A northeast weekend washout moves in cold from the west As it sinks into the jet stream from the eastern seaboard and is now fully interacting, Phillip
porches in keaton beach. roads are a mess in mayo. parts of a downed tree as folks work to rescue an suv stuck. a home in orlando beach is flooded and idalia made fighting a fire tougher with firefighters having to wade through the knee-high water to get to the scene. no one was hurt. hurricane idalia is different from other storms, brian norcross with more on why. we don t have any storms like this in the record books in august. if a storm comes from south and veer to the north, it will happen late september or october, few we have had. in this particular part of the big bend, the eastern part of the big bend, last hurricane that was really strong, strong
sunday through next sunday. the leaders say they expect enough in reserves to handle the anticipated demand. for now it s holding. no controlled black or brownouts thankfully despite record demand for june. clearly we know this can be extremely dangerous weather. dallas mail carrier of 40 years died earlier this week after his family says he collapsed in a front yard while on his route. 66-year-old eugene gates died at a local hospital. the family still waiting for the official cause of death from the medical examiner s office. they believe it was heat-related. neil? neil: thanks for that. let s hope things cool down literally. stacy stegall on that i want to go to brian for cross. taking a look at these hurricanes that are backing up like planes at la guardia. brian, what is going on with
one is that the tropical atlantic heats up. another is that the systems don t move as fast. so we have longer heat waves over texas in the northeast u.s. it s been persistently cool all year. we see things last longer because systems don t move. you throw a lot of energy, extra energy in different parts of the world s system and you get kind of unpredictable and different kind of responses. one of them has been this production of early season storms. thanks, brian, for that. brian norcross. we re going to keep track of this. tomorrow at 10:00 a.m., live on my weekend show, we ll be monitoring these unstable weather developments across the country. meantime, getting the latest about the oceangate sub vehicle.
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