For one last visit. For viewers who havent seen 0 one of your 20 appearances on the Program Since 2003, remind them what the National Taxpayer advocate does the National Taxpayer advocate is appointed by the secretary of treasury and serves in the Internal Revenue service and had the organization Taxpayer Advocate service to help taxpayers solve theirproblems with the irs and im charged with meeting making administrative recommendations to congress , to mitigate those problems and this is sort of in dispute resolution area and the complexity of the law and things like that. After 18 years, why are you stepping down . I reached a milestone birthday and want to have enough energy for the next phase of my life really 18 years is a long time. Of your final projects has been to sketch out the complexity of the taxpayer system. We will show viewers a map here that your office has helped sketch out, why are you doing that . . We had had a roadmap as a teaching tool for my employees, a very hi
Heres todays eye opener. We have multiple injuries, weve had two house fires. It was scary. I didnt know what to do. Powerful earthquake strikes Southern California. The last time we had an earthquake in Southern California, above magnitude 6 was 19 99. Seven americans were killed when a Helicopter Crashed in the bahamas, West Virginia billionaire chris klein is among the victims. One person was killed and several injured after being struck by lightning in south carolina. President donald trump put his stamp on the fourth of july celebrations in the nations capitol with a tribute to the countrys military and a call for unity. We must go forward as a nation with the same unity of purpose. Miami dolphins defensive tackle Kendrick Norton had to have his left arm amputated after a serious car crash. A Fireworks Store caught fire. Serena williams survive as tough match. In a quest for her eighth wimbledon title. He is a bead of dark floating in the dark oriole of the night. Joey chestnut wa
Saying that. Let me get into it here is a major hur cane. Even t be expected. Their presentatn ishowing ecthause i went through two mountainous areas but is hcore. Winds are still at 125 Miles Per Hour andit ahead of it but incredibly war water and ind n restrengthen. What laura was just talking ea coast. Erously close to t in fact, one of the latest computer models has it touching the east coast briefly, then turning to the north. This is where the change is coming in. Watch the models. Yeah, just kind of loop around. So its something we have to Pay Attention to and perhaps next week, this thing still is did nothing with that but now, theyre beginning to buy into this as well because all the major computer models are making this loop. So again, by friday morning, europe youre looking at the passage or friday afternoon, very, very close to the cape. If not touching the shore, maybe just miles offshore. Hurricane force winds would likely be right at the beaches, Tropical Storm force win
Area. Thats great news. Higher wind shear in place for now. That played a part in weakening the system with the exposed center, lower wind shear, longer term as it gets into the gulf of mexico and the warm gulf waters. It does have some potential to strengthen. So as we look at the spaghetti models. The trend has been to the west. They have been all over the place largely because this has not been a tropical system. But, the best thinking today is a little bit further west. Also, we thunderstorms moving across Pinellas County. Moving offshore. We will talk more about this is a little later on. All right, steve jerve thank you for that. We will check back with you again in just a little bit. Okay. Terrified and alone. An eightyearold girl dropped off more than 30 minutes from her bus stop. Her family turned to 8 on your side to figure out how this happened. Well, the eightyearold i was lost, confused, crying when a substitute bus driver dropped not by a stop or two, but a long way off.
We do have the cboe volatility fear index at 32. 89 at the moment. Now, if we turn our attention to a different kind of risk and real problem and fear, its the destination across florida fr from desimation is the hurricane devastation in florida. It is expected to be a cat 1 later tonight because its a Tropical Storm at the moment and the entire country is watching the storms path including wall street. Looking at stock market here, the dow has fallen below 30,000 once again. Were at 29,034 tech star apple received a rare downgrade from bank of america due to weaker consumer challenges. We see the s p, this is the one that gives you a sense of how all stocks are doing down 2. 7 , losing 103 points and anything you check whether its the airlines or utilities or financials, theyre in the red at the moment. But lets take a live look at Fernandina Beach camera shot we have. This is in florida and Atlantic Ocean side north of jacksonville dropping buckets and buckets of rain causing even mo