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you are watching tonight on a brand-new tv or maybe now your just taking it out of the box. plenty of people went out early to spend those black friday deals. we are live from citrus park and hundreds turned out to this best buy tonight. did you get any bargains? reporter: unfortunately, i did not. i have been too busy working but hundreds of people did. they lined up here early this morning. they are still lined up this evening and this is a one-for- one of the rest start their holiday shopping. ready, set, go. it s a spread to get the best buys here at best buy. shoppers want to grab those door busters and make sure they get what they came for. you got all this stuff and it has been less than five minutes. how did you do it? they helped us find it. it was good. reporter: how did you do it? reporter: crowds formed outside the store, lines of people waiting for the door to open. reporter: have you ever been out shopping the fairly before? no. first time. r ....
lindsay: 4 degrees. summer heat is coming back because of the sunshine which out looking west toward the beach. the place to be today as we have great visibility there. visibility improving in citrus. i knew would happen. low beams can go off for you, but the ac is on as we are in the low to mid-80s this hour. 79 in brooksville. i will toss in those heat index values right now. it feels like 94 at 9 a.m. on september 10. by the way the peak of the atlantic hurricane season today. no rain this morni. showing on the east coast across the atlantic waters, the leading edge of the moisture which late in the day between 4 and 10 p.m. gives us a 30% chance of showers and storms. they build west through monday, but by monday, there we go moisture continuing to build and a wet week forecast and top tropics coming up. time is 9:1. a hillsborough county fire fighter is facing aggravated the back seat of a hot car. fox 13 s kellie cowan is following this story. good morning, ke ....
let s go to julie phillips. we re watching tropical storm matthew. max winds at 60 miles per hour. currently moving off toward the west at 20-miles-per-hour. so while the system was just named it s already a very healthy tropical storm as it makes its way west into the caribbean. notice as we go toward the end of this week into this coming weekend it will likely become a hurricane then with an upper notice the shift toward the north. we re expecting a hard turn to the north as we head into this weekend and early next week. then we re expecting additional lengthening. due to the proximity of the hurricane we re watching this of course. most of the system are east of florida but we re still going to watch this very closely. this is a while out. you know how quickly these we re watching this closely for you. max winds at 60 miles per hour. here s a look at what we re expecting on that european model. you can see it ll be moving into some very warm waters. it will start t ....
a news alert right now in north tampa. all southbound lanes of i-75 at fowler avenue are closed in the tampa area. this is a live look at the scene from our photographer. state troopers are investigating a crash. segui is on his way to the scene. he ll bring you a live update as soon as possible. happening this morning in the middle east: the funeral. for former israeli president shimon peres. it s the largest gathering of world leaders in the holy city of jerusalem. in two decades. and here s a live look at the ceremony right now. about 70 countries will be represented. the guest list includes president obama, and secretary of state john kerry. representing england are prince charles, and former prime ministers tony blair and david cameron. and in a suprising move. (mah-mood a-bahs)mahmoud abbas, the palestinian president, is also attending, joined by several senior palestinian officials. obviously security is a huge undertaking for this event. more than eight ?thou ....
matthew. the gas stations were filled with people lining up to fill their cars and plastic storage containers. leaders in the country are preparing people for the worst. the island, the entire jamaica will be affected by rains, but there s a greater concentration in the eastern part of the island. this morning the waves have picked up coast. look at that. matthew is the strongest hurricane since felix in 2007. the columbia eastern providences are bracing for matthew. the country declared the first stage of an emergency. raul castro led a meeting as they oversaw the storm preparations. this is a bird s eye view of hurricane matthew. the hurricane hunters will fly coming days. ed bloodsworth has the latest on where it is headed and what impacts it will have on florida this morning. reporter: good morning. we are looking at an extremely powerful category 4 hurricane. the winds 150 miles an hour, and you can seat eye there. it s not looking quite as organized as i ....