Side. There will be land fall strengthening closer to hurricane strength in the panhandle area around the appalachian cola area. The computer model forecast. Thunderstorm warning in place. Say truss, hernando and pascoe. The wind direction is important the next couple of days. Coastal flooding and waterways high as well as a result of that water being pushed into the bay. The tide cannot go back out after a high tide. That could be an additional as well. Steve, hopefully, people are getting prepared and more so. We are getting reports of heavy flooding in a Mobile Home Park. Many People Living here doesnt look good. The water continues to rise. Good evening, no, it doesnt look good. This is the Mobile Home Park off state road 70. This house, the water goes right up to it and every time a big truck goes through, it pushes water up into it. Let me show you over here, this is the entrance way. No one can get in because the water except for big trucks is way too deep. The residents are staying up there earlier and you can see here in my picture action thats a canoe. Thats the only way in and out of the place. Im going to pull back out wide and walk with me for a second. The water is deep. Theres another guy in a kayak getting around. The deepest part is back by the canal. To my knees, heres a big palm tree. This has fallen. The ground became soft and the palm tree falls on to the ground and water into peoples houses and again, here, this is the only way to get around by canoe. If you take your car in here it will stall out. Were going to stay out here and see what happens because the people are afraid the water is going to continue to rise. Theres a creek and together and making a bad scene. Back to you. Two new water sources emerging. We got to watch for those falling trees which can take out electrical lines. Be very careful out there and be aware of all that. Well continue to monitor the situation there. Meantime, sarasota county, we have a couple of drivers, cars trying to brave flood waters here. Turn around, dont drown. Thats the saying. Meantime, in sarasota county, some drivers tried to make it through deep water as well. A car became and thed on washington boulevard. And the heavy rain causing major issues today. Several streets have been shut down and cars too on numerous roadways. Residents had to be evacuated from an apartment complex and a woman had to be rescued from a vehicle sinking. News channel 8 joins us now live where the rain will continue to be a threat. Were not even there yet, are we. Reporter no, were not. Im standing at the autumn chase apartments here in the middle of largo and this as you can see behind me, this pond has been running over all course, causing a major problem here. People had to be forced out of their homes and that car rescue, dramatically caught on cell phone video. Rain, rain and more rain led to scenes like this. Raging flood waters pushed this car into a ditch. The hud wife was stuck in there. They were triping to help her get out. As they were helping her get out, the car was just sinking really fast. Emergency crews pulled her out and rushed her to the hospital. A few walks over at autumn chase apartment complex, residents are forced out. The pond in the middle of the complex running like a river. The water all over tonys unit. Im petrified. Ive heard my apartment is my animals. Im still trying to figure out what were going to try to do. This water continues to run off into peoples homes and theres no telling when theyll be able to come back and clean up. People need to put safety first. We hate seeing these pictures of these stalled out cars and hopefully, theyll heed the warning. This is only the beginning. If you plan to head out tonight or tomorrow, check the app list first. We have a list of road closures to avoid the flooded areas. People filled about 7,000 bags in less than 24 hours. Center located off little road in new port right next to the sheriffs office. We have a list of sandbag locations on wfla. Com. Check that out if you need them. Heres something you dont see every day. An entire dock floating down the hillsboro liver. We spotted the dock this afternoon. Kind of an odd site and then we found a couple of guys showed up in a boat. They took it and pushed it away. If you have pictures and video of the share then we would like to see them. You can send us your photos by using the news channel 8 app and well pass those along to our viewers. Yes, and its a problem people in familiar have been dealing with for years. Were talking about street flooding nearly every time it rains. Why the city is spending so much time on other projects instead of the aging storm water system. Stadium. Theyre going to play football tonight. We are joined later with bucks insider to give you some of the. We continue now with our Tropical Storm hermine coverage. As steve mentioned at the top moving storm. That is a big issue. It completely stalled out in the gulf of mexico earlier. With that, we see a longer railroad ration event. Forecasted models had a faster moving storm. When it slowed down we had to deal with more of this. The quickly overflowing the pond. Some of the flood water went into the apartment. Four units had to be evacuated. Close the 7 inches of rain fall. A lot of spots across the area about 36 inches. This is still the opening sequence of the storm. We have the impacts here for another 36 hours or so. Amounts. 48 inches or more across parts of the tampa bay area as we head on the next day and a half or so. Its the winds with all the attention. 75 of fatalities come from water, not wind. That is the one Silver Lining to all this. We dont have all the wind to push the water. Still so much of thank you, ian live. We have a local state of emergency issued for pascoe county. Yes, and our Live Team Coverage will continue in a moment. In the meantime, heres a live look at tampa right now. Coming up, 8 on your side investigates storm water issues in the city. Welcome. Its me the extra crispy colonel. My extra crispy, twenty dollar fillup feeds a family of four. Its crunchy juicy and oh so tasty. Kfc. Now, an 8 on your side investigation. Tens of millions spent on touchy feelly projects in tampa. Why not on work to relieve storm water flooding. Tomorrow city counsel decides whether to impose a new storm water fee on homes and businesses. That new tax would raise 250 million for storm water projects. Steve andrews joinses live along bay shore and steve, as with anything they want to for it, not earns agreeing. Youre right, stacey. Im on bay shore now and let me tell you its really coming down. No flooding at the moment. If you take a close look at the storm drain behind me, you can see storm water is actually flowing into the bay. When it comes to tackling storm water flooding problems, for decades, tampas mayors have kicked a can down the road. Some contend money to fix the problem was available all along. s things. Afternoon thunderstorms regularly flood tampas roads. The worst of it happens in city counselors district. More and more streets are flooding. The mayor is raising 250 million for five major and 150 storm water projects to better control this. Ive had enough of that. Business owner randy complains hes taxed enough. He spends it on the parts and special projects. The