Dayve o tampa. Shower activity moved through last night. Thats all wrapped up across the area. Mo le afternoon storms popping up as we head throughout the day today. Upper 80s by noon and showers and srms arrive late this afternoon and evening. Temperatures topping out in the low 90s. Well take a look at rain chances for the rest of your venday forecast coming up. Vanessa getting busy on the roadways. Big incident were following out tpd on scene right now, sky fox here showing ts crash. This is hillsborough at air cargo road so its going to be in the area just east of the veterans expressway. We have a crash from wha we can tell is just a two vehicle crash t were trying to getore inrmation on why such a big diversion here. Eastbound lanes are closed completely and northbound lanes are shut down. Definitelyeeing delays in the area backing up from this intersection all the way to the vets and im sure it wont be be until were beyond that directionarticularly will want to take sligh avenue or waters. Bestk wor around is going to be lois so well follow that one and thisne o out of polk county. This is a live look along i4. A jac nined tractor trailer i going to be on the westbound side. You cant see it. It just out of frame, completelyloing that westbound exit ramp to 557. Here we have fdot focussing oth have a left lane delays building. Instead of exiting at 557, we have a motorcyclist crash out of pinellas. Oak rs at 89th. Oneane blocked. The motorcyclist is up. Thats goods new and westbound delays i4 at macintosh where the lanes are now open but it looks like were dealing with some delay as long etern hillsborough county, i4 westbound. Laura thank you. There has been an aident involving a child at an usement park. Russell latest incidente cam yesterday when a 3yearold boy fell off a coaster in pennsylvania. Joel tells us about the calls for Better Safety measures. A young boy is thrown out of a rollercoaster near pittsburgh, pennsylvania. This happeng thursday at idyllwild area. A boy was injured while riding the at the boy was conscious while being treated on site and airlifted hospital. Its not clear what part of the ride the incident occurred. Ride has a maximum speed of only 25 miles an hour but its known among rollercoaster enthusiasts for not havingny safety restraints. It is a wooden rollercoaster. You know, it was built in 1938 by the philadelphia toboggan crews are inspecting it to try to figure out exactly what happened. A full investigationas begun to determine the cause of this incident. The rollercoaster will be closed pending the results of the investigation. This incident comes after the death of a boy on a water slide in kansas and a ferris wheel accident in tennessee which injured three girls. They hit, i guess the forces brought them back and they just went rightover. Safety advocates are for more oversight of Amusement Park rides. We know theres a lot of un upsmanship on rides but at the end of the day, regares of how thrilling the ride is, it needs to be safe. The extent of the boys injuries from the rollercoaster ride is not clear at this time. Russell we have our fair share of Amusement Parks and rides in florida and fox 13 how parents can help protect their kids while on the rides. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you, russell. There are more than 100 million visitors to florida every year. And of course, Amusement Parks are a majorconomic driver and of course, the eventsnfolding this week, though none of them happened here in florida, they are certainly events that have a lot of people talking eshgs spially parent so i want to go ahead and take a closer look at some numbers to give you some perspective about all o in 2013, nationwide Childrens Hospital conducted a study about injuries and looked at emergency room visits over a 20year riod. From 1990 to 2010, more than 92,000 children under the age of 18 received emergency room treatment for amusement re injuries. Thats more than 4400 a year. More than 70 of those hurt, i months between may and september. That averages about 20 injuries the non profit group, safer parks. Org provided safety tips for parents. This is useful information no matter if youre in florida or somewhere else in the country. Parents are considered an important line of defense in avoiding accidents. Your sety depends on your own behavior. If youre riding with a child, be prepared to physically restrain smaller children. They can slip underneath the loose fting lap bar or belt. If your child is riding without an adult, make surhe child is to keep their body properly positioned for the entire cycle of the ride. Make sure the childs hands and feet stay inside the ride at all times. Dont rearrange setting during the middle of the ride. If one child is complaining that another child is touching them or they dont want to sit to another child, do not rearrange your seating plan during the cycle of the ride. If youre required to sit, you must sit, read and follow all rules and restrictions, use all and riding with your hands in the air is actually riskier for children than teens and adults. They have smaller bodies, more likely to slide. Some full sized rides, the smallest children allowed are so short, they cannot reach the bracing points on the floor that help keep riders safely positioned. So these are some tips that can help out. Also if a child does not want to ride,oure not encouraged to theyre not comfortable. These are examples of things parents can do to make sure the experience for their entire family at an Amusement Park is a safe and positive one. Back to you. Russell well check in with you later. Good. Thank you. Laura new this morning, a popular sports bar fails a health inspection. State officials shut down fergs after finding almost 30 violations. They consider nine priority. This includes insects, rodents area. Fergs will not reopen until they make the corrections. Theyve been open for 25 years right next door to tropicana field. Prussell 7 08. Developing this morning, horrible story to tell you about out of pinellas county. 