To be onshore. Inside these squalls, and thats a squall when you look outside, look how pitch black. Windy, youve got heavy rain. When these go by, it will look really bad. That will be happening in Pinellas County and even into manatee and sarasota counties by about 6 00, and then eventually some of this activity will kind of sit over the bay area tomorrw as the storm begins to move to the north and northeast. Lets zoom in. Bands of rain coming up from the when this areas of red go by is when the wind and rain really picks up. Thats moving rapidly from south to north. Now, half of hernando citrus and pasco are dry, but theres more rain heading your way from the south and southwest. We slide south look at this solid line of rain. At the put that into motion and you can see it is moving north, but the line itself is slowly shifting to the east and then of hermine, our skytower is powerful enough to look all the way out in the gulf and see what appears to be, i wont call it n eye, but you can see a definite center of circulation yeah, that right there is the center f hermine which is spinning about 225 miles or so to the west, northwest. That in itself, i mean, this radar presentation as far as science goes is pretty impressive. It really is. Because were in the quadrant of the storm, we have most of the turbulence and instability, so you see red. We have a tornado watch until 11 00 tonight. Already weve seen a couple of Tornado Warnings, one up by hudson and one east of brooksville. Here is the latest advisory. 28. 5 north. 85 west and now moving northnortheast at 14. Predicted to be an 80mile an hour hurricane as it makes landfall. Of tallahassee. Thats a big difference. If the center is west of tallahassee or near it, well have big issues, with 75, 80mie an hour winds. Its always better to be on the lefthand side or the west side of a storm and then the storm kind of spins off the mid atlantic coastline next week. As i said, Tropical Storm warnig in yellow, hurricane warning in pink or red. This will stay in effect for the time being. Probably through at least mid night tonight. Wind gusts getting up there. 26 in clearwater. We had a wind gust earlier at 48 in sarasota. This is pretty much what we expected as far as wind goes. Look at the wave heights. Wow. Out in the gulf. Building as high as 30 feet. And check this out. Wind gusts, last hour, 60, at te boey south of apalachacola. Tied will include more high tied tomorrow morning around 3 00. At that time seas running or tides running about 1 to 3 feet above normal. Predicted wind gusts, this is fr 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow. 78 in tallahassee. 58 in cross city. We may not see this much wind. This is a model prediction. But the thing about tomorrow is we may have one of those feeder bands kind of stuck over us for some of the day, so tomorrow may not showers and Thunder Showers and kind of a gusty southwest wind s the hurricane passes on our north. We have a lot more to talk abou. Stay with us through the 5 00 ad 6 00 newscast. Well break in. Well let you know if any warnings are issued. Back to you. For any information, download our app from the app store. The bridge is closed because of high winds. Those wind gusts weve been telling you about your paul has florida Highway Patrol says wins are averaging about 46 miles an hour with gusts up to 56. And the city of tampa has closed down bayshore boulevard between platt because of street floodin. If you live in south tampa theyre atelectasis weve sen kids kayaking in the streets and the crews have shut down some we have a look at what conditions are like now. Residents in st. Pete are caught between high tide and storm water. You can see how high the water is. Still coming up pretty far on my legs. And take a look at this. The city already putting up barrels to lock off roads where the water is just getting too high. Now, high tide hit around 3 00 this afternoon and likely will return around 3 00 a. M. In the morning. At the same time we could see more rain rolling through the area. City crews have been going places may not be passable as we head through the morning. Some cars still taking their chances, but that creates a new set of problems for homeowners causing a wake to pushup towars their doors and thats saltwater coming into their homes. Now i spoke to a few residents who say this is probably the worst theyve seen the storm water in front of their houses n several years and right now theyve got their sandbags ready just hoping for the best. This is probably the worst its been in a few years. We had that storm back in june. In june. And we hope i know that theres a bad high tide now, so hopefully this just the water subsides and this is a nonissue. You can see some people looking for a way to enjoy all this water the best they can. And again we are expecting thins to possibly get even higher as e head into the night. The one request residents say they have for drivers is to slow down. The faster they drive, the more this saltwater is probably going were in st. Pete. Crystal clark, fox 13 news. Thank you, crystal. All this rain putting a major burden on waste Water Treatment plants. In some areas the sewage has already spilled out into the streets. Fox 13s haley hinds live with how the city is working around the clock to try to control the overflow. Look behind you there. This manhole behind me here has spewing raw sewage since