(Nov. 11) Watch live as Tropical Storm Eta is expected to skirt past the heavily populated Tampa Bay region and crash ashore in Florida in the coming hours somewhere to the north along the Gulf of Mexico coast. Eta weakened to a tropical storm as it headed toward Florida’s west coast, but will likely regain strength before it makes landfall Thursday. The storm briefly became a hurricane Wednesday before its winds dropped below that threshold. A hurricane watch that had been posed along Florida’s west coast was dropped. Eta could push ocean levels as high as 5 feet (1.5 meters) above normal in Tampa Bay and Charlotte Harbor, the National Hurricane Center said. “There is already a large area of rain that is blowing over south Florida and things are going to deteriorate from south to north across the Florida peninsula today,” said Dan Kottlowski, a meteorologist with commercial forecaster AccuWeather. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2TwO8Gm Bloomberg Quicktake brings you live global news and original shows spanning business, technology, politics and culture. Make sense of the stories changing your business and your world. To watch complete coverage on Bloomberg Quicktake 24/7, visit http://www.bloomberg.com/qt/live, or watch on Apple TV, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, Fire TV and Android TV on the Bloomberg app. Connect with us on… YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Bloomberg Breaking News on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BloombergQuickTakeNews Twitter: https://twitter.com/quicktake Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quicktake Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quicktake