this would become erma. issuing watches and warnings before a storm is actually named. right now we've got what's called potential tropical cyclone 10, but the name on this would be erma and you see the circulation spinning there, the low pressure. it's starting to get organized, some of the heavier rains into florida. it looks like it's coming right up the coast. we've got tropical storm watches on the upper south carolina coast and upper north carolina coast now in advance of what will become erma, wind 35 miles an hour, a few more miles an hour to become a tropical storm. it's going to be near charleston monday afternoon, monday night, tuesday coming up the coast. by 2:00 tuesday notice it's an l symbol because the system will transition from a pure tropical system to an actual post tropical system, more just a deep area of low pressure. that close to the coast of delmarva, the ocean beaches around here, big surf, big seas, stay out of the water tuesday, maybe wednesday before this thing as an extra tropi

i think sout a better chance of rain with erma than let's say in d.c. we'll watch this for a possible yellow weather alert on tuesday, but i think whatever happens with erma will quickly scoot east. 50s and 60s tonight, comfortably cool. 60s and 70s monday morning, breezy, highs in the 70s with a stray shower possible. looking ahead to tuesday, showers more likely, a possible yellow weather alert, thursday average 85, friday looking really nice. next weekend all depends on harvey because the models are different, but sunday could have some showers, but the remnants of harvey. >> harvey all the way here. >> it's possible. an amazing system. a lot of things had to come together for it to do what it's doing and we don't want them to come together ever again. >> good reason to have the app and always be on >>> switching gears, coming up, how a local ♪ it's time for the biggest sale of the year with the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it senses your every move and automatically adjusts on both sides to keep you effortlessly comfortable. and snoring... does y

our next issue is tropical storm erma.comes by us tomorrow, it will be far enough away to give us light rainfall, but it is pushing that swell in on the coast and we have the rip currents already high risk today and tomorrow and maybe wednesday. 78 is the high, sun to clouds, no problems away from the beach. tomorrow, cloudy and rain, especially from i-95 down to the to the shore at times tomorrow. it shouldn't be too heavy because the storm is well off the coast because that's something to keep in mind. wednesday, clouds breaking, 78. thursday, a front comes at us, 83 is the high. late in the day and evening there could be a shower or thunderstorm popping up, then things clear out on friday, sunshine, the start of the holiday weekend looks good, sunny, 78 partly sunny on thursday, 83. >> there's much more ahead on "action news" at noon. powerful sounds of the opera about to take over philadelphia. karen rogers will tell us about an opera festival that will include several world premiere performances. >>> the path to becom

back to erma or what should become erma. out to sea, should not be impacting the coastal u.s. beyond the carolinas late the into early tomorrow, they're getting a lot of rainfall there. through tonight, watch the northern rain bands come into our area, heavy rain expected in the richmond area, even into extreme southern maryland could see heavy rain, but for us, i think it's just persistent showers all day, morning lunch break, after school and evening, rain driving home and coming to an end by tomorrow evening, wednesday should be nicer. rain arriving by day break, 66 for the overnight low, high temperatures clipping 70, breezy, cool, feels nothing late summer. we dry out wednesday, thunderstorm possible after a warm thursday, friday, dry and cool another cool day, that is the first of september and labor day weekend may be compromised by the remnants of harvey after going to finally make it into the midatlantic possibly by saturday or sunday. luckily, all we're dealing with is remnants of remnants. will just be showers, bu

it will be erma. that is bringing the chance for wet weather. quiet, partlyand cloudy skies, maybe patchy fog developing late into the early half of your monday. temperatures back in the 50's off to the west, 60's in the d.c. area. as you send the kids to the bus stop, fairfax county starting school, and prince william county. definitely looking at a good afternoon to head out for recess. temperatures in the 70's with sunshine, increasing cloud cover by monday evening, and a few scattered showers. here is the disturbance that could be tropical storm irma very shortly, off the coast monday evening, bringing in heavy rainfall. myrtle beach back towards wilmington, also the outer banks. as we head through tuesday morning, the rain continues to spread off these eastern coast. ocean city, heads up. why tuesday afternoon, this is a look at 12:00, rainfall possible. have their reindeer ready to go. ready have the rain gear to go. p quinn gusts reaching 25 miles per hour on tuesday, 50 miles per hour in ocean city. in ourly impacts felt area monday into

