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Gov. Ron DeSantis was met with boos from the crowd of about 200 people.
The National Hurricane Center forecasts Idalia to be a Category 3 hurricane when it makes landfall on Wednesday morning. This is the current forecast track as of Monday, Aug. 28, at 5 a.m. EDT. Impacts including tropical storm force winds and rain forecasted to begin Tuesday.
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The latest NHC forecast track for Idalia has it making landfall on Wednesday with winds of up to 100 mph. That would make it a Category 2 hurricane.
Duke Energy encourages customers to have a plan in place to withstand an extended power outage following impacts from tropical weather.
OPD says one driver killed a pedestrian when he plowed into a crash scene. OPD says the driver took off and seriously injured a police officer when he crashed into a patrol car. The hit-and-run driver died from injuries from the second crash.
Boaters are urged to NOT attempt to corral or rescue the injured manatee if you happen to come across it. Instead, call FWC Dispatch at 904-359-6584 to report its direction of travel.
NHC meteorologists say the very warm and deep waters of the northwestern Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico will likely give the system fuel to strengthen over the next few days.
The NHC says the system could become a hurricane when it crosses into the warm waters of the eastern Gulf of Mexico, bringing the potential of dangerous storm surge, heavy rainfall and strong winds to portions of the west coast of Florida and the Florida Panhandle by the middle of this week.