I havent worked since february. So she needs every dollar in her pocketbook. Last week she needed it to get a few groceries while walking down a store aisle a teenager ran past and yanked her purse out of the cart. Thankfully store workers heard the cries and a manager took off chasing down the purse snatcher through the parking lot. Finally grabbing old. Absolutely we feel he did the right thing. He was very brave and i want to say thank you. The purse snatcher arrested and charged with grand theft. Nobody was hurt. It was an awesome thing. Cheryl has heard publix is punishing her hero for his good deed. The manager has been policy. Publix seeing the safety of customers and associates is a priority and we fully investigated the incident. What is morally correct . To stand there and watch someone take off . Hundreds of people are standing by cheryl starting an online petition hoping the punished. Abc action news. In all but eight states have asked Homeland Security for help protecting
Panhandle, big bend region of florida, expected to make land fall later tonight as a category one hurricane. You can see hurricane warnings posted for areas north of the tampa bay area. And then as we head into friday, it will continue to move away from us and then up the east coast as we head throughout Labor Day Weekend. So at this point, its looking like this could be the first hurricane to hit florida in over 10 years. Hurricane hunters were out investigating this storm the today. And thats why they were able to upgrade it hurricane. They found wind gusts up to 86 Miles Per Hour. So it has strengthened in the gulf over the course of the last 24 hours. And now its moving more quickly as it heads towards the panhandle of florida. The other big story is, with this tropical system, we have to be mindful that we could see quick spinups or isolated tornadoes. We have parts of the tampa bay area under a tornado watch. Polk county, Citrus County, hillsborough county, up through county, tha
Making landfall somewhere around midnight in the panhandle and shoot off to the northeast. Were on a Tropical Storm warning coastal areas through Sarasota County. There youll see the Tropical Storm warnings in place. Now, heres where were talking about. The Tornado Warning in effect for southwestern Hernando County and also central pasco county. Its in effect until 6 00. So the next half hour. Theres the line were talking about. Just a few light strikes in there. But its a lot of wind sheer within here. Itself. Thats dangerous part of the storm. Over to vipir, you can see the path and where that effected area is. This may not be the last Tornado Warning. We had two others earlier today. That was another line that came through with this. G ar velocity relative to the radar site. You can see the sheer, little less than 60 mileperhour its moving rapidly north at 45 Miles Per Hour. Well zoom in and see some cities on that if we could to see whats in the path of this storm. Right along 41 t
News channel 8s Meredyth Censullo is in pasco county. Jamel lanee in Pinellas County. And our ryan hughes in Sarasota County this morning. We want to start with leigh to get the latest from the tampa studios on the storm. Its still a Tropical Storm and still has winds of 60 Miles Per Hour. But look how big this is. This is the center of circulation and seeing rounds of rain coming in near the coastline from it. And the latest advisories remain. Hurricane panhandle and northern portion of the big bend of florida. But closer to home, a Tropical Storm warning. And that means that we could feel Tropical Stormforce wind speeds in citrus, hernando and pasco within 36 hours. Heres the latest forecast. 60Miles Per Hour sustained winds. One big change, picking up forward speed finally. Yesterday, it was basically stationary and now its moving north, northeast at 12 Miles Per Hour. This afternoon, 65 Miles Per Hour winds, getting stronger. After midnight, it could strength on the a category one
For us, we are looking at coastal flooding today. It wont be as significant as it will be to the north. Still looking at Tropical Storm warnings. That means winds 40, 45 Miles Per Hour. Another thing well do today is not just with the winds but we have the tornadic threat that will be with us throughout the day today. On titan doppler radar, weve been seeing a lot of rotating thunderstorms this morning. The good news is they have been parallelling the coast. Some of these will be making it onshore. Necessity will be tornadoic they will be tornadic. You can see whats happening here. That right there, if that were to make it onshore to pinellas, thats awfully close. Some have been weakening some have not. That will be the trend for today along with the gusty wind getting us into the 30s, 40 mileperhour wind gusts and then again the coastal flooding coming up especially at the time of high tide. We have high tide around 2 1 2 pete. Well get splashover and and st. Pete. The rain falling fr