Northeast side of the storm. This to be the very first hurricane to make landfall in the state of florida in 11 years. There you see the rain brands, intense bands pivoting in around the storm as it heads towards florida and expected to make landfall later on tonight. Its 85 south of apalachicola at the latest hour expected to make landfall at 10 00, 11 00 tonight and curve its way into South Carolina and into North Carolina friday into saturday, as it weakens down to 50 Miles Per Hour. And then it merge ofz the coast on saturday, it is going to get stuck and stall just off our coastline sunday through tuesday and notice something here, between saturday, sunday and monday, the winds increase as the storm strengthens a little bit just off of our coast. Melissa magee is live in wildwood right now, the late of in that a Tropical Storm watch in effect for where you are. Reporter well, adam i can understand why with that storm sitting to the south and east as we head into the weekend. Ill want to talk about the shore effects and impacts into late saturday and sunday. For our coastal communities, this is a prolonged on shore wind event with the storm sitting and stalling due east of south jersey, we find winds gusting up to 60 Miles Per Hour and that could cause power outaged as well. Coastal flooding and beach erosion as we head into the weekend, heavy rain and flooded roads as well. Shore impacts for the Holiday Weekend, one last hoorah before we get back into the season back to school and back to work. Shore impacts over the holiday, on friday they are low, tomorrow is a good looking beach day, saturday morning not much of a concern but saturday afternoon into the evening the rain and wind will really be increasing at that time and on sunday same thing holds true high impacts at the shore by then and the storm will be raining itself out meaning it will be weakening at that point. Still a moderate concern by monday as we head into the weekend. Back out here live adam, i can tell you that a lot of people are concerned about hermine, but they say its not going to camper their Holiday Weekend plans and they are going be safe and careful and keep a watchful eye to the sky and around them. For now monica ill send it back inside to you. Thank you melissa, our coverage continues with action News Reporter gray hall in ventnor where there is the calm before the storm right gray . That is right. Things have been quiet and gloomy and the beaches are pretty much bare, all calm now but as we inch closer to the weekend everyone knows that could all change. An empty beach could be the calm before the storm as hurricane hermine inches closers to the jersey shore. Its a wait and see approach and many are staying clear of the water, i have never seen it this empty and im coming down since i was 5 years old and never seen it this empty. This storm has everyone going crazy. Its crazy. Lifeguards expect fewer people with rain and winds in the forecast. Hermine can cause beach erosion and coastal flooding and heavy surf. This is not ideal water for a dip in the ocean and conditions will be dangerous. I would not recommend going past your knees and waist deep you can get sucked out fast. Stuck on the inside and cant get up. Its dangerous especially not near a lifeguard. Bad weather is not good for the business along the beach. Workers like david ortiz depends on tips. And that means less money in his pocket. The beach will be barren and people wont go in the water. They say that gloomy skies is not a welcome sight. As she heads our way they are not happy with the blast of weather, gray skies mean less green in the register. When they Start Talking about it the week before, people cancel their plans, we worry that people have canceled their weekend plans and that will effect us. Everyone keeping an eye on the system. Atlantic City Electric will have clues on stand by in the event of power out ables and the American Red Cross reminding everybody that september is National Preparedness month and make sure the emergency kits are updated. Three day supply of fresh Drinking Water and nonperishable food and plenty of batteries. Gray hall, channel 6 action news. Thank you. We of course are tracking hurricane hermine around the clock and use our map to check the storms path and the impact it will have on our area. At 6abc. Com. Five philadelphia firefighters are now out of the hospital after she were hurt in an Early Morning crash on i95, hire fire truck was hit at 3 00 in the morning in the southbound lanes around penns landing tonight the five officials are calling the firefighter a hero because of his quick thinking. Chad pradelli spoke with the wife of that driver and is live with the story. Reporter yes, the wife is grateful at this hour. Here at ladder 16 it seems to be business as usual after a crash ta could have been much, much worse. It was a collision of large forces on i95, ladder 16 and this big rig, Officials Say the impact could have been fatal if firefighter joseph raday not been alert. He pulled the truck forward when he saw the impact coming saving the lives of all of our members. He saw it in his right mirror and left manager and then bigger and bigger. They were treated for bumps and bruises, mary ellen spoke with us as her husband caught shut eye. She says he is her hero every day. That not his thing, he will never tell you he is a hero. Ladder 16 was providing a buffer for emergency crews responding to an accident on the highway after an accident happened. Five firefighters were brought to Hahnemann Hospital and after being released they received a visit from commissioner fields at the firehouse and mary ellen says she is blessed that her husband and fellow firefighters are okay. I learned early on i kiss him every day and tell him i love him. The driver of that big rig was unjuried, the cause of the crash is still under investigation. Chad pradelli, channel 6 action news. Thank you chad. Time for a check of the action news traffic report tonight. Lets go live to matt pellman in the traffic center. As you gathered its a rough start to september on 95, an accident southbound just south of here. At woodhaven road, we are left with the delay and finally the southbound accident is gone, if you head into the birds preseason game at the linc tonight things look better but sluggish as you head south on 95, but the night market in south philadelphia giving us closures and a night market in may fair blocking ryan avenue and the big clydesdale parade is in may fair tonight as well. Getting ready for made in america on the parkway and inner