in apalachicola, if you ever want to go to apalachicola they have a pretty good museum there. go there and get yourself extra credit. but 300 african-americans, maybe more, but the best estimates are 300 and maybe a little bit more, but gathered at prospect bluff. at prospect bluff during the war of 1812, great britain built a fort. they built it with indian help and the idea was we could put a fort here, we can put indians in it, or whoever else wants to man this fort, and they can protect this region for us. now, as great britain abandons the fort at the end of the war of 1812, african-americans fill the fort. as this is happening, these soldiers who are abandoning the fort realize it's a really fortuitous thing. they're remarkably pleased by this. they leave their cannon, the big old cannonballs, the powder, and all their ammunition behind. so now in apalachicola -- has anyone ever been to apalachicola? if you haven't, you need to go. best oysters. if not for history, go for oysters. in apalachicola, there is this fort, or just right outside apalachicola, there's this fort

there are tropical storm warnings in effect from panama city to apalachicola. and to tampa and the east sized florida, to jacksonville. there are tropical storm watches in effect. florida will be hit first as hermine curves to the north and east. and winds are sustained at 40 miles per hour, it's south southwest of tampa just moving and drifting to the north at 2 miles per hour. not expected to turn into a hurricane prior to landfall. right around thursday in the evening hours and then it heads into southern georgia, this is the track from the national hurricane center as it goes near hatteras. now the cone of uncertainty. it could move as far west as our coastline or further out to shore. as we look at the latest information, we are noticing that the track is beginning to shift a little more westward as opposed to going out to sea, it may mug the coast. it may ride the coast and bring us possibly heavy rain and wind at the shore as we go into the holiday weekend creating coastal flooding and beach erosion. we'll have more on this big change for the holiday wee

as we track hermine, around apalachicola at 2:00 a.m. wins of 70 miles per hour at this point not thinking it's a hurricane when it makes landfall, but a tropical storm. and unlike yesterday the track was well off the coast, now it pulls itself inland over the carolinas and virginias and then emerges off somewhere off cape may or stone harbor or avalon into sun afternoon with heavy rainfall. as we look at the latest and get closer to the weekend, the models will get a handle on this, and the key points the track is shifting west and rides up the east coast and possible heavy rain and wind at the shore and coastal flooding and beach erosion. we'll talk about this and the end to heat wave 6 with storms tonight. >>> as we get closer to the holiday weekend, 6abc.com/weather has you covered. there you can find the weather updates including the seven-day forecast, be sure to interact with our team of meteorologists on facebook and twitter. >>> in other news, philadelphia police are searching for the hit and run driver who struck and kill a mot

of apalachicola. landfall possible their apalachicola thursday evening may be 8:00, 9:00 or 10:00 in the evening. it goes to the east of columbia south carolina and almost over raleigh-durham. saturday morning and by the time it gets here looking at showers in the metro area and bive tropical's -- tropical storm strength. not concerned about wind but concerned about storm surge and coastal flooding on the bay. also flooding here with heavy downpours but not worried about wind. into sunday it begins to take a right turn back out to the ocean from cape may and back out. this is now monday on labor day at 5:30. still offshore and producing rip currents. it will be closely watched and may end up we have to issue a yellow weather alert for saturday and sunday. the silver lining is that it's nice friday and labor day. live look outside and 89. dew point around 70 and sticky with winds out of the south at 13. we were at 90 or higher today so we now have 23 days in the month of august that are 90 degrees or h

that is where we expect it to first make landfill and warnings in effect through panama city and apalachicola and grand key, and as it pushes over northern florida, there are tropical storm warnings on the east side of florida near jacksonville. as we look at the present statistics, 45 miles per hour sustain said winds moving north-northeast at 7 miles per hour. as we speed this up and look at the latest track, this is the very new updated track from the national hurricane center as of 5:00. should make landfall near apalachicola in the wee hours of friday morning as a tropical storm winds of 70 miles per hour. now you can see yesterday, this was way out to sea. it has made a major shift to the west where it stayed inland over the carolinas and also parts of the virginias and then emerges off southern new jersey's coast south of atlantic city on sunday at 2:00 with winds of 50 miles per hour so as it stays inland, it would be a weak tropical storm and remnants of heavy rain and even the possibility of strong winds at the shore especially. today's key points, the track shifting westward, and l

it's forecast to become a strong tropical storm making landfall east of apalachicola sometime late in the day tomorrow. notice how it recurs back out over portions of georgia and south carolina so they're going to get the rain as well. us, because we're on the eastern side of to see stronger impacts than, say, pensacola even though they may be closer to the actual center because that's a lot of activity that's on the eastern side of this storm. tropical storm warnings from anclote river up to indian pass and what that means is tropical storm force winds 39 miles per hour or greater anticipated from pasco county north within the next 36 hours. i don't think you'll see a lot of it today. i think it's going to be during night when you have those tropical storm force conditions from pasco county north and of course, because of all the rain anticipated, we're talking along the coastline, four, five, six, maybe even a few more inches of rain from levy county down through sarasota county, we have this flood watch. it begins at 2:00 this afternoon and extends all the way through until friday.