62yearold womans in jail. Deputies say her 6yearold son murdered his newborn sister. They say it happened on monday. Kathleen childrenlone inside a van for nearly 40 minutes. She had gone in a cell phonepai. When her 13 day old daughter started crying, Officials Say her brother took the baby out of her car seat and tossed her around hitting her head several times. Deputies say the aftermath was a disturbing sight. Ever seen especially with a 13 day old and her appearance was one of just a kid that had been pummelled. Russell well, when steele returned, duts say frankie told his mother the baby was seriously hurt. She ignored him. They drove to another store before heading home. At that point, steele called a neighbor who is a nurse. When she saw the baby, the woman immediately called 911. But it was clear that that day old baby had been dead for hours. Frankie and his brother are now in foster care. Steele is crg with manslaughter. Laura and this. A father and grandmother are accused of being careless with a child. Timothy adams and his mother anna are charged with child neglect after they left timothys 3yearold daughter in a hot car while they went to walmart. Police say adams took his 6yearold daughter into the the 3yearold behind. She was in the van for 30 minutes before someone niced and called police. He said it was an accident. He said both he and his mother thought the other person had the little girl. A number of people getting the zika virus in florida continues to grow. Russell its up to 25 now, all cases originated in the miami area. To make matters worse, students in that part of the state head back to School August 22. 4,000 students attend the six schools in that arts every one of the schools to check for mosquito breeding sites. Students will be allowed to wear threat of the zika virus did not scare away tourists. Close to 58 million visitors came to florida between january 1 and the end of june. Its a record number. Its about 4 more than the same time last year. But those numbers do not include the past six weeks when the mosquitos in miami began laura paying for air fare is risky. Its Hurricane Season. The experts at noaa updated the forecast for this year. Theyre predicting 12 to 17 tropical storms with five to eight becoming hurricanes and two to four being major hurricanes. Its a little above average. Mid august to the end of october is the peak of the season which ends on november 30. So well bring mike bennett in on this el nino has something to do with this. What do you make of it . Nino and we were expecting a below average year. That usually means lower hurricane chances in the atlantic. Were transitioning to la nina. Were calling for a little bit more in the way of hurricane activity. The most active season perhaps since 2012. Remember, were still about a month away from the typical peak of the Hurricane Season so weve already had five named storms and were kind of now just part of the season. You want to remain vigilant obviously the coming weeks, though no imminent threat out there right now across any of the tropics. Heres a look at brookdale, bayshore camera. You can see blueskies, nice color off in the distance as well. There is a little fog out there, especially to the north causing lower visibilities down in crystal river. Fog should start burning off over the next hour or so. Well see the temperatures warming back up in the low 90s and back up again. Later in the day well talk about the full forecast coming up a bit later on. Laura also registry remorse. Thewo gifts newlyweds rarely ask for but wish they had. Ing dunkins new cold brew coffee, steeped slowly in cold water for small batches with an ultrasmooth, fullbodied flavor. Dunkin donuts unbelievable selection of breakfast sandwiches, freshly made all day, so you can enjoy them any type of way, any time of day. Thats breakfast whenevs. America runs on dunkin. Mike welcome back. Warm and muggy to start the day, but we are dry. This is looking out from the Hilton Clearwater beach cam. Off to the west, you can see a nice looking, calm day on the well see seas about two feet or so. So not too, too bad of the then you head inland, this is johns hopkins, looking east, great start to the day, not a whole lot of clouds, plenty of sun. Thats the way it will stay. Start to see the showers and storms eventually kind of make rrent temperature is 76, dew a. Point 74 so pretty humid start to the day. Humidity relative at 94 . Ba falling and winds out of the eastnortheast at 30 miles an hour. 74 in sebring. 72 in bartow, 73 in lakeland. 73 up in crystal river. Dew points sitting in the low to mid 70s. Maybe a little less humid than it was, say, 24 hours ago or so, but still, it is august. It will be humid to start the day. Those winds coming out of the east so with that, that kind of the big temperature pattern. Satellite and radar, theres the area of low pressure that brought us all the rain early in the week, continuing to move farther west but bringing a ton of rain across southern louisiana. Some folks picked up six to eight inches of rain last night alone. More rains come during the day today. Plenty of dry air situated across the rest ohef southeast so were tapping into at least a little bit of that today. This is a measure of how much isture is in the that pure tropical moisture with an area of low pressure moving farther west more typical summertime pattern, maybe even a little drier as we head towards saturday afternoon. So a little bit lower rain chances saturday but overall, this is what were used to seeing in august. For today, 91, Late Afternoon and evening storms building west. Tonight 76, evening storms pushing offore before midnight or so and then 92 for tomorrow. Day storms. Sevenday forecast, rain chances about 50 for today, down to 40 tomorrow. Back up to 50 on sunday, back down to 40 monday. You get the idea, bouncing up and down a bit but it will be hot, humid and well see afternoon storms the next week or so. Vanessa well recap larger traffic accidents before we get to new ones. Sky fox is monitoring this intersection of hillsborough and air cargo road. This is the area just east of have a crash. You can see most of it is going to be there in the intersection with some of the traffic being diverted. Your areas and directions of concern, eastbound and then northbound through the intersection with the best work arounds eastbound and westbound, sligh avenue and you can take waters and northbound drivers, i would advise you to take