this is actually part of what will be by the time we wake up tropical storm erma.engthening and getting organized. as we take a live look, it's a quiet night and even though we'll have rain tomorrow, a drop in the bucket compared to down across the southeast coast of texas, look at the official reports that came in earlier this afternoon likely higher. dayton texas, 40 inches of rain since friday. just northeast of houston, and so many towns reach the over 30 inch mark including south houston, houston airports well over 20's inches, earlier this afternoon, we'll get more official numbers tomorrow morning they will be staggering, additionally just as lauren blanchard was reporting, 12 to 20 plus inches of rain wednesday, especially bowmont texas area unindated and they will see totals through the whole event 50 to 60 inches, right now, can't get a break in houston, you saw it live and it continues, heavy rain around the center of the circulation of harvey and this will continue during the overnight hours, tornado watch still in evict in southern coast of louisiana b

there's tropical storm erma coming up overnight tonight and into tomorrow morning off the carolinas. out to sea, but enough to put in rain and rip currents tomorrow. 77 degrees in philadelphia. by 2:00 p.m., 78 is the high around 3:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m., 75. and cooling down into the 60s about 8:00 p.m. tonight. for the braves and phillies looks like a decent night for baseball, a little cool, 72 the first pitch, 68 in the 9th inning. tomorrow in terms of rain we'll start out cloudy early at 6:30 a couple of sprinkles move in on the coast. latest model run shows you the storm system itself is out to sea. we'll not get a whole lot of rain. some of runs advancing closer to philadelphia more enmass it could be spotty stuff in the morning and afternoon by evening it's mainly gone. a brush bye-bye the storm system. tropical storm harvey is turning to the north an heading to memphis, tennessee. we hope it is out of texas wednesday night. doesn't look like it will get stronger but it has the potential to produce more rain. speaking of potential tropical storm erma is looking like it could form

it will become tropical storm erma, next in line.t has the potential to impact us as early as tomorrow. let's talk more about the potential impacts from what right now is not yet come together as a tropical storm. it's just tropical moisture that we are looking at. 35 miles per hour winds. 39 is a tropical storm. very close to becoming such. if you look at this projected path, near cape hattaris. he would may see some rain. here is today's temperatures, 77 this afternoon center city and 75 in landsdale. mid and upper 70s for new jersey and delaware. now let's go through our hour by hour. today it's clear. we just see clouds throughout the day. no rain in the forecast. tomorrow though, overnight, clouds spread across the board by 8:00 a.m., a few showers along the shoreline and southern delaware. as we go from tuesday morning through the late morning hours, some of the rain will spread into philadelphia. and continue into the afternoon. this model goes shy, spotty showers. i do believe we could see more extensive rain along the shore.

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for tomorrow but people need to be diligent because roadways remain flooded and because hurricane erma is potentially 10 to 12 days out there. i want people in louisiana to know they can be proud of the effort being made on their behalf with respect to the folks with respect to the storm and texas and the governor of texas asked me personally to relay his appreciation and thanks and that is of the entire inte of texas and folks here louisiana to do so much to protect their citizens when they needed it the most. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> good job. up ateminder that coming 2:30 eastern, back here to the washington dc area, sarah huckabee sanders will be answering questions on the federal response to hurricane harvey. that will be live starting in .bout 15 minutes coming up at 5:00 eastern, vice president mike pence will hold a briefing in texas.

