at the kennedy space center, phil keating, fox news. now fox5 weather 24/7, with chief meterologist ted pretty we'll see highs at 100 degrees or a degree or two above friday through the weekend. afternoon southwest gusts to 25 mph will be with us on sunday, then stronger gusts to 30 mph for us on monday and tuesday. we'll see cooler air move in also for monday with a high of 96 degrees. tuesday through thursday our highs will be right around 90 degrees with lows in the upper 60s. 100 degrees or a degree or two above friday through the weekend. afternoon southwest gusts to 25 mph will be with us on sunday, then stronger gusts to 30 mph for us on monday and tuesday. we'll see cooler air move in also for monday with a high of 96 degrees. tuesday through thursday our highs will be right ar in the upper 60s. we'll see highs at 100 degrees or a degree or two above friday through the weekend. afternoon southwest gusts to 25 mph will be with us on sunday, then stronger gusts to 30 mph for us on monday and also for monday with a high of 96 degre

in miami, phil keating, fox news. now fox5 weather 24/7 we've seen some clouds around the valley on thursday, but the bulk of the showers and storms have stayed off to our east. we'll keep it partly cloudy tonight with an overnight low temperature of 70 degrees in las vegas. friday will stay mostly sunny with high temperatures afternoon; slightly above average for this time of year. bigger changes arrive for your weekend. it turns breezy on saturday with high temperatures holding in the low 90s. cooler air pushes in sunday and monday, bringing temperatures back down into the mid 80s sunday and mid 70s on monday. this is the coolest air we've seen in more than 4 months. the trade-off will be strong winds sunday and monday with gusts in the 40 mph range. we've seen some clouds around the valley on thursday, but the bulk of the showers and storms have stayed off to our east. we'll keep tonight with an overnight low temperature of 70 degrees in las vegas. friday will stay mostly sunny with high temperatures topping out in

phil keating has more from the sunshine state. history in the making as those wheels hit the runway. jet blue flight 387 touching down in the cuban city of santa clara around 11 a-m local time, wednesday... making it the first commercial flight between the united states and cuba in more than fifty years. nats - ((nats- "good morning jetblue customers flying on flight 387 with service to santa clara, cuba")) the plane departing from the fort lauderdale- hollywood international airport in florida... with transportation secretary anthony foxx on board. officials sending the 150-seat airbus off with a ribbon cutting ceremony ritter says: "..cuba was always this mysterious island that was so close to us, yet could have been mars go and we couldn't visit and see the beauty of that island." the u-s and cuba announcing back in december 20-14 they would begin restoring ties after decades of cold war tensions. this flight just the latest step in that process... and it traveled between the two countries a little over a year after the america

>>> phil keating at the villages in florida. phil, thank you. i think that's america's friendliest hometown. the markets close the week in the red. the dow lost 131. the s&p 512. the nasdaq lost 34. for the week, each of the three parkts rose for the second straight week. the dow was up. 08 percentage points. the nasdaq and s&p went up 1.2%. the first museum dedicated to african-american history will officially open saturday in washington, d.c. and today, president obama welcomed the news. >> this is about people who for more than a century advocated and organized and raised funds and donated artifacts so that the story of the african-american experience could take its rightful place in our national memory. >> president obama is, of course, featured at the new smithsonian museum along with exhibits on slavery, the civil war, and pop culture. i got a chance to get a sneak peek last night and then i talked about the opening with the museum's associate director for curator yawl affairs dr. rex ellis. >> so this has been a long time coming. how long

fox's phil keating has the latest from cape canaveral, florida. <

caroline is in kill devil hills on the outer banks and first to phil keating in st.ary's, goes, north of jackson krill. what's it -- jacksonville. what's it like there. >> reporter: at the end of the peer -- pier, people saying the wind was insane last night it but as was the forecast here today, that's throughout the day in northern florida and georgia, the ferocity of hermine was dim minimum erred and the weather improved. clearly it is. youthful see the blue skies, hasn't rained in a while. that an island across the way which is popular during the summertime, especially holiday weekends. may actually be salvageable come sunday and monday in cedar key florida today, which was on the dirty side of this hurricane last night and this morning, you can see all the damage in the streets, a lot of tree debris some flooded roads, broken windows and busted doors. up in tallahassee and across the panhandle the big story here today is that's where all the people lost power. some counties have 99% of the residents, no electricity. 70,000, 70,000 people in leon county, that's i

