the monster storm on caribbean islands now headed for the u.s. florida is in the direct path of this storm. families now racing to evacuate. hello everyone, i'm leon harris. >> i'm pat lawson muse. doug kamerer takes us through the track. hurricane irma still affordable category 5. it's packing sustained winds of 175 miles per hour, just minutes ago, the death toll grew. nine people have now been killed, many of them on the island of saint martin. 95% of the buildings there have been flattened. >> we're working for you tonight with the latest on irma's track. we're down in florida taking the pulse of the families as they rush to ride it out or get out. >> we begin with chief meteorologistist in the storm center. doug, give us the very latest. >> this storm is a monster and it continues to make its way a little to the west northwest.

grand turk island. this is another one of the islands, you saw it parts of virgin islands. this is another island that's going to get destroyed by this hurricane. because it did not interact with any land, it has not weakened much at all, the latest available numbers coming in, 175 mile-per-hour category 5 hurricane. this is a major, major hurricane. and the track has not changed all that much. however, i do expect to see a little bit of a change here coming up at 5:00. well, it's going to make its way right through the bahamas. you can see that track trying to get to the track. it's trying, as well. my computer, one of those things that's going to continue to happen as we move on, it's going to move right through the bahamas, you can see the southern tip of florida, here is the track making its way up as category

mile an hour winds, look where that is, guys, also known as the cone, starting to shrink. we're getting much better and forecasting where this is better and we'll show you more in the next couple of days. we'll take a more in depth look at this in just a minute. president trump says victims of irma will have the support of the federal government. >> the president reiterating his commitment just in the past hour, news 4 erica gonzalez has this part of the story at the live desk. >> we've heard from the president this afternoon and he says he's very concerned about hurricane irma, but florida is as prepared as it's going to be. speaking from the white house, he praised the teams of first responders already activated in that state. he said florida has the support of the federal government, just the same way that texas did when hurricane harvey devastated neighborhoods there. >> the people of florida are like the people of texas, louisiana, you see how the people of our country have reacted under this tremends

things that we call hurricanes. >> all right, let's talk about the funding here. fema is deploying help to the victims of irma. congress passed a nearly $8 billion bill for harvey victims just this afternoon when asked whether fema is being over extended, president trump praised the agency's "great bravery". >> thanks for that, we'll see you soon. if you don't have a go-to plan for emergencies like irma. maryland's governor said now is the time to make one. doug, says that maryland is not in hurricane irma's immediate path. ♪ coming

plantation, florida. this is in broward county just outside of fort lauderdale. we arrived midday yesterday. it was interesting, on the plane down i decided to look at what irma meant, it means war goddess. i can tell you right now, folks are preparing for war. let me show you some of the armour, this is what available to them. they've got plywood here. they're about to put these on side of these windows and protect those. over here you've got a different type of hurricane shutter, these are the heavy ones to put up. they just finished putting those up in the past 30 minutes or so. ahead of the storm. it is not easy. let me show you some of the conditions some of these homes are in because of prior storms. if we look up here you can see this roof, it's got a blue tarp on it. that's something we've seen on several of the homes in this plantation community. i asked some of the neighbors, i said why do you have those up, is it to protect for irma, they

back to hurricane wilma. they're worried, given the size of irma, what that will do with just tarps covering some of these buildings. you've heard about some of the panic and anxiety, let me take you to some of the gas pumps not far from here. all around south florida, you can see some of the congestion, long lines, some folks waiting nearly an hour adding to that frustration, imagine waiting all that time in line, only to get up to be told the pumps have run dry. they are empty for the day. they simply do not know when those trucks are going to come back to refuel them. i can tell you that the governor here has been very stern when it comes to trying to get those trucks through any sort of traffic. he's allowing police escorts to get through. he's asking for restrictions to be lifted when it comes to the number of hours that fuel truck drivers can

those trucks can be. he wants them filled to the max and he wants people to be able to get out should they want to, he's hoping they take heed. they decide to leave right where we are here in in plantation in this part of broward county. no evacuation is underway, a little bit east about a mile or so, they started that at noon. evacuation is not too far from here. it could spread. you talk to folks here. i've got family down here, you ask them what their concern is and they often reference back to hurricane andrew, that was 25 years ago. that's still fresh in their minds and they have the marks on some of their homes. hurricane irma could be more damaging than andrew and that doesn't settle well with folks here. >> want to ask you question about blue tarps on the roof from 2005, can you explain a little more about that? are those roofs still damaged?

