>> niechlt breaking now at 11:00, time running out for florida. >> this storm is wider than our entire state. >> millions evacuating, but many choosing to stay and ride out a already deadly and

storm. >> hurricane irma has left a wide trail of einstruction in its wake. tonight thousands are stuck in it with another hurricane lurking. >> news 4 begins now with storm team 4. >> that cone of uncertainty that we've been hearing about for days is like a very large target tonight. the powerful and deadly hurricane taking direct aim at florida with the first to below in at this time tomorrow. we're covering a lot of angles. but we'll start in the storm center. >> has the track changed any in the last few hours. >> changed just a little bit. we talked about these variations. we're going to see small variations over the next couple days here. over the next 24 hours, when it makes landfall in florida, tomorrow into sunday. here's the first big change. saying i think it might hit

the computer model still bringing it along the cuban coast line and back into florida. this will help to weaken the storm a little bit. as it moved into cuba it strengthened. this is a very unpopulated invite cube and islands. that's very good news for them. it will move back up into a very populated area. let's show you the track. the latest advisory came out. it went up to a category 5. moving to the west at 13 miles an hour. this is a new track here. making its way up 5, becoming a 4 because of the interaction with cuba and moving up toward south portions of florida as a very strong category 4. across the keys, coming inland toward the naples reason, up toward fort myers and v

here's the hurricane warning that includes tampa, the entire southern third of florida under hurricane warnings. i'll show you what it means to miami, fort myers, tampa. i'll see you in 15. >> irma has killed at least 22 people in caribbean. some of the tourist hot spots decimated by the storm are reporting looting and incurring occur fuse. 5.6 million people are under evacuation orders. >> reporter: sunset on the edge of irma, a quiet evening ahead of what forecasters say would be a catastrophic weekend. >> hurricane irma continues to be a threat that will decimate the united states. >> reporter: florida is the primary target that stretches across a area bigger than the state. home improvement stores are running out

grocery store shelves are empty, too, as preparations continue. >> you got to be ready. the price you pay for living in florida. >> reporter: there are concerns the cost of this storm could be overwhelming. >> we are running out of time, if you are in a evacuation zone, you need to go now. this is a catastrophic storm that the state has never seen. >> officials have launched what could be the largest mass evacuation in u.s. history, 5.6 million urged to leave. but getting out is getting more difficult. airports are closing, bus routes cancelled. >> we can't get to the eta on the bus. >> roads are packed and gas is tough to find. south beach is virtually empty. there are some who decided to stay. >> we're going to hang out, hunker down. >> a

forecasters warn nothing about irma will be easy. news 4 david culver continues our coverage with a eerie seen in the miami area tonight. >> reporter: if you've gone to south beach, you've probably never seen it look like this on a friday night. david, what's the story there? >> reporter: both of you have been down here to south beach and you know normally on a friday night, during beautiful weather, you wouldn't be able to drive down ocean drive like we are. you wouldn't be able to pull up here in front of the clevelander and be able to park. a beautiful night, this pace would be packed. but this is the reality ahead of irma. as i get out here. give you a sense of thing. lot of folks here have decided to go ahead and oe bliej to the emergency evacuation, the mandatory evacuation, most of them decided to leave. we caught up

who decided to come by and check out what it's like in such a december lit environment. >> it was like i had the whole beach to myself. it was amazing. i could get use to it for a day or two. then i'm going to be like come on people, come on back. >> reporter: bring the life back. >> after. this is amazing energy. the hurricane will not take that away, the beach is my own. i'm not going to let a hurricane run me away. >> reporter: most of them are media, police making patrols, then you notice right here there are businesses who have decided to shield themselves from anything that irma may bring. we are just 100 or so feet from the beach. the reality is they could feel some of the strong impacts here. for the most part, this is a beach, it is

