hermine, forcing evacuationing in parts of tampa bay. streets, turning to rivers, making trying conditions down right deplorable. >> several residents ha rescued, many others fear for what's next. >> i'm at a loss for words. >> and with more rain on the way, we're not out of the woods yet. tomorrow, live team coverage of tropical storm hermine. thanks for joining us. tropical storm hermine is causing a mess in the bay area. in say source, floodwaters are forcing residents out of their homes, including this neighborhoods on 40th and coconut avenue.

evacuations. >> a similar scene in manatee county where the rides water forced some to abandon cars. some people left stranded, walking and looking for another way home. >> we saw cars and trucks in pinellas county. many had to create their own detours, just to make it home safely. it is the same story all across much of the tampa bay area, even at this hour. we have team coverage for you tonight area. we'll start with steve. give us the latest storm track. we know we get it this time every night. >> it's a little stronger. they've been investigating the system with aircraft, and 60- mile an hour winds, that's a bit of the increase from 50 earlier, but it's in an area before the wind sheer will kickback in, and move this system eventually off very

-- upper area will carry it off. just sending out the waves of rain, dragging moisture across the state. 7, 8 inches of rain is fairly common in pinellas county. now forecasting it to be a hurricane thursday at 8:00 p.m. and the track might be shifted to the east, we are still out of cone of air, but tropical storm warning in place nor citrus, fast co, hernando, -- pasco, and hernando. the initial measurement is 60- mile an hour winds, and the forecast to be a hurricane at landfall. good news, drying out a bit, the rain is ending, but a bit of heavy rains falls in some of the interior portions of the area. the brighter red colors, the very strong showers and few thunderstorms are drifting to the east. so showers should be less than last night. but rain can generate

we will continue our team coverage in a couple minutes, but first, we are following breaking news in pasco county. more than a dozen patients are now the in their hospital rooms after a fire at the hudson facility. >> the good news, the fire is now out, but we are learning that about 300 more patients may have to get out, seek shelter tonight. we are live in hudson. so where are the people being taken?

>> chris: when this problem happened, there were no emergency surgeries happening in the particular hall. that could have been a big problem on an emergency table. other good news, the rain has subsided, somewhat, so emergency crews are doing everything they can to get them out at quickly as possible before the next bands of storms and rain moves through. so that is the latest from yes, sir. >> thank you, jen, reporting live. back to our storm coverage, hours and hours of relentless rain is causing whitaker bayou to overflow banks, forcing people to seek higher grand. peter bernard continues with team coverage, in sarasota. peter. >> chris: there are a number of people that are out of their homes, and long time residents

in at least 25 years. whitaker bayou is behind me. take a look. it is a raging torrent. look at the water, and this with hermine, far, far away from the bay area. fire rescue crews deployed boats to make sure they could get to every house along 40th street, just east of coconut avenue, unsure of the water's depth. sarasota police told 7 neighbors it would be wise to get out. an officer carried a dog, and helped the owner slog through waist high water. >> i have water, it's coming in now. >> you're all right? >> yes, i'm fine. >> officers came to get you? that's nice? another owner, another pet. >> who is this? >> nemo, and he's very wet. and he doesn't under what's going on. >> is there water in your house? >> not yet. >> 9 timing is city leaders

tide, and right now, what's unusual is it's low tide. i think just our storm water system is overloaded. overloaded. >> >> chris: the street turned into a ey >> it just stopped, and i try to start it again. >> that was the end of that. >> chris: homeowners did not like the water latching at their door -- lapping at their doors. i spotted this loaded handgun in the middle of the road, and alerted manatee deputies. take a look at this bayou, look at that water. amazing. on that handgun, that's a first

as far as more evacuations, city officials, they are going to monitor this to see if more people need to get out. >> peter, i don't want to put you on the spot, but was the gun floating by? >> chris: i was signaling to paul, one of our photographers where we were, and trying to get his attention, and i looked down, it was like four to five inches under water, and i could see it clearly. i picked it up, probably not a great thing to do, took it over to the side >> my goodness! we have seen about everything tonight. that nonstop rain has been a problem for drivers across the bay area. a viewer sent us this video that careened into an overflowing ditch. woman inside had to be rescued. we're told she's going to be okay though, but the car is pretty much. all the flooding is a