that hurricane back in 2005, what makes them think that a tarp is going to handle this one? >> reporter: pat and leon, to answer your question, yes, yes, yes and yes. they are very concerned that these are going to be redamaged, these do date back some of them were not fixed. wilma was very powerful and it caused a lot of flooding and wind damage. so some of these are now actu actually in the midst of renovations, which is the worst timing for something like this for another hurricane to come through. a lot of folks are putting up the shutters and getting out. >> that's the last thing you would expect to see in the united states. >> david culver. and our team coverage of this storm is just getting started. we'll take you back to florida live in about 25 minutes. remember to get breaking news updates right to your phone just download the nbc washington app. we're going to move on now to some breaking news we have coming right now. we're following the situation in the case oe

lions sisters. the man charged with killing the girls more than 40 years ago is expected to plead guilty after all this time. that news comes after days -- news 4 mark segraves has been following this case for years and he joins us now from the newsroom. he's got a look at what this means for the family and other suspects in this case, mark? >> hey, leon, you know for those of us who live through this 42 years ago, this is a case that has haunted people in our area now for decades. as you said, lloyd is expected to plead guilty, not only to the murders of a lion sisters but also to two sexual assault that is occurred in prince william county. the washington post was first to report that a plea deal had been reached. 1975 katherine went to the mall and they were never seen again. the case which grabbed national headlines back in the '70s, had appeared to have gone cold until new detectives took a fresh look at the case in 2013. two years ago, prosecutors from maryland and v

together to announce that they had charged lloyd welch with the murders of the two girls. investigators believe that welch lured the girls from the mall, sexually assaulted them and then killed them both. they suspect welch took the girls' bodies to remote area in bedford, virginia, where the family owned property, and he burned the girls' bodies in a huge bond fire. welch had admitted to investigators that he was with the girls the day they disappeared and he implicated his uncle richard welch in their sexual assault. richard welch has not been charged and his family insist that richard had nothing to do with the lions' sisters disappearance. that plea deal will include two separate sexual assault charges that occurred in prince william county back in the 1990, including the rape of a six-year-old girl. if welch does go through with this plea deal next tuesday in bedford county, it will, at least, bring closure to the lion

tragedy for 42 years. >> thank you, mark. breaking, first at 4:00, police say there is not enough evidence to charge officers in the death of man in dc on christmas day. body cam footage shows him standing with his girlfriend with a large knife in his hands. officers asked him to put the knife down, he refused, they shot him four times and killed him. investigators say they can't prove that the officers used excessive force. instead, they believe they were aktsi acting in self defense. triple murder devastates a family, not only are three of their little girls dead, a relative is accused of stabbing them. antonio williams volatile first appearance before a judge. a different mood. tracee wilkins there was there to witness it. tracee, williams was a different person today, tell us about that. >> reporter: well, he

person from the man i saw in court the last time that he was here. he had that mental evaluation, a long conversation with a doctor. today in court, he appeared much calmer. but we're talking about a family divided. some of that family, well they want to see justice and they want to see williams stand trial. today we found out we found out he was legally competent. >> he's been uncooperative throughout. >> a series of strange outbursts led to a judge ordering a mental evaluation to antonio williams a man who told police he killed his six-year-old sister and six and nine-year-old cousins, words exchanged led to a brawl. but today court was calmer and williams appeared to be a different person. >> there was noticeable difference. >> a doctor appointed by the judge said he was uncooperative the first two times he attempted to interview him. but the third time

legally competent. >> i really hope they say he did have mental issues, that he just didn't do it, you know, with -- wake up and decide to do it. >> there's no history of mental illness at all. so the doctor determined that there is nothing we can point to that it would indicate he's mentally ill or that there's a history of mental illness and there's nothing that we can point to, as well, to say that he's not competent to assist in his defense. >> reporter: being legally competent is different from being criminally responsible, and that's what the state has to prove next. he's due back in court on september 18th. i'm tracee wilkins, back to you all in the studio. >> an unusual and deadly crash. the scooter and the police car collide. new details about what happened on a stretch of local road that some say is dangerous. >> in the wake of so many confederate statutes being

