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per hour that will continue to push inland and, it will make pushing inland, and hermine makes land that will make landfall later tonight. i suspect we will be getting warnings shortly. shortly. if we do we ll have you. clearwater, all of the floodwater clearwater where all of the flood water the water treatment plant the marshall street been overwhelmed. treatment it is pushing sewage out of the manholes. mechanical problem pushing ryan is live with what s going on. on the reporter: reporter: as if clearwater doesn t have enough to deal doesn t have enough things to deal here is another problem. problem, and it s take a look over this is raw sewage coming out from those from those manhole covers. it s because all it is because of all the storm water it has to go somewhere. just down the road here there was and just on the road there has been a total mechanical failure from the wastewater treatment plant. i want to show you some plant. this is video from this ....
thankfully no one can see this along a busy bay area road. you can imagine some accidents almost caused today. the now is joined from that wall in brandon with the mess knowledge where the messages of hate have now been covered up. reporter: here thousands of people drive by every day and would see whatever was spray painted in this spot. now the message of hate may be painted over, but the triggers of shock still remain. a crew paints over that says kill white people and black lives matter. there is a way to protest. there is a way not to. this is just it hurts everybody. reporter: when she saw the spray painted words, and she bought her own paint cans to help cover up the hate. i was kind of sad like why does it have to get do this? reporter: the sheriff s office says they don t know who away, a trailer got hit with similar messages. the sign in their front yard painted over. i m pissed off. very pit pissed. and it merricks our neighborhood look li ....
had this on facebook. the models are definitely going closer to the east coast of florida, but they still remain offshore. now, if we see this going more and more to the west, we might have to change our tune. but based on the current track, i think tropical storm winds are a decent chance on the east coast. high lands and polk maybe thursday and friday. along the west coast of florida, maybe winds. look at the spaghetti models. lot of consensus, but there are some closer to the east coast of florida, which is why we ve been saying you can t write it off yet. it could turn eventually and when it does, it could make the outer banks of the caroline as and possibly new england. we are still tracking heavy rain across part of the area. an update coming up in a couple minutes. happening right now, president declared florida a major disaster area. this mobile home park in port richey dealt with flooding several times in recent years. i ve been here, i ve seen the boats goin ....
is next. we begin with breaking news. an arrest in a deadly hit-and- run accident. allison huffman. the prime suspect in that deadly hit-and-run crash that killed a driver on the frankland bridge. michael has more. what can you tell us? reporter: as you know they have been searching for huffman 19 hours and coming to a conclusion at the promenade apartments in st. petersburg. florida highway patrol got a tip at 9:00 that huffman was here and a friend called in that tip. there is a cruiser that we are building and they have her in custody in the back of that cruiser still trying to get confirmation is that in fact allison huffman but she is in custody. from this point transported to the pinellas county deal and arrested in connect to hitting a tow truck driver on the frankland bridge. hfp saying that roger perez was hit and killed while he was helping two stranded motorists. they found huffman s car with damage on it and ever since that moment they have been search ....
monkey was doing right before he grabbed a butcher knife and started chasing people. the weather is looking perfect and i will show you the best time to be outside over the weekend. the now tampa bay starts now. we start with breaking news. it is a beautiful day and it looks beautiful. but two hours ago we were seeing some haze and some smoke. people asking us what is going on? you can see there is dennis phillips tweeting about it. what is going on? let s go to the desk to find out. this is a a controlled burn out of the new tampa area there is no threat. take a look, it is not looking so bad. i think it just peaked a lot the peoples interest. so go ahead and take a look if he can, you can see we do have a north easterly flow so if the controlled burn is in the new tampa area and the wind is means anywhere sw. is way you will see the smoke or at least to be smelling the smoke. we are talking about temple terrace, all the way to south tampa is where we have been ....