In may, the minimum wage increased to 9. 15 an hour. Five cities opted out of johnson countys increase. A Polk County Task force wants to increase the minimum wage there to 1075 an hour by january 2019. It recommended a plan to the board of supervisors earlier this month. If approved, the county would start the increase at 875, next april. A pacific hurricane is getting weaker, but could still make landfall on hurricane madeline is a category 1 storm with sustained winds of about 90 miles per hour. Forecasters say it could hit the island sometime in the next 36 hours. People on the island are boarding up their doors today in preparation for heavy rain. Hawaii countys mayor says hes keeping a close eye on the storm to make sure the island is as prepared as possible when it hits. Were making our decisions based on the National Weather service, the best a decision. Businesses have been cooperative. A lot of our community have gone and are being prepared. Well away from hawaii, another hur
Has your first alert forecast, kaj. Plan on a great day lots of sunshine, a light north wind, and low humidity will make for perfect conditions to start meteorologic al fall. The average high this time of year is around 79 so this is actually rather typical. Tropical storm hermine will continue to block the weather pattern through the weekend with our next chance of storms arriving around labor day. At that time, warm temperatures and higher humidity will also be in the area. Have a good one today mostly sunny, spectacular. Low humidity. Wind ne 510. High 75 tonight clear and cool. Wind light ne low 52 tomorrow mostly sunny. Light se. Low 54 madeline has weakened this morning from a hurricane to a Tropical Storm. But forecasters are still taking the storm seriously. A Tropical Storm warning still remains in effect for the big island and maui. Officials warn of heavy rain, potential flooding, and shelter as it approaches to stay dry. Several families have decided to do that at more than
Also joins us. Michael, ill start with you in buffalo and then come back to new york. The campaign is certainly happy with the way things have been going. Not only yesterday but for the last week or so. The polls, we talked about on the network, the fox poll shows the race getting closer. The fundraise numbers we show in the broadcast certainly shows donald trump had a lot of things it seemed to me two different trumps. Diplomatic by day and then at night hard line trump. Did that speech help in terms of bringing in new voters last night . Well, i dont think that was the intention of the speech. The intention was to clarify his immigration policy and how he plans to deal with illegal immigration. And make no mistake. Thats a very difficult issue for republicans. Loons overwhelmingly vote for democrats and only 9 or more of latinos support deporting illegal immigrants. So this is a line that Trump Campaign has walked very carefully because as soon as it was rumored that he was going to
The water from flooding these apartments in largo. Man in green shirt it was still about 4 1 2 inches of water inside of the house. In sarasota. Voluntary evacuations are in effect with shelters open. And officers going door to door. Looking for anyone in need of rescue. Woman in neon poncho like up to here, officers were coming up to me and their gun belts were under water, they were up to here in water. Woman i looked out my back window and my backyard was flooded. And the water was 3 feet from the door. Forecasters say. Hermine could be a weak hurricane by the time it makes landfall. Florida now bracing for storm surge. Noaa interviewso that could be easily above my head . So this a really life threating situation . The main thing we would do this product for is encourage pple to get out if there Emergency Managers are telling them to do so. Elizabeth tag the storm may be hours away from making landfall. But the forecast is calling for up to 15 inches of rain in some areas. So offic
Plan on a great day lots of sunshine, a light north wind, and low humidity will make for perfect conditions to start meteorologic al fall. The average high this time of year is around 79 so this is actually rather typical. Tropical storm hermine w weather pattern through the weekend with our next chance of storms arriving around labor day. At that time, warm temperatures and higher humidity will also be in the area. Have a good one today mostly sunny, spectacular. Low humidity. Wind ne 510. High 75 tonight clear and cool. Wind light ne low 52 tomorrow mostly sunny. Wind e 510. High 76 tom. Night mostly clear. Wind light se. Low 54 waterloo. A shooting injured one person as investigators spent the overnight trying to put it all together. Waterloo police tell us gunfire hit one person in the leg in the 300 block of newell street. Police responded to the call around 9 last night. Another car took the person with the gunshot wound to the hospital. Police are not naming the person involved.