hawaii is bracing for hurricane madelyn. hurricane lester n also churning in the pacific. >> gabe reporting there. bill is back now with more on these storms. what a mess. >> yeah. it could have been. it turned out pretty well for the big island of hawaii. the storm dove to the south and weakened down to 50 miles per hour. so winds weren't even an issue. we are not worried about madelyn at all. lester reduced down to a category 2 hurricane. approach it will be near maui as maybe a tropical storm. it will be a close call. here is a closer look at your day ahead. we did actually get a drop of rain yesterday in seattle ending our rainless streak. 63 so cool in the pacific northwest. knocked temperatures down in nevada too. cuteness alert. this is video just in from a zoo in belgium where a male baby panda is learning to take those first painful and slow steps. as of now he is known as baby p. they are holding an online poll to name him. how about cutie mccute. ? i love ya, tomorrow ? in the largest heart failure study ever. ent

there's madelyn, lestlerend -- letter and here's madelyn's track. it skids to the south of the big island. there will be significant rainfall. they could have a lot of flooding issues. some heavy, heavy rain in big surch and you would guess. a little bit of storm surge as well. here's lester behind it. lester goes to the north on saturday. drops down to a category 1. but this side of the storm as it moves to the north, even though you're closer to the island chain, this is where the most dynamics are on a hurricane is to this side, the north side, this area. so the strongest dynamics will travel to the north of the island change, even though large surf and heavy rain in the game. here's hermine she's upgraded to a tropical storm. and believe it or not, there's an opportunity for this storm to become a hurricane. it's not forecasting, but with that extra hot weather, we can see a hurricane form at the last minute. folks down around jacksonville, parts of tampa really concerned about this as a threat. certainly heavy rain. you know what else they'll g

transitioning to mason over the summer.he was accepted to a catholic high school when he still identified as madelyn. mason say's once school officials found out... they told him his gender identity went against the school's teachings. .mason plans to online high school. officials in pittsburgh are trying to figure out how roughly 175-thousand dollars worth of heroin wound up in a dumpster.? worker reportedly called police after making the discovery while taking out the trash.investigators say the stash included as many as 5- hundred bricks of heroin - up to 25-thousand individual bagies.police believe the dumpster may have been a drop-point for drug dealers. a six-year-old brooklyn boy is recovering this morning after a cell hands over the weekend.mother :03"it just was like fireworks in the house."/mother :04"i was sitting there and watching everything while it was happening, and we were all nervous."family members say the boy was playing video games on a samsung galaxy core when it burst into flames.they say the phone then filled the room with smoke. the boy was treated for minor burns to his han

her grandpa works with costco and sent madelyn's mother. after a trip in pickup truck madelyn's mom started sharing. and 64,000 likes. i guess 5'7". something like that and the >> julie: they can be friends forever until the little kid gets too big. >> make sure the teddy bear doesn't collapse on that kid there. >> julie: spoken like true parent. check out how one father showed his kids not to eat in the car. did you have a no eating the car rule. >> gene: i did. >> julie: if they can drink from their cups of daughter they can eat and drink from their car. he tells them to sake a sip, he pinned a man down and arrested him. the reason the man's attorney says this decision is unfair. >>> and w breaking news this morning. police and protesters clash in charlotte, north carolina. this is all over a deadly police involved shooting. protesters looted, vandalized and even closed a major highway. we are gathering the latest information from our sister if you're using this toothpaste, you're probably expecting to get visibly whiter teeth, but it onl

madelyn stewart returning for fashion week, the first professional model with down syndrome and has 431,000owers on instagram called love without words and it helps children with disabilities in uganda. it starts at 1:00 p.m. in the mission. >>> to see it all, go to abc7news.com and we'll link you up with hoodline. abc7 news. >>> now, your accuweather forecast with spencer christian. showing mainly clear skies over the bay area now after a fairly clear day. tomorrow, lots of sunshine and warm conditions in interior parts of the state. we will see highs here, 80 south of los angeles, here in the bay area, a pretty mild day tomorrow compared to today. breezy on the coast, highs reach mid-60s in some spots. 70s around the bay and 80s in our inland area. this is the 7-day forecast, after the one day warm-up, breezier and much cooler saturday and sunday and monday labor day begins the warming trend and feels like september usually feels. >> thank you. [ applause ] >>> a big donation to school bay area school districts from a huge benefactor. >>> a hotel chain at the ing >>> one huge benefactor h

. >> in meantime, in pacific, madelyn passed south of hawaii's big island. and the system is forecast to continue moving away from the state. >> it's just amazing. mother nature at work. we're sitting in our house thinking yay, storm isn't too bad. hawaii residents not in the clear yet however. with another powerful storm lester nearing the >> i just ask people of hawaii to listen to your state and local officials. make sure you and your families are prepared. hermine is forecast to track overland and then near the carolina coast over the weekend. in panama beach city florida jonathan serry, fox news. we've got a lot of important information scrolling along bottom of your screen. you can also find storm related info on our website, www.fox13news.com >>> and we're continuing to canaveral an an explosion rocked spacex launch site daryl nail is there with an update. >> aerospace company spacex was preparing to test fire their falcon 9 rocket when an explosion happened that could be felt by campers here at cars park. which about 7 miles away from the actual pad

we have hurricane madelyn weakening to a tropical storm.xpected to dump 15 inches of rain when all is said and done. and we have another storm named lester. and janet, give us an update of where you are and what folks are doing. >> so i'm in florida and this is on an inland gulf. it's supposed to take a direct hit from this tropical storm or what could be a hurricane. i want to give you a look here. this is a protected marine layer. if you can see the waves here, it looks like a lake. and the rain now, we have 8 to 10 hours before this storm makes any type of landfall. there are it's a diving rain. we're already seeing flooding. and that just protends what's going to come over the next 24 hours for areas like this. 51 counties in florida under a state of emergency. georgia has declared a state of in a number of counties as well. there are mand foir evacuations in this county for very low-lying areas. what we're finding is that a lot of people are saying it's 50/50. they are not going to go. therein lies the danger even if you have a weak ca

mary madelyn, a counselor to dick cheney. andy card, former chief of staff to george w.h who first told the then-president about the attacks. and mr. karch thanks one and all for being here. i know this is a heavy day and to talk about it in front of a lot of people is challenging. thanks ahead of time for that. we have all seen the picture of you telling president bush, we're under attack. i guess one thing i would really be curious in knowing is, what it felt like to be delivering that message. >> i knew the message i was delivering was a very rare message to deliver to a president. i knew he was in a setting that was a very rare setting to hear a message like that. but i did think about the words that i would say. he did know or he had been told that it appears a small twin-engine prop plane crashed into one of the towers at the world trade center in new york city. that's what i knew that he knew before walking into the classroom. i was then told it wasn't a small twin-engine plane it was a commercial jet-liner. and then another plane hit the tower at the world trade