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making news in america this morning, hermine makes landfall in northern florida marking the state's first hurricane in more than a decade. >> it's kind of crazy out. kind of scary. we're just sitting inside the house hoping a tree doesn't fall on us. >> the storm has a longay go with millions in its path. we have coverage from across the storm zone straight ahead. "your voice, your vote," critical voices being heard by both donald trump and hillary clinton this morning. trump losing the support of one of his closest hispanic allies while the clinton campaign braces for the release of detailed documents from her time as secretary of state. spacex rocket explodes on the launchpad. we have the latest on the blast and its potentially worldwide
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some dangerous encounters for students, a reminder to drivers and students as kids head back to school. a good friday morning. hurricane hermine hits the florida panhandle and itade landfall before 2 a.m. near st. mark'sflorida. >> so far three states have declared a state of emergency, flora, carolina. there are widespread power outages this morning affecting tens of thousands of homes. many schools in southern states are closed today. >> the live radar shows it bringing strong rain and wind to a large area from tampa bay all the way up into north carolina and bringing a large storm surge. there is extensive flooding in northern florida and forecasters warn flash flooding could threaten lives. the bankrupt was felt further east than expected close to the state capital of tallahassee. >> we have team coverage this
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panhandle. abc's marci gonzalez is in mexico beach florida, good morning, marci. >> reporter: good morning. well, some parts including where i am are getting spad while other communities not far from here are getting hit hard by hermine. north of where the category 1 i tallahassee, strong winds and of water rescues and potentially record breaking storm surge. a state effector much of florida with some forced to evacuate. floridians spent much of yesterday getting ready sand bagging, boarding up windows and waiting for sunlight to see the extent of the damage as it makes its way into georgia and the devin and diane. >> thank you. many are without power in tallahassee. strong winds also keeping those utility crews from being able to restore service overnight. >> it could be days before everyone has power again.
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from his home in tallahassee. >> i don't think many people anticipated it was going to pick up strength as much as it did before it hd but it really slowed down and was really kind of packing a pun and lightning flass but mostly hear stuff flyind there were a couple of crashes earlier, so sunrise is going to be pretty interesting. this is my first hurricane so it's kind of crazy out. it's kind of scary sitting inside the home hoping a tree doesn't fall on us. >> not just florida but hermine is bringing bad weather to several other states, as well. >> accuweather's justin povick is tracking the storm's path. good morning, justin. >> reporter: diane,devin, thanks and goomoing to you.weti. it's beginning to slowly weaken but hermine continues to churn off to the north and northeast at 14 miles per hour spreading damaging winds, flooding rains and severe weather. yes, there will be the potential
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tropical storm warnings to nags head expecting gusty and damaging winds in the next 24 to 36 hours. tropical storm watches all the way northbound to the jersey shore where we're going to have the winds piling in from the atlantic creating beacherosn, coastal flooding and w looking at damaging wind gusts right into sunday evening. devin, diane, back to you. >> thanks. hurricane hermine is expected to put a dam per on holiday weekend events up the eastern seaboard up to new jersey. many bch seeing heavy surf and dangerous rip currents and worries about beach erosion. >> it couldn't come at a worst time. maim hurrah and major travel weekend and expected to have a cascade of problems all across the country and linzie janis has more. >> reporter: nearly 16 million americans are hoping to fly this weekend. the air lines are warning people
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cancellations. if you want to change your flights because of the hurricane, all the main carriers will allow you to do that for free. some are even letting you cancel central l refund. and northern florida will likely be affected. there's already been a ground stop in charlotte. here in charleston there are delays that will likely move up the east coast to major airports if hermine maintains its northern track this weekend. linzie janis, abc news, at charleston internati >> our thanks to linzie. stay with abc news for continuing coverage of hurricane hermine. all the latest coming up on "good morning america" includin reporting from the storm zone. we turn now to the r for the white house as donald trump prepares for his second classified intelligence briefing amid some new fallout over his immigration speech. >> this as bernie sanders gets ready to campaign for the first time for hillary clinton and the final sprint to election day now gets under way.