>> phil keating in st. simon's island tonight. thank you, phil. north carolina's barrier islands are now bracing for a heavy hit over the weekend. reporter caroline shively is in kill devil hills, north carolina. good evening, caroline. >> reporter: hi there, doug. and we're there are feeling the beginning of what florida got last night and what georgia and south carolina have been feeling throughout the day. the rain's coming at us sideways. the winds are picking up, but the biggest change i've seen since this morning are those waves. check out those white caps. the waves are getting bigger, meaner, and uglier by the hour. we're expecting a storm surge between 1 and 3 feet before this thing hits us sometime tomorrow morning. you add that with the rain totals, which had gone up over these last few hours. we were expecting 5 to 8 inches of rain. we could get up to 12 inches. and that's a problem. think of the vulnerability of these islands here. we have a very low-lying areas that could be overwhelmed. the winds are what we're really worried about.

phil keating is live.. >> reporter: cause up known put for nasa that's raises serius -- races serious concern. tate planning on launching astronauts on this same rocket design as early as next year. the explosion could be felt for dozens of miles and you can see the thick black plume of smoke from further. facebook planned to use a portion of the satellite to beam internet service to develops nations nations in africa. now, total destruction of the rocket and the israeli satellite. there were multiple explosions at the launch pat and that enormous fire ball. this was a commercial launch, totally independent of nasa. the latest update from space spacex, quote. the anomaly occurred during propellant loading of the vehicle, all person never were clear of the -- all personnel were clear of the pad and there were no injuries. another spacex falcon 9 rocket exploded last year. spacex is targeting next december or early 2018 to begin launch astronauts on the dragon capsule, which is stacked on top of the falcon 9

>> phil keating in st. simon's island tonight. thank you, phil. north carolina's barrier islands are now bracing for a heavy hit over the weekend. reporter caroline shively is in kill devil hills, north carolina. good evening, caroline. >> reporter: hi there, doug. and we're there are feeling the beginning of what florida got last night and what georgia and south carolina have been feeling throughout the day. the rain's coming at us sideways. the winds are picking up, but the biggest change i've seen since this morning are those waves. check out those white caps. the waves are getting bigger, meaner, and uglier by the hour. we're expecting a storm surge between 1 and 3 feet before this thing hits us sometime tomorrow morning. you add that with the rain totals, which had gone up over these last few hours. we were expecting 5 to 8 inches of rain. we could get up to 12 inches. and that's a problem. think of the vulnerability of these islands here. we have a very low-lying areas that could be overwhelmed. the winds are what we're really worried about.

fox news correspondent phil keating has the latest from cape canaveral florida. >> what nasa hopes to pull off is something scientists and simply impossible, to rendezvous with an asteroid, touch it, and bring a little bit of it back to earth, all to help answer the age old question of how we came to be. >> and those are huge questions. they are all about where did we come from, where does life spring forth on these early planets that were probably extremely barren and challenging. >> the asteroid is orbiting the sun on earth, the size of the empire state building. after two years of mapping it, osiris-rex will slowly descend on to its surface, touch it for a five second high five, stir up tiny rocks and dust, capture it, 2023. >> once we have that, we are not going to try to touch that again. we have got it. it's getting stowed. it's getting ready to come home. >> scientists believe bennu is pristinely preserved asteroid, potentially hazardous with a tiny chance of colliding with our planet next this is what the tiny few grams of material looks like, brown sugar, a table stone, but t

