CBS Morning News close and WFOR open - 2004-08-31

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[0:00] US depends on the messenger. Jim Acasta,

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[0:06] >> Tonight, two more high-profile

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[0:09] convention. California Governor Arnold

[0:11] Schwarzenegger will attempt to reach out

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[0:14] voters. First Lady Laura Bush will end

[0:17] the evening speaking about the

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[1:56] morning.

[1:57] >> And good morning, South Florida. I'm

[1:59] Susan Barnett.

[2:00] >> And I'm Jade Alexander in for Danielle

[2:02] Knox. Here's a look at what's making

[2:03] news. The latest advisory on Hurricane

[2:06] Francis has just come out and hurricane

[2:08] watches are up in the Bahamas. As your

[2:09] weather station has the latest here in

[2:11] South Florida, residents are already

[2:13] stocking up on supplies in the event of

[2:16] a storm. This as people remember

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[2:20] up their homes. We've got live team

[2:22] coverage. 10 years after the

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[2:26] student, a suspect is finally indicted.

[2:29] Campaign 2004 is in full swing in South

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[2:41] >> It is 5 am Tuesday, August 31st. Good

[2:44] morning.

[2:44] >> Good morning. Welcome, Jade.

[2:45] >> Thank you, ma'am.

[2:46] >> You're welcome. And the latest advisory

[2:48] on Hurricane Francis has just come in.

[2:50] We have live team coverage of Hurricane

[2:52] Francis, starting with CBS4

[2:54] meteorologist Bob Soer. Bob,

[2:56] >> good morning. Yeah, right now France is

[2:58] very close to Puerto Rico on the

[3:00] fortunate thing is it's it's to the

[3:02] north of Puerto Rico and so we'll keep

[3:04] an eye on that part of the world as we

[3:05] are watching Hurricane Francis trucking

[3:08] right across the Atlantic Ocean. Now the

[3:10] Caribbean is down here south of the

[3:12] islands. This is the Atlantic north of

[3:14] Puerto Rico. And there's the eye right

[3:16] now and it's continuing to move

[3:18] generally in a westn northwesterly

[3:20] direction. And you can see there's the

[3:22] Bahamas and Haiti, the Dominican

[3:24] Republic and and the northern part of

[3:26] the Virgin Islands there moving right

[3:28] across just north of the Leeward

[3:30] Islands. And again, you can see that

[3:32] good tropical formation there. A

[3:34] hurricane is definitely underway. It's

[3:36] got some strong winds. Now, here's where

[3:38] it's been going. And here's where the

[3:41] computer track makes it want to go. Now,

[3:44] that's one of many popular uh possible

[3:47] tracks. And we're going to show you um

[3:48] the uh the uh cone of uncertainty in

[3:52] just a second, but that's the past 12

[3:54] hours and then it extends it on out.

[3:56] Okay. Now, tropical storm warning is in

[3:59] effect for the northern part of the

[4:01] Lured Islands still stretching over to

[4:04] uh to Puerto Rico and that includes the

[4:06] Virgin Islands, but St. Croy in the

[4:08] vicinity around that is in a tropical

[4:10] storm watch. And then stretching over to

[4:12] the northern coastline of the Dominican

[4:14] Republic and they've got a tropical

[4:16] storm watch as well and just issued a

[4:19] hurricane watch for the southeastern

[4:21] Bahamas, Turks and Caos. So far nothing

[4:24] in Cuba, nothing in the US, too far away

[4:25] for us, but that's where it begins. As

[4:28] of 5:00, 19.9 north, 62.8 west, 125

[4:33] mileph winds. It's a little bit stronger

[4:34] than yesterday morning. Not a lot, but

[4:37] it's still a category three. Winds

[4:39] moving at west at 14 miles per hour. The

[4:42] pressure has dropped ever so slightly

[4:44] and it's about 90 miles east northeast

[4:46] of San Juan, Puerto Rico. That's right

[4:48] in here. So, it's it's to the north of

[4:51] that island and so they'll get some

[4:52] pretty good waves, but it looks like the

[4:53] worst of it will stay out over the

[4:55] Atlantic Ocean. And hopefully that will

[4:57] trend will continue. It looks like it

[4:59] will go north of Haiti and the Dominican

[5:01] Republic tomorrow, Thursday into Friday

[5:04] somewhere over the Bahamas and then the

[5:07] extended risk track that 5day lot a lot

[5:10] of uncertainty lot of uncertainty once

[5:12] you get this far out after 3 days it's

[5:15] uh really uh a pretty tough decision to

[5:17] make. So that's why this is so far out

[5:19] here about 300 miles on either side

[5:21] because the error possibility is as much

[5:24] as 300 miles on either side. So through

[5:26] Sunday, it's a big question mark where

[5:28] this storm will be. So, Hurricane

[5:30] Francis, something we really need to

[5:31] keep an eye on along the entire east

[5:33] coast of Florida. And for those of us

[5:35] here in southeastern Florida, it'll

[5:37] become more clear as time goes on this

[5:39] week, but for now, you just have to keep

[5:41] aware. And uh it's good to be prepared,

[5:43] get the water and batteries and all that

[5:44] stuff. All right, so there's Francis.

[5:46] There's the high still in control. And

[5:48] it actually has strengthened a little

[5:50] bit. So, it is continuing to move

[5:51] Francis on that general westward track

[5:54] across the Atlantic. You look at the

[5:57] high spreading out here. It's kind of a

[6:00] uh nice and sturdy and it's going to

[6:01] continue them movement and allow it to

[6:03] move a little bit to the northwest, west

[6:05] northwest that is. And in time, we think

[6:07] this jetream dip may weaken that eastern

[6:10] part or the western part of that ridge

[6:12] of high pressure and allow Francis to

[6:15] move a little bit more to the north and

[6:17] possibly miss um southeastern Florida.

[6:19] But it does look like it will move over

[6:21] the Bahamas. Now on our water vapor

[6:23] imagery over the past 24 hours, you can

[6:26] get a sense of that push of that ridge

[6:28] of high pressure right in there. You can

[6:30] feel kind of feel for it. And then back

[6:32] up in here, here's that dip in that

[6:33] jetream starting to move down. And if it

[6:36] gets depends on how far south does it

[6:37] get, whether it weakens this ridge

[6:39] enough so that the hurricane can bypass

[6:42] South Florida and maybe move up the

[6:44] coast. All right, so that's what we have

[6:46] on Francis. Now, what about everything

[6:47] else in the weather? Here's Pamela.

[6:49] tonight.

[6:49] >> Hi there. Good morning. Uh definitely

[6:51] feels very tropical out there this

[6:53] morning. Temperatures quite warm near

[6:55] 80° in most spots out there. What we

[6:58] find 81 in Homestead, 82 in Miami, Opaak

[7:02] at 80°. So the AC was running all night

[7:05] for sure. Penrook Pines at 81. All

[7:07] right, an east and southeast breeze

[7:09] coming in today. Also bringing in some

[7:11] clouds this morning. So, somewhat

[7:13] cloudier day to start out than you had