yesterday and its not only a foul smelling problem something that neighbors say really is chronic problem every time a large storm moves through this area. Today we stopped by the citys waste Water Treatment facility o see how theyre working to manae the sewer system which was pushd over capacity by the storm. Parts of the city got 11 inches of rain in 24 hours. Waste water manager told me it s the worst hes seen in eight years working at the plant. The water that does make it to sewage, but as cleaned, it has not been dechlorinated. Thats treated waste water, not raw sewage. Theres a difference between the two. The water that does make it through all the way to the treatment plant, yesterday all day we were able to treat all that effluent. However because of the construction project we have going on right now, we hav limitations on the number of tanks that were using. And largo isnt alone. St. Pete and sarasota weve head are dealing with similar sewage issues and we just got word a fw minutes ago that clearwaters marshall street wastewater plant has experienced a failure, its backing up and water is flowing through man holes in several places. Crews are barricading off those areas while the city gets rental arent working, as he mentioned the city of largo is working on several Construction Projects fr a long Term Solution to try to help alleviate the storm water and sewage issues when storms come through the area. Coming up at 6 00 well tell you about that as well as ways you can help with the problem in the short term. Reporting live in largo, haley hinds,. How is it looking there, eva . County is okay, but we did find one spot here. This is a retention pond that is right here on iron bark drive ad you can see here this retention pond has come up and spilled ovr onto the street and right now te edge of it there is about 10 to 12 feet away from peoples home. If you look over there to the left, you can see that there is some homeowners there talking to some people who were bringing sandbags in. And if you go all wait over thee to the left, there are people nw here along the homes that are here on ironbark. This is the intersection of ironbark and glover. So homeowners here are very concerned, very nervous about this. Apparently this is a retention pond that routinely overflows when the rain gets bad, but you can see here if if you look dow, the water really does flow down hill from the rest of this neighborhood on to this street here on ironbark, so its a very nerveracking situation. These homeowners are used to it, but that doesnt make it any easier. The sandbags. Everything is put up in the house, electronic wise. We have a pump, so its never standing. This time were expecting the worst. If you look all the way down the street there you see those two barricades. Thats to let drivers know this is not anything they should try to come through. If you see the pike there all te way at the end. County wastewater truck. There was a pump there. They have since moved that. Look all the way over here. Theres a pump across the way here at this side of the retention pond. That is trying to keep the water from overflowing not only on tht side of the street but also get the water out of here so it doesnt overflow on this side of the street. You can see that neighbors are very concerned about this. Well be watching this one closely linda as the rain keeps on falling in pasco. Glad to see the residents taking some precautions. Thanks,va bayonet hospital in hudson, but they are still days away from being fully operation allege. A Lightning Strike caused a powr outage last night. More than 200 patients had to be taken to other hospitals. Fox 13 erin aaron mesmer joining us live. The good news is the main power is back on. The bag news is that a backup and by law that has to be the case before anybody can be allowed back into the hospitalized. Before patients can start being accepted again. Like i said were at least a few days away from that happening. Lets take a step back to last night. Were told it took six hours. Six hours to get everybody out f that hospital safely. When youre in the dark and you dont have any power for any system, thats a worst case scenario. Thats the exact scenario Bayonet Point hospital faced lat night and its what stevens by surprise as she arrived to visit her elderly father. I pulled up to see my dad and there were fire trucks there and i could see some smoke. Lightning struck the hospitals roof starting a small fire knocking out the Generator Source and the power. All parents were evacuated. This is what she described that process looked like. It was like quiet chaos. Hospital spokesperson curt a full scale evacuation in the dark requiring a massive coordinated effort. Were working with creeling phones and flashlights to begin the process. Evacuating patients. And everyone, including volunteers pitched in. Some doctors and nurses even had to carry patients down three flights of stairs. The elevators got shut down because of no power. They have boards and special equipment that they use to transfer patients. 