i'm anne-marie green. >>> it has been one week since hurricane maria hit puerto rico. this morning for many of the 4 million americans who live there, the situation is desperate and conditions are getting worse. food and water is out and fuel and the hospitals are crippled and the main airport is barely operating. meanwhile the trump administration is responding to criticism it simply is not doing enough. we begin with david begnaud in san juan. >> reporter: after maria hit with a vengeance mayor yulin cruz is neeping help. >> i know leaders are not supposed to cry but we are having a humanitarian crisis. >> reporter: jesus's cancer took a turn for the worse the same day maria hit. his wife lucette. >> i try to open the doors, the windows, but it's not easy. >> reporter: roughly half the island has no water. fema says it has the supplies it needs with more aid coming, but there are huge challenges for delivery. >> we have no trucks, no roads. we need to bring everything via airplane or via barge. >> reporter: but the mayor says it's coming in too slowly. she told us fe

now they're getting a direct hit from maria. sheena can attest, these storms, 100 miles makes all the difference. two in two weeks, trouble. >> really bad. especially around the center. that's where we have the strongest winds and anyone who takes that direct hit is going to be devastated. >> next up for maria will be puerto rico. i know they're rushing to complete the plans life and property down there. for us, a little fog this morning. three-mile visibility in frederick, maryland. five miles in leesburg. temperatures are comfy. we're well above average. our average low temperature down to 60 degrees. we're some 5 to 10 degrees above average. any rain chances are confined to the eastern shore. one or two raindrops might make it on to the western shore of the bay. i have a little precautionary tale of a sprinkle or two possible mainly east of i-95. most of us don't need to worry about it. the clouds around it. maybe a grazing of a sprinkle or two east of i-95 by mid to late on this afternoon. in the 80s. dave dildine, there's mo

he was already talking about puerto rico before maria hit. he was constantly in contact with me. my impression is he has done the same thing with the governor. i can tell you their issue now is goods have gotten into that port. i was talking to shippers, and they were saying we don't have more room in the port to take stuff. i said, we have a lot of people here that want to give. they say, we don't have room because the port is full. we've got to get that stuff out of the port. that is one thing we need. behind that when the generators. that's behind that we need to generators -- behind that we need to generators. the issue right now down there is you got to get stuff out of the ports. i know the governor's focus. everybody to be as helpful as possible. let us all member we are in the middle of a crisis. the island is in the middle of a crisis now. 95% of people without power. let's focus on everyday what we can do to fix this. we are to step back and say, how can we do this better? i think we work hard, but i'm sure there's something we can do better. >> the president urged or a

before hurricane maria hit, virginia task force one before hurricane maria hit, virginia task force one before hurricane maria hit, virginia task force one shored up dams in puerto rico, and boarded up homes. afterward, the task force rescued and evacuated people. this morning republicans are vowing to press on with their latest obamacare repeal bill, despite another "no vote". late monday senator susan collins of maine became the third republican to oppose the legislation -- effectively killing it. collins' decision came just minutes after the congressional budget office projected that quote "millions" of americans would lose health insurance if the bill becomes law. becomes law. and a dramatic scene before a hearing on the "graham-cassidy bill". senators waited as capitol police dragged opponents of the measure, many of them disabled, from the committee room. this morning, capitol police say officers arrested 181-protes today virginia senator tim kaine will speak on the senate floor against the health care repeal bill. we'll be talking with the democrat before that speech. don't miss

overnight maria hit the u.s. virgin islands. o's governor warns residents maria could hit with a force and violence not seen in generations. the island is expected to lose power and communications. >>> well, long before the special council began investigating the russian meddling election, paul manafort was the target of an fbi investigation. as jeff glor reports it included electronic surveillance of the former trump campaign chairman. >> reporter: cbs news learns the aicueillance on paul manafort urrredocas d according to the former u.s. officials, it included intercepts about the campaign. it included conversations between man fort and mr. trump. the recordings are now part of robert mueller's special on atstin wig >> i answered questions, and i've been dismissed. >> reporter: just last week manafort spokesman jason maloni appeared before a grand jury. jy rtedicki theks to gein whi hs asle in >> how would you characterize it? >> very aggressive. >> reporter: peter seidenberg is a former federal prosecuting attorney. he says in

at least one person has died as hurricane maria hit the island of guadeloupe, and there are reports ofa, where there were torrential rain and winds of more than i60mph. maria is now heading towards puerto rico and the british virgin islands, from where our correspondent jeremy cooke reports. she is a mighty force of nature, barrelling in from the atlantic. hurricane maria hit guadeloupe hard, the french authorities talking of extremely violent winds, ordering people to stay indoors. in martinique, too, high winds and heavy rain, as the hurricane eye passed within 30 miles. widespread flooding. but perhaps the worst so far has been dominica, conditions so bad, hardly any pictures have emerged. an unverified video posted while the lights went off. the church roof — blown in. my neighbour's roof — gone. even the prime minister could not escape the storm, posting on facebook. .. right until the last minute today, these shattered communities have been doing their best to prepare. if irma was a knockout punch, what is predicted next feels like a low blow. i'm homeless... for francine, it is

