Pgood morning. Preporter good morning to you. Pthere are still some lanes pclosed here on i275 northbound pand traffic is continuing to pbuild. Pwe can tell you that this all pstarted just before 2 30 in the pmorning when the florida highway atrol reportedly received a pcall to the mile marker 36 area. Pwithin 20 minutes, troopers parrived on the scene and we pconfirmed that this was, in pfact, a fatality. Pat this point, theres no pinformation about the person who pwas killed, no information rovided to us officially by pflorida Highway Patrol but what pwe can tell you is that minutes pbefore this call came in, we did phave a worker at fox 13 who assed by the Howard Frankland pand described seeing someone, a ptow truck driver, in the area pwhere this crash occurred ploading a vehicle onto the bed pof a truck. Pnow, several minutes later, a psecond coworker who passed by psomeone on the ground in some ptype of reflective vest and its punclear if the person they saw ptruck. Pso thats jus
Pthis morning. Plook at the brookdale, bayshore pcameras. Psun will be up in a few minutes pand a pretty start. Pwere looking at the cloud cover pwith the southeast winds thats pdone two things. Pone, kept us up near the normal phighs for today and two, kept pthe fog out so i guess its retty good. Poverall well go to the upper p70s, around 80 degrees. Psun is coming up, mostly cloudy pskies over the beach where its p71 degrees and again, upper 70s pare expected. Pbig line of rain comes through ptomorrow. Pwell talk about the timing of pthat in just a little bit. Pvanessa . Pvanessa see you then. Pmeantime, we have a couple of pcrashes working around the area. Pwe want to start off with the platest one thats blocking some planes off and also causing pdelays eastbound on hillsborough pavenue. Pthis is a crash reported at pmemorial highway. Preally just west of that pintersection with memorial and pleft lane is blocked. Pwere already seeing delays pheading eastbound for five pminutes or s
Pyou for waking up with us on pthis wednesday morning pfebruary 3rdrd. Pwe will get over do the way we palways do a pretty pretty start pto the day. Pweve got temperatures in the plower 70s outside. P sorry. Pyeah. Psorry, to cut you off, dave. Pweve a Traffic Alert actually phillsborough avenue is going to pbe shut down right now a plongboat boulevard. Pthis is not related to a crash pbut were actually hearing pmedical emergency and medical pchopper has to land. Pthey have no where else except ptraveling lanes of hillsborough pyoure going to want to avoid pthat area. Pcan be pretty backed up anyways pif you can take waters avenue a plot quicker for you guys. Pwell have updates on this pthrough the morning. Pin meantime we do have an update pfor folks who are following the pfatal crash out of bradenton. Pif we have that video we can pshow it to you. Pif not, well get over to dave. P all right. Pheres that video for you. Planes are actually reopened now. Pthis is following a crash pinvo