Up to the big ben. Tropical depression nine, 24. 3. Top winds at 35nd the the pressure of 1 thousand 4 millibars. This is thursday at 8 00 a. M. Pretty far to the west of tampa, a couple hundred miles but this motion from south west to northeast, the physics of a storm going inhattion tends to thursday aur coast line,ecia during the mid afternoon high tide between 2 003 00. Here, a 70 mile an hour Tropical Storm. Even the Hurricane Center and tampa bay north. Heres the watch and tomorrow, these will be changed to warnings probably a little bit farther to the west but i dont think well see winds 74 plus in our northern counties. If this was to happen, we would have a serious coastal flood event. I think were okay but were going to be on the south and southeast its not the place to be because the winds will be gusty from the south west as potentially strong, Tropical Storm cat 1 hurricane passes to the northwest. The computer models are coming into agreement. The forecast track is getting locked in. But as always, its been like this for years, the intensity forecasting is always tough because we still do not understand completely the relationship between the atmosphere and the ocean and how intensify a tropical system. Very heavy rainfall near the coast, lesser amounts innd primw night into thursday and with the so west have to up 13, maybe 24. Obviously higher water as you get closer to the cente but notice the predictedinds afterne arrows, all this does is pile water up along w itorm, issues along our t forget, 90 miles out the continental shelf, its shallow, easy to pile up water. Coastal flooding always a threat for us. Well talk more about that and ill seeou y again at 11 20. Back to you. Thank you, paul. A lot to watch there and certainly a lot of people watching ias that storm moves closer to land. Potential flood water. This was the scene at taylor park, one of several sandbagging sites. The mayor is urging people to think safety this week. That means not taking unnecessary risks or driving through flooded areas where you could get stuck. Meanwhile, the coast guard is urging people to stay off the water as Severe Weather comes through. Sailing in those conditions could put lives at risk. Safe than sorry. Man just putting extra lines onboard, making sure everything is tied good, and theres enough slack in the line for storm surge and things like that. The smaller boats gets rocking and rolling a little bit. The marina provided slip and lied for us so we werent getting all beat up. Reporter Pinellas County schools say its too early to determine if any schools wl that will be determined tomorrow after district officials discuss with emergency officials. Be prepared is also the message from governor scott. Stressing once again that people have to take the storm seriously. Man weve been blessed, we havent had a hurricane in quite a while but were going to have rain and storm surge. Currents, we have to be careful. Governor scott also mentioned that residents worried about zika should do their part of clearing out standing water before and after the storm hits. As paul showed us just a moment ago, our southern counties will see significant rainfall. Josh is there to show us how people are preparing. Reporter we are in that hurricane watch zone so you know all tonight. We saw several people in this spring hill area today filling sandbags to fortify their homes. Many of them telling us a strong rain shower could lead to flooding. So that definitely concerns them. The storm could bring three feet or more of storm surge. We spoke with one resident who has tied down his boat and up the center console, thats all you can do. Man you want to actually keep it in the water. If it gets too high, thats your way out. Reporter the county is urging people to be prepared ahead of time. Get batteries, keep your cellphones charged. Basically the things you hear over and over again. You if fail to plan, you are planning to fail. In other words, the rady now. Josh, thanks. If youd like a list of the sandbagging locations around the bay area, you can find that on our website along with constant updates on the tropics there. The results are in as we move along to politics now. Senator marco rubio won the gop nomination. Hell go headtohead with should be quite a show down. Those were two of the key races. Lets see how the votes added up. On the republican side, rubio beating a long way. Also defeating several others in that race on the republican side. And on the democratic side, there were also several candidates but Patrick Murphy, the congressman easily beat his closest contender, allen grazeman. And other candidates building a few votes there in that race as well. With this race behind him, murphy is focused on beating marco rubio. Man in the senate, i will fight for you every single day. You compare that to senator rubio who just yesterday said no one can make a commitment to a six year term. Well, guess what senator . Man so i look forward to this campaign because the best ones are the ones that give you a clear choice and this