at 4:30 -- hermine is now causing tropical storm warnings and watches and dangerous rip currents around the mid- atlantic coast. some beaches are off-limits. >> we're just trying to wait it out as long as we can. >> flooding from hermine has mandatory evacuations in place now for parts of pasco county. some residents refusing to leave. >> touring the flood damage. governor rick scott gets a firsthand look at bay area neighborhoods hit hardest. his plans to help the area recover. happy labor day on this monday, i'm dan shaffer. >> i'm deiah riley. millions of people along the east coast are expected to remain under tropical storm warnings and watches for the rest of labor day weekend. >> hermine now making its way up the eastern seaboard with 70

dangerous rip currents along the atlantic beaches. >> right now urging people to be careful, listen to your lifeguards. >> reporter: new jersey governor chris christie warning of lingering danger from what forecasters are now calling post tropical cyclone hermine. >> rip currents are going to get fairly aggressive before you see any other type of outward manifestations. >> reporter: millions are expected to continue to feel the effects as itomy enders up the eastern -- meanders up eastern seaboard. sunday night they said it was moving out to sea east of ocean city maryland, where residents were cautionedded no to be fooled by the apparent improvement in weather. >> the wind goes away, rain stops but rip currents. that is our biggest concern because that's when people think it's safe to go back in and that's when it is most dangerous. >> reporter: the tropical storm warning had been cancelled but for active for areas including

there could be significant challenges but not limited to loss of power, flooding and transportation issues. >> one person died in north carolina saturday amid high winds from hermine. a falling tree killed a man in florida lft week as the storm approached. though officials haven't determined if the storm was the cause. people with flooded homes in the bay area are worried about more rain. mandatory evacuations are still inla are not leaving. officers are working 16-hour shifts to patrol the flooded elfers community after the river forced families from their homes, despite a mandatory evacuation order some families are staying. officers say they can't control what people do but want to be ready if anything happens. >> public safety. biggest thing. just making sure everybody's

to them. >> the river is expected to recede out of major flood stage sometime this morning. floodwater levels are dropping but officials estimate it could be a week or more before some people get pack to their homes. we'll have a live report from pasco county coming up at 5:00. governor rick scott toured the flooded areas in pasco county yesterday. he met with flood victims and also went to the worthington court apartment complex where people there were ordered to evacuate saturday night because the area is flooded. the deep in places. many there just want mother nature to give them a break. >> i'm really mad, more upset than mad because i lost my home. i can't be in my home with my children. i have to stay with family. >> officials are urging people again to stay out of the water. they say live electrical wires could be in the water along with snakes and pollution. while there are still thrud

back operations but today will continue to monitor and respond to those affected by hermine. the erosion that hermine did to pinellas county beaches could be the worst beach erosion this decade. the coastal zone management office expects erosion to be greater than the damage caused by tropical storm debbie in 2012. a team will survey exactly how much sand the beaches lost. and starting today curbside storm debris disposal for coastal communities in hernando county. the co grubbs emergency services to make this possible. good morning on your labor day. we're going to see some additional rainfall for this afternoon. that is going to be heavy at times about 50% but this is our typical pattern. afternoon thunderstorms. this time of year certainly prevalent. upper 70s now with the temperatures, some of us have cooled off nicely, 73 lakeland. 75 in zephyrhills and

generally along the coast. that's where we'll be 7:00 and then climb up to 82 by 10:00. then today between 1:00 and 6:00 some showers and thunderstorms that will develop and coverage about 50% so. keep it in mind, later storms develop today and drier times coming up the next couple of days. more on the extended forecast coming up. this is i-275 at north end of the howard frankland bridge. not a lot of traffic on this a little later. we'll check in again in 15 minutes. we want to remind you about a national campaign to crack down on impaired drivers. it's through today. it's the drive sober or get pulled over campaign. federal transportation officials say the labor day holiday is one of the deadliest times of year for drunk driving fatalities. a sad update out of polk county. a dive team recovered the body of an 18-year-old, austin welsh

she's safe but the currents swept him away. his body was spotted using sonar. he likely drowned but there will be an autopsy to determine south autopsy -- exact cause of death. clinton will be in tampa tuesday afternoon. she will discuss plans for keeping the nation safe including working with our allies. meanwhile trump is taking to social media again wi opinions. latest comments focused on arizona senator jeff flake. in a tweet trump calls flake weak hinting he can't control illegal immigration. 4:36. hernando county family is left homeless after a fire destroys their home. when crews got there the house was fully engulfed. thankfully the family safely got out. the cause of the fire is now