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developments, good morning, adrienne. >> reporter: good morning to you, devin and diane. new this morning the president of mexico mentioning donald trump in his state of the nation address following the republican caatndide's visit there repeating that mexico will not pay for that now infamous wall. trump still facingt after expectations of a softer approach on deportation after his wednesday immigration speech in arizona. he hammered hard on deportation again. losing the support of some of his key monty who says he used them as, quote, props. the campaign saying trump's message has been consistent specifically addressing criminals in the u.s. illegally. following questions about whether certain wealthy donors to the clinton foundation received preferential treatment the state department will release the remaining 2700 pages of hillary clinton's detailed daily schedules while in office by october 17th. but that's just a couple of weeks before election day.
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see the full picture plus on labor day and for the first time clinton will begin traveling with the press corps. up until now she's been choosing to fly separately. bernie sanders hit the campaign trail next week to stump for clinton and other democratic candidates. he says that he will push her economic plan, one he says will work for everyone not just those at the top. clinton took in $143 million as a side note in the month of august. her most fund-raising yet, diane, devin. >> adrienne bankert in new york this morning. adrienne, thank you. a powerful earthquake rocked new zealand's north island today. the 7.1 quake triggered a tsunami warning canceled after several hours. some reported items shaking from chefs and several large aftershocks but no major damage or injuries. a 5.1 quake hit the same area thursday. president obama is back in hawaii after a trip to the
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the pacific. >> that tiny island was the scene of a critical u.s. victory in world war ii so the president paid respects at the memorial there and announced a major expansion of the refuge making it now the largest in the world. >> all right, nice pictures there. still ahead, a shocking fiery scene on a launchpad in florida. plus, some confirmation abt just what a violent month they've had in chicago. we'reeang exclusively from dwyane wade who's been personally impacted by a close eye on hermine as it spins across florida dumping inches of rain and threatening most of the east coast after florida.
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this was the stunning scene right on its cape canaveral launchpad testing the rocket for a saturday launch being filled with fuel when something went wrong, the $200 million satellite that facebook was going to use to deliver internet service to africa was also destroyed and david kerley spoke with mark kelly, ace member of spacex's crew safety advisory board about the dent's >> so this isn't a death knell but a setback in it is just a setback. we can figure out in this case what happened to make sure it doesn't happen again and i'm certain that's what's going to happen in this case. >> they are postponing future launches until they determine what the cause of this malfunction was and could delay a delivery to the space station in november. chicago recorded its bloodiest month in 20 years.
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shootings, one of those killed, of course,ykea aldridge, the cousin of dwyane wade and donald trump made what some considered insensitive comments and george stephanopoulos spoke excxclusivy to wade about his cousin's death. >> i'm grateful it started a conver other hand, it just left a bad paste in family is dealing with and what the city of chicago is using with. >> george will have much more from that interview with dwyane wade later this morning on "gma." the highly praised dallas police chief announced his retirement. chief david brown widely recognized for how he handled the aftermath of the attack that killed five officers in july. brown gave no reason for stepping down now but he's promised to reveal more information next week.
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quarterback colin kaepernick taking a knee keeping up his th anthem. a reminder to remind your kids about safety now that it's back to school time and the reminder for driver, as well.