and there's another storm system, erma, along the east coast with gusty winds and flooding downpours. >> paul, thank you. >>> now, to the other breaking story. japan's prime minister calling for a meeting of the u.n. security council. >> the launch set off warning it comes days after praising kim jong-un. here's correspondent terry moran. >> reporter: north korea firing a missile that crossed over japanese air space. something it has done before, but not without warning. so, the ballistic missile was launched from pyongyang and landed in the ocean off hokkai o hokkaido. japan was warning people to take cover. it was is one of a series of abo provocations by north korea. kim jong-un has been seen celebrating his missile launches. in response, president trump has threatened to confront new signs of aggression against north korea, with, quote, fire and >>> coming up, we'll have some of the other headlines. including new reporting involving the comp trump administration. and how the president responded when asked by a reporter if russia is a threat. >>> and more from texas, as the outpour

threatening storm but so far away and so many miles to cover in the atlantic, we're not going to worry about erma. until it pose as threat. what a beautiful wednesday, 78 in washington. and we saw the sunshine return after a rainy tuesday. beautiful evening, temperatures in the mid 70's partly cloudy, we will see partly cloudy skies as we go through tonight and a couple of rain chances return to the forecast by thursday, that and tracking harvey's remnants in your seven-day forecast still ahead. jim and sarah >>> it was a local story. >>> a state university student killed. >>> a medical first trying to fight child leukemia and why it's different from previous treatments. that's coming up. >>> a tearful reunion between a firefighter an woman whose life he saved. the small mistake he made that day which led him to finding her on the side of the road nearly dead. we're back after this. we're s. >>> you may remember this from a couple of months ago, a graduation gown draped over an empty tea chair, which second lieutenant would have sat in. >> the 23-year-old was tragically killed. same weekend he wa

it's, potential, number to be number 10 if it was deform and became a storm it would be erma.wards the outer banks. so you wouldn't think it would be much of an impact for us. it's going to be impact for us. that's because of the northeast winds, like a nor easter in our area in the month of october. that's the kind of scenario that's playing out. more on what that means for you in >> we're looking at impact, depending on where you are. let's go ahead and get to east of 95 as this storm movers up the coast. out into the atlantic, take a look of the rain with it. areas east, not only going to be windy, we're talking about gusts up to 30, 40 miles per hour. we have costal flooding. it will be heavy at times it's all going to be throughout the day. we're not talking about harvey totals. we're talking about an inch, maybe a little bit more in some spots. a lot of kids going back to school, make sure they have their rain boots with them. you, yourself, you're going to need it. it's going to be breezy around here. northeast winds, rain throughout the day, we're only expecting about

we have another tropical storm affecting north an south carolina, it will be tropical storm erma.lina coast whipping back on the north carolina coast tuesday afternoon. we wanted to cover this one and give you an idea how much rain may fall here, looks like anywhere between 3 and 5, some locally could be 5 plus inches. we're talking about an active season ahead. let's get a check closer to home >> reporter: erma will drop rain off the coast 78 is the high, clouds increasing with the next tropical storm coming up the coast. tomorrow, rain. now to mtv's video music awards hosted by katy perry sending the people of houston a heartfelt message and the night full of fiery performances by big winner kendrick lamar and an emotional speech by video vanguard award recipient pink, abc's nick watt is in l.a. this morning with more on it all. good morning, nick. >> reporter: good morning, lara. well, these awards are always fun and free-wheeling but last night we got a lot more. the music industry could not, would not ignore everything else that's happening in the country at the moment. host

