Formerly invest 97. We just got confirmation that this is now Tropical Storm matthew. The m storm on the list. Hurricane hunters have been flying in the system this morning. At flight level, they found a closed area of circulation. Heres the latest track from the Hurricane Center. This is expected to continue through the southern caribbean and becoming a category one hurricane as early as fr the make a hard right turn, start heading to the north, Pope Benedict materially approaching jamaica by sunday and monday as potentially a strong hurricane, a category two storm. And from there, a lot of uncertainty as to where this goes. At this point, we need to watch the system closely. Right now, the winds are at 60 Miles Per Hour so its a potent Tropical Storm. More about matthew coming up in a bit. And also, showers and mainly just shower activity. Weve had this onshore flow. Its been giving us the morning showers here and cloudiness as well. Rain chances will continue as we go into the after
This is a live look where hermine is passing now. This is pauley beach, South Carolina. Happening half an hour north of there, here is a live picture of charleston, South Carolina. You see the camera shaking there. Dark skies, rain in the area. And also in the last couple of hours, virginias governor declaring a state of emergency today ahead of hermine. It has been closed for more hours. That means that the winds are finally starting to die down. We have crews all over the bay area covering the damage left behind from e storm. First lets bring in shay ryan to show us where the rain is still falling. Shay. Lets take a look at titan Doppler Radar right now. You can see that anywhere from holiday and New Port Richey and farther north, some heavy batches of rain. So, again, weve got some spots where h not terribly widespread like what we have been seeing. In fact a lot of dry spots across the northern counties, with a few of the heavier downpours. Some into sumter county. As we look farth
Pasco county. He is accused of blowing up his port richie house during a drug manufacturing attempt. Check out the pictures. Brown grabbed his drugs when the fire started and left two caged dogs in the burning house. There was also a child in the house at the time who was not injured. Brown is considered armed and dangerous and we have a crew on the way to pasco right now, well bring you developments as they become available. Right now floridas depant protection is monitoring a giant sink hole that swallowed 250 milliongallons of radioactive water. That hole opened in late august at Mosaic Fertilizer in mulberry, 8 on your side discovered and broke the story yesterday, steve joins us now from the site. Reporter good afternoon from the mosaic new wails plant they are flow into the aquaphor is moving slowly and its just beginning to show up in its recovery well. The sink hole began swallowing the water in this containment pool august 27th. That created a direct path to the florida aquaph
Notes about her emails, issues about the investigation and that a concussion was an issue. And more refusal over the Colin Kaepernick not standing for the National Anthem. Now officers may choose not to work home games. Why they say their officers is being treated unfairly. D she dominated the olympics and now gold medal winning gymnast simone biles says its time to rest. She announces shell take the next year off to pursue other opportunities. What she plans to do with her year away from the gym, today, saturday, september 3rd, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this saturday morning. Im craig melvin alongside Sheinelle Jones and Stephanie Ruhle and dylan dreyer. Busy morning. Busy morning. A lot to get to. Lets get right to it. Its our top story this morning as we follow Tropical Storm hermines path as it slowly makes its way up the east coast. The storm hammering the coast overnight. The storm threatens to ruin labor daee we have full coverage. Lets begin with nbcs Kerry Sanders in Virg
Now most of you are hovering in the upper 50s to near 60. Low pressure overhead and we have this tropical flow. This is coming right from the gulf of mexico and atlantic. Lots of moisture and a lot of muchneeded rainfall. Almost one agent hopkins yesterday. We continue to see scattered showers this morning. There are no thunderstorms yet and west of cleveland we see rain and also see it east some of you are getting some breaks. It it will not be constant all day but it has been persistent overnight. As we track on future view you will see we get breaks midto late morning before more pills in today. This is all headed having an impact on the drive. We have the weather on here and the rain there is some standing water in spots where the rain has been persistent. And 90 and 80 looking around 60 Miles Per Hour which is great because it is really. As traffic picks up we will get slowdowns again and as you are getting ready to head out listen to our partners at wtam 1100. In an unprecedented