Four before making landfall Early Saturday Morning and moving inland near Corpus Christi weakening to a cat two however this system is stalling and in addition the rain is a big problem. Rain is measured in feet. One to two feet up to 30 inches in parts of the region. This is almost a years worth of rain and the first to hit since wilma in 2005 we had four major hurricanes including katrina. Well have more on this on the full accuweather forecast. The governor of texas has declared a preemptive emergency in three counties from eastern texas to mississippi. Bracing for high wind and water. Regardless of the storm track well have coastal flooding. Water, food and batteries are in short supply in many stores up and down the coast. Parts of Corpus Christi, texas is under evacuation orders and the oil industry is watching this closely. A third of americas Oil Refineries are there in texas. A meeting is held in texas due to racist graffiti on a school. Gray hall is live in langhorne to fill
25 Storm Tracker chief meteorologist kevin lemanowicz, who is keeping a very close eye on the storms path to our coast. Kevin going to come up the coast, vanessa. The question is, will it come far enough north to bring us this rain and wind. We wouldnt get the winds that youre seeing hurricane strength. We could see Tropical Storm force winds. Now this is the center of the storm. Its moving up toward that big bend of florida here. Panama city is actually on what would be considered the weaker wind side of the storm, and its still looking that bad in the video you were showing. Live video, 75mileperhour winds from hermine right now hand moving off towa florida, if youre familiar with that part of the world, by 2 00 a. M. , its on shore. Look at the winds, 80 Miles Per Hour, weakening to Tropical Storm status, charleston and savannah overnight and through the day tomorrow and myrtle beach at 2 . A. A, passing by there 2 00 a. M. , passing by there. Its interacting with land, it becomes n
Just in from the National Hurricane center that mark was referring to. Winds still 75 miles per hour, still category 1 storm, has its eyes on the st. Marks area in the big bend of florida. Theres a lot of Nature Preserve in here, and few members where this track may go. That wouldnt be so bad, although obviously, there will be inland flooding that comes from this. That track comes up the coastline though and almost undoubtedly comes just near charleston and myrtle beach before it comes off of hatteras and enters our part of the world. This storm would have in this position in new england for Labor Day Weekend in a few minutes. Vanessa folks along floridas panhandle are preparing for hurricane hermine. Mark residents are securing their homes and boats right now. They havent had a hurricane hit the state in 11 years, as jeff deal reports from the coast near tallahassee, people are not taking any chances. The reporter looking out over the gulf of mexico, as hermine headed toward the coast