Ahead of the system. We see the high clouds thicken up as we work our way across the area. There are clouds building in. This is as hermine turns as making landfall as a category one storm. Its a Tropical Storm trekking east northeast. We have wait until 5 00 for the newest update. The winds are at 50 Miles Per Hour. This is moving north at 18. This puts it off the outer banks by the morning and meandering off the seaboard from here and northeast to next week. Not a great handle of what happens after it gets here. It can intensify and pick the winds up along the coast. Tropical storm warning from the carolina to ocean city. In fact, not just on the delmarva but inside the bay. Winds gust to 40. St. Marys, the Northern Neck and Southern Maryland under Tropical Storm warnings as well as well as portion of the Eastern Shore. Here is timing of if rain, the wind and the impact well see locally. The west. Through the evening its good. Want to have dinner outside . No problem. Later tonight showers sneak in virginia beach. Tomorrow morning metro south and east, look at the wind gusts. Ocean city by tomorrow morning near 60. Ocean city to virginia beach. Clouds and passing showers. Well time it out for you and look for the Silver Lining in the Holiday Weekend in a bit. Leon you got it. Now waves bursting over barriers. Waters rising. Thanks to several inches of rain coming down at winds. The wind tearing down trees and part of home as well. What was hurricane hermine slammed in florida and now on the move. We have a report now. The beaches from the carolinas up through maryland bracing for hermine. Reporter in this tourist town the locals know what is coming. A lot of flooding. Up to the porch level. This section of ocean city in what is shown as flood zone a the water will get back up and the wind is driving toward the shore, that is it. It will stay for a while. He is packing up the construction gear. The towns mayor says his level of concern on the rise. Its a significant storm. Really, its affect on ocean city has increased by the forecast over the last few hours. By tomorrow morning its likely only knee deep wading will be allowed in what is expected to be a dangerous surf. The now packed beach will likely be closed. Among the towns fears that hermine will stall offshore as predicted bringing days of pounding waves, rain and flooding ties. This is not your great labor day experience. Its not going to be a beautiful weekend. Brad in flood zone a, karen holder watches from the second floor balcony wondering how bad she will be hit this time. Inethably well go under water here. We al brad joining you live in ocean city, you can see as it often is before a storm to beautiful evening. Look around the beach. Everyone is enjoying it. The surf is fine. But tonight after people leave the beach, all the trash can and the beach rental boxes will be cleared off in preparation. One more thing to show you, right here. The gate in the seawall. The storm gate will be slammed shut in preparation for the arrival of this storm. In ocean city, brad bell, abc7 news. Michelle i know a lot of businesses count on this weekend. What are they telling you out there . Brad they are not happy about it at all. Look up and down the boardwalk. Its crowded. There is a good crowd. You talk about the businesses here. Pizza shop and a doughnut shop as well. They have had a good summer. That is what the mayor told us. He said the tax receipts were up substantially. But nobody in this town michelle all right. Brad bell reporting live in ocean city. Thank you. Leon hermines arrival means anyone who hasnt gotten away for the long weekend yet may have trouble getting out of here. No matter what the plans entail. Once you get to the virginianorth carolina boarder the conditions change quickly. We are at the National Airport with the getaway underway there. Tim, what are you seeing . Tim we have been watching the departure board all afternoon. A little red here. Delays. Not necessarily tied to the storm. Some of these delays are from all over the country. Follow me this way. I want to show you the t. S. A. Line now. Give you a live look here. Its pretty busy but not a complete disaster. The Tropical Storm is wreaking havoc for millions of beachgoers this labor day weekend. But its not slowing down travelers at reagan national. Lancasters are florida, they got in the long t. S. A. Line extra early. Just in case. Tim all three local airports are busy this weekend. 15. 6 Million People are taking to the skies which is a 4 increase from last year. At the same time more than 850,000 Washington Area residents are hitting the roads with millions of other drivers. What have the roads been like today . Not so bad. Reporter in washington, gas prices are down 28 cents from last year. In the metro area, they are down 23 cents. The lowest level for the holiday since 2004. Traffic has been no problem at all. Locally we are expecting to get rain. But it wont be nearly as bad as what just hit florida before their trip. Im not coming back until tuesday. We wont have that problem. All right. We just got out of the airport here. We are about to hop in mobile track seven right we will have the latest coming up. Reporting live at National Airport tim barber. Michelle see you soon. Thanks. Stay with abc7 and the Storm Watch Team as hermine targets the carolina beaches and then the Eastern Shore of virginia and maryland. Brian and the entire stormwatch7 weather team are providing updates at wjla. Com. Facebook and twitter and storm watch 7 weather app. Crime alert now at a d. C. Middle school. Three people caught on camera stealing from the school. Here is the video. It happened this saturday. Police say the person of interest can be sean walking through the Hardy Middle School in northwest and wheeling out boxes of items there. They go. If you recognize any of