now." hurricane irma takes aim. >> florida is bracing for the worst of the deadly category five storm. miami is forecast now to take a direct hit. we have team coverage, the mass evacuations, the traffic, the rn on supplies, and we'll bring you the accuweather forecast live. also breaking right now, a powerful earthquake hits mexico, sending people running. we're tracking the very latest. then a massive security breach involving eck which fax that could effect more than 143 million americans and their personal private information. what you need to know. then meet irma and harvey. different irma and harvey, though, a real-life cou

coincidental names, they are now the talk of the town. but they're talking weather on this friday, september 8th. from abc news, this is "world news now." a good morning to you all. we begin with a new track for hurricane irma, less than 600 miles from miami. >> maximum winds are 165 miles per hour, less than they've been, but irma is still a very powerful storm. hurricane force winds extend out as much as 75 miles from the center. overnight the eye of the hurricane is expected to continue west towards the bahamas. it now appears on a path for a direct hit on miami, late saturday night or early sunday. >> irma has just passed turks and caicos, pummeling the islands and leaving new worries about flooding from the very high storm surge. meanwhile, in florida, 1.2 million people are under evacuation orders. all public schools and colleges are closed

to the storm. >> and airlines are flying larger planes in to help get more people out. abc's marci gonzalez is there. >> reporter: hurricane irma cutting a catastrophic path through the caribbean. >> how are we going to survive after this? >> reporter: the monstrous category five storm devastating st. martin, damaging nearly everything on the tiny island of barbuda. >> the entire country has been decimated. >> reporter: and leaving about half of puerto rico without power. >> we're praying. the whole time. >> reporter: still hospitals there taking in some of the injured rescued from making islands. now florida preparing for what the governor warned will likely be a historic disaster. >> remember hurricane andrew is one of the worst storms in the history of florida. this storm is much worse. >> reporter: from the gulf to atlantic coast, more than 1 million people in the sunshine state ordered to evacuate. >> i'm i have scared. so i'm just trying to get as far north as

>> reporter: airports overcrowded, traffic stretching for miles. the wait for gas hours long with stations running out. >> pretty much full, but i want to top off just in case. >> reporter: more lines for ply wod and essentials. >> i still have yet to find water. >> reporter: many store shelves left empty in the rush to get ahead of this deadly storm. >> i'm ready. all you can do is be prepared am be ready for it. >> reporter: and to give families time to prepare, classes at every public school in the state are canceled for today. nick and diane? >> marci, we're hearing a lot about being prepared, but how difficult is that at this point, given empty shelves and those long, long, long lines? >> reporter: oh, nick, it is definitely an exercise in patience. my parents live a town away from here. my dad spent seven hours in line just to get plywood and the lines and traffic are only expected to get worse today. back to you.

patience and are still taking all the proper precautions. stay safe. and as we mentioned, the predicted path for irma has changed a little bit. >> let's get an update from justin povick. morning, justin. >> nick and diane. hurricane irma here has grown more in size. not a small hurricane, but a rather large. you can see the ominous look here, the well-defined eye. the movement continues here off to the west-northwest, very high wind speeds. this remains a category five and very, very damaging, devastating impacts tonight throughout the southeastern bahamas, but also notice where we have hurricane warnings over southern florida. we're talking about big impacts throughout the bahamas, into cuba as we go throughout the day, and notice the onset of the hurricane force winds here as we get to the evening hours on saturday. this makes its move a sure, southern florida, south or southwest of miami as a category four. we're concerned about a damaging storm surge

rains and damaging winds. >> justin, thanks. and florida power and light says it's shutting down its two nuclear power plants before irma comes to shore. >> the turkey point and st. lucie generate power for nearly 2 million homes. turkey point may close tonight and st. lucie early tomorrow morning. >> between hurricane harvey and irma, the emergency response fund is almost completely depleted. >> fema is burning through about $200 million a day. that's an average of $8 million an hour. >> now the house has approved nearly $8 billion toward harvey disaster relief, which feema sas isn't nearly enough to cover those costs. >> more coverage of irma ahead minutes away. in the next half hour, a full report from our reporters in the bahamas. also breaking right now, a powerful earthquake has struck offer the pacific coast of