hit. hurricane maria slamming into the island, and as you heard, one official saying, the island is destroyed.he first category o hit there in nearly a century. 150-mile-an-hour winds ripping buildings apart, knocking out power everywhere. all of the electricity is out tonight. people ordered to stay inside until at least tomorrow amid fears of more massive flooding to come. and the satellite image tonight dwarfing the island. no part of it was spared. abc's victor oquendo leading us off from san juan tonight. >> reporter: tonight, maria's direct hit, devastating puerto rico. the first category 4 storm to strike puerto rico in 85 years,. >> we are back here on the northern side of san juan here. i can only imagine what went down when this thing made landfall on the southeast corner of this island. obviously, the eye getting closer and closer to us, that eye wall now scraping the northern beaches there. >> reporter: roofs peeled from buildings. debris flying. structures collapsing.nches of areas, engulfing whole neighbors. michelle torres using everything she can to keep the water out. >> the win

nine people in the caribbean were killed before maria hit puerto rico as a powerful cat 4 storm today. just two weeks ago after hurricane irma punished the region. we have fox team coverage tracking maria and those things behind maria. >> reporter: yeah. right now let's just focus on maria. certainly maybe a little bit of a break right after this. it hit the other virgin islands. the eye wall going right over saint croix. also vieques. tracking across puerto rico. the wind gusts, 137 miles per hour on puerto rico and st. croix. rain incredible. pictures coming out from the flooding across puerto rico is incredible. it made landfall at 155 mile an hour. it spent a lot of time over land. it's weakened a little bit here. that said, structure still intact. gonna move back over water almost immediately here. center of it likely off shore. going to continue to pull off to the north. things here on out are looking better. this is a future model. most of the action, worst of winds will remain east of turks and caicos. they'll have strong wind. turks and caicos battered by irma. hurricane warn

his cancer took a turn for the worse the same day maria hit.e. >> i am trying to help him, you know just in the night. trying to, open the doors, open the, the windows. but, it's not easy. >> reporter: roughly half of the island has no water. and the wait for essentials is excruciating. fema says it has supplies it need with more aid arriving. but there are huge challenges to delivering it. alex de la campa is fema's director for the caribbean. >> because there is abisland, there are no trucks or roads. airplane or via barge. >> reporter: but the mayor says it is coming in too slowly. only yesterday she told us fema asked her to write a memo requesting what she needed. >> i don't have freaking energy to write a memo. >> or the time? >> i'm out there, saving lives. so, we ned to our [ bleep ] together here. and help me to get it into people's hand. now, not tomorrow. not later. now. >> reporter: help is on the way. the u.s. military is sending the naval ship comfort, a military hospital. but it might not be here until next week. tonight puerto r

. >> reporter: one week after hurricane maria hit puerto rico, it is still in dire need of the essentials. i'm hanna doba with more on the response from the white house. >> ♪ >>> were you looking at me. >> i was because they are playing press would i man. press would i man is making a come back but not in movie theaters. please tell me you have seen this movie. >> yes. >> also this weekend i watching noting hill i'm in a julia roberts kind of mood anyway. >> i believe you have more information on this fan favorite, later. >> we sure do, in gotta tell you, we will be right back. >>> welcome back. cameras captured tense moment a crash of a bus swerving and kid running there through a group of students in connecticut. the bus driver who control after colliding with another car, this happened last week. police say it appears the driver of the silver car crossed a double yellow line hitting a bus. three people were injured in the crash and they are expected to be okay. >>> one week after hurricane maria slammed puerto rico the island is still struggling to pick up pieces. >> as cbs news corres

before maria hit puerto rico, the u.s.erritory's governor warned people to take cover or get out if they could. people who were able to get flights out of san juan to miami yesterday said they escaped just in the nick of time. >> i made it out of san juan, puerto rico, before the bad news coming from hurricane maria. >> you had everybody leaving from the bvi, people leaving from the usvi, but i'm glad to to be in miami now. >> they were among the last to get out before the airport closed. now to tropical storm jose. >>> that's video from north wildwood. you see the waves overnight stirred up by the storm. and the tropical storm's action off the coast is churning up the surf as we saw. with another high tide in less than two hours, the jersey shore is watching for flooding. here's a live look at avalon. cape may county. you see how rough the surf is there. high tide expected between 8:00 and 9:00 at the beach. a little later than that along the back bays. high tide last night, look at this guy here. kayak i kayaking in the