can do away with some of the more high profile statutes here in washington. >> folks you want to keep it right here as we track hurricane irma. doug and amelia have been going through all the data of this massive orm,st he's our pediatrician, dr. ralph northam. born and raised in rural virginia went to vmi. trained at johns hopkins. an army doctor who treated soldiers seriously wounded in the gulf war. eighteen years as volunteer medical director of a children's hospice. as lt. governor, he's fighting to expand healthcare in virginia. he'll get it done as governor. ralph northam: i'm ralph northam,

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new video from the damage of hurricane irma, this is the island of bar buddha just east of puertpuerto rico. questions this afternoon about how a man on a motor scooter was killed in a crash with an unmarked police vehicle. >> the man was struck at the intersection of norris drive. news 4 kristin wright is there live with the latest information from investigators. what are they saying now, kristin? >> well, first i want to show you what this information looks like. we understand the man on his scooter was on this side of the intersection on mont ray drive. he was trying to get across. as you can see, there are six lanes of traffic here. he was trying to get over to where the road changes into

now, police tell us he did make it across the first three lanes of traffic right over the intersection police say he was almost hit by a van that was coming this way and then he was hit by that police officer in a cruiser that was coming in the center lane and it did hit him. we do have some video from right after this happened last night. it was around 10:00. so take a look here. the scooter ended up right under the cruiser, which was unmarked. you can see when you look at this video how the man on the scooter, loretta, did not survive this. two big things we found out today, police say the man on the scooter had no headlights. remember again it was dark around 10:00 p.m. and police told us today the type of scooter he was riding is illegal. now, we know just a little bit about

he was 74 years old. he was from kensington. the police officer, right now, is on leave, which is standard. officer robert farmer has been with the department for eight-and-a-half hours. so right now exactly how this accident -- this crash happened is being investigated, some more to -- so more to come, back do you. thanks, kristin. the cone of irma is now narrowing. >> day 5, it's upwards. that shows you that we're starting to really narrow in on where this is going to be hitting. right now, miami is directly in the cross hairs of this storm. let's show you where this is right now. it is very close to grand turk island about 60 miles southeast of grand turk right now. that is the southeastern most portion of the bahamas. you see them right there, the little islands just to the north. you have haiti here, the

dominican republic, which dodged a big bullet. here we are with the turks and cacaos right in here, grand turk is going to get hammered, i think we'll see more devastating pictures over the next couple of days and really, all of the bahamas. this is going to run right on through. movement to the west northwest at 16 miles an hour. now, again, it was at 185, the difference between 175 and 185 not a lot and the pressure starting to come down again, down to 922 mill bars. that tells you the storm is incredibly strong. it takes it in between the bahamas and cuba as a category 4, 155-mile-an-hour storm and makes the turn to the north, makes the turn to the north by sunday 8:00 right on miami's doorstep at 145 miles per hour, that will be a devastating storm to the city of miami. right now they are under hurricane watch, west palm, notice how much here

southern third of the state now under hurricane watch, naples, fort lauderdale, up towards west palm beach area and the same areas along the coast have a storm surge watch, again, storm surge is what comes in off the ocean 5 to 10 feet and that's all on the east coast, the entire area of the ever glades and from naples, inland, about 50 miles. let's talk a little more about storm surge. amelia draper is in there, we know the winds are going to be a big factor here, storm surge and inland flooding by far kill a lot more people, let's talk a little more about storm surge. >> when you have this water rising, all of a sudden rushing in, it only takes a little bit of water to knock somebody off their feet and then cause injury. take a look at this graphic. it breaks down what the storm surge is. so think about a costal area, let's just say that this is irma, as it starts to make its way towards land, that's a wind driven rise of the ocean, so you have your tides

going to see the storm surge well above as we would see as high tide, 5 to 10 feet as far as the storm surge goes. good news, it looks like we'll be around low tide where we're expected to see irma move on in. it brings a lot of ocean water and a lot of flooding, doug, we know that this is likely going to be a huge issue for the southern part of florida. >> it could be worse case scenario. making its way right up the coast, right up through parts of jacksonville, as a category 3 storm. and then possibly into or around savannah or charleston and then up towards our region. we're not expecting too much in the way of storm impacts here, other than rain, maybe a little bit of wind. nothing damaging in our areas. beautiful weather here, friday, saturday, sunday, redskins play at 1:00, looking great for that game. yeah, chance of showers tuesday and wednesday as we track the remnants of irma. we're going to track this all afternoon, much more coming up

