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have our fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth with us. rick this has been rough so far. really has. three things, the storm surge that broke records in fort myers and naples as well by a lot by the way, three feet higher than we had ever seen from any kind of storm surge in the past. that obviously causing all that flooding right along the immediate coast. then we have the winds, actual verified winds of 140 miles an hour in cape corral. a lot of this wind was really prolonged because it s such a slow-moving storm and then you have the rainfall. because it s so slow we get rainfall that just continues to batter the state and we ll see big time inland flooding concerns. this made land fall in the exact same space that hurricane charlie came on shore in 2004 which is amazing to have two massive hurricanes or two strong hurricanes like this come on shore in the exact same spot, hard to imagine, because it came on so strong, it s still a category 2 hurricane after ....
a hundred 50 residents and staff and tonight investigators still trying to figure out if everyone made it out. thanks for joining us at 10:00. i m chris o connell. i m dawn timmeney. the fire was so intense almost 24 hours later it still not safe for crews to go inside leaving many questions for families. here s what we know so far. the fire started last night around 11:00 at the barclay friends senior living community. right now chester county emergency officials say at least 27 people taken to the hospital for treatment. but many are not accounted for. the blaze so destruction tift atf national response team is being called in to investigate. our shawnette wilson is live at the scene in west chester with the latest. shawnette? reporter: well, dawn you mentioned nearly 24 hours and you are exactly right. take look behind me. you can see that crews are still here on scene spraying hot spots on the facility which is still flaring up and as we mentioned tonight we sti ....
i m russell rhodes. get outside to dave. a little warmer today we think does that trophy come big blue box. as long as it does tiffany teal. we re in the mid 60s out here in 9 o clock hour. it s very nice. we do do still have a little bit of residual cloud cover we ve seen so far this morning. but you know, in general, i don t think that will stop us from getting back into the lower 80s for high temperatures. 68 in sarasota. 67 in st. petersburg. clearwater 66 in tampa. still to mid to upper we re looking high temperatures getting back into lower 80s. and from there it gets even a little bit warmer than that as we had head to latter half week i will talk more in few minutes we will see you then 9:01. check roadways cleared up very nicely a few nts in morning we re watching this. a new crash in pinellas county was blocking right lane here oh northbound 275 but it looks pretty good now on to shoulder, really just a situation for that fe vehicles there parked in right-hand ....
labor day weekend. wednesday night. jim s off. i m rick williams. and the the big story on action news tonight is tropical trouble, as the latest forecast puts the storm on a forecast for the tri-state area. hermine is already bringing flooding rains to the sunshine state and it hasn t even made landfall there yet. that won t happen until tomorrow night at the earliest. and it may be a hurricane by then. 51 counties are now under a state of emergency. meteorologist adam joseph is monitoring hermine s progress at this hour. what s the latest? the latest just came in from the national hurricane center and hermine continues to strengthen over the last several hours. winds now sustained at 60 miles an hour. that is up from near 40-mile-an-hour sustained winds early on today. the center of the storm is right about there. you can see the flare-up of storms especially southeast displaced from the center of hermine but also we re dealing with southerly winds bringing in t ....
tropical rains already through much of the state of florida. in fact, stormtracker 6 live double scan will show these thunderstorms through tampa, orlando, where several inches of rain has already fallen and the storm is still close to 300 miles away from the coastline of tampa. there are tropical storm warnings and watches for much of northern florida, but something that the national hurricane center just added is a hurricane warning now from apalachicola to cedar key where they re expecting that landfall to happen somewhere in between those two cities. and they upgraded it to a hurricane warning because now they re thinking is their think something that hermine will become a weak category 1 hurricane before landfall on thursday, so expecting to strengthen a little more. and then it heads up the eastern seaboard, first pretty quick i had and then it will drift around hour our region between saturday, sunday and labor day just off of our coastline with that latest tra ....