right now on news channel 8 at 7:00. good evening, we begin with tropical storm hermine and all of the problems it's causing around the bay area. steve jerve has the very latest track for hermine and he joins

finally upgraded, still a menace to society. >> yes, i guess so and certainly the rain, so about the water in so many ways, the next 24, 36 and 48 hours you will see in the forecast the rain chance still fairly high. this was a tropical depression as we know, now a tropical storm hermine, 45-mile-per-hour winds as of the 5:00 advisory. that orange stripe there, that's basically a tropical storm warning for citrus, hernando, pasco, through the big bend area. and of course the higher seas especially closer to the center but they have shifted the path a little bit, they being the national hurricane center to the left or to the west farther away from the bay area, so we are out of the cone of air but still a feeling for the folks up there in the panhandle, could be some real high seas especially east of the center of that landfall friday 2:00 a.m. the timing on that can change and that 70-mile-per-hour winds we could be very close to a potentially -- or potentially reach hurricane strength with

levy county, a tropical storm warning in place. a hurricane watch meaning some high tides, west of 19 in levy county they have recommended a voluntary evacuation saying they could get 8 feet of storm surge according to the local eoc in levy county, that's north of citrus county. as we look at the lines of equal pressure here you can see that southwesterly breeze as we get into later tomorrow, friday and saturday, that's problematic as we all know for the onshore flow holding in and pushing the tides into intercoastal waterways, higher tide levels as well and that's up and down the west coast of florida. obviously closer to the center of circulation you're going to have higher seas and greater concern for that and that's why the tropical storm warning including the possibility of seeing some tropical storm forced gusts in that area. marginal risk here from the hpc saying the high wind gusts and isolated tornados in the forecast for the rest of today and certainly for tomorrow with an area of concern as well is always the possibility you can

potential rotation in the atmosphere that could cause some small tornados. a lot of dry air colored in red north of the storm, most of the thunderstorms on the south and eastern side where we are and that explains the heavy rain we have seen of late. again one more look at the satellite and i'll show you radar coming up. there's plenty of showers that continue to move across the area and we are seeing observations of rainfall close to 9 inches estimated by doppler radar in pinellas county, we are seeing below n caesar, almost 7 inches of rain at at that -- at that spot and that's an observation since midnight. additional rain is going to cause problems as it already has. >> thank you very much, steve. the weather is a big factor tonight for the tampa bay buccaneers. fans attending tonight's game at raymond james stadium better bring ponchos. chip osowski joins us from the stadium in tampa. i would say are you staying dry but that would be ridiculous. >> reporter: i heard a wise man

i'm not sure that's exactly the case. wet, soggy and miserable three words to describe the conditions out here at raymond james stadium this evening but this wet tropical weather isn't stopping bucs fans from cheering on their team. many are lining up now and the game begins in about an hour. the team covered the field with tarps in order to keep it as dry as possible. good luck with that. workers removed those tarps about an hour and a half ago and the rains have not let up. suffice it to to be wet out there. there was some chatter out here that the game could be postponed again but all indications are things are going off as planned and while attendance for this preseason game in these conditions will not be that great, there are those fans who would not miss this for the world. >> what kind of fans tailgate in this kind of weather? >> fans that come to all the games. >> is this exciting for you?

no one else is out here and i would rather be here than sitting at home or fighting traffic. >> reporter: and we did only find a handful of tailgaters this evening. i would assume most are electing to stay home where it's dry. the game is going on as planned. the only thing that could change that is the weather, if things go south, if we see lightning in this area, jen, the game could end sooner than expected. back to you. >> so now i want to tell you to get dry if you can and definitely weather. >> reporter: for the next half hour we will try to stay as dry as possible. >> okay. good. thank you, chip osowski live for us at ray jay. we appreciate it. you will be able to watch the bucs game tonight at 8:00 right here, your official bucs station, news channel 8, nbc programming will move to me tv, digital channel 8.2 which you can find on bright house

high water is causing big problems in manatee county. some drivers have tried to drive down flooded roads but didn't make it. peter bernard joins us live in bradenton. we saw you do a live shot earlier, we were yelling at the drivers, don't do it and they continue to drive into that water. >> reporter: i know and i wanted to stop people too but i'm just a reporter. you have heard the old rule about not driving through water where you don't know how deep it is. well, some people out here apparently didn't get the word, fifth street west is under water and it is littered cars that apparently decided they could make it through but they couldn't. take a look at some of this video. we spotted dozens of cars flooded out along fifth street west. those with high axles made it through fine but regular cars had water ingested in their intake and that spells the kiss of death for the car. the water depth is up to your knees in some spots. at the flora danna mobile home park near this location some elderly residents needed to be evacuated and rescued because high water surrounded their cars.