with the president before maria , we it was in south florida were talking about puerto rico before maria hit. my impression is [inaudible] is, they are saying they don't have any more room in the ports. we have a lot of people who want to give but we don't have room. we have to get the stuff out of the poor. ports.t of the , the president was helpful. i know the issue is you have to get stuff out of the ports. i want everybody to be as helpful as possible. 95% of the people, we are asking what can we do to fix this? how can we do this better. we work hard and i'm sure there is stuff we can do better. can you talk about your meeting with him? 2018 -- my job right now is getting my stay back to work. so many members of puerto rico nation say they are ,rustrated we call up our emergency team alley of the national hurricane center, we are relying on their constant updates. i had a positive experience. this year they have been trying -- whatus figure out they are doing is looking at the day after irma to see how big the numbers were. >> thank you, everybody.

this is what it looked and sounded like when maria hit puerto rico early yesterday morning. the fury of the winds ripped palm trees and blew down doors in the rain flooded streets. katy, local people have been left unable to contact their loved ones on the island. >> you can imagine how nerve wracking it is for them. some of the images are just jaw dropping, the amount of damage this storm has caused. it's leaving people in our area incredibly nervous because they cannot confirm if their loved ones on the island are okay. here are some of the most recent images from the island after the hurricane made landfall. people there are knee deep in water. this storm dumped nearly two feet of water there and the entire island is without power. it's the strongest storm to hit there in more than 80 years. a 24 hour curfew was lifted only a few hours ago so people, emergency responders are just now getting out on to the streets to assess the damage. they're assessing how many have been injured or killed. communication is extremely difficult but we were able to speak with a journalist wh

hit by a powerful earthquake. dozens of people have died. many buildings have collapsed. more devastation in the caribbean. we report on the path of hurricane maria, which has already hit the islands of guadeloupe and martinique. after the terror attack in london, a third man has been arrested in newport, south wales. and in tonight's football, england's women coast past russia in their opening world cup qualifier. coming up in sportsday on bbc news, i'll have details of a century forjonny bairstow as england ease to victory over the west indies in the first one day international at old trafford. good evening. president trump, in his first address to the general assembly of the united nations, has threatened north korea with destruction, if america or its allies are threatened. he said that pyongyang's desire for nuclear weapons threatened the world, and he mocked its leader, kim jong—un, as a "rocketman" on a suicide mission. president trump also took aim at the iranian leadership, describing it as a corrupt dictatorship that exported violence. our north america editor, jon sopel, reports from new york. donald trump is used to being the centre o

overnight maria hit the u.s. virgin islands. ico's governor warns residents maria could hit with as for and violence the kun island has not seen in generations. >>> paul manafort was the target of an fbi investigation. as jeff glor reports it included electronic surveillance of the former trump campaign chairman. >> reporter: cbs news learns the surveillance on paul manafort occurred last year. according to the former u.s. official it included intercepts about the campaign. it included conversations between man fort and mr. trump. the recordings are now part of robert mueller's special investigation which appears to be intently focused on man fort. just last week manafort spokesman jason maloni appeared before grand jury. in july they raided his condo by reportedly picking the locks to get in while he was asleep. >> how would you characterize it? >> very aggressive. >> he says investigators may be pressuring manafort to give up information in exchange for leniency. >> what to prosecutors do to pressure someone to cooperate sf. >>

maria hit puerto of first responders were already on the ground this morning, they are finally back in their own beds. virginia task force one deployed to the island early, to help the island to help shore up dams and board up homes. after it hit-- they helped rescue distressed residents. virginia task force 1 also deployed to houston after hurricane harvey. members of maryland task force are now on the ground in puerto rico. we've been following along on twitter- as they performed searches - and surveyed damage in remote areas. we'll continue to follow their efforts on air and online at wjla.com happening now-- the battle over a new effort to repeal the may be over. not long after these protesters were detained inside a hearing on the "graham-cassidy bill"-- a third republican senator came out against it. that effectively kills it-- ahead of an approaching dealine. stacey cohan has more. developing now... the former tennessee police officer arrested near the white house with a lot of weapons has a history of mental illness. timothy bates made a brief court appearance monday. investiga

