Strength running over the warmer waters of the gulfstream just off floridas east coast. It may help enhance our rain chances, pull a little tropical moisture from the south. Thats the current look bringing those showers into jacksonville and brunswick, georgia, not much effect on it, but its there in the atlantic area and thats why we report on it. Well have more later. Thank you, steve. Well check back in a couple of minutes. Now an 8 on your side consumer alert, after a macbook ignites and goes up in smoke, now the owner is warning others about a battery danger. Talk about a scary situation, the owner is telling us that within 30 seconds his entire house was filled with smoke. He managed to rush his wife and kids out of the house as the battery in his macbook had sparks flying out of it. 8 on your side reporter Melanie Michael is live for us in tampa at the i hospital near usf. Mel . Reporter hey, guys, good evening. It seems a bad battery is to devices catching fire for this very re
And 8 00, 70 and now we have Tropical Storm julia and it goes to show you any time you have low pressure around the state in august and september, you know, all bets are off. And today we had rapid development. This is the old invest 93l down by miami last night. Also of note which is kind of interesting, the storm was initiated, the First Advisory of the storm was over land. Think about how often do you have the First Advisory issued on a Tropical Storm not over water but over land and i am trying to think i have never seen that before and that may be a reflection of what happened in louisiana with the low producing all the rain for them which is probably a tropical system. It will impact our weather in the sense from a southwest wind and band of showers and storms overnight and most areas dry and tomorrow mornings commute wet 30 about the 3 north. 1. 6 and top winds 40 and likely moving to georgia and weakening with time and shouldnt be a big windmaker. Lots of big rain in the scheme
Leasure. That breaking news coming from the very tense charlotte, North Carolina right now. Charlotte police sending in its Civil Emergency unit to safely remove their outnumbered officers from this scene. Crowds assembling there after Police Killed an African American man who they say was orders. But keith lamontscotts daughter says he was unarmed. She also claims he was disabled. The shooting is under investigation where we will be keeping an eye on this throughout the broadcast. Also breaking tonight at 11 00 a scare at a pasco county hospital prompts evacuation orders after anth buildings ac unit explodes. Chapel with an evacuation scare with a problem with the ac unit. Yes, Cameron Polom live at Florida Hospital right now with the very latest out there. Cameron . Reporter well patients and staff were definitely on edge tonight preparing for possible evacuations when we first arrived administrators told us that they were expecting and considering to evacuate the entire hospital her
Followed an outdated law that didnt require sharing contamination information with the public. But that law didnt say dep shouldnt notify the public did it . No. The bottom line is, you know, we will have notification. We will doubt within 24 hours. Reporter following our report, Governor Scott issued an emergency rule requiring polluters to notify the public of issues within 24 hours. It is kind of ironic that the governor is because, they have fostered a culture of secrecy at dep and the Governors Office that is worse than in living memory. Reporter governor, when did you fine out about this . We can get the time line of when you did it. 24 hours after it happened . Reporter has office gave me nothing that showed the dep gave him the information right did dep keep you in the dark . We are in the middle of an ongoing investigation. Im not going to fire stevenson based on anything i know today. He follow firstdegree law. Reporter as for dep secretary, he was at the plant today, but did
In an effort to curb the spread of the zika virus. The city of tampa launched a tire amnesty. Tires make the perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes. So instead of having those tires sit on their property, wed like to offer them a chance for free disposal. Reporter from now until next saturday, residents will be able to drop off up to eight tires at the mckay bay Waste Energy Facility with the utility bill and a matching i. D. We want to be proactive. We dont want to wait for the concerns to magnify or get out of control. So this is our answer to help reduce the spread of the virus. This kind of mosquito they like to go to something that is from the waist down. Reporter this week, hillsboro county officials placed 65 traps across the area in an effort to catch those bloodsuckers. The type of mosquito that carries the zika virus is it very common in florida, but so far, none of the bugs collected have tested positive for the virus. Both city and county officials want to keep it that way.