wind potential. but the greatest most life threatening conditions, is that southwest and now west coast of florida, and this is an hour by hour situation because it depends on where this eye comes ashore, does it parallel the coast and we ll be following that all day. there is big ramifications if it goes all the way up to st. petersburg area today. to wbbh s gary brod in cape coral, florida. i understand you ve got a lot of downed tree branches, i see one snapped right behind you. that looks like a fairly thick branch. reporter: alex, it is a very big branch. i want to give you an example of how big it is. i have a 6 6 wingspan and it is at least double. 13 to 15 feet. i m not sure exactly if it was because of the wind or lightning. we haven t had much lightning in the area. i m assuming it is wind. wind speeds have picked up anywhere between 20 to $30 mi30
the wind speed and all of that? you said the biggest issue has been lots of rain and the wind, right? do you know how high the winds are? we have a variety of equipment. we ve had gus its consistently up to 100 miles an hour and in the eye we had winds over 100. lot of damaging wind potential that came into the bolton and rock poert area. that s where the eye came in, that s where we ll see the most digt damage when the sun comes out tomorrow. where d you start out ben. we started in corpus christi we were gafl the storm shifted a little east and north, corpus christi a city of 300,000, less populated area, but very unfortunate here in the rock poert and how far up the road are rockport we re looking at a 30 mile
racing to fix damaged vehicles. texas in the bull s-eye tonight. david, families here are cleaning up. we talked to the property owner behind me. you can see that structure completely flattened. he said it sounded like a bomb when the storm rolled through. more severe weather expected this week. david. just horrible. as you point out, another night ahead. let s get right to chief meteorologist ginger zee. you were tracking it this morning. it continues right through the night. it s happening as we speak. at least two dozen tornado and hail reports. you look at that map there, warnings actually from just north of abilene to just north of childress. the region you have to watch out for tonight, that area where it s elevated risk, lawton to wichita falls. that takes you to 9:00. but we took the time out. and dallas to austin have damaging wind potential. as this becomes more linear as we go through early tomorrow morning. quickly, i want to show you the tomorrow threat region litt
potential. there s even some wind potential in d.c. baltimore new york and philadelphia today. not 10:00 but about 4:00 when the storms get there the second time. if you re flying it could be a bumpy ride. severe weather expected. not quite as severe as yesterday. that s some good news there. fasten your seat belt. things are going to get bumpy. golden state warriors fans holding their breath after kevin durant goes down with an injury. this could have implications around the entire league. a pourer shift could occur. the spurs and rockets licking their chops after this. early against the wizards. you see there durant gets fallen into by his own teammate and leg hyperextends a bit and he hops away and did go on to play the
eastern iowa, and you can see much of missouri is in there. that s tonight. a lot of those go until 9:00 or 10:00. that s not when the threat ends. the cold front with another round. st. louis around there at 3:00 a.m., and you can see detroit in the overnight hours, and these are damaging wind potential, and you can see a tornado or large hail. we have seen up to baseball size hail wlr already, and this all moves to tomorrow afternoon and evening in new york city, and even d.c. tomorrow, david. rainy and windy in d.c. thanks for that tonight. next this evening, the developing headline out of houston. the urgent manhunt for a police shooting suspect at this hour. two officers shot and wounded responding to a home burglary. one of the officers in critical condition tonight. police say two suspects opened fire on the officers in a backyard. one suspect was killed. the other is on the run. families in that community have been told to stay inside and lock their doors. next tonight, w