That cleared out and now were met with another crash. And this is going to be blocking northbound lanes and causing delays over the skyway bridge. And bear with me looks like skyfox is just orienting itself with this shot i might move on if we cannot get a look at the scene. It was a blocking one lane. And we have some delays in the area. Northbound back towards the manatee side of the skyway bridge. At last check delays were at 30 minutes or so and growing drivers weigh thatnt you whether to decide to stick with principling and take 75. We want to get to this as well. Largo area northbound lanes blocked. Missouri at jasper due to crash where utility pole came down. So now they have tape across northbound lanes. Work around here Clearwater Largo road or highland avenue. And a southbound 275. So keep this in mind. This is probably related to that 75 crash. Southbound 275 is jammed as drivers try to avoid that area heavier times here. 37 minutes to get from bearss to i4. It is almost 8 02. You know, looking a the skytower radar weve got a couple little showers popping pick up they are back toward coastline. This is not much. And it just kind of comes in waves. By time we hit 11, 12, were going to see more of these little coastal showers and storms fire up. Eventually shift inland. To be honest forecast today is was like yesterday with the 40 percent rain chances. And then youve got mid to upper yajts for high temperatures. Hurricane matthew is almost a major hurricane. The pressure continuing to fall. The wind speeds are now up to 105 miles per hour. Moving west southwest at 14. That was a forecast direction. West southwest. Now its going to move back to the west and then eventually turn hard north over the weekend. Well dissect more on this track all right. Dave, thank you. Peaceful protests are what some High School Students are doing. Regardless, the superintendent of schools says enough is enough and is demanding these students stop or loss one most important days in High School Students life. Jens here to explain wra what the students are pro protesting. And is pus putting there homecoming on the line. Thats right russell black lives matter. Thats the point these manatee and palmetto High School Students are trying to get across when they started but the superintendent of for Manatee County says further protest and school disrupts disruption will not be tolerated today. If those protest continue, homecoming dances and Football Games could be cancelled. Now this is video from Palmetto High School during lunch yesterday showing a peaceful protest from group of kids chanting black lives matter. Well several of these protests have happened at schools across Manatee County this week. Dr. Diana green claims the school wills no longer waste valuable educational time dealing with these issues. Palmetto High School Head football coach told Bradenton Herald the fool ball game will be played one point. Nondistrict games cant cancelled they can only be postponed all right jen, thank you, well talk later. It is 8 04 new trend of creepy clowns is not funny person sheriffs offices across the state are warn that go it can get you shot. And they want it to stop before that happens. Hearing about it once is bad enough it is happening more often. And on wednesday morning the bay area reported its first case. A Largo High School student reported being chased by someone dressed a clown. You can see the picture here. While she was waiting a bus stop but that was fourth case reported in florida in just the last week. Just about costume. You never know is behind the clown mask. It could a pedophile. We have tops of pedophiles in this area. The Pinellas County sheriffs wearing a clown. And a that changes the minute starts harassing someone. That includes chasing intimidating and taunting a person. These clown sighting antijust in florida they are flooding in from across the country. Law enforcement majority people involved playing pranks they antitrying to hurt anyone16yearold boy was stabbed to death by a man wearing a clown mask. That man is still on the run. 8 05 right now troopers and deputies shut down all lanes of southbound i75 for several hours this morning. A car a struck a person near fowler avenue and investigation took along time to wrap up alcides is live along interstate where all this happened. Roads are open but the into what happened here, right . Exactly right. Actually florida Highway Patrol just released a news release again just a couple seconds ago i will just read it to you. It says here two vehicles were traveling southbound on i75 just south of fowler avenue which is not too far away from where im standing right now. From what the release says, it says two vehicles were traveling southbound and there was a pedestrian center lane of i75 for an unknown reason. Unable to observe the pedestrian, both vehicles collided with the pedestrian. Who obviously sustained fatal injuries. The next of kin still waiting to be determined at this point. So again, that just coming down from florida Highway Patrol. It appears two vehicles collided with this preyed very early this morning. This crash came in at about 3 30 a. M. Investigate and again, we just got word of exactly what happened. Still a lot of unknowns to be frank. Why was this person standing in middle of interstate according to a florida Highway Patrol. Was this car disabled . Who knows. I mean who knows what happened leading up to. I can tell you i75 is still slow moving southbound. Northbound about 30, 45 minutes ago was slow moving a well but it slowly picked up. This was a horrific crash that happened very early this morning just south of fowler avenue on i 75. And again fhp was investigating it for about three hours. I75 was completely shut down the southbound lanes. Northbound was open but southbound