70 to 75 Miles Per Hour winds. Reporter hermine intensified in the warm waters of the gulf of mexico thursday. Landfall is expected over night in floridas panhandle. From there, hermine will head up the eastern seaboard. Florida has not had a direct hit from a hurricane in 11 years. Residents along the gulf coast spent the day preparing for the worst. Sandbags, you know. Try to get everything ready, tied down, vehicles out. Reporter the ut outer bands of heavy rains have been pushing on shore since late this morning. By the time its all over, some areas could see almost two feet of rainfall. A state of emergency has been declared for more than 50 counties in florida and schools in more than 20 counties have been closed. Philip byron is using these last few hours of preparation to stack sandbags outside his newly renovated real estate office. Its just mother nature. You take it as it comes and you reporter prepared or not, florida residents are in for a long night. Don champion, clevela
Morning. Most of it will be done by saturday noontime. We are offer to a cold start now. We are just in the went from the bay west all across virginia maryland and into West Virginia. We will have these temperatures stay below freezing here through much of the morning. And then by noontime in the upper 30s hitting mid fourth midafternoon with increasing clouds and then the rain snow arrives tonight. Next weather and traffic on the 1s coming up at 5 11 a look at your bus stop forecast for this friday. A right now a water main break in Prince Georges County is affecting a short cut that you may take to work. Megan mcgrath is on old an napannapolis road with more. Reporter look at this hole. This was created by a broken water main. They have started the work of digging up the pipe, but they havent started the repair yet. So this will be with us for a while. This is a popular cut through. A lot of people take to goat from 450 over to 197. But all lanes are blocked this morning. You are not
Standing by to deliver the stories that will deliver your day. More on the chinese Inflation Report. Any selloff on asian stocks. Following the renewed selloff in u. S. Tech shares. David is in berlin, covering Angela Merkels first visit to athens since 2000 wealth. 2012. Deb the latest, lets go to in hong kong. Morning, zeb. A down day across the asiapacific. The selloff in wall street precipitated it. The latest Inflation Numbers in china having an impact. Ofn we look at the data out china, inflation below the governments target of 3. 5 . There is the expectation that there will be additional stimulus rolled out, but markets are not taking it positively. The index tumbling. Lets take a look at the numbers. Down one percent. Japan, the biggest decline or in terms of percentage of value. Tech stocks getting hit harder. The story is in hong kong. China shares falling. The Mainland Chinese Companies listed down two percent. A very difficult week. , modestlyr index higher thanks to the ho