So keep that in mind. But overall, a decent drive. And actually ryan hughes is out there on the road right now live. So lets go to him. Ryan, tell me what youre looking at at this point. Reporter well, some traffic here and there this morning. Take a live look in front of me. This was supposed to be closed until 5 30, until right now this morning. But it reopened sometime before 4 00. And we have video of the detour last night from eagle 8 hd when traffic was backed up. The good news, according to a press release we just got from the Florida Department of transportation, the lane that was closed have since reopened. So people coming into the tampa area from st. Pete, the Howard Franklin bridge will now have extra lanes to deal with. So as you may remember over the last few week, we told you how and tacked on, to 30, on 20, 30, even 45 minutes on to commutes and now according to fdot, if you take another live look, things will be running more smoothly out here in the coming days so a go
Free at last passengers of Royal Caribbeans anthem of the seas back on land this morning. The cruiseship docked in new jersey overnight. And breaking overnight, the fbi is now surrounding the last occupiers at the oregon wildlife refuge. The standoff could end sometime this morning. And good thursday morning to you and welcome to news channel 8 today. Im gayle guyardo. And im gene ramirez. You will want to grab a warm cup of coffee this morning. Theres actually a freeze warning and a frost advisory at this hour. So how long is this going to last . And i think we need the jacket all day, right . Well, you will probably need at least a light jacket later today but its going to be more comfortable . The afternoon. Right now you think, my goodness, are we still in florida . Thats the blue shaded area, the purple which includes pasco, inland portions of hillsborough, manatee, sarasota and all of polk county, thats a frost advisory. Even though you stay above frost on the windshield. The aga
Degrees so a tad cooler today. Thats about it. Right now, were 61 degrees in tampa. 62 in st. Petersburg, and inland, 44 in zee hills. Low visibility in central keep that in mind if youre going out and about over the next hour or so. You can see the low clouds on the satellite and radar picture. Those low clouds will burn off and move off to the south. And make way for a descent looking day, so some clouds this morning. This afternoon, lots of sunshine. Breezy and temperatures not too shabby for february. 67 degrees this afternoon. Adrienne. Thanks, brian. Well check back with you. A deadly wrong way crash kill s s two people and sadly this seems to be a trend here in the bay area. Now, the families of the victims are demanding a change. Lets go ahead and take two cars mangled on ashleys exit ramp. Larry thompson was going north on i275 south and hit Eugene Fisher nearly headon. Theyre both unconscious. Yes, i have a pulse on one of them. Unfortunately in the end, both men died. Fisher
Well after a rough time at sea, passengers of royal caribbeans anthem of the seas are back on land today. I bet theyre happy about that. While you were sleeping, the ship returned to its new jersey port. The ship was on its way to florida when it encountered a winter storm. Look at the waves here. The winds and waves tossed the vessel around for hour, tossing as you can see furnishings, and even people. Some of the people were even hurt. The long battle over a piece of property in tampa will be the topic of a heated meeting today in at the city council meeting. The hospital is proposing a parking lot. Neighbors are against it. Coming up in a lye report, why residentses in a live report, why residents claim this is a racial issue. Prefriday. And a cold one for sure. In fact, the coldest of this we have a freeze warning citrus, hernando and sumpter counties and below or at the freezing mark right now. And now add in the frost advisory which includes more of us, places like pasco, inland
Fresh off his last season, a College Football player is now facing child sex charges. This arrest went down in pinellas county. Offensive lineman mack crowder. He started for the volunteers in fall. And he played five years with the team. A push to increase Mosquito Control in light of the Zika Virus Health emergency. Later this morning, the Hillsborough County county commission will consider a measure to increase funding for additional mosquito surveillance and spraying. This comes just weeks after governor rick scott declared a Health Emergency in light of the mosquitoborn illness linked to berth defects. And the republican president ial candidates are preparing for town hallstyle discussions. Time specials with frontrunner donald trump and Ohio Governor john kasich. And ben carson and senators marco rubio and ted cruz will appear on cnn. Its 5 01. Some of us might be dealing with fog this morning. Its very patchy. Usually we see this widespread. We are not seeing it widespread at th