70 ambulances and three ambulance buses were called in from as far way as i cant stress enough how proud i am personally and our team, of really the coordination of assets and personnel and highly trained individuals. The nurses and the staff were really good. The doctors were really good. Virginias father is in another hospital and in good hands. But shes not exactly sure whats next. I dont know what the plan i. I dont know when hell get to come home. Doctors and nurses from Bayonet Point have gone to some of the other hospitals to continue caring for their patients. Im also told that the hospital was already in Emergency Preparedness mode with the storm moving in, with hurricane hermie comng in. So they already had a backup generator on the way. It only took an hour, hour and a half for it to get here. It might have been longer had that not been the case. Cynthia. It was amazing to watch last night. Thanks so we have closings, citrus, hernando, hillsborough and pacific lass. Citrus, pinellas and pasco county Public Schools on friday. Well take you to manatee and sarasota counties coming up. See how people are dealing with the rain and the flooding there. Still ahead. A case of road rage in pasco county gets even more violent when a driver pulls out a gun ad starts shooting. Who detectives are looking for. Radar. Hurricane hermine making its way towards the coast. Another band to come on shore. More rain heading your way. Those of you in tampa bay . At this moment, you just inherited your sisters lastgeneration, handmedown tablet. Which was handed down by the generation before her. But you my friend have with the speeds you need. So this old device can still surf, stream and game with the very best of em. And now connect to. Standard tv and 50megabit lightning internet. Only 94 a month for 12 months. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Otheres a race going on right. Now. The worlds clean energy super powers either going to be germany, china, or us. And im going to make sure its us. From 500 million solar panels installed by the end of my first term, to precision manufacturing. We can do this, millions of jobs right here in america. Weve had weve had Tornado Warnings throughout the afternoon. And a woman sent us this video when the warning went into effet there. You can see the trees blowing in the wind. Its raining obviously. Paul more rain could be on the way and more weather that looks like that. Youre right. Im just updating theres so much going on. Its been nonstop action since the storm has been in puerto rio about a week and a half ago. Youre exactly correct. Could be additional Tornado Warnings at any time, and i tell you. The skytower presentation has been incredible. I mean our radar is strong enouh to look way out in the gulf and see what is a developing eye south of apalachicola. I mean, you talk about it from a pure science standpoint and thats incredible. If youre stuck in some of t bad way because these bands of rain that are approaching the west coast right now, they contain winds next excess of 40 miles an hour. So the question is, you know, hw much of this rain is going to gt on the coast and if you just kid of watch it, you extrapolate it looks like some of it will get n shore in the next half hour to 5 minutes. I mean this is a line that is going to contain the amount of rain 2 to 4 inches per hour. About wind speeds between 40 and 50 miles an hour. So we put this into motion and you can see its kind of rotatig around the center of hermine which is kind of back by my head or behind my head. Youve got ahead of this line, you have fast moving squalls and people say what the heck is a squall . A squall is youre outside and the sky turns dark and it rains like crazy for like 10 to 15 minutes, a flash or two of lightnig. The winds picks up andhe goes by and ends thats a squal. And weve had that in fact te video you showed tossing to me n the Weather Center thats a squall. Right there. And heres more of it coming at us from the west and southwest. Also western citrus, hernando, western pasco, odessa and lutz, very heavy rain thats moving rapidly to the north and northwest and this line, you know, for those of you watching one. A good time to have the skytower app and watch this approach you, because this will produce heavy rain and very strong winds, and then on the wider view, you can clearly see what is an eye feature here and thats south of apalachicola. The storm still has about anothr six hours or so where it can intensify, then it moves on shoe and it will rapidly weaken. You can see the eye feature here and thats pretty incredible, ad then this big feeder band kind f coming in from the east. You look at that and it kind of almost looks like the number nie extending out into the gulf of mexico. Tornado watch, not for our southern counties, but tampa bay north, this is the quadrant has always the most unstable, the northeast side of a tropical system, more spin here and the physics of the approaching storm and when they rotate they can produce a quick tornado. 