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let's start with denis phillips . >> yes, this is something that we have been talking about for the past nine days to and at long last -- and at long last it is a hurricane. it does not mean hurricane force winds we will not see winds anywhere close to nice thing is despite the fact that we have had rain rainfall totals have been nowhere near as heady. in the coastal flooding is the problem and you look at this and you say that looks a little bit different all of a sudden you have the look of a hurricane. and, really continue for the next 6 to 8 hourshe a best rain rolling. and, -- rain roll in, and another one might be an issue. but we will continue to track those unsure until midnight maybe longer and potentially additional flooding as the rains come in. and we will have an update on were hermine is heading. >> and we are under this tornado watch. we have had a couple of warnings and these other even into hillsboro and polk county, there will be an increased risk for those isolated tornadoes. so we will be watching for that and let you know right away if there is a warning. you can see

we have denis phillips tracking the shift for us. >> it is something we were watching. there was a buzz maybe this was going east but at this point in time that does not appear to be a big deal. first of all, it is going a good thing for us indicating this is going in the panhandle. it is getting stronger with winds and 60 miles-per-hour. the latest tract predicts this will make landfall as a hurricane. if that happens, it is the first time in 11 years we have had a hurricane make landfall in the state of florida. we are still under a hurricane watch and the path clearly off to the north meaning apac tallahassee with some nasty weather tomorrow but because of all the winds pushing this to the east i think the bulk of the rough weather will be to the east side of this system. i would not be surprised if the hurricane watch is dropped first thing tomorrow morning. flooding will be a big issue. we are getting a break. i will let you know how long it will last in a couple minutes. >>> emergency crews rushed to a neighbor tonight rescuing people from waist deep water carryin

chief meteorologist denis phillips continuing to track the storm coming up in just a little bit. >>> the clean-up wi in tallahassee. thousands of trees torn down by hurricane hermine's winds. power lost for thousands. that includes all of the students at florida st university. that's where eric waxler is live for us tonight. eric. >> reporter: jamison, we have updated numbers from tallahassee. listen to this. 240 different streets in tallahassee have a fallen tree or downed power lines. and 80% of the residents are still without power. it could be several days before full power is restored to the city. here at fsu, we have trees down like this gigant the student union. and the power still remains out are just too hot to stay in. >> mine went off at 2:00 a.m. >> reporter: classes canceled. it is even hard to study. >> i couldn't get on my math site to get the homework. >> reporter: the home for 40,000 students was roughed up as hurricane hermine came through. >> it took a beating to say the least. >> the fountains are off. limbs and trees on the ground. there's not a lot of lights on.

let's go to denis phillips who's tracking hermine. >> first the carolinas and then the northeast. this will be a big story nationally over the next couple of days. for us still looking at especially pasco county all part of tropical storm hermine and the moisture plume that expands across the state into the eastern seaboard. overnight tonight partly cloudy skies and mostly dry mac early on. by sunrise we get more showers and more storms popping up and continue through much of the morning. a lot of cloud cover out there early on and then we begin to see rain rolling across the rest of the viewing area. it all stems from this, the center of circulation over the carolinas. as far north as the jersey shor up in a couple of minutes. >>> as dennis mentioned hermine dumping heavy rains and causing flooding in south carolina. this is in charleston of people walking in on the fishing pier. as hermine heads up the coast businesses along jersey shore prepare for the worst. right now none of them shutting down. minivacation are still at the beach waiting to see what hermine brings. homeless m

but first let's go to meteorologist denis phillips. >> the last thing that we need to hear is there's a flood advisory for pasco county but there is. this is still the moisture plume. it extends all the way up to what is left of hermine. as you can see, there is still rain coming in. it is scattered. it isn't widespread. unfortunately it happento go right down across most of pasco county, around state road 54, citrus county. there's a few more showers and storms pushing in from the gulf. that will continue this evening. off and on showers not as heavy and not as much wind. tomorrow is an unsettled day. we will salvage two thirds of the holiday weekend. we will talk about that coming up in a few minutes. >> thank you, denis. >>> hermine making landfall as a hurricane along the northern coast of florida overnight. the first hurricane that the state has seen in 11 years. look the dock damaged. the surf so damaging in franklin county. michael paluska is in saint marks, 30 minutes south of tallahassee with just how damaging the storm was. >> reporter: the eye of the storm passed here clone