family find a place to stay. a former pasco county deputy now facing charges for a dui crash. investigators say 23-year-old jack armstrong jr. caused property damage to a home in hudson. no reports of injuries from the crash. armstrong since resigned from the pasco county sheriff's office. today the black lives matter group in tampa may be preparing to hold another protest. the group will be holding a stealth meeting tonight according to their facebook page. many are outraged after the hillsborough county deputy shot d tuesday in the palm river neighborhood. a burglar breaks into a bay area gushop and now 30 handguns and 10 semiautomatic rifles are missing. authorities say the suspect smashed the window titan arms. if you know where they are call crime stoppers.

they are going to deliver food nationwide to first responders. it's the 15th consecutive year for olive garden to do this. in ohcal a boy scott ripped -- in ocala a boy scott ripped off. he was selling snacks for his troupe. a man gave a boy what looked like a $100 bill. he said the man seemed slick. he gave and later found out it was a fake. >> i asked him what did he learn about the experience? he said not to trust people. it's not right. we're supposed to trust people. >> at least don't steal from children. >> workers at the walmart say that man -- the man would tricked that boy scout also tried to use the fake bill in the store but a clerk wouldn't accept it. the authorities are asking

a florida map is accused of plotting an attack similar to the pulse nightclub shooting but today on labor day he said on social media to the lgbt community something that got him arrested. >> the maker of gatorade has an organic version of the drink. >> a solid outing by chris archer gave the rays a chance to beat the blue jays but the

4:43. 37 wastewater disposal wells now shut down in oklahoma after a record-tying earthquake there. increase of earthquakes is linked to these disposals of wastewater from oil and natural gas production. it's now tied for earthquake in state history. there's no report of any major damage but the quake was strong enough to rattle locals. >> it was pretty scary for the kids and everything. everybody was just panicked. they didn't know what to do. >> saturday's quake is at least the second of its size to affect central oklahoma since 2011. this is expected to bring new attention to the practice of disposing of water waft deep

tennessee family mourning the loss of their mother. it's believed the father stabbed her. and stabbed himself. family members are taking care of the kids. kelly's family wants to share her story in hopes of saving someone else who may be in a domestic violence situation. abc action news is taking action against domestic violence everyday. we have all sorts of resources on our web site including the statewide domestic hotline at 1-800-500-1119. that phone line is untraceable and you can remain anonymous. the little boy killed by an alligator at walt disney world would have been 3 this weekend. for the first time since their son's death mom and dad spoke publicly. matt and melissa graves celebrated young lane's birthday saturday.

lakeshore. he was later found dead. people gathered in nebraska to release thousands of blue balloons. >> everyone who knows me knows i don't like to sleep but my baby, i owe it to him, to honor him. so his mommy needed to say happy birthday laney, you are in our hearts today and every second of every other day! >> disney did make changes after the incident to better protect guests including warning signs, fences and barriers. the parents say they will not pursue a lawsuit against disney. u.s. defense intelligence agency is now apologizing to china. the agency took a jab at china saying in a tweet classy as always china. referring to the treatment of american reporters after president obama landed in china for the g-20 meeting. the agency was upset when china unexpectedly limited u.s. reporters' access to president obama. you have probably seen ads for labor day sales about everywhere but before you shop

than others. this weekend you'll save big on mattresses. it's one of the only weekends in fact of the year that temperpedic goes on sale. also you can save on other appliances. and stores are already getting set for thehoods so anything for outdoors -- the holidays for anything for the outdoors will have markdowns as well. there is one thing to hold off on buying. >> reporter: it's not the best weekend to buy electronics though. because the new if on sale for a couple more weeks, you want to buy i-phones after then when the old ones get marked down. ? as for big screen tv's the big deals around black friday, same for toys and winter clothes. 4:46, monday, labor day. as we continue with weather for the early part of the day. by the afternoon we'll have thunderstorms to contented with but nothing too unusual. temperatures in the low to even upper 70s, across the north

way still with us across portions of south florida but for us i think today will be pretty typical summer day setting up for a lot of sunshine through the early part of the day and then watch on futurecast, by 1:00, 2:00 the storms fire. notice the arrows, that is the wind direction, where the storms will be moving to and from so northeast to southwest and that means they will end up along the beaches later on this afternoon, 4:00 to 7:00. so really not the best beach day but it's pretty us although next couple days we'll begin to see drier times. post tropical hermine is still impacting with new england here with gusty winds and the potential for beach erosion. going to be cool, those weekends across the northeast. it's dangerous with the rip currents but they've seen worse nor'easters and across the interior they are going to be fine. it's along the coasts martha's

