Bridge drive times. Your news, your community, and we are putting the news back in the morning. This is 10news this morning at 6. Good morning. I am jenny dean in for allison. I am ian reitz. Happy friday. You can see we are live this morning at Lakeland High school. Lots of kids got up bright and early this morning. And fighting goes on. The argument between top aides for president elect donald trump and hillary clinton. Soon kids may no longer be allowed to ride the bus to school. Sarah hollenbeck is live in thonotosassa. The district could soon force the kids to walk . Reporter not just a couple kids. We are talking about 7,000 kids in this case. So your kids have been taking the bus. You are so used to that. Now all of a sudden you are thinking, you know what . There is no sidewalks in my area or i live on a dangerous to try to get your child to walk to school. A lot of you on facebook arent happy about that situation. The district is looking as this as a moneysaving venture. They can avenue 8 to 10 million by busing those 7,000 kids that live within two miles of the school. Here is why its such a Sticking Point for the district. The state doesnt reimburse the district for the expense because they think within two miles should be totally up to parents. But cutting those extr could save 8 to 10 million bucks, and that sounds pretty good to the district. This is money that could go right back into the classroom. I think its insane it hasnt been done. That is a tremendous amount of money. That is very far, and i would actually want my parents to take me then because i dont want to get kidnapped. Reporter they are hoping that parents will weigh in on this story. Speaking up on facebook as well about working parents. Just think about that. These middle schools, they actually start at 9 00 in the morning. If you are a parent and you have to be at work at 8 00 and you have to have a long commute to work, it will make it very tough for them. Lots of changes coming to schools in this area if they vote for this on tuesday. A lot of people have been sharing concerns about this story on our facebook page. The search continues for a missing police say that jhova wells ran away from home again last night. He had been missing earlier in the day and was found. If you have seen him, call the tampa police department. We are getting a look at the extent of the damage following those wildfires in east tennessee. Youre taking a look at some of that devastation. Crews are still searching near gatlinburg looking for folks who may have been trapped in of gatlinburg and pigeon forge. President elect donald trump has kicked off his thank you tour across parts of the nation. It comes the same day he toured a heating and airconditioning manufacturer in indiana where he negotiated a deal to save hundreds of jobs from going to mexico. Tensions from the bitter 2016 president ial election boiled over during a Panel Discussion at harvar aides from both camps went head to head. I would rather lose than win the way you guys did. Are you going to look me in the face and tell me that . Really . Florida attorney general pam bondi is heading to trump tower today to meet with the president elect. According to our News Partners the tampa bay times, there is a lot of speculation she could be in the running for a job in trumps administration. When we find out more we will website wtsp. Com. New this morning Vacation Rentals are becoming a problem in several beach neighborhoods across Pinellas County. Heres the reason. People are renting out the homes and often throwing rowdy parties. Clearwater and hundreds of other communities cant do anything about it because in 2011 the state took away citys rights to make decisions about Vacation Rentals. Th potty and put it in the front yard. This is waterfront property in a lovely, quiet neighborhood. Its not acceptable. Its a tragedy. I am sensitive to the people that have to, for monetary reasons, rent out some of their homes. The cost of everything is going up. For them to keep this investment for themselves, they have to look at different legislative leaders are going to meet to see if they can overturn the state law and give the cities the chance to make rules. Apple is taking to the skies to make their maps more accurate. Bloomberg reports the drones will make changes more quickly than on the ground cameras. If you own an Android Phone you could infected with malware. There is a malware named gooligan on phones. It can access data from gmail, google photos. Scary moments for a pregnant woman in tampa. What happened during a road rage incident with a gang member. The whole thing is caught on camera. Duke energy florida. This is Lakeland High school. They got a lot to be proud about we will be showing you. So stay with us all this morning to see what makes this school so different from many of the others in the bay area. We will be right back. We are teaming up with the lightning to put you in the stands for a hockey game. Join us tonight at 11. Watch for the secret word to win two lower level two tickets to the lightningpittsburgh penguins hock december 10. 