75mile an hour hurricane now moving north, northeast at 14 miles an hour. It will be accelerating and then moving off the carolina coast this weekend as we said. Tropical storm warnings are up for our west coast and for good reason, because theres approaching bands that could produce Tropical Storm winds. Look at this map. Storm surge forecast for the big bend where the water is very think about the gulf as a bathtub, youre throwing the hurricane to the north and youe pushing or piling up water in te northeast gulf, so as high as 10 to 15 feet of water in the big bend as close to cedar key and even for our viewers at home youre talking 6 to 10 feet whih will cause significant storm surge flooding along the coast n citrus county. Tampa bay about 2 to 4 feet. 24 in st. Pete. 23 in clearwater. Heres the next high tide. Right on average about 3 00 in the morning, give or take an hor or so and wind gusts projected could be as high as 78 in tallahassee, satellite and radar presentation shows storms on the east side. A lot of you last night were messaging me on social media tht it looked like the storm was turning to the east. Youre looking at color enhanced clouds being pushed to the you cant byebye the infrared, you have to go by the recognizat plot. Huhuh. High level winds pushing the storm east. The storm is going this way. Not going our way. Thats for sure. Tonight we get bands of rain, some heavy, a few thunderstorms. The problem tomorrow is were going to kind of sit i think ina feeder band for a time, so storms. Were in the mid 80ss. We start to improve on start, bt still tropical with variably cloudy showers and thunderstorms about 86. Not good boating weather southwest, 20, 25 knots. Seas 10 to 14 feet. Very rough in the bay. Low tide about 9 30 tonight. 7day forecast, one or two more days of hermine impacts, and thn were finally back to normal net week with temperatures back in the 90s. Back to you. Thanks, pau an explosion leads to a set back for space x in nasa. 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Cory and his family wanted an up close view. Right now were watching the storm and its turning out to be really cool. They watched from Bradenton Beach as the waves came in. I think were very lucky we didnt get a direct hit on it, o it could have been a lot worse. A few blocks down, it appeard to be worse. Flooding nearly knee deep. Few have seen this type of flooding before. Its the worst ive ever see. The floodingny my deck. Richard davis was confident t wouldnt make it inside his hom. We have high tide and that makes it even worse around here anywa. The lifestyle seems to be one of no worries, not always the best mindset says the police chief. It does do a wakeup call to the citizens. We truly havent had a really hurricane type storm that has ht this area in many many years. So we we know that weve been hope that that continues. The chief says if youre not from the island and you want to come out here and see whats going on, just stay home. He says you can observe the conditions online, on facebook and twitter, and you can find Holmes Beach Police department n both of those. On anna maria, kimberly kuizon, fox 13 news. Heres a live look at skytowr radar and i do believe that we have a Tornado Warning that has just popped up, paul. Just came in a second ago. Watching i near land o lakes and lutz movig about 45 miles an hour. Weve had a couple of these tody and the situation is as such. Weve had a watch since about midday today. These thunderstorms start rotating and they can produce a quick tornado. The cells themselves moving norh about 45 miles an hour, so theyre trucking along. We can go back to skytower and well show you how things are playing out. Velocity modes. Can we taytay skytower . Can you take it there we go. Thank you. Well click on this and show show this is a a cuplet. The gulf, theres enough spin in the atmosphere that any one of those will start rotating and when they do they can spawn a quick tornado. This cell is moving due north about 45 miles an hour and if youre watching me along 41, in pasco county, thats where the biggest threat is going to be fr the next half hour or so. Its generally right through hee and that will continue to move generally to the north. Its in effect for about another 30 minutes or so. Let me clear this up and we will expand on this view. Let me see what the Weather Service is saying. No reports of any damage. This is once again, a thunderstorm that on radar is rotating. Theres no confirmation of a tornado on the ground. It is moving fast. Theres a new radar sweep and it will continue to move generally yeah, another view here as we kind of expand on this. Youre not going to see much as far as the reflectivity goes. All youll see here is heavy rain. A little bit, maybe a hint of a hook echo. This is moving so fast that if t holds together, it could theoretically make it all the wy into Hernando County and maybe all the way up into maybe near brooksville in the next half hor to 45 minutes thats how fast it is going. All the way up to brooksville, o well continue to watch it. Heres some of the wind parameters. Thats the reflectivity. Well get back to that in a second. But the bottom line is theres a warning in effect until 6 00. So well stay on it were going to be staying here obviously throughout the evenin. The warnings up until 6 00, wel . Shes walking. . Look shes doing it . Watch it, right here. . Again, again, we going to rewind. . For every hello theres a connection. . Waffles and for every connection we have the opportunity to make a friend. . For that. We thank you. Well, heres what the beach looks like. This is fiesta key. This is just a few hours ago where the water is pretty much n shore. Heavy flooding shut down the beach access road so nobody is heading in there right now. The cause way boat under water. Lets get over to paul because hes monitoring a Tornado Warning. Paul, i just texted my kids because we live in that area. The thing is im mike bennett has joined me. A lot going on. Not only do we have the Tornado Warning in effect, mike, we also have that line of weather approaching the west coast and that