at least one person has died as hurricane maria hit the island of guadeloupe, and there are reports ofre was torrential rain and winds of more than 160mph. hurricane maria is now heading towards puerto rico, as well as the british virgin islands, from where our correspondentjeremy cooke reports. she is a mighty force of nature, barrelling in from the atlantic. hurricane maria hit guadeloupe hard, the french authorities talking of extremely violent winds, ordering people to stay indoors. in martinique, too, high winds and heavy rain, as the hurricane eye passed within 30 miles. widespread flooding. but perhaps the worst so far has been dominica, conditions so bad, hardly any pictures have emerged. it's rough in dominica, boss. an unverified video posted while the lights went off. the church roof — blown in. my neighbour's roof — gone. even the prime minister could not escape the storm, posting on facebook. .. here in the british virgin islands, we are getting the first taste of what is to come, with these squalls passing over. these communities know full well the damage that can be caus

nearly a week since hurricane maria hit and nearly 60% of the island is without water.lectricity is still out, and food and fuel are in short supply. people at san juan's airport are desperate to leave. fema is sending thousands of additional troops and a navy hospital ship heading to help out hospitals currently running on backup generators. >> i need to get out of here. why, because we feel desperate. >> it's not just me. this is not where i planned to be or wanted to be during, you know, the first two weeks of my baby's life. >> going to take months and months, maybe a year to get everything back to normal. >> more help is also on the way. more than 90 humanitarian flights are going to puerto rico every day. you can join the effort to help the victims of hurricane maria. just call the american red cross at 1-800-596-6567. the number will be scrolling at the bottom of the screen. you can go to the nbc10 app to learn how to donate through the american red cross. >>> the republican effort to repeal and replace obamacare is dead. at least for now. senate republicans anno

so parts of the europe may get hit with very strong wind and rain. here's maria tropical storm, you can see bands of rain coming around, most outer edge and that is likely to also, bring us a little band of showers at some point later today. scatter, spotty, most will stay dry but that is worth a mention. that storm is still expected to make that sharp right-hand hook and head out to sea because of this guy, this front dropping it, potent trough not necessarily very moist tour, it is somewhat moisture starved, but it will knock temperatures back in the big way as well. it serves two pretty important purposes. to income back the heat and humidity and also help steer maria away. current temperatures in the lower 70's from i-95 on south way cooler further north and west you go. we have fog issues. note is where that cooler air is moving in the twin cities, you are a far cry from where even chicago is right now. that tells you where that front is marching through. eighty-seven is our official high, we have come close to the record, i don't think we will get there but

jesus garcessoto's cancer took a turn for the worst the same day maria hit. his wife, lyssette. >> i'm trying to help him, you know, just in the night, trying to, you know, open the doors, open the windows, but it's not easy. >> reporter: roughly half of the island has no water, and the wait for essentials is excruciating. fema says it has the supplies it needs, with more aid arriving, but there are huge challenges to delivering it. alex de la campa is fema's director for the caribbean. >> and because we are an island, there's no trucks or roads that we can bring comommities. so everything had to be-- we need to bring everything via airplane or via barge. >> reporter: but the mayor i only yesterday, she told us fema asked her to write a memo requesting what she needed. >> i don't have freaking energy to write a memo. >> reporter: or the time. >> i'm-- i'm out there saving lives. so we need to get our (bleep) together here. and help need to get into people's hands now. not tomorrow, not later, now. >> reporter: help is on the way. the u.s. military is sending

maria was the first category 4 hurricane to make a direct hit on puerto rico in 85 years.ast month hurricane harvey was the most ferocious rain storm ever recorded in the continental u.s. is this the new normal? scott pelley has a look for 60 minutes. >> no one died on bramblewood drive, but lives were lost. the lives we measure in memories. the bike that taught the kids how to flight the perfect dining room chairs, the letter jacket they can't believe they saved all these years. 14831 bramblewood in west houston is the shields' place. vince shields rolled his family history to the curb. and dumped decade after decade. >> my wife is a seamstress. these are probably her patterns that she had through high school and on up. we lost a lot of personal pictures. but, most of, most of this, you know, i won't have to have a garage sale. you know. >> shields who retired from shell has lived on bramblewood 16 years. here is a water line. so i am 6'2. >> the water line is -- is tall as you are. >> it is. >> 6'2." >> he had never seen water in the house. the flood start to drop after

territory is still without power five days after how dick and maria hit medical services are in a critical condition residents are being told it may take months to fully restore services well how to going maria has killed more than forty people across the caribbean most of those deaths were reported on the tiny island of dominick. is there. approaching domenica from the shoreline the first signs of a battered country on shore at the port the picture is clear. when the cruise frantically unload water some of the first aid to reach the island all week but as we'll find out later it's not nearly enough a group of dominique ansel live abroad have reached the island to rescue family members bring in supplies and they get a first glimpse of a home landed ruins i love this country i know it's devastating for me was. he at least knows his family is alive but not everyone is so lucky they started going through. a lot so i lost my niece my niece my brothers and not in a critical condition i haven't seen my daughter. through all the old girl i don't want to say again with both airports shut down peop

