Overdowntown tampa. Good morning, im candace mccowan. Its now 9 00, and ed has the weekend forecast, getting you up and out the door. Beautiful start to our sunday morning. A lot of sunshine over the tampa bay area, and thats the view from lakeland auto mall. A breeze out there, and again good supply of sunshine for ugh bran zone and lutes. Milder in bartow this morning. 74, and looking at upper 60s to the north. Heres the skycast, and by the man afternoon mainly midand high level clouds from time to time. No rain coming our way, and thats good news if youre headed out to ray jay later for the big Oakland Tampa game there the skies will clear out, degrees, and it looks like the pattern will continue. Into the new work wee, we will look at that, and also the halloween forecast in a few minutes from now. Candace . Tampa bay police need your help in finding the driver who left one woman dead and injured a Police Officer in a hitandrun accident. The family is driver who killed their mother
Right now on news channel 8 at 6. Robbed at gunpoint at a church, the suspect investigators are looking for right now. Good evening everyone, im rod carter. And im melanie michael. We are following breaking news. A 3yearold little boy is in the hospital after he knocked it happened at a house on homewood lane in hudson. Heres what we know so far. The Pasco County Sheriffs Office telling us the tv fell off a dresser and on to the childs head. The boy was airlifted to the hospital and as soon as we get an update on this child, well bring it to you here online. Deputies in Sarasota County want to put the cuffs on a man who robbed another man in a Church Parking lot. This happened at the deputies want to catch this crook before he preys on anyone else. One would think you would be safe to walk to your car in a Church Parking lot. Thats what thomas miner thought. And there was a man standing next to my car, and he said he wanted some help and wanted some money, and i said no, that i dont ha
Taking a live look outside of downtown tampa and it is beautiful. Good morning, thank you so much for joining us. 901 right now. Allimportant look at that sunday forecast. Here is that in the warmup has begun. Were sitting at 82 degrees. There is not much to mix the air around this morning but we are starting off with plenty of sunshine. 79 clearwater. 81 saint pete. 77 inverness. Brooksville 82. Bartow very muggy with the dewpoints well into the 70s. Were certainly feeling it. Right now just a few scattered high clouds here and there, but the cloudiness will build up as we go through the day. As we get daytime heating, clouds will build, not too much in terms of rain before noon. I still think of it 30 to 40 play later this afternoon right around to to 3 00. 90 degrees for your afternoon high 2 to 3 00. 90 degrees for your average afternoon high. We will take you through the full day a day forecast in just a few moments 8 day forecast in just a few moments. An explosion ripped through
Brooksville, tampa right now at 81 degrees. I expect the afternoon high to be near the average. Average is 89. Were going to make it up to 90 by the afternoon. Then as far as rain chances they are also quite summer like. Dry through the morning, adding a 40 rain chance later in the afternoon and evening. Coming up at 4 08 im going to track the tropics because we have a few things im keeping an eye on. Leslee has a few things on the roads. We have a little problem on i75 and Martin Luther northbound. This is on state road 54 and u. S. 19, looking good through new port richey. A nice drive coming in and out of pasco county. A good drive from 54 to ehrlich and ehrlich down to 275 looks very good. Lets take a live look mere. Its here. Its the Howard Frankland bridge. Minutes to pass it. Thats a look at weather and traffic. Now back to paul and gayle. Thank you, leslee. New developments on the weekend bombings in new york city and new jersey. Police found a backpack full of what may be pipe
Right now on news channel 8 at 6 00. An unpleasant surprise for two Home Invasion suspects, how the victim made sure those crooks wont be bothering anyone any time soon. Good evening, everyone. Im rod carter. Thanks so much for joining us tonight. Well begin with the expected to drench Pinellas County this week. Residents arent taking any chances. People traveled to the Community Park in st. Petersburg with their shovels and filled sand backs for free. This started at noon and about an hour later 150 bags had already been given out. We spoke with a man that says its better to be safe than sorry. I think its important just for peace of mind. Even if the weather doesnt hit, i still got a couple bags. A bit and i think its important to allow communities to prepare themselves. Sandbags will be available again tomorrow in st. Petersburg from 9 a. M. Until 5 p. M. The sandbags are limited to 20 bags per person. Just how much rain are we talking about . Lets go straight to storm team 8 meteor