one will be a clear choice. Between someone who has achieved things on behalf of this state s and plans to achiev in the future. And someone who has been given everything before. Paul stanton beats there was just one constitutional amendment on the ballot that passed with 73 percent. It provides property tax breaks with people who install solar panel and you just see there, 73. It needed 60 percent to pass. Now the results of other races, we have live updates on our website. You can also watch the bottom of the screen throughout the news cast and youll probably see the race that youre looking for. Coming up, you can run, you really escape. Man our goal is for you to be here in the states, in the prison for the rest of your life. Youll see how deputies track down that wanteded man thousands of miles from here. Thats at 11 23. Come on. You can do it dogs just wont quit. Neither does frontline. Introducing new frontline gold. With its new easy applicator frontline gold delivers powerful protection that doesnt quit for a full 30 days. Its new triple action formula is relentless at killing fleas and ticks. Frontline gold. The latest innovation from the maker of frontline plus. For persistent protection you can trust. Frontline gold. Tonight, two teachers are recovering after being injured by lightning it happened during dismissal at a because it was raining. Students at the Literacy Leadership Technology Academy stayed inside. While the teachers directed parents through the car line. They heard a clap of thunder. Then seconds later. A male Teacher Holding an umbrella took an indirect hit. Along with a female teacher standing under an aluminium awning. The same bolt struck the School Standing under aluminum awning. It did strike the School Building and put three holes in the roof. The teachers are both okay. Administrators now their Severe Weather plan. Woman from now on, if we have this type of weather, were going to make sure everybody is indoors. Even if thats car line, that means we have to dismiss a little slower. That was just too close. The lightning knocked out air conditioning in three of the buildings. School tomorrow at the academy is cancelled for wednesday. Coming up on wednesday. A lot of tropical moisture today. Very changeable, off and on showers and thunder storms as heavy rain going over tampa this afternoon. Some areas picked up well over an inch of rain. Look at that band go by. More on wednesday and obviously thursday is the real bad day wth heavy squalls and significant rainfall amounts, especially near the coast. And you know this is more than just your when as of 11 15 theres more rain around us. We turn our attention south where the rain has been locally heavy near the coast line. Sprinkles up in pasco. Light rain in eastern sections of hills broe. You have rain in sarasota and 75. This is definitely a sign of things to come. Not only wet tomorrow but heavy rain on thursday, even friday when the storm will be out in the atlantic, well be kind of left in just a soupy atmosphere in a south west wind, that means more showers and Thunder Showers likely on friday as well. The weekend should be okay but still, tropical moisture around. Rain now developing near north port, venice has light rain, raining in sarasota, rain has apreached bradenton from the south, all the way down to boca grand. A tropical system developing in the gulf of mexico. Speaking of that, thunder storms are developing near the center and for the first time theres actually thunder storms now north and a little bit west of the center and it looks like theres good outflow developing and also note, all the moisture down here, all of this will move in tandem with the developing system and be over our state on thursday. And were going to be in that southeast side. East side meaning gusty winds and south west winds will be Strong Enough to cause some coastal flooding. Top winds 35. Now beginning to turn and accelerating. Thursd our latitude and a couple hundred miles to our west. If this was a little closer, wed have more significant imact impacts. This is like Taylor County up in to big ben and then south of that line, we still have the hurricane watch from the river north. I dont think weell see hurricane conditions in our be very close to the center. Certainly a Tropical Storm for us. And then by the weekend, this storm may actually turn and head to the west and could impact new england on labor day weekend. Thats a possibility as well. Once again in pink, hurricane watch to indian pass. Hurricane center, literally 48 hours to put up a watch because the storm will pan handle so the safe thing to do is put up the watch because of the potential of intensification before it makes land fall, probably tomorrow. These watches will be upgraded to warnings. I would expect higher storm surge closer to the center. Still fighting dry air but enough moisture now for the storm to get going. Computer models, no debate, i think as far as the track goes. Much locked in on the big ben area, no doubt about that. East of the center is the deepest