Flooding has cleared. Tim jones is behind the wheel of our live drive cam. He is heading northbound on the veterans. As you can see the cars coming out with the headlights heading southbound. No crashes and were hearing reports of possible debris in the roadway southbound adwaters. Watch out for that. Other than that you are looking at a smooth ride. The only other trouble spot we have is standing water reported at mcelroy avenue and come across the gandy bridge there. Watch out for that and avoid that area if you can. Else dids where, across the howard elsewhere, across the howard gandy, you are look going. In about an hour, families can get a first look at the damage after heavy rain forced families to evacuate their homes. Michael paluska has been watching conditions out there overnight and throughout of the out there right now . Reporter its excellent compared to what it was. Where im standing right now is waist deep. The flood waters sort of hung out in this guys front yard. [no a
Protection for bar patrons who leave their car on bar property after a night of ke drinking. The incenti is your car would be safe overnight. It could still be towed but it could require written authorization first. If this saving one life due to someone staying off the streets it would be a success at that point. Problem for a. O included in the changes, tow comes must now accept credit and debit cards and not just cash. Connor has been doing that for years. Allow people to retrieve personal item items like will cl phones and licenses from their towed cars without charge. Those new towing laws go into effect on october 1. Chris, back to you. All right, josh cascio live for us we are keeping an eye on the tropics and on a disturbance that could impact our state. Yeah, nothing has really changed. We are jus watching an area of low pressure overan juan puerto rico. The prospects of development in the next two days have actually move into a spot that is more conducive to development and w
Spice latte and were wearing our orange because it is the browns last preseason game of the year. Fans want to know what the forecast will be like tonight. This is in honor of the first day of meteorologist fall as well as the fact that Pumpkin Spice lattes are available at the forecast which is going to feel a lot more like fall. We are going to see a mix of sun and clouds, stray shower 2 possible today. It is overall dry. Even though we have been talking about how much it feels like all, it is going to feel like summer for your labor day forecast. Right now a dry start to the morning. You dont have to worry about rain heading out the door. Temperatures, 50 degrees in orwell. It is cool and some spots. Temperatures are in the 50s. A very chilly start but we will warm up nicely, pretty mild. Very comfortable. Temperatures are in the 70s this afternoon. It is not hot like we are used to seeing. Tonight we do have a pretty big closure happening, a wrap closure, 271 northbound. That will
Is better and better news for our friends up in the big bend, which is where it will take the brunt of the storm. Its not a huge deal as far as the wind and storm surge locally here. Well still have to deal with issues. 65 is the Hurricane Center forecasting to makelandful late tonight. It make land fall te matter as far as the rain is concerned. They are under a hurricane warning. Still a watch for us. Were going to have strong winds, 40, 45 Miles Per Hour through today. That along with the push from the water from the storm will result in coastal flooding especially at the time of high tide. Now that the storm is close enough to us, we get the spin into some of the thunderstorms that will develop today. They will be rotating. They have been doing that all morning. It is as far as the heavy rainfall. These particular cells all have the potential to become tornadic. We have to watch that throughout the day. As the water gets pushed in, one or 2 foot storm stirchs and we will have water
Thank you for joining us on this wednesday, february 17th. lets get over to dave for a check on our weather 3 3 3 3 3 3 right now, three different agencies are investigating a violent road rage incident that took place in 2 counties. The shooting took place near the desoto bridge on us41 in bradenton. The two victims who were shot at then pulled over. And called the police at a nearby wawa on south tamiami trail. 3 thats where we find fox 13s shayla reaves. Who has the details. Shayla the suspsct was arrested at a different location right . 3 3 3 right now youre looking at scream that unfolded at a wawa gas station station this morning when the victims reportedly pulled over and called police after someone fired shots at their vehicle. Now according to Palmetto Police this start around 6 45 in the morning u. S. 41 soym and at the foot of de soto bridge where were toll the suspect shot at that vehicle with two people inside strike striking that car one time. Once the be out on the looko