we have new shocking details on the size and the scope of the lists that were used by the irs to go after conservative groups. wait until you see who else was targeted. melissa: back to the markets, the dow hitting 18,000 today, but not enough momentum to finish there. phil flynn, price futures group is a fox business contributor. he is watching action on oil and gold from the cme. lori rothman on the floor of the new york stock exchange. lori, we couldn t hang on to it. what was driving it and why couldn t we hold it? reporter: health care was the drag. crude oil settled above 50 bucks a barrel today. as far as the dow hitting 18,000 but paring those gains, s&p 500 closing still at the best level since last summer basically. energy, telecom, industrials are among the best performing industries but health care sold off, especially late in the session. that started by valeant once again, the usual suspect. valeant touching a new low today basically slashing guidance. new york-
storm is headed next when i see you in a few minutes. thanks ivan. chaotic moments inside of a bay area hospital. an electrical fire causes a power outage portion the evacuation of the entire hospital. every, single patient had to leave the regional medical center and many had to be carried down flights of stairs to waiting ambulances to take them to other hospitals. marisela burgos is live to explain when the patients can come back. good morning, marisela. reporter: good morning. you can see behind me you can see for yourself that the power here has been restored. the problem is the backup power hasn t been fixed. until that is fixed, you will not see any patients here at the hospital. here is a time line of what happened. the hospital lost power at 6:15 p.m. wednesday after an electrical fire in the generator room. fire officials say something went wrong with the transfer switch. the wiring of the backup generator was damaged. hospital reps immediately made the decision
flooding has cleared. tim jones is behind the wheel of our live drive cam. he is heading northbound on the veterans. as you can see the cars coming out with the headlights heading southbound. no crashes and we re hearing reports of possible debris in the roadway southbound adwaters. watch out for that. other than that you are looking at a smooth ride. the only other trouble spot we have is standing water reported at mcelroy avenue and come across the gandy bridge there. watch out for that and avoid that area if you can. else dids where, across the howard elsewhere, across the howard gandy, you are look going. in about an hour, families can get a first look at the damage after heavy rain forced families to evacuate their homes. michael paluska has been watching conditions out there overnight and throughout of the out there right now? reporter: it s excellent compared to what it was. where i m standing right now is waist deep. the flood waters sort of hung out in this g
wind is on the way. the difference will be the wind unlike the last couple of days. now we add the wind tract to this. we ll have squally weather with 65 mile-per-hour winds, and that is the update from the national hurricane center up from 60. it s getting stronger. still not the most organized thing in the world. you see the thunderstorms not on the western side but the issue is that we are on the side where there is a lot of activity. a lot of thunderstorms and rainfall as perspective. you can see the bands inching closer. those are the ones that will contain tropical storm force hurricanes. this is headed towards the big band and will make landfall and perhaps is the first hurricane in ten years. 75 mile-per-hour winds. there it is as a cat-1. there s the issue. yes, there is that shear of heavier rain that will be coming in. the concern out ahead of that will be the individual cells these tornado threats that continue to increase. you can see there s one there heading
you can see on skytower radar that big mess of rain has been slowly inching its way towards the coastline all morning long. if you re washing good day with dave osterberg it is showing out getting closer and closer we see individual cells that would make its way on shore. now we re getting into that time where we will start to see more and more persistent rain and embedded in that will be some heavier cells. in fact, you can see basically from clearwater down the coastline, there you see some very heavy rain. these tropical downpours individual cells are racing on to the north. then north, northwest right now probably about 30 to 35 miles an hour. down through the south, manate and sarasota, this is just off your coastline. just starting to work its way up towards longboat and anna maria. down towards venice. some of this brushing along the coastline as you get into central sarasota county. but kind of take that big wide view and you can see this is really, been a lopsided st