was closed for some time. And so fhp concluded their an investigation we just got information two cars collided with the pedestrian. Was hit by two separate vehicles. He obviously died there at the scene. A lot of unknowns. All right, alcides. Talk later. Thank you. 8 0 eight you could call a crime of convenience. Now st. Pete police are looking for a woman on a motorized scooter that found an nfl filled with cash and took off. Happened at the sams club on 34th street north. Police say she picked up the nfl 900 in it stuck it in all right. Drug prices are getting out of crow control these days look a backlash epipen price hike. New Kaiser FamilyFoundation Poll 82 percent of americans want federal government to do something about it. 78 percent also support limiting price hikes for high cost medications to treat serious illnesses like cancer. Everyone appears to want this. Were talking about republicans will poll shows they are all pushing for around policy change that would make it easier for everyone to be able to afford their prescriptions. If they could in america 71 percent of those involved in study say they would want the government to legalize Prescription Drug imports from canada where its cheaper. Make sense . A former farm suit call ceo who became infamous for driving price of drug from 13 to 750 is back on twitter asking for a good cause. Yeah. Slap him around a little bit. More than that. That man Martin Shkreli auctioned off an opportunity to either being slapped or punch in a hopes of raising money for 5 yeared with cancer. A woman named katie agreed to donate 50,000 to the cause. In exchange, to punch him in the face a many times as she wanted. But at the last minute she backed out. He is not happy about it he odd story, isnt it . All right. Almost 8 10. And Hurricane Matthew is picking up speed in the ocean. Daves been tracking and give us an update on the path. And theres Something Else revving up in the water. Good stuff. Boats. Walter is alive at the super boat nationals. Youre going to bolt in boat. Sorry. Whats going on. Man. Bolt in bo tampa is the cigar city. Clearwater will be the cigarette boat city at least for this weekend. Actually High Performance catamaran. Look at this baby behind me they will hit water this weekend we will preview all events first Charley Belcher with a little pep rally. Charley, good morning. Yes indeed were Tampa Catholic high school. These are your varsity crusaders weve got our freshman. Weve got our seniors right in the middle here. Which means our juniors are on the end down here. Yep. The whole school is here and im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Id look her right in that fat ugly face of hers. Shes a slob. She ate like a pig. No. Does she have a fat [expletive] . Absolutely. Do you treat women with respect . I cant say that either. We invited women to a spa to test a new body wash. Dish soap. You may not feel it, but some body washes can contain cleansers found in dish soap. Dove body wash is different. It has only the gentlest cleansers. It just made me feel good. This is dove. Mmm. I cant believe its so delicious. I cant believe it has 40 fewer calories than butter. I cant believe its made with real, simple ingredients. I cant believe were on a whale. I cant believe my role isnt bigger. Oh, its real. Real ingredients. Unbelievable taste. Vo we asked women in Pinellas County to describe congressman david jolly in one word woman 1 dangerous. Woman 2 backwards. Woman 3 outoftouch. Woman 4 thats 3 words. Vo david jolly shares Donald Trumps backwards agenda for women. Jolly opposes a womans right to choose and deny women access to basic Health Care Like mammograms and cancer screenings. Woman 5 i have 3 words for david jolly. Not for women. Vo House Majority pac is responsible laura 2shot people from across the and welcome back to good day tampa bay. 8 14. And people from across the country will be flocking to Clearwater Beach. But its not just for sunshine and for the water, its for boat races. The 8 time World Champion miss geico team will be taking on other all around the world. And walter Clearwater Beach to check it all out for us. Hey, good morning. Hey good morning, i was so excited when team geico. Lemonade. Lemonade man. Read the sign. Delicious. I love the commercial. Roger cox joining us this morning. These boats are absolutely massive. These are huge boats. Thats, thats what everyone they are drive pits you walk up to them you really realize how big they are. Everyone loves races everyone can see them going around as fast as they go. When you caulk down here in the pits see out big they are youre pretty much amazed. All sporting entrepreneurs once you see it live it gets you hooked. Same for here. Walk us through weekends events with races thats going to happen on sunday. Yeah, today, everyone, all boats are starting to come in today. They will, this is the dry pit everyones crews are here all the equipment comes in everyone gets set up. And we have it clearwater. And then, you know come tomorrow, tomorrows testing thats what everybody looking forward to everyones ready to test their equipment noon to 4. Then sundays the day. We got three races on sunday. 