Weaken. Either way the rain is coming. Sure, the track has gotten skinnier but the center line track still has it over eastern North Carolina and it hasnt shifted much. However, we now know what kind of rain were expecting. It will happen from 10 a. M. Tomorrow to 10 a. M. Saturday. It could amount to 2 inches. The entire ea Flash Flood Watch. Speaking of florida, its under a state of merge emergency. In st. Petersburg floodwaters are rising. A nearby lake began overflowing its banks. Some people have seen they were planning events for the Labor Day Weekend and theyre now preparing people for the storm. Aj, are people concerned . Reporter if you look behind me looks like theyre getting ready for this fun event. Its sunny skies. The only thing you looks different is some rough waters. You can probably see a guy coming out right now. He was just out there as well as the wind. Its a little bit more than comfortable. A lot of these people are out enjoying the day trying to get as much of t
East. Both in Johnston County and also to the northeast, halifax and North Hampton county. Nothing severe but its possible going into tonight. Outside of that, the big story today Tropical Storm hermine becoming hurricane hermine. Winds now up to 75 miles per hour. Rain continues to batter the florida coastline as its moving north, northeast at 15 miles per hour. No major changes in the track. Therefore no big forecast. Expected to make landfall as the first hurricane to hit florida in 11 years. The change 1 hurricane. It will weaken as it goes over our area of saturday. Heres a closeup view. The cone is getting more narrow because were getting closer and closer to that time. There is the compare sornings the red and comparison, the lets head to the coast. Our own aj janavel is covering hurricane hermine from the coast. Reporter you want have any idea theres a big storm. Its a beautiful beach day. Were looking to get a pretty nice sunset. The people are there is some noticeable differe
A lot of folks are planning to leave town tomorrow and it is going to be raining very heavily. If you can set aside your travel plans and leave early first thing friday morning or midday saturday and youll have dangerously heavy ra ea. Lets take a look at her name. You can see it sitting down in the gulf of mexico 16 norways it may become a hurricane before it makes landfall as well. There are hurricane warnings in effect for parts of florida. From South Carolina to just a little north of wilmington. If you have not seen it yet this morning. Very much like it did this time yesterday. But this time you should have shifted much farther inland. So looks like it may affect the rain on saturday and sunday but the heavy strain may be a close on the coast. Seventytwo in berlin, when you step out the door this morning you wont be surprised by anything, will feel very similar to the last several weeks. Eightyseven at lunchtime, hot this afternoon and 93 yesterdays high was 95. Tomorrow highs wi