this area floods almost every year. i spoke to a car owner who said her car actually floated when it hit the high water. >> then the car went bop and there was like a jump in the road. i don't know. and water sloshed over the hood and it stopped. >> oh, no. >> yes. >> was that an oh, no, moment for new. >> it was an oh, no, moment. i had a little bit of trepidation and i thought you know what? this too shall pass. >> reporter: it's not passing now. you can see behind me it is in we have retreated to the cover of a carport here because it is just coming down to beat the ban. we saw some sheriff's deputies that were hopping on the back of a pickup truck going into to make sure everything is all right and this water is definitely not going down. i would venture to say it is going up because it is just coming down, that tropical storm, we are feeling its wrath right now. live in bradenton, peter bernard, news channel 8. some people in pinellas county had to evacuate their homes and dozens of cars have

jamel lenay shows us how hundreds are dealing with the impact of tropical storm hermine. >> reporter: this heavy rain forcing people out of their homes and scary moments are captured on cell phone video when a car goes into a ditch. one woman said she got a call from her renter around 9:00 this morning with 4 inches of water in the home. the pond that sits in the middle of this complex is overrunning. a few blocks over this car landed in a ditch. the driver tells me he was trying to turn down the street when the floodwater his car into the ditch. >> the husband already was out but the wife, it was an old couple, and the wife was still stuck in there and they were trying to help her get out and as they were helping her get out the car was sinking really fast. >> reporter: that woman is expected to be okay but as for the residents over here, there is no telling when they will be able to get back inside of their homes and clean up. reporting in pinellas county, jamel lenay, news channel 8. i'm melanie michael in mass co county where people are

preparing for the storm, filling sandbags, people in pascoe learning lessons in the past. jeanette knows how bad it's been and how bad it can get. she is one of many people in pascoe watching, waiting and worrying. >> when it keeps raining like this over and over day after day, then it accumulates and the ground is saturated so there's nowhere for it to go. >> reporter: county leaders admit they are worried, telling us that they are expecting this storm to pack an punch than tropical storm collin ever could. they encouraged people in pascoe to speak up and ask for help. >> we want you to call us because if we know about it, then we can expect to it -- respond to it. >> reporter: in pascoe county, melanie michael, news channel 8. and some streets in town and country are flooded tonight. our crew arrived on the scene and this is in the area of clifton street, golden drive and selene street just a few blocks north of hillsborough avenue. you can see you really can't

there are roadways underneath all of that water. the sidewalk appears to be covered as well. we are going to continue to monitor that situation and bring you updates from there as well. of course we are finding flooded streets all around the bay area, cars were just barely making it through at the -- the high water at 50th street north and 20th avenue in st. petersburg this afternoon. if you managed to snap a picture or video of wild weather in your neighborhood, please send it to us, just remember to stay safe while shooting it. you can upload the very easily through the news channel 8 news app. our tropical coverage will continue throughout our newscast and on wfla.com. we are posting updates including road closures and school closures. there are a lot of them on our home page as well as scrolling the information at the bottom of your screen. still ahead -- >> thousands of people come out to say goodbye to a beloved spiritual leader in tampa bay. i'm rod carter.

in the pouring rain thousands gathered to attend the funeral mass for the bay area's beloved monsignor higgins. he's a man who touched all of tampa with his kindness and generosity. >> reporter: in the drenching rain, bag pipes played for monsignor lawrence in >> always recovered referred to him as -- referred to him as lawrence or uncle lawrence. >> reporter: at his service memorable tributes, telling the congress gas station -- congregation his uncle was an avid -- >> a surprise to everyone, when this upcoming sports star was a rebellious streak announced he intended to become a priest. he often said you don't choose

love for the sport did not stop when he moved to tampa. former bucs head coach tony dungy spoke with great admiration, not about sports, though, but about monsignor higgins' love for community. >> all those places, he was there and he was there gladly. >> reporter: and at the service's end -- [ singing ] >> reporter: -- ng life in service to god and community. >> there's only one coach in his life that never lost a game. >> reporter: in tampa, rod carter, news channel 8. >> what a wonderful tribute for an avid sports fan. and speaking of sports, it's going to be a soggy one for the bucs to play their final preseason game. dan lucas joins us now from raymond james stadium. hey, dan. >> reporter: hey, jen. it is very wet out here. we are going to find out who is

conditions and the gm of bucks, jason light joins me next to talk about some of the tough decisions that loom ahead. donald trump facing new criticism - he appwith a disability.porter "you gotta see this guy.