relimb nar measurements say the quake was magnitude 8. >> it was centered yauoffshore h the border of guatemala. but residents were shaken out of their beds. some have lost power. >> the national weather service says hazardous tsunami waves are possible for the entire central american coast. there are no major cities closest to where the quake was centered. and president trump is not ruling out the possibility of war with north korea. the president said yesterday military action would certainly be an option but he would prior not going that route. he added that an attack by the u.s. would be a very sad day for north korea and refused to say if he would accept a scenario in which the north was contained without giving up its nuclear weapons. democrats say donald trump jr.'s appearance before the senate judiciary leaves them with more questions than answers. he was grilled for hours behind closed doors. mainly about his meeting with a russian lawyer, and he gin cysted he did not

russia. mary bruce has the details from capitol hill. >> reporter: this is the only glimpse of donald trump jr. we got. reporters craning for a closer look. but his five-hour meeting with congressional investigators shrouded in secrecy. a prime focus, that trump tower meeting during the campaign with a russian lawyer, set up after an acquaintance told don jr. the lawyer had dirt on hillary clinton. the president's son responded, if it's what you say, i love it. don jr. told the committee he took the meeting because to the extent they had information concerning the fitness, character or qualifications of a presidential candidate, i believed that i shurd at least hear them out. don jr. has described the meeting as par for the course in a political campaign. >> for me, this was opposition research. >> reporter: he says nothing came of it and sources told developmen investigators there was no collusion and he never told his father about the

>> reporter: did donald trump jr. way some of your concerns? >> there are still a lot of gaps and questions to be answered. >> reporter: donald trump jr.'s story has been evolving over time, but in a statement i says he answered every question here and trusts he fully satisfied the committee. but lawmakers i spoke to said they want to hear from him again, this time in public. mary bruce, capitol hill. the fbi is investigating a massive hack that may have compromised credit information for nearly half the country. a breach between may and july potentially exposed personal data for 143 million people, and that includes social security numbers. canadian and uk residents were also affected. days after the hack was discovered, three equifax employees sold stock. but they say they did not know about the hack at the time. the oregon wildfire that's already scorch

square miles, the fire is now 5% contained. there are 21 wildfires burning across montana. and in california, jerry brown has declared a state of emergency in counties near yosemite national park because of four different wildfires burning there. in all, there are nearliy 80 wildfires burning. >> similar case in florida ahead of irma, but one man in miami is taking a pretty creative approach to how to help people prepare for the storm. >> there he is. pouring cuban coffee, serving to drivers waiting in line. apparently, he's an employee at a popular local bakery. >> the woman who captured captioned it saying in miami do they pass out coffee to everyone

waiting in line for gas. the pine crest bakery replied to the tweet saying thank you for your kind tweet. it's my pleasure and pine crest bakery to help out through these trying times. stay safe and god bless us all. >> small acts of kindness. coming up, the upset at the u.s. open, the nail-biting match that hinged on a single point between sloane stephens and venus williams, and the amazing move that changed the course of tennis history for both women. and join us on facebook and twitter. you're watching "world news now." n my 60's. i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. then i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. call now and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan,

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we are keeping a very close eye on hurricane irma, moving overnight between the bahamas and cuba. its winds are strong enough that both will suffer damage. the center passed right over turks and caicos, but the worst may yet to come. >> the islands are very low-lying. irma's storm surge could flood even inland areas, and

1. million people in south florida have been ordered to evacuate. the national hurricane center has just issued more warnings for more of south florida. >> severe conditions will begin there tomorrow. to sports headlines, the new football season is under way. >> the patriots celebrated their super bowl win before their game with kansas city, and the chiefs kind of ruined the party. kansas city's offense rolled up -- >> oh! >> big numbers. jack is clearly very upset about this as you can hear. the chiefs won it, 42-27. the 42 points are the most surrendered by a patriots' team during coach belichick's tenure. >> very strong feelings i sense. >> i'm expressing the feelings of a nation. >> or maybe just new york, jack.