>>> phil keating at the villages in florida. phil, thank you.hat's america's friendliest hometown. the markets close the week in the red. the dow lost 131. the s&p 512. the nasdaq lost 34. for the week, each of the three parkts rose for the second straight week. the dow was up. 08 percentage points. the nasdaq and s&p went up 1.2%. the first museum dedicated to african-american history will officially open saturday in washington, d.c. and today, president obama welcomed the news. >> this is about people who for more than a century advocated and organized and raised funds and donated artifacts so that the story of the african-american experience could take its rightful place in our national memory. >> president obama is, of course, featured at the new smithsonian museum along with exhibits on slavery, the civil war, and pop culture. i got a chance to get a sneak peek last night and then i talked about the opening with the museum's associate director for curator yawl affairs dr. rex ellis. >> so this has been a long time coming. how long? >> 100 y

phil keating shows the excitement following the first commercial airliner to land in cuba since 1961. >> reporter: a cuban band at the gate fueled the excitement for this sold-out flight. jet blue begins to santa clara and other areas as well. and next week, american airlines begins its highly anticipated commercial flights departing from miami, part of the cuban exile community to the cities of cien fuegas. initially per the agreement, 110 commercial flights will be connected in the old cold war foes. charter planes flying from havana to florida for years and the restoration of diplomatic relations. carnival through. still passengers say this is big. >> easier to actually get on board. you can just buy a ticket now. you always just buy a ticket. the fact that some of the regulations around who is allowed to grow are easy to get to and self-certified instead of applying for the state board to come back. this makes it easier. >> reporter: cuba's ambassador is on hand pledging more changes are on the way. >> security and safety of in concern. >> reporter: here cuban tourism remains ille

fox's phil keating has the something scientists and astronomers once thought was simply impossible: to rendezvous with an asteroid..touch it..and bring a little bit of it back to earth. all to help answer the age-old question of how we..came to be. garvin says: "those are all huge questions, they're all about where did we come from? where does life spring forth on these, these early planets that were probably extremely barren and challenging.." on the launch pad, the osiris rex spacecraft sits on top of a monster atlas fi will begin a four billion mile journey to bennu and back. bennu, the target asteroid, is orbiting the sun on a similar orbit to earth's, and the size of the empire state building. bennu laps the sun every one-point-two earth years. scientists picked bennu for its accessible orbit, size and promising landing zones. this 800-million dollar mission, seven long years. and after two more years of mapping it, osiris rex will then slowly descend onto bennu's surface, touch it for a five- second "high five", blast nitrogen gas into the surface, which will stir up tiny asteroi

phil keating live.s growth election after election, good morning. >> reporter: four years ago president obama won over mitt romney by one percentage point. north florida and the panhandle trump has big strength especially in this largest retirement community, normally white retirees but one registered for republicans over democrats. in these golf carts, they are confident. >> i am voting for donald trump. i am voting for donald trump because i do believe he can stop the terror in the united states. he can vitalize the economy. he can make america great again. >> reporter: these newly retired white floridians are countering big support hillary clinton is receiving from the hispanic population. bill: can you track the vote just yet based on this? >> reporter: trump is doing better in florida among hispanics than other states not only because of the older generation of cuban americans who have voted gop but the other generation of cubans, the puerto rican influx getting clinton a hispanic vote lead of doub

fox news correspondent phil keating has the latest from cape canaveral, florida. what nasa hopes to pull off is something scientists and astronomers once thought was simply impossible: to rendezvous with an asteroid..touch it..and bring a little bit of it back to earth. all to help answer the age-old question of how we..came to be. garvin says: "those are all huge questions, they're all about where did we come from? where does life these, these early planets that were probably extremely barren and challenging.." on the launch pad, the osiris rex spacecraft sits on top of a monster atlas five rocket. blast off will begin a four billion mile journey to bennu and back. bennu, the target asteroid, is orbiting the sun on a similar orbit to earth's, and the size of the empire state building. bennu laps the sun every one-point-two earth years. scientists picked bennu for its accessible orbit, size and promising landing zones. this 8-m dollar mission, led by the university of arizona, will take seven long years. and after two more years of mapping it, osiris rex will then

