Flooding has cleared. Tim jones is behind the wheel of our live drive cam. He is heading northbound on the veterans. As you can see the cars coming out with the headlights heading southbound. No crashes and were hearing reports of possible debris in the roadway southbound adwaters. Watch out for that. Other than that you are looking at a smooth ride. The only other trouble spot we have is standing water reported at mcelroy avenue and come across the gandy bridge there. Watch out for that and avoid that area if you can. Else dids where, across the howard elsewhere, across the howard gandy, you are look going. In about an hour, families can get a first look at the damage after heavy rain forced families to evacuate their homes. Michael paluska has been watching conditions out there overnight and throughout of the out there right now . Reporter its excellent compared to what it was. Where im standing right now is waist deep. The flood waters sort of hung out in this guys front yard. [no audio ] homes under water, First Responders rushing to make sure everyone gets out safe. In my ten years in the area of doing emergency management, i know the lieutenant here has and its never happened here. Reporter the emergency manager says First Responders went doortodoor asking people to evacuate. Only one family stayed behind. 12 others decided not to risk more rain and the water level rising. The main concern was high tide. Luckily, the water dropped as fast as it rose and no one was hurt. We had one elderly person who just had surgery. We drove up with our high water vehicle and fire rescue and high ground. Ems checked that individual out and assessed that he was fine. Reporter the house behind me is built on a platform so none of the water got into the home. But two of the homes across the street are not build on platforms. Well have to wait to see how much damage is inside once the homeowners get here later this morning. Live in sarasota, michael paluska, abc action news. A Clearwater Community is still with evacuations there last night. This is not the first time they faced floodwater as the home. Ashley yore is live at mariners cove. What are people saying about flooding out there again . It looks like were having technical issues with ashleys live spot. Thats expected with the weather conditions. Yeah. There is a look at the flooding there in the neighborhoods with folks having to evacuate again means they can to get everything back into their homes and get their valuables out as they head to neighbors or shelters. Schools across the area are closed in hillsborough, pinellas, hernando and citrus county. Sarah tote that and Polk County Schools are open today. Most colleges are closed as well with the exception of the university of tampa. At last check, they are open today. Because of the closure dozen Recreation Centers open. Starting in two hours, parents can drop their kids off at day care for free at those locations. The rec centers stay open until 6 00. Well update you on any closures on abcactionnews. Com. Dont forget to download our storm shield app as well for weather warnings straight to your cell phone or tablet. Its available for apple or android phone. St. Pete police say a woman robbed a convenience get away. Officers say they were chasing that woman around 4 00 when she crashed into a column outside of a cvs store. She ran into the drugstore where they arrested her. The woman had just robbed a circle k on east gandy. No word right now on who she is. Still to come, check your pantry. Weve got a snack food recall to tell you about. The problem found on three different popular products. Now in danger of being put down and the reason they are no longer allowed to stay at that florida property. Have more on hermine in the next 15 minutes about the potential of more rainfall and how much. Well look at the wave heights it is producing as well off in the gulf in just a couple of minutes. A live look at downtown tampa from our tower cam. As ive be mentioned, no rain here. More is on the way. Well get you details in a z23mkz zy6z now at havertys furniture, its our labor day sale. Where you can create the perfect home. From now until september 5th, youll find huge savings on stylish pieces. Get free delivery, plus an extra hundreddollars off every thousanddollars you spend. With havertys, your home can be perfect, the labor day sale is on now, at havertys. Life looks good. Hi its 6 09 on a thursday in june. Catching you up on the 60 mile perhour winds as it continues to move the rain in our direction here. Well still have on and off showers that will be squally today. Inches in a short amount of time. That will be a problem especially west of 75. By the way, today unlike yesterday, we have shear in the atmosphere, so the thunderstorms can rotate on us. Its incredible stuff here with pockets of a foot of rainfall here. We are going to continue to see bands rotating in with outer bands with a Tropical Storm that will eventually head up to the panhandle tonight and make forecast overnight tonight towards the big bend. For us, anywhere from 1 to 3 inches and we can certainly take that and no issues across the interior counties. It will be along the coast with the rain and potential for coastal flooding as the winds pick up and push that water in at times of high tide around 2 00, 3 00. That is the latest. Well be back with the extended forecast coming up in a few minutes. A consumer alert this morning. Maybe you bought these for your hurricane kit or kids lunch a recall on popular snacks from entenmanns that may contain pieces of plastic. They are recalling the little bites brownies and muffins and also variety packs with a best buy date of september 24th. At least one person has been hurt. All of the affected products have been shipped to at least 30 states, including florida, in the past two weeks. Hundreds of animals are in evacuated by tuesday. A bank is evicting animals from forever farms. Now they are scrambling to find homes for 200 animals including donkeys, horses, and wild hogs. If any animals are left on the property, the shelter owners could face