News channel 8 at 8 00, every night on great 38. Right now on news channel 8 at 6 00. A tow truck driver answering a call for help hit and killed on a bay area road. And now his fellow speaking out, urging people to pay attention. Good evening everyone. Im rod carter. And im melanie michael. Thank you for joining us tonight. We begin with that tow truck driver who lost his life over the weekend. Detectives tell us a drunk driver is to blame and now that man is in jail. This happened on southbound lanes of interstate 275 near fowler avenue. Live tonight from the Hillsborough County jail with this all too sad and familiar absolutely right, sad to say, 30yearold Leandro Perez is facing dui and dui manslaughter charges. Hes the third driver this year to be charged with hitting and killing a tow truck operator. Department of transportation cameras captured the grizzly scene where the tow truck driver was hit and killed. Authorities tell us he was helping two other motorists on i275 southbou
Closer to the bay area the rain is already here. Abc action news making sure youre ready for the potential flooding as it hits part of the bay area. The rain already moved in. The latest from the National Hurricane center, really no big changes as far as the track and what were expecting. Still a heavy rain event. Still coastal flooding potential especially through tomorrow at the time of high tide. Right now 35 mileanhour winds, yes, that is a tropical depression. Not a Tropical Storm. You get four more and you get a Tropical Storm which is what were expecting here. Me anticipation of what the storm will be like as it approaches the area. This will become a Tropical Storm, its going to head to the north and northeast with winds at 50 to 65 miles an hour between thursday morning and thursday afternoon and then by thursday evening making landfall along floridas big bend. The trend has been, youve been noticing the last couple of days shifting further and further away which is excellent
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Cars we have fog lights now and those work as they point down as opposed to the high beams which would kind of blind the driver. Dont be that person that blinds the folks coming in the opposite direction. There you see in pockets of dense fog we continue to see. This is the visibility now. Lakeland nothing. Quarter mile bartow. 1 8 in arcadia and we continue to see pockets. Look at st. Pete at 10. You move up pinellas and visibility. This is going to continue to be a issue. I think the visibility will continue to go down before things improve as we head into the morning. The reason is temperatures are still cooling so areas that may not necessarily have the dense fog now will eventually. 52 tampa. 57 st. Pete. Look at the commuter forecast, certainly foggy this morning. By lunchtime were at 69 and then 71 by the time we get into the commute. So foggy start, my computers are actually feeding information to the traffic computer. Have overlays exactly. This is invaluable i think. You dont
Her sharp message to her haters, including kanye. Plus, adeles audio, what exactly went wrong . And lady gagas stunning tribute to a rock legend. And good tuesday morning. Its the top concern for millions this morning. The Severe Weather in the east causing thousands of accidents already. At least four tornadoes touched down last light in the gulf coast states. The full extent of the damage still unknown. Thousands of people are spending the night without power. Hundreds of flights have been canceled today because of the storm system. As you can see here, it spreads from tennessee to maine. Bringing rain, snow, and ice to 17 states. And the snow coming in within the last three hours. Theres a threehour delay opening federal government offices in washington, d. C. , this morning. The weather is about to make a we get more from abcs megan hughes. I was cleaning up the area in city hall so nobody slips and falls. Reporter up and down the east coast, slippery side walks made for wobbly wal