this apalachicola. and somewhere between those two land fall late in the day tomorrow. remember eastern side of storm. wetter side, we're going to have to deal with that moisture pulled up from gulf of mexico. straight through our state. so obviously numerous watch and warnings out first from the anclote river. let's say pasco county northward into indian pass. you've got a tropical storm warning. plus, a hurricane watch. just in case it was to get a little bit stronger. so they've got watch out for the hurricane and then of course tropical storm warning. meaning within 36 hours, 39 mile flood watch, from 2 o'clock today right through friday for entire coast. not just the counties under a tropical storm warning but it does include pinellas, hillsborough, manatee and sarasota. >> they could easily see flooding here which we're already beginning see in opinions county a rain falls. one other thing. which we don't think about a lot, but, north and east of where center of system moves, sometimes you will see tornadoes. so there is a marginal risk for severe storms today in

it will make landfall around apalachicola as a tropical storm. this is a tropical storm warning and hurricane watch all the way to pensacola. this is 1:00 tomorrow afternoon with 50 mile-an-hour winds and by 8:00 tomorrow night close to making landfall. goes into southern georgia near the southeast of macon and south of columbia and almost over raleigh determine. 8:00 saturday morning and showers coming our way. of winter ocean city at 8 am sunday and then out into the ocean. looks out to the east over may. that will give us at least one if not two yellow weather alert days. nice outside. still 89. dew point in the 70s. talking about 90 degree days, we did it. 23 days of 90 degrees or higher in august. that is good enough for a record. we erupt to 51 days for the year. we average 36. the radar is quiet in the metro area but good storm south and west. last 15 minutes more intense toward culpeper and headed toward stafford if it holds together. it will be there at 7:45 with frequent lightning and rain in the mix. showers and storms tonight. bus sto

so yesterday things weren't looking too bad in panama city, apalachicola. forecast has shifted a little bit further to the west and it looks like more of a direct impact in the tallahassee area, too. so we're going to have to watch that. the yellow is tropical storm watches. let me give you the new forecast path from the hurricane center. still tropical depression. they believe by 1:00 a.m., probably about later today, 5:00 p.m. named hermione and take that storm towards tallahassee. 65-mile-per-hour winds, that's not enough to do a lot of significant damage so that's good. but still we will get some storm surge problems through the big bend back to tampa. notice how far inland this track is now. north of savannah to charleston, direct hit south carolina, and all through north carolina. notice the winds don't diminish. if anything it could intensify as it comes back off the coast. for all of those areas we have to watch it. finally what's also interesting is that the cone does now include eastern long island, rhode island, and all the way up to the boston a

we have flood watches that have expanded west to apalachicola. flood warnings between perry and cross city. and radar estimates showing over 12 inches of rainfall falling there, over 20 in some of the areas just offshore. you'll see another five over the next 48 hours, and the rain, i here is javier. probably see this moisture get into arizona, the desert southwest later on. right now, it is hitting cabo san lucas. max winds, 65 miles an hour. will remain pretty strong as it rides up the baja. it's been a very active hurricane season in the pacific, david, this year. >> all right, rob, great to have you. >>> another weather headline we're following tonight, a small wildfire east of los angeles, exploding in just hours. tripling in size, in fact. the pilot fire, as it is being called, is burning in the san bernardino national forest tonight. several dozen homes have been ac highways are now closed. >>> now, to the american athletes in rio making us proud already, and taking the lead. michael phelps, of course, earning his 19th gold in the 4 x 100

so the national hurricane center has some hurricane watches in effect from apalachicola and down to cedar key and on the brisk of tampa. this is on thursday as that storm as we look at the track pulls itself into north western florida on thursday. as you look at all the different lines, those are different computer modelled trying to predict where the storm will go and the general consensus or the majority will keep it off cape hatteras and off to sea. but there are a couple of models that want to hug the coast closer not saying they are right or wrong, but this is something we'll follow and it's so far out, this is over the labor day weekend on sunday that it would be somewhere off our coastline. the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, 91 tomorrow and hot and humid again, and showers on thursday, 82 degrees, kind of a wet day but it clears out in the evening in time for the eagles game. breezy and low humidity for temple's home opener, sun and clouds and sunny perfection here on saturday, we'll watch the coast on sunday to see if at least some clouds scrape their way as the system

it's going to have but late in the day on thursday, thursday night, making its way onshore eastf apalachicola. hurricane watches from anclote river to indian pass. pasco, hernando, citrus county, you're under a hurricane watch but you're also under a tropical 39 miles an hour or greater in the next 36 hours. that's what we're anticipating for northern areas and for other areas to the south, we have a flood watch. that's from 2:00 p.m. today all the way through until friday so just because you're not in a tropical storm warning doesn't mean you're not going to have issues and those issues from tampa south are going to be potential for heavy rain and flooding. we have more to talk about in a few minutes. while the storm could dump inches of rain on parts of the tampa bay area, we kno that even a little downpour can cause some big problems. >>laura: tampa, pinellas, pasco county, they're all dealing with chroni dining issues. shay rves iivre w seeing floodi yesterday's showers. right? >>reporter: good morning to you. right now we're seeing a few low lying areas where there is still some standing

