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Taiwanese giant Formosa Petrochemical Corp. expects its proposed St. James Parish complex could cost more than the $9.4 billion it projected — due to coronavirus pandemic-related delays and construction materials price hikes that a global credit rating agency already says could push the cost toward $12 billion. If the rating agency's estimate proves correct, that would be a nearly 28% hike in the overall project cost. The estimated cost to build an ethylene project along the U.S. Gulf Coast was projected to increase by 2.7% in 2019 and 3.1% in 2020, according to Compass International....

Higher gusts several worked here in the past half hour as i have gotten further south. >> i checked out your web site i know how much of this you do. compare isaac to some of the ones you have driven through chasing. >> i have gone through hurricane katrina and hurricane wilma in south florida. this is not as bad as either of those. those are both major hurricanes. now on the bridge. i think it will be a big threat florida west coast as well as storm surge. so i say along the west coast don't take this lightly. it is going to make an impact and could be hadz douse. >> you know, joe, i want peo...

we have had report of tornados, tornado warnings are posted and with the land falling tropical system, tornados are not out of the question. so tropical storm debby, the latest coming out at 5:00. national hurricane center did make a few tweaks. with its intensity and path, which is quite interesting. it is a broad circulation. as you heard don said everyone from the florida to the texas coast needs to be mindful of this. also, it's moving very slowly. what does that mean? it won't be a quick hitter. 10 to 15 inches of soaking, flooding rain will be a part of this picture, also, we'v...

Mexico about two hours ago, hour and a half ago. taken rolled with a tornado on the ground very close to largo, florida. there is the peninsula here. this is the peninsula of tampa and there is mcdill air force base. there is the other side of the causeway and all the way down to the sunshine bridge, right to. as this storm went over to largo and then it got back into the water very close to the bridge and south -- and i think that it was just south of tampa on the ground north of mcdill and then near brandon and now we know that this is still, that cell right there, fred is still rotating. >>...