a.m. track has modified its schedules with some cancelled lines. no northeast trains running south of d.c. megan mcgrath has been talking to folks at dca. what are you seeing and hearing? >> well, we are seeing the travel impact already. more than 1,000 h flightsave been cancelled for today and tomorrow. when you look at the board here atio reagan nl airport, we're starting to see cancellations here as well. as hurricane florence barrels toward the canelinas, air are beginning to pull planes and cancel flights. charleston and raliegh already d ground yaman williams s wasposed to fly to ft. lauderdale at 8:00 p.m. tonight. he switched to a 10:00 a.m.

flight. >> we called jet blue to see if they could change it, and the changed it for free for us. >> airlines are waiving change fees in the areas impacted by florence. passengers should check f ght schedules before going to the airport. rail service has also been impacted. amtrak began cancelling trains on southern routes yesterday. a number ofce cations will continue to grow today through sunday. >> how long will we see the travel impact? that really depends upon what hurricane florence delivers. we're going to have to wait and .see on th certainly one thing to keep in mind, there have been a lot of e cancellations, when the weather improves, it's going to take a while to get things back to normal. >> it has a cascading effect, thank you. crews from our area are rushing down south to helps communithat are going to be impacted by hurricane florence. we were there yesterday as maryland task force one deployed to south carolina. crewsday, dominion energy

will head south so they can be in place to help after the storm. >> three bucket trucks like this one behind me are now on the way to that hurricane florence impacted region. once on the ground. dominion energy says theyil work as quickly as possible to restor power to those in need. right now on the way down are 12 people, who have a background in power restoration in bad storm ssystems like the o they're about to encounter on the ground there. they're taking these tee bucket you trucks as well as an auguster truck to help the journey down there. millions of people could be impacted by the storm. among the first priorities they're looking to restore power to critical aid agencies. >> police,fire, hospitals, 911 centers, water treatment cilities, water pumping

stations, homeland security. at the same time we're doi damage assessment, we're looking at the major transmission line damage. that's where you can get literally tens of thousands of customers back on by making those fixes first fp. >> as for how long this mission could last, the officials say that really depends on just how severe the impact is, and they just won't know until they have feir boots on the ground. in fairfax, justch, news 4. you can count on jim hanley toably you updates from the storm the rest of the week. >> the future of cardinal donald worrell's future lies in the hands of pope francis. cardinal worrell will a the pontiff to accept his resignation. a pennsylvania grand jury report suggests he did not do enough to protect people from predator

priests. since that report camout, there have been calls for pope francis himself to resign. we'll have more on the alleged cover up later in the hour. two developing stories, one in d.c.e where polay a man has died after getting hit by a car. he's been identified as johnson dorry of d.c. police say the driver of the car ond stay there on the scene. they're asking a who may have seen the accident to call another deadly crash overnight in the district. take a look at this, a woman was killed after the car that she was a passenger in crashed into a tree. this was at 18th and p streets in northwest d.c. that woman is keshia whitaker, she lives in southeast. three other people were injed in that crash. no word yet of what caused it. take a lookt this fire at

a high rise apartment. you can see the flames shooting out of an upper floor window. the fire went to two alarms, firefighters were able to knock down. medics treated one person and they're still trying to figure out how it started. hurricane florence is expected to stay to our south many butl we're st concerned about the rain. some of the problems our wet summer is already causing. and we hear from the 23578ly of a teenager who went out for a amda and never ce back.

right now, hurricane florence's heavy rains and tropical storm force winds are just starting to get north carolina's outer banks. the storm n expected to make landfall until tomorrow morning. we'll have more on florence and its impact here in a few minutes. six people are dead including a shooter, includingea sp shootings in bakersfield. the suspect then stole a car from a woman and child before taking his ownlife. no word yet on what led up to this. the sheriff's office plans to provide another update this afternoon manyd