charges. Coming up, a toddler hurt in a car crash and it was no accident. The shocking excuse the boys father gave them. New help for bicyclists if you ever have out riding. Its 6 14 on a thursday here. Tracking hermine, still a Tropical Storm at 60 mileper hour winds. Of course i dont think well get there as far as the strongest winds arriving here. That will be more towards the wind and heading towards the panhandle. The april latchen of course flying this thing quite some time the last week or so. The latest from them is no Hurricane Force winds right at the surface there. Then of course on the western side of the storm, theres really not much, right, as far as thunderstorms . You can clearly see them switch over to radar. You can see all of the action is east. Ossroads as we head through today. As saturday. Dont think well get that by any means here. There goes the storm, cat1 landfall tonight with winds of 75 miles per hour. This area here on the Southern Side of the center circulation that is the area we have to watch for not just the storm but also the potential for rotating thunderstorms. Our threat for tornadoes will continue to increase for today. Not just a flat rain that we had yesterday, which is plenty cause problems for us later today. 6, 8, 9, 12, these are the wave heights as far as the storm surge. We still have to get through that later on today. Even if we dont get a drop of water, we could get coastal flooding as a result of the storm surge coming in as hermine pushes that water offshore. Winds up to 40 miles per hour. Perhaps higher gusts, 40, 45 with especially along the on today. The winds will, by the way, continue to increase. They are okay now but they will get gusty. Coastal flooding and the tornadic threat that well watch. Weve already had spinning thunderstorms offshore. They had been a little farther east with the issues this morning. Again, thats what well watch for later today. Wind gusts, 30, 35. The farther inland you go, the less rain there will be, the less wind there will be. Again, this has always we will get showers and thunderstorms across the east as well. Along those rain bands, with this broad circulation here, this storm heads inland as we head through tonight and continues heading into the northeast as we talk about the rainfall well get there. Windy conditions today turning rather windy, in fact, by midday. Tomorrow we dont lose the wind. We do lose the heavy rain and potential for tornadoes here. So were looking at squally sunday, and monday, despite the relatively high rain chances, were looking good for the Holiday Weekend for both saturday, sunday, and do you have monday off . I do have monday off. There you go. Well have actually great weather going out to the beaches. Right. The recovery for our friends that have been impacted by flooding is what well have to deal with. Yeah. The roads this morning a bonus with less volume. I think a lot of kids are hoping for a fourday weekend hoping to get tomorrow it doesnt look like that will be the case. Tim jones on the veterans expressway looking for debris that was reported by fhp. He hasntstein anything so hopefully they were able to clear that out of the roadway. You are looking at a smooth ride on the veterans expressway. A couple of crashes on hillsborough avenue to tell you about. This is at hillsborough and handy. At crash reported hillsborough florida avenue. I am seeing backups here, so if you are heading to the interstate, 275, it might take you a few extra minutes to get there. Once you get on the interstate, this is what it looks like, the lanes wide open, no issues there. Checking drive times on 275 starting back at the apex, 13 minutes as you dead to i4 as you get to i4. Five minutes down to the Howard Frankland. A clear water Community Still with this isnt the first time that they faced florida floodwater as theimer ho. Ashley yore is living to being to frustrated only owners out there. Good morning, ashley. Reporter good morning, deiah. You said it. They are frustrated because yesterday there were about 4 feet of water at the height splashing up to hit the back of this sign. Yesterday, people were wading through several feet of water to get out. These people and their dogs making that trek. People who lived here grabbed a few important belongings they could carry. This community has been flooded out before thunderstorm colin hit them hard back in it caused severe flooding. The power is still off and more storms are expected. The power could stay off for some time. Reporting live, im ashley yore, abc action news. A colorado dad is under arrest after admitting to an unthinkable crime, intentionally crashing his car to kill his 2yearold son. Police say with his sun unbuckled fromis car seat, the man slammed into a parked Authorities Say nathan was high on cocaine at the time of the crash sunday. Inside the mangled wreckage of the acura, his 2yearold son. He said being a father was a big responsibility and he didnt think he was man enough to raise a child. Isaiah survived. A miracle when you look at the crashing. Hes suffering from a leg, concussion and cuts to his forehead. As of today, aaa is adding bicycle roadside assistance for its members. Technicians will help any aaa members who they can safely reach from an accessible road or parking lot. Your bike will then be transported up to 5 miles free of charge or longer with plus or premiere membership. They say more people are riding bikes inside of driving on honor victims of 9 11. Some people think it could be misinterpreted. First this morning, a dream vacation for two women is turned upside down after they reportedly found 22 million of cocaine. Geo benitez has the details. Reporter in this mornings gma first look, how police say this globe trotting vacation landed two women behind bars in an australian jail. 22yearold molina ands so he bell posted an extravagant fun filled cruise on instagram. Authorities say they discovered 209 pounds of cocaine in their luggage worth a staggering 22 million. This is the biggest seizure of narcotics through a passenger. Reporter the canadian pair boarded a cruise ship