that s good news. but what s new this morning, what s important for our viewers is that the national hurricane center has just hoisted hurricane watches. that s basically for the coastal regions from st. petersburg, florida, right through the big ben region. we re talking about the west coast of florida. this is significant that the hurricane watch exists because they see, just like the meteorologists on the cnn weather team, the potential of tropical storm elsa restrengthening. it is now over open water. it s no longer over western cuba where it loses its heating source and it gets disrupted by the mountains in that area. the warm ocean waters give it that fuel for the engine to really fire back up again. so some slight to moderate strengthening is forecast, and that s why they believe by the time this makes landfall late tonight into early wednesday morning across that big ben region of florida, it could be near or at hurricane strength. we also have storm surge warning. that encompa