only word that comes to mind. >> if you have been to south beach, you really understand what he's talking about. david, do you get the feeling that there's more anxiety or less anxiety as the storm gets closer? >> reporter: it's kind of a mix. for the most part i think people who have decided to stay feel like they have stocked up enough. but you still see as we were coming here to south beach, the lines at the gas station, and there are limited gas stations, the reality is some of these lines will still sit for about 45 minutes, and that's if you can fined a station that has gas. that's the struggle as folks decide whether to stay or go. for the most part, many that have decided to stay are just trying to hunker down and do their best. >> you can't outrace the storm at this point. >> all right david. we appreciate that. stay safe down there. folks you'll see a lot more of david o t

ready for irma's landfall, he'll be tracking the storm from florida. don't miss his live reports. tonight one person is dead after a food truck that used to be a school bus crashed into a car in loudoun county. the accident happened on ever green mills road before 5:00, three adults inside the food truck were treated with minor injuries, but they had to remove the bus from on top of the car. there were five people there inside the car, they were trapped more than two hours. one of them died. the other four, a adult and three kids, were all taken to the hospital. no word yet on their condition or what caused that crash. a pregnant mother of two was set on fire today. and even with her body badly burned, she was able to del prince george county it wa h

>> he's a coward. he's less than a man. walk away. if you don't want the responsibility, walk away. >> arthur green i go says his daughter andrea is in critical condition and delivered her baby seven weeks early. he said his granddaughter is doing okay. check out the picture of the damage inside the apartment in capitol heights. tonight the victim's sister talked about seeing her in the hospital. >> walking into to see your sister burned, her face all the way down to her feet. imagine that happening to your family. police credit the victim with helping them track down the man who did this. >> police say no sign of another pregnant woman. wallen's family hasn't heard from her. we

latest development, a big mystery. >> reporter: she is deeply alarmed that her friend's suv was found across the street. she's determined to stay focused on a positive outcome. >> that girl has the biggest heart in the world. this is just -- she would be the bottom of my list to expect anything like this to happen. >> reporter: she has a strong bond with laura wallen, one that comes with being high school steechers together. she said they talked just last friday, the day before wallen was last seen, excited about the start of school and her pregnancy. but wallen, a dedicated award winning teacher failed to show up for the first day of school. concern has sky rocketed, her black fordscape was pound, it's not far from the high school

close to mary weather post paw vivian. >> it's heartbreaking. it's hard to figure out what to do, what to say. i've been calling her cell phone and texting her and sending her message. just like juan of these times she's going to answer. >> the montgomery county police investigation appeared to respond after going in and out of her condo. >> a attribute to this teacher, her students are going to gather tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 and set out on their own to look for her. live in columbia. thank you. new at 11:00, a judge has delayed a key decision affecting the georgetown branch trail and the purple line. a temporary restraining order was filed to stop tree cutting on the trail and reopen parts of it. a judge was

the order today but will wait until a hearing later this month. the trail is he is enclosed for purple line construction but groups have gone to court to stop the project. >> this is a metrobus driver caught reading a paper while driving a bus full of people. the passenger said he was turning the page while he was driving. he tweeted the video to metro. the agency apologized and identified the driver and pulled him off the road and there's a investigation under way. >> the damage that irma has already done, a local woman waiting for word about the safety of her sister. >> just the conditions that she is in with not being able -- the basic needs of being able to take care of herself and not going when we're going to get her. and how's this for a friday

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resort in the caribbean. >> she's my baby sister. and we just want to get her home. >> reporter: al is and her husband flew from north carolina to a romantic get away from married couples at oyster boy. >> you see the text message, she didn't want to worry anyone else. >> reporter: she sent this video early morning, the hotel told guess its to evacuate. she said her sister couldn't get a flight out. >> she has to leave, the text message says we're going to try to make a run for it. >> reporter: irma destroyed saint martin, dense talked to her sister this morning for a

to get us off of the island. >> reporter: now she's concerned about the hurricane jose. >> you talked to the state department. >> my understanding they were trying to bring a plane in but the airport is demolished. there's no more shelter for them. >> reporter: news 4. >> they have to repair the airport to get planes in because jose's coming in. that has to be the definition -- >> so frightening. to be in the path of the storm where it's already hit and where it's coming. >> and jose category 4, could be a 5, just to the north of those islands now. for us, right now we're tracking hurricane irma in cuba. there it is. if it makes its way inland a little more, we can see

