Im Walter Allen Jen and im jen epstein. Lets forecast, with dave. 3 3 dave 3 mostly cloudy with a 30 chance of showers and storms. High temps in the upper 70s. Tonight will be cloudy and mild; lows in the upper 60s. Showers and storms likely for wednesday, with a few strong storms possible. Rain chances 70 , with high temps in the mid 70s. 3 3 no closed captioning is 3 vanessa were following a news alert in tampa. A house fire forced several people from their home overnight. This is a live look at the scene on sitka street. By the time firefighters got to the home early 3 this morning, there was a ton of smoke. Thankfully, three people and two dogs were able to get out safely. No word on what caused the fire. Investigators are working it. Fox13s ken suarez is working to get new information about the investigation for a live report at 5 30. 3 3 jen while you were sleeping another tragic night on the roads. This time, for two joggers. Troopers say a driver hit and killed them. 3 jen it h
Punfortunately, a deadly storm pmoves along the east coast pkilling at least six people. Pthreatened more than 80 million eople with strong wind, ptornadoes and large hail. Pnow in virginia, the governor pdeclared a state of emergency pafter a tornado touched down ptearing apart a small town pkilling three people there. P including a twoyearold. Pand before that storm system pmoved up the coast it hit pcharlotte county yesterday. Plook at this tornado tore pthrough a neighborhood in harbor pheights area near Port Charlotte pdamaging close to 30 homes. Pclose to where that happened a psuntrust Bank Building just off pstate road 776, u. S. 41 also pdamaged. Pno one was seriously injured pthankfully. Pthis is a good example of how pnasty the weather is right now. Poff coast of new york city. Pabout an hour ago, a coast guard pboat overturned while coming to pthe rescue of a 74 foot ship pthat ran aground. Pnow coast guard members have pbeen plucked out of the water. Pnow that water has go
Pthats crazy. P yeah. Pbless their little hearts. Pwelcome 8 oclock im russell prhodes. Pim laura moody. Pwe thank you for waking up on pthis tuesday, february 9th. Plets get straight over do for a plook at the chilly forecast pwindy too. P it is. Pthats the thing is the wind is pmaking it feel a whole heck of a plot cooler. Pwere a 52 degrees in tampa. Pbrandons at 52. P47 we have in leesburg. P48 in lakeland. P49 in winter haven. Pso there are spots that are pstill in the 40s at this hour. Pyou take that ten to 20 mile per phour wind, and you a little bite pmakes it feel colder than it pactually is. Pwind gusts 20 to 24. Pgoing to be a breezy, mostly pcloudy, very cool day. Pwith High Temperature of about p57 degrees. Pand tomorrow, not much better pwith a high in upper 50s as pwell. Pvanessa. Pall right in roadway we will pstart off with a little bit of pbad news before we get to good pnews. Pwe will start off with a live plook at i4 westbound. Pwe have some delays for plive look ne
Pman who found him and kept him pwarm. P from tampa bays number one pnews station, this is good day ptampa bay. Phey everybody welcome 8 oclock pim russell rhodes. Pim laura moody. Pgood morning everybody. Pthank you for waking up with us pon this thursday morning its pfebruary 18th. Pand we want to get straight over pto dave for forecast, kind of pweather we love. Pi know. Pbut you have to warn you picture pim about to show you you need psunglasses before you do it. P really . Poh, yeah. Pgorgeous. Pi purposely kept that banner in pthere if i had taken it out it pwould have been wow. Pgone. Peast over tampa bay. Psometimes you get a little pglitch in camera there. Pwe will move to this one which pis lakeland. Pequally as beautiful. Pbut a few greases cooler for ptemperatures inland 52 degrees pthere. Poverall, going to be a stunning pas temperatures start in the med p50s at least low or mid 70s for ptemperatures later today. Pvanessa. Pdave, thank you no new incidents pto mention sinc
Pfor a very short period of time. Pthats why were not going to plet our guard down. Pi want to go further out to the pgulf. Pyou see strong storms as well. Pthis is the case where theres a plot of energy in the atmosphere. Pthe good news is that right pthere is the back edge of the prain line of rain. Ponce that squeezes through later pthis hour, things start to quiet pdown in the northern counties. Pfurther south, weve got a pstrong thunderstorm and with it ptheres been a lot of lightning, pthunder and the rain is starting pto work its way in pinellas pcounty coastline and the pstrongest part of the storm is pstill well offshore. Ptheres a marine warning out. Pnot that youre getting on your pboats any time soon but within pthat strong thunderstorm, this pcould drop a water spout or two pas it approaches the coastline pover the next hour or so. Ponce that moves through coastal pareas, things will start to pquiet down. Pright now we talked about 7 00, p8 00, 9 00 in the thick of it. Pup