Might even do a little dancing. We have a lot of fun stuff happening. The most accurate forecast will determine how you spend your saturday, mr. Bill. I would recommend outside. It should be a great day outside although were starting to see a couple of showers out there right now. Nothing from atop the beautiful highgate tower in downtown tampa looking east. We see clear skies and just to be high clouds just off to the west, titan doppler radar, see a couple of showers just offshore from clearwater beach. These will stay mostly in the gulf and we could see them migrate onshore later on. But for right now, offshore showers but with a westerly wind. These could be pushing in just over the next hour or so. We will take a look at those temperatures right now and on average, about 7980 degrees. 85 at 10 oclock. We will be up to about 92 by later on. Seem to showers just going to push from the rest and they will push those showers inland. I will give you an idea of where those rains are goin
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 95yearold 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 95yearold who was murdered in his home. He was stabbed. Evidence ties her to the crime. Tampas move fit cancer and the National Cancer institute renewed the designation as a comprehensive cancer center. Thats 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 everyone. We have the center
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 spinup 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 Sheriffs 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 late this afternoon
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 ill talk about in a few minutes. All right. Well see you then. 8 0 one. Just joining us biggest blockage were seeing coming to venice area. Theres 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 i4 along 75. Americans relies on snap benefits. That breaks down to about 46. 5 million americans, thats more than 38. 5 million americans considered to be living in poverty. Newly
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 highintensity. Moving north at 7 Miles Per Hour and the hurricane warnings 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 its 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 the dots. Wha