drive is blocked there. Slow here on 295 in Burlington County southbound because of an accident just up ahead traffic is moving better. But in wooded town salem county watch for an overturned tropical disturbance blocking the intersection of bailey and main. Well check it again in the next half hour. Thank you. Well, the eagles are gearing up for their final preseason game tonight before the regular season gets underway. Jaime apody is live at the linc. Its the last preseason game, eagles against the jets, people say there is nothing to watch but that is not true, there are jobs to be won and lost. Carson wentz is out there but will no the play tonight. Daniels will start tonight. Well have much more coming up from lincoln financial field later in sports. Also, a massive rocket explosion in florida. The high tech cargo destroyed in an instant. That story when action news continues. That massive boom was caused by the massive explosion at the Cape Canaveral station today. The video was taken so far away it took time for that sound to travel. The Company Space x was conducting a test rocket, and it would have been used by facebook to bring internet to parts of africa. After weeks of testing florida officials have found the zika virus in mosquitos in the miami area. Ali gorman is at the big board with more for us. Reporter as of midaugust 25,000 mosquitos have been tested but all were negative for the zika virus, but officialed knew it was there. Zika was found in three samples ofmese mosquitos. The biggest concern for zika is for pregnant women because it can cause birth defects and more evidence it can lead to a rare illness in adults that could cause paralysis, i spoke to a man that had this that didnt get it from zika but from another illness. 47yearold kevin mccain is a lead guitarist for the little red rooster blues band. He says playing the blues is like a religion. Its in you. Last october you could not play and could barely move, what started as a cold turned into tingling in his fingertips and heaviness in his legs, and quickly got worse. From sunday morning i was on the event later paralyzed from the neck down. He had a syndrome, in his case doctors believed it stemmed from pneumonia, this is linked to zika virus, a new report shows a jump in the caress hit hard by the virus. Rates went up 200 in brazil and 100 in columbia and 180 in venezuela. The good news is, like mccain, for most people its sem temporary. He spent weeks in the icu and has take and almost a full year to get back to himself and singing the blues. With this new report it shows stronger evidence zika could be linked to this syndrome but more studies are needed. Well continue to follow this story. Thank you. Back here now, its official the nfl draft is returning to philadelphia for the first time in more than 50 years. 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The most common side effects are headache, nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting. Side effects can lead to dehydration, which may cause kidney problems. Nows the time for a better moment of proof. Ask your doctor about victoza®. Looking live now down at the shore. The Atlantic City boardwalk is packed with people for the zach brown concert on the beach coming up in a bit but a weather system on the way is likely to clear the beach out this weekend. Adam joseph is at the big board with more from accuweather and it should be an interesting Holiday Weekend. Not interesting in a good way. Not only may it clear part of the shore this weekend, in Atlantic City, those folks should be prepared for rain that is about to push in as well unfortunately there is Atlantic City, we saw the folks waiting for the concert to start and look down the pike, no lightning, its not Severe Weather but they will briefly get soaked. If you know folks down there give them a text or a heads up they will briefly get wet because a cold front is approaching from the north and west. 81 now and allentown in reading and same for wilmington and same for philadelphia and 80 in Atlantic City airport and 70 in beach haven. Better than the last six days where they topped out at 90. We are waiting for the cold front to come through and dry air from the north and clouds break apart and temperatures go down to the 50s in the suburbs by tomorrow morning. We look at hurricane hermine, we see the spin with the eye wall shown there on the satellite image, winds sustains at 75 Miles Per Hour, and a tornado watch box in effect for the northern parts of florida, the eastern side the most dangerous part of a tropical system. As we speed up time and look at the spaghetti plots, they keep it all off our coastline, notice the line, they do a loop de loop here. Because of spin, this is brand new as well. Tropical storm watches in effect for all of the jersey shore as well as the delaware beaches and that extends through maryland, virginia, North Carolina and then it becomes Tropical Storm warnings for South Carolina and georgia, as the entire eastern seaboard this weekend. Gets the effects of hermine. Future tracker 6 sunny and beautiful and the clouds are here as we get into saturday afternoon. Rain develops from the south and east and pushes into philadelphia for the made in america concert, it looks wet saturday night into sunday and these bands intensify into sunday morning, as the heavy rain backs in from the shore asser mine passes by and stalls east of Atlantic City. The same time sun morning, wins cranking there 50 and 50 in dover and 30 plus miles in the city of philadelphia. Your fiveday at 5 00, tomorrow a Beautiful Day low humidity and 82, clouds increase and rain arrives from the south and east and rain heavy at times and gusty winds on sunday at 74 degrees and a few left over showers especially at the shore and peeks of sun west of the city and when the holiday is over on tuesday back to school sunny and temperature of 87 degrees. It is the last down at the shore and meteorologist, Melissa Magee, is live in wildwood and oh boy, if you are in the kitchen we are in trouble. Reporter you are in trouble because im going to bring a lot of stuff back to you or because im going to mess it up. I think you meant that the latter. We are inside of douglas candies, im with dave, he is putting the caramel on the walnuts. These are pecans. I knew that i was just testing you out. Well have more on what so expect this weekend with one last hoorah down at the store. Monica and rick ill send it back to you. Lets check her technique. Want one of those over there. 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