Tropical Storm Isaac Is Sweeping Through the Caribbean, South of Puerto Rico

tropical storm isaac weakened a little is to dump rain just south of where rico and the u s virgin islands and it's expected to pick up steam again is it heads across the dominican republic and haiti it could become a hurricane by tomorrow authorities in the dominican republic replaced all the country's coastlines of alert i think it is expected to bring as much as three hundred millimeters of rain to the island of haiti shares the island you could see more devastation hundreds of thousands of people still living in makeshift homes there since the earthquake hit two years ago and this storm might not even stop there their joined by meteorologist michelle leslie michelle but you mentioned carol this storm not forecast just stop when it impacted me in the dominican republic but now lives in the united states are watching i think isaac very closely this is the calling of uncertainty that we look at ads in the urologists and basically they give you an idea as to where that storm contract and it gets closer towards the florida coastline however some models are indicating but it could start to impact the tampa area where the republican convention is being held at the earliest late monday into early tuesday at a category one hurricane the best case scenario at this point in the tampa area could be about twenty five millimeters fourteen inches of rain and gusts to about fifty kilometres per hour the worst case scenario we could be looking at some flooding and around the tampa area so this is something the big story that a lot of americans are following will follow for you is well over the next few days florida has had and really interesting history over the last eighty five years in terms of impact with tropical systems sixteen hurricanes or tropical storms have the impact of the state of florida the most recent was hurricane wilma which made landfall around cape from romano is a category three storm on october the twenty fourth two thousand five in terms of the isaac its forecast path at this point could take it in and around that tampa bay area as a category one hurricane so would be much weaker than what will the west when it hit the kid from an earlier however the possibility is still there this is a very high in...