eastern. 3:00 p.m. on the west coast. cnn will bring that to you live. all right meantime we re still tracking the remnants of what was tropical storm alex. the storm has been downgraded do a tropical depression, as it crosses the yucatan peninsula. forecasters say it should steer clear of the gulf oil spill. bp says the storm has not forced any evacuations at the spill site. although bp and shell are evacuating nonessential personnel from oil plat forms in the southern gulf. let s check in with jackie jaris in the weather center. what is this thing doing now? since it doesn t have a name now, i ll call it a thing. we can still call it alex. what s alex doing? it s weakened quite a bit fredricka. so it is a tropical depression, which means the winds are calmer. maximum sustained 35 miles per hour so that s the minimum