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There. Tropical storm gaston is expected to become a hurricane, maybe within the next few hours. Invest 99l, starting to look to me a locality stronger. We have a lot stronger. A 70 chance of it developing in the next five days. Gaston, it could be a hurricane by this afternoon. Maybe even strengthening to a category two storm. But its in n the central atlantic but its in central atlantic, not a problem for anyone. Almost all of the computer models take it into the bahamas and i think by the time it gets to the bahamas, it enters an area where it could strengthen intensely. This is the area we will be watching the next couple days. After this, the two most reliable computer models, one takes it up the east coast and in weather and traffic on the 8s, i will take you hourby hour through today and leslee has the morning commute. Welcome back. Lets take a look at whats going on out here, i4 around county road 557 in the polk county area, we are up to speed. 275 through st. Pete, nice drive
Temperatures across the valley turning a little bit warmer as we head into the afternoon. Our temperatures right now though not warm at all. Upper 50s and drizzle along the coast. San francisco, highs today around the trivalley. Mid to upper 80s. 82 in san jose. Low 60s in San Francisco. The trivalley the warm spot today and also the slow spot for your morning commute. I did see earlier slowing on the sensors. Its dark so our maps are lit up by green. Going to zoom in to where there was slowing and might be gone already as youre approaching vasco road. There was debris reported westbound 580. Looks like that has cleared. Watch for the next few minutes. There may vab traffic break. Live look over here. There are no problems once you approach that dublin interchange. Clear flow there. We continue with our breaking news out of italy this morning. As you see some reporters out there gathering the latest information. Thats where a deadly earthquake has left parts of several towns in ruins.
The interstates looking great. Almost 70 the average speed there. 72, dont get a ticket and 275 over in pinellas. 67 is the average speed there. Dan . She said, mom, you wont believe what this man did to me. Bay area kindergartener afraid to go back to school. She says her substitute teacher choked her to the point she couldnt breathe. Right now. They talked to us about the allegations and shared a picture about the bruises on their daughters neck. Lindsay logue has been following the story. Whats next for this teacher . Reporter were still waiting to find out who the teacher is. It should be in an official Police Report we expect to get later this morning. We know the teacher was filling in, in the Kindergarten Learning Center in sebring. Parents her substitute teacher choked her for no reason. She told her parents she couldnt breathe, and her mom took this photo that shows the bruises behind her little girls ears. She says her daughter is afraid to go back to school. We know that the
Breaking news that we have been following since we first came on air this morning. A surreal and jarring scene unraveling out of italy. Dozens of people are dead and Historic Buildings are now in shambles. After a 6. 2 magnitude earthquake struck the area. Today in the bays kris sanchez monitoring the latest developments for us this morning. And, kris, were hearing stories of homes just collapsing on people actually while they were sleeping. All this all happened about 3 00 in the morning so you know what youre doing, what the streets look like at 3 00 in the morning. Everybody tucked away in bed. But we do know 38 people were killed in this earthquake. It was a 6. 2 magnitude quake that nearly wiped three central italian towns right off the map. Heres a look by afternoon light. This is about ten hours after the earthquake as rescue workers are still digging into the ground as its shaking with aftershocks. You can see how some of the towns in amatrice, one of the tree towns crumbled aw