northeast florida and southwest florida combined, these regions have a total of 200,000 more registered republicans than democrats. and we're going to democrat country and south florida right down there. and, west lm 615,000 more registered democrats advantage, democrats. but, it gets better. look at this, we go through our own backyard, tampa bay. the political purple zone. i ran the numbers here today, and i have found that only 4000 registered voters make the difference between republicans and democrats controlling this and, this is why when you look at all of this campaign commercials on-air, you know that this is a political hot. 20 trees out -- zone. 23,000, -- i'm just going to write it. we have 23,000 commercials that have run in the last hundred days. and, that's one every six minutes. the shark tank investor mark cuban has secured a front row seat. one of trumps most vocal clinton -- critics. and, slamming him for not releasing his taxes. and, he endorsed clinton at a july event. >>> the bad blood is over, ted cruz is officially endorsing donald trump. this following a primary

. >>> donald trump heading to southwest florida today. who he's hoping to win over to win the sunshine state. plus the high profile support hillary clinton is getting on the campaign trail. >> two toddlers kidnapped from their home in citrus county. why authorities say they are now asking for your help. >>> three shark attacks in one day on a florida beach. what the victims all had in common straight ahead. >>> an this monday morning. i'm deiah riley. >> i'm dan shaffer. a hot weekend. did yard work yesterday, brutally hot. >> the lines are short at disney. >> that's true. >> the reason it was hot obviously but lacking thunderstorms. we have not had a lot of that. without that this time of year we're in trouble. i think today, some tropical air on top of us will set the stage for a little widespread not talking everybody's going to get rain but it's better than we have been. in fact right now we're mostly clear and calm. winds coming from the west and that will push some showers as they continue to develop through the mid-morning hour. we

as a category 2 storm entering the bahamas and the kind of uncertainty does include extreme southwest florida. the farther east it stays the better for the st florida. but uncertainty to where the system goes. we'll take a look at the full track in a few minutes. >>> creepy clown sightings across the bay area are now laughing matter for police. news channel 8's jeff patterson reports it was a frightening experience. >> i seen a clown out by at track. all the kids were crying and and then called her mother. mrs. foster is angry because she believes school officials should have placed largo on lock down. >> i called the school and was told it's a rumor, it's okay. no, it's not okay. >> reporter: officers responded but didn't find any clowns. now in pasco county, they have multiple clown sightings. one parent reporting her child received a private facebook message from a clown by mr. wrinkles. his facebook page is complete with the creepiest of clown photos. the sheriff is asking people to report suspicious activity immediately. >> if you think criminal activity is going to, please notify us imm

the donald trump rally happening in southwest florida. that's new york city. there we go. of south of cape coral and ft. myers, north of naples. a big crowd there at the hockey arena where they have a local hockey team there for southwest florida. so neil will take you there. final bell is ringing on wall street as we speak. and the dow has been all over the place. a fickle beast, that thing. it's down about five points at the moment but that could change. neil will update all of us. trump is coming soon. i know where he is. he'll be there in a second. >>> thank you. we're waiting for that. look at the right of your screen. this is new york's times square. a live shot of times square. a heavy police presence. keep in mind this is about 20 blocks north of where they had that chelsea explosion, that pipe bomb explosion less than 48 hours ago. if this shows a city on tender hooks, it has a funny way of showing it. the fact that ahmad khan rahami has been captured has eased some of those fears. traffic is ground to a halt here long before these violent

. >>> in your vote coverage this morning, donald trump drew a huge crowd to a rally in southwest florida announcing a major addition to the campaign. in a announcement, trump announced the launching of a phone bank system to have supporters spread the message. allows users to call supporters from a computer or a phone. the campaign says the users who reach a certain number of calls can win some prizes. as for hillary rodham clinton, she is taking advantage of the united nations general assembly in new york. she is meeting with several world leaders like the japanese prime minister during a sit down with egypt's president. he pledged to uphold the rule of law and civil libber theties. and the democratic nominee finished up the the meeting with the ukrainian president. that-- civil liberties. and the democratic nominee finished up the evening with the meeting with the ukrainian president. >>> a father of two's laptop caught on fire because of a bad battery. >> the after-market merchandise melted the mac. it's scary. our melanie michael stepped in and got results. side when a battery goes b