weve looked at some radar data has winds 50 miles an hour. So its two things. Its the Tornado Warning until Tornado Warning in this kind of well call that a polygon, but also of equal concern is ths line here which is rapidly approaching our west coast and that one is almost onshore. You can kind of jump ahead here and as we take a look at this, its approaching pinellas count, its Holding Together, so along the beaches, pretty soon the wid is going to pick up from the south and could gust next excess , hour, mike. Yeah. This line has been Holding Together for at least the last few hours and its within wht is that, five, 10 miles. Its going to make two we had some discussion earlier that it may miss us, but the storm is so big and strong that the eastern side is throwing out these bands that are indeed making it to the coast. What i would say to you if you are watching me in pinellas rigt now and you see that line on road. So if youre saying im going to make a quicker rand and be back in a half hour, dont do it. Just dont. Just wait until the line goes b. You dont want to be driving around with 50mile an hour wins and blinding rain thats not a good time at all. And also lets not forget whats going to be happening here. Pretty soon in anna maria and also in holmes beach, theres nt a lot of lightning here, but theres certainly winds 40 to 50 and also were talking about frequent lightning offshore and then wins 40 to 50 and the thing im tryig to say is blinding rain that wil cause some street flooding. This is pretty much the heaviest the rain gets. This will be some torrential downpours and were also looking at the potential well see more Tornado Warnings pop as this moves onshore. This is the type of band setup s it moves on shore you see the quick tornadoes that we have right now in pacific county. This is the one here that weve zoomed in and its getting here, you say whats the deal with this green and red . All that is doing is the radar s bouncing a beam and bouncing a signal off that thunderstorm and green and red indicates wind towards and away from the radar, so when winds are going in two Different Directions like this, it means the storm has to be rotating and a rotating thunderstorm will often spawn a developing tornado. This has not benzene by anyone that thunderstorm is rotating ad it could produce a tornado. Its in effect, by the way, untl 6 00. And just some of the places t would be again. Hernando County Airport around 5 50 and spring hill around 5 55 if that rotation holds together. Any potential tornado would be n that area. Its moving fast. 45 miles an hour. Its almost when the radar updates, it like literally jumps another 5 miles, so you want to youre seeing that this will eventually, i think, get into sections of Hernando County, maybe even up to brooksville in the next half hour or so, so well Pay Attention to this. Its an ongoing situation. I think between now and 11 00 when the tornado watch expires there will probably be additional in fact, this is the tornado watch here. So thats in effect until 11 00 tonight, and i think well probably see more between now ad then. Especially with that line coming onshore onshore basically in the next half hour to an hour or so and very gusty winds. Even if we dont see Tornado Warnings from it, just a straightline winds, the blindig rain. Stay inside. You know, dont venture out at this point. Wait for the band to push through. This is the 5 00 update from the Hurricane Center 28. 5, 85 west, top winds of 75. The storm is locked in moving northnortheast at 14. Once it passes your latitude, i mean, youre kind of done with t as far as it ever coming back. It is heading for the big bend and the track, theres very little debate or doubt in the next 24 hours there is more dout down the road, but thats someoe elses problem in the mid atlantic states, thats not our issue. Our issue now is some of the heavy rain bands. Im going to go back in a second here. I have to kind of flipflop and take a look at whats happening lets pop up well take one more wider view, because i think of concern here is that line which is approachig Pinellas County. There you go. So here as we put this into motion, i want to remind you ths is pretty much on Clearwater Beach. Is there anyway we can get the can we get that, just take a lok or maybe even the sorono beach cam to see how things are lookig offshore now . If we can do that that would be great. How dark it is, so that is the leading edge of the heavy weather. Also of note, notice the wave action. I mean, we get waves like that, you know, a couple times a year, sometimes behind a cold front in the winter and quite often when tropical systems are in the gul, thats the kind of waves we get. The tide right now is going out to low tide. The tide starts coming back in later on tonight and by 3 00 a. M. , its back to a high tide so the water levels are not as high as they the good news, because with this line coming onshore, that would would probably add to the significant flood threat if that was to continue. You can see the line moving steadily just about on the coas. So the key here is if youre watching us in pinellas, get set for some very heavy rain. Strong winds, highly recommend not driving any time soon in pinellas. Wait for the line to go by. This will probably get into down in anna maria, that line is pretty much on you now. It will be onshore in the next five to 10 minutes. So