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WTVT Good Day Tampa Bay 6AM September 24, 2016

Throughout most of today across Central Florida and more activity to the south. A little more moisture across the state. Still fairly humid. We are not drying things out at the surface. All mid and upper levels of the atmosphere so we are not seeing as many of those showers around and seeing plenty of sun. So yesterday, we are all the way up to 93 degrees. Set a record high at 93 yesterday. Right now we are at 78. Dew points at 73. Humidity currently at 84 currently we have calm wind and we will continue to see very light winds as we go throughout day. Plenty of sun whether i allow these temperatures to warm up once again. 73 right now over this brandon. St. Petersburg to 80. Bradenton and sarasota at 78 degrees. As we go throughout afternoon, these temperatures warming up very quickly once again. An isolated chance of shower into the Late Afternoon hours. Slightly better chance of storms around for tomorrow. Football forecast coming up. Just a little. Start with a developing story out of washington state. A shooting at a mall in burlington, washington. During an overnight press conference, gunfire fire broke out around 7 00 that happened at the cascade mall in skagit county. Four people shot dead inside a macys. One man was also shot. He is now in critical cond condition. Authorities say a lone gunman armed with a rifle is and he is still on the run this morning last seen walking away from that mall. A motive for that shooting is again unknown. Caution people to stay indoors, stay secure. If you see something, say something. Be locked down in your houses until we get this guy caught. Anchor a picture of the law enforcement. We will have more as it comes in. The fourth night in a row, protesters take to the street in North Carolina furious over death of keith lamont scott. He was shot by a Police Officer and protesters chanting are he lease the at that point referring to Police Dash Cam and body camera footage that caught the shooting. Scotts family have seen the video and are demanding that Police Release it to the public as well; however, investigators are refusing. This atlanta, ga ga, naacp protesters marched through the streets of downtown. They demanded justice over Police Shooting death of of african americans. About 450 Peaceful Protesters went through Downton Atlanta before sitting outside Atlanta Police Department Headquarters until about midnight. Multiple protests are also planned throughout the city later today. Hillsborough county and donald trump are scrapping plans to visit charlotte in the wake of those protests. Charlotte mayor asking both candidates to stay away so city safe. And new this morning, locally, the florida Highway Patrol on the scene of a deadly crash in sarasota county. This involving a semi fuel tanker that happened just before 11 00 last night. I75 closed down in both directions between exit 182 sumter boulevard and exit 179 toledo played. We will let you know when you get more details and the road is back open. Developing this morning, a Home Health Care worker is waking up behind bars accused 104 years old. Deputies say besida rosario worked for the victim in Sun City Center. July and august took several publix gift cards intended for that victim. Detectives say she was caught on camera using them. She is facing petty theft and exploitation of the elderly. And this morning, a Manatee County School District employee is under arrest. Lamont houston got a middle the two began texting each other this may and a month later houston picked that stud incident up from her home hand sex with her. Picked her up one more time after that and she told her parents when she found out she was pregnant. I personally find it absolutely disgusting. These kids are so young. How an adult can even fathom doing that to a teenager is disgusting. Anjuli a judge set houstons bond at 55,000. If he makes bond, he is told not that victim. Houston resigned from his job on thursday. People who live near mosaic new plant in polk county got legal muster to thairn side. Morgan and morgan filed a Class Action Lawsuit against mosaic. The suit accuses of negligence and that residents need to be protected. Last month a giant sinkhole opened hundreds and millions of gallons of contaminated water poured into the aquifer. Leak and accuses the company of not telling people soon enough. To provide residents with clean Drinking Water and medical checkups. The suit says residents should be paid if their property va values drop. The enormity of this problem is mindnumbing and that is one of the things we now retainer is lease of experts that are now crunching numbers and digging into the science of some of the contaminated water out of the aquifer. Three new locally transmitted cases of the zika virus were confirmed in miami beach friday. And one new travelrelated case was found in hillsborough county. Now, the fight against zika is getting a financial boost from he says the state will provide 25milliondollars to seek a vaccine for the mosquitoborne zika virus. The money will go toward vaccine research, and developing a more costeffective way to test for the virus. The department of health will allocate the money. Scotts announcement comes as congress . Continues to wrestle with a federal funding package that would include money to fight zika. With these new funds, Governor Scott has authorized a total of 61point2 milliondollars to combat zika west nile virus. Manatee county Mosquito Control is reminding people to drain any standing water and protect happening today. A big day for university of south florida football. They