but still certainly people are on high alert this morning. brianna, john, back to you. >> keep riding it out as we await more impacts here. randi kaye, thank you so much. let's go live now to tampa and our meteorologist derek van dam who is is there on the ground. folks have been told as randi notes to stay indoors to stay off the roads, derek. >> reporter: yeah, brianna, good morning to you, good morning to our viewers. you know, that's good advice, but obviously not everybody listening to that because you can see the causeway and kennedy boulevard behind me people still driving about. the city slowly starting to awaken. there are still tropical storm warnings within this area. the tampa international airport still closed at the moment or no airlines flying in or out until 10:00 a.m. this morning. that's what they've reported to us. but we have been spared the worst from what was tropical storm and what was a hurricane at one stage, downgraded to a tropical storm overnight, of course. you talked to randi just a moment ago about the storm surge