reporter: the air attack against mosquitoes and southwest florida in tensed early this morning. workers and has met chemical. >> hey, hey, we don't want. reporter: it has started outrage and protest among miami beach residents who gathered outside city hall to stop what they believe is harmful spring. >> it has damaging potential to the unborn fetus. reporter: they are not believing pesticide is not harmful to humans. >> it is an organic chemical. it has been used in the florida keys for number of years. reporter: the controversial spraying as the department of public health announces 84 pregnant women have zika. >> this is really scary. i'm worried about this. reporter: and a question about whether the impasse will end on these eco-funding -- these eco-funding bill. >> my party has taken too long on this issue. reporter: the head of the cdc says they are out of money and warned it will be a bunch of kids born with microencephaly in the coming months. jc: wells fargo accused of widescale fraud. ben: the huge fine handed down and number of employees fired as a result. jc: remembe

. >>> in your vote coverage this morning, donald trump drew a huge crowd to a rally in southwest florida announcing a major addition to the campaign. in an announcement, trump announced the launching of a phone bank system to have supporters spread the message. it's called trump talk and it allows users to call supporters from a computer or a phone. the campaign says the users who reach a certain number of calls can win some prizes. as for hillary rodham clinton, she is taking advantage of the united nations general assembly in new york. she is meeting with several prime minister during a sit- down with egypt's president. he pledged to uphold the rule of law and civil libber that- -civil liberties. and the democratic nominee finished up the evening with the meeting with the ukrainian president. f0 that country was invaded by russian forces and clinton could be overheard denouncing russian aggression. >>> well, 8 is on your side getting results ifer a father of two whose laptop caught on fire because of a bad battery. the after-market merchandise melted the mac. it's scary. our melanie mi

they are co-funding a study with the southwest florida water management district to reexamine areas that flooded including the palm terrace gardens. pasco county emergency management officials also tell us they are looking at a to improve drainage and flood prevention. that would require buying some homes and major construction work which will all be very expensive. >>> nearly 200 animals severely abused at a polk county animal sanctuary are in the custody of the sheriff's office now. we told you about this last month when they were seized from darlin's darlin's rescue in polk city. found starving and living in horrible conditions. the owners were arrested and face charges for animal abuse. >>> in volusia county hundreds sanctuary are now safe from being euthanized. volunteers removed more than 400 from a sanctuary in time. a bank foreclosed forcing the owners to find new homes for the animals. by yesterday or they would be euthanized. >>> researchers now saying being obese is even worse for you than previously thought. citing 10 years worth of data the international agency for liver, ga

you see the cone of uncertainty does include extreme southwest florida. most of the forecast models keep this out to the atlantic, but a lot can change over the next 24 hours. we have to wait and see what effects it will have on the state of florida. >> we will check in with you in a few minutes. >>> an update to breaking news we have been telling you about. a crash involving a box truck shut down a lane on i-4. it is taken out of the situation for a while. the left lane was shut down, you can see, the cars are but within the next few minutes we expect this to open up. we will keep an eye on it. >>> and here, actually, here is what it looked like earlier. we don't have that picture, but we were just telling you about the fact the situation is almost over. so, that breaking news is over as far as we are concerned. meanwhile, a polk county man is in jail for illegally using a milk crate. apparently, that's illegal. timothy traller was charged with possession of stolen property and hauled off to with this arrest. >> reporter: good evening, his family says th

clawson: that small hospital has now grown into a world-class premiere health care system in southwest florida, providing top-quality care throughout the area. lee memorial today has a team of over 15,000 highly qualified and skilled staff members and volunteers, making it one of our largest organizations in southwest florida. i want to thank the lee memorial team and particularly for those that took care of my mom during her final days. when loved ones are sick, what we really want is for those to take care of them to show love, and for that i express appreciation to the lee remorial folks -- memorial folks. a lot of times they have been recognized for outstanding performance. my constituents and i are blessed and grateful for the staff members, physicians and volunteers who work at lee memorial, and i am certain they will continue to provide top-quality care for 100 year more years andon. on another personal note, i want to express my big thank you to jim nathan, resident of the system, for his leadership and for his selfless service to our community for so long. jim, i don't know what we'd