>> high-five, jack. >> not at all. >> also before the game, the patriots did something special for the teenager who helped find tom brady's missing super bowl jerseys. that's dillon wagner on the right presented with a signed number 12 patriots jersey, presented by robert kraft. >> try it again next time, dillon. >> sorry, dillon. >> and venus williams was two points from reaching her first u.s. open final in 15 years. instead, she's on her way home. sloane stephens sagtaged a furis come back, moments later, she finished off williams to reach her first grand slam title of her career. >> i don't give up, like i'm not going to give it to someone. i'

take it from me. i want to make sure i give everything i have and leave everything out on the court at all times. >> she will meet her friend madison keys in the final. keys took a little more than an hour to beat coco vandeweghe. this is also keys' first grand slam final. >> wow, strong words at the press conference, too. >> sloane stephens is awesome. 24 years old, foot surgery in january. ranked in the 9 hundreds last month. she's in the final. she has such an amazing demeanor off court. she's funny, honest. >> but on the court. >> she's amazing. >> on the court. >> i'm going to are her for her. poor coco got caught in traffic. her preparation was all off

detail in. >> you can't be thrown off because you got caught in traffic. >> 275. >> imagine if you and i had to sit down here with no makeup and no idea what we going to talk about. >> remember when you were asked -- >> that is lame. >> if you were going into too much detail? >> i might. >> #leave earlier. >> anyway, no sympathy from jack. he's very loud tonight. >> the new device that claims to make school bathrooms a bully and vaping-free zone. >> but it's not a camera. we'll show you how it works next on "world news now." born to outperform the #1... prestige eye cream for better hydration. and your best look yet. olay eyes collection. ageless. your toilet is germ-ridden with mineral buildup. clorox toilet bowl cleaner with bleach is no match against limescale. but lysol power toilet bowl cleaner has 10x more cleaning power against limescale.

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we're turning now to a parenting alert about a new device designed to make school bathrooms safer for students. >> you can't put a camera or a guard inside a bathroom, but you can install a new device that claims to detect bullying and vaping without disrupting privacy. school is back in session. and while parents have been busy preparing, schools have been preparing as well. >> we're obviously looking to protect and be proactive about what's going on

schools. >> reporter: this will be the first school in the country to use a new appointmenti-bullying. it's called fly sense, a smallp small box. if noise levels spike in the bathroom because of a fight or the air changes because the student is vaping, the fly sense detects those changes. and it sends a text alert to school officials. bathrooms are so private. what do you say to parents that might be concerned about having something like this in a bathroom where their child is going. >> in our device, there's no camera, no microphone, no phones, we're not recording anything. we're alooking at the environmental surroundings. so privaty's kept to the utmost. >> reporter: nearly 30% of students in grades six through 12 have experienced bullying. and e-cigarettes are the most

commonly used tobacco product by youth. so we put fly sense to the test. take a look at what happens when we stage a fight in the boys abathroom. >> what you're seeing is sound and this is normally what you would see across, this means there's activity. >> reporter: the fly sense detects a change in the bathroom noise level and sends an alert to check it out. the same thing happens with the vaping demo. >> in is the area where we're allowed. >> reporter: you now the second someone's doing something wrong. >> most definitely. >> tough to get away with much in the school. they first installed them at this school, and they already are installing in another school as well. and they're expecting to expand nationwide. >> any surveillance in the bathroom is odd. >> well, so that was the big issue, you know, it's very difficult to monitor the bathrooms, but that's also why

goes down. so in this case, they're not recording any sound. there's no cameras involved. they're just monitoring for changes in the environment. they feel like this is a good answer. coming up, harvey and irma.

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years, which in itself is an absolutely ridiculous achievement and giving us a little light hurricane relief on what is otherwise a dismal, dismal story for millions of people. thank you, harvey, thank you, irma. >> yeah. and over to an artist who has taken a pretty creative approacapproach to the michael jordan photo. he uses the air jordans to make the painting. the final results, pretty remarkable. almost as remarkable as the polka. ♪

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this morning on "world news now." hurricane irma takes aim, getting closer and closer to the american coast, with miami now bracing for direct hit. the category five storm has already taken lives as it barrels over the caribbean. we have team coverage, and we'll go live to accuweather for the latest forecast. >> and that hurricane is already making history with its strength and longevity. so what makes it so powerful and so dangerous? and new this half hour, five former and living presidents making the one-america appeal. >> they're all coming together to call on americans to support the hurricane