are taking on Florida State university in what may be one of the biggest games in the schools history. The seminoles are coming into town after a humiliating loss to louisville. The bulls are undefeated going into this game. The two will face off at raymond jas at noon. And fox13s kellie cowan will be live at ray jay starting at 7 30 this morning be live. And tailgating starts in 4 5 2 minutes. People are trying to stake out their spot. Alcides no doubt, hash browns on the skillet and parts of the state get drenched in rain and bucs in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. The latest on the star players dui arrest. The first weekend of fall and we are looking at pretty nice conditions. Dry weather and seeing a couple of small showers during the afternoon hours. You can see on and radar combined, we have more shower activities down across the southern part of the state for this afternoon. Otherwise thee daytime highs back up come into Steak N Shake for handdipped milkshakes. 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The area is bracing for even more flooding over the weekend. And in utah, 25 homes are damaged touched down in the northern part of that state. At least two homes destroyed while 25 others damaged. That includes at least 10 that are uninhibitable. Many cars and houses received damage from falling poles and trees. Nobody was hurt. A disaster proclamation for three counties in iowa after heavy rains hit the area. A look at floyd county. People being asked to restrict Treatment Plant failed. Not doing laundry, using dishwasher or toilets. Portapotty s will be given for residents. And here locally it is officially fall. Jim yeah. Anjuli doesnt feel like it. Alcides mike said we hit 93, a new record, jim. Jim i was going to say when you said it was officially fall which doesnt mean much here in florida. Because again today, we are so the overall trend as you look at it in the big picture will slowly start to cool things down. That is the way fall looks around here. As you look outside a nice quiet start to the day. Scattered clouds overhead. You continue to see plenty of sun as we go through the afternoon hours and these temperatures are very warm once again. To outside right now we are at 78 degrees. Dew point at 73. Humidity is currently at 84 we will continue to see fairly light winds because we really have a lot of High Pressure. A big ridge of High Pressure sitting over the states and dry air in place over the mid and upper levels of the atmosphere that made it so quiet really over the past several days and the rain we had had big thunderstorms and just the Overall Coverage is fairly m mall. That 78 here in tampa. Spartanburg currently at 80 degrees. Clearwater you have 78. Head down in bradenton and sarasota, 78 degrees. Through the interior you will generally see these temperatures running in the mid to lower 70s. Places like lakeland, 73. Bartow at 72 along with wauchula. High pressure ridging over the state and a few more showers down to our south and thats what we saw yesterday. We saw big thunderstorms down toward highland county, down across the lake and the southern part of the state. And really much of the southeast is quiet. Along the carolina coastline for two weeks now. Things are starting to get better there where they are not seeing as much cloud cover and showers around but continues to be a lot of dry air in place across much of the south these has really cut off the moisture is going to tart to make its return as we go through the day tomorrow and slowly returning over the next few days. One more dry day for today and we start to ring it back on sunday by monday and tuesday and we are typical 40 chance of showers. Cooler temperatures across the northern part of the country where the fronts are starting to make some inroads across the country. Chicago, 66 degrees right now. Minneapolis has a 65 and much cooler temperatures as you head across the rockies and denver at 41 degrees. This is the latest on Tropical Storm karl. It has not become a hurricane just yet. Basically making its way just to the southeast of bermuda per hour. It is moving to the northeast at 17 miles per hour. It is expected to strength applicant little bit more as it moves out over open waters of the atlantic but by the time we get into the first part of next week, the system is basically becoming an extra tropical system and losing those tropical characteristics. Watch everything play out on futurecast. The next few days, a few spotty showers for today and mainly clear skies for hours and for tomorrow partly cloudy skies to start the day and the trend will be start to bring more showers around and also notice the cold fronts that will start flirting with us over the next several days and a bit closer to us and a little bit early to expect to see any major cold fronts come through here and cool things down. For today, partly cloudy, hot, isolated storm mainly throughout the interior. Daytime high of 91 degrees. For tonight, scattered clouds. Overnight low of 77. Partly cloudy skies. A slightly better chance of seeing some storms around for tomorrow afternoon. Daytime high of 91 degrees. On the water, winds are turning to the northwest at 10 knots. Seas 2 feet or less and high tide at 8 15 this morning. Here is the sevenday forecast and you see these daytime highs stay in the low 90s and rain chances starting to work their way back up. Big games going on this weekend especially at Raymond James stadium. In fact all weekend long, Florida State c heating up 88 degrees. Kickoff for that at 12 noon. Gators to knocks vi. Steamy one through 93 degrees at kickoff at 3 30 and then on sunday, stray storm around during the afternoon. 