?thousand national guardsmen on ?standby. watching this storm. ((walter)) its now 5:?? thanks for joining us. i m walter allen((jen)) and i m jen epstein. we ve got a five o clock advisory to talk about. let s go right to dave. ((jen) it seems like we ve been watching the storm ?forever. but you can t get apathetic about it. ((wally)) flooding is a very real possibility for many bay area communities. and northern pasco county is already under a hurricane watch. ((wally fox-13 s shayla shayla: this area ?knows flooding. it s been through it a few times. what are they doing to prepare ?this me right now sely. thetorm cldmpact unty tonignto morning. some of the ggest conser include heavy rain and high wind. we learned erted peoplen w lying areas - prerefor possible evacuations. i want to take you to this video captured tudaes ((wally thanks, shayla. potential concerns for several bay area counties. and sandbags are available at several locations. from hillsborough to citrus. w
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along the florida panhandle, closer to the tallahassee area. just in, we now locally have a tropical storm watch as we go into the weekend because of hermine and as it moves closer to us, what it means for our weather. the entire jersey shore, the sussex county beaches in delaware, tropical storm watch until sunday around 4:40 in the afternoon. this means as we go into part of your labor day weekend, you can expect tropical storm conditions. that is certainly a possibility. now we ll go back to hurricane hermine, spinning in the gulf of mexico. so it s still very far away. heavy rain bands moving onshore in florida. but the center of this storm, the eye of the hurricane is still about 120 miles offshore. tallahassee right in the path. rain heading in that direction. there you see the eye of the hurricane. that s pretty well defined. and we have one buoy that just so happens to sit closest to the eye of the storm. wave heights there 20 feet, winds gusting near 60 miles an hour
work along florida s gulf coast have spent the past several days getting ready. two to three days we ve been preparing even until midnight last night and the best thing to do is prepare no matter when it s going to be bad or not you have to be ready. diane: and evacuating people who may be in harm s way. we want to make sure the tourists are safe and we evacuated st. george s island but it s a matter of communicating with the community and making sure everyone knows what s going on. diane: if it strengthens to a hurricane it will be the first to make landfall in florida since 2005, more than a decade ago. i keep saying our time will run out and looks like it has. diane: there is good news. it looks like it will go fast once it hits land and we ll have a pretty nice weekend. doug: that was diane gallagher reporting. that looks about where the center will cross the coast after midnight and then accelerate by the northeast. by the time we get to t there will be effects o
no closed captioning is ((jen)) developing this morning. a dire situation at a bay area hospital. center bayonet point in hudson.((wally)) it started with an electrical fire. but the bad weather. complicated the situation. ((wally fox-13 s shayla reaves joins us live from pasco county. shayla, this would be grueling under the best conditions. but with all the rain we ve thanks, shayla. ((wally)) the storm really did a number on some aging sewer systems in pinellas county. ((jen)) and it s pecially troublesome in st. pete and largo. fox-13 s alcides segui went to check out how it s affecting the people living there. (wally while most hunkered down and got cozy overnight. one tampa family had to find another ple to sleep. a tree fell on their home, wednesday afternoon. it crashed right into the living room. linda dorman and three of her children were hanging-out in her bedroom when they heard a noise. and then, the big limb on a neighbor s tree. came smashing through the ro