weakening. that would be good news. i was looking at a satellite picture. this is a very unpopulated area of cuba right in here. these are called the cuba keys. not a lot of land year. there's a lot of islands associated with this. this may not weaken at all. but on the back side should become pa category 4. ist was strengthing as it was coming into cuba. here's the official forecast, as i understand of 160 miles an hour, moving to the west at 13 miles an hour. >> if it stays west, it moves into the island, weaken just a bit, but expected to stay on a north westerly track, coming into the florida keys, making land fafl, sunday morning, 150 miles an hour hurricane, that is a devastating hurricane to the florida keys, and then this is new, this is what we talked about, that shift to the west. the longer it

the father west it goes, this brings it over naples and fort myers at 130 miles an hour. now, a little better for the miami area. i'm going to show you what i'm talking about. it'll be the northeast quadrant, yes incredible amounts of storm surge in and around the miami area, especially harnd homestead, the wind 170 miles an hour in key west, and coming into the key west area, 97 key west, 65 in miami, early sunday, then 127 in key west, 90, there is the center of the circulation coming right through naples, naples goes over 127 miles an hour, gusts could be higher than this, close to 100 around the miami area. miami downtown may not see the strongest wind, it may be in the western zone here. but the entire southern portion of florida under hurricane warnings and watch ex pends from daytona beach to the tampa area. and a storm surge warning all the

florida from tampa to fort piercing, some of the latest numbers, 8 to 12 feet of storm surge, especially around the naples area and into the everglades, down toward homestead, a lot of homes in the homestead area which was hit so hard by andrew in 1992. after this it moves through the state of florida, over tampa, weakness to a tropical storm toward southern georgia, and then moves in towards portions of the tennessee river valley here. for us, we're not going to see much of it at all. maybe shower activity next tuesday. this will not be a big factor for us. a lot of people continue to ask me about that. our weather looking great t-saturday and sunday perfect for the redskins opener, 1:00 game there as we take on the eagles. 75 degrees on monday, there's a chance of showers on tuesday. we'll stay on top of this next couple days, there could gill be some

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this is the xfinity sports desk. >> it was the big night for one nat player. >> chris myers joins us from the csn studio. couple crazy place. >> a inside the park, hope run, it's rare. taylor was on the losing end of

tonight the nats put up statistics that most people hope to get in a entire week, two singles, triple, stolen base, outfield sift and a grand slam inside the park. he wasn't the only national chasing rare ified air. the phillys down 3-2. herrera shows off the hospitals doesn't get the hospitals. he misses the ball. jogs over casually. going a thousand percent clear, beats the throw. first time it happened in the majors since taylor gave up one a year ago. that wasn't enough t. curtis smacks a home run, just a triple -- 9-4. taylor getting the job done on defense, too. guns

4-7 taylor. also finish a double away from the cycle, five runs, nats win by that single one 11-10. >> where does this ball game rank for you overall. >> probably number one right now. that was -- that was pretty cool. thank everybody for making it better for me, cheering me on and everything. you guys got loud today. appreciate you guys coming ou. >> shook up the college football world last saturday with the texas size upset. maryland will play their first home game of 2017 at noon on saturday. switched roles from the hunter to the hunted as the favorites over their smaller in-state foe. >> the way we've prepared and the way this program goes about itself, we're prepared to fight adversity.

allows us to be more equipped. there's a lot of things we did poorly last week we have to improve on this week. i think to have that mentality to keep improving as a team each week is how you avoid that let down. >> a maryland player you just heard from, his al ma matter, back-to-back state champs. in the same old winning formula. smith, off and running, 59 yard, swarm of hornets. second quarter, four touch downs for him, this one 65 yards. damascus wins 42-7 over sherwood. open the season sunday at 1:00 against the eagles.

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