the men in this video there are three of them call the olice. Leon well, falling debris will ke avenue metro station closed through the weekend. Metro says the debris came down from the ceiling of the station in northeast d. C. Two times in two days in a row. Red line trains will continue to bypass the station. Free Shuttle Bus Service will be provided between rhode island avenue and the brookland station. Michelle get ready for more track work on the rails this weekend. Four of metro six lines will be impacted. Shuttle buses will run on the orange and the blue lines along section of track. On the silver line the trains only run to ballston. They need to catch a blue or an orange train to go further. The red line will run every six to 20 minutes. Depending where you are. Expect delays across the board and double check the train schedules because there are so many changes before you head out. Developing right now the Washington Post reports prosecutors recommend putting former Virginia GovernorBob Mcdonnell back on trial. This saf the Supreme Court tossed out his corruption conviction. The conviction finding the definition of corruption was too broad. It needs to be narrowed. The recommendation does not necessarily mean there will be a new trial. Leon the f. B. I. Released 58 pages of documents from the recently closed investigation in former secretary of state Hillary Clintons use of private email server. It includes summary of interviews with aides. It includes Technical Details of how the server in the basement of clintons home was set up. After a yearlong recommendation the f. B. I. Recommended against prosecution in july and the Justice Department then closed the case. We now know who will moderate the president ial debate coming up. Lester hot, martha radick, Anderson Cooper and Chris Wallace are selected. All of them firsttime president ial debate moderators. Cbs news correspondent will moderate the Vice President ial on october 4. Coming up next at 4 00 a change to t passage in maryland. Michelle why the f. D. A. Says some antibacterial soaps dont work. Leon the jail sentence sparked national ba now its our labor day sale. Where you can create the perfect home. From now until september 5th, youll find huge savings on stylish pieces. Get free delivery, plus an extra hundreddollars off every thousanddollars you spend. With havertys, your home can be perfect, even when life isnt. Mom . Have you see my iguana . The labor day sale is on now, at havertys. Life looks good. Leon ocean city normally packed with the beaches for labor day weekend. Not this time aro direct hit and after the rain ends, riptides could make going in the water extremely dangerous. But the captain of the Ocean City Beach patrol joins us on the phone. Bump, thank butch, thank your joining us. What is your biggest concern at the moment . Can you hear us . I think we are having trouble getting in touch with butch. He is not hearing us. We will circle back to him. Of course, hermine is causing a lot of havoc for folks prepared for the Holiday Weekend. Lets check in with brian van de graaff for the latests with the storms track. Brian we are seeing attacks around here with the high cloudiness that moved overhead. The high cloud cover is actually availing the sunshine. I wouldnt cancel any clouds because even though theyre high clouds they are not rain producers. We are expected to have it feels divine. Enjoy it. Its not a bad evening. 70s and 80s. Deep outdoors. We are not expecting rain from the clouds. The sun down at 7 36 with the high clouds but still a pleasant evening. The clouds continue to thicken. Why . The outer band of hermine is turning down through the carolinas. You can see the outer bands of the cloud stretching northward to metro area. We dont get at new track to 5 00 but the 2 00 update showed the winds at 50 gusting to 65. Moving off the coastline and getting hung up here in the weekend. We have question marks. Once its off the coast it can wobble either direction. Depending on the wobble it could impact what we see locally. Im being pessimistic with the clouds, breezes and offandon showers but its not horrible weather. The watches and the warnings. We have the Tropical Storm warnings for across the by a to Eastern Shore as well as portion of Northern Neck. Inside the bay coastline gust of 40 plus. Along the ocean the gusts of 6 of 0plus. We are talking about intense winds. Future cast with the winds, rain and clouds. We are just cloudy. Tomorrow morning the rains get closer. Heavier showers through the southeastern area from Southern Maryland to virginia beach. Look at the 40 to 50mileperhour wind gust. A few patchy showers. I have a long and east of 95. If you are west of 959 to the valley in western maryland you might see clouds and you might not know a hurricane is off the shore. Sunday morning is the same. Its which you wering east. There could be spotty showers to the east. Winds are still strong at ocean city but lightening up here. Sunday evening we could see clearing trying to happen but it will depend on the wobble of the sys and forth. This pulls eastward for labor day. Improving condition for the labor day hospital. If youre at the shore, gusts, wet, windy, raw. Monday maybe some improvement for the beaches but around here monday looks more promising. At the shore, look for rain. Not as intense as yesterday but several inches. Gusts of 60plus. Waves, im concerned about the rip current danger because of the per analysis tent churning. It persistent churning. It will make for a rough rip current across the eastern seaboard from jersey, new york beaches to the coastline. There are hit or miss showers. By monday, if the it doesnt push east it will improve our conditions drastically for monday afternoon. The next big story is the heat. Near 90 tuesday. We could be in the mid90s late next week and heading in the next heatwave. Thats t jamie, how is the commute looking . Everyone heading to the bay bridge . Jamie they are. Ill get to that. I want to start with the heavy traffic closer to home. The capital beltway there is slowing. 