i'm laura mcdonald. i'm one of your constituents. >> still registered in tampa, aren't you? >> yes, i am. how do you plan on addressing the transportation issues for locals? especially with people being bussed in from orlando and st. petersburg? and how will you address the disruption to business outside of the tourism industry that will occur in downtown tampa? >> great questions. transportation is a challenge, especially moving so many delegations from outside. those 400 buss will be coming from the beaches, coming from north of us. we're going to have to dedicate this lanes on the interstate just to move the delegations back and forth. we will be open for business, but it will not be business as usual. if you look at other conventions, there will be occurrences, and i've been to enough to know some of the businesses suffer, but there's been challenges getting downtown, parking downtown. to the regular customers don't come. we will have a lot of office workers in downtown that will tele commute or choose to take vacations. there will be some impact. if you look at the posi

laura. >>> virginia governor bob mcdonald is asking for federal assistance to deal with the cause of last month's storm. the governor is looking for help paying for emergency crews, shelter and debris removal. >>> right down to gary, to talk about what we can expect for the evening as we take a lookout beautiful picture out there. >> yeah. >> muggy. >> a little muggy. >> it is. >> probably more clouds today for most of us than we have had sunshine i think that is helping keep some of these thunderstorms down. quickly over to radar just again to show you, there is nothing popping up here, for us, there is a little something something we are watching up north of front royal on 81 but it hasn't been able to do anything, everything else stayed well up to the north of us down to the south of us we have a patch of cloud cover running through today, and again that is keeping i think the thunderstorms down a little bit to be quite honest, even though it is really unstable out there. temperature right now, is 89 degrees, but the heat index is 94. so laura mentioned it, it is muggy it will continue