these are gonna be a little bit he is cued. by saturday morning, still forecast a spin-around south new england from monday into tuesday. that means we ll have a lot of beach erosion and a lot of huge waves. here s something key to know. winds now fixed at 65 miles per hour sunday that has monday. that s a powerful nor easter sitting offshore. what it means for your holiday weekend just ahead. we ll see you again soon, kevin. next several hours is all about weathering the hurricane. reporter: waves pound the coastline as bands from hermine come ashore. it s a little nerve-racking. i m ready to get back in a little further inland. reporter: roads along florida s gulf coast shut down because of the surge. some try to secure boats before the worst of the storm strikes. bunker down and pray. reporter: floridians haven t seen a hurricane hit the decade. this is life-threatening. we have a hurricane. we can rebuild a home. we can rebuild property. you cannot rebuild a
still feeling the effects. hurricane hermine made landfall on the pan handle near the city of st. marks 20 miles from the capital of tallahassee. jason brewer is in live for shiri spear. jason. jason: you saw the picture from tampa. the heavy bands through tampa, st. pete area. still a hurricane making its way northeastward inland. it will be weakening. the track friday into saturday through the carolinas as a then what happens after that is still uncertain. we have a large area uncertainty out here for sunday, monday and tuesday. bottom line, it is off to our south as a weaker storm, but nevertheless, could bring us some direct impacts by late saturday into sunday. so we are talking about that straight ahead. today, a nice day, enjoy, mid- to upper 70s. morning sun. giving way to pop-up afternoon clouds. a dry day and saturday looks dry as well. current and the waves will start to increase as well. by under night, when you start to see a chance of some of those direct band
but first check our weather. jason brewer is watching this storm and what it means for our labor day plans. jason? jason: we are checking it out. the warm front that moved through new england that dries things out for us. check it out this tropical storm. came in a as hurricane, 80-mile-per-hour winds. now 70-mile-per-hour sustained winds appear very powerful storm nonetheless making its way through the carolinas through the next 24 hours. as we get into sunday, monday, tuesday and wednesday, the latest advisory national hurricane center. a large area uncertainty but what we do know, this will be stalling to our south over the weekend and potentially bringing us direct impacts as far as wind and rain but definitely bringing us rough surf and rip currents. getting out this morning, no concerns. it is nice. 50s and 60s. mid and upper 70s with humidity. the holiday weekend does no the include a chance from this. more on this straight ahead. things are looking nice on the roa
lower humidity. that humidity continues tomorrow. late sunday into monday, the rain risk arrives and from the south to the north. temperatures will be in the 70s coming up this holiday weekend. i have got much more coming up. julie has a look at traffic. julie things looking pretty good. the first slow spot on the expressway right after morrissey boulevard as you make your way up to the o neill tunnel. north of the pike bright green. love seeing that especially at 6 a.m. live look through sullivan are moving along at a decent pace. live drive times. 23 minutes on the pike eastbound from 495 to mass avenue. 14 minutes on the expressway. 21 minutes on 93 south. well, after days of waiting, gulf coast towns are slammed by thunderstorm hermine. the storm made landfall as a hurricane overnight bringing life-threatening rain and windfall in florida and georgia. reporter: sustained winds of 80 miles per hour that made it a category 1 hurricane and daniel miller joins us now with
however, this hermine is tropical storm now. town from 80 miles per hour winds from landfall and look at track how really slows down, run into high pressure and sitting out to the south of us in sunday, monday and possibly beyond and cause issues, definitely going to be high surf and rip currents. question is how much heavy rain and strong wind will we get and have for that. for today though enjoy mid to upper 70s, low humidity, pop-up clouds that i don t think any rain or saturday stays dry, but it is sunday night into monday where that rain risk starts to rise. i had have more on holiday weekend and have beach forecast coming right up. julie: look at roads right now, nice and quiet, lots of green on map and route 193 south moving along without any issues and looks good and nothing slowing you down on pike east or westbound through brighton. here are live drive time, 24 minutes on pike eastbound from 495 to mass ave. 12 minutes on the expressway. 20 minutes on 93 south fro