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tossing and turning, waking up of feeling tired and drained. >> sounds familiar. >> a new study just out today shows women feel like because they're sleep deprived. nbc's erika edwards looks at one cause at the trouble and what you can do to get a better night's sleep. >> it's an eye opening report on just how little women rest their eyes. the national center for health statistics says one in three women in their 40s and 50s do not get enough shut eye. many have trouble falling asleep. others can't stay asleep. >> their ability to function, focus and performance is definitely impaired when we have sleep depravation. >> hormone changes leading up to and during menopause appear to be a factor. trouble sleeping tends to increase the closer a woman gets to menopause. post

feeling refreshed. one way to drift off is to log off long before your head hits the pillow. >> we recommend that at least half an hour before bedtime, we need to take a break from electronic devices to be able to then fall asleep naturally about using medications. >> it's most adults get seven hours asleep each night, preferably eight, erika edwards, nbc news. >> we're not just talking about feeling tired in the morning. experts say not getting enough sleep is also linked to heart disease, diabetes and other health conditions. to learn more about the health risks search sleep in the nbc washington app. so we all just need to get a little more shut eye. 7 to 8 hours is what they're recommending. >> i don't think -- >> middle aged women get. >> i don't think you find a single man or woman in this building to argue with that. >> we're probably all sleep deprived. >> i'm telling you. first

the damage hurricane irma can do, not only is it destructive. it is deadly. >> we're tracking the storms every move for you. i'm going to go down and join doug in the storm cenr and gette

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now at 4:30, a killer storm has miami in its

at least nine deaths in its nearing turks and cacaos at this hour with current winds of 175 miles per hour. officials in florida say the hurricane will threaten lives from coast to coast. >> every florida family must prepare to evacuate, regardless of the coast you live on. we do not know exactly where this storm is going. >> the monster system will soon turn toward florida and it's that zone of uncertainty fanning out over both coasts of the state that makes this one, potentially, so dangerous. we could see already that this cone is already starting to narrow, if people haven't gotten now, might be getting too late. >> and that was some good news, maybe just off the coast of miami, i've seen that trend come right back inland, that is almost worse case scenari

there. we'll have the latest update, as you said, in 20 minutes. it is a monster of a storm. it is a huge storm, this is actually the entire length of florida, so once it moves in just about everybody in the peninsula florida is going to get hit at some time or another. take a look at the track here, as we move on through, it currently has winds at 170 miles per hour, moving west northwest, 155 miles an hour just off cuba. it makes that turn to the north, where it makes that turn is key, 145 mile an hour wind. it's going to hit right around miami. is it west of miami, east of miami. the cone itself, take a look at this, the cone itself --

are they all getting -- it's images like these, fuelling the urgency for millions in the strike zone. hurricane irma's first

>> i'm going to view that as a stance that it's barely habitable. >> destruction in puerto rico, too, and a million people left without power. after a glow, that's setting its sites on the bahamas. >> you could see a little bit of weakening as it interacts with lands and moves further north. irma is going to remain a dangerous hurricane for the next several days. >> that sense of danger setting in as residents all across southern florida get out. >> we're evacuating. >> mandatory evacuations in the keys, more than 30,000 have fled. the entire southern florida coastline under a hurricane watch. >> potential title surge could be 8, 9, 10, 12 feet, you saw that happen in houston. >> leaving stations without gas. >> we know fuel is very important. why we're making progress, you will see lines and outages unfortunately. >> and shelves barrel into the

>> it is too soon to know how north carolina will be impacted. but it is not too soon to get ready for it. so far most of you say you