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>> reporter: san francisco 49ers quarterback colin kaepernick sitting out the national anthem to take a stand kneeling down and joined by teammate eric reid. this time, it was ahead of the 49ers game against the san diego chargers on military night reportedly a coincidence. >> he is entitled to his opinion. we fought for that. i just think he's a jerk. >> what he's expressed is his freedom to do what he wants. >> reporter: his perceived fan, some so upset they burped his jersey. but earlier this week, the #veteransforkaepernick going viral and he made a point to stand up and applaud during a rendition of "god bless the usa" when military were asked to std.the public debate and outra coming after the players' protest of the anthem last week before a game against the green bay packers. kaepernick protesting he says
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african-americans. >> cops are getting paid leave for killing people. >> reporter: even ahead of the san diego game, the quarterback igniting a new controversy by wearing these socks at practice, depicting police officers as pigs. kaepernick on social media saying he's warned them before as a statement against, quote, rogue cops who in his view put the community in danger by creating an environment of tension and mistrust. lauren lyster, abc news, los angeles. >> georgetown univers taking several steps to apologize for owning and selling slaves. it plans offer preferential admission status to some and creates an institute on slavery and establish a public memorial. at least a dozen universities have formally recognized their ties to slavery. historians say georgetown is the first to off preferential admission status. florida officials have
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zika carrying mosquitoes in the u.s. they found them in miami beach. there have now been 45 cases of so-called home grown zika in florida. nearly all found in miami-dade. new disturbing images from texas where school bus cameras captured shocking incidents of cars hitting young students. the children were not seriously hurt. take a look. it's the first case, a boy is seen being hit in the crosswalk by a pickup truck and the second image a teenage driver ignoring that stop arm and cameras have caught about a thousand drivers in the first week of school so far. they released the video to get drivers to stay alert when proosing by school buses. a couple of sports notes starting with a close call on the first busy night of college football. number 9, tennessee, hosting appalachian state. >> tied at 13. tennessee on third and goal and scrambling for the end zone when
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let's get you anupdate here on hermine. making landfall the hurricane in ten years to make fandll in florida. it landed just after 1:30 a.m. this morning right along the panhandle there with 80 mile- per-hour winds. so we're talking a category 1 storm as it continues toove up to the north. at this point here, the latest update is back down to 75, not 80. that will be the case with each and every update. we'll lose maximum winds as the storm has lost its energy source, which is, of course, thwa this will continue to be a big problem for us, despite the fact that it goes off into than d rather quickly,
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significant impacts throughout the day today. obviously heavy rain not just with coastal flooding but also the additional heavy rain. we'll be windy today with wind gusts in excess of 40 miles per hour. we had one of 50 miles per hour along the coast. that's where we're going be the strongest. the coastal flooding a. is occurring right now because of the high tides we are now experiencing. they will begin to improve but not in time been impacted dramatic fashion here. we have live reports fanned out. we'll show you pictures of folks that have to be evacuated. the gusts are 40, the tornado watch is still in effect. we are still looking at the possibility of some spin-ups here. although, that threat wil diminish as we head through the day. right now, across citrus, hernandoasco as well. we'll see on the futurecast
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heavy rainfall as it moves through later this afternoon. my concern is that the bands will continue to set up. that will set the stage here for what we're talking about as far as the rainfall being quite heavy. these are, again, tropical downpours here. so we're looking at the potential for 2 to 3 inches coming down in a very short amount of time. there's the landfall and the storm that will fly in closely because this is what we had to deal with this morning. these are torrential rains. not only that, but the frequent lightning potential for damaging winds as this continues right on top ofis here. look at the movement. this is what is concerning. this is the flow of storms going southwest to northeast not making all that much progress. we'll fly into a few pockets looking at the heaviest of the rain right now. just blinding rain. we don't want to be out on the roads as we head through later on today. we'll continue monitoring that.
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we'll still be dealing with heavy rainfall and of course be watcng rather closely the radar as far as any potential spin-ups here that would be occurring. we've got a lot to get through here. the next few hours are with you. abc action news starts right now. captions by: caption colorado, llc (800) 775-7838 comments@captioncolorado.com now at 4:30, hurricane emergency is in effect for the next few hours. i'm deiariley. >> i'm dan shaffer. hmine made landfall south of tallahassee with 80 mile-per- hour winds. michael paluska is live where the center of the storm is passing to the east. michael, what are conditns like now? [no audio ] >> reporter: you know, we've been ridg t the storm here this tallahassee, and i can tell you as soon as they wall started to come hore

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