Before Labor Day Weekend is over. We have team coverage. The weekend will start off ok. Harvey both will be rain free days if you have plans. The storm is moving steadily along, 50 mile per hour winds down from where it was because the track has been overland. Tropical storm warnings all the way of the coast from the carolinas to new jersey and a Tropical Storm watch from long water tomorrow afternoon there is the opportunity for it to we intensify. Then it is going to get into a star pattern where it will mill around or loop around. How close to it will post to us will it be . Possibly for some fringe effect. We want to give you the idea of the beginning timeline. Ray not just any night and then the rest of us getting some the island sunday morning than by sunday night they are picking up on the cape as well. It will get received it not as much as the south coast of the islands. More on the effects that we can expect here. It is the south coastal areas, the cape and the islands we are
We know that more is on the way. Hurricane hermine slammed into the Florida Panhandle overnight. Bringing with it powerful winds, 80 miles an hour. Gusts even stronger. Yeah. We are going to lose the power line here. Reporter the first storm to make landfall in florida in 11 years. Definitely leaving a mark. Just because it is clear outside does not mean its safe. Reporter snapping trees, crushing cars and homes, and knocking power out to tens of thousands. Water pounding the coastline and surging inland. Leaving behind devastation. Crews in cedar key are assessing the damage this morning. Cinder block walls and this dock couldnt withstand the thrashing. Hermine has dropped to Tropical Storm status and is heading up the east coast. Parts of georgia and the carolinas under a state of emergency. We expect Tropical Stormforce winds between 3040 Miles Per Hour, sustained. Reporter preparations preventing excessive damage there. We want everyone to please be safe. Reporter officials warning
About the accident. Good morning. We are keeping a close eye on Tropical Storm hermine. Doug good morning, its saturday, september 3. Im doug meehan. Antoinette and im antoinette antonio. We have some great weather this weekend. Mike a fantastic day today. All that moisture moves north. Tomorrow, a bit of cloud coverage, as well. It may linger into wednesday. I shows up at that point. It will be a while and will hang a while. A beautiful sunrise coming out of the whole thing. The National Weather service issued these watches. They are hesitant as to whether it will be moving its weight in here in full force or not. Heres where it is that right now. Here is the path it will take. In may intensified a bit to us. Theres a tone of uncertainty here. Theres a lot of debate as to what can happen. It is close enough to us. The ocean will be churned up out there. The rip current risk will be the big risk there. Well talk about the totals in the more in a moment. Right now heading for new englan
So far. Mike for the areas north and west, its not a bad time. A thin overcast right now, it will dissipate at different times. The actual storm itself is about 540 miles away from boston. We are seeing the cloud shield working its way out. The rain is way down here. The reason is not moving northward fast is because we have a big High Pressure are side, but the storm system itself is way down to the south at this point. We are watching for Tropical Storm watches, which have been issued along the outer areas of the water. Not so much inland yet. We will reevaluate that later on this morning. Maxim sustained wind and 60 mellon hour. Just now moves into the atlantic. 60 miles an hour. Rough surf along the south coastal basing areas, which is why were keeping a close eye on the threat of rip current as we had through the weekend. More about this is the warming trend comes into the week. Antoinette mike, thank you. Continuing to track Tropical Storm hermine. The storm churning up the coast
That storm already leaving a trail of destruction behind. Residents leaving in beach communities bracing for the worst. Kris you have to be prepared for it. While we may not see the extent of this impact on us until the end of the Holiday Weekend hermine is leaving its mark along the way. The first hit may have been the most violent as hermine crashed on to Florida Gulf Coast. The winds rip aid part buildings pulling down trees and power lines. The rain 12 areas pushing water into places it was not supposed to be. The day light shows the extent of the damage. This hasnt happened in years. Reporter it has been more than a decade since a hurricane made land fall in florida. As the hurricane moved through the state more than 250,000 floridians experienced power loss the. Reporter inland lost a bit of its power but little of its punch. It pushed into georgia but continued to shred almost noise around 2 15. I think a transformer had blown or something. Reporter the storm gathered speed as i