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Saying that. Let me get into it here is a major hur cane. Even t be expected. Their presentatn ishowing ecthause i went through two mountainous areas but is hcore. Winds are still at 125 Miles Per Hour andit ahead of it but incredibly war water and ind n restrengthen. What laura was just talking ea coast. Erously close to t in fact, one of the latest computer models has it touching the east coast briefly, then turning to the north. This is where the change is coming in. Watch the models. Yeah, just kind of loop around. So its something we have to Pay Attention to and perhaps next week, this thing still is did nothing with that but now, theyre beginning to buy into this as well because all the major computer models are making this loop. So again, by friday morning, europe youre looking at the passage or friday afternoon, very, very close to the cape. If not touching the shore, ....
Right now ill start with the satellite picture and the storm is a little weaker than it was when i first walked in this rning as a result of moving through two mountainous areas, haiti and eastern cuba. Winds dropped back to 115 miles an hour which, by the way, means its still a major hurricane. But now as itoves away from the coast of cuba, its beginning the process of wrapping tha convection around its center. I think this stormhens forward movement. Inf due north, now its moving northnorthwest which bnt baake it close to if nguchi the Florida East Coast by friday afternoon. This is going to be very, close. But then, this is new. If you havent been watching since last night, this is new now. The computer models want to loop this storm back around again. Conservatively the Hurricane Center has started that process with their fiveday cone. But you can see, and you saw a ....
Leaves florida could it loop back . Welcome everybody. Sorry to start with that. It is wednesday, october the fifth. Im Russell Rhodes. Im laura moody. Good morning and all eyes are on the right no keepinan eye on this very oddtr. Ttws nowning some structure. Looks like its getting stronger. There are plane flying around inside now. The pressure is beginning lower. Stronger again. Which is exactly what it was forecast to do once it left the land areas of cuba. Notice the top part of this eye wall is still kind of ragged looking it kind of fell apart a bit as it went over country of cuba. Moving north, northwest. Forward movement for this storm, we started that westerly component. 115 mile per hour winds. So still, a major hurricane. Projected to once again ge drarngsly close. Governor scott is talking right now a little update on what they are doing in preparation for this storm. So lets talk to him current weather at 11 15 i will ....
Along so we can see nature the blockage looks like a single lane pass thing. Expect some delays here or avoid area if you can once again congress at ridge in pasco county involving a pedestrian from what we can tell. We have a live look here we want to get back time. 4 westbound which has been pretty slow through entire portion of eastern Hillsborough County. A pair of crashes one we are look right alex and der street which is mostly con find to that sould they are poking partial blockage in right lane. So day alexander back to a county line. A second crash which is on shoulder as well. Closer to mcintosh causing delays back towards alexander. So dealing with about 24 minutes to get from the buck man to 75 pretty jammed up in the area. Looks like they are starting to clear the scene a little bit more. Some good news and just releasing a trooper op that right happened side they are moving everything over to left where you have ....
Who is apparently in the road or trying to cross the road. So more information on this to come. But in the meantime we want to get our next big incident involve overturned dump truck out tampa area 50 street under selman expressway we have that overturned. We have debris in roadways you can see that blocking northbound lanes in also hindering folks from exiting the selman expressway at 50th. Second of all we have we want to get, my apolo traffic jam on north bunked 75 in manatee at state road 64. Where we have a vehicle thats on fire. So please avoid that area. Now we want to get to this, a vehicle into a home out lakeland area. We have a live look from the ground here. And this is happening off the fitzgerald road. What were hearing from the Sheriffs Office is that this is actually happening at Orange Valley. But thats off of fitzgerald. So shutting down fitzgerald east from ....