well. jeff is live in largo. >> chris: good evening. behind me is retention pond at a dom plex that is been -- complex that's been overflowing the banks all day. we've been driving throughout pasco county and pinellas, and seen homes surrounded by water, impassable streets, and the heavy rain from hermine isn't even here yet. >> this is nuts. >> chris: phyllis lives in the autumn chase apartments, and has been keeping a close eye on rising water all day. >> been and i came in this morning -- now i see why they were trying to deter me. >> lot of stuff out here. >> chris: all over pinellas county, we found streets made impassable by rising water. in pinellas park, we found one

noting the high water, and still drives fog through -- going through it. in st. petersburg, martin luther king, jr. was flooded, making the commute home difficult. >> i think it's just -- they know it's going to happen. >> chris: he went out in the rain to get medicine for his child. he made it home, but his car is flooded in his front >> i made it out, but it just stalled out. that was it. >> chris: we're driving throughout pinellas county and pasco, looking at rivers, retention ponds where you can tell there's not flooding in homes in most areas, but many like this have already taken as much rain as they can.

>> we don't have any evacuation orders there, but that really could change, depending on the conditions, especially what happens tomorrow, perhaps. >> chris: yeah, absolutely, keith. emergency managers in pasco county have said they're not issuing evacuation orders yet, but they did advise people who live in low-lying areas this might be a good time if you have family or friends in higher areas to spend time with them. >> good idea. thank you for that. in pasco un stood in line to fill 7000 sandbags. this is the emergency operation center in newport ritchie. we have a list of sandbag locations and hours at wfla dot come. if you plan on driving, check out our app before you hit the road. we have a list of road closures so can avoid the flood, arsonist caught on camera.

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ent of this advertising. fans who braved the game at raymond james stadium, let's say they had to bring ponchos. not ideal weather to play football, or to watch it, the normal summertime storms come and go. >> but hermine is proving to be stubborn, and no brake for anybody at raymond james stadium -- break for anyone at raymond james stadium. jeff is joining us live from the stadium, in tampa. jeff, people going into the game knew they were in for a

>> chris: absolutely, i did try to stay dry, but did not have very good luck, but we did spot several fans who came out here with some unique ways of staying dry. others who were ready to deal with whatever mother nature had to dish out. die hard bucs fans were seizing the day, these stadium workers were squealing gives the the rain coming down too fast for rj. you heard of cheese heads? tonight, we spotted a drink holder head at the game. most had ponchos as the apparel of choice. others simply didn't care. still others had a different plan. these two young men are die hard fans of news channel 8, and take steve's forecast very seriously. they brought pool floats, just in case.

floods on channel 8, so i brought my -- >> they're sturdy, and holding up. >> chris: we don't have official attendance figures for the game, with you it appears most fans elected to stay home many who did come out left at halftime. the other fans just left a few minutes ago. reporting live at raymond james stadium, news channel 8. >> thank you. donald trump delivered his much hyped immigration speech in arizona after a quick stop in mexico. trump say he and the mexican president did not talk about

the president tweeted they did, and made it clear his country would not pay for it. tonight, trump doubled down, talking about building a wall along the mexican southern border. >> we will build a great wall along the southern border. and mexico will pay for the wall. 100%. they don't know it yet, but they will. the great people, they're great leaders, but they're going to pay for the wall. >> hillary clinton is not too happy with the she says she got an invitation to visit as well, but is not planning to go. nighttime, but i want to show you this. almost 8 inches of rain since midnight, so 24 hours. 77 degrees. lot of rainfall in southern pinellas county. nice shot inland, dark skies today. and the showers coming there. i think the site there in

falling. some adding -- at this location, almost 7 inches of rain, clearwater, 3.5-inches of rain, plus over 5 inches of rain, that's a record in sarasota. almost 6 inches of rain. and it continues to come down inland spot, lakeland, fort immediate to bartow. the heaviest activity pushing off to the east. good news is, not as heavy at the moment. more showers certainly with generate, about we get a break, that would be fantastic. a lot of the area. from north to south, things are quiet right now, but inverness, brooksville, central areas, pinellas county, after the drenching, some showers lifting your way, but offshore at the moment, things are relatively quiet. can you see heavy rains -- you can see heavy rains. fairly dry back to the west for the moment, but still we have the tropical storm to the west,

