O now at 7 00, the cleanup following hurricane hermine. Why some have to start over from nothing. We are back this morning with a look and how long it could take to dry out. As we get a better look at the damage left hermine, why your drive could be bumpier than usual. Good morning, everybody. Were glad youre with us and glad youre up with abc. First, lets get to bill logan. You said it earlier, still a powerful storm moving up the coast. You know, traditional beginning of the summer season, summer, labor day. Businesses shooting for this weekend to do great things it doesnt look like hermine will cooperate. Its moved out of our way. We have some of that lingering rain around, but were going to clear out by monday, for the most part, were seeing light showers scattered around, and all of this moving on very slowly, right around the big bend area. North of tampa bay, we have some showers offshore that can be part of our forecast for this saturday. For the most part, this is the storm ri
Lets get to bill with floridas most accurate forecast. I guess its easier to watch hermine going up the coast away from us. Unless you know folks where its coming their way. Its left its mark here and now its going up the coast. We have some kind of moving up toward the big bend area. We got crystal river, pine ridge with the lingering rains now. This is the area that got a bunch of rain yesterday and the day before as things continue to stream on shore. Were clear around the metro area. A couple showers just around the northern parts, but the big through the carolinas after hermine just took off up the coast and became a hurricane and fell a part and now is with a Tropical Storm force winds looking to move into the middle Atlantic States and be an extra tropical, strong storm. Its not done yet. Were going to out. Its going to be nice. Winds calming down out of the south, southeast now between 35 Miles Per Hour. Well be in the 80s today starting to get back to normal as the temperature
Good afternoon. For more on this friday, we now have the details of the woman who Manatee County investigators say was desperate to get rid of her exhusband. This is rachel here seemingly happy in this picture and this is the same woman after her plan to have the father of her three children killed was exposed by the undercover detective she unknowingly hired. A lot of new developments on this story today. Were now going through report just released. What are we learning . Some very surprising information here. On the one hand you have immanls of her as a mother and church goer but then you take a look at these arrest papers and you see a different image. These also outlining the alleged plot. She was in Court Earlier today for a bond hearing. The judge sat a 100,000 bond after detectives wanted to have a hit placed on her exhusband. Children were living with david. Cops say thats one reason why she wanted this hit so badly so she could get her kids back. She paid for more than 2,000 t
Will he ever get behind the wheel again . And saved at sea. A fishing boat with dozens on board crashing into rocks, taking on water. Passengers scrambling for life rafts, waiting desperately to be rescued. We were in the right place at the right time for those people. How Good Samaritans got there in the nick of time. And good morning, america. Great to be here. Thanks for the invite, george. We hope youre having a safe and enjoyable Holiday Weekend so far. This morning all eyes are on hermine, tracking north. Warnings and watches are in place along the coastline. Its still ruining the holiday for millions even as the storm spins into the atlantic. Beaches are closed to swimmers this morning after red flag warnings like this one in bradley beach, new jersey. Look at ocean city on sunday. Those winds are so high right the shore. Now lets take a look live at that beach right now. Should be pretty packed this labor day. Those waves are hitting pretty hard right there. Ginger, even though
Hours or the good news with this is although it is enhancing our rain chances, it is still relatively weak and it looks like the majority of the heavier rain and gusty winds will be on the east coast of florida from Central Florida on north to jacksonville. If youre planning to travel in that direction, be aware that you could be getting those tropical heavy downpours, especially along i95 from daytona on north over the next 24 and near shore. So if you happen to want to do any boating off of the east coast of florida, they have tropical force storm winds. That is a bit nasty on that side of the state. In our area, we will continue to pull that moisture out of the system. And that will enhance our coverage of rain over the next 24 hours or so. You can see how big the system is. It has been interesting watching it. You see the circulation that was not present yesterday when yesterday, it was about a 10 chance of developing into a tropical system. Then it really blew up with its organiza