the most powerful storm to hit puerto rico in nearly 90 years. hurricane maria knocked power throughout the entire island. destroyed hundreds of homes and causing widespread destruction across the capital of san juan. the storm made landfall early wednesday as a category four hurricane pummeling the u.s. territory. to rivers.e turned trees torn from the ground. >> this is absolutely the worst. we have lived in the puerto rico for the last 30 years. we have experienced some. none of them were as intense as this one. >> at least 10 people have lost their lives since maria swept into the caribbean. comes at arico it sensitive time. the government is struggling. infrastructure already cumberland -- crumbling. passage has been downgraded to a category two hurricane. theme storm bears down on next. it's expected to make landfall early thursday morning. protests in france against the president's overhaul of labor rules. today's marches, week after hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated across france against the plan. that is the first challenge to macron since he

at least one person has been killed in a second category five storm to hit the caribbean and a month ok maria has made landfall over several islands with two hundred sixty kilometers an hour winds a french island was hit by the storm neighboring dominican was also hit and the country's prime minister describes their destruction as mind boggling as heading towards puerto rico now from where gallagher reports. as hurricane maria bore down on the caribbean island of dominic its prime minister said we dare not look out maria hit as a category five with sustained winds of two hundred sixty kilometers per hour but slides and widespread damage and now a major concern for prime minister roosevelt skerritt described the effects of the hurricane as hallucinating and was himself rescued as the storm plowed across the island taking to social media he said his people have lost what money can buy and replace and now fears that people may have been killed north of dominated the french island of guadalupe was also pounded by the powerful storm it's still recovering from hurricane but officials say the scale

maria is -- may hit 90. maria storm, about 150 miles east of hatteras moving north at 7. the good news is by tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening it starts to turn right as a tropical storm. there are tropical storm warnings along the coast of north carolina. we could see a wind gust in ocean city of 35 miles per hour tomorrow. by thursday in the afternoon it's making almost a beeline straight east across the atlantic. that's about all we could hope for. yes, we'll have some rough surf and rip currents all week, but she's not going to make landfall in the continental state. right now 78. we have a heat index, feels like 80. winds northeast at 9. so bust stop temperatures 64 to 76 -- bus stop temperatures 64 to 76, hot again tomorrow, 85 to 90, not as warm thursday, much cooler friday and then i'm going to call it chilly over the weekend. i think by the time we get to saturday after we experience tomorrow it's going to feel a little bit chilly. so fall will finally make appearance. 88 tomorrow, 82 thursday and then boom, 75 friday, only 69 on saturday and only 70 on sunday

hurricane maria hit the big island of st. croix with 175-mile-an-hour winds. maria, as you see there, continues across puerto rico right now. eye has passed but still hitting them. it's weakened, fluctuating between category 2 and 3. it's heading to the dominican republic then turks and caicos. into friday. but in puerto rico it's dark, there's considerable damage, thousands in shelters and more than 3 million americans in the dark luis rivera marin, secretary of state of puerto rico, joins us. by phone. i'm sorry for what you're going through tonight. >> it's tough times but knew dealing as you well summarize with the rainy weather that's still with us. because of irma, we had soils saturated. i'm currently dealing with a situation where we have around 40 families on the rooftops in a low-lying town. i'm currently trying to get the national guard there. i did get a call from one of the residents that knows me. and this is happening around the island as you well said. communications is becoming a challenge. and we of all the wireless carriers in the island, onl

we have the latest developments on two big stories, hurricane maria, one of the strongest hurricanes ever to hitnd the devastation for mexico's deadliest earthquake in decades. >> let's start with hurricane maria. the storm has unleashed fierce winds in puerto rico. this video shows when the storm made landfall. the storm ripped trees out of the ground and drenched the area with rain. this is a live look at maria on first alert radar. it's barrelling toward the dominican republic. the storm expected to slam into the bahamas tomorrow. here is what we know right now. at least nine people are dead. the storm cut power to millions across the island. the mayor of san juan says the city could be without power for four to six months. more than 11,000 people rode out the hurricane in about 500 shelters. nbc10's jacqueline london is in the breaking news center. >> puerto rico's governor says it's total devastation across the island. >> it is. today the governor asked president trump to declare the island a disaster zone. it must now deal with flooding and storm surges that have already swamped at least o

