News channel 8 today. Im gayle guyardo. And i am gene ramirez. We have breaking news this morning. It has to do with traffic. Lets check in with leslee lacey. Yeah, were kickoff with a crash on the Howard Frankland bridge. Its on the tampa side and it is northbound. Heres a quick look at it. And we have the two right lanes open. Just a few minutes ago, only the right lane was open so they have cleared it to the two left sides. Injuries involved in the crh. Vehicles on the roadway, we are keeping an eye on this one. Omar has a live look for us. This is in the distance with the water. But again, this is the accident northbound on the Howard Frankland bridge. And as we come back to the maps here, you can see begin those two left lanes are taken away. Fortunately we dont have delays. Just because theres not that many vehicles on the roadway. Thank goodness. Hopefully the weather is it was hot yesterday. Didnt break a record but we were darn close. 97 in sarasota. The old record was 99. Tha
Odessa and palm 77 in odessa and palm harbor. Brandon, 74 degrees. 357 in wimauma. 7 75 in wimauma. No rain chances for the first part of the day. Could there be a shower right around lunchtime . Yes, a small rain chance. But once we get toward 4 00, 5 00, 6 00 this even, the storms head toward the coast and some could be stronger and more widespread. So feeding off that heat of the day. Hitting 93 today. Thats above the at 6 08, i have an hourbyhour look at your wednesday in the weather and traffic on the 8s. We have the accident on the Howard Frankland bridge clear up. And all lanes are open there. Look at this, beautiful drive now. Only six minutes to cross it. Earlier we had the two left lanes taken away. At one point, only the right lane was getting by but now its fantastic. And travel times here. And on state road 54 in New Port Richey, we look great. U. S. 19 to the sun coast parkway, 12 minute commute. Harbor, up to speed at 13 minutes from state road 54 to the tampa road. And
The search for people has shifted to a Recovery Mission now. We will have a live report coming up later on in the show. First, we have things popping up on our radar right now. Our chief meteorologist Denis Phillips is in for shay ryan. What can you tell us, denis. A lot of lightning. Were in the middle of it in tampa. If youre expecting anyone home for the drive home, there could be a delay. The nice thing about the is they are very fastmovers. Just a ton of lightning from downtown to the bay and north of apollo beach. These are headed to largo by 4 24. High point by 4 12. In terms of wind, nothing more than 30, 40 miles pehour. But obviously lightning is the Biggest Issue right now. If you live anywhere in this corridor for the next 20 with this kind of lightning out there. This west side of the heaviest cell moving towards tampa in 10 minutes and ebor in five mites. If you live anywhere from st. Pete to the other side of pinellas, realtime lightning flashes as you see. This is movin
Im gayle guyardo. And im gene ramirez. Lets find out whats happening weatherwise with leigh spann. Good morning. Good morning. It has been some hot days. We didnt hit a record yesterday. But we were close. Sarasota, 97. The old record was 99. Just glad we didnt actually hit that. In tampa, 94 was the high temperature. The old record of 97. Heading back to school on this scorcher of a day, 79 degrees for the first class. 89degrees by and 92 when the final bell rings. And thats when the rain chances really start ramping up. Notice at noon, 1 00, 2 00, 10 to 20 rain chance. But after 3 00 wpm the kids are 3 00 p. M. When the kids are coming home, a 40 chance. I am tracking tropical depression six for you. We have the latest track. And leslee lacey has the roadways. Its starting to look a little better on the Howard Frankland bridge. Good. Just in the fact that theres more vehicles onscene, they have a tow truck trying to of there. But at this point, two left lanes are still blocked. We ar
Now facing charges. Thats not all. Police say these kids didnt go to school for up to three years. Abc action News Reporter clifton french uncovered this investigation. He joins us live from the home where you can see the conditions for yourself. Clifton. Reporter yeah. You can see how de lab tated this house is from looking at it from the outside. You have broken cars on the outside, broken windows. Police say the inside is just falling apart. As you can see by the sticker, the home is at least one Family Member tells me that none of this Police Report is true. You can barely see this home from the street. The landscaping is overgrown. On the other side of this fence, what looks like an abandoned jumping yard. Broken down cars, trash and tools piled up. A trailer full of bicycles and other junk sits in the backyard. Tattered tarps cover the roof. I felt like it was a lot of bad things going on over here. Reporter tony smith lives across the street. Stayed to themselves. She did on occ