this is a dicey situation. Thankfully if you stay inside ad you just kind of watch whats happening to us and whats happening with us and the forecast youre going to be oka. Theres not going to be enough wind to do any structural damag. The bottom line is you just want to stay off the roads. By the way, the Tornado Warning has been continued. That severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located near spring hil north at 45 miles per hour. So that puts it and we should say spring hill, we should say because thats a little bit deceiving. Thats probably a little bit eat of where we would say spring hill, more towards more towards the center of Hernando County. Right. Because a lot of us think of spring hill being on u. S. 19. Its not on u. S. 19. Its more towards the suncoast and to the east. We can show you that again on velocity one more time and we cn get a better this is how fast its moving. Take a look we have the output hold on one second. Click on this. This is how fast its moving. You know, if you saw us like fie minutes ago, this was down in central sections of this has moved all the way now into Hernando County along 41 and is just south of brooksville. So you talk about some speed. This thing is along broad street, heading up 41, airs road, theres the suncoast, 589. It is approaching powell road which is a road south of brooksville. No confirmation yet, mike, from anyone in the Weather Service of a confirmed tornado. But it is something well continue to watch. So well go back to well go well take a little bit of a break here. Well reset here as far as maps big band of heavy rain and win news. The Tornado Warning which was in effect for sections of pasco and hernando counties was expired early at 5 45. That couplet or that rotation weakened rapidly. Now were turning our attention to one of the outer bands that s producing up to 50 miles an hour right along the coastline and its pretty much on Clearwater Beach now. Down to about indian rocks and to about anna maria and down to about 5 miles off lido and then farther south into the gulf. This is definitely going to make it onshore and as we said a couple minutes before the commercial break is if youve given some thought or consideration to being outside r taking a quiktrip, errand or whatnot i would not. You look at whats happening on the hilton clearte you can see some of the left ovr water from the high surf kind of up the beach a little bit. This is a different perspective that you normally see. You can tell the wave action is significant. And as the water goes out now as we approach low tide, theres a lot of pooling of the water alog the beach. Something you dont really see that often. So were kind of going through a tide cycle now with the tide going out. I mean that looks like an ominos view on the beach cam and it is as the heavy rain is off in the approaching the coastline of Pinellas County, and here it is. I mean, its all in red. Theres not much in the way of lightning here. Have been rotating inside this line. So dont be surprised if theres a Tornado Warning at some point soon in Pinellas County and then ahead of this line is also a lie along gulf of the bay, you can see how quickly these rain elements are moving. I mean youre talking about huge rotation around hurricane hermine in the gulf, so this stuff is whipping to the north, 45 to 50 miles an hour in speed and that will continue to be the case for the next at least half hour to 45 minutes with heavy rain along the coast. The bigger view shows another line back here. The problem for later on tonight and tomorrow is that some of the models are showing that these lines are going to get kind of strung out and stuck over us wih and squalls between now and even midday tomorrow. So even tomorrow looks kind of probably a good idea that some schools closed tomorrow because some of these squalls could be heavy even on friday. Do you want to zoom in, mike on some of the views into pinellas and well take a look from clearwater to palm harbor. This is that solid line of very heavy rain. So indianho ton beach. This is probably as hard as it can rain. Youre looking at rainfall rates here that could be about 3 to 5 inches per hour if it were to last that long. Its moving along. Winds in the sky way right now, even though its closed, 40 to 45 miles an hour. No doubt about that. The bay way in st. Pete, down in anna maria, cortez and long boa, the storm itself continues to the satellite presentation is incredible. You can see what appears to be a developing eye due south of apalachicola and the center is going to move near or just east of tallahassee and up in the big bend and just the way the big bend is shaped, i mean it kind f literally funnels all the water up in that direction, so storm surge flooding here could be between 10 and 15 feet. It doesnt matter that its a category 1 hurricane what matters is the duration of the wind and the shape of the coastline and how shallow the water is. The intensity is one thing, but theres a lot more factors than simply, oh, its a 70mile an hour hurricane. Dont forget katrina was a cat 3 and it produced cat 5 flooding along the northern gulf coast. Tornado watch in red, that is tampa bay until 11 00 tonight. Northnortheast at 14. It will be moving up over the carolinas. Tropical storm warning remains n effect. So were going to stay on this and we will have more updates obviously throughout our newscast. Well