phil keating is in st. simons island in georgia. reporter: we are 200 miles from where hermine slammed into the florida panhandle. throughout the day as tropical storm hermine marched north through georgia, her ferocity increased in intensity. across the florida panhandle evidence of hurricane hermine's impact littered towns, flooded streets, busted doors and windows. one resident spray painted "bring it on hermine, and she did. 80-mile-an-hour wind, heavy rains, and 5-foot storm surges along the gulf coast. >> we usually have sandbags up. but it came through the walls. there is no way to prepare for that much. >> many people wisely evacuated ahead of the storm. one who didn't, a homeless man died when a large tree crushed his tent. hundreds of downed trees blocked roads and broke through roofs and toppled lines in tallahassee. florida governor rick scott said 300,000 people lost power. many won't have electricity returned for perhaps days. >> we'll spend the coming days assessing the damage and responding to the community and flori

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calls massive power out acts in georgia which is where we find phil keating right now.ell us what you're seeing. >> reporter: well, as the forecast went throughout the day in northern florida and georgia, the ferocity of now tropical storm hermine would gradually be diminishing and weather conditions i can't imagineally improving, and certainly that's what we're seeing right now. wind gusts were perhaps hitting 40 miles per hour, now i'd say it's in the 20s. the seas are far less rough and sol sunshine and blue skies have actually been peaking out. down in florida, in cedar key -- the big bend area that bore the brunt of then-hurricane hermine -- last might and into this morning when it made landfall at one a.m., you see the damage all through town today. streets flooded, bust bed doors, broken windows and tree debris all over the place. now, hermine's one a.m. arrival really then impacted every county across the florida panhandle, and that's where strong rains, heavy winds brought down hundreds upon hundreds of trees. that in turn took down power lines, and the state o

phil keating has the latest. >> reporter: what nasa hopes to pull off is something scientists and astronomers once thought was simply impossible. so rendezvous with an astroid, touch it, and bring a little bit of it back to earth. >> those are huge questions. they're all about, where did we come from? where does life spring forth on these early planets that were probably extremely barren and challenging. >> reporter: on the launch pad, the spacecraft sits on top of a rocket, blastoff will begin a 4 billion mile journey and back. benu is orbiting the sun on a similar orbit to earth, and the size of the empire state building. this $ 800 million years will take two years to get there. it will then slowly descend onto the surface, touch it for a five-second high five, blast hydrogen gas into the atmosphere, and capture those in an air filter and deliver them to earth, landing in the utah desert 2023. >> we're hooking to bring back 60 grams of material. it's getting ready to come home. >> reporter: scientists believe benu is a dark black chunk of carbon rich rock and solar system history. it also

as fox's phil keating they're still trying to figure out what caused the explosion. >> that rocket, carrying the amos6 communication satellite meant to provide facebook's free internet program to sub africa. it follows another launch in june 2015. the company react to go this latest incident in a statement reading, quote, spacex can confirm that in preparation for today's static fire there was an anomaly on the pad resulting in the loss of the vehicle and its pay load. per standard procedure the pad was clear, and there were no injuries. spacex is tasked with bringing supplies to the international space station as well following program. coincidentally two astronauts were carrying out a space walk outside the space station at the time of the blast. they were not immediately made aware of the explosion. turnly nasa relies on russia's help to send its astronauts to space and the next station crew is currently prepping for an upcoming expedition. two russians and one american ae set to blast off on board a rocket later this month. >> it's a very small vehicle, so that's a little more challengin