. >>> hurricane maria hits hurricane leafing the entire island without power. more on where this storm is heading next. >> a frantic search for survivors after that powerful 7.1 earthquake. thank for joining us. i'm christine zee. more than two dozen bodies have been recovered from the school's wreckage. >> the death toll is 230 is the mexican's president declared a day of mourning. more than 200 are dead and more remained trapped following a 7.1 magnitude earthquake that hit heavily populated sections of mexico tuesday. witnesses described watching surroundings crumble. >> it was crowding everything, the street making sure we were away from trees. >> we pretty much tried to be next to the wall and like, just like -- but it was -- >> there is the second major earthquake to hit mexico in the past two weeks. president enrique pena neato is calling a new national emergency. trn unfortunately several people have lost their lives including girls and boys in educational centers. >> live or death work leaves very little time for grief. amist the chaos there were raise

the very sad part of this is this is where irma hit, the top portion of the island. and maria is forecast to hit on the southern portion of that track of islands. so, the u.s. virgin islands, st. croix that did not get hit, puerto rico which direct hit but was still impacted by irma may in fact take a direct hit from maria. this is going to be a very dangerous situation and one that is already beginning as they are already seeing tropical storm and hurricane force winds in the islands around the dominic area. we'll talk more about both of these storms jose and maria and the potential impact here. we'll talk about that in 10 to 15 minutes. >> all right. the hits keep oncoming unfortunately. >> yeah, those islands, some of those islands may even be years recovering from irma and now they're going to get hit again. amazing the >> now to a story that was first on 4, a woman violated at a local massage parlor. >> news 4 mark segraves broke the story on twitter this afternoon. outside the tinnily opportunity where this allegedly happened. mark, what did happen here? >> reporter: yea

happening starting with hurricane maria bearing down on millions. >> it's 160-mile-per-hour winds have been lashing the u.s. virgin islands overnight before an expected direct hit on puerto rico. the governor of the u.s. territory warns maria could hit, quote, with a force and violence that we haven't seen for several generations. >> we also heard from the island's public safety commission commissioner sounding the alarm with a blunt message for people in vulnerable areas saying you have to evacuate otherwise you're going to die. we begin with abc's arlette saenz. >> reporter: hurricane maria barreling towards puerto rico. the island's 3 million u.s. citizens bracing for impact. >> this is without a doubt the generation. >> reporter: many in puerto rico heeding warnings to evacuate. streaming into shelters, catching last-minute flights out of san juan. cynthia manfred and her family seeking refuge in a hotel. >> with a bum leg, three dogs and 99-year-old mom, i didn't want to risk it. >> reporter: puerto rico facing up to nine feet of storm surge and two feet of rain. in the neighboring virgin islands, the u.s. navy evacuating all military personnel ahead of th

territory has been paralyzed since hurricane maria hit a week ago nearly everyone on the island some three point four million people without electricity nearly half don't have running water and fuel is also scarce. a u.s. airstrike in afghanistan's capital kabul has claimed a number of civilian casualties officials say the strike missed its intended target due to what they called a missile malfunction it had been aimed at militants who launched rockets at kabul airport on wednesday shortly after the u.s. defense secretary jim artis arrived on a visit in german news just days after winning the general election chancellor angela merkel is on the campaign trail again this time she's helping out ahead of the snap election and the state of lower saxony back here in berlin parliamentary staff are busy rearranging the chairs with six different parties in a record number of deputies in parliament the bundestag they are having to create be more creative about finding space for everyone space is now a scarce commodity in this prime location in central berlin the new german parliament is going

national hurricane center has issued a warning for the turks and caicos islands on the eastern bahamas maria hit to puerto rico as a category four storm people that are only just beginning to assess the full extent of the damage. picking up the pieces after puerto rico's storm of the century here in san juan and across the island people are just beginning to come to grips with the aftermath of maria galland power lines uprooted trees and shredded roofs litter the streets it's just some of the damage from a storm that officials say it battered everything in its path. meanwhile tens of thousands remain in shelters they're still uncertain when they'll be able to return home and what awaits them when they do. the storm roared ashore on wednesday morning on puerto rico's things turn coast torrential rains and winds of two hundred fifty kilometers per hour destroyed homes flooded streets and knocked out power to nearly the entire island residents described the scene as the strongest storm in over eighty years neared its peak. like i'm in the middle of the war story. there we're only here they're growi

maria. he is thankful it will not get a direct hit. ryan hughes, abc 7 news. adrianna: we will continue to keep an eye on hurricane maria as it continues to move north. keep updates with us on wjla.com and follow us on twitter and on facebook. more breaking news out of the district, police say a man stabbed and killed a woman for a report of a domestic aggravated assault. the police are looking for the attacker. we will follow this and bring information as we get it. and now this. a huge fire rips through the ecuadorian embassy overnight. take a look at the scene at 15th and euclid. the flames are shooting through the roof and two firefighters worked -- severed non-life-threatening injuries. still no word on what caused the fire. the taliban says the u.s. defense secretary james mattis was the target of a rocket attack this morning on the , afghanistan.ul up to 40 rounds of munitions hit the airport, injuring five civilians. mattis landed in the country a few hours earlier for a surprise visit. this was his first trip to afghanistan and's president trump announ