>> they're taking their ford explorers off the road, after officers were complaining their suvs were making them sick. >> carbon monoxide was into the vehicles. it reveals police officers aren't the only ones reporting similar symptoms while driving their explorers. >> susan hogan joins us now news say their suvs are making them sick, too. you're going to meet susan, she's from white plains maryland, she's had a number of close calls, actually, falling asleep at the wheel. she thought her health was failing her. now she realized it may actually be her car. >> i woke up to a tree in my eye

scared me and i jumped. i could have either hit the tree or i could have hit the on-coming traffic and it was by the grace of god that my son and i did not die that particular day. >> so a news 4 consumer investigation exposes potential danger on the road and why some drivers claim ford is actually turning its back on its customers. so starting tonight, news 4 at 6:00, we're going to reveal what we learn and what you need to know to keep your family safe. we also have a carbon monoxiding to kolgist who went out who tested one of the vehicles and one of the viewers and something you're going to want to stick around to see. >> should they go get meters of their own to drive around with. >> carbon monoxide detecters that you get from your home should not be the ones that you use from your car. it's a really crazy story, for sure. >> thank you, susan. >>

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>> take a look at live pictures coming in from florida. this is i-97. as you can see there thousands of cars all trying to get out before the storm gets in. my car is one of the only ways left to get out there, because fort lauderdale international airport just announced, it is suspending its operations tomorrow. >> more than 4,000 florida national guardsman are being deployed. irma will likely hit the southern part of the state over the weekend. >> and it's already crushed the islands in the caribbean that is run over, at least nine people are dead. millions others have lost their homes. irma is tracking just north of the dominican republic today and now we're hearing it may not spare georgia or the carolinas. >> we've got you covered, doug and amelia have an updated look at just how major this storm is, and doug you're just getting the latest tracking. we understand it's not good news. >> unfortunately not good news at all. it's worst casena

areas around miami. here is the storm coming close to the turks and cacaos island about to make land fall on these small islands. they can see upwards of 15 to 20 feet of storm surge and most of the island are close to sea level, they're going to see tremendous flooding. irma has winds moving west northwest at 16 miles per hour. here is the latest track here, 1:55 around cuba, that's the same. here is the difference, notice the line now goes just to the west of miami, that is critical. that is where we're going to see the strongest winds on the east side of the path around the miami area, right up the coast. winds of 130 miles per hour. that's sustained winds. we could see higher wind gusts. i want to show you one computer model here, here is miami, this is at 11:00 on saturday night. 74 miles an hour, that's hurricane forced winds. we've got them in fort lauderdale and the miami

afternoon, though, into sunday morning. winds of 127 miles per hour, fort lauderdale. down through the miami area, west palm, low 60. i think this is way too low. i think they're going to be around that 100 mark, as well. this is the latest change. the earlier runs at fort meyer going to about 60 or 70, watch what happens around 100 miles an hour on the backside of this storm system as it moves on through. let's talk about the categories and what each one means. let's go to amelia right now, we're experience category 3 winds, amelia, you're going to talk a little more about that. >> we were fortunate enough to go to the university of maryland wind tunnel a few years back and experience what it was like to do with category 1, 2, 3 hurricanes. we didn't go higher than a 4 or 5 because that is impossible. that's the category 3, that's doug in a category 3. cut the camera off. we're done. you could barely hang on, guys, we

just a category 3. keep in mind that miami -- areas around miami likely seeing winds a little bit higher sustained for at least a few hours. so i want to take you through the impact this is going to have. so we use this wind scale. first, i want to talk about a category 1. you start to see maybe some branches and some leaves blown off. not a big deal. we're talking about minimum damage there. you open to category 2, you start to see larger branches and start to see the waves pick up. you start to see more damage. as we increase to a category 3, we're now talking about a major hurricane. remember, this is all that doug and i could take in the wind tunnel because of just how strong the winds were. with a category 3 hurricane, you maybe start to see some damage to your home. shingles blown off and then with a category 4 hurricane, the roof might come off your house. notice the trees and this image completely sideways. we're noticing that storm surge flooding, so this is the category we're talking about when irm