provincetown will continue to see gusty winds today before things begin to improve the next few days. by the way the rest of the tropics in pretty good shape. 30% chance of development here with the feature, this tropical wave over the lesser antilles should track west. that is a five-day forecast. 30%. so the potential there for this to even fall apart here, conditions really not conducive for rapid development. we'll keep you posted on that. otherwise temperature this afternoon upper 80s to 90 where we should be for this year. if you're planning on boating today or heading to the beach a little water temperature now, low 80s but cooler. north winds by the afternoon, starting with easterly winds at 10, 1 to 2-foot seas and light chop for the bays, low tide 11:04. heading into the afternoon, high tide 5:19. rain chances high today, then drop big time tomorrow, 20%

week. let's look at part of the morning commute. the sunshine skyway bridge here, pretty deserted this morning. one lone car get ready to make its way. no problems with traffic. we'll have another look at the morning commute coming up. the rays start a three-game series against the baltimore orioles and bucs first game of the regular season this sunday against the falcons in atlanta. john sabol has your morning sports report. >> reporter: good morning. thank you for joining us. in the first two rays against the blue jays tampa bay powered by starting pitching and that continued with archer on the bump. he was dealing. nine strikeouts, gave up just two runs and five hits against the jays and didn't walk a single batter but left in the seventh with a 3-1 lead, you think it's great but the bullpen came in, fell apart.

into left field. blue jays tie at 3-3. archer not happy. it gets worse for tampa bay. kevin jefferson now pitching. he wants that pitch back. russell martin tattoos the 3- 0liteer to left and gone. two-run shot proved to be the game winner. toronto wins 5-3. jeffson and foxburger gave up three runs, four hits in two and-a-half innings of work. clinton flowers hurt the tigers in the air and on the ground. flowers also rushed for two touchdowns and distributed the ball well to nine different receivers. marlin mac left the game with a shoulder injury in the second and didn't return.

fine, and should be able to play this coming weekend against northern illinois at raymond james stadium. that's your morning sports update. enjoy your day. police in ohio catch a suspected thief at labor day cookout because he was driving a stolen ambulance. why police say he stole it and how they tracked him down. >> mother teresa is canonized and the pope honors her by

good morning, upper 70s on this labor day. mid and upper 70s as we -- as we check the labor day forecast in the afternoon. still in pretty leftover moisture. rain chances 50% so pretty good chance of thunder boomers between 1:00 and 5:00 with highs around 89. a very special delivery to tell you about on this labor day. panda mom giving birth to her second set of twins at the atlanta zoo. the cubs arrived less than an hour apart. it's also the first giant pandas born in the thus year. giant pandas are born blind, almost hairless, just a little bigger than a cell phone. she gave birth to the first set

later this morning there's a labor day charity workout that benefits kids, to be held at the seminole city park at 7464 ridge road in seminole starting 8:00. work out for free with a $10 donation, or new package of children's underwear to benefit clothes to kids. giving free clothes to low income children in pinellas county. some neighborhoods are under mandatory evacuation orders because of flooding caused by hurricane hermine. >> but some people are refusing

a man who threatened to carry out a labor day attack on the gay community is now behind bars. what he wrote on social media that put a neighborhood on alert. >> one county is giving hurricane hermine victims an easy way to clean up. details coming up on that. >> and flooding is threatening a neighborhood in pasco county. why authorities say families are actually part of the problem. thank you for joining us on this monday. >> let's update your labor day holiday weekend. ivan cabrera in >> good morning.

shape early on. by the afternoon some thunderstorms are back. in fact rain chances 50%. so pretty good bet of seeing storms. temperatures right now in the upper 70s from tampa, clearwater and st. pete. mostly clear skies, a few clouds, a few showers well to the south and east not bothering us now, with temperatures by this afternoon, thinking 89, 90 degrees, typical for this time of year. titan doppler radar pretty quiet. you can see showers across portio heading to south florida. a little disturbance and we'll continue with the northeast flow bringing rain chance in the afternoon and also push the storms that develop by 12:00, 1:00 to the beaches by the time we get to 4:00 and 5:00 with temperatures as i mentioned in the upper 80s. it will feel like 95. still plenty of humidity certainly left over. this is residual, tropical moisture, what is left over where we had the last few days. there's drier air ahead but that won't come in until tomorrow. then we're really going to drop