395, this is a trouble spot. An accident, we have 395 heading in at the 14th street bridge. That is why all the traffic is bumper to bumper. We are seeing the delay. Starts after the pentagon. So getting to the pentagon heading in, in the 30s. Quickly drop down with everyone slow approaching that accident activity. Like said, beltway slowing in virginia. From the mixing bowl. Inner loop is heavy closer to 270. And 66. Slowing as you head outbound. 25 minutes from the beltway. Closer to the Fairfax County parkway. This is the pace outbound. Inbound is loose. Not a lot of volume to worry you are heading to the beach you see the yellow line. Some volume. The traffic right now past the plaz plaz at this pace at the plaza, at this pace. Michelle that is a threat to the beachgoers. Heading to the waters. Rip current that brian mentioned. We have on the phone the captain of the Ocean City Beach patrol butch arvin. Can you hear us . Absolutely, yes. Michelle begin with the threat of the storm and the rip current. What are the biggest concerns right now . Butch the real biggest concerns are not immediately because as the weather deteriorates. That will keep people off the beach. The biggest problem occurs in the system after it passes us. The ocean is churning and bringing waves, volume of water. Its making its way back out. Dangerous rip currents. Im more concerned about after the storm goes away. It looks like a Beautiful Day at the beach but that is when its most treacherous. Leon sometimes when it looks bad it keeps people going out there so it means you wont necessarily have to rescue people. What is a normal weekend like versus what you expect this weekend . Butch this time of the year, being labor day we get large crowds. But with the weather like you said it will keep them off the beach. But once the weather breaks and clears that is when they will want to go out. They have been confined to the hotel room or doing other things. That is the concern. The weather looks great but the ocean is treacherous. Michelle monday when the folks are probably heading out because as the forecast showing, things look like it will improve what is ad vase for those venturing out ed a vase advice for those venturing out. We are out there. But the guards are 600 cards apart. We ask people to walk to the nearest guard stand. Check in with the guard. Some people should stay out of the ocean under the conditions. Michelle make sure everyone has a good and a safe final end to the summer there. Thank you so much. Captain of the Ellicott City beach patrol. Leon good luck. Butch thank you. Thank you for putting out the safety messages. Leon take care. Michelle consumer alert regarding antibacterial soap. The food and Drug Administration say they do little or nothing to make soap work better and it says the industry failed to are safe. Companies will now have a year to take the ingredients out of the product. This isnt exactly new line from the fda. This first proposed the change in 2013 giving manufacturers the time in between to prove the ingredients provided any real benefit. Leon 7 on your side consumer alert. Samsung is halting sales of the galaxy note 7. They issued global recall of the smartphone. Michelle the phones are popular. This follows reports that a number of them caught fire while charging. Kimberly suiters has a look at the problem here. A lot of people like this because its waterproof. Kimberly and apple is about to unveil the latest edition. Today the president of samsung confirmed today 35 cases of the world. The cause he said is defective battery cell. They plan to replace all in the next few weeks but what are the consumers who use it supposed to do in the meantime . Are they a fire hazard in your home . Sprint, verizon, at t and others are piecing together plans right now, scrambling to let you explain your phone if you dont want to wait. Now im running a twitter poll at the moment. The latest, 21 of you say you will let it die and wait for the info. 40 of you say you will try to return the phone today. 39 say you are going to go ahead and use it as normal. 7 on your side reached out to the Consumer Product safety commission. Typically when the consumers face physical harm businesses will partner with the government to get the clear message out about who you should do. We asked american base p. R. Rep for samsung why the company is going at it alone. I have heard back from her but she sa the email. Im going to honor the recall of the email. When we have the information well share it with you at wjla. Com and social media. Leon how many numbers . Kimberly theyre not saying. They said 2. 5 million of these have been sold. They say very few number obviously only 35 reported catching on fire. 35 is too many. It sounds like they will replace the phones quickly. Leon what if somebody has one of those and a hoverboard . Kimberly its a hightech world. Leon thank you. Coming up next at 4 00, we are tracking hermine. In eight minutes we have an update on the track of the storm and a live report from south carolina. As it moves to the area. Michelle next at 4 00, the hepatitis a outbreak linked to smoothies in growing. The new numbers and why some customers say they feel left a lot going on in d. C. This weekend. We start with tonight. Zac brown band. Jiffy lube live. Enjoy the show. It will be incredible. Lets talk about what is going on tomorrow. The 28th annual blues geeturing laura mitchell, jackie scott, house wreckers and others. This event is free. Dont miss it. It runs from noon until 7 30 tomorrow. Now something on the schedule for sunday. Dont miss the National Symphony orche