southwest. you see the counterclockwise flow there? spawned everything. back home, jumping to florida here and looking at the morning coastal showers, that's our pattern the neck few days. inland afternoon thunderstorms, a westerly wind developed and that usually means morning coastal showers, sometimes a little stronger, so far this morning i think we're doing pretty good. some will manage to come in towards the latter part of the morning commute. then we'll begin to fill in later this afternoon with not just showers but once we get enough heating i think we'll get thunderstorms going as well. coverage 30% to 40%. nothing widespread, not everyone going to difference will be, we'll start a little earlier, closer to 75 than we are across our inland areas. let's check in on what -- we have hurricane hunters now -- it's the current position by the way. they are going to investigate what could be today a tropical depression or tropical storm. they've already found winds upwards of 40 miles per hour, that's the current intensity. that enough would be a tropical storm. but what they have to

. >>> one southwest florida man is lucky to be alive. he was trying to catch red fish near punta gorda yesterday. >> he says he nearly became dinner for ten aggressive sharks after getting stranded on a sand bar without a boat in sight. >> i saw them out of the corner of my eye come toward my leg. i was like, yeah that is a 7 foot shark. >> reporte w point? >> get out. [ laughter ] >> for 90 minutes, steve used his fishing pole to fend off the sharks. >> he finally used the emergency button on his iphone to call for help. he says he got one heck of a fish story to tell in the future. >> i imagine so. >> he waited a long time to resistant so he could have more time. he couldn't list ton music. >>> temps right now in the0s are looking great out there. looking at davis island and a gorgeous shot there. captain al talking about the visibility and how fantastic it was. we have dry air up above here. it will also allow temperatures to cool off more than is typical for this time of year. up across the nature coast, we recovered qu 70s. the dry

yesterday trump appeared before thousands at a realliy in southwest florida. he spoke about recent islamic terrorist attacks in minnesota, new york and new jersey say they are caused by america's open immigration system that hillary clinton supports. >> we have seen how failures to screen who is entering the united states puts all of our citizens, everyone in this room at danger. so let me state very, very clearly, immigration security is national security. >> trump is hoping supporters will spread the message. his campaign is launching a phone bank system called trump talk where volunteers can call potential voters. >>> on the democratic side hillary clinton is working to reach millennials. sanders during the primaries. yesterday in philadelphia clinton admitted she's not the showman trump is but will try to show her policies will benefit younger americans more than the billionaire's. >> i also know that even if you're totally opposed to donald trump you may still have some questions about me. i get that. i want to do my best to answer those questions. >> aft

. >>> a registered sex offender in southwest florida is listing his home address as a walmart. turns out it's totally legal. 27-year-old isaiah convicted of using a compare to lure children for sex. this week he reported that walmart in lehigh acres as his main residence. some shoppers deciding to stay away from the store as a precaution. the lee county sheriff says what jones is doing is allowed. it's up to the walmart to serve a trespass notice. the manager says he knows nothing about him living there and they are working to take action. ? >>> if you believe not every walmart is maintained equally according to a sociology professor walmarts found in richer whiter neighborhoods tend to be better than ones in poorer black neighborhoods. he says people use terms like nasty, unorganized and worst. much more to describe walmarts in communities of color. it comes cown to money he says and walmart knows cleaner stores and stocked shelves lead to more sales in wealthier neighborhoods. >>> in democracy 2016 -- 16 days left to election day. hillary clinton and donald trump are both ral

. >>> a registered sex offender in southwest florida is listing his home address as a walmart. turns out this is totally legal. 27-year-old isaiah jones was convicted of using a computer too lure children for sex this. week he reported a walmart in lehigh acres as his main residence. shoppers now say they are going to stay away from the store as a precaution. the lee county sheriff's office says what he's doing is legal. adds it's up to walmart notice. the manager says he knows anything aboutgence living there and they are now working to take action >>> you might have unpaid toll bills laying around. majorin one for $50,000. >> it's happening to a southern california woman. she says her wages are being garnished. gerry huton moved and the wage garnishment stopped. then moved back and the garnishments started again. officials say it started when the credit account changed. she admits it was an oversight on her part but says she never received a notice about the fines. >> i was a little overwhelmed at the time with three kids and working full time and husband deployed. >> she say

