Clearwater and tampa. Starting off at 75 for apollo beach and lakeland. 76 in sebring. We are looking at patchy fog. Youll notice a couple spot where is the visibility dropped. Inverness down to a quarter mile of visibility in Citrus County. No rain in our area. There are showers back down across the keys. Make sure you have the umbrellas for this afternoon. As we are anticipating some showers and thunderstorms to start developing. Theyll develop in back towards the coast as we go into the afternoon and evening. It is also going to be a hot and steamy weekend. Well look at the temperatures and the very active tropics coming up in a few minutes. Thank you very much. New overnight the fat other of a young boy two died in a hot truck bonded out of jail early this morning. Troy whitaker is charged with aggravated manslaughter after leaving his 23monthold son in his truck for eight hours yesterday. News channel 8 reporter mary mcguire joins us live from the where the father just walked out
Through saturday afternoon. Being being picked up by an upper level trough. That results in a fairly hard right turn of the system. Taking it as a major hurricane toward jamaica. The system is expected to remain as a category 2 hurricane over the bahamas. You see the cone of uncertainty does include extreme southwest florida. Most of the forecast models keep this out to the atlantic, but a lot can change over the next 24 hours. We have to wait and see what effects it will have on the state of florida. We will check in with you in a few minutes. An update to breaking news we have been telling you about. A crash involving a box truck shut down a lane on i4. It is taken out of the situation for a while. The left lane was shut down, you can see, the cars are but within the next few minutes we expect this to open up. We will keep an eye on it. And here, actually, here is what it looked like earlier. We dont have that picture, but we were just telling you about the fact the situation is almo
The fsu Wellness Center on monday. Blisters on hands, and some students had blisters on their feet. And we normally see this in day care centers. Reporter after tuesday brought new cases, the university canceled fraternity and Sorority Rush events that night. I dont know if they expected it to be gone that night. But activity has resumed. Reporter most students we talked to were aware of the virus and what to do. Thats all i know. And they said to wash your hands . Just, use hand sanitizer. You can wipe it right away. Reporter the best advise is to clean, clean, clean with a bleach solution. There were no new cases wednesday, but thursday did bring another case. It is nothing that is life threatening. Reporter the university has asked that the outbreak could be in any way related to a hurricane hermine was hitting the capitol. Even if sewage wasnt the culprit, hurricane hermine probably was. We think the hurricane and no electricity led to this. In terms of humid hot conditions, cant d
Thanks for joining us tonight. We begin out of sarasota. A Restaurant Owner put a political message on his marquee getting some attention. It shows support for trump. John rogers shows what everyone is talking about tonight. Reporter we have seen people parking here and taking pictures with this sign behind me. Others have made it clear they are not coming back. Bill davis, the ne barnacle bills is not shy about sharing his opinion. And this week, he was fed up. You can put half of Trump Supporters into what i call the basket of deplorables. Reporter after hearing Hillary Clinton say this, he put up this sign. It was a big gamble. Reporter it reads, nra member, concealed carry okay. Not a deplorable. Vote trump. I usually sit on my hands with it being a public business, but i got to the point where i couldnt do it. Reporter in less than 48 hours he heard from thousands of people both here and around the country. I think it is insulting. I think that it show it is mentality that we are
Deputy involved shooting in Hernando County. Melanie michael is live in the enclave subdivision and what have you learned so far . Reporter hey, stacy, good afternoon to you. At this hour, this is what were learning. Were in weeki wachee, a quiet is undivision where deputies, as you mentioned, from Hernando County, are on the scene of a involved shooting. I want to show you here. The house is around the corner. You cant see it and we other video we want to share with you at this hour and this is a deputy involved shooting that started around 1 this afternoon when deputies from the Hernando County Sheriffs Office were called out for a man who was having some short of a mental breakdown, a Healthcare Worker called 911 to let deputies know he needed assistance. A deputy and sergeant from Hernando County showed up at the house. Again, some of the details coming into in to us. We spoke with the she. When they went inside, they him to a safe place mentally and that did not take place, and th