6 07 on your friday. The Sunshine Skyway bridge is open and ready for business. Remember yesterday it closed for fog in the afternoon. Its clear at the top, and your drive time it 17 minutes. Lets go live to sky10 across the Howard Frankland bridge. We havent picked up on 275 northbound. It is taking you six minutes to cross. A nice cool day on tap. Temperatures in the 70s and overnight in the 50s in the bay area. Coast. Then we start our warmup for the weekend. We are back near 80 degrees. Holding off on the rain chances. I am tracking significant shower and thunderstorm chances early next week. I will break down the timing coming up in a few minutes. First here is a check of today, technology is changing. Homes are changing. Y. At duke energy, were changing too, giving you new ways to control your power use and stay in the know. For smarter Energy Choices every day. 6 11 on in friday morning. This is the time of the week we get to feature a great school in the tampa bay area. Part of our 10news school of the week powered by Duke Energy Florida. We are live at Lakeland High school. Take a look at cheerleaders. They have a lot of pep this morning for this early in the morning, dont they . They probably get up at 4 00 in the morning to be live on the show. Lakeland is the oldst Public High School in the city. When you walk into the front pictures from 1915. The students consistently have some of the highest test scores in the district. Students and Administration Credit the teacher carol pierce with their successes. I think its because she prepares us. Reporter sheryl pierce has been a teacher in polk county for 32 years, and for 16 of the years she has been at Lakeland High school. She serves as the science chair and also teaches the honors and a. P. Chemistry classes. Prep for her students is than lecturing, teaching how to solve problems or practicing test strategies. We get to do labs. Its interactive. We spend a lot of time in lab because they actually see the concept. We do a lot of simulation on computer models. I think with the internet and cell phones, i think they are very visual. Thats why we really try to consistently move to simulation sos they can actually see molecule interactions. They can visualize the shape. Molecules, see whats going on think they are much more visual based than that. Reporter she is committed to her students success outside of class as well. She produces Video Tutorials for her website. Even holds prep classes after school and on saturdays. She is a really good teacher. Yeah. I am happy that i have her. All right. You heard from the teacher, technology is key here. This is an important teaching tool in chemistry. She was one of the teachers for the students. One of the many ways they are making this more interactive. They also have the Harrison School for the arts. You have to audition to get in. They have people from colleges that come and scout these kids out for their success. Its so cool. I talked with students yesterday. They had great questions. I talked with a theater class and a Television Production class. They were so interested in what we do here. They asked, how do we wake up so early and how are we so, i said coffee. Absolutely. Lets get out to 10news tammie fields. She is live at Lakeland High school. Good morning. Reporter good morning. You know, i heard you all talking about miss pierce. So incredible she has been teaching at this school for the past 16 years. She is an alum as well, which is pretty incredible. The principal who you are going to have an opportunity to hear from, too, actually graduated from this high school. So you can see th standing tradition of people that come through this school, go out in the community, do great things, and then come back to teach here. So we have a lot more about this School Coming up. Its actually one of the important reasons, its why they were nominated as our 10news school of the week powered by Duke Energy Florida. Lakeland senior high school. Back to you. Always cool when you hear of teachers who went to the school and are able to come back and work there. 10news school of the week powered by Duke Energy Florida drop us a line. 10schools wtsp. Com is the place to send your emails. Send a note about a great teacher, principal, program that you think we need to know about. We would love to feature your school. Traffic is actually looking great in lakeland. There are no accidents if you are about to head out the door. We have a crash in Manatee County in bradenton along u. S. 301. I found out the left turn lane is blocked from this in southbound direction at state road 70, and it is adding a little bit of a delay there because we are getting into morning rush hour. Also along 75 in southern Sarasota County near the north port area there is a crash in the southbound lanes of 57 at toledo blade boulevard. This is not causing issues for you. Its pulled over into the shoulder. In Hillsborough County we havent picked up just yet. No yellow or reds. Its a great time to leave because it is 6 15. Lets go live to sky10 along i 4. This is right at kathleen road in lakeland, and as i said, things are looking great along the i4 corridor. In the westbound direction your drive is 15 minutes from polk parkway to 75 in tampa. We are not seeing any delays through the plant city area just yet. In Pinellas County your slowest spot is roosevelt boulevard near ulmerton road. Thats just a bad area thats always busy during rush hour. You are at 17 miles pe if you have any questions for me as you are heading out the door, a detour, if there is any construction or if there is an accident, email me and i will get that information for you. My email is roadwarrior wtsp. Com. Well, we are nice and quiet as we kickstart your friday. It is finally almost the weekend. We are off to a great start on stormtracker 10. Absolutely nothing going on. Just what we like to see for that morning commute. Our temperatures have cooled yesterday. We had yesterdays threat some through. We are feeling the effect of that. 60 degrees in tampa. Some cool spots out there. Crystal river, good morning, and youre at 49 degrees. Have an extra layer or two heading out the door today. We are heading for 70s later this afternoon. Downtown st. Petersburg off to a great quiet start this morning. A little bit of a breeze there. Overall, a nice quiet trend with high clouds and thats going to be about it for today. So even with the northeast wind we got a lot of really going to help to warm things up a bit during the day today. By your lunch hour around 70 degrees and we will top out around 76 coming up this afternoon. Then overnight thats when our temperatures really start dropping. So you think its chilly this morning, take a few degrees off. Thats what you can expect