The skies and finding no rainfall almost all of october. Now today i expect to see a few more clouds. It traps the heat that you get during the day so we stay warmer. Right now 70 in tampa, 70 fish hawk, 66 in lakeland, 72 in sarasota and in st. Petersburg. That is warmer than yesterday. Only by a degree in tampa and st. Petersburg. Brandon, youre 4 degrees warmer than 6 00 a. M. Yesterday du thats even above the average of 82 despite the extra clouds. At 6 08 i take you hour by hour through your friday and then plan out your weekend for you. Leslee is going to help you plan out your commute. Looking forward to the weekend. Yeah. Things are business ness busier but good. When i show you surface roads and they are yellow its a good drive but thats a lot of surface traffic lights that you have to go area. St. Petersburg,a great dive on 275. In tampa, bearss avenue down to i4 just a 10 minute drive. We have a collision over in manatee county. Just a heads up. Its off to the side of the ro
People in tampa. Outrage over a snapchat video exclusive to abc news that was posted to social media minutes before the driver, pablo cortes iii, lost control of his car and crashed into a familys minivan. Team coverage. We are live at tampa general where the victims are recovering. We go to lindsay logue, with more. She joins reporter good morning. Truly shocking to see this video. Watch it again. It is taken of pablo cortes as he drives over the Howard Frankland bridge. The posted speed limit is 65 miles an hour but according to the snapchat app, he was clocked at 115 and the video coconut palm drive. I will show more of the video. It was taken by his girlfriend, sitting in the passenger seat and you can see the speed filter on the app, it is popular. It shows as cortes hits 82 miles an hour and then 115. Shortly afterwards, he lost control of the car and witnesses said they had no time to react. It was going so fast. It hopped behind me. I escaped. Its traumatic. Reporter the car sl
Up to speed. Back to you guys. Russell in pasco county, deputies say a man tried to lure a child into the woods by promising him free candy. Laura and with halloween a few days away, they need help putting him behind bars. Shayla reaves is live. What should parents know . Reporter good morning to you. Were talking about a stranger accused of approaching a child wearing a furry winter coach in the middle of fall, me through the woods, youll get some candy there. Thats not what the child intended to do. In fact, the child ran away, continued on to the bus stop and fortunately in this case, the person travelled in the opposite direction. Still, this is something the Pasco County Sheriffs Office wants parents to know about. If you see anything unusual or suspicious, certainly make sure you report that information. The area where this incident reportedly happened early thursday. This is mangrove drive here in Wesley Chapel and according to the Sheriffs Office, it happened around 7 45 in the
Letter after seeing kids making fun of her brother. Her thought provoking message to adults. And welcome to the 7 00 hour of good day. Im laura moody. Russell and im russell rhodes. We always start with the weather and its friday. We have to really start with the weather today. Dave we do. It is running about two or three degrees warmer today because of the cloud cover that weve had so far this morning. Really never went away from last night. 70 in tampa, 72 in sarasota. 72 in st. Lakeland, frost proof, sebring, 24hour temperature change. There it is, two to four degrees warmer and highs today, looks like they go right back up into the mid 80s. Vanessa . Vanessa and dave, thank you. Right now we have two new trouble spots that are working. Right now we want to take a live look along i4 and this is the area near macintosh. If youre heading in the westbound direction, we have towards Branch Forbes road. From what i can tell, we dont have any reported lane blockage but it is slower than u
And im ian reitz. Right now polk county deputies needou tracking down a criminal who escaped custody thursday. He was working in Fleet Maintenance at the time. 10news reporter emerald morrow is tracking the search from the newsroom. Emerald, its pretty scary to hear about an inmate escape. Any idea how often this happens . Yeah, although we might see an occasional escape, those types of breaches are often isolated. I looked up some numbers from the Florida Department of corrections and report from shows that from 2014 to 2015, there were 73 escapes from correctional institutions statewide. With most happening while an inmate was on work release. This manjoseph flanaginwas not on work release, but was working at the countys Fleet Maintenance building when he stole a white pickup truck similar to this one and took off. Its kind of like what happened just a month ago in bartow. In that case, an inmate used a makeshift weapon to kidnap a correc officer. That inmate then escaped in a truck