Skyway bridge and leslee will have more in a bit. But first, lets check on the fog with leigh. It really is not widespread. Its all contained basically from the Sunshine Skyway bridge down through manatee and western portions of sarasota county. This is a visibility map. I shows you how far you can see. And 10, 9, 7mile visibility means basically no fog at this point. Its not until you go down to sarasota where you get less than a mile. So now im going to use a fog forecast. Using the same visibility. How far you can see. Going forward in time now until about 7 45, i expect the fog to get a little bit more widespread for areas near the coast. Basically from tampa west toward the shoreline, places like polk county and highlands, not going to be as bad. The thickest part of the fog should be between 7 00 a. M. And 9 00 a. M. Again, especially near the coast. And after 9 00 a. M. , everybody clears out except the immediate coastline. Most of the day. So if its not foggy for you, the bigge
Hillary Rodham Clinton moves closer to securing the nomination. She swept the primary, winning all five states. Missouri is still very close at this point but nbc news projecting a clinton win there. Clintons big night dealt a big blow to her opponent, senator Bernie Sanders. Lets get a check on your weather with storm team 8 meteorologist leigh spann. Today fog going to be the big issue again. Theres a dense fog advisory for the near shore waters and starting to see fog in brandon and lakeland and of course in sarasota up totowards st. Petersburg. Remember yesterday the fog completely shut down the Sunshine Skyway bridge for hours and hours into the afternoon. So what i am going to do is shshow you the fog forecast. This is the visibility. This shows you how far you will be able to see into the fog and its only going to get thicker between now and about 7 30 whenen after 7 30, places along and east of i75 will start to break that fog up. This is about 9 30. But notice once again along
The polls to cast their ballots. For some candidate, it is a make or break day. Especially for our senator marco rubio. The polls open in a few hours at 7 00 this morning. Its just two hours away. A Hillsborough County hero. A witness when saw the wrong way crash that killed Deputy John Kotfila explains why she believes he was acting as a human shield to save her life. And the officer rushed around me and one or two seconds after he passed me, he ended up hitting the car instead of me. The funeral for Deputy Kotfila is scheduled for friday. Well beer, wine and liquor, the sale of alcohol in polk county is up for discussion later this morning in the county commission. Businesses in the county want to sell booze for longer hours on sundays. Right now in lakeland, alcohol sales are permitted starting at 7 00 a. M. But polk county businesses have to wait till noon. Minutes but first, lets get a check on the weather. Leigh, youre tracking fog this morning. Yeah, watching a lot of fog in the
Fog. All the temperatures feel warmer because of the humidity. The fog lifts at 10 00, back in the upper 70s by lunchtime. It will feel like 80s because of the humidity and low 80s for the actual high by the time we get to 4 00. Our weather computer is feeding the traffic computer. Fog . First were going to head to Corey Dierdorff who is driving on the veterans expressway. Checking out some construction. Its happening overnight northbound and southbound closed between van dyke and ehrlich. Supposed to open up again around 6 00. Hes driving northbound around waters. So it looks like they are starting to still have the cones out there. So just a heads up, they have detour signs posted but again that construction supposed to lift around 6 00 a. M. And expected to be there all this week. Take a look behind me, this is what it looks like on Sunshine Skyway at the north fishing pier. Can i also show you on the map where were seeing the fog now. This is the area in yellow from sarasota all th
The republicans. Todays primaries nicknamed super tuesday day 2. 0. Will it narrow the field for republicans . Right now trump is already looking to the election this november. Hes speaking right now in palm beach, florida. Lets listen in. Money should be here and the politicians for three years havent been able to make a deal. applause . We can make a deal theres an example of something that you could do if i sat down with a few of the senators, a few of the congressmen, you could make a deal on that in 10 minutes if you knew what you were doing because everybody wants to do it, and companies are actually leaving our country to get their money. Not only because our taxes are too high which well lower by the way, but companies are leaving our country in order to go and get money thats their money because theres no way of bringing it in. So weve got a long way to go but i think at some point its going get done this has been very exciting this whole process. We started i was one of 17 pe