Showers will develop late this afternoon. Look at that view. Nice, dazzling reflection of the sun there, limited clouds for you. We hop over to Clearwater Beach where we had a shower offshore. Its fizzling so we have light winds for you, and clouds build offshore and only one area of showers that continues to fall apart. We can call this a shower. One tiny little shower about five miles west of reddington beach, a little further south. These showers hang south and theyre about 10 miles west of anna maria and fort de s soto. We keep an eye on those, and im not expecting them to reach the coast, though. We dont have 80s this hour. We can celebrate that and bartow is at 72. Our weather controlled by very light winds and some drier air aloft today. With that you see the high, and notice the wind arrows all over the place. Light wind means the sea breeze moves away from the beach quickly. Starts, we introduce the 30 chance of showers but a few slowmoving, possibly strong storms. Well look a
Where you going . Youre just backing out of it. Just backing pick up backing out of the shot. I dont know where they are going. Its good out here. Its nervous energy. Its good out here. Its nice outside. Really is nice edge morning weve had in quite some time. Lets check our temperatures here in the 9 oclock hour. Were, tampas at 79. Which is exactly where we were yesterday at this time. Although we were in the 60s earlier. Crystal river back to 72. Brooksville at 75. And sarasotas already in the rain chances are the same today. 20 percent in the tampa area. 30 percent from sarasota south. And High Temperatures getting back to about say 91, 92 degrees, vanessa. All right. And we want to check in, dave right now on southbound 275. Was looking pretty slow for while now. A crash off to the shoulder. Near hillsborough. Actually just south of hillsborough that is completely gone we do have big improvements to travel advertisements. A one point sitting about 58 minutes for this drive here. S
Die. He said shut up or i will choke you. I try today call for help. Reporter thankny, as a car passed by, the guy panicked. He snatched her phone and ran off. Deputies were notified and her mother is obviously concerned. Oh, i was beside myself when her friend called me this morning. Reporter the girls mother noticed a strange mysterious man walking the street shortly before her daughter left. I knew it was him. You know. The only thing going through my mind, is sh reporter now authorities are on the hunt for him. They have stepped up patrols in the area and will be monitoring the bus stop this week to keep the kids safe. The girl wants fellow teens to understand these dangers are real. Anything can happen. At any time. And i want them to be aware of their surroundings. Reporter and this is is a neighborhood with a lot of kids. It is usually a very safe spot. This suspect is about 25, five blue jeans and a dark shirt. If anybody knows anything about this case, Contact Crime stoppers.
Mulberry. We flew above it less than three hours ago, you can see a giant black hole with water flowing into it. Millions of gallons of contaminated water went into the floridan aquifer. There is no way for the liner protecting it to hold with the sink hole. A weeki wachee man is debt after deputies shot him responding to a 911 call at his home. The and surrounded by guns. Reporter a tragic and trying experience. That is how the hernando sheriff described what took place in this quiet weeki wachee neighborhood when deputies responded to a 911 call of a mentally unstable man inside a home threatening to hurt himself. As they arrived to try to calm the man down, the team had to Hernando County to investigate. Not only are you scared to death because you dont know what you are going into. If you are going into a person who wants to hurt themselves it is or going into a situation where the person may want to take somebody with them. Reporter neighbors were terrified earlier. They heard the
Week long, and its spill over into the weekend. Low 610s along the coast. Inverness, theres patchy fog bringing your eyesight down to a mile, and also patchy fog around the tampa executive airport. For the next few hours, holding off into the 50s. Plenty of sunshine to start the day, and then the afternoon high warming up to 75 degrees. Great weather for the runners. Gasparilla distance classic today and tomorrow, and some folks like the nice school 60 degree weather in the morning, and they have got it. Thank you, mark. Speaking of that. The run arers are getting ready right now, working out the last minute jitters, and thousands of people will be taking over bay shore boulevard for the popular races. Mary it sounds like i can hear people behind you, and they are getting ready. A lot of tampa bay is already up early this saturday morning. Today is the 15k and the 5k, and i can tell you, people are flooding in, and they are doing their stretches its great weather. You dont want it to b