. >> what is awesome is watching denis phillips watch things like that. it's awesome. >> you said that your son is a fan of weather. >> he loves you. he says you're the number one meteorologist that he watches. >> shucks. >> i have that on camera. i will post it on facebook. >> we have the storms to a lot of folks are into it. be careful. there's a lot of lightning in some of the cells. we are winding down. the calendar says we should be winding down on the rainy season. mother nature might have another idea. the storms that we were looking at 15, 20 minutes ago that were really producing some pretty heavy rain and lightning, they are literally as we said raining themselves out. not moving much. and the rain literally fizzles out. a few shers down anywhere across hardee and desoto county, manatee county and one shower north of shore acres. these are moving to the southeast. tampa right now, 90 degrees and partly cloudy skies. there was a thunderstorm in the last hour. the humidity at 55%. dew point 72. so as i said, we hit 91 today. normal is 89. so yet a

we want to get to chief meteorologist denis phillips tracking the advisories for us >> flash flood advisories. if this was any regular day we would say typical summer day. it would be. but unfortunately this has rolled into an area that has had so much rain in the last 24 hours, primarily pasco county, citrus. you can see everything coming in from the coast. this extends believe it or not all the way up. that's the moisture plume that trails down from what is left of hermine. taking a closer look, the green area for areas to new port richey. we got a report around 5:00 in new port richey there were water rescues of cars stuck because of the fast rising water. that heavy rain is moving off to the east. that is a pretty decent thunderstorm that continues to pop. citrus county, northern citrus over to crystal river also picking up rain. most of their issues was coastal related last night and this morning due to high tide. if you look at futurecast this evening, there will still be a large area out in the gulf of mexico. now, i think overnight, this lingers. and by tomorrow morning, we start to s

let's get right to chief meteorologist denis phillips with the latest on tropical storm julia. dennis? >> reporter: hi advisory literally just came out. what we were talking about earlier on today kind of figured this would become a depression, but jumped the depression status going straight to a tropical storm. now what does this mean for us? at this point in time we are still looking at the rain. there are tropical storm warnings in effect for northern florida, southeastern georgia. winds of 40 miles an hour. now in terms of the track, it is expected to go very slowly. so there is the issue. heavy rains might be up to 10 inches of rain across northern florida from say jacksonville towards macon. now how will it impact our weather? there is a moisture train if you will that extends from the the center all the way across the state into the gulf. you can see it, but let me be very clear about something. this is not going to be anything close to the rain that we had with hermine. up north they're definitely going to see their share of heavy weather, but for us i would be surprise

i know that you want to know what's happening over the weekend and of denis phillips is in with that seven- day forecast. >>> well, tesla says it's updated its autopilots system. within a week or two. told you coming out earlier this year. cameras didn't distinguish a white truck that was turning in front of a tesla. the brakes didotate. they say the new autopilot systembe on the radar in seven cameras. >>> and it comes to electric our interest fluctuates election week. so, it is national green cars getting the green light. >> that drop in gas pray make a person who is thinking o electricity up for a more traditional gas guzzlers. but that's not stopping carmakers from designing electric cars and not stopping people in buying them. >>> a few months and, she is still happy that she and . >> i get to charge this right at my workplace. so is really a want -- a win all around. and this will open up and basically on my gas if you will. >> you can take your little -- it's pretty easy. >> i really only have to plug- in twice a week because it is only o miles. big chunk of our budget on not

denis phillips will have the 7- day forecast for you coming up at 5:00. >> thank you, shay. >>> i want you to check out these brand-new images getting right now. the closest ever of the planet. we're talking about jupiter. something like we have never seen before according to nasa today. so close that you can see the light show. scientifically known as the hot spots from these new pictures. you can really see how unique our solar system's largest planet is. the space probe took these incredible shots after a five- year trek around the solar system. it took nasa 1 and a half days the five-hour planet fly-by. >>> president obama continues his historic visit today. the u.s. has a moral obligation to help the country help after the u.s. bombed it in secret during the vietnam war. he is pledging $90 million over the next three years. it is estimated that the u.s. dropped 270 million cluster bombs on the country. >>> you may have seen the social media message, a taco truck on every corner wondered about it. well, one lawmaker tweeted in arizona a picture of himself buying tacos for lunch say

not a lot of big changes here over the next four days, but you know who is hanging around, denis phillips. he has that seven-day forecast and he will also have an update from those topics, coming up. >>> breaking news, on sunday five in brooksville. we have a live picture. in brooksville. we have a live picture. here is what we know, multiple cars are involved, you can at least three of them are piled up on that right side of your screen. it's all happening at mile marker 301. all northbound lanes are shut down. one person had to be flown after being thrown from a car. if you plan on driving this way , or you're expecting someone home leave yourself some extra time. >>> now, that massive typhoon that slammed into taiwan and china is a tropical storm. check out this image that nasa picked up as it hit the philippines. that big white spot in the center is actually lightning. another amazing picture that we are getting in of the eye of the storm, you can see that red circle in the middle. it is green, and then right in the center is one of the islands, part of the and here's the reality of w

