Haram reunited. Early today starts right now. Great being with you this morning. The offensive to retake the iraq city of mosul from isis has begun. The terror group has controlled iraqs second largest city for the past two years. Iraqi Prime Minister says the time of victory has arrived. Adding that isis would be iraqi forces have surrounded the city cutting off any supply and escape routes. The long awaited battle is underway. Reporter thats right, frances, this has been a very, very anticipated battle. That is the culmination of all of the operations in iraq over the past two years. And the momentous speech he made he noted its been under occupation for the past two years and this is the cleansing operation but its a complicated operation and not just strategically, but politically. Theres so many different political moving parts. Theyre fighting the peshmurga, kurdish forces. Shiite militia groups from southern iraq and the Iraqi Military leading the move into mosul. All of this is
Commute weatherwise, flying out of Tampa International airport this morning. No problems this morning. Could see a few showers possible this afternoon, already getting going on the east coast. And even occasional lightning near Cape Canaveral this morning. 67 in zephyrhills. Wimauma, youre 69. And starting off at 74 for the wakeup temperature in st. Pete this morning. Your average high is 84. And we will jump to 87 this afternoon. Now thats coming off of yesterdays abnormally warm high of 90. Quite warm as well here. The warm streak continues. Big changes down to road. Ill tell you about that in a bit. And lets check out the roads with leslee lacey. Still looking good. Good. More vehicles on the roadway. We have an accident here but its off to the side of the roadway. Not tying up lanes eastbound i 4 before you get to u. S. 27. Again, absolutely no delays. Not a traffic factor. This construction should wrap up any minute, if not already underneath the interstate westbound university. W
Heme parks. Become an annual passholder now and get 13 months for the price of 12. Youre back p were not going to let the criminals take over this great country. Vandals firebombed gop election headquarters. Reaction from the president ial nominees. And happening operations are underway in mosul, iraq to take the city back from isis militants. We know in our area there is a stranger out there and he is no good. Parents are on alert after a man tries to lure a teen into his vehicle. A look at the van investigators say he was driving. Good evening, im haley developing tonight, police in North Carolina investigate an apparent firebombing at a Republican Party office. Early this morning someone through a bottle of flammable liquid through the Orange County republican headquarters windows, and spray painted a hate message. Crystal clark joins us live from the office in downtown tampa to looks eerily similar to the one in North Carolina. You have Donald Trump Campaign signs out front and doz
Both numbers a bit above where we would be but theyre not awful. Moderate humidity, mild and we have a couple of tiny showers trying to streak across the state, although theyre having a hard time making it to the ground. So if youre east of i75, maybe the tiniest of showers. Otherwise, clouds, sunshine and a High Temperature back up to around 87 degrees. Vanessa . Vanessa for folks just waking up brewing on the roadways out of pasco county as far as blockage and delays. We have sky fox that just arrived on scene here of u. S. 41 and state road 54. We have lane blockage right there in the middle of the intersection and most of our concern here, i think, is going to be southbound and eastbound and thats where im seeing the biggest delays. You can see some traffic is able to get around and some is mostly hindered and theyre allowing folks to pass basically in the left lane once its their turn and the traffic light turns green. Southbound land o lakes boulevard and eastbound state road 54.
Childrens hospital camera. 74 degrees. East northeast wind a 11 miles per hour. To be honest with you its going to be very similar to yesterday. Minus a little bit of a the rain. Well have a couple of showers, a couple inland showers moving from east to west later today. But i still think in general weve got that warmth, moderate humidity and highs today around 87 degrees. Vanessa. All right dave, checking back in here on state road 54, looks like were still dealing with trouble spots from hour. And pretty notable. Particularly in eastbound direction of state road 54. So two crashes to tell you about, this one here were looking land olakes boulevard at state road 54. Crash reported in the intersection. In most of our delays in lane block annuals are going to be southbound as well eastbound. So those are directions to avoid with your work arounds being collier parkway and eastbound westbound direction lake fern road. Next state road 54 crash success drive. Boulevard. State road 54. East