We have seen a couple of sprinkles daily. Today we will introduce at times steady but mainly light showers and that is the case right now through portions of polk county and highlands. Elsewhere we have more spotty sprinkles that have developed just north of tampa pushing north and west. We have one exiting palm ha harbor. One more near New Port Richey and nothing left cancelling our plans. We will be monitoring the showers. Probably rain with themselves out as they push west. Frost lake placid and a couple of those locations the rain is steadier than what we saw for the past week. The pattern has not changed. The east wind brings in a little more moisture today. You will notice more clouds than sun at times as well. As we spell out our saturday, rain chances are not widespread but higher than 30 . Hit 87. Above average. Any cooler weather on the horizon. The sevenday forecast coming up, guys. This happening near gulf to bay near highland avenue. That victim was shot multiple times, wa
The city of treasure island, Pinellas Park Sarasota County its as easy as taking a picture and using the phones gps to show them where is that. Code violations sanitation requests broken sidewalks graffiti you name it. They have reached record high numbers 2000 reported issues in august alone. He says its because its so easy. He literally have the power of reported issues in the palm of your hand. He lives in st. Pete and hate and has used it quite a bit times. He may not have been able to report it without it. You see them but you dont think about calling. You may quickly be reporting a problem but it ends at them avenue and 54th st. Weather has been quite a bit of alleyway dumping. Than the city can brainstorm more permanent ways of solving it like installing Community Security commanders cameras. In this is the website version since the city started using this app they had received 32,000 issued reports they have six 17,000 all right. So if you dont have a smart phone thats no probl
Home. Thats a snake. Not my home. Were glad yp with us. Im lindsay logue. And im you know the drill. Let check with weather. Debra is with us and were lookt double digit drops in temperatures. Oh, yeah. If you havent been outside yet, you need to check it out. Heres a look from our tower cam on the beaches. In fact in the beaches today, a patch. We drop down to 58 degrees earlier this morning at Tampa International airport. Right now, things are warming up. 61 in tampa. Chilly in brooksville at 57. Tt of the bay area in the 50s to low 60s. Big temperature change as james said, hes our official meteorologist today or well say our honorary meteorologist yesterday. 8 degrees below in brayton, sarasota and through the bay area, it will certainly be a chilly start to the day. And also a little chilly in the afternoon. 76 is our high today. Delightful. 78 tomorrow. Plenty of sunshin. No rain in the forecast. And it is a great day to be out on the Pumpkin Patch. Heres your Pumpkin Patch plann
This tragedy. I think i ran out of tears honestly. Reporter a grieving sister puts up a strong front remembering her brother, 21 yearold zachary zac marcano of ruskin, one of 10 children killed as he flew off his motorcycle in this apparent case of road rage. He was really loveable. He tried to do the most for anyone, tried to help them out as much as he could. Reporter in the end marcano couldnt save himself. Investigators say it began scene. The two they say just happened to bump into each other. Words were exchanged. Then they took off down the road. 10 minutes later one of them would be dead. 19th street northeast was shut down for hours as investigators canvassed the crime scene. A flood of evidence markers dotted the road. Family members consoled one another at the crime scene at one point walking to the intersection where zac lost his life, but what caused this . His family said he was sticking related incident. Hes not a troublemaker, but he sticks up for what he believes in. R
Around 15 miles per hour. Well call it breezy for the afternoon and calling for a decent warmup as well. The numbers get to 86 degrees this afternoon which is 4 degrees above normals. Looking at what to expect for the rest of your saturday and preview next week coming up. Thank you very much. Were following breaking news. Theres a search on for a driver who hit a polk county deputy and a motorist he was helping the iv the motorist was killed. News channel 8 joining us live along state road 60 where they remain on scene. How is the deputy doing . He has a broken pelvis, luckily he is expected to live. Right now, investigators are still doing a little bit of an investigation, they are expected to wrap up soon. I want to show you some of the video from earlier this morning. When deputy adam noticed a motorist on the side of stated road 60 and stopped to help he turned on his lights in the patrol car and called for help. A vehicle drove into the median striking the officer and the motorist