New flaw that could further delay its return to the skies. All 737 maxes were grounded after two crashes overseas that killed 246 people. Kris van cleave has the latest. Reporter during flight tests in a boeing 737 maksim laettner seattle, faa pilots discovered a computer issue that could slow down the pilots ability to quickly respond to a scenario like the one seen in the two max crashes. The issue occurred when the pilots were evaluating failure scenarios when the nose of the plane was being pushed down. The test pilots felt it remained down longer than it should, leaving them concerned it would increase the chances of a crash. Bowing is now working on a software fix to address this issue with a microprocesser in the flight computer. If that fails, the component would have to be replaced on all max airplanes, likely extending the global grounding. Boeings ceo dennis muhlenberg. We will spend time understanding every dimension of these accidents and making ever possible improvement a
Of the bay bridge. And the numbers out there right now are pretty much right in line with where they were yesterday at this time. In the mid50s and 55 for San Francisco and 50 in santa rosa, 57 in concord. Thats not very different. And most of us are actually going to wake up to clear skies. There is some patchy marine layer out there, but you will have to be in the usual places along the coast for sure right along the edge of the bay and you notice some low clouds, but for the most of us, we will wake up to relatively clear skies with 63 officially for the city today. And read the top line, increasing clouds by the afternoon. We will see another cloud show coming in right to the middle of the day. Get rain out of it. But it will be part of the pattern that keeps us cool for the day. Look at the inland temperature. Only going to 78 and thats coming in below average at 70 degrees for this time of year. Replay yesterday and that is what today will be like and then we get into tomorrow an
Up early, mostly clear skies. The pesky low that brought us the gloomy weather moving away ever so slowly. There might be haze left in the places that had the heavy rain yesterday evening but generally quiet out there. Its 72 in crystal river. Lakeland, youre at 73 degrees. 74 in wimauma. 78 in sarasota. Heading once again to the second day of class today, giving the forecast an a because its exactly what we expect to get as, right . 78degrees in the first class. Lunchtime, partly cloudy, 87. The storms start after school. The final bell around 9 0 degrees. Coming up in weather and traffic on the 8s at 5 38, i have an eightday temperature trend for you. And meredith is going to help you get to work and school. Yeah, and you know, school buses already hitting the roads. Its amazing how early some of the pickup times are. But right now, no school yet in polk county. Fowler but as you can see, no delays. One accident reported now in largo. Its on ridge road just north of walling road. We
Thursday morning weather with meteorologist leigh spann. Good morning. And temperatures close to what we expect for august. Were at 75 in lutz. 76 in palm harbor. Kids making up, heading back to school in pinellas and hillsborough. 74 in river riverview. 73 in brooksville. Polk county, kids still sleeping in, 77 in sarasota. All of us will stay nice and dry through the morning hours. In fact, even early hours, the rain chance is very p. M. When i bring the rain chance up to 40 and the storms generally push closer and closer to the coast by the time we see the sunsetting this evening. Above average, but just slightly as far as temperatures are concerned. Im expecting 91, the average is 90. At 6 08, i have an hourbyhour look through thursday. Weve been off to a really quiet start. So hopefully we will keep it that way. Heres a live view of 257 at fowler. We are seeing more folks hitting the road but no one hitting the brakes. And busy in the plant city area. Both directions of i4 at park
With a look at the weather. Lets talk about whats happening locally. Finally the low is moving away. We are seeing once again generally clear skies this morning, maybe haze but its going to be nice to watch the morning sunshine again. 73 in zephyrhills. Right now, inverness, youre 73. Auburndale, 74. 77degrees in sarasota. And the kids, back to school again today and giving the forecast an a because it we expect for the first couple days of august. Partly cloudy, 90 when the final bell rings and thats when i bring the rain chance up. In weather and traffic on the 8s, i have the eightday temperature trend for you. And we have the morning commute. I am seeing a little bit of merkiness. I wouldnt even call it fog, on some of the Traffic Cameras. And the areas saw some overnight rains. Merky there. But 75 is accidentfree. Just Road Construction right now, hillsborough avenue closed at the veterans expressway for probably the next hour or so. Traffic is rerouted in that area. Bay area bridg