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The event was open to ages five and up with categories for children, duos and adults. Prizes were to be awarded later in the evening to winners of the chalk art competition.  In order to adhere to coronavirus health guidelines, participants were spaced out on the sidewalks and the entire street was closed down for visitors to look at the art while maintaining social distancing. However, hardly anyone wore a mask.  Despite the pandemic, The Hub on Canal's event director Miranda Price said this year they had the most participants. And she hopes to continue growing the event in the coming yea...

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Cleared out. we expect the worst of the conditions from hurricane dorian to brush against the coast today but that latest track has it just a little to our east. we're expecting tropical storm force winds throughout the day today. this rain is really intermittent, an occasional rain squall, just before we came on the air is when it started so we're getting soaked right now. again, stephanie, many people here have evacuated and they are hopeful that they will not see as bad a conditions as they were expecting from dorian. >> all right. thanks, gabe. let's take you 90 miles north of where gabe i...

Northward we do get into the ft. pearce later tonight, 59, melbourne 57, coco beach, then as we go through tomorrow morning at this time that's when the highest winds will be in areas around volusia county. the jacksonville area the highest winds for you -- notice now only in the 40 mile per hour range, the storm has overnight almost doubled in distance away from jacksonville so your forecast has dramatically improved, you may not even get much rain. the same goes for the savannah area. there's all these back water bays here and because of the angle of approach of the storm it's going to pile ...

So a very small strip of land that's very susceptible to flooding and storm surge. >> with a lot of people that have decided to stay put and hunker down. thank you for taking the time to message them today, your constituents. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> reporter: the mayor of cocoa beach, stephanie. finally, for brevard county which is the county this barrier island belongs to, there are 14 shelters open on the mainland. they had to open an additional one this morning because they were at capacity, steph. >> all right. mariana, thank you so much and stay safe where you are. now i want ...