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set in. if you were a cherry blossom you d be frozen by now. absolutely. reporter: many of the blossoms had hit what is called the puffy white stage. those petals are already wilting and turning brown. how is it pretty of like this. reporter: temperatures dropped below 24 degrees for a more than five hour stretch overnight. that has the backer service predicting damage to 90% of the blossoms. and we still have two more icy nights to go. it is very sad. you can see they were trying to bloom and then it s just not going to happen. reporter: now the horticulturists have been taking cuttings from some of the trees that have been slower to develop like this one. they re going to take those branches inside, see if they can force them to bloom and then some time in the next 24 to 48 hours we ll know blossoms, these slower developing blossoms have been protected inside their kind of woody buds. live at the tidal basin, bruce leshan, wusa9. breaking our heart ....
have. we noticed some major models trending. you can see the cone of air there does take us out of the cone of error. except for the small part of citrus county. the northern sections there. friday, and eventually into saturday, passing well to the north of us, what this does is we get closer to potential landfall some time on thursday. the cone shrinks just a little more. most of tampa bay is out of the cone of error. that doesn t mean we won t feel some efs. collin. it will go roughly the same path. trending a little further north with some of the computer models as we put them all on a map. as we analyze what it looks like from a distance, there is a circulation there and perhaps more thunderstorms on the southern part of the center of the storm. but, it just suggests that the dry air and the wind shear is having an impact on the storm itself. a look at the hurricane hunter aircraft. they have been flying around throughout the day. they discovered within the center o ....
the forecast center. i can t call it a name because it still doesn t have one. it is just depression 9. hermine is the next tropical depression on the list. it could be good news that it is not a tropical storm. that it is is a tropical depression. not in a very good environment. not much better than it was 24 hours ago. there is the big picture there. gaston out to sea. we are interested in tropical depression number 9 wh still a tropical depression by the way. according to the national hurricane center. as of 5:00, 35 miles an hour winds. there s your forecast track very close to what the consensus of the major models are doing. a slight northerly shift. of course, as we get closer to potential landfall, the cone itself, that white cone, gets a little thinner. 65 miles an hour thursday afternoon. you can see moving off to the northeast. tropical cyclone. we could bring some very strong tides into the west coast of florida. especially high tide thursday any time from ....
izzy runs a boat and jet ski rental. when they call, we have to say it s contaminated. it puts our business away. reporter: we have been trying to find out for two days where the waste water is being dumped. jeff patterson with channel 8. reporter: we tried setting up an interview with the head of public works but he s a busy man. just trying to find the status of what the interview time might be so we can find out where the waste water is being discharged. repor kathlene peters on the issue. the bacteria levels are so high, we are closing beaches and we need to protect our citizens. reporter: peters wants to bring the pinellas county delegation together with local leaders to talk about waste water. this is stuff that should have been maintained a long time before this. reporter: but she also believes the city of saint petersburg has an obligation to let the public know what is going on. yes. those citizens need to know just like i get on my paddle ....
reporter: the florida high school athletic association says no religion is allowed on government property. the school claims it is protected speech and filed a lawsuit in federal court. it is teaching the students that the first amendment doesn t apply when you go to a championship football game. that s wrong. it just flatly wrong under the constitution. reporter: the team was told players could have their pregame prayer on the field, but could not broadcast it. the school maintains that is a violation of civil rights. to thanksgiving prior to an athletic event should not be any different than congress opening up their meetings in prayer. reporter: and once again, as we mentioned, that lawsuit was filed in federal court today. but when we reached out to the florida high school athletic association in gainsville, they said they never received any paperwork. so what happens next mel? reporter: obviously, the judge will set a court date soon and ultimately, t ....