Still feeling the effects. Hurricane hermine made landfall on the pan handle near the city of st. Marks 20 miles from the capital of tallahassee. Jason brewer is in live for shiri spear. Jason. Jason you saw the picture from tampa. The heavy bands through tampa, st. Pete area. Still a hurricane making its way northeastward inland. It will be weakening. The track friday into saturday through the carolinas as a then what happens after that is still uncertain. We have a large area uncertainty out here for sunday, monday and tuesday. Bottom line, it is off to our south as a weaker storm, but nevertheless, could bring us some direct impacts by late saturday into sunday. So we are talking about that straight ahead. Today, a nice day, enjoy, mid to upper 70s. Morning sun. Giving way to popup afternoon clouds. A dry day and saturday looks dry as well. Current and the waves will start to increase as well. By under night, when you start to see a chance of some of those direct bands. If the syste
People to make their way to las vegas this labor day. 8 news now reporter Michael Stevens has more on your Holiday Travel outlook. Michael Stevens labor day marks the unofficial end to summer. And it is one of the busiest travel holidays of the year. Trip advisor numbers show nationwide 37percent of people plan on takingoff this weekend. Thats up 10percent from last year. In order to keep everyone safe on our roads. A number of Law Enforcement agencies are teaming up to target heavily Populated Areas such as ti between california and las vegas. On average, about 45thousand people drive this stretch per day. Adding up to about 16million cars per year. With this stretch being one of the busiest in the country. Troopers from the nevada and california Highway Patrol are joining forces cracking down on drivers not following the rules of the road trooper Jason Buratczuk nevada Highway Patrol last year we had three fatals on labor day weekend, just in las vegas alone which even on fatal is un
The bad news. It hit floridas gulf coast overnight. The good news. Its weakened to a tropical storm. The storm packed 80 mile per hour winds. And brought a lot rain with it. Thousands of people are without power this morning. But even as the storm weakens as it moves inland, floridas governor is warning that this storm is still powerful enough to kill people. Sot gov. Rick Scott R Florida bottom sot mos we bought cases of water. Im still a little worried about the tidal surge. After moving through florida. A weaker hermine is expected to hit the carolinas. With the front passing over head, winds will be picking up but rain chances are now out the door. High temperatures still remain mainly in the low 100s with a few areas of the city lucky enough to be around 98 degrees. From 11am to 7pm tonight winds will hold between 10 and 20 mph 25 and 30 mph. Labor day monday will consist of breezy but not gusty conditions along with sunny skies and highs in the lower 90s. I am happy to report tha
Commute. Co gary of course trackingry busys forecast and a busy of d coupley of days in the weatherea center especially talking about the newly downgradedowngrd Tropical Storm hermine. Er. So, gary, i guess thats thet t latest news, right. Rht. Thats exactly right. Actlyig. Winds have come down now. Ow look, just because its at Tropical Storm it doesnt meanen much because youre talking itki went from 75 miles an hour down to 70 Miles Per Hour, so this is one of those situations where you dont geteg caught up with just the minutein Little Details here, yeah, y its only a name when youreour talking about that minute mu or some small of a difference. I. You can still see it turned seei into the classict hurricanerine yesterday. St all these bands incredibly incre heavy rain coming across,s, theres stale bit of a tornadoor threat as well as she comes to o shore here. E h into the Florida Panhandle now moving newspaper southernth georgia. Lots of rain. Six,gia. Eight, 10, more than tn inche
Is good news. Also, as we look down in the tropics, were looking at matthew. It was a category five last night. They dropped it down a couple of miles an hour. Maximum sustained winds still 155 miles per hour, making it a category four storm. Its running over very warm water right now. Thats allowing it to continue to strengthen. As far as whats going to happen, it looks like it will become a category three and move towards jamaica late tomorrow night. Th through the bahamas. This is thursday of next week. So late next week we start to really Pay Attention to whats going to be happening in the east coast area including new england. Thats a week away. In the meantime, watch out for ponding of the roadways. This rain is so beneficial that we have. Showers will be tapering off as we head through the afternoon just a little bit, but a pretty wet day coming our way. More about that as well as what you can expect tomorrow in a few moments. Breaking news this morning two people are hurt after