12, 1 30 and 3. So, you know, get to the beach early. And you were describing a little bit off camera what it will be like tomorrow when they are testing. I think back to my days in indianapolis in 500 whole month of may they, testing stuff, moving stuff a little bit here and there. Thats kind of what, what yeah its no different. High performing answer engines everyone is trying to make sure their skwiment is ready doing their set ups just like they do in car stock car racing or indy. And, you know, so tomorrows a big day. Because really want to make sure set ups right they have to preticket what conditions are going to be like on sunday. Everyones looking at the weather. Looking wind see what conditions will be if it will be chop or flat or you know bump up a little bit. So you know well see what happens tomorrow. And then big day on sunday. You were telling me not just challenging than that obviously, the chop plays a factor you have two people in boat at the same time. It is, more than just driving a boat. Yeah. I mean you imagine that getting in car driving down highway ones got wheel and a one has goose pedal and brake. These guys are teams. They Work Together they get on Board Communications they are talking to each other, you know if youre going into a turn at 140 miles an hour you got to know when to let off the tloltss a little bit. Okay. So come come out for tomorrow course. Absolutely. Roger cox i appreciate it thank you so much. Guys there you go. Coming up in the 9 oclock hour, were going to have somebody driving us around. Roy our photo journalist will be the brake and gas guy ill just sit there and enjoy the show. Puttputt on sunglasses and enjoy. All right then. Weve got a long week. Start the weekend early. Its fine with us. Why not. Why not. I did see bud light over there. Why not. Get it going. Not until 10, my see you later. Yeah. All right. Life is good for walter allen. Yes, it is. Didnt for him. 8 17. A couple of showers on shore this morning. Like yesterday, you pop up tropical downpours where for most of us you just kind of see it in the distance. But, every once in while you get one to move overhead quick little shower right in middle of Hernando County as we speak. Wachee, moving over highway 19. And again these are the pesky little showers. Popped them up right along the coast all morning long and definitely see a few more before we get to the noon time hour. Then well see more and more as they work their way inland. But heres one in the in the st. Petersburg area. One or two dotting coastline. But in general its nice little start to the day. Ive got 80 degrees our 8 oclock temperature at tampa international. South, southeast winds at three miles an per next couple of days continue with 40 percent rain chance is the difference. Coastal storms move inland today. Tomorrow, later in the day, as everything kind of backs up toward the coast, as winds shift to the east for tomorrow afternoon. Its a Hurricane Matthew. A big, big storm. And while it looks like its getting a little bit elongated right now because of higher wind sheer, heres a storm that despite the wind sheer is getting stronger and stronger. Its going to take that turn toward the north, be in the bahamas by middle of next week. Yes its going to slow down. Gives us time to watch it but this is a not a good set up for jamaica, cuba or even haiti as well over the next several days. Well have more on this coming up in the next half hour. But lets bring it back to 88 degrees for our high today. Next 7 days, well show you rain chances stay up if matthew stays well to the east of our state. Well dry it out next week and take rain chances leave those in. Vanessa. All right. Dave, thanks. We want to check back on skyway bridge. And lanes are clear. Still dealing with clay in northbound direction due to the previous lane crash lane blocks we were experiencing going to stemming in area of the hump. Backing up towards the start of the bridge in Manatee County. Sop i continue to either remember plan that extra time, we had delays now they are getting down below 30 minutes. Area. Of course 75 a work around if that makes sense for your your travel times didnt news we havent seen any other big crashes with blockage. So for the most part our roads are remaining pretty clear. Major wise, we do have of course skyway crash but also some congestion on 275 remnants of that earlier wreck on 75 where folks were trying to void the area were now down below 30 minutes but still pretty heavy southbound from bearss to i4 taking 20 mchts. Good delays southbound on 75. Westbound on i4 heading towards 75. At 9 were talking about our favorite scary movies. The ones that are the most successful. We were just talking about that yes. Got good ones a mother panic tennis match in spain. We will tell you one biggest stars in the world helps find her. But first the spirited kids it homecoming weekend they are ready for friday. As a federal prosecutor, ive spent my career prosecuting criminals and fighting for the rights of victims. I want to make the state Attorneys Office a model for criminal justice. Ill prioritize Violent Crime and be tough on murderers, gangs, and ill make the system fair by working with police to wear body cameras and using dna to put criminals behind bars, not innocent people. Im andrew warren. Welcome to Tampa Catholic high school. [ cheering ] there they all in the gym. So excited that its friday. Its homecoming week. And those are crusaders. They cant wait to take the field tonight against berkeley prep. Homecoming game. Huge game. The cheerleaders are ready. And the spirit of this school it is right here. These people are known green locos. Yes . Yes. My name fran chess ska. What is that green locos doesnt mean crazy loyal con radz. Just short. But basically what we do is we come out to our games and we show our spirit towards our school. Nice. Can you explain the little dotted s thing every school is that from something that live tv its just like a really School Design and everyone does it we have our little tattoo on our faces right here. Not a real tattoo folks at home. Not a real tattoo. I think my mom would kill me. Tampa catholic high school. Notah to yous here. We some dogs. We aint no puppies. That is from James Winston half time of the fsu game they were behind he was in there. We some dogs we no puppies. Got them fired that was pretty good. So thats your job to fire up this crowd and fire