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Jeff ranieri now, things are obviously changing by the hour, where is it tracking now, the hurricane . Hurricane . Yq center of the storm is approaching tampa. We can show you on the radar with rain over ft. Myers. Right now currently, winds at 75 miles per hour in the center of the storm and the path of this will make landfall, we think, as we roll through tomorrow morning, 75 miles per hour, category 1 hurricane, then just to the west of jacksonville. 65 miles per hour winds and through the carolinas by thursday morning, 40 mileperhour winds and start to exit towards virginia with winds of over 35. As it moves into florida, heres what we can expect, two to five inches of rainfall. Isolated flash flooding. We have a lot happening with weather. Another live look in florida. Next hour, nightly news will continue our coverage of this hurricane. Be sure to watch nightly news at its new time, 6 30 p. M. It is going to be a tough fire season. Check out this map. Crews are gaining ground on
Nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Im Kate Snow in for lester tonight. It is rare to see Hurricane Warnings on the West Coast of florida in july. But thats exactly what we have tonight. Tropical Storm Elsa dumping heavy rain on the florida Keys Today and then strengthening over the open water with maximum winds now just below Hurricane Strength and the threat of lifethreatening Storm Surge the Tampa Area bracing with forecasters expecting the storm to become a hurricane just before making Landfall Tomorrow Morning, likely somewhere north of tampa well have the full forecast ahead, but we begin with Catie Beck in tampa tonight. Reporter tropical Storm Elsa growing stronger over warm gulf waters with winds nearing 70 miles an hour, the threat of tornadoes and up to eight inches of rain are expected along floridas west Coast Everybody is always concerned. You never know what its going to do. Were going to take on some water. Thats all there is to it. Reporter many businesses are
Storm. And we begin in Florida In Surfside and the Death Toll now is 46. And ten more bodies found since yesterday, and major acceleration in the search since the remaining part of the tower was demolished late sunday. 94 people still unaccounted for, and our team is getting a much closer Look at the search, and view that we have not seen until now at just how painstaking the search is now, and Vaughan Hillyard is there, and the teams are battling lightning and strong winds, and give us a sense of what you are seeing and hearing this hour. Yeah, we are luckily feeling Sunshine And Humidity here. That is not going to stop this Rescue Operation from going forward and we are lucky yet when we saw elsa moving westward and largely avoid here. And the Rescue Operation only suspended two hours where we saw the significant process here, and ten more individuals, and the bodies were recover and in the last 36 hours, 18 individuals, and that total count is now up to 46, and 94 individuals potent
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