it's getting harder for mosquitoes in southwest florida to hide. >> mosquito control just bought this truck to fight the spread of the zika virus. it's called a buffalo turbine. the machine is $50,000 much planes can't reach. and it kills mosquitoes before they even hatch. miami is using trucks just like this as they continue to battle locally transmitted cases of zika. >>> disney always has a character that is pop lear -- popular for halloween except for this year. maui is polynesian. one woman said that kids shouldn't be allowed to pretend to be another race. disney has apologized for offending anyone and pulled the costumes from shelves. the movie comes out in november. >>> the hottest ticket in town is the florida state game. 50,000 tickets have been sold. some of them are 300 bucks. the game is at ray jay on saturday. kickoff is at noon. >>> still ahead on the now, we will tell what you is significant about this video of a shootout at a car wash. you can't see, but it could help put the most dangerous criminals behind bars. >> we're just updating you now on what happened live 15

. >>> in your vote average this morning, donald trump drew a huge crowd to a rally in southwest florida announcing a major addition to his campaign. he announced the launching of a phone bankte supporters spread his message. the system is called trump talk and it allows users to call supporters from a computer or telephone. the users who reach a certain number of calls can win prizes. >>> and donald trump, jr. is coming under fire this morning for a twitter post comparing syrian refugees to poisoned skits. the tweet posted monday evening asked, if i had a bowl of skits and told you three of them a handle? that's our syrian problem. the tweet sparked outrage on social media with some users posting images of syrians caught up in the civil war juxtaposed with the word skittles. >>> and george hw bush is voting for hillary hillary rodham clinton. it was no secret the bush family isn't happy with trum as the republican nominee. president george w bush has stayed quiet on who he will vote for. clinton will make a campaign stop in orlando tomorrow. >>> u.s. homeland security is having an immig

mon -- you've got the panhandle, north florida area, really behave like the south, you have southwest floridalike the midwest and in orlando, the i-4 corridor is really swings both ways and so i think it would be a mistake to really cast florida for anyone right now. we think it's within the margin of error right now between both canning dat candidates. >> what does the national press not understand about ohio? >> well, i think that, like in florida, the stereotypes get played out, cleveland is very democrat, of course, southern ho hoo, eastern ohio, more rural, tends to be tilting more towards the republicans. who's interesting about ohio is there are all these different economies in the state, all these different counties, just here in cincinnati, cincinnati is a blue city, the leadership in cincinnati is democrat. but all around us, including across the river in kentucky, but all around us are heavily red areas, after all, john boehner comes from north of cincinnati, and i don't think even with everything that happened in congress, anybody's going to accuse speaker boehner of being a liber

. >>> in your vote coverage this morning, donald trump drew a huge crowd to a rally in southwest florida announcing a major addition to his campaign. he announced the launching of a phone bank system to help supporters spread his message. the system is called trump talk and it allows users to call supporters from phone. the campaign says the users who reach a certain number of calls can win some prizes. former president george h. w. bush says he is voting for hillary rodham clinton for president. that's according to cathleen kennedy, the daughter of late robbed f. kennedy who met with bush. the elder bush previously stayed quiet on the issue. it was no secret that the bush family was not happy with stayed quiet on who he will vote for. brother jeb bush continues to criticize trump and his policies. >>> and your consumer watch this morning, this ceo of wells fargo will be on capitol hill today to make an apology to congress. the chief executive wants to apologize before the senate banking committee for betraying customers' trust. last week a scandal emerged over allegations employees of t

. >>> florida governor rick scott toured some of the most damaged areas of southwest florida during his his visit, he said pasco county suffered the worst flooding from hurricane hermine, and made land fall near tallahassee. and 744 homes were forced under mandatory evacuation and 15 people are now in a shelter. they say at least five roads are still closed in the area. >>> and a nebraska family struck by tragedy in june, was surrounded by hundreds of supporters, friends, neighbors and strangers gathered to would have been his third birthday. the young boy was killed by an alligator during a family vacation to disneyworld a few months ago. and the family wanted to keep things positive by honoring lane, and releasing balloon, each donated by an anonymous donor. >>> a trip to the hospital sent several people to the -- a trip it to the fair landed several people in the hospital, computer function changed and the operator panicked and released the safety restraints before the ride came to a stop. 14 people were thrown from the ride when it was moving and the story was retracted saying no on

