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Miami-dade. the miami area and surfside. and for good reason, because this cone of uncertainty did include that, early on. its been shifting westward. also, in blue, the tropical storm warnings, we do not have a hurricane news so thats good news. heavy rainfall in areas of red. along with that, going hand in hand, the storm surge has been increased now up to 5 feet. now, kind of concerned about tampa, st. pete, clearwater area. for those that live in this area, want some sort of a reference. las...

♪ >> shannon: this is a fox news alert. southern california edison says its equipment likely caused the 2018 wolsey wildfire north of los angeles that killed three people. its latest trouble for california power companies reeling from revelations that sparks from their transmission lines are behind some of the recent deadly fires. we are also learning tonight at the southern california getty fire may have been sparked by a tree branch that was blown down, fell onto power lines, causing them to...

Plume of smoke and it turned out to be a retreat large only in golf. we dont know what sparked that fire, but we do know the hillside next to it burned sunday, so it could have been a hot spot that flared up with that wind activity. peak wins are protected to hit in the next two hours with gusts between 40 and 50 miles per hour. >> if the wind does what meteorologists says its going to do, were going to be pretty busy. >> the fire grew only slightly today and cruise habit 15% contained in los an...

A little while ago we noticed a big plume of smoke and turned out to be a retreat large fully engulfed. we dont know what spark that fire but we know the hillside next to it burned sunday so it could have been a hotspot that cleared up with that wind activity. peak winds are predicted to hit in the next yours with gusts between 40 and 50 mph. >> if the wind does what meteorologist said it will do we will be pretty busy. >> the getty fire grew slightly today and crews have it 15% contained in los...

♪ >> shannon: this is a fox news alert. southern california edison says >> southern california edison says it likely caused the woolsey wildfire north of los angeles patrol three people. the latest trouble for california power companies reeling from revelations that spark from their transmission lines are some of the recent deadly fires. we are also learning the southern california getty fire may have been sparked by a tree branch blown down, fell onto power lines causing them to spark and ign...

Us, its all about monitoring the weather conditions throughout the evening part of this operational period. our team will be working closely with the meteorology team to monitor the wind activity. right now that activity is forecasted to turn to our favor and wind conditions dropping below the dangerous levels and dangerous speeds at approximately 12:00 noon tomorrow. we will be in a posture to take action earlier if wind conditions improve earlier than forecasted. right now we have a number of ...

And i feel a lot better about where we are right now even though in the morning, well have our estimates about particularly our electric grids, how many folks are without power. so, again, a lot of our lines are overhead, and so anytime you have any type of wind activity like right now winds are 30 to 40 miles an hour, you can expect some outages. >> yeah. you know, you mentioned florence, and i know that when that happened last year, new bern was under a huge amount of water, i think about eigh...

>> well, its very intense, sandra. here is the real concern. that is as we saw when i was in atlantic beach the power lines. the small coastal communities all power lines are above ground. whether its streets or what not, to pull the power lines down. you have power lines down everywhere. if we have 24 of this kind of sustained wind activity it is going to be a significant and debilitating situation that makes it very, very difficult for people, particularly first responders and law enforcement ...

West palm beach. she is fearful this street is going to get flooded. we see some water on the street now, but were just now getting to the beginning of the wind activity and the storm surge on the intercoastal waterway, which is just over here. were really getting nailed here with some intense wind and rain. also, jake, i just talked to one of the top fire chiefs of west palm beach. i asked him about the construction cranes that are right near here. you might be able to get a glimpse of one over...

With the wind speeds in the region. this is section 5, 100 to 200 kilometers from the aircraft. im going show you what we are talking about as far as the cloud cover and wind activity in the debris field. the areas in red are the thermal signatures of the highest cloud tops indicating high thunderstorms. that is well to the north. we have a few in the debris field, low clouds and moderate showers and prepares an isolated storm in the debris area. but this model, taking you from arch where we hav...