good evening, and it s great to start another week with all of you at home. we do goint with the u.s. bracing for a major hurricane. up to a category 3 hurricane or more. at this hour, still tropical storm idalia, but quickly growing stronger. they expect this to rapidly intensify. set to slam into fm lorida. this could be very dangerous. then racing up through the carolinas and the east coast. take a look tonight. at this hour, already churning with 70-mile-an-hour winds, stretching from mexico s yucatan peninsula and cuba. in tampa tonight, people rushing to get ready. shoppers buying wood to protect windows. and here is the track tonight. the storm path at this hour, at this point, it looks like it could make landfall in the big bend region of florida. that s from tampa north to the
more in agreement then when we had i ian last year. if you are in the path of the storm you should expect power outages. fox and meteorologist adam klotz standing by what we can expect in where it will make landfall and how bad it could be. are still some time with the service we do not know exactly was going to make landfall is it has not started moving their systems and just off the coast of the yucatán peninsula. once at 40 miles per hour. moving to the north at 2 miles an hour. have a better sense was going popular tourist destination that cosmo, cancún currently dealing with some that particulars in the wave activity most of the rain has been an e on the easten side of the storm so far. this ultimately is our storm path you mention the big event this is a cone of uncertainty this storm could take any track right along here. it is still fairly white from panama city stretching down close to getting just north of
concerns especially for people with respiratory issues. i believe that smoke will be with us on and off all summer long. that you can about the storms. hundreds of reports of storm damage including tornadoes. we had a d derecho a wind event 400 miles that s what we had yesterday overnight last night with wind gusts in excess of 80 miles per hour. then the tornado reports. six of them from the texas panhandle through portions of north texas in towards central oklahoma. power outages. you mentioned this. we have thousands of people without power along those that storm path and then the severe storm threat continues with severe thunderstorm warnings until at least 10:00 a.m. that s going to extend into the afternoon hours. we had a tornado warn storm. that has been lifted. but several thunderstorm warnings in effect and you talked about the flood emergency in the pensacola area. over 15 inches of rain, in just
country looking pretty good and nobody dealing with incredibly cold air out there and that s really good news. two little trouble spots of weather for us today. one of them is down across parts of the south, we ve got scattered showers. we re going to see this throughout the day today and we also have the snow across parts of kansas and that ll be maybe 3 to 8 inches by the time this is done and watch the storm path here and saw storms similar a couple days ago to the north and this one to the south of it and by tomorrow, guys, it s towards the mid atlantic and parts of northeast with rain and interior snow. back to you. rachel: thank you, rick. up next, chip wade has been chipping away at his beautiful new home and shows us how far he s come. there he is. pete: he has a beautiful home and we ll show it to you. rachel: that s right.