13 eleven o'clock news... >> it's time for the fox 13 11:00 news. >> cynthia and chris with more straight ahead. >> we are starting with a news alert. >> a hospital lost power and the patients are being >> and we are going to be here probably throughout the night. >> what happened and why. >> and we are tracking now tropical storm hermine. >> i had to get milk and so i had to walk out. >> where flooding is the biggest worry. >> let's get straight to it.

inching ever closer to florida moving in on a section of the panhandle around big bend. >> scooting back and forth with new information coming in, and it came in just a few minutes ago, we are analyzing over in the "we weather center. and this shows the wind speeds up and the pressure dropping. this storm is now predicted to be a hurricane before it land fall close to or just east of af app apalachicola, we are g stay kind of on the wet and unstable side tomorrow and so be watching for additional bands of rain developing around tampa bay. the winds will pick up in speed

intensifying, we will see with the long fetch that is going to pile up the water. our coast line and continental shelf goes out abo about 90 mils and if you go a b west wind, you get flooding, like splashing water i the hurricane hunter plane was cross-crossicriss-crossing and a line there, and back to by lox i they go. we are confident on this track, this is being picked up by a

a right hand turn like charlie did. i mean, there are certainly fine details but this is going to move north-northeast, and the track may have adjusted a little bit just to the east. this is tomorrow morning at 8:00. and a cat 1 hurricane here. so when the hurricane is here at 7:00 we have a south and southwest wind and probably bands of rain on us or just offshore, and tides will be there will be flooding tomorrow and it could impact the northeast by labor day. as i said, the computer models are locked in on the track. it is not going to shift and move our way at all. so we are talking about some high-tide issues. the first high tide tomorrow is midafternoon, running around 2:45 in tampa bay, and then another tide that will happen

later, early on friday morning and with that the winds are coming up from the south-southwest, piling up the water, and so could expect some flooding tomorrow. swreel your complete thursday forecast at 11:15. >> and because of hermine, schools are closed in citrus, hernando, pasco, pinellas, and others. we'll have that information crawling across the bottom of your screen. you can find it there. >> and now to the news alert out of pasco county. regional medical center b bayont point is undergoing an veaks evacuation because of an electrical fire there, and what a night to be moving people out of the hospital.

evan? has it gotten any better or are they still taking patients snout. >> i will give you an answer to that question, first of all, it has been getting better, the power is about halfway back on but there is still not enough on yet to stop the evacuation. we are told that this building is coming back on piece by piece. i am told that 50% of the building or so is back on, so that means there is some power in the quite enough to stop this evacuation and so far they had 290 people in this hospital, almost near capacity, and 12 of the patients were in critical condition and they were moved to other area hospitals first. 43 total patients so far out of the 290 have been moved to other area hospitals. it took a tremendous effort to get them there. we are told that a fire that

there was a malfunction and they tried to go to back-up power but a switch broke thereby putting off power to the rest of the building. at this point bayonet point cannot say exactly why this happens but that effort to bring patients from here to other area hospitals across tampa bay has been nothing short of stunning and heroic. 40 ambulances and f some of which can handle stretchers and some of these patients had to be brought down from the third floor they were on or the second floor and brought by hand, carried down by hand and brought into the ambulances that were waiting for them. we just heard from the ceo of bbayonet point. >> it's basically getting to the critical patients but i am so

care of the critical patients and getting them to the next level of care they need. right now we are going to be getting the hospital back in order and we'll do that as quickly as possible. >> unclear when this hospital will by fully back on line but this emergency room is closed and they are not accepting patients. we just got a tweet from someone that says we should extraordinary efforts of the staff that mobilized so well to protect the patients. i was a patient, and so there is a great endorsement from a patient inside, 877-344-1313 is the number for families to call and then hit option 9 if you are trying to get in touch with your family members. we are at b bayonet point in

like this to happen. thank you, evan, and as you heard him say, emergency tries still trying to work with patients and get the power back on, but one family took matters into their own hands, and now josh joins us live with that story. >> yes, cynthia, we just talked to roberta fleming. her 82-year-old mother was admitted to the hospital earlier today and they were here when this whole thing went down. as she described it when power went on the hallways became dark and she had to use her fell cr phone light to see where she was going and she described it as a feeling of chaos and fear, and described it to a scary movie, and she said they got out on their own, other otherwise they might still be in there. >> it was very scary and my mother was totally in panic mode

building and they were moved between laughing and crying on the way home, like we just escaped from some sort of prison, because that's what it felt like, and we did something wrong, too, but i'm glad we did it. >> she said her mother will be fine overnight and they will go to the prior matter care doctor tomorrow, just one story. and there are likely many more just like it scene continues to unfold tonight here in hudson outside the hospital. thankfully her mother is okay and we have heard no injuries to any of the patients during this evacuation process. >> i'm sure many, many stories to come. >> and another situation of course developing in pinellas county. tropical storm hermine has taken

