the national hurricane center says it has a low chance of developing into a tropical cyclone, less than 10%. still worth monitoring because we re getting the influence of moisture, stormy weather across the beaches of the panhandle of florida. and also not just there, but through areas into south florida we have seen quite a bit of rain. let s go back to the beaches as tony mentioned. want to talk about the advisories. no swimming across many of the beaches, some are closed in alabama like ft. morgan. sometimes you can go to the beach, you just can t swim, but you can sit there. if you want to take in the sunshine. the problem is this weekend it will be stormy in the alabama beaches. same for mississippi. advisories posted, some are closed, gulf shores is closed. but we do have some advisories that say just use caution. and certainly avoid any contact with oil that goes without saying. but good reminder. panama city beach, florida, catered tar balls. the beach is open. advisories in pe
all of the boom there to protect the alabama beaches, they picked it up and took it over there so he got some results. bobby jindal and riley apparently got into it a little bit, too. is bobby jindal spending any of his money yet? he has 50 million from bp. i think he has only spent 3 million so far. he had 6,000. i mean, he is starting to spend the money that bp has given him? i think he is because there s a lot of people that are starting to beat him up on this, particularly the local officials down in grand isle and in venice saying release these funds. bobby jindal has been very good on the beaches wearing a vest yelling saying not so good spending the money that bp gave him or using all of the national guards. the president said commit 6,000 national guard troops. a month into it he only called up 1,5 hundred-.
were allowed back into the water. now they said we can get back in. we re okay now. i don t see any more right now. reporter: christina weaver isn t taking any chances. i don t want to be in the water. it s everywhere. reporter: the weavers were here for fond memories, but are leaving with an unexpected keepsake. would you are you trying to collect some? just to show i was here when it happen, a little memorabilia. yeah, this is not fun. now, one thing to clarify, though there has been a presence of oil on parts of the florida and alabama beaches, including some tar balls, there s been absolutely nothing here in biloxi. things are pretty nice, the sand is pristine as you can be. you can see the umbrellas, a couple chase lounges. yesterday afternoon we had quite a few people out there. they certainly expect more later
arrive into the city because of these thunderstorms. you re going to have to fly around with them. some heavy rainfall with these, too. you could see a good inch per hour. the threat stretches from west texas through the midwest into the ohio river valley. we think the cluster of thunderstorms will continue to push eastward. it is really hot today, talk about some good beach weather. heat index is about 105 degrees plus with advisories from jackson, mississippi into new orleans. if you re thinking about heading to the beach, we do have a forecast for that oil spill and where some potential tar balls could be making landfall today. you can see across some of the alabama beaches, right near the florida state line we could see scattered stuff making its way toward the shore, but again it s not solid. here s a quick look at the beach cams. things are still looking good in decent continue, florida. you can see those people getting in the water. drew and susan, back to you.
with thick blobs of tar washing up on alabama beaches with layoffs beginning to hurt it s spreading as fast as the oil slick rather gladstone jones represents the families of victims on the oil rig explosion he was in court on friday. thank you for being with us. so first of all the property owners do they have property owners with problems with the beach. there will be people with raw land people with hotels and hot dog stands. in dolphin island and the reports of oil washing up on the beaches. what about the fisherman? i heard 900 oyster men already laid off. the economic hurt is just