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Over 135 miles per hour at 5:00 yesterday. this whole building which is concrete, cinder block. look at this bus over here. this is the amazing pictures. big steel beams over here being twisted and turned by the tornadic winds and then thrown into this school bus over here. we actually talked to the driver of this bus and he kind of chuckled a little lighter moment. he said at least ill get a new bus for the school year. no one was killed here because they had a 36 minute warning on the sirens. ...

♪ purina cat chow. share a better life. so, big weather. >> yeah. theres a lot to talk about this morning. we just showed some of the video a few minutes ago of the hail that is hitting nashville after all that flooding that they have had. unbelievable. >> so you have big weather stories. >> yeah. >> within the country. big weather problems. however, theres also that little thing called the oil spill going on. bonnie schneider will help us. where a es the oil track? whats going on? >> what w...

Not just here but the barrier islands, also. guess what. no sign of oil. no trace of it as of yet. however, with the winds and with the tides, theres always a chance that oil may get a bit closer to shore. and bonnie schneider is going to have the very latest on the forecast coming up. be very interesting to hear what the latest will be. back to you in the studio. >> thanks, reynolds. one quick question. is it just the threat of the possibility of the oil coming thats potentially hurting busines...

Watching for that as we go through the day. heres a look at the map for today. see we have a front working the way across the southeast. now, in advance of this system, temperatures will be warm and quite humid. probably know that in the southeast. been very oppressive. good news is we are looking for a terrific weekend. temperatures comfortable. it looks like we see great weather for the preakness in maryland and nascar in dover. severe weather across west texas for today. we could see some mor...

Moving. the winds changed the shape and size of the slick. there it is. it looks like it is at least staying in one position because the winds coming in different directions and then as the animation loops, you see it come closer to the mouth of mississippi, down through southern louisiana. thats because theres been more of a southeasterly flow. i like to say this is going to change. one thing to note, the winds will be calm over the weekend. however, as we go into monday and tuesday, we are loo...

Of the country, jim. >> texas and louisiana, some severe weather popping up there? >> absolutely. rough morning, jim and kate. looking at heavy downpours in texas right now and you can see that its really coming down south of san antonio. so if youre driving across texas, this is just like yesterday. the rain doesnt seem to want to stop and not only are we getting rain but seeing frequent lightning strikes with the system. you can see it advancing along i-10 to nurps and looking at the chance fo...

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Still going outbound at the moment because of how the winds are going. the river here as dropped marketley over the last 12 hours. lets bring in karen mcginnis and talk more about where irma is, where its headed and how strong it is. >> michael, yes, there are a lot of interesting die namics as there have been for days with irma. theres a lot of interest information we can glean from this radar. first of all, irma is just over lake land, thats between tampa and orlando, 25 miles to the south of ...

Towards jacksonville. they are very strong. weve got dry air intrusion, that means the system is not sitting out over the open water so its not tapping the warm moist -- moij coming in from the gulf of mexico but it is being enhanced by being picked up, carried over the atlantic and enhancing some of those storms moving through. still the risk in this upper right quadrant for the potential for tornadoes, that is one of the most dynamic areas. specifically from about jacksonville all the way towa...

Check on everything else tomorrow. as far as things are concerned right now, i can tell you that its started to feel like its starting to pick up here in downtown tampa with the winds and rains coming around -- the rain coming around. sometimes it kind of takes your breath away. but yeah, so far -- but not as much as we thought it was going to be doing earlier in the night. michael. >> yeah, steph i know what you mean it picked up here in the last couple of minutes or so and its howling down the...