7:15 AM – INTERVIEW – JANICE DEAN – Senior Meteorologist Fox News Channel – latest on the hurricanes

• Fox News Channel’s lead meteorologist Janice Dean “The Weather Machine” is donating ALL the money made from her newest children’s book Freddy the Frogcaster and the Flash Flood to Hurricane Harvey relief.
• Irma heads for Bahamas, Cuba, leaving devastation in its wake. (CNN/Updated 5:29 AM ET, Fri September 8, 2017) Hurricane Irma hurtled through the Caribbean on Friday, leaving catastrophic damage in its wake as it closed in on Florida where it could slam into Miami this weekend. The storm barreled between Cuba and the Turks and Caicos Islands early Friday morning, and is expected to move westward toward the Bahamas. Irma was downgraded to an “extremely dangerous” category 4 storm on Friday, with winds reaching a sustained maximum of 155 mph, the US National Hurricane Center said. At its peak, winds reached sustained maximums of 180 mph.