lois instead. Back here in polk county, earlier we showed you this part of the wreck along i4. Fdot has turned the camera on a little bit so we can see the trtor trailer involv. Its jackknifed, basically folded in half on the exit ramp off the westbound lanes, 557. As i mentioned before, particularlyn i the eastbound direction where you have the left lane blocke expect a lot of delays. You can see it stracking up there. Westbound drivers have to get to an exit one further. Manatee, we have a crash state road 70 at 33rd street east. We hav lanes blocked. Not seeing any big delays but of course, if it does linger for ailing bit, we could see those start to build. South tampa, emergency sewer work were seeing will affect eastbound and westbound bay to bay boulevard so thats just west of the selmon expressway. You can both of those inside lanes taken up in those directions. Well get to this. Another traffic tieup. Tiny dog causing a big backup on a road in california. This chihuahua was running with a friend in and out of traffic. Police were sent to the scene. You can tell hes in trouble, right . They were able to catch the chihuahua. Hes like, oh, man. Im in the police car. Well, he went to an animal shelter. Theyre hoping the owner comes to get it. The other dog got away. Maybe theyll find it soon. Russell its a bulldog. Laura and cataracts. Poor thing may not be able to see. Thank you. Pots and pans, the silverware, thechina, just a few things that people register for when they get married but theres one thing that a lot of newlyweds regret leaving off the list. Luggage. 25 of couples feel that way. They say the luggage would have come in handy during the honeymoon and for the trips during the marriage. Second on the list of regrets is not setting up a cash fund for russell really. Very much so. 7 20 right now. We all love oreos, yes . Laura yes. Russell enough different flavors to satisfy the pickiest palate. Swedish fish filling in the middle of the classic chocolate cookies. Limited edition, on sale now. Here is the catch. Only chains selling these oreos is kroger. Nearest one is in southern georgia. Theres a kroger in perris, texas. Vanessa my folks live near a kroger. Russell ill bet you can get them on amazon. Im going to find out. Mike that looks good. Vanessa no. Laura they cant seem to leave the oreo alone. I contend the original with the oreo middle. Theres not a better middle to fiddle with. Laura were all going home. Goes downhill from here. The American Woman made history at the olympics. Russell and a wrecking ball damages a building at the World Trade Center site. First, though, we check in with charley belcher. Good morning. Charley retired good day anchor anne dwyer loved fish. Russell she did. Charley russell, this is exciting. Im at a place called house to home. Its you think like an antique mall but its in a 30 different vendors. Were talking 30 different artists because theyre turning Old Furniture into something brand new and really works of art. But russell, i was so excited. All the back to School Pictures this week. I found the camera that i think your parents used to take your back to school picture. Russell what . Charley does that look familiar . Russell thats my back to school picture, that first day of school. Charley i cant believe its for sale here. This is priceless. Here we go, right . Here we go. Here we go. Stick around. This really is a great i say little. It goes on forever, great place to explore. Open to 7 00 p. M. Every night. Check it out. Clearwater, mcmullen booth. Stick around, everybody. Lets make it a good day, tampa [ ghost voice ] the name your price tool can save you money to fit your budget. [ coughs ] sorry, tickle in my throat water would be nice, but that would go right through me. In florida, it used to be that if a child, a senior or one of trapped in a hot car you and i were not allowed to save them unless we were willing to be sued. Has government lost its mind . So i fixed the law to make sure we are all empowered to rescue those who can t rescue themselves. That is the least we can do. After all the love they give. Dana young for the florida senate. Vanessa we have an update, this crash at hillsborough and air cargo road. We were just seeing a couple of vehicles here in the intersection, but were learning that theres actually a pedestrian involved. Theyve already been taken to the hospital and at last check had critical injuries. Were expecting this intersection to be seeing some diverted traffic for maybe another 30 minutes or so if the line they were able to send out. The diversion were seeing, its going to be eastbound hillsborough and northbound air cargo road affected with big delays already in the area. So drivers, please avoid it eastboundwestbound. Northbound drivers can take lois so well watch this a little more for you. We know its going to be a concern for at least another 30 minutes or so. Well get to travel times right now. I want to show you how the majors are fairing. Not bad southbnd an area of concern is going to be i4 westbound. Branch foshs to 75 taking 15 minutes. Were there in the red zone. Laura 7 27 now. Several people still unaccounted for after a massive explosion at a maryland apartment complex. Russell this blast forced people to drop their children from balconies and firefighters to rescue trapped residents from the upper floors. Last month officials responded to a possible gas leak at the apartment complex. Before wednesday nights explosion. Two people killed, dozens hurt. Among those hurt, three firefighters. Officials say theyre looking for five to seven people. The Apartment Building had partially collapsed so crews had to secure it before the Recovery Efforts could seen start off. Atf officials are investigating a cause. Laura police in thailand are investigating. They are ruling out international terrorism. They thi group within the country. So far no one is claiming responsibility. Russell looks like delta ashlz getting back to normal after a week of cancellations. They had to drop thousands of flights since monday because of a global system outage. They only had 29 cancellations yesterday. Usually they go days or weeks without cancelling a mainland flight. There should not be many problems for travellers today. Laura