now into this weekend and early next week. that's when we can could see the direct impacts. >> i just got off wt 45 seconds ago, i was telling them, the thing we're going to have to be concerned about from now all the way through many mid next week is coastals flooding, tha going to be the big deal we're going to have to watch, because even though this hurricane is well tohe southf us. it's going to meander down to the deep south. some of thore winds going to continue to push the atlantic water into the chesapeake, into the potomac and tributaries. we've already had enough rain. we can get an uptick a littlet. for us here at home, is it going to be a weekend washout? no, a lot of people ask me about the redskins games. a few showers and breezy as far as coastal flooding,

that's what i was talking about, that's going to be a concern for us. the remnants come through nt week. h turaycaghnendsouhr do, we may have to push that into tuesday/thursday time frame. the jury's still out on that, heavy rain possible once we get that movie through absolutely. this hurricane mask, the hurricane update just c out. it's now gone down a little bit in terms of wind speed at 105 miles an hour,t's about 145 milescoastline. a little bit as closer to the co i think the intensity is going to stay as is right know. >> there's a look at it right noew, s c sou yryeeland, all o the district right now. that's coming from florence at his moment. temperatures iths at this point, we're going to head to the low 80s

shs hee. thertoxpda eect could be a few sunshine, they're going to be few and farbetween. watch the direction of this rain, it's coming from the south and east, and moving to th a nort west. and those are some o rethneeina florence as we go through today. as we go through morrow. into saturday. into sunday. and then that moisture is we get into this is a massive hurricane just the sheer size of it isnough to wreak havoc all along the entire eastern seaboard. 11:00 a.m. update. moving northwest mt 10es an hour. category two as it hits, it's going to sit and h hang oute for a little while through south carolina, this is sunday, it hits tomorrow night, but still bringing lots of rain, it's going t' tos make this curs an area of high pressure is blocking us. here we are right now, it's going to be on tuesday morning.

we will watch for hea rain coming through on tuesday. we'll talk about the weekend forecast show you that coming up. from carmakers to plane disg businesses. a closer l impact after the break. pressure on the pope. pressure on the pope. why a meeting with bisho

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hurricane flore e is expected to slam into the hours,nas in less than 24 these are live pictures from surf city, north carolina. the wind has picked up, the rain started to fall. on b of thegest concerns is going to be storm surge, which is another way of saying all the water that the wind is pushing on shore. here's dylan dreyer with what the carolinas are preparing for. >> reporter: here iwe bee tal t that 9 to 13 foot storm surge. he first one after 11:00 p.m. tonight. the second one just after 11:30 friday morning. that's when we cld see water that high. and the last time that's happened in is hurricane hazel back in 1954, there's been a lot of development since then, there's

no real w mu thoch high winds and floodwaters could knock out power for several f days,ot longer. as the hurricane gets closer to south carolina, businesses area ng to prepare for potentially catastrophic damage. contessa brewer looks at how closing the state's largest port could impact moving forward. >> the preparations are intense here at the port of charleston as bmw moves thousands of cars carriers.e giant car they'll head out to sea and away from the risk of any form surge or flooding that hurricane morence might bring with it. they won'te any new cars in. the port is typically a busy place. in august, set records for the number of containers moved, up 16% over the previous august. >> the portcs the econo engine in the state.

one in ten jobs are t connected the port. every day we're down is a day that the produce of south carolina doesn't have access to thmarket.ven whether charleston is the bull's eye, flooding. charles ston floods with a few inches of rain in a general rainfall. the predepiction is inches or feet ofwater. >> what's going to happen to those secars? >> t cars are being exported. that's important for south shuttered as well.o just opened. mercedes-benz just opened a new sprinter factory this month. boeing has sent all of its workers home so they can evacuate with their families and sending any finished 787s, all the way to everett washington. >> whaigs yourst concern? >> standing here today about the next few days

