Thunderstorms. 76 in odessa, 74 in brandon. Ill widen this out. 75 degrees in dade city, 74 in frostproof and 74 in north portelli. At the moment everything is quite. That was not the case a half hour ago. We had strong storms in citrus and Hernando County and in the last 20 minutes its completely gone. Im keeping the rain chance out of the forecast for the first part of the day. A 20 chance and then a 40 chance this evening. They are not going to move a lot. At 4 38 an 8day temperatures trend. Stay tuned for that because were trending cooler. First a look on the roadways this morning. A pretty good drive over all. A drive on the sellman express. Moving to the maps, zooming in an accidents eastbound at hillsborough avenue at orient road. Now the travel times through ybor looks great parkway absolutely no delays at this Early Morning hour. Thats a look at weather and traffic. Back to melanie and gene. Thank you, leslee. We have break ing news now. At 4 32, tampa police bust four juvenil
Candidates as the republican and democratic nominees face off. The candidates shared the stage at the commander in chief Forum Earlier this month but not at the same time. Tonight they go headtohead. They will have more time to speak than theyve had in any other debate so far, speaking directly to each other and may throw insults. Hillary clinton is the voice for global special interests. He is he is temperamentally unfit. Reporter nbc nightly news anchor lester holt will moderate the two and while hell likely do Fact Checking of his own dont be surprised if he leaves a lot of it up to the candidates. I dont think its a good idea to get the moderator into serving as the encyclopeeda. Its better for that person to depend on the candidates to basically correct each other as they see fit. Trump has been doing prep of his own reportedly in the form of long policy conversations with Rudy Giuliani and governor chris christie. With 100 millionon to watch the pressure is on. Andrew spencer rep
His meeting with hispanic leaders. Meanwhile, a trump ally, maines republican governor digging in over an obscene message he left for a state democrat. I would like to talk to you about my being in a racist you [mute]. Thats just the beginning. What started this war of words. Bashedup billionaire. Virgins Richard Branson and his runin with the road. How the daredevil who crossed the ocean in a hot air balloon and is setting his sights on space says he was nearly killed by a bicycle. Good saturday morning. We want to thank you for joining us and we do start here with two developing weather stories. Look at the map. Its busy out there in the tropics this morning. Theres a disturbance heading toward florida. Its been getting a lot of attention in the media in recent days. In a minute rob is going to will or will not be. Overnight, this, a wave of storms hitting downtown kansas city, missouri, triggering flash floods. Several people had to be rescued. Look at this picture posted by a diner
Area beaches. Got a few clouding billing up. 87 degrees at st. Pete. Already hitting 90 in tampa, 91 in apollo beach. These numbers as mentioned, warming up quickly. Weve still got mid level dry air thats really not giving us much in a way of cloudiness. With all of that sun, were baking. Heat index values already feels like its in the upper 90s for most of central florida. The radar, not showing much in the east coast although we are getting a few showers and storms starting to fire on the east coast sea breeze. Eventually that will start working back across the state. Youll see through the afternoon, as that works inland, well see our west coast sea breeze fire up. Could see a couple of isolated showers, thunderstorms there around 5 00. Theyll be hit and miss but could be lingering around the get a little warmer than that. Well take a complete check of the afternoon forecast and the work week forecast coming up. Were tracking breaking news. One of the top pitchers in baseball has die
A huge loss for Major League Baseball over the weekend. On sunday. Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez died, after a boat crash in south florida. And joses death hit very close to home. Because he went to Alonzo High School right here in tampa. Fox 13s Shayla Reaves joins us live from alonzo high this morning. Where the tributes have been pouring in. A local rap artist is dead. After a shooting in haines city. Police tell us 31yearold jonathan lee jordan who went by j. Green was shot along north 10th street around 8 saturday night. It was right near cook field where a youth Football Game was being played. Jordan later died at lakeland Regional Medical center. Police havent made any arrests. A new war is being waged. When it comes to the zika virus. But this time its between elected officials in south florida. And the department of health. Both sides have been going back and forth the past few days. Over the . Location of mosquito traps where . Zika was discovered in those bugs. The mayors o