two months ago visiting 11 countries until its final destination in sidney, them and a 63yearold man. The seizure of the drugs disrupted the supply through the streets of sidney and beyond. Reporter well have more coming up at 7 00 a. M. With your gma first look, im it is 6 25 right now. In ten days, america is going the 9 11 terror attacks. Now a memorial is causing controversy. A group is taking issue with the writing on this monument. It calls those who carried out the attacks islamic terrorists. Islamics want terrorist or even al qaeda terrorists. An entire Bay Area Hospital is evacuated. The city of clear water knows the drainage systems like this can only do so much in a day like today. Thats why theyve already closed a section of roads. Well also check in with beach patrol to tell you what they are preparing for later today. Of course were tracking hermine with showers and and along with that the wind as well. Coastal flooding by this afternoon. Well talk more about that in a couple of minutes. Good morning, everybody. Were watching the roads this morning looking great here on i75 south of fouler. We have reports south of fowler. We have reports of issues and havertys furniture helps your home look perfect even when life isnt. Pretty hey. Umm. Sign here . Sure, you goa pen . I do thanks sweetie. The labor day sale is on now at havertys. Its 6 29 and thank you for joining us. Ivan is tracking every minute of Tropical Storm hermine. Well continue to get advisories and not much has changed. Were still dealing with Tropical Storm hermine forecasted to become a early hours of friday. Its still making landfall. We wont have to worry about it coming in and hooking right. Thats not going to happen. Around the apalachicola, they will get the rains and winds will pick up. Things will deteriorate through the evening and overnight hours early tomorrow. Lets zoom in here. This is such a broad circulation that we have been inpacketted in a big way, which tends to be the case with Tropical Storm as opposed to hurricanes. They are messy and broad and all of the rain yesterday. We still have rain to get through. Were in a bit of a lull now. The problem is we are adding to the Severe Weather track as well. The individual cells dont look like much. As we continue moving from south to north. The tornado will increase through the midday hours. Theres the shield of rain that will continue lifting up to the north. Were going to have rain today. It just wont be as heavy and steady as yesterday. Winds, upwards of 40 miles per hour, higher along the coasts. We still have Tropical Storm warnings, of course, and the coastal flooding, nothing to do with the rain. Thats the water getting pushed in at the time of high tide later on this afternoon. Well continue to see potential for the coastal flooding. Well be be back with more accumulations and the extended forecast. Lets check in on thursday morning commute. Roads for the most part, dry. Tim jones is driving along with 275 through tampa right now. Traffic looking great, up to breakdowns. Well check your drive across the bridges. If you are heading across the bridge, you are looking at 10 minutes to get across all throw. 7 minutes to across the Howard Frankland and seven minutes to crass the gandy bridge. If you are in the lakeland area, getting ready to head over into tampa, good there as well. 22 minutes from county line road into downtown. Seven minutes from 75 to 275. Captain al is flying over a crash captain al, it looks like this will move out of the way. Reporter good morning, janelle. Good thursday morning, everybody. What a division a day makes. The roads arent so wet in this particular area. You are looking at that Southwest Corner and everything has been moved into the shell station right there. You can see the cpd cars are investigating. The intersection is not affected at all. Lets go to 275. About 80 of the volume you School Coming into view. The interstates i275, i4 and all the way out to the Howard Frankland bridge is moving through. A hospital in one hospital has no patients at all because of an electrical fire. Everyone being treated at region ale Center Bayonet Point had to evacuate. Marisela burgos is live in hudson with more on where the patients were good morning, marisela. Reporter this hospital transported patients to other area hospitals. They do have ambulances one by one on stand by in case somebody does come by and they will be taken to other hospitals if they didnt know what happened here yesterday. Ambulances from different areas transferred the patients to hospitals in the tampa bay areaage an electrical fire electrical fire wednesday parked an evacuation. The power went out around 6 15 wednesday. The wiring of the backup generator was damaged. Rescue crews had to carry patients down steps and into ambulances. It took several hours for them to do that. The ceo of the hospital says they did test the generators and their systems a week it worked perfectly. Marisela burgos, abc action news. As we track Tropical Storm hermine, well be closely watching high tide as it rolls into clearwater. James tully is out there live overlooking the section of clearwater beach. What are conditions out there right now . Reporter deiah, ill tell you what were seeing. We have large clumps of sea weed all over the beach. The gulf right now is rocking. Youve got more waves than gulf this morning. While it might be tempting for some to get out the boogie board or surf board thats collecting dust, beach patrol says otherwise. They are expecting conditions to only get worse later today into tomorrow. Red flags are up there staying up as the tides expected to surge a few feet more than normal. Well be here cracking the ben conditions all morning long as the sun comes up and the tide comes in. Guys, well be here. James tully, abc action news. Well be posting belter updates on abcactionnews. Com where you can also track the storm with our interactive radar. Meanwhile, a tampa family is homeless after a tree came trashing through their roof. Crashing through their roof. The mother used her body to shield a 5yearold. Nobody w