Caribbean. Large scale Power Outages remain in cuba and jamaica right now and there are a lot of flooded roads and Communities Just cut off. Good morning. Im sarah simmons. Im wisdom martin. Welcome to fox 5 morning news. Lets get a quick check of our weather situation here and with the hurricane with tucker barnes. You sure you just want a quick check . You take as long as you want. Im kidding. Hurricane sandy is still a hurricane. Well get appear update in about a half hours time. Well get an update in about a half hours time. It will be interacting with a frontal system as it gets closer to our area and become what we call a hybrid. Not a threat to your friday or even your saturday. This will get in here early next week. I think monday, tuesday will be the main time frame when we might be impacted with the leftovers of sandy. Locally, lets go it our close in radar. We are doing fine this morning. We do have some fog and mist across the area just like yesterday. You will wake one clo
Police arrested rick curl, a prominent d. C. Area Swimming Coach for sexually abusing a minor. A girl came forward because he abused her in the 80s. They banned him last year because of the allegations. He founded the curl Burke Swim Club with 11 sights around the d. C. Area. All eyes are on sandy. At least two people have died. The hurricane is gaining strength over cuba. It made ld fall overnight with wind gusts over 114 Miles Per Hour. The Tropical Storm warning is in effect for parts of florida. The question is, what kind of impact will sandy make here . For that, we bring in tom kierein. Tom, you have the latest track, the very latest. This just came out a couple minutes ago. Its really broken up and lost a lot of organization, but regaining strength. Right now, its over open waters, south of the bahamas. Here are the latest conditions. Itis maintained strength as a category 2 storm. Its tracking north at 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour. Its moving quickly. The latest track continues on t
So were in this now. And this weather is expected to be with us all detail tomorrow and in parts of saturday morning before things finally pull away. Officials have closed down schools, obviously they dont want anybody in the water here. Very worried in the city of jacksonville about the georgia florida Football Game on saturday. Theyre asking tailgaters and folks heading to that game to really make sure that they use their best judgment. Dont go in the water, dont bring out a lot of loose things like umbrellas and tarps and things like that that will be blowing around. When you talk about 100,000 people out tailgating in that sort of thing, we could certainly get into trouble in a big hurry. From there, that is where potentially the bigger concern lies as we watch a storm that weve never seen on the modern meteorology maps potentially unfold for the northeast. Details about that are uncertain. Bau high impact, multimillion dollar event could be in the making. Jim cantore. Back to you.