. >> we begin with meteorologist denis phillips. is the worst over? >> it definitely is, laura. the problem is we're looking at is any additional rain will make it worse. we really had o different types of flooding, the coastal flooding, the surge. and then we had the heavy rains. literally the worst of both worlds in a sense. we always remind people of this. i hate outrows the expression, but this was just a storm. the winds were only 40 to 45 miles per hour sustained. it was all of the water. and that is so common with a tropical system in florida. this is why we talk about you get the water and throw in hurricane force winds and you're talking about something we have never seen before or at least a hundred years. so we still look at additional rainfall out there. at least the worst of hermine is long gone. that trailing moisture plume, you can see it right there, that's the main reason we're day weekend, believe it or not, there could be hurricane force winds at the jersey shore. it will wreak havoc for the northeast this weekend. >> thank you, denis. >>> right now another st

well, denis phillips has that sunday forecast for you on action news at 5:00 in the 7- day forecast. >>> paul. >> thank you, shay. >>> it is the tweet that is creating a social media backlash today. donald trump junior comparing the refugee crisis to a bowl of skittles. let's end the politically correct agenda that does not put america first. asking if i had a bowl of skittles responded, skittles are candy. refugees are people. it's an inappropriate analogy. the "washington post" says the odds of being killed by a refugee in a terrorist attack is 1 in 3.6 billion which means the bowl of skittles would need to be as big as one navajo olympic size swimming pools. the criticism is swift on this one. >> yeah. any time that you have anything on the wildfire. things are getting ugly quickly. this is a picture tweeted out earlier today. trump's adult children there, all three of them there, the caption reading three very dangerous skittles. people referencing the moving video of a 5-year-old syrian boy covered in dust and blood pulled from what was left of his apartment building after an ai

but first, denis phillips is >>> the higher they go, can lead to hail and that's what we're hearing. not only looking at the lightning but hail close to an inch and a half in diameter and we've had numerous reports of hail all across the area from eastern hillsborough county right on through downtown and now over toward western hillsboro and eastern pinellas. and that extends north into pasco and hernando county. this is what's left of the strong storms that spawned the warnings earlier in hillsboro county. obviously it is still very

denied. iswhistle blowing lastracy's safeguard resort, when all of the checks and the publicil has no idea what's going on. reaction toet's get that. phillip, washington, snowden has lots of people rooting for him right now. his supporters say he did his a service by making those documents public. phillip: there are a lot of people on his side, not necessarily a majority of the american people. edward snowden himself believes he should be given the presidential pardon. he believes he did something good for the united states and for its citizens. are now better off. later on in that press conference in which he appeared moscow via teleconference, he said i love my country and he had worked all his life for his family and his country but he's certainly not willing to return to the united states and face trial. asthe meantime, there are, you say, quite a few people getting on his side. the most notable and maybe the most surprising today being former presidential candidate bernie sanders from the side.atic he believes that snowden should be given the possibility at least with a plea bargain to return to the united states. his supporters, edwa

look at 59-year-old denis pavo, that's tim, cane in hand and lawyer at his side outside the fall river justice center. called before a judge for the crash that killed 55-year-old phillip. it put family and friends in attendance. >> in february, police say he was driving on 195 in somerset transporting filing cabinets from the d.a.'s office to the attleboro courthouse. >> file drawers are just coming out like tumbleweeds. >> christine mal dare a says one of the drawers nearly hit her would you like that say anything? >> we don't have any comment. >> my brother is gone. i can't. >> facing a number of charges including motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation leaving the scene of an accident and misleading investigators. he's due back in court in november. reporting in fall river, ted >>> the murder trial of a man accused of shooting an army sniper is underway. opening statements were read. prosecutors say the 28-year-old shot the veteran steven perez in the back following a fight between two groups of people on boston in 2012. castillo has two codefendants charged with perjuriry and lying to investigators while police looked into the place back in 2012. >>> dive te