city spends 35 million on bp money on a river front park. According to the projects dont solve storm water projects. The park is no good if you cant get to it. Why would the city spend 35 million on a park when they have this kind of a storm water issue . Let me say this. First of all, there are two separate issues. We are making a investments into the downtown area. 68 million. How much were spending to renovate. Years old. Later tonight to take the cover off. If it does, water may back up here on bay shore. Harry told me he would occur the 35 million here spent on storm projects. He went with the majority hoping someone would return the favor down to road. Its tough to balance these things. We all know this. Lets talk about the proposed tax. How much would it cost the average homeowner . Right now, the estimate about 45 90 a year depending upon the size of your home now. Randy, an army veteran told me his taxes have gone up each of the last four years and he says hes not sure hes going to be able to pay his taxes this year. All right. Its tough. Steve andrews live in tampa along bay shore boulevard. Thank you. And the rain continues to come down. Almost to sarasota county. Area. 80 degrees and rain will be on and off. 807 chance in the forecast for thursday as the storm continues to move toward the panhandle for land fall. Should be early in the morning on friday. Still some showers coming around the Southern Side of that. Add to that, that wind south and eventually south west on shore causing coastal flooding, tidal flooding. To get back out again. The water will be quiet high on coastal areas and intercoastal waterways. Showers continue to stretch north to south. The yellow and red indicate stronger downpours. South west sections of the county and inland places like lake wells are dry at this point. All the way to the coastal area you can see the showers and thunderstorms firing up back to the west. Typically on a summer afternoon you see them rain themselves this energy is coming to the west. It continues to generate and line up and develop and move on shore. More heavy rain headed towards the county. Letting up on shore. Could continue to see showers in the overnight period too. 82 degrees at 7 a. M. Overnight lows dont fall much. You can see the area back to the west of us. Side. The radar doesnt pick up in the gulf of mexico. Always the wet side in this particular case and just funneling the moisture over areas of already saturated ground and already flooded areas and add to that the coastal flooding and tidal flooding and south westerly wind and you have problems into the weekend. Friday at 2 a. M. Potentially could strengthen into a hurricane by land fall. We mentioned the speed of it which is partly why the rain we continue to kick this thing out of here. Tropical storm hermine with thunderstorms and winds. South and cent er dry air aloft in the general area. All the moisture coming in from the tropics and funneling across the bay area as we talked about. Wind direction is huge the next several days watching with lines of equal pressure. The center of this Tropical Storm carrying into the later part of thursday. Higher tides with south west wind as it shifts. Later tomorrow especially thursday and friday. A Tropical Storm, a wind obviously farther to the north wrapping around the center of that. West of 19 volunteer evacuation for folks. They talked about an 8foot storm surge. Thats possible this evening. Rpm forecast model, still the possibility of early rain. 80 chance of the forecast thursday. A sure thing for most folks especially on the coastal counties. High temperatures stay down as a result of the clouds but its not about the temperatures these days. Its about the rain, the additional rain and of course, those beaches that face south and south west and west as those winds come around south west and that will cause some very high tides. High tide tomorrow is midday 11 00 a. M. To 1 00 p. Florida. And people wondering why schools are canceled, its the danger of the flooding. Thanks. It is going to be a rainy night for the bucks and in less than two hours, the team takes the field and takes on the washington redskins. Coming up, were at the stadium for the bucks final Hillary Clinton im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Bob kidder, owner, new England Shirt Company this factory has been here since eighteen eightythree. We have over sixty people here making shirts labled made in america. Suits from mexico, his coats from india. Trumps products have been made in twelve other countries because he says theres no place in america that he can make them. Well there is. You know donald trump says hell make America Great again while. Welcome back live to a soggy day. Dry ill put my rain suit on after this. We may not see much passing in the game tonight. However, the quash, why is this a big night for him . Because the bucks have a big decision to make regarding mike. Hes a guy they would like to move if they could. They dont want to lose the player for nothing. They may have. They may have to hold on to him. They have a good solid number two. If ryan griffin will be that guy but right now, they dont this weather is hurting him. If they want to see him throw the football, theyre not going to get that chance. Give me a guy whose job is in jeopardy tonight if he doesnt perform well . Kenny bell. Hes had a horrible training camp. Hes caught one ball out of six opportunities. We remember he fumbled the opening kick off in philadelphia. May get a chance tonight to return kicks. How many is he going to get . We dont know. They like ev more. On the other side of the ball news in the defensive back field. Yeah, looks like hes not going to play tonight. Not because of the weather but because he may be a starter on the team. Hes going to play tonight and you know what, thats important. Hes trying to make the team and restructure his contract and get it down to something workable in terms of a back up. Roy, thank you very much. Dont forget the game is on news channel 8 tonight. 8 00 well be here rain or so well see you later tonight from the stadium. Guys, well send it back to you. All right. We have quiet the trifecta there covering the game. Looking for it. Well see what happens to the field. Thats going to be something. A reminder, we want to let you know you can watch nbc programming tonight on me tv. The channel is on the bottom of your screen. Americas got talent on at 8 00 and you have the season but all of that on me tv. Lets check with steve before we sign off. Its going to rain in the well be watching the tides the next couple of days. The high tides coming friday and saturday. Well be into a south westerly flow later tomorrow. This is a concern for bay flooding, coastal flooding and intercoastal flooding. Nightly news coming up next. Well see you back here tonight at 11 00. Breaking news tonight. Donald trumps surprise visit to mexico, standing side by side with that countrys president. Is trump backing down on some of his signature promises. He says they didnt even discuss who would pay for the wall. Growing triple threat, another named storm gaining steam in the tropic, hurricane watches in florida millions on high alert. Violent flight. 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