heading out the door tomorrow with readings in the 50s for much of the bay area. 40s for the nature coast and even inland spots if youre in a more rural area. I think you could see 49, 50 too. Our rain chances, they start going up as we head into early next week. So by monday evening after 9 p. M. There is at least a chance we will get a few stray showers in here with the bulk of our activity actually coming through with our frontal boundary as early as tuesday morning. So you will want those umbrellas handy for the morning commute, especially on tuesday, but you wont need them this weekend. We are going to be dry. We will get lots of sunshine in the forecast, and we will top out at 80 and 83 degrees coming up for the wed. Again during the daytime monday. Its not going to be an issue. We backed up the timing where tuesday is really going to be the day that we are going to get some showers, and maybe even a few rumbles of thunder out of this. Not expecting severe storms. Not expecting widespread thunderstorms, but there is enough instability to hear a rumble of thunder or two. If that wakes you up early tuesday morning, just giving you a heads up. Wednesday we dry back out and looking ahead to thursday those frontal boundary. This isnt on our sevenday forecast, but i want to mention it looks like next weekend we are going to see a blast of some pretty chilly air coming in, and that could mean highs maybe only getting in the 60s as we look ahead. This will be december 9th, 10th, in that area. So enjoy the warmer weather this saturday and sunday. Get 10weather updates on the road. Duv on 105. 5 fm, on sarasota talkradio 1. 9 92. 5. So one of the most recognizable houses in america is now off the market. Yeah. So coming up why neighbors of the home of the tanners arent too happy about the sale. And you better sit on you better get this on santas list. Actually, we are going to talk about this picture right here. Sit on santas lap before the cool kids do. Hipster st. Nick is hangs out. Follow us on the go. Wtsp is the place to be on your ipad, cell phone, or laptop. And lets take a live look at downtown tampa. Looking nice. The big Tree Lighting ceremony is tonight in downtown tampa. They are getting prepared for that. So lots and lots of events going on all weekend long. Carrabbas new meatball magnifico. Our gigantic meatball topped with parmesan cream sauce and stuffed with delicious melted mozzarella. Playoff implications on the line sunday on 10news. Its the falcons hosting the chiefs at 1 00. I am Justin Granit. Heres what you need to know. Leapt is in first. Atlanta is in first. Thanks in part to rookie tyree hill. Last week hall of Famer Darrell Sayers a touchdown. The falcons matt ryan is in the mvp conversation. 26 touchdowns. Just six interceptions. Kc is known for defense, but defending the pass has been a struggle this season. Mattie ice could put up big numbers. I am Justin Granit and thats your toyota sunday chiefsfalcons right here on 10news. When it comes to taking pictures here in florida, there are five places to get the most posts on instagram. Usa today came up with a list. Number five is the Wizarding World of harry potter, epcot, south beach, and the number one most instagramed place in florida disneys magic kingdom. Yeah. So many great spots. They are on the list somewhere. Right. Just not at the top. They cant compete with disney maybe, but they are up there. Yeah. Absolutely. So we told you about the nativity scene. St. Nick has gone hipster. This santa is in portland, oregon, and he is rocking tattoos and piercing. The hipster staple, the man bun. This is the second the trendy santa. He first popped up last year. How do you feel about that . He already has the hipster thing with the beard. He was halfway there. Yeah. It seems like a logical i would take the santa over the nativity scene any day. The hipster nativity scene. Yeah. [ laughter ]. Certainly one of those that has spun up a lot of conversations. Selfies. Yeah. We are picking up for rush our interstates are getting busy. I have no issues for you this morning. We have got no rain. We have got no fog out there. We are perfect weatherwise. I am tracking rain that will impact your morning commute next week. When you need to plan on extra time coming up. The 12 days of christmas. So many birds. We are going to talk about what you get if you buy this. A farm load of birds. And the price as well because its interesting when you look at the numbers. And it will cost a live look now at lakeland today, technology is changing. Homes are changing. Rgy. At duke energy, were changing too, giving you new ways to control your power use and stay in the know. For smarter Energy Choices every day. Good morning. Friday, december 2nd. I am meteorologist ashley batey. We are off to a great start to your day. Look at that sunrise coming up over tampa. Not a cloud in commute. A little bit cool. We have dropped to 48 now in crystal river. Tampa we are at 60. Probably see a low of 59 before that sun comes up and starts warming up, although slowly. We have competitive northeast wind out there, which means normally up to 66 by your 10 00 hour. We are looking ahead to 70s today. 80s may return this return. Our next frontal boundary looks a little bit stronger. Good morning. Here are your hot spots at 6 30 on your friday. I am road warrior hilary zalla. In pasco county in the san antonio area there is a crash along southbound 75 on the entrance ramp from state road 52. Lets go live to sky10 and check out Pinellas County along gandy boulevard and 4th street. You can see here that gandy is not too busy just yet, but we are definitely picking up. We are also heading to an accident along park boulevard. I will have a live look there in less than ten glad you are with us. It is friday, december 2. I am ian reitz. Jenny dean. Its devastating. We are heartbroken. Crews continue to search for people missing after the devastating fires in tennesse