Carlos, i ll start with you. tampa is already looking at potentially 4 to 7 feet of storm surge if idalia shifts in its track, obviously that could get a lot worse. what are you seeing there, what are people preparing for? reporter: well, we know there are two-man todayer to evacuation orders that have gone out here in hillsborough county which is home to the tampa bay area as well as out in pinellas county which is to the west of where we are, that is home to the clearwater st. pete area. as you mentioned, the concern in this part of hillsborough county, the downtown tampa area is the flooding associated with this hurricane. as you noted, we re talking about a storm surge anywhere between 4 to 7 feet and when you take a look at the bay here behind me, you can see it won t take a whole lot of water out here in order for some of the flooding to take place. this time tomorrow, we ll have taken into the account the rain which has already started to fall and as well as high tide and the
We want to get you caught up on the big political story of day, a big loss for democrats in a special election in florida s 13th district that could mean some soul-searching ahead of this year s midterms. republican david jolly, a former lobbyist, narrowly beat alex zing. jolly managed a win. the clearwater-st. petersburg area is a swing district where president obama won by 5,000 votes in 2012. democrat alex sink was considered a strong candidate but it was not enough to win and that has democrats worried going into this year s midterm. joining me now, chuck, you know politics better than anyone else, but you also know florida here. so what is the aftershock of what s happened there? well, there seems to be a couple of things. number one, democrats had a hard
Election. the race has been used as a test case for midterm cycles yet to come. david jolly won against alex sink. the clearwater-st. petersburg area is a test area. obama did carry the drnkt two times. it s being called one of the most expensive this cycle. outside spending more than doubled candidate spending, and the outside interests often overshadowed the candidates themselves, but last night a raucus crowd congratulated jolly. bob barker even announced him by video. jolly, who was a former lobbyist, called for unity after a hard fought, often nasty race where committee and super pac ads some true and some saturated the airwaves. i have very good news tonight. no more commercials. i have believed from the very