DeSantis Briefs Florida as Final Preparations Made for Tropical Storm Debby

‘We’re going ... into a catastrophic rain situation,’ says the executive director of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management. Tropical Storm Debby is expected to rapidly intensify into a hurricane before making landfall in the Florida Panhandle in the early morning of Aug. 5, according to the National Hurricane Center. Wind and rain from the storm’s outer bands have already begun to impact the southern part of the peninsula, and the governor suggested that Debby could become a Category 2 storm by the time it makes landfall. He said the storm’s...