sunday morning. a category 4. if it was a category 5, that's the highest category. it does not go higher than that. in this category, basically what we say the homes are unhabitable or no longer existed for weeks if not months, doug. so really serious now. we're getting a better handle on the track and it's not changing. you've talked about the keys of miami all week. as you said earlier, i really like this, now is the time to leave. >> most definitely. as bad as the news is around the miami area. it's a little bit better to the north. they're starting mandatory evacuations up around portions of georgia. the track now, no longer it was back over the ocean and then actually strengthening again around savannah and charleston making land fall. but now it's category 1 hurricane of 90 miles an hour as it traverses the entire span of the peninsula here. that means everybody in florida is going to get hit, whether it's tampa, orlando, daytona,

jacksonville, less of an impact over towards the carolinas. it goes well to our west. that means for us this is the rain event as we make our way in towards next week. our forecast next couple of days, absolutely great weather here on saturday and sunday, temperatures in the 70s, we're tracking irma's rain tuesday and wednesday. >> lester holt is on the ground right now in miami, watch for a special coverage on nbc nightly news, that's ahead at 7:00 right after news 4 at 6:00. >> keep coming back to the people david culver was talking to with the tarps on their roofs now, boy. it's a major headache for drivers all across the area. >> jim hanley and wendy reeger are in the newsroom to explain. >> if you have ever had trouble finding your way around downtown, you'll probably notice this, there are a great number of street signs that are missing around dc. >> that's causing both confusion and congestion in a city that's a little confused and cong

something about that, tom sherwood has more on the cause to fix this problem. >> ahead at 5:00, new information related to a story we brought you a little while ago. it's good news for parents with children with food allergies. >> the reports of the safety of what are known as food challenges and how well they work in diagnosing those allergies. >> we'll see if those stories plus a good deal more coming your way in just about 8 minutes. >> all right. >> got it, guys, see you in just a bit. >> new at 4:00, the next step introduced a measure to remove confederate statutes from the u.s. capitol. right now there were statutes there of general robert e lee. jefferson davis and about ten other confederate figures. if the bill is approved, states will be able to reclaim their statutes or they will be given to the smith sonia and other museums. lawmakers propose that measure after the violence in charlottesville. >> as hurricane irma threatens pe

victims of hurricane harvey know all too well the damage that co

just coming in, a cyber security incident involving equifax potentially impacting upwards of 140 millions u.s. consumers, back to you guys. >> people in and around houston, texas have a long road to recovery, following hurricane harvey steps may be flooding. >> you have a big mess on your hands. more than 40,000 homes and 100,000 cars left damage, causing owners and insurers big bucks. >> people are coming home to loss. some of the covered by insurance, but most, not. she's lived in her home in northeastern houston for 25 years. >> when i was going

i saw my refrigerator was flooding. i tell my husband we have water in the house. i cried. >> she does not have flood insurance because her home is not located in a high-risk flood zone. it wasn't mandatory. she didn't think she needed it. >> i tried to get fema to help me a little bit. >> they also lost four cars, which after the deductible will be covered by farmer's insurance, just one example of a more than 30,000-claims, a third of them auto related, farmers has received so far. auto losses alone are expected to be in the billions of dollars. >> houston is a community that relies a great deal on their vehicles and we want to make sure that our customers aren't able to start the process of identifying and getting into the vehicle as soon as possible. >> it's still too early to know the full extent of the damage to homes

million vehicles or more could be damaged and not just personal ones, clear lake infinity had nearly 4 feet of water. >> the dealership loss around $8 million in inventory. so we're trying the to recover from that. >> auto insurance policies cover flood damage, home insurance plans generally do not. furniture and debris stacks up and awaiting removal, it's getting to work. contractors have already stripped the first floor and are busy making repairs. she can wrangle the money. it will all be over in a month. >> we already have the sheetrock, so we already ahead of the game. right now at 5:00, irma races color, island after island in the caribbean becoming part of the debris field as the monster storm bears down on governor, the governor tells people to get out now.

right now there are evacuation orders in place. they're being considered for parts of south carolina. >> all this after the devastation brought as the storm made its way across the caribbean. nine people dead, several islands devastated and fears of flooding and mudslides now in the dominican republic and haiti where it is headed next. >> we have team coverage for you this evening. david culver will have a live report from florida. we begin with doug in the storm center, doug. >> yeah, guys, the latest advisory that jusam