moisture and that kind of rides up along the coast in tandem with the Tropical Storm which will be a Tropical Storm and then slides northeast. So a couple of days in the really soupy tropical air mass and that means significant bands of rain. That slides norths northeast. Our weather slowly improving o friday. Highest tides, were going 13 in tampa bay. Could be 24 and certainly 35 is likely north. Highest amounts, you see that greater than three feet where you see yellow by the springs and all the way around the big ben. Potential impacts as we fly down, rainfall amounts are going to be considerable. Weve already had a couple inches of rain by bands of rain that went by today. Get a couple inches of rain. 48 maybe 510 along the coast and then we talk about winds gusting to Tropical Storm force, 4045 south west. Strongest near the coast line. Dave is in tomorrow morning with more on what should be tomorrow, Tropical Storm hermine. Showers still around tonight, mostly south of tampa bay. Numerous showers and Thunder Showers. Tropical systems dont usually produce a lot of lightning. Periods of rain, 82. Thursday will be the unsettled day becoming windy and squalls likely. We stay in the 80s during the day and even friday should be unsettled. Ill have more posted on my Facebook Page tonight. Our website has lots of information. Well see you tomorrow morning on good day, tampa bay. Busy night for paul and in money, power, and politics. It was a very big night for marco rubio and Patrick Murphy and now theyre in a collision course for november. Well show you how they match up, who has the advantage and why we have some very interesting state legislative we have an update tonight on a deputies say a man who fled the country who got an 11yearold pregnant is back behind bars. Hes charged with Sexual Battery and sexual molestation. He abused the 11yearold girl for two years and in 2014 after learning she was pregnant, he left his job at a pizza place and ultimately left the country. Man he received a phone call pregnant. He left work, told his boss i need my check, i got to go, ill be back later, grabbed his check and fled the country to guatemala. When we say well chase you to the ends of the earth in order to arrest you, please understand thats exactly what we did. It wasnt easy though. They had to work with the Guatemala National police to track him down and even after they extradition process took four months to complete. Republican president ial candidate donald trump says hes accepted an invitation to meet with the president of mexico tomorrow. He tweeted out just a while ago that hes looking forward to it. He said back in march that he would not pay for a border wall under any circumstances. Trump is also expected to give the formal speech on immigration tomorrow evening in phoenix. Rays slay the great monster tonight. Plus, usf football is counting down the hours until kick off. More on the mentality theyre taking heading into the season with such a lofty . . Dogs sure can be messy. 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Check out luke with one mighty hack. Yes, delivering the tying shot over the green run monster. Second career home run. Tied at three, head to the eighth and evans turn. This, too, is monster bound. Puts clays ball out of bounds. Bottom of the ninth, alex picks up his 29th save of the season and the rays pick up the 11 win. 43 is the final tonight. Next up, the big wave of saturday comes where thecs wher need to get rid of a few more players. The game has been moved to tomorrow nit. Additional day off this week ending on thursday. For the bucks and Tampa Sports Authority worked together last night to determine whether or not to move this game. Its the safety of everyone on the field, with paramount that hes looking forward to the preseason finale. Man theres a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes last night to try to get this thing moving. We appreciate everyones cooperation. Theres still guys this this games really important to as picked up by other teams. Thats the same for both teams. I appreciate everyones hard work. Usf kicks off their 20th season this saturday. The bulls have lost one Season Opener in their history. Probably shouldnt have a problem this weekend. The bulls, however, not to really get over confident in this game, take the visiting tigers too quarterback says usf will tackle each and every one like its the biggest one of the season. Man i tell these guys every day, play every game like its your last. Every game is a big game for us. Were not doubting no one, not putting it past no one. Certainly High Expectations for this usf team this year. And it all starts on saturday, guys. Its going to be so much fun. Comes to play usf in september. Before we go, after a series of food scares, chicpotle tryin to get the customers back in. For the month of september, kids will be eating free on sundays. High school and College Students can get a free soda or tea with their meal if they show their student id. 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