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the final preseason game gets underway. dan lucas joins us live from raymond james and you're there with jason lite and you both look very dry. >> reporter: he said we want you in the show tonight, he said fine, let's go inside. it is nice and dry. won't be dry in a few minutes when i head out to the field. first of all, we all saw the news yesterday in minnesota. quarterback goes down. how important of a role now, when you think of your own situation here involving mike glennon, i know the phone rings, we know people talk about what's going to happen to mike glennon but we have learned what a quarterback means to this team no matter what role he is on the team. >> yeah, it's really unfortunate. none of us like to see what happened there. those injuries can happen anytime as we saw here, noncontact and it's just really, you know, our hearts go out to them and teddy

never -- if you can help it, you never want to go into a season where your starting quarterback goes down that you feel like all hope is lost so right now knock on wood, we are healthy and we are getting ready for the regular season. >> reporter: wet conditions tonight. you have a receiver battle. i know the coaching staff is interested in making the depth chart and making decisions. i'm not sure how fair of an assessment you're going to get for a final impression tonight. how difficult is that position group in particular when you guys sit down to make these challenging. we have pretty much -- we pretty much know what most of our decisions are. there are a couple of positions right now that this is going to be the final piece of the examination here, but we will still get enough out of it but we have plenty of practice tape and plenty of tape from prior preseason games that we can make an informed decision on. >> when the weekend hits and you start seeing the names that are available around the league, give me the play by play of your staff. you need to evaluate all of

available. how busy are you this weekend? >> it can be another draft but you have to know what -- you have to do a really good evaluation of your own players and my staff and myself, valuated all the other players that we feel may become available, we have a setup that if these guys get released, these are guys we are going to claim. sometimes it turns out that none of the players that you thought were claimable get cut by their respective teams so it's -- you kind of sit at the edge of your seat and your practice squad. >> we appreciate your time tonight. getting ready for the broadcast on news channel 8, can i stay in here? can i do it in here or do i have to go down there? >> don't touch the beer. >> reporter: perfect, done deal. the gm just hooked me up. send it back to you. >> he said no beer so keep that in mind. thank you very much. tonight a sarasota woman is accused of stealing close to $85,000 from the girl scouts, if you can imagine.

gulf coast florida. over the course of eight months she funneled the money into an unused account and used it to pay bills and buy lottery tickets. investigators say she confessed to the crime saying she was under financial hardship. republican vice presidential candidate and indiana governor mike pence stopped in the bay area today. weather delayed governor pence's speech in front of a crowd of hundreds in sarasota. on stage pence gave supporters insight into what they may hear from trump's tonight promising he will still be talking about building a wall on the mexican border. overcast in innisbrook, 2.68 inches falling in palm harbor, 74 degrees, that's been the story throughout the day for many. this very few. and pinellas county in particular getting a good soaking today, maybe up to 9 inches of rain estimated by doppler radar and certainly we have 7 inches of rain at st.

of rain in this spot and up in new port richey, almost 2 1/2 inches at this spot. temperatures reasonable as a result of the cloud cover and showers. rain continues from south to north, good coverage, patco -- pascoe. this goes as you can see from ruskin farther down south. moving now through western sections of polk county and a few showers in extreme eastern part of highlands county. good downpours, thou sections of sarasota county east of vamo, all lifting off to the north and northeast and then offshore it's interesting to see this area of low pressure, this tropical storm weak one but still enough to drag this moisture across the area, generate more showers and thunderstorms. just north of venice here as you can see lifting off to the northeast, so still despite a day where you are seeing shower after shower after shower, enough energy to develop to create a thunderstorm so remarkable tropical storm atmosphere and you can feel that today with the amount of rain falling when you see the

84 degrees at 4:00 p.m., 76 at the airport and tampa current temp, 75 in st. petersburg so it's raining there, saturated. area of low pressure back to the west. the tropical storm of course on the easternside, that's where the moisture is rolling across the state. we are in the crosshairs there as more showers generate. it won't probably rain the whole period of time. you can see a little bit lighter back to the west but more showers can generate. you might see breaks and inland areas probably see fewer show there's the possible landfall potentially close to hurricane strength early friday morning. that can change. that's the current timing but the good news is the bay area out of the cone air. still the onshore wind has great concern for high coastal tides as well as bay tides. the tides tomorrow midday anywhere from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. so the rain chances are quite high the next several days. tomorrow especially and also for thursday. by saturday and sunday more of a normization of the weather

tropical storm well off to the northeast that will pass across sections of the southeast and eventually back out into the atlantic according to the forecast. it's labor day weekend, jen, officially the end of summer. >> yeah, i've got my eye on the prize monday, right there. >> you're in that station wagon. >> with more of a sunshine. looking forward to it.

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wow, another real pick me up there from one of our tower cams. >> bright, isn't it? >> yeah. >> want your sunglasses? >> i better go get them. >> consistent rains here possible this evening overnight on and off and throughout the day tomorrow. and keep in mind we have had quite a bit of rain. coastal flooding at the river could come up later tomorrow probably. >> be safe out there and go bucs, we thank you for joining us. we will see you back here after

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