here. we re standing, a lot of this was beach. we got here this morning. quickly it s already risen several feet. i was talking to the mayor. he said one of the big worries in this area is when you go past here, there s homes that s built on a cliff. at this point their worries not so much the wind, this is not going to be the kind of storm here where the wind is going to do catastrophic damage, but what they are worried about is, it s moving so slowly, and it s going to hit right before high tide which comes about 3:30 in the morning here, that they are worried that there may be so much water brought into the areas quickly that it could erode a lot of the soil that these homes are built on a cliff. so he s been going around today trying to make sure, you know, people have left their homes or if they haven t that they are at least aware of the risk that they are taking by staying inside. wolf? even though everyone was strongly urged to leave where you are as you say, chris,
thwart a potentially catastrophic event, the likes of which the city of tampa has not seen and hopefully never will. i want to bring in david mattingly who has been covering this for us all day long. i want to begin with the fact that i m glad we re sitting here telling this version of the story. this could have gone a different direction. a lot of this is all in thanks to this unsung hero who we may never know who this individual is who tipped police off. what did the police ultimately find? what they ultimately found in the bedroom of his apartment where he was living, found bomb making materials, found shrapnel and wiring. they found things that you could definitely make an explosive device with, but they did not find anything that resembled a firearm. there were no guns there. that was a relief. no evidence whatsoever to suggest that there was anybody else involved. again, another source of relief. but he did have the materials there to make some device that is could
jersey. soon we will see wind blow through, could be 40 to 50 miles per hour. not severe weather but if you get the wind tunnel effect, 45 could be multiplied to 60 in the street and you won t even know it is coming. all right, chad. thank you. we are not going to get very far away from the major weather story but there are some other things happening. we ll get you caught up on them after a break.
danger ahead moved away, and, then, of course we have been at the airport ever since. bill: listen, you have a big job still ahead of you and i know you look that, working a lot of long hours and with regard to air travel in america, what airlines have been affected the most? we had the most devastation occur on our c-concourse, which has the most gates and has four airlines and, you have seen the video, i m sure, that wind tunnel effect that went ripping through the concourse, blowing out glass, all along the concourse and, a lot of roof damage and, other issues, remains closed and we have moved those four airlines that operated out of there, to our other concourses, and, american airlines, started operations today, in our d-concourse and they have normally 31 flights a day and airtran and frontier have been moved to our b-concourse and we have a regional commuter that will begin operations tomorrow, and all of that has happened in 24, 36 hours, to get those airlines
pennsylvania, watch out for that. altoona or pittsburgh, get ready for the rain. meanwhile, west, high pressure, opposite of a lifting mechanism, a sinking mechanism, compressing the atmosphere. nice conditions across the central plains but it will be the conjunction of the low moving out to the east, high pressure forming out to the west, what we refer to as a wind tunnel effect. that tight pressure grade yen s going to give you breezy conditions through kansas city, parts of north texas, back into dallas where it will be a beautiful day for you. in the rockies, snow a possibility across the wasatch range through much of utah, into nevada. the sierra nevada, some snowfall can be expected there, california kind of a mixed bag along parts of the coast, you may be dealing with a few scattered showers but a pretty nice day with a mix of sunshine and clouds. 51 degrees in kansas city with breezy conditions, dallas, same deal with 67. 39 degrees in salt lake city, 54 in san francisco, 63 in