and more on "news 3 live at 3:00" and now, that's some pig point people living in the far southwest of florida reported a large hog wandering in the area. here he is. reminds me of leila, my dog. looks like that when she's laying around. this 600 pound, six foot long to the sheriff's livestock and if the owner does not come forward in three days, they will auction off the pig. isn't that cute? >> it's pig. >> a big pig. i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. he's a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. donald trump is a phony, a fraud. he's not a serious adult. p should not be supported. i believe he's disqualified himself to be president. [phone ringing] >> dario: hello? >> deimos: it's me. do you have anything to report yet? >> dario: actually, yeah, i do. i'll send over what i found. >> deimos: excellent. thanks. [knocking at door] [dramatic music] ? ? i heard that you were pregnant. ? ? >> chloe: well, that's, uh, surprising. >> deimos: is it true? >> chloe: it's none of your business. >> deimos: are you carrying

it's already causing problems along the gulf coast in southwest florida. d flooding is making travel pretty difficult. residents are filling sandbags, all of this as an effort to hold any potential storm waters back. but dozens of counties in florida and georgia are under states of emergency. the news is a little better in the pacific. we have hurricane madelyn weakening to a tropical storm. but it is expected 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

. >>> a man who went fishing in southwest florida almost did not make it back. 24-year-old steve moonthe water near fort myers on wednesday. he was trying to attract fish with bait he bought. he got stuck near a sand bar and ten sharks tried to move in. he says some of them came within a foot of him. >> i saw them out of the corner of my eye come toward my leg, and i was able to just see the back of him, you know, and i'm like, yeah, that's a 7-foot shark. >> moon spent the next 90 minutes fending off the sharks with a fishing rod. at last-able to reach a fire rescue surgery with the emergency button. the coast guard came by, rescued him ten minutes later. >>> coming up next on mornings on 2, the 9. it has been six weeks since a south bay college professor was shot and killed. a new video, in hopes it can generate leads in the investigation. ♪ ♪keep on the sunny side ♪always on the sunny side ♪keep on the sunny side of life♪ at enterprise, we guarantee it. next vehicle purchase? head to your neighborhood enterprise car sales and let the people who buy more vehicles than anyone... chan

he's going to do extremely well in southwest florida. democrats are going to do extremely well on the coast of east florida in which we republicans for years called the killing fields. we have. if you get out of dade, broward and palm beach county -- >> four blocks in miami but other than that -- >> if you get out of those three counties and you're down 300,000 votes -- in fact, i know w. was going to win in 2004 because he only lost in killing fields by 300,000 votes. then it's i-4 corridor. again, it's such a diverse state. this is a state that if i'm hillary clinton and donald trump is ahead in any polls in florida, i'm in trouble. >> and for donald trump's part -- >> of course she's ahead five now. i'm just saying polls show it closer. >> a week ago it was closer. >> you cannot draw a winning map for donald trump without florida. it's not there. if you take that off the map, you have to pull magic in states he's not going to win. he has to win florida. it's close. he has to spend time there. >> if he wins florida -- >> that's indicati

right now the storm is located about 295 miles southwest of tampa, florida. still in the gulf of mexico and the latest updates continue to show that this could strengthen into a category one hurricane we'll been monitoring it closely. look at what we're dealing with at home. pretty clear skies. a little bit of fog. very similar to what we were dealing with yesterday. now as far as those temperatures are concerned, pretty mild as well. 72 in raleigh and wilmington. we have 69 right now in henderson. also still in the upper 60s around wayne county towards goldsboro. good morning. you're checking in at 74. your forecast for the day 86 at lunchtime. 92 our afternoon high. we hit 95 yesterday. still hot and humid. cold front comes through later today. bringing the potential for scattered showers and storms. back to 87 heading towards 6:00 this evening. a closer check in 10 minutes. let's send it to allie. >> if you're traveling through raleigh area 540, 40 moving well. no accidents to report to you a fortify traffic shift overnight. it was postponed until tonight.