really going to be -- not going to be an issue, mostly in the 70s today, cloudy skies, showers and storms across the area. there's the center of the tropical storm, and getting more organized with 60-mile an hour wind, a flood advisory is in place, and you can see the coverage of shower activity and the break in the showers back to the west at the moment. so if you mixed this, 60 -- missed this, 60 miles an hour winds, and you can se forecast for landfall, thursday at 8:00 p.m., 75-mile per hour winds, which would make it a category 1 hurricane. of course, that can change. and eventually you can see the landfall sometime later on thursday, but probably more like early on friday, and shooting to the northeast. tropical storm warnings in place for citrus, hernando, pasco county. expecting wind gusts and tides. possibility of 2-4 feet, plus,

east of the landfall of that activity there. so the higher tides as well, and winds more southwesterly, that includes in tampa bay, all the rivers, and those that face westward can see the water pushed into the area. so cloudy skies will stay in place overnight, see the occasional showers passing across the area. we hope the totals won't be as high, probably not like today, but still showers on and off with tropical downpours can occur. friday morning, mo out of here. rain chances still fairly high for thursday and friday, and on saturday, 50%. that's when we say good bye to the system. moving into the atlantic. it's labor day weekend, so focus on the tropical weather, you forget it's a holiday. we have to get through tomorrow, and then we watch the

midday up and down the west coast -- >> crosses our fingers for those people on the coast. it's been a rainy night all across the bay area, especially for tampa bay buccaneers dan is out at raymond james stadium for a recap on for the final

welcome back to raymond james stadium where the bucs fall in their preseason finale, 20-13 to the washington redskins. this was a night where it rained steadily all day, it got heavier, and heavier, and heavier. the bucs played well, once it lightened up, but cannot handle the conditions as well as the red kings. let's look -- redskins, the first half wasn't pretty. lot of starters not playing, a

side, but it was a slip wet ball, and fumble fest. bernard reedy fumbled a couple of punts, peyton barber had a fumble that the bucs recovered so a sloppy night. offensively, and on special teams. defensively, i think the biggest disappointment was the washington redskins ground game. the bucs were sputtering. head skins had it in mack brown, 60-yard touchdown, and there were missed tackles everywhere on that. that's going to be the most disappointing thing, i think, the coaches take away. but second half, bucs looked a little better. 20-13 was the final score. ryan griffin, the quarterback threw a touchdown pass to bernard reedy. that's why it was a one-score game. couple of positives i want to take. one, 50-yard field goal from kicker roberto aguayo. i chatted with him during the

field was in good shape. he wasn't worried about the footing. he was worried about the weight of the wet football, and that 50-yard field goal didn't have much room to spare. so what he said made sense. and the receiver battle wither's going to have to make the cuts by saturday, freddy martino had a decent night, late in the second half, bernard reedy, even though he fumbled a couple punts was the guy that caught the touchdown pass from ryan griffin. that's the end of now the bucs get down to the business side of this, guys. they have to cut the roster down to 53 players. 75 right now, by saturday, and that doesn't mean they are still done makes cuts. other teams will cut players, and the bucs could cut some more, soup a few more players -- sign a few more players, and over a week from now, 11th of september, bucs and falcons, two road games to start the

a difficult start for the bucs to think they can get off to a decent start. they go 1-1 in the first two road games. i think they're looking for a pretty positive season. 20-13 here at the stadium. >> and you called it, a sloppy night indeed so i'm sure they're glad to have this one behind them. dan lucas live at raymond james stadium. >> the field crew has their work cut out for them. fortunately, they have a few weeks to take care of this. we will be right back with your

>> winning lotto numbers: there is a possibility of showers tonight, but it looks dryer for the moment, back to the west. that's going -- showers can generate on and off. i don't anticipate the same rain for tomorrow. we can see showers on and off, including the tropical downpours, and of course, went tobe concerned