have more and well talk about this as far as the rain moving through pinellas coming p in a few minutes. Well go back well go back o im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. He wears it like a crown. Make America Great again. But trump made his shirts in bangladesh. His ties in china. And his suits in mexico. In fact, the real donald trump outsourced his products and you cant make America Great again, if you dont make things a space x falcon 9 rocket explode on the launch pad in cae canaveral. Smoke plumes could be seen for miles and the blast was actually felt for miles. The explosion happened during a test. Foxs derrol is live at the cape with more. At 9 07 this morning somethig went terribly wrong. A massive fireball entire falcon 9 rocket and launh pad. This can 10 be seen falling several hundred feet to the ground. This man who was camping 7 miles from the launch pad at the time, heard and felt the explosion. We kind of scurried up and sw the smoke on the horizon then. Spaceex is calling it an anomaly. It was being loaded with super liquid oxygen. Thats the same oxygen tank that exploded back in june of last year, destroying a falcon 9 rocket two minutes into fligh. But the cause of this anomaly ws blamed on a faulty strut that failed to hold the oxygen tank n place. In the seconds before todays explosion, the typical steam lie venting of its super cooled oxygen could be seen, but the incredible blast that followed may result in a temporary grounding of until a raza is kind. The Company Recently upgraded is boosters to use even colder and potentially more problematic liquid oxygen. Might this be a reflection they were pushing the envelope a little aggressive. Thats to be determined. The state agency believes the young aerospace can bounce back from this loss as its done before. I dont think anybody has any doubt. They are going to continue to be exploration of space. Derrol nail, fox 13 news. The rocket was supposed to launch saturday and an israeli satellite was on board. Im not sure when theyll try to get that up again. Astronauts took their second walk in two weeks. They took care of some long overdue radiator work. They installed a new docking pot during a space williams is expected to return o earth next week. Lets check on stocks right now. They ended this first day of september mixed, a little bit. The dow ended up gaining 18 points. The nasdaq climbed 13, but the s p dropped by just a fraction. Its been a really busy day. We started at noon and we had a Tropical Storm. Now we have a hurricane. We have a wndu studios thats actually coming onshore right now. Public school closings. Five Public School closings o dose, hillsborough, pinellas, pasco. No school tomorrow. That could change. That could change. My daughter already texted m. Hey, five day weekend. We do have some serious weather thats heading our way. So the fox 1 36 news is next. Well start with mark and kelly. Dont be lulled by the fact e havent had too much going on today. Things are going to become interesting. Parts of hermine here in a mattr of minutes. We have storms going up and down the panhandle which is goig just a few hours. Weve also been dealing with our own Flooding Issues already in the tampa bay area. Well take you out to the neighborhoods and see the Water Treatment plans are holding up. And a fireball, an explosion destroys a spaceex rocket at the cape. Were going to hear from people now at havertys furniture, its our labor day sale. Where you can create the perfect home. From now until september 5th, youll find huge savings on stylish pieces. Get free delivery, plus an extra hundreddollars off every thousanddollars you spend. With havertys, your home can be perfect, even when life isnt. Mom . Have you see my iguana . The labor day sale is on now, at havertys. Life looks good. From tampa bays number one news station, this is the fox 1 36 news. And good evening, everybody. And im mark wills. Thanks for joining us. Hermine gets stronger. Quickly this afternoon the storm was upgraded to a hurricane. Lets get over to paul with the very latest. Paul . Heres the deal. Were watching some views outside its amazing. We talked about squalls and how quickly things change. Actually the heaviest rain has now gone east of the hilton Clearwater Beach cam, you get some brightening skies in the distance, another rain way out there and then you look at this, down beach. Weve had a wind gust to 41 mils an hour. If you look at the st. Pete cam, youre looking east. Whats kind of interesting about this view. Look, you can actually see the clouds move on the Johns Hopkins hospital cam. Theres that much wind in the atmosphere you can actually see the clouds move from south to not a good idea to be taking a walk along the bay front in the next 10 to 15 minutes with very heavy rain coming your way from the east. So well jump ahead and well show you whats happening as far as tie tower goes, and the heaviest rain with winds between 40 and 50 is right over Pinellas County, and that continues to sweep to the north and north east. Its all kind of rotating around the center of hermine, which is out in the gulf of going fast, so the weather may o from good to bad in a few minutes. Hudson, clearwater, largo, pinellas park, st. Pete. If youre watching us in Feather Sound and northeast st. Pete, that weather is heading your way and also by 275, it extends all the way down through holmes beah