after a nearly 14-hour standoff with police. the woman who made an early morning call to police told tmz that brown pointed a gun at her because she was admiring a man's diamond necklace. she made a run for it after the necklace. after spending hours outside his estate waiting for a search warrant police scoured his home. but brown denied any wrong doing on social media against police. >> when i call the police for stalker people that are endangering my life, they don't come till the next day. let somebody make a [ bleep ] allegation about me and the whole [ bleep ] team. >> the artist has had numerous run-ins with the law. the most high profile of which was in 2009 when he pleaded

against rihanna. hawaii isn't safe from the end of the season pounding. but even with the rain officials are warning many beach goers to stay out of the water. the incredible images and the warnings people should heed. >> reporter: the view from the international space station is stunning. massive hurricanes swirling across the globe. a followed by hurricane lester churning in the gulf. >> this storm is in an uncertainty but we are preparing for it. >> tropical depression number nine is focused toward the gulf coast bringing heavy rain and isolated tornados over the next few days. >> everybody has to be careful. we don't want any loss of life.

carolina's outer banks where a tropical storm warning is in effect. swimmers are pulled out to sea and panic while trying to swim against the current back to the beach. >> i want to bring in bill karins who's tracking the tropical storm so all up and down the east coast we've got to consider this for the labor day weekend. >> rip currents a huge issue. we have hurricane watches that are up. we're really worried what's going to happen in the gulf. how hard are we going to get hit here in north florida and along the coast. it's flared back up. i do think this is going to become hermine as we go throughout the morning. and the forecast path is going to take that now up here towards north florida and right along the southeast coastline, so again, the forecast path of this storm is what's going to matter

70-mile-per-hour winds and raking along the southeast coastline as we go throughout your saturday. that's a look at the big weather story of the day. now here's a closer look at the day ahead. everyone's fine today. yesterday we had horrendous rain along the coastal area. still very warm and humid throughout the south. some rain in florida today but we're not going to be getting the rain from our tropical system until tomorrow. we also want to show you this beautiful display over the northern lights were in all its glory. a beautiful hue in the sky. "early today" back in two. frag. ...ad, and my sweethearts gone sayonara. this scarf, all that's left to remember. what! she washed this like a month ago! how's a guy supposed to move on!

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