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. ♪ >> waiting in southwest florida at the germane arena. ide as we wait for our campaign rally for donald trump, scheduled to start almost an hour ago. pulling in florida shows the candidates are in a tight race. secretary clinton leads among likely voters by one point. although mr. trump has a one point lead in an average of polls. at the arena inset myers, florida. , and waiting for donald trump, running late to this rally. to keep an eye on the arena and show some of the conversation about presidential and congressional and raising this election cycle. you put this in perspective, other estimates about the total amount of money that is going to be spent with the presidential election, the congressional election, all combined what numbers are we going to be looking at? are estimates but they are probably less reliable this time of -- this time around. to the point of how expensive this is going to be by way of background, in february this year just during the presidential race alone you have an election that was already crossing the $1 bil

florida. this could strengthen as gabe mentioned to a category 1. latest on hermine, 250 miles south/southwest of florida. looking at the path right now, we expect landfall sometime late this afternoon just to the east continues inland until early saturday morning and comes out around the carolina coast but look at this cone of uncertainty that widens out. after early sunday morning, washington, d.c., philadelphia, new york, parts of connecticut, providen, all of the way up to boston all have to worry about this system. now, for the first time in four years, we've got a hurricane warning in effect along the gulf coast from panama city down to spring hill. we've got tropical storm warnings as well and we also have to worry about the risk of storm surge. that's when all these waves, this wave energy piles that water up against it and we get flooding moving its way inland. right now we've got storm surges that will peak 1 to 3 feet around tampa. 4 to 7 feet as you get to big bend on top of high tides. we also have to worry about the possibility of tornadoes from typically small in scale but still

here's the latest on tropical storm hermine, 315 miles west-southwest of tamp a, florida.that's where the center is. continues to strengthen. winds now 60 miles an hour sustained moving to the north-northeast at 10 miles an hour. and the problem that occurred over the last 24 hours with these models are picking up on is the direction that hermine could take. we're looking at the upper level pattern because this is really the highway, so to speak, of our weather system. this is about 18,000 feet in the atmosphere. here is the energy with hermine as it makes landfall just to the west of jacksonville and apalachicola. at the same time, early in the weekend, he have this trough. this is energy like a cold front which was originally going to kick hermine off the coast, but now the indications are that energy moves away too quickly and that allows hermine to continue a northeasterly trek up the eastern seaboard so that means watching and we have to see if this trend continues for that troth to move out prior to hermine moving up the coast. so the spaghetti notes, all these diffe

flooded roadways in the upper midwest, roads are also likely to be wet in the southwest, the lower mississippi valley, southern florida, and the pacific northwest. >>> if you're flying expect airport delays in phoenix and minneapolis. >>> former fox news anchor gretchen carlson says she's ready to move on after settling sexu her former boss at fox. >> as part of that carlson received an apology and multimillion dollar payout. >> big lawsuit, big payout. >> $20 million. >> fox news is making headlines of its own, just two months after the bombshell sexual harassment suit by gretchen carlson against the powerful fox news chief roger ailes, the network's parent company is settling for $20 million. it comes after a scathing "new conversations with ailes since 2014. >> i think fox, the parent company wanted this to be over and done with. they're trying to have this be part of the past, not part of their future. >> reporter: in an unprecedented public apology they said "we sincerely regret and apologize for the fact that gretchen was not treated with the respect and dignity that she and all of our colleagues deserve." dan a

florida shore. rob? >> reporter: it's really rolling in here. the tide should be going out. but the storm surge keeps bringing it back in. hurricaneernes stil miles to the southwest, but it's taking a toll on this part of florida. toght, hurricane hermine bearing down, and gaining strength, with conditions deteriorating rapidly. >> please protect property and evacuate immediately. >> reporter: officials warning residents, get out now before it's too late. >> bottom line, this is life-threatening. if you need to go to a shelter, go now. don't wait. abovclearwatertorm surge now beach. police patrolling in humvees there. in cedar key, tony frazier is hoping theets metal hold up to the storm. >> there's no way to make anything safe. >> reporter: at high tide, the , if not over my head. the governor urging floridians get with a three-day supply of food and water. they're now emptying store shelves and filling up their gas tanks. are you worried about people being complacent? >> that's my biggest worry, complacency. >> reporter: the storm already wreaking havoc overnight. in sarasota, flash flooding trapping residents in their homes. first responders going door-to-door