immediate federal assistance. critics are questioning a trump administration decision to diverge some of fema's funds to keep shelters open along the us- mexico border. >> this is all part of the child separation policy and that is how this information came into my hands because of my work on these issues of trying to stop the child's operations. >> reporter: the senator from

oregon released documents showing $10 million was sent to ice, or than $4 million of which came from response and recover or repair nissen protection categories. fema says it is making up for the funds by curtailing training , travel, and public engagement. >> we have plenty of resources to respond and recover. that has not impacted our situation whatsoever. >> reporter: fema says the diverted funds are less than 1% of the agencies total operational expenses and it has a separate account totaling $25 million it uses for disaster responses. here is another live look at carolina beach in north carolina. damaging hurricane force winds are expected to hit some coastal areas for more than 24 hours. we will continue to update you on hurricane florence on air and of course online at

kpix.com. hurricanes and wildfires will just get worse unless we take action now. that is one of the messages at the climate change summit in san francisco. here's a live look at the muscogee center, this is the first day of the event here, events are planned for the next three days. politicians and foreign dignitaries, scientist as well from around the world are in san francisco now, including former vice president al gore. during a speech, he brought up this fire tornado that tore through shasta county in july. he says natural disasters like this are not increasing in number, but they are increasing in intensity. >> the fact that the scientist were correct on almost everything they predicted about the climate crisis decades ago should cause us to pay a little more attention to what they're saying will happen in the future if we do not get our

arms around this and start decolonizing the global economy at a very rapid rate. >> it has been more than a year since president trump announced his intention to pull out of the paris climate accord, the climate change summit wraps up friday. other area hide lines, a traffic nightmare on the bay bridge, multiple crashes caused a gridlike on the roadway this morning and the highway was essentially shut down. drivers who waited it out so they sent and traffic at least two hours before seeing any relief. firefighters say a down power lines sparks this blaze burning in western marin county, the fire broke out two nights ago near the state park. the fire has burned 152 acres so far, officials say it is now 65% contained. all evacuations have been lifted. you can own this oakland home for free. but there is a catch, there is always a catch. the 118-year-old house is wedged between the telegraph avenue and broadway. the daughter has to move it by october 27 before the lot is

cleared for a condominium. there for the home is not actually free because the move could run you up to $200,000. apple had an exciting reveal today, the biggest event of the year is under way and jackie ward joins us with a look at the new gadgets apple unveiled today. >> reporter: lots of new stuff for everyone to preorder as anticipated at today's event. tim cook announced a new collection of products including frito iphones a new watch. one of the phones will cost you $1100. >> this is iphone 10 as -- 10 "as is" -- iphone 10 s, a liquid redneck display is included, each improves facial recognition software and upgraded photo editing features thanks in part to the industries first seven nanometer chip. >> this is a new era of photography. some call it computational to

talk the. not only the sensor and the lens, but the bionic incredible software and the care the camera team has put into creating high-quality photography making images possible now that were not before. >> the up watch also has serious upgrades from the series 3 watch with over 30% larger screens and up to two times faster performance. arguably the most impressive feature is health related. this watch has a built-in electrical heart sensor which means users can now take an electrocardiogram or ecg whenever they want. >> the entire process takes just 30 seconds. at the completion of the recording, you'll receive a heart rhythm classification. >> reporter: it has already received fda clearance. the watch can also detect when the user has fallen. >> after detecting a fall, it delivers an alert and from the alert, you can initiate an emergency call. >> reporter: if it says is you have not moved for a minute, the watch will automatically call emergency services and

alert your emergency contact. you can order the watch in the 10s and 10s max phone, preorder start october 19 and will be shipped out october 26. pope francis says he will take action after reports of sexual abuse and the alleged cover. "adlib big board" pope francis says he w

pope francis says he will take action to protect children from clergy sex abuse. today's announcement comes amid increased calls for the

ington, d-c to kliss take a look at the big board and see how the stock market is playing out, the dow is up right now about 20 points. pope francis says he will take action to protect children from clergy sex abuse. today's announcement comes from increased calls from the archbishop of dc to step down after reports he covered up information about predator priests. >> reporter: in a letter tuesday, cardinal donald wuerl says his future -- his stepping down as essential to the future of the church. they were more than 300 catholic priests found to have abused 1000 children since 1947. he presided over the accused priest during his 18 years at the diocese, among the accusations against him is he reassigned and reinstated some of them. >> did you ever move priests quietly? >> that was not the process. >> reporter: we spoke with him the night before the report was released.

