Thunderstorms. Today were going to keep them further south from sarasota south the better rain chance. Overall 20 . That means with a lower rain chans, the heat goes back up to partly cloudy and hot today and vanessa, im looking at 92 for a High Temperature, okay . Vanessa thanks. And on the roadways here, were not dealing with any notable crashes but we do have a couple of road projects that will be causing blockages for folks. Starting off with this which we learned about yesterday afternoon. Citrus county, u. S. 19 southbound lanes completely blocked due to hole in the roadway. This is near the Crystal River mall. Work around here is northwest sixth avenue and this picture of the hole coming from Citrus County sheriffs office. You can see its quite large. State road 72 remains closed this morning, also due to a hole in the roadway. We have emergency road work six days away from the reopening but meantime, 72 is closed from east of myakka park to west of sidell are blocked at 16th av
Reporter hey jen. This is heartbreaking news because so many students, thousands of them will have to start over including a disabled veteran we spent time with today. He had tears in his eyes but hope in his heart when he came here to hcc for help. Ronnie wishi is looking for answers but first, he has a few questions for itt tech. How could you . How dare you . Lets make right done wrong. Reporter ronnie was proud to serve his country. Now he is trying to survive his education. Just. Its busted dreams. I left a good job to go back to school to higher myself. It is all about higher education, you know, trying to do better. I teach my kids that. Reporter as a disabled veteran, this tampa bay native and father of seven was crushed to hear most likely his credits transfer, Hillsborough Community college is trying to help students like ronnie come up with options. Even if some of them dont become an hcc student, at least we can provide them options and explain what they may be in for. Repo
Someone shot the victim in the parking lot of a Family Dollar store. Reporter it was just before 10 00 sunday night when 21year old jeff morrow went with his friend to sell an item he posted online. A person interested in buying it agreed to neat at the Family Dollar. The suspect is going through his pockets like he is looking for money. And, he reaches in and he grabs the item and takes off running around the car. Reporter morrow jumped out and chasedaf the shotgun. That is when things took a deadly turn. At that point in time, our suspect pulls his gun and shooting and kills jeffrey and continues to flee. Reporter detectives won the owner of this gas station. The suspect ran through the parking lot and they needed his surveillance video. He hopes it will help identify the man. It is awful. Reporter Sheriff Grady Judd vowed to find his killer. Heres a clue for you mr. Melissa marino, newschannel8. Tonight, 178 animals rescued from deplorable conditions at a no kill Animal Rescue in po
Lets go to the weather with leigh. Reporter our afternoon high is above the average of 90. I expect 92, but this is important. The average today is 90 degrees, and that is the last of the 90degree average high days we have during the summer, and we spent 98 days june 4th to september 9th with the average high of 90. This year during that time, we are pretty much on par, and it willad the average high for september, 87, and its a gradual cooling, but a cooling nonetheless. Leslee will get you through the community this morning. Its a good one. We are starting off nicely. The interstates looking good. I4 looking good. Lakeland and pasco, looking very, very good, and now lets look at travel times through parkway, and this is only going to take 6 minutes to cross, and we are at 275 in fowler, back to gene and gayle. Thank you. A Manatee County woman is headed to court accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill her exhusband. Detectives say rachel leahy put a down payment on the contract t
Good monday afternoon, everyone, im josh benson. Im stacie schaible. This is first at four. Thanks for joining us. We have a developing story about a gun going off in a crowded park. It is a frightening situation for dozens of people in south tampa a 6yearold found the gun in the mothers diaper bag, took it out and fired a shot. It happened while the park was packed with people yesterday. It is a miracle no one was struck by that bullet becky rhiners friend was in the park when the shot rang out. They were very scared. You dont know where that shot was going to go. It could go into you or me or any other child here. Especially in a crowded park. And it was a sunny afternoon, very loaded with kids and parents. Tampa Police Arrested Ricardo Mendez for storing the gun in tampering for trying to throw the gun in the bay when he found out the police were on the way. A clerk turned the tables on two armed men when they pointed guns at them inside a store. He pulled his own gun killing one of