>> really it's the uncertainty in the focast. the storm is going to be ticgnan forbo prepared for that to be us. >> preparation is so key. we'll have complete coverage of hurricane florence including how that storm could impact our area on the nbc washington app. turning now to another major ory, a critical meeting for the catholic church happening today at the tican. pope francis meeting with american cardinals and bishops. amid criticism of his handling of sex abuse cases here in the u.s. bill neely has the latest from rome. >> behind the closed doors of the tican. a u.s. delegation led by actional daniel den ar din ar ds detailing dades of sex abuse by s cardinal theodore mdccar rick w

archbishop of washington despit. the pope insisting abuse is thas realizes that the credibility of the church depends on rooting it out. allegations that the pope helped cover up abuse deserve an answer. >> i think many catholics, many faithful in the u.s. and beyond are looking for some answers. it doesn't necessarily have to come from the's po mouth. >> and soon cardinal don ald worrell will meet with the pope to discuss his resignatioioresit >> it's a question of uost importance. not only in countries where it's exploded, but all around the globe. >> the crisis is global and growing. a church report from germany details decades o sexual abuse

by more than 1600 priests of thousands of children. and a massivecor-up. one of the pope's top aides sail this week, i amounts to the church's 9/11. >> now, bill found out that today's meeting is expected to be no more than an hour in length. meanwhile, abuse survivors are being welcomed to this meeting, but they want action, not just talk. up next, the latest on how much rain we can expect for tile, wood, and stone, come to the nationwide low-price leader: floor and decor. if you love your wallet, and you love your home, you have to go. the pros come here; i come here. these guys are experts. hands down the best place for floors. no question. floor & decor. has the brands you want...oss fall fashion event nooo... yes. ...at "oh, yes!" prices. like that handbag for-wait-how much?

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we know rain is in the forecast next week. the concern now is flooding. one area to focus on, parking garages. >> take a look, lot of the rain that we've already had is causing rivers to ovflow, like

the potomac heras at e potomac park. now the concern is, if we get more rain, that's underground parking g garages could flooded. that has car owners a little worried. >> what happens is, when this heav rainfall,he ceiling wl is >> sherry henry lived here at the war, mu even though her parking garage is bnd new, there have been water issues. >> when it know, on a normal day, a lot of water gets down below. >> now, manement here advising residents that they to seek higher ground because of standing water inower portions of the garages. >> i want to hide my car in my apartment, if i could. >> instead, she'll just park on a higher level. this is what it looked like at

bwi marshall after 234r50ding. alexan department tells us if you are parked in an area that usually floods, higher is always better. there are no guarantees once the water starts rising. all of this could bon arn as we keep our eye to the sky over the next week. in the district adam tuss news >> i saw that firsthand yesterday, i was in old town, i watched the high tide come up and completely submerge the street. realizing how swollen our rivers already are. >> that's going to be the case. as we go over the next couple days. almost every high tide is going to bring some sort of flooding water to the region. it's going to get worse as we continue to have thisasrly flow. we get these east winds, they push a the water in the atlantic. that is why up into the

we see some flooding, coastal flooding around the region. take a lk at this monster of a hurricane. hurricane florence, the only ece of goodews i can give you, it's now down to a category 2 hurricane. don't concentrate on the category, the effects are going to be ever lasting. over 400 miles from end to end. we're seeing some cloud debris out of it. pegged to hit mill wing ton right around the beach area as a category 2 tonight. an ng northwest at 10 mil hour, the pressure is up a little bit, it's still an can seehurricane, you it dips into south carolina, and then as an area of low pressure starts tve around the appalachian. once it goes out of here, this is all through sunday. so this is all weekend that we're going to get a good amount of rain. then it's going twing up on the other side of the palachians and move moisture into our area. take a look at some of these totals.he

i sent to my friends from wilmington. 25 inches of rain through tuesday. now, you come up into the d.c. , arhat we're going to see by tuesday night, just a little over 3, there's going to be isolated areas that get a little more rain. again, we're seeing the cloud cover out of this already here in the district. we'reing a few isolated showers. current temperature out there right now in the70s, topping out around 80 degrees, watch, we're goingo haveaves of showers that roll through the area, and that's going to happen today overnight, tomorrow, through the weekend, not going to be a washout. but we are going to continue to have rain moving through the area all the way through the weekend. today low 80s, intermittent showers. some of those bands could be heavy. and then for the weekend, 79 on saturday, 83 on sund sun could be heavy at times, we get into monday and tuesday when the remnants pull through here. we'lp talk about that coming in 15 minutes. combing up, we're also

getting word of a new report that shows assaults on college campuses are o the rise. we'll test safety products from window alarms to a