leaving some streets underwater. and in largo the city is asking residents for help. >> we are here on donidan road and this manhole cover has been swspewing seusspewing sewage on, and the storm has overloaded parts of the sanitary sewer systm and the storm water is getting into the pipes, this befo hearimadelandfall, and the cityg people to avoid taking showers or doing laundry. >> my car wouldn't make it through here. >> i had to go get milk and soy soyou had to walk because i couldn't get my car out. >> some businesses shut down and

relax and wait out the storm. whether or not schools will reopen friday is still up in the air. reporting from largo, i'm haley haleyhines, reporting for fox 13 news. >> we have all of the in this ey information for counties area on our website. >> and now that we know it's getting stronger, check that tomorrow morning when you get up. and it was a problem then, and it's a problem now. >> all of this water is causing st. bst. pete to have to drain illustrates sewers. >> to fix our immigration system we must fix our leadership in

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>> listen to this, you are being asked to do something tomorrow. the city of st. st. pete is asg you for a favor. no long showers and please don't use your dishwashers machines through tomorrow, the sewer system just can't handle all of the water flowing through them. >> the alvord facility has reached capacity and they will certainly have to release sewage into the bay overnight. now to be clear, this is not water from your toilet, what is being pushed out is millions of

been collected over the past 24 hours. they are notifying the department of environmental quality and others of the release. >> if it gets inside our house plus our back yard, everything. >> the water is already halfway up the driveway. >> the city increased its storage capacity this summer adding another 3 million gallons of water storage but this site manages st. pete beach, treasure isnd and gulf port and obviously it just was not enough to handle this much rainwater. >> >> i have to check on sky town r right now and you see the bands

coverage again on thursday. it's intensified quite a bit in the past couple of hours and once that gets going, it's tough because of all of the things we deal with, the one thing that is sstill a major struggle is intensity forecasting. the pretty good, but intensity forecasting is getting better but it's not there yet. it may be a hurricane as soon as tomorrow morning, they have not predicted that but i would not be surprised. the rain has been increasing the past half hour or 45 minutes, with heavy rain bands coming up the bay.

like auburndale and lakeland, and others all getting hit hard this evening. there will be a lull later on tonight and then more rain developing as hermine parallels our coasts. rain still moderate to heavy, in highland's county, and solid rain in arcadia, wauchula, sarasota and manatee counties. and a the mouth of the day. tomorrow morning we'll be watching for additional rain bands near the coast. there is a question as to whether we'll get into another steady eight hours of rain like today. some of the models keep the rain just off the coast, and so it could be either way, but certainly more rain coming up on

west. totals 7 to 10 in pi pinellas, d 3 in hillsboro, and could be another 5 to 10 near the coasts the next 24 hours and squalls could easily produce an inch or two. looking better tonight as far as development goes. we are on the east side and the question is will some of this down here rotate and impact us during the day tomorrow. changes in the watches and warnings. no longer a hurricane watch for the bay area and i have said it a number of times we are not going to have hurricane conditions but there is a tropical storm warning meaning ememeaningtropical storm conditm

storm rapidly intensities they may have a warning south but at this point i'm not expecting one for tampa bay, and there is not like there is a wall and you drive up to a wall and oh, tropical storm is here. they have to draw a line somewhere, but it doesn't mean in pinellas you can't have wind gusts up to storm strength, and in red is where the hurricane warning is in effect with big-time storm surge issues. top winds 60, the pressure dropped 6 millibars since earlier today. that is pretty significant intensification. and now the hurricane center has a 75 miles per hour hurricane, getting near apalachicola but as i said, they struggle and there is still a solid -- this is 8:00 and you are talking 20 hours at least of time. this is overwater, and so if

certainly would not be surprised at all and then it moves over land and weakens friday and saturday. computer models are all zoned in on the big bend, i have had multiple people asking me about some sort of east shift. i don't see it happening. i don't know how it could happen. i mean, it could, and it could be a degree or two to the east, but the center is not going to take a big right hand turn as charlie did. that is not going to happen. there will be some coastal flooding with tides running 1 to 3 feet above average, and up near big bend, 3 to 5 feet above average, and the waving are building out in the gulf, and that process will continue, and 43 at this buoy for a wind gust,

know if it's a hurricane or a tropical storm tomorrow morning when you step outside. impacts around tampa bay will include obviously more rain during the day, and the models are heaviest near the coasts and the winds will pick up in speed tomorrow. here is new computer modeling with generally 30 to 35 with higher gusts close to 75 to 80 in the panhandle tomorrow night. here is the forecast for tonight. more bands of and a couple of thunderstorms in the mix. down to 78. tomorrow, unsettled and the heaviest will be near the coast with increasing wind, too, around 82. kind of a blustery or breezy or windy day on friday, and showers coming in from the gulf. we get back to normal this weekend but still some sordz stormsaround as the memory heado

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