Week long, and its spill over into the weekend. Low 610s along the coast. Inverness, theres patchy fog bringing your eyesight down to a mile, and also patchy fog around the tampa executive airport. For the next few hours, holding off into the 50s. Plenty of sunshine to start the day, and then the afternoon high warming up to 75 degrees. Great weather for the runners. Gasparilla distance classic today and tomorrow, and some folks like the nice school 60 degree weather in the morning, and they have got it. Thank you, mark. Speaking of that. The run arers are getting ready right now, working out the last minute jitters, and thousands of people will be taking over bay shore boulevard for the popular races. Mary it sounds like i can hear people behind you, and they are getting ready. A lot of tampa bay is already up early this saturday morning. Today is the 15k and the 5k, and i can tell you, people are flooding in, and they are doing their stretches its great weather. You dont want it to b
And hats off to the Florida Department of transportation for getting it opened early. Because it wasnt supposed to open until an hour from now but already theyre reopened northbound at 275. Now at last check, we had the dale mabry highway offramp that was still blocked. So ryan hughs is live. There . Reporter well, leslee, good morning to you. As you mentioned, this was supposed to open up around 5 30. We got out here around 4 00 and the roadway is already open. It was under a detour. So the department of transportation could tweak the roadway. We have video that we shot from eagle 8 hd last night that showed the backup because of the detour. Apparently the department of transportation came in here and tweaked the roadway, they changed some things around. After that new alignment caused a lot of backups within the last four to six weeks. Is reopened and the realignment that happened overnight is supposed to help alleviate traffic. We will be here throughout the morning continuing to lo
Tia at 34 degrees. 35 on the map shows how dry the air is. Today, blazing sunshine. Temperatures warming up to a high around 6 4 this afternoon. And then set yourselves up for another cool evening tonight. For the early dinner hours, temperatures will dip down into the 50s. And then tonight, more mid40degree readings. A lot of soccer fans out there. Stick around because were going to talk about the sun coast is ahead. Thank you mark. To a health on your side health alert. Its flu season in florida and with the changing temperatures, mark is showing us were atrisk. This morning, we want to make sure you and your family stay healthy. The latest number shows 51 counties are seeing more cases of the flu. News channel 8 mary mcguire shows us a lot of our coworkers have been sick lately. Certainly true if youve been hearing people sniffling and coughing. Its not just your imagine. The Florida Department of health says flu season is ramping up here in this state and they have advice for you t
The 40s. Were going to wind up at 55 at 10 00 a. M. And by the afternoon, 64. Thats it. Yesterday we made it to 62. Were going to see similar Cool Temperatures here today, and then tonight. Another starlit evening. Great for outdoor fire pits, but what about tomorrow . I think youre going to see a change to warmer 70s and it looks like as we head through the next couple of days, the warmup will stick around. Ill tell you more about that when i come back in a little bit. See you then. Thanks, mark. To an 8 on your side health alert. Its flu season in temperatures, were even more atrisk. This morning, we want to make sure you and your family the latest number shows 51 counties are seeing more flu cases. News channel 8 mary mcguire is joining us from tampa bay hospital. I did notice people here at the news center are sick reporter oh yeah, it happens each and every year. It doesnt seem to be getting better. The word inspires shivers through your body. No one likes the flu and the Florida
That came to them straight through their cellphones. The alarm system is disguised as a decoration on the table. You see threat. And investigators tracked see it there. And investigators tracked down one suspect and now they are looking for the other two. And a live look at tampas skyline this morning. Make sure you give yourself extra time for the commute. There is fog in the bay area which could mean a longer drive this morning. It was so soupy when i drove in but not for gene. Exactly. This is extremely patchy. Meaning places like downtown tampa and polk county, perfectly clear. You can see for miles. But go a few miles and you run into almost a wall of fog. Thats what were seeing between hillsborough and polk county, plant city, brandon. You can only see about a quarter mile in front of you. You can see several miles in winter haven and lakeland. And fog in Pinellas County and up into pasco and hernando. Around at least through sunrise. So this is 5 30 this morning. Again, still pa