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across thele country, c students are settling in for the new ye, some for the first time. the most recent government numbers are somewhat alarming, 37,000 crimes were reported on fmpuses in 2016.

jeff rossumnd some simple and affordable gadgets to help keep students safe. >> schoolust started and already reports of a sexual assault at oklahoma state university. >> everybody just literally got here wednesday, and aul sexual ashas already happened. in fact across the country violent crimes from hofstra to stanford, now these products and the free app designed to protect students. do they really work? we're headed to college do test them out. the university of san diego, ich has a good safety record. >>rt let's sta here inside one of the dorms and we're going to try out this prokd. it's the a dormnd apartment safety kit, it comes with a door a p, a personal alarm and window alarm. we're going to try this out, because it says that it can keep stud its safe hereide the dorm. we're going to come on in. how are youdoing, monica? >> great to see you.

>> we're going to try to install this and try it out, right? >> monica installs this small alarm quick and easy. just a sticky on the window. >> i'm growing to play the intruder here, this season thet creepyall. i'm going to open the wing doe and we're going to see what happens. >> it's loud much if i were an intruder i'd be out of here. you would add least know to get> out. he door stop. it's an alarm. let me show you how this works. you set it up on the inside. it will stop the door, but then e minute the door hits this, and that gets depressed, the alarm goes off really loud. it will stop them, plus wake you up. i'm going to flip it on real quick. door, going to close the put it under your door like you normally would. >> see ifhis works. pretty cool if it does. >> here we go, are you ady? >> it won't let me in a it's

really loud. >> that's definitely going to wake me up.ut >> this next app gs even further. and best of all, it's free. called noonlight, when you walk you keep your finger on the screen. if something happens you release. false alarm you have 10 seconds to enter your personal pin number. ifou don't, noonlight sends your exact gps locationsc and ption to the local police. campus police know we'rend ting a test, but they have no idea where on campus we are. we'll see if they can get our exact coordinates and show up. your finger is on that. takeour finger off. >> there's 10 second to location ur info and to police. >> if you don't provide your pin. >> moments later they're calling. >> awer the call. hello.

>> this is noonlight. i have your police alert. what is your emergency please. >> i think some dy's following me, but i don't know where i'm at. >> you don't know wre you're at. i'm showing you're on -- >> just like in a real emergency you hung up because you're scared. >> noonlight sends this screen to police with her name, photo and exact location. just minutes later -- [ sirens ] >> super fast, within a couple minutes if that. >> in a real emergency, how critical is it that you get this information? >> not only did i have the street name, but the intersection and the nearby building. >> simple gadgets to stay safe in school. >> jeff also says another really usef tip. be careful about posting your exact location on social media,

andhen you're walki alone on campus, tell a friend your exact route and when you expect to be home. this morning, there is a new warning about e cigarettee from fda. the government calls the device an epidemic among american teenagers. and now the fda is cracking down on retailers that sell the pructs to minors. they sent 1300 warning letters and gave manufacturer's 60 days with a plan to keep the project out of the hands of children and teenagers. of he disturbing trajectory use we're seeing in youth. and the resulting path to addiction must end. >> e cigarettes have lower toxia chemicals regular cigarettes, but higher amounts of nicotine, they've become pretty popular for people trying to quit cigarette smoking. teenagers are often attracted to

their flors and designs. come november, amazon will ship fresh full sizedis cas trees right to youroor. 27 million live christmas trees were sold last year. fewer than 2% were bought online. there seems to be some room for growth in that market. it remains to be seen how many shoppers are willing to give up the annual adventure ofg shoppin for just the right tree. for a lot of us, it's a family p outing,t of our core holiday tradition. others, not so much. they just want to get the trees. we'll have to wsee. ll take a look at what's being called the more affordable newip ne. and jimmy fallon is out of his studio with the great outdoors. studio with the great outdoors. a closerook l

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