they are thinking of all those people hit by maria as we speak. evastation is terrible. there's a lot of confusion in the white house has over the weekend, we had various official saying things to eu officials and tweets out of the white sale are we in or out? are we prepared to renegotiate the paris climate accord? prepared to renegotiate the paris climate accord ? is prepared to renegotiate the paris climate accord? is when the president talks about america's sovereignty being —— under attack, he refers to multinational trade agreement grimace like nafta and dpp and the paris accord, we all know america can set its own terms and it's not under threat there. but the idea americans had a bad deal from things like paris, and this year round negotiation, that is —— iran negotiations, that underpinned his ideals. that is where people will disagree. the europeans said americans who negotiated iran, said it with the best deal they could get. the big sticking point is not going to be north korea, people in that chamber will be pretty much on board with w

the governor has warned that maria could can hit the u.s. territory with more force than seen in 80 years. some people were able to catch the final flight out of their region. after irma, they were not going to stay for maria. >> i did not want to stick around for this next one. >> people in puerto rico, especially low-lying areas are urged to evacuate but shelters have been set up across the island. >>> more than 30 years later, man in the bay area is talking about his mother's murder. coming up, the fremont cold case and was it enough to catch the killer? >>> and the conversation continues to today for san jose and a proposed google mega campus. how concerned residents can get involved tonight. >>> well, we have a system on the way, actually, a cold front. the breeze is picking up. and right there. it's going to be a blustery day. we'll see if we can get any rain out of this system. >>> a veteran chp officer was killed as he was heading to work in the east bay. james branik started his career with the chp in 2005. he was riding his motorcyc

of course hurricane maria hit landfall in the middle of last week. the president did hold a series of conference calls and briefings with leaders in that region during the week but last weekend he was at his private golf course here in new jersey, held no phone calls, at least that we're aware of publicly from leaders from that region and last week came through with the criticism. we had 9 round of tweets this morning where he was sharply critical of the mayor of san juan and really the individual people in puerto rico who he claimed need to work and help for themselves. today, at around 2:00, he was scheduled to hold a series of phone calls. let's run down the list of people the president was expected to speak to. 2:00, brock long who is the fema administrator. 2:15, the governor of puerto rico, 2:25, the rez accident commissioner of puerto rico. and 2:35, the former governor of puerto rico, and then at 2:45, the governor of the u.s. virgin islands. this all comes ahead of that trip he's scheduled to make to puerto rico on tuesday. he did tweet abou

it's been a week since maria hit and due to the lack of supplies, things are getting worse.hope in puerto rico is dwindling. >> many of us, we don't have a lot of money. that will take us a long time to recover from the things that we lost. >> reporter: aerial views of island show how much was lost. some communities are still under water and roads are washed away. the u.s. department of homeland security says 1.6 in 58 hospitals are still without power and 44% of the population are without water. leaving many to catch water off jugs on a mountainside. others are forced to limited supplies of water, food and gas. still have a service making hurricane survivors feel disconnect ed. this is a satellite image before maria hit and after which is almost dark except a small portion in san juan. it's there at the capital where people are lined up along highways desperate to get food and loved ones still waiting to hear from them. >> the power turned back on but that could take a month. >> donations have poured into a cherry hill hair salon taking that owner by surprise. she never ima

maria. it is slated to hit puerto rico on wednesday.rticle in the paper, they interviewed a psychologist who says there is a lot of anxiety that comes with waiting for such potentially catastrophic storms. the article gives some tips such as slow, deep breathing, on how to wait out the storm. anchor: let's go to kenya, where in less than a month, the country is ready to head to the polls for a second presidential election. reporter: the countdown has begun and we are not ready. or at least, the electronic systems are not ready. the company that is in charge of the electronic voting system in kenya want be able to make the necessary changes and to reboot the systembe tour -- before the october deadline. kenya supreme court annulled the thet vote because of irregularities in the transmission of the votes. the kenyan star says that in order for the democracy to remain credible in the next presidential vote, a contingency plan needs to be put in place by parliament. one that goes into effect if the electronic system fails. a manual checking

life. >>> welcome back to the story in the next 48 hours will be -- what intensity and where will maria hitts eyes set some where near puerto rico or virgin islands but those will be areas that could possibly be hit by another major hurricane. looks like they'll all be devastating storms. jose and the northwest cool and unsettled right through the northerni northernies. feels like falls in the northwest. >>> protests in st. louis turned violent overnight in the third straight day of demonstrations. police say windows were broken and several businesses and weapons were confiscated during sunday night's demonstrations. at least 80 people were arrested and several officers were injured just hours before protests were peaceful as hundreds staged a die-in outside police headquarters. demonstrators have been marching since friday when former police officer jason stockily was acquitted. and while most of the chaos happened during the night time hours, by day light, those who participated in peaceful demonstrations volunteered to help businesses cleanup. >>> a frightening scene friday at the south

