Waste water issue. St. Petersburg dumped millions of glance of waste water into tampa bay during and after hurricane hermine. Emails are showing the city was warned with a potential problem with waste water long before that storm. Reporter emailed obtained by news channel 8 shows one of st. Petersburg waste water managers managers try to warn the city of fronts in july. The warnings were ignored. The water manager saying they have having waste water spills in the bay and putting the public at risk. It was responded by saying do me a favor and do not copy everyone on these. The emails and consultant report clearly show sewage water would be dumped in the bay in a major rain event hit reporter the current Mayors Office said that i have never saw the emails pointing out the problem. Mayor kriseman is calling finance an investigation of the issue. Two small children reported missing are safe at this hour. Authorities found the Citrus County children with their parents today in georgia. The
Disappear. 81 at 11 00 today. Well go through the forecast hour by hour with a closer look at that rip current risk for the shore and the delaware beaches within i come back in a few minutes. First, lets see whats happening with traffic. Jessica boyington has your first alert traffic. Starting off in new castle, in delaware, theres an overturned tractortrailer. 95 southbound, that ramp to route 202 which is right around exit 5 is closed and blocked this morning with that accident scene. A little bit of a slow go around there. Detours in place as well. Heres the schuylkill expressway around Spring Garden street. We earlier had a disabled truck right in the split right here. Other than that, good to go. Both directions are looking okay. There looks to be some flashing lights up ahead. Well keep our eye on that for you and see what that is in the coming minutes. It could be just a typical traffic stop. Well watch for construction over in new jersey on 295 northbound between route 130 at e
Panhandle, big bend region of florida, expected to make land fall later tonight as a category one hurricane. You can see hurricane warnings posted for areas north of the tampa bay area. And then as we head into friday, it will continue to move away from us and then up the east coast as we head throughout Labor Day Weekend. So at this point, its looking like this could be the first hurricane to hit florida in over 10 years. Hurricane hunters were out investigating this storm the today. And thats why they were able to upgrade it hurricane. They found wind gusts up to 86 Miles Per Hour. So it has strengthened in the gulf over the course of the last 24 hours. And now its moving more quickly as it heads towards the panhandle of florida. The other big story is, with this tropical system, we have to be mindful that we could see quick spinups or isolated tornadoes. We have parts of the tampa bay area under a tornado watch. Polk county, Citrus County, hillsborough county, up through county, tha
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Having classes tomorrow. Several have closed schools because of the weather. Parents will have to make other plans for their schoolaged children. Now, tracking Tropical Storm hermine. That was upgraded from tropical depression 9 this afternoon. Hurricane hunters were out investigating this area. And they found we do now have max winds at 40 miles per hour, making it a Tropical Storm. Still moving very slowly off to the north at just 2 miles per hour. So the forecast track storm strengthening into a strong Tropical Storm. As we head into thursday night, you can see, as a strong Tropical Storm, Tropical Storm warnings in effect for our Northern Counties at this point. And quickly moving out as we head into friday and this weekend. But really, the next 36 hours or so. Were going to continue to deal with some very heavy rainfall. Look at the rainfall totals from aint pete beach. So no wonder were dealing with flooding with rainfall totals like that. Always remember, dont drive through the