Cuba. All eyes are on sandy this morning. It sounds cuba with sustained winds of 114 miles per hour. It turned deadly overnight killing two people in haiti and jamaica. 07 of jamaica is without electricity this morning. 70 of jamaica is without electricity this morning. Parts of florida are under a Tropical Storm warning. Good morning again. Im sarah simmons. Im still wisdom and that is still tucker. Thought we were going to go right to tucker. Im just getting an update here. Lets go back to it real quick and just show you. An eye developed there late yesterday afternoon during the evening showers. That tells us the storm is intensifying. Still a pretty strong storm. Bahamas are next and we have to watchhis as we get into the end of the weekend and early next week as it may be a player in our forecast. Ill have more details in just a minute. Thank you, tucker. Im not done with the weather yet. Oh. Were just getting started. I dont know if you knew this or not but im taking over this wh
Still hanging around out there on your morning commute. Good morning. Im sarah simmons. Im wisdom martin. Welcome to fox 5 morning news and tucker barnesis here. Certainly the potential for it. What you are referring to is Hurricane Sandy. Category two hurricane. Lets take a look at it. It really intensified in the last 24 hours and looking fairly impressive on our satellite signature here. You can see the eye there now emerging off the northern shore of could you be a maximum wind, 105 with gusts to 115. It has the potential to be close enough to the mid High Pressure atlantic that it could interact with a cold front that will an approaching and we could be in for some soaking rains and maybe some railroad gusty wind. Well have more on that come be up. There is the latest with sandy. We are cooling off into the low 60s. That is not typically cool for this time year. We should be in the 40s. These temperatures on the mild side. We are seeing some fog develop across the area. 62 at Reag
Sandy is still a category 2 storm. It killed two people in haiti and jamaica overnight. This is the first direct hit on jamaica since 27 years ago. 48 hour curfew to keep people off the streets and prevent lewding. Lets go to Tucker Barnes. He has more on all of that. Lets get right back to it and take a look at Hurricane Sandy. Category 2 hurricane and looking impressive overnight. Losing strength as it moved overland here. Cuba overnight hours. Still a category 2 hurricane with sustained winds of 105 to 115 and racing off to the north at 18 miles per hour. Could be a player on our forecast towards the end of the weekend. Well watch the track for the storm carefully. Could bring us rain around here as it will combine with a cold front by sunday and monday. Theres the latest with Hurricane Sandy. Lets talk local weather and another nice day shaping up for your thursday. Were mild for this time of year. 62 at regan national. Tony mentioned he didnt know what he was looking at. That woul
A busy day today on the trail. Tom fitzgerald is monitoring their every stop. From flow flow florida to wisconsin and ohio, the candidates were on big complain blitz today. Well start within the last hour, this is the president making history here becoming the first u. S. Sitting u. S. President to vote early. The president cast his ballot in chicago not far from where he used to live. I just wanted to bring by some krispy cremes. Reporter well start in florida where he brought breakfast for a firehouse and then heading to richmond, virginia. I was proud and humbled to learn that we have colin powell supporting the campaign. Im grateful to him for his lifetime of service to his country both as a soldier and diplomat. And then we head over cincinnati, ohio. Obama campaign doesnt have a plan. Its slipping because hes talking about smaller and smaller things despite the fact that the america has huge challenges and that this is such an opportunity for america. Back to virginia now. That i
Our local forecast here and beyond. See you in a few. Utility companies preparing for sandy. Baltimore gas and electric is planning for hundreds of thousands of potential outages. The company is putting workers on standby and plans to make excuse me, is already making plans to bring in at least 500 workers from other states. Utility companies learned from past storms. And keep it here with fox 5 for the next 90 minutes as we track Hurricane Sandy. Can you also follow the storms path on myfoxhurricane. Com. The website features enhanced satellite images, interactive mottos, a live chat and a lot more. And another big story, a legendary swim coach under arrest accused of sexually abusing one of the students decades ago he was the cofounder of the swim clog club that grow into one of the largest in maryland, d. C. , and virginia. This summer, a new 43yearold woman came forward and said he sexually abused her when she was 13 and later grew into a sexual relationship. Fox 5s beth parker is