That youre looking at from the still active scene. All of this started with a domestic disturbance call into the Police Department. And we will have a live report for from you the scene on what minutes. A busy morning. Here. You can barely see. For the second time this week, the Sunshine Skyway bridge is closed. Again, the Sunshine Skyway bridge is closed. Your commute. This is a lilive look at the Traffic Camera that shows the big cloud of fog just hanging over bridge. And officials are telling us that visibility in the area is less than 100 feet. So lets get right to meteorologist leigh spann withth more on this fog again. Yes, and its interesting because the vast majority of you watching today will not have fog when you head out the door. In fact, this is the visibility map. Most of you can see for miles. And now theres some low hanging clouds just up off the surface. You may not be able to see the see the car in front of you. Just when you zoom right here to the Sunshine Skyway bri
Sparked overnight in the attic. Thankfully everybody is okay. And closing arguments in the hulk hogan sex tape trial are scheduled to begin today. Terry gene bollea, he is suining gawker for 100 million. The website published a sex tape showing him with the ex wife of a tampabased radio personalty. More on that story y and others in a few minunutes. But we want to check on ththe weather as we head into the weekend, leigh. Temperatures are maybe in some places a degree or two cooler. 60 in brooksville. Down to 58 degrees in zephyrhills. Still well above average but cooler than yesterday. 65 bartow. 61 currently in apollo beach. And patchy clouds across the area already. And i think were going to see more cloud cover throughout the day than we saw yesterday. And you might be drawing your attention into the gulf of mexico. A lot of rain across the i10 corridor and just south of the Panama City Beach area at this point. To stay north of i4. Im only putting in a 20 rain chance for a shower
Hes out of the race. Also thats just no gator, thats a big gator. Indeed it was. A big scare for a lakeland couple after they find a 9foot gator in their Swimming Pool. But first reporter we are live at the strawberry festival. It gets underway today. Were looking at some of the rides, trying some of the food but we are also rubbing elbows with some royalty and coming up in 11 minute, i will have a live interview with the queen of the strawberry festival. That looks like a lot of fun. Good morning and welcome to news channel 8 today. Thank you for waking up with us on this thursday morning. I am gayle guyardo. And i am Candace Mccowan in for gene ramirez today. Today promises to be a Beautiful Day and meteorologist leigh spann joins us now. We are getting quite spoiled. And we should be spoiled because this is the perfect time of year. Now you may notice its a little cooler this morning, some of us in the 40s. 46 in inverness. Plant city, strawberry festival, 55 degrees. 60 in bradento
Polls for president ial primaries and caucuses today. At the same time, the candidates are turning their focus to florida. Today our republican senator marco rubio will attend a rally in sarasota. Donald trump will be in jupiter. And democrat Bernie Sanders will rally supporters in miami. Its all ahead of our primary, a week from today. Well an 8 on your side consumer alert. Skimming devices with Blue Tooth Technology found at a gas station in south sarasota. That means the crooks can access the credit card data remotely without touching the pump. They were found at the mobile station at the corner of cattlemen and fruitville roads and now investigators are warning drivers to check their credit card and bank statements. And leigh spann is here with a look at the weather. Another in the long stream of beautiful days because we have the big area of high pressure. But around high pressure, you get clockwise winds so getting atlantic but its also warmer than yesterday. Yeah, cool spot, bro
Telling us that one of the drivers is in critical condition. And this all happened this morning. As you can see behind me here, investigators are still on the scene on Central Avenue with basically trying to map out everything that happened this morning when that undercover vehicle was struck by that stolen car early this morning. Now the officers, one from tampa and one from st. Petersburg, are members of an Auto Theft Task force that was formed last year following a string of auto thefts in both tampa and st. Petersburg. They were traveling down Central Avenue just after midnight when they were tboned by a car at 53rd street north. Now as it turns out, that car had been stolen last week but they werent actually looking for that vehicle, they were looking for another one when the stolen vehicle ended up t boning their undercover vehicle. And there were six people inside the stolen vehicle, four female, two males. The driver a 25yearold man is in critical condition. Everyone else in th