91 degrees at kickoff. That game on fox 13 at 4 00. Back to you. Alcides thanks, jim. In ports, a big cut for the bucs less than 24 actually arrest and rays take on their opponent at the trop. Here kevin odonnell. Kevin the bucs make a swift move and send a strong statement releasing jenkins after his arrest for the dui. Jenkins mission has been shaky and this latest incident is more than the bucs wanted to tolerate. Jenkin was the first to break the news that his career was over for the bucs tweeting out thank you tb. Next chapt he. He friday afternoon. Clearly Austin Sefarin Jenkins did not want to wait until the bucs released their statement. The dui arrest marked a rocky off season with the club. Jenkins was kicked out of a ota practice for not being prepared. Otas are voluntary. He apologized and said it was a wakeup call. He said he was thankful that his coach wanted him to be a special player. The 2014 secondround pick found himself as a backup most of training catch and worked his way through the depth and was listed as costarter. He caught a spectacular 30yard touchdown against the falcons in week one and and to be on his way of getting back in good favor with cutter. It all fell apart early friday morning at 4 00. Well, two hours after asj broke the news of his what bucs gm is saying. We are disappointed in fridays news. After careful consideration we felt this was the right decision at this time. With that asjs career came to an end mop will fill in the void in the linenewspaper is well, cameron brate is the bucs starting tight end and comes at a bad time for the bucs as they were down a tight end. Luke stocker injured his ankle last week against arizona. Well, on friday, the bucs practice squad. They will have three haley tight ends to face the rams on sunday. The rays up their home schedule in the trop. Firstplace red sox to maintain their lead in the al east. Chris archer has two starts left trying to avoid being a 20point loser. He comes into the game with 18 losses of the season. Rough start as big papi tops the trop for one more time, a tworun shot to start the game. In the second, mikey one back with his second of the season. 21 sox after 2. Remains that way all the way to the 9th inning. Rays down to the last shot with two aboard. Brad sdmrshtion igler and the rays lose 21 and archer now has his 19th loss. Number one armwood taking on number 3 planet dad stadium and the hawks have not lost a regular season game since 2012 when the panthers beat them. The middle and taking a 1 12point lead with under 9 minutes to go. The hawks come flying back. Down 2621. They are bringing the heat on defense. It is going be too loose ball in the end zone and armwood pounces on it. Touchdown. Its 2726 with 5 20 to play. Under two minutes to go though. Plant marches down the field nick rice from 37 yards out. Plant regains the lead 2827 and they win by that score as armwoods attempt to the end zone the hail mary pass comes up short. That is a look at sports. Have yourself a great day. Looking to get out of the house this weekend. Alcides a bunch of hot happenings including your chance to start your halloween festivities a little early. Screamageddon is back. Where you can check it out. Alcides it is anjuli it is creepy. Birthday, a look at some of the famous people born on this date. Much more after the break. Well when i shop, my coupons are in a neat little stack, and my weekly ad is folded like this. Ready to go. Thats how i save a lot at publix. How bout you . I dont clip, i dont plan, but i still save a lot. I just shop for publix brand products, cuz theyre great. And thats it. No really, thats it. Thats how i save at publix. Blix. Where shopping is a pleasure. Looking to get out of the looking to get out of the house this weekend . Looking to get out of the house this weekend, we have just the thing for you. Alcides a bunch of hot happenings going on around the bay area this weekend. Maybe Wishful Thinking mike me. I wish i had enough money. Tampa bay boat show rolls in. The event will feature some of the areas top boat deemers and manufacturers. All the latest and great nest fishing is up mice and accessories as well. Doors open at 10 00 this morning. Admission is free, but it will cost you to park about 6. Tampa bay fashion week wraps up today. Local designers will be debuting their spring and summer 2016 collections in all taking place at International Plaza this morning. Seats will cost you 35, and general admission and standing room are free of charge. Yeah, this is going to be awesome. Oktoberfest without having to leave the bay area. The germanamerican society of Pinellas County is holding an october a oktoberfest celebration this afternoon. It will feature live opa am i pronouncing that right ompa beers and homemade cuisines, 8 to attend but kids 4 and run free. The first weekend for screamageddon. Six haunted atrang s have you scared silly, cursed hayride, dead woods and a black pool prison. The attractions a spread over 60 acres of old florida forest. The dade city event is recommended for teens and adults. Little ones but looks a little scary to me. Tickets cost between 20 and 30. Sell operate the late great prince at the purple experience. This fivepiece tribute band is led by matt fiction was a member of prince and revolution from 1978 to 1991 all taking place at the polk theatre. Tickets from 2 to 38. Lightning fan fest taking place to take pictures with the players, get your auto graphs too. The players will compete in scrimmage game. All kicks off at 11 00. Free of charge and ticket

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