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Wildfire continues to burn out of control with flames shooting as high as 80feet and destroying a number of homes. Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate and a state of emergency has been declared. We have Team Coverage on the fire this morning. Ken and les are standing by to discuss air quality and road closures related to the fire. Peter dawson is live the red cross shelter in hesperia. To give us an update on evacuations. But first. Mike doria joins us live near hesperia. Mike you talked with people on the road, how are they holding up. The fire is 0 contained with now 18,000 acre...

Chris sununu holds a narrow lead over frank ed edelblut. It is too close to call. Colin van ostern easily won the democratic nomination. Erin the republican first Congressional District race is too close with call with incumbent frank giunta holding a small lead over rich ashooh. Jim lawrence easily defeated Jack Flanagan. Sean senator ayotte easily won her primary race. You can see all of the bottom of your screen. Much more on the races in just a moment. First lets talk weather. Election day, it was gorgeous out there. Kevin were ahead of the front early this morning. That will mean on and o...

Were going now live to the flooding situation. Reporter a lot of flooding that people are dealing with. Right now were in the blue heron point Mobile Home Park. This is massachusetts avenue and congress up in new port where you can see this entire Mobile Home Park is filled with inches and in some parts feet of water here. Residents getting around by using mates up, air mattresses and a paddle to get around here. You see the dogs there. They are checking on each other. We saw hillsborough come up this way to help the county with smaller boats. They were taking people out, getting them to a bus...

Yet because we still have a lot of leftover tropical moisture that is streaming through the area. I think today is going to feel be a lot like it was yesterday afternoon where you just had a lot of cloud cover, occasional showers running through the area. This morning we had a little bit of rain in the Citrus County area up to leve. Not a big deal. We are not going to put too much more in the bucket. We cant have more rain, there is nowhere to it go. The rain . Southout east winds at 3 Miles Per Hour. A lot of cloud cover. A few showers mixed in. It is not going to ruin your day and not going ...

I am about to ruin it for some. We have tons of moisture in the atmosphere, okay. We are not going to go from all that rain to nothing. And transition slowly and notice the showers. The tropical downpours approaching the west coast. Again this morning. And, boy, they are so close if not onshore already right around hudson, southward. New port richey, port richey, holiday, a batch of heavy rain that is moving through anclote now and that is going to come minutes or so, and i know i know the last thing you want is more rain. Here is another shower too. Right over the pinellas part of the gandy b...