hurricane maria makes a direct hit on puerto rico crumbling buildings and leaving the entire island withouttruction isn't over yet. >> tropical storm jose moves away from our coast but not before causing problems along the jersey shore. >> and peace day philly, the goal of spreading an important message. >>> just before 4:00 a.m., good morning. this is nbc 10 news today. i'm tracy davidson. >> so much to get to this morning. let's get right to bill henley with his first accurate forecast. >> the temperatures are starting off in the 60s this morning and the low 70s. 71 degrees in philadelphia. skies are mostly clear, so a lot of sunshine, once it's up the temperatures will be climbing by 9:0075 degrees. northerly winds at 8 miles an hour. lots of sunshine for new jersey, the suburbs, the lehigh valley and delaware, look at the afternoon temperatures today. 86 degrees for delaware, up to 86 for the lehigh valley and at the shore you'll see the sunshine there too with a high of 80 degrees this afternoon. meantime, 87 degrees in philadelphia. that's more than ten degrees warmer than normal for

services in puerto rico grappling with the scale of the devastation left by hurricane maria the storm hit the u.s. territory on wednesday morning widespread flooding and strong winds towns are still without running water fuel power and phone service his career is now a category three storm making its way toward the bahamas and the storm cut a path of destruction through the caribbean gabriel elizondo has more from one of the islands which was hit. we're here on the island nation of st lucia and it's a staging place for aid operations in to domenica the island of domenico is completely destroyed the situation is very bad there nearly a week after hurricane maria hit that island nation it remains essential he cut off from the outside world in many ways we've heard reports that u.s. military helicopters are flying over the island and literally plucking people to safety to get them evacuated some of the ferries are now just starting to run from dominique back here to st lucia and other areas again bringing people for the first time off the island and in to some safety now to many cars prime m

hurricane maria hits puerto rico head on as deadly category four monster. od afternoon everyone i'm jim donovan. >> i'm natasha brown. rahel is off. maria meantime came ashore this morning with winds of 155 miles per hour. it is one of the strongest hurricanes to ever strike the island. >> cbs correspondent david filed this report as the storm hit. >> reporter: the building about 100 yards behind me there are pieces of that building that have flown off and are now flying through the air like projectiles. this video was taken just outside of our hotel room showing the force of maria's violent winds. it was enough for the hotel to order guests down to the lobby level. the region was still rebounding from the last storm. irma when maria rolled in. >> we've never had any back to back hurricanes before. >> reporter: yolanda maldonado has been without power since hurricane irma two weeks ago much she's in a shelter in san juan. >> i passed through hurricanes but this one it's going to be very hard. >> reporter: eddie and his allege year old daughter riding out the

news, a woman from prince williams county said she hadn't heard from her mother since hurricane maria hit. today that changed. she texted the good news her mother conditions are still extremely difficult, no running water, electricity or cell phone service, maria has killed at least 17 people in the caribbean. >> water going to be a huge issue over the next couple of weeks in those areas. >> dominica, puerto rico, too. >> all the islands from irma. this hurricane season amazing, we haven't seen one like this since 2005 where we saw number ruse category 4 and 5 hurricanes. and we've got maria churning in the atlantic with winds of 125 miles per hour. a very strong category 3 hurricane. we're starting to see signs it may start weakening as it moves to the north of turks and caicos. this is some good news. you see it moving closer to turks and acnd caicos, they're going to get hard by this. but not as part as puerto rico. 125 miles an hour hurricane, category 3, moving to the northwest at 8 miles per hour, on that track it moves well he's of the rest of the bahamas, very good news there. 115

of puerto rico, already suffering from a major financial crisis, is now facing a direct hit from hurricane marial storm to hit the island of more than three million people in 85 years. mike, you are a national geographic photographer and a storm case, this is looking like a monster? it is, and it is really sad because it looks like that track going over puerto rico, it does look like it is going to happen. it is not very far offshore. the glass sliding doors are going back and forth. soon we will all be taking our things out and riding out the storm. you will know how this works, we are hearing sustained winds up to 145 mph. that means that cost could be stronger? that's correct. we could have cost up that's correct. we could have cost up to 195 qantas. we really don't know. the pressure keeps dropping, it keeps strengthening. we could be dealing with a saab 900 millibar or attain, which is almost unheard of. what we are about to witness is something i can't imagine. how well prepared can puerto rico be? —— sub—900 millibar. potentially very dangerous? absolutely. there is lots of loose debris a