Decade. Haiti has seen heavy rain that can trigger deadly mudslides, this in a country that is still recovering from a deadly earthquake six years ago and it looks like earn cuba will be next. And lets send it over to julie phillips. Thank you. We are closely watching Hurricane Matthew, still a strong and powerful hurricane. You can see the eye defined and you can see haiti is being hit hard from this storm. It is going to pass over far eastern cuba tonight and then move toward the bahamas, at this point moving to the north at 10 Miles Per Hour, maximum sustained winds still at 145 Miles Per Hour. You can see the hurricane warnings posted from eastern cuba all the way up through the bahamas and as we head off through thursday. You can see this will likely be right off the east coast of coast of florida. As a strong category four hurricane. Remember, in the tampa bay area, were on the western side of the storm, and then it will continue to curve up over towards the southeast and potenti
This is first at 4. 8 on your side wants to know how Hurricane Matthew will affect those of us in the bay area. Lets check in with our storm team 8 meteorologist. That is a big question Everyone Wants to know, how it will affect their area. Right now Hurricane Matthew still a major category 3 storm as it is moving toward the bahamas. It will approach florida as we head into tomorrow evening. Hurricane warnings have been posted along the east coast coast is under a hurricane warning. Tropical storm warnings in effect for polk and highland counties. Tropical for storm winds are possible within the next 24 hours. Heres the 2 pm advisory. You can see max winds still at 120 miles power. It moves off to the northwest at 12 miles power. As we head into tomorrow evening heres a look at the track. Were expecting it to become very close to the east coast of florida. The strongest ones to the west coast were if it does make landfall that makes things considerably worse along the east coast. Regar
Time early friday morning. 130 miles an hour winds. The strength of the storm being quite significant. Though, 4 is the cuto point4 in position. Keep anthe cone of po bay area. The storm can wobble. Though the computer models have been consistent the last 12 hours or so. High winds expected in and around this area. And the eye wall itself as we io winds that can be right along the coastal areas. The computer models have suggested more of a curve. Some suggested a complete loop of it. We are waiting to see if this is a short term trend or a long term trend. For now, the latest european computer model essentially did the same thing and kept it offshore. It is something we will continue to watch, the Hurricane Center has suggested this could occur, possibly weakening overtime. The warnings in place, tropical basically means is you could see some Tropical Storm force wind gusts up to 74 miles an hour. Out over 36 hours. Starting at 36 hours out. So, prepare obviously for the stronger wind
Stealing pills and pawning his glock. He pawned it at a pawnshop in new port richey. This kind of addiction can affect anybody and his former deputys life was spiraling downward. He is broken. And you know, he said that he just didnt have any money. Needed to pay and, it was his way of being backed into a corner. He needed help. Reporter the sheriff says it was smiths girlfriend who actually tipped off investigators. She sent a picture of the pills which we now know possibly numbered in the 300, perhaps even 400 in total. He could face additional charges in pasco county because ha is where the supposed crime thank you peter bernard. A bomb threat at lego land hours ago caused the park to shut down for the entire day. It sent police combing through every inch of the park. Rod, authorities now say this is a hoax right . Reporter yeah, they do, but they are taking it very seriously. Winter haven police are still here. They are just leaving now. There are officers still there. This bomb th
Nonstop daily flights will start out of tia. But if you book before november 20, you will get a special rate. Thats right. 59 for you. Free bags, smiles, amazing. A journey of less than an hour. Reporter that is for flights operating december 12 through april 24 of next year. The airline also announcing today it is operating a connecting flight through the Fort Lauderdale deal, the voyage south has to happen before april 24. Looking back, it has been 50 years since we have seen flights to cuba from any u. S. City thanks to the communist revolution. Jen . This is exciting news for a lot of people. Southwest is not the First Airline to fly to cuba. Reporter thats right. Jet blue landed first in santa clara. Then Silver Airways and American Airlines started as new tonight, 14yearold Alexander Perez is charged as an adult in a Home Invasion that killed an 81yearold man. Perez is accused of viciously attacking robert walker. Newschannel8 spoke with walker just hours before he died at the ho