>> you have any plans to resign? >> i have to talk about what i need which is to reduce zero tolerance. a credible proven accusation and appropriate action was taken. >> reporter: the k in the same date pope francis drew criticism for comments he made during mass in rome. he said bishops are under attack from the great accuser, another name for satan. it seems like the great accuser has been unchanged the pope says adding he tries to uncover the sins so they are visible in order to scandalize the people. >> many people are looking at pope francis to show a degree of leadership on this matter, but he has not yet shown it. >> reporter: he is the chair of the theology department at fordham university. >> i think the catholic church in the u.s. at least is in a crisis it has not seen in a long time. i think it is anyone's guess what happens next. >> reporter: we reached out to the vatican about the pope's

remarks, but did not hear back, a world representative says his letter speaks for itself. pope francis will be tomorrow the head of the u.s. bishops conference and other u.s. officials about the sexual abuse. and oakland city councilmember is taking the title -- not i -- and i -- a councilmember from oakland city is taking the tiny home project overcome he will live in the home for two days until they are used. the smaller model includes a bedroom with a loft. the larger home has a shower, toilet, and kitchenette. >> we have 40% of the students currently homeless at the college. they're sleeping on couches, they are couch surfing, they're sleeping in their cars, at friends houses, these are young people trying to do the right thing, that do not have a place to labor headed by.

>> the council member says the problem of student homelessness is often overlooked. he wants to secure more funding to build more tiny houses and house more homeless students. uger] >> there you go. >> high. thousands of fans are lining up outside the oakland coliseum right now in anticipation of tonight's concert. the korean pop group has swept the nation, the boy band tour does not begin until 8:00 tonight, but fans started lining up monday well before the opening kickoff of the raiders game against the rams. some of loyal fans traveled from out of state to see the show, others told us they are following the band around the country and even around the world. [ music ]the seven member group

has a massive social media following and is regarded as the most popular korean group worldwide. they sell out stadiums and topic billboards for korean artists. >> doing a world tour with them all around the world sounded really cool. i saved up and i did it. >> tickets are sold out and resale prices are skyhigh with no lead seats present hundreds of dollars in premium seats being sold for over $2000. >> my 10-year-old's friends were fighting over who like them first. i do not know who won the fight. >> oh my goodness, i love it. they are a hot group. it is amazing. there fan following, not just in korea but around the world. let's talk about the weather. it is a cool day today, much cooler appear to yesterday. we will continue with the cooling trend for tomorrow as well. a live look with sun and clouds

out there. a beautiful live look for you, currently looking at concorde at 73, oakland at 63, livermore, 69. 73 in san jose and santa rosa. your weather headlines, a mix of sun and clouds, high clouds in the sky, now the cooldown continues, we are talking about 6-12 degrees below average and gusty winds this afternoon, westerly to northwesterly winds anywhere from 15-20 possibly even in some spots 30 mile-per- hour winds. let's talk about how cool it is already in the last 24 hours, we are looking at anywhere from 2-9 degrees cooler compared to yesterday at this time. here is the reason why. we are tracking this upper level low in the pacific northwest. it is generating active weather to our north and actually even washington state dealing with thunderstorm activity and that

is really driving a front our way, a cold front and with that, we have the cooler temperatures and the wind and also more cloud cover compared to yesterday. we will stay cool through the weekend thanks to that upper level low. you can see temperatures later in the afternoon in the middle 70s and santa rosa and also for fairfield, low 70s for highs in san jose. here is your forecast and what you can expect. we are looking at middle 70s today, upper 60s for the bay area, a little cooler for thursday and we will stay on the cool side to end the work week and into the weekend, slightly warmer by early next week. if you like the cool weather, you have it for a little bit here. for quite some time. >> we will take a little bit of that. amazon is shipping into the tree business, we will show you how.

according to the associated press, amawillllasrees season starting in november. customers will have two choices5 dollars per tree. amazon says they amazon will be selling live full-sized christmas trees for the first time this holiday season starting in november. customers will have two choices and the first will run about

$115 per tree. amazon says they will be shipped within 10 days of being chopped down. we will be right back. e homele

supervisor aaron peskin says.. the mayor signed off on a site near bay and kearny streets.. an san francisco is planning a new navigation center to tackle the homeless crisis, the mayor signed off on a site on distct. it will have shelters and outreach but not everyone is on board with the idea.

>> we are all on edge, parents especially. that is why the navigation center is out of left field, i do not see it addressing the immediate problem. >> the supervisor says he will hold public meetings about the violence and north beach as well as the new navigation center in the weeks to come. there is going to do it for kpix5 news at noon, the bold and the beautiful is coming up next, have a great afternoon. goodbye.

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