Gayle guyardo. Im gene ramirez. The weather now. Humidity sky high, fog and rain on max defender 8, not on land but a thin line of showers in the gulf. That is in association with a cold front that will bring a chance of rain today. Look at the fog there though. That is the view from lakeland auto mall. Portions of the area dealing with reduced visibility, its soupy. Upper 60s and lo the day. Theres the fog, visibility zero now in lakeland. Mostly cloudy and 79 today. The rain chances fairly slim. Staying at 20 through today. You may have to turn on the windshield wipers today. Whoo, good to see you here. Weve got a decent drive in traffic. A couple of things. Quick look at travel times here. Wesley chapel up to speed and 2p 75 into downtown tampa looks 275. This is i75 by i4, just a few minutes ago i think they are take it away now, we had the right lane blocked. I see one of the trucks leaving you can see it leaving the camera to the far left there. They have just cleared the constru
The fire. This is a building that has been in the news lately. In march the vinick Family Foundation announced they were donating 2. 5 million to renovate this rec center. The largest individual gift in the 90year history of the boys and girls club in tampa bay. And it were set to be renamed the jeff and penny vinick family winston park boys and girls club. This will be a blow to the people in the area that depend on rec centers like this for after school care. It was set to community. I grew up here. Everybody here grew up here and just it just meant a lot to see something happening in the neighborhood for the kids. Reporter this building was closed while it was under construction but set to reopen sometime over the next few months. The fire marshal is currently on scene trying to figure out what caused this fire. If there is any good news no one was inside of the building when this fire did break out huge fire. Were told that close to 35 firefighters came on scene, again two ladder t
To hear from loved ones. If you need to report a missing person from gatlinburg, pigeon forge, call 1800tbifind, that will get Law Enforcement it tennessee on the case. People are praising dolly parton for her part in helping the victims of the fires. The Dollywood Foundation will donate 1,000 a month to each of the families who lost their homes in the fires for six months. I know time for my people, and this assistance will help. Beginning friday you can join our efforts to recover from these deadly fires by visiting the dollywoodfoundation. Org. The Dollywood Foundation is expecting those donations to contribute to the fund. You can find that link on our wtsp app and wtsp. Com. A huge effort to turn around a tampa neighborhood went up in flames. Winston Park Rec Center . The fire was early this morning, but tonight investigators still do not know the answer to that question, what caused it. Despite dozens of firefighters working to stop this, look at the flames right there, the fire
Today as well. Rain chance only 20 for this afternoon mainly throughout the interyear with the afternoon sea breezes developing. Here in tampa, we are warming up 77 degrees. St. Petersburg at 80. Clearwater, 77. Down in seat, 77. Mid to lower 70s. Partly cloudy skies as we go through the afternoon. Humidity still there, so still feels pretty warm outside and daytime highs are heading up into the upper 80s, low 90s here in tampa we are looking at 90 start to cool down by 5 oclock back down to 89 degrees. We start to bring that rain chance back a little bit more as we head into sunday. We will talk more about that coming up in a little bit. Back to you. And we start with that developing story out of Washington State. There has been a shooting at a mall in burlington, washington. And here is what we know so far. During an overnight press conference, Washington State patrol said gunfire fire broke out around 7 00 last night happening at the cascade mall in skagit county. Inside a macys. Au
Right now. Jim she is dodging kellie cowan out there. Alcides sure of it. Jim greatlooking weather. Warmer temperatures. A warm afternoon. Keep the rain chances low for today as well and beau beautifullooking view along bayshore boulevard. You can tell how light the winds are because you look at the water almost like glass out there. We are seeing very light wave action and will continue to see fairly dry conditions as we go through the afternoon. We keep that rain chance at 20 for today. Right degrees. Warming up along the coastline. Clearwater 81. In sarasota, 82. Heading for the 90s once genitor today that we do bring the rain chances back in the next few days. We will talk about that in a little bit. A developing story out west. Authorities in Washington State continue to search for a gunman wanted in a deadly mall shooting. The shooter walked into the hunting rifle and started shooting. Four men were killed. A man was airlifted to the hospital as well, and he was also announced de