this is hurricaner m erma. this is forecast to be a category 4 hurricane by tuesday of next week. where does it go? please, not the u.s. >> please. oh, my gosh, yes. fingers crossed. let's hope it makes a u-turn and swirls around in the atlantic and dissipates. that's our wish. all right. chad myers, thanks so much. >>> right now, the u.s. coast guard is conducting aerial search and rescue operations for victims of harvey. it's been going on for six days, almost. caylee is live from sulfur, louisiana. what's happening there? >> reporter: well, fred, from this airfield, we have five u.s. coast guard helicopters taking off and heading to port arthur. they are all in the air. one about to be on approach back to refuel any minute. a couple minutes ago, got a report that a family of six had just been rescued by a helicopter and taken to safety. another rescue swimmer down to a case of a family of five who needed help. it was interesting to hear, the first helicopter that came back from the first mission of the day, when they needed to refuel, they told me, they didn't rescue anyone. wh

the name, erma. but that's tomorrow. and only moves slowly. we knew a slow system.ang around maybe a week. even though we've seen tornado warning, 99 issued by the hurricane system in houston, there will be more. can't let our guards down. the only thing i can think of, any storm in recent history, that is something like this, this is the track of alison in 2001. took two weeks, but the first week was in the houston area. it made landfall as a tropical storm. it was weak. came in with little or no fanfare. moved up, circled around, came back through houston. over 35 inches of rain. well, we're seeing that. economic loss, $9 billion and 41 lives lost nap was just a tropical storm. the magnitude, state of calamity, a one in 1,000 year event unfolding before our eyes. talked about the computer models and like to see where the storm is moving. did well moving in land. then a bird's nest. look now. they bring it back offshore. hinting the other day. when they get offshore, it's like a refueling dump. i mean, they're going to be refuelled with a warmer water. it should su

and then erma. this will be a hurricane later on today.will become a major hurricane and we're going to have to watch this one. this is a european tropical model that we rely on for these forecasts and this one brings it as a cat 3 moving towards lesser antilles and perhaps puerto rico making landfall there the dominican republic and, again, some of the forecast models indicating perhaps moving in towards the juan pablos, florida not out of play, each the gulf of mexico. so this is something we have to watch well in to next week. so here are some of the tropical models that we monitor. the farther south this system goes, the more danger we have of, perhaps an east coast landfall. if it goes a little bit more to the north, then there is, perhaps, the chance it will curve out to sea, which is something we would like to see. the further south it goes, the more people it will effect and that's what we're concerned with so we will continue to watch erma. not even peak season yet. ainsley: we are already in the i's. janice: indication of how man

if it does so, it would be erma.t is fast-moving once it does develop. we have tropical storm watching down to the eastern part of the coast of south carolina. we are looking at five to seven inches of rain in some areas, >>> good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. we are under a microclimate weather alert as we track excessive hoot away from the coastline. we do begin with some fog this morning as we take a live look outside in san francisco. this will be clearing out and just staying over the bay. while the inland areas will have some hot temperatures today. san jose starts out with some sunshine. and san francisco will be up to 76 degrees today and then slightly cooler for the middle of the week. the inland areas not catching much relief, today up to 105 degrees. latest forecast. guys, back to you. >> dylan, thank you so much. >>> thursday marks 20 years since the world lost princess diana. and now, a new documentary is taking a closer look at events immediately following her tragic death. kristen dahlgren is a

there's a 90% chance this is going to develop into a tropical storm if the 'f it did so it would be erma it moves out to sea. it's fast moving once it does develop but we have watches from duck carolina right down to the eastern part of the south carolina. we are looking for as much to 5 to 7 inches of rain including the outer banks and down near myrtle beach as well. now here's a peek out your window. >> that's the one we're watching for rainfall tomorrow starting as early as the morning but for today we're nice and dry right now. 69 degrees washington, 61 leesburg, 62 clinton and here's all that moisture right off the southeast coast. it's heading in this direction so our rain chances will start to increase overnight. for today 78 degrees, a nice day, more clouds later this afternoon and evening. tomorrow higher rain chances have the umbrella, then we're dry for the rest of the week until the weekend. thaenktsds your latest forecast. back to you. >> all right. thank you so much. >>> thursday marks 20 years since the world lost princess diana and now a knew documentary is take a closer