but bringing it on shore some time tomorrow evening as a of apalachicola. and the latest models painting the same type of set up bringing it on shore late in the day tomorrow on this path of of course, that means that we'll be on eastern side. we're no doubt going to be on the eastern side notorious weather side. stronger side, if you will. tropical storm warning from anclote river all way through indian pass. by way you also have a hurricane what our graphic does it see as warning and paints that for you instead warning obvious something more pending. so flood watches also along immediate coast. from 2 o'clock today, right through friday. here's the reason why, 5 to ten inches of rain. i'll bet in parts of pinellas county we've already seen that much rainfall. so rain i think is primary issue. winds from pasco county north takes that exact path it supposed to take the computer models are all agreeing on this morning. so the way it sets up like this breezy with periods of rain today. obviously, more along the coast, a little bit less inland. temperatures in

just over 24 hours from now, somewhere around the apalachicola area this has nudged off toward the west need to be watching it and winds are now with the latest guide cans just came in up to 50 miles per hour sustained with this. now, i will tell you -- all of our gadd dance brings us up here along the coast. jerusalemy, long island and new england. and maybe having a system that sticks with us for a number of days in the new england area or the northeast. and that could cause lots of problems for us later on in the weekend. later on, right now very heavy rain across florida and carolinas. we will see significant flooding. as we watch this, this these are all of our models you see. eventually you see them go crazy here. that means we could be watching that kind of stick around, potentially some really bad weather sunday, monday. keep in mind this is the last unofficial weekend for people out at the beaches. we're going to have a really rough one pretty much up and down the eastern seaboard all weekend long sorry to say. >> of course always a big holiday weekend for a lot of people. it's

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doesn't really rush around like it would in a mountainous terrain so we can deal with this around apalachicolapensacola. this area of red and pink that's around 4 to about 5 inches of rainfall over the next couple of days. when we start pushing it over into southern mississippi and new orleans gets a little more swampy, couple more rivers in that area. we could see more of the problems in the days ahead. we're going to watch areas from new orleans to bill oxty to mobile as we go throughout the middle of the week, wednesday looks to be the heaviest rainfall there. mentioning out west, this is all -- a lot of the moisture associated with javier and that storm didn't really hit cabo san lucas too badly but that rainfall is going to spread to the north. this isn't as heavy as the rainfall in florida, but remember this is the desert southwest, more mountainous terrain, the soil's more hard packed. when the rain is hard it doesn't sink into the soil. that's why we can get more flash flooding problems in arizona over the next couple of days than we could in areas of florida with about a third of the

northern gulf coast from new orleans, we'll watch mobile, pensacola, panama city, all the way to apalachicolahere's that cedar key down to spring hill, maybe some areas near clearwater beach. someone has a chance of getting 10 to 15 inches of rain. a very significant rain event down there. florida can handle it with the sandy soil. we'll have to watch that in the days ahead. there is some great weather out there today. the great lakes through the northeast after a fantastic weeks and, it continues today. >> not everybody's complaining today. it's a good day. >> not everybody. >> all right, thank you, bill. >> go one more quick one for you. people who love classic cars, they get together all over the country on the weekends. but, our guess is few people will forget this sight at great falls, virginia any time soon. a slight fender bender between a classic mercedes and a ferrari 458 especiale. no reports of injuries other than those beautiful cars. the ferrari, by the way, apparently retails in the $300,000 range. that's going to cost somebody. >>> all right. still ahead, better late than never

a very disorganized storm and with the latest track it takes it farther to the west right over apalachicolaast and with this track it does seem to keep it over land for much, much longer. the track before was taking it offshore and possibly impacting the d.c. area, new york, philly and even boston as we get into the latter part of the weekend and we know it's a holiday weekend so everyone needs to be paying attention to this forecast. it could bring rain and wind and the possibility of rip currents all up and down the east coast. here are your hurricane watches and warnings. i do think one of the biggest threats with this storm will be the storm surge. we could see anywhere from four to six feet right in the big bend of florida with this being very, very flat, we could see some flooding inland. we also could see two to four, once you get down to the tampa area. so, wolf, with the track changing, everyone needs to be watching and it will be extremely urgent over the next 36 hours. >> this is a serious, serious forecast that we're getting right now. we'll stay on top of it together with you,

there's your hurricane watch from apalachicola almost down to tampa. tropical storm warnings on land for tropical storm force winds, making landfall this time tomorrow to around midnight thursday. a big storm. as this storm leaves and gets back into the gulf stream, there's a chance it tries to pull a north or northwesterly course back into the u.s. don't know if that's going to happen because the middle is here and the far outer edge is way out here. i just want you to know that the new york city area, the boston area, not truly out of the cone for this later in the weekend. it's a busy weekend along the gulf coast, along the east coast. could see some rip tides from this thing. it would be a very large rip event. we have to maybe stay out of the water. probably don't want to do that on a labor day weekend. lots of rain coming down for sure. two storms headed to hawaii. and so is the president. watch that later in the week. >> chad myers, thank you very much for giving us all the possibilities. we will stick with you. thanks. >>> all right. so a top i