initial hurricane outlook announced this morning at the national tropical weather conference at south padre island texas and right now, lauren lee is there to explain live how this season seems to be shaping up. and lauren south padre knows all too well the impact a busy hurricane season can have on that area. >> definitely. and you know the experts can't ever tell us exactly where hurricane is going to form or where it's going to hit. but what they are predicting is that this year could be another slow season. hurricane experts from all over the country are at the national tropical weather conference to find out what could be brewing in the gulf and the atlantic in only a matter of weeks. >> 2015 is looking to be pretty quiet right now. lauren: he issued the first official hurricane outlook today. the last major hurricane hit the u.s. back in 2005 which is the longest period on record. >> we've had two quiet seasons in a row. we tended to be in an active period of storms since 1995. lauren: the average seen has 12 named storms with six becoming hurricanes and three becoming a major hurricane. whi

. >> 4:00 in the morning, firefighters are called to the scene of this fire in south padre island. this home already engulfed in flames. the ground looks completely covered in water at this point. fortunately everybody was able to jump out of the window to safety just in time. nobody ended up with life-threatening injuries. watch what happens after a long time of battling this fire. >> it's going to go. >> you hear one say, it's going to go. soon after, it does. >> there it goes! boom! >> but it came straight down. i was looking at it up on stilts and thinking there's homes on either side is it going to slide to one side or another and take out a whole other home? >> fortunately it didn't. firefighters in china also called to the scene. the camera gets close to the window you see there is a tank of gas, a canister of gas, and there's flame, fire coming from it. it looks like it's in the kitsch often the home. but these guys know what they're doing. one of the firefighters who is completely covered with a gas mask goes in picks up this tank. and then they just start hosing it down.