i told each one of them, my conversation separately, whatever they need. sincerely, whatever they need, contact me directly. joining me now jamie rome, acting director of the national hurricane center. good to have you with us this hour. we saw in the most recent update, the 2:00 p.m. update that the storm was rapidly intensifying. the major concern at this hour seems to be the storm surge and also just how long this storm could sit. what are the areas that you re most focused on at this hour? i think water is going to be the big issue with this storm, both the incredibly heavy rainfall. you can see it starting to sweep over the southern portions of the florida peninsula. and the storm surge near to the east of where the center makes landfall, and those two when they combine together, it creates a lot of flooding issues. speaking the the mayor of tampa in the last hour, she was pointing to the separate saturation that they re already seeing on the ground there that they
Reporter absolutely and good evening. Hundred out on social media and called 8 on your side when they received political robocalls at 2 00, 3 00 and 4 00 in the morning. The group behind the call said sorry. For 39 in the morning and usually when it rings at 4 00 in the morning someone is deceased or in jail. Reporter good news for dave harris, the middle of the night call call from jail but it didnt make him feel better when he heard the call. It was a telemarketer for amendment two and i was upset about that. Reporter look online and the list of people not thrilled about the middle of the night wakeup call from the same number goes on and on. The group behind the call, a drugfree Florida Committee is behind the boat two on two and trying to get them to not support amendment two and dont they claim the calls were meant to go out in the evening but the vendor coded them as a. M. Instead of p. M. I am unsurprised. Reporter an attorney makes big money suing telemarketers through his Cons
A 3yearold boy is found on an island after going jet skiing with his father. But there are no signs of the father. Fox13s Shayla Reaves is live in gibsonton this morning. Shayla, you spoke to the Sheriffs Office this morning about the thanks, shayla. Thanks, shayla. New this morning tampa police are investigating a double shooting. It happened just after midnight at a home on east deleuil avenue. Police say before they could get to the scene two men were taken to st. Josephs hospital. One has nonlife threatening injuries. The other is in critical condition. Police are still trying to figure out what led up to the sho a deputy injured in a deadly hit and run crash in polk county is expected to have surgery today. And the mother of the woman killed is pleading with the driver to come forward. This happened saturday morning in lake wales. Deputy adam pennell had stopped to help Jessica Enchautegui Otero after she had gotten into an accident. After he radioed for help, another driver hit b
come visit you guys. it is a nice day. alcides a cold start. jim somebody sent me a message on facebook. message on facebook. i keep saying it is so nice outside, why dont i go outside and do the weather. i would love to. [ laughter ] anjuli 45 degrees. jim that feels good to me. i dont mind it at all. summertime, that is a whole different story. but look outside right now, hey, 44, anjuli. how do you like that. just add a little bit more on to that there. so you can see we are really day. lots of clear skies. head out to the beach. yeah, anybody . i dont see a Single Person out there. maybe a little too cold out there on the beach for most people. brandon, 39 degrees. Wesley Chapel the same. brooksville, now below freezing, 31 degrees. Crystal River, 32. a bit warmer along the coastline and st. Petersburg at 51 degrees degrees. the temperatures up for today by tomorrow, that will be nice. 71 with plenty of sun, and we continue that warming trend as we go into the workweek. the full fo
Electricity. If a lot of stop signs are smashed from those 140 mileperhour winds. Theres a lot of debris in the streets as well. Sometimes its trees or downed power lines. For day two you are moving through a very dark world. Almost all of the 200,000 residents of the county are without power for a day two and across the state of florida now more than 6 Million People still without electric power. Many of them going online im wondering from hotel rooms were distant relatives house is one that power will be turned back on. Keep in mind the temperature index in miami will be about 10. With no air conditioner it will be a very tough place for these people to live. As far as the damage goes that we are seeing around here its mainly been downed trees and power lines. Mostly not native trees, some of the giant trees just pulled up by those powerful winds that came in the other day. There has been some flooding, especially in some mobile home parks in the northern part of naples. 34 feet of w