lower 90s today. rain chances only 20 percent. so i think obviously that means just about everybody makes it back into the lower 90s. higher rain chances vanessa, later this week. which i ll talk about in a few minutes. all right. we ll see you then. 8:0 one. just joining us biggest blockage we re seeing coming to venice area. there s crash reported along river road. closing both directions. just north of center road alternates jackson and jack oh rwan we reported this last report a fatality. loop road williams road northbound lane blocked with expectations about 4 hour or so for the closure. want to check in on our majors to see how congestion is faring some trouble spots 275 howard frankland bridge 13 minutes northbound 21 minutes westbound coming to interchange from 75. and then 16, between bruce b. downs and i-4 along 75. americans relies on snap benefits. that breaks down to about 46.5 million americans, that s more than 38.5 million americans considered to be living in
hurricane center as a strong tropical storm or minimal hurricane late tomorrow night or early on friday. what does it mean for us? there are still watches and warnings out. these get pulled by tomorrow morning. power outages a possibility because there will be a few spin-up tornadoes. how are we shapin up? heavy rains and coastal flooding. high tide about. winds up to 40 miles per hour. nowhere near hurricane force across our area. that would be tomorrow afternoon as well. lastly, there is a slight tornado threat. we will talk more about that and extend the forecast in a couple of minutes. we will see you shortly, denis. an intersection shut down after a transformer caught on fire. some businesses in the area are without power. the pinellas county sheriff s office tweeted this picture in the past hour from the there. the fire is out. duke energy is on the scene fixing the pole. it will take four to five hours to fix. if you can avoid the area, please do so. facebook lat
figment of his imagination, what is amazing here apparently nobody checke his credentials. trying to find out why and if any of the convictions that resulted from cases where kitowski was involved if they will be granted new trials, the defendants. there are a lot of things coming out of this, that could affect a lot of cases. keep us updated. thank you. detectives say a h murdered a 95-year-old man. deputies arrested the 37 lace hef lin in the parking lot of a bank they found her with a wallet that did not belong to her and cocaine and drug paraphernalia. she was a housekeeper for the 95-year-old who was murdered in his home. he was stabbed. evidence ties her to the crime. tampa s move fit cancer and the national cancer institute renewed the designation as a comprehensive cancer center. that s the highest wreck youron it can get and a grant of $17 million. cancer impacts all our families. nobody is immune from it. it is not partisan, rich versus poor. it affects everyo
the catch, you have to put it together yourself with legos. it s a problem for me. that was it for pretty much all of my childhood. my dad and i built a city of legos. some of those, the instruction manuals are worse than ikea manuals. [ laughter ] we are going to look at it coming up. well, glad you are with she is lindsay logue. before we get to the news of the day, we have the weather of the day. does that lego kit come with the allen wrench? you can do anything with an allen wrench. [ laughter ] that s all you need. that s all you need. we need sunshine for today and however, there s a storm offshore about 10 miles offshore of the island. we will fire up the camera and look out and see if we can see this. not making it on shore, these are stay inning the gulf of mexico. you can see there s a surrounding area of moisture and rain around the peninsula as we start off on this sunday. 78degrees right now in tampa. st. petersburg with 79. load of sunshine. the wind
cuba to the north of the storm itself. the stronger part of the storm is to the east of the eye and the eye is very tight which indicates high-intensity. moving north at 7 miles per hour and the hurricane warning s are the red color throughout haiti dominican republic and cuba. the forecast position as at 5:00, this is the difference that west including portions of the bay area in the cone of uncertainty. we have to watch for that over the long haul and the nature of these storms is difficult to forecast. upper level winds change every day and you need to monitor the storm until it s gone from the area. we will check on the forecast coming up so we will tonight red tide concerns and multiple tampa bay counties including pinellas. is the recent sewage spill making things worse? and environmental group believes sewage is impacting the red tide outbreak and water keepers may sue the city of st. petersburg because of it. jeff patterson joins us live in tampa and help us connect
on busy u.s. 19 at speeds of 85 miles an hour, charles long did what he thought was the right thing, following a stolen car with a toddler in the back seat. your body kind of goes into a fight or flight mode and you have no control over that and my body said fight. do the right thing. i m a christian. reporter: as he tried to get the plate number so he could call 911 long now found himself smack dab in the middle of at least a dozen cop cars. moments later his part of the chase would end as he crashed into a cruiser. they grabbed me and jerked me out of the car, threw me in the back of a police car. reporter: the car he was chased wound up wrapped around a sign and the reason why long wanted to help out so badly, that toddler in the back, turns out the mom lied and the kid was safe at daycare the whole time. and i will never do this again ever in my life. i love my kids and i m going to go get my kids. reporter: cops say as telling as it might be, don t try to do
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iq watching thank you for watching. it looks like it is going to be a perfect saturday. the weather is looking good for all of those events happening outside today. and more! and more. it is going to be a really wonderful day. that s the way we like it! sure do. starting off nice and calm as a take a look at our riverview tower cam. it s a can clear down into south tampa and into harbor island. and as we check out the radar, both sides of the states, we have our radar working because there is so much going on in daytona this week with the big race going on and all sorts of qualifying today looks good for that. looks good around here starting out average st. petersburg 61. flight went up 3 to 6 miles an hour. we do have a little bit of fog. it is mostly inland. three balls on arcadia 3 miles in arcadia. the fog will mix out of the atmosphere and burn off by 9:30 or 10 o clock and we will be reaching highs into the 70s once again today. as a matter of fact, it s
others are in the hospital. jake peterson joins us live from the hookah bar to tell us about what led to the violence. jay. reporter: good evening to you. this lounge would be opening right now for a busy saturday night. the open sign is off. managers telling us they may open later tonight. right now they are closed. investigators spending most o. day here collecting of the day here collecting evidence. as the lounge was closing, a confrontation broke out. the suspect started shooting at the crowd. four people hit by bullets, a hispanic male dialed. two males in their 20s, and a woman in her 30s were hit and taken to the hospital. investigators telling us they are looking for a male shooter and that s all they re willing to say at this point. we re currently in the process of processing the crime scene as you can see behind us. we have conducted interviews interviewing the victims as their medical condition allows us. reporter: and as you can imagine, it was basically
i will take credit for this one. gorgeous blue skies. plenty of sunshine and very light winds today which means we have a wonderful weekend ahead. a few clouds out there right now. we have seen some of fog and hayes at some of our inland areas but that is burning off. look at these temperatures. 63 in tampa. 61 from brooksville over to kathleen. 62 and largo. 63 and 64 in the inland and southern neighborhoods. some of that reduced visibility is starting to burn off. a little bit of hazing down towards bartow. everyone else will be in the 10 to 12 mile an hour visibility range. we will be in the mid-70s by later today. loads of sunshine for saturday and sunday. how warm will it get tomorrow? we will look in-depth with your weather forecast at about 12 at town & country, a man is dead from a suspected shooter. this happened at the captiva club apartments off of memorial highway. this is near kelly road. the person killed does not live in the community. deputies interviewed the