Three hours ago, the was intense. Were looking at the debris of the winds from 60, 70, 80 miles 30 miles from where we are t standing. Here is a giant tree limb compliments of an oak tree. So this oak tree had its limbs come down. The tree itself is just fine, but this is like this throughout the entire area. Were told 60 of the people just in tallahassee dont have po finally tonight, power crews are able to go out and check to figure out where the tree limbs are. Th are asking where did th trees come down so they uld go fix it. They couldnt go out during the heart of the secause the winds were so intense. Were gettg a nice break here. This is the first break weve had in the past 15 to 20 minutes or so. We have a lot of video that we shot overnight. Were puttin g thgether and show you the video when we do our next live shot in the next 30 minutes or so. Telling us is people should not go out of their homes to check things out becheres too much debris. They need to get to where they are
Break and there is more off the coast. And there is more rain. And lake tarpon and dozen. And more on hermine that will cause problems in the Midatlantic States well talk about that. And years since people in Crystal River had flooding. And hermine hammered the area and caused some of the worst flooding and parts under water. Now people are trying to figure out what can be salvaged what is ruined. And aaron mesmer is live in Crystal River. Aaron . This is a recovery process. What they can save. Were less than a quarter of a mile away. Were an eighth of a mile theyre not used to this up. This may be impossible to do. Hurricane hermine pounded Crystal River and for hours neighborhoods the water was two feet high in the restaurant. And businesses in downtown and along u. S. 19 looked like they were part of the river, we were at 2 feet here. The last time it was that bad. March of 1993. 23yearold article reminding him of what many call the no name storm. He said hermine nearly caused as mu
Top winds. Pressure and not that low, 1007 milli bars. Getting picked up. This is wednesday at 2 a. M. Wednesday and thursday the storms should be up in the big bend by the way is not usually a favorite spot for landfalling storms the problem track. We will be on the dirty side and the south side that means bands of rain coming in off the gulf. Well see the winds and near the coast. And in the mix, too i expect around it willing be watching sometimes the storms in the gulf and they can become a cat 1 or 2 hurricane f something changes in the next day or around tampa i expecthat to get higher. As that approaches well talk about it more at 5 20. Back to you. Thank you, paul. Holes in a house surrounded by tape. There was a baby in there and she was not hurt when a person drove by the house. Some of the blame is on her mother. Were live at the Sheriffs Office to explain this. Aaron. Reporter the mother is a gang member and hangs out with gang members if that was not the case it may not ha
Live from the station taking action for you. All new at 11 00 all eyes on the tropics. A tropical depression brews and makes its way towards the golf. If the last few minutes. An the latest predictions. Lets get to what Everyone Wants to know. Dennis check the tropics for us. Heres what has new. The storm is stronger. The pressure is down. That means its Getting Better organized. Its moving west at 7 miles per hour. Its beginning to clear cuba. As far as im concerned, td 9 has an opportunity of 36 hours thats what the National Hurricane center is predicting. By tomorrow, they anticipate that will be a Tropical Storm. I think by tomorrow morning, part of the area will be under a Tropical Storm watch. If i had to guess, i would say Pinellas County northward. Im not sure if its 5 00 a. M. For 11 00. Because advisories come every six hours when a warning is issued. What we looked at, at 5 00 has not were looks at an accelerating storm arriving wednesday night thursday morning. Ahead of it,
Yet because we still have a lot of leftover tropical moisture that is streaming through the area. I think today is going to feel be a lot like it was yesterday afternoon where you just had a lot of cloud cover, occasional showers running through the area. This morning we had a little bit of rain in the Citrus County area up to leve. Not a big deal. We are not going to put too much more in the bucket. We cant have more rain, there is nowhere to it go. The rain . Southout east winds at 3 Miles Per Hour. A lot of cloud cover. A few showers mixed in. It is not going to ruin your day and not going to rain every minute of the day but keep checking the sky tower radar for chance of showers. Tropical storm hermine causing problems for the part of the country. I will talk about that in a minute. Investigating a house fire in port richey. It broke out before 4 00 on westport drive in port richey. Bring you an update as soon as we get more information. Also new this morning, Sarasota Police are i