with phil keating in georgia, and rick reithmuth on where hermtime is heading next. steve harrigan is in cedar key, florida, which took the brunt of the storm,. let's begin with phil. >> reporter: you can certainly guarantee traveling along the eastern sea board this weekend will be problematic and maybe next to impossible in some cases. you'll have debris, downed trees blocking roads, could have flashflooding, and for airline travelers, our flight, for example, last night from miami to jacksonville was cancelled due to the weather. that's probably going to be happening all the way up the east coast, as the storm continues to move forward. so call your airline, some airlines may give you voucher. this is the st. simon island and people here as the then then-hurricane was blowing the outer banks said the winds were insane so everybody up the carolinas, delware, new jersey york got a lot of storm coming to you. that's jekyll island, very popular tourist island, especially on holiday weekends. however this holiday weekend, for most of the east coast is not going to be fu

at the kennedy space center, phil keating, fox news. >> but what they learn from it is invaluable. back to your fox 29 weather authority now. >> a little hot out there today. >> little bit. >> kathy? >> iain, you like this. >> i love it. >> you put a curse on us. >> oh! >> iain's fault s. >> that's what it is. >> but any way, you can see some clouds passing through. some clouds moving through the region. so temperatures lower ago few degrees. we missed the record by one measly degree scott even were just talking about it. the high today 95 in philadelphia. the record 96 set back in 1939. close not quite close enough. winds out of the southwest at 13. it is going to be sticky though and it's going to feel oppressive for your friday. feel like it's about 104. saturday heat and humidity will combine to make it feel like 102. sunday you can see a sharp decline. lower temperatures. lower humidity. 86 degrees. and then it will just feel like 81 degrees on monday. so by then, it will be very comfortable. waiting for some showers. they're little skimpy on the radar here. you can see right

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phil keating has the latest. >> reporter: what nasa hopes to pull off is something scientists and astronomersnce thought was simply impossible. so rendezvous with an astroid, touch it, and bring a little bit of it back to earth. >> those are huge questions. they're all about, where did we come from? where does life spring forth on these early planets that were probably extremely barren and challenging. >> reporter: on the launch pad, the spacecraft sits on top of a rocket, blastoff will begin a 4 billion mile journey and back. benu is orbiting the sun on a similar orbit to earth, and the size of the empire state building. this $ 800 million years will take two years to get there. it will then slowly descend onto the surface, touch it for a five-second high five, blast hydrogen gas into the atmosphere, and capture those in an air filter and deliver them to earth, landing in the utah desert 2023. >> we're hooking to bring back 60 grams of material. it's getting ready to come home. >> reporter: scientists believe benu is a dark black chunk of carbon rich rock and solar system history. it also ha

but first let's go to phil keating who is live on st. i st. simons island.orter: hermine marches through the georgia and the carolinas. people who were here during the hurricane told me the winds were in their words insane. driving around the town there is tree debris every place. even in tallahassee, hundreds of trees are down there today. and 70,000 people in leon county have no power today. there is about 8 or 9 counties in the panhandle where the percent and of people without electricity is 30% and greater. governor rick scott down there with a state of emergency in place as there is in georgia. both governors having news conferences, i believe this hour, and their emergency operations center. the waves are rough, the tide is high. and the real threat here is tornado activity throughout the day. but the real issue for so many, tens of thousands of people in florida as well as georgia, they are out of power, no electricity and it's likely they will not get electricity again. everybody for at least two days, maybe longer. >> hermine is being described as a

that is where we found our phil keating. live in the storm zone. ate line. currently, experiencing what a lot of the south has to look forward to for the rest of today. strong winds, heavy rains whipping through. that's the cumberland national seashore. and the waves are choppy. the winds are blowing, but the story of the day is going to be these bands come and then they go. then they get -- things are more gentle and calm, but it's not over yet. the outer bands because the storm is covering such a large area. that's what you have to look forward to in tallahassee, florida, heavy winds, strong rain. the state capital. last night and through this morning, in fact 70,000 people right now have no power. that's the result of hundreds of trees toppling into power lines. knocking out power. then gainesville, florida, where you have the university of florida. many trees down there as well. you can see one homeowner not so lucky as that big tree crossed on to their roof. in georgia, as tropical storm hermine goes up the coast, a lot of tornado activity is a