Supreme court the this morning for an appeal hearing. Dontae morris is on death row for three of four murders. Two of those murders are the shooting deaths of Tampa Police Officers david curtis and Jeffrey Kocab in 2010. Today morris attorney will argue that floridas Death Penalty sentencing system is unconstitutional. And this morning, the midwest is getting hammered by a massive winter storm. Check out the video. Blizzard warnings are in place for minnesota. Officials are warning drivers there to stay off the roads. As much as 10 inches of snow are expected to fall. And we want to get a check on our weather with meteorologist leigh spann. Getting warm here. It is. Even when you walk out the door right now, its going to feel much more springlike. 72 plant city. 70 in clearwater. 71 sarasota. And 70 in lakeland. But the big thing, look at the difference between yesterday and today. Lakeland is 13 degrees warmer than just at 6 00 yesterday morning. Brooksville, youre 11 degrees tampa is
Bernie sanders will come face to face at a debate tonight in New Hampshire. It will be a gloomy day for the bay area keep the umbrellas handy. The rain is just to the north but it is coming this way. Despite the rain, the Florida State fair will open the doors in just about five hours. We are live with all you need to know about this years event. The time is 5 01. Good morning, welcome to news channel 8 today. Im gayle guyardo. Im gene ramirez. We have a lot for you in this hour. Lets start with leigh spann and all of the rain in the forecast. Unfortunately it will be a rainy day. A lot of us will be able to get off to work and school dry. You can see how slow this system is zooming to the south. Clouds moved north of i4 but the rain is to our north. It has moved into a forecast mode. Watch where you live to see when the rain comes in. I believe most of us will stay dry through 7 30, 8 00. Roadways. That is good news for you. Between 8, 9, 10, well see pockets of rain in hernando count
Feels chilly out here, believe it or not, when the winds blows temperatures drop into the 50s and 60s and theres no humidity. Philadelphia, showing 65. Millville, 63. Sea isle, 36. Dover, 62 and the same number for trenton. Theres whats left of arthur continuing to pull away from the coast. Now that its up into new england and the canadian maritimes, the return winds out of the northwest have cooled us down and lord the humid level 0 lowered the humidity leaves and cooled us off. Theres not a cloud in the sky. If you have a tee time, lots of sunshine, the breeze may affect your swing a little bit, so you may have to adjust. 10 00 a. M. , 83 degrees, uv index will be on the high side. Youll get a sunburn in less than 15 minutes, if youre not careful. The breeze will be gusty out of the northwest 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour. Stronger near the jersey shore. Lots of sunshine, low humidity levels, but another heat wave is on the way, actually it begins monday. Today looks good, tomorrow is fant
It was 15 years ago this week that Hurricane Katrina killed more than 1,800 people and that hurricane right now is hitting louisiana, its even more powerful than katrina. Lets begin with cnns martin savage, who is in hardhit lake charles, louisiana. So whats happening at this hour . Hey, alisyn, as you say day light is going to tell everything here. You know, one of the frustrating things we know this storm has done a great deal of damage but when youre in a big resort which is where we had to go to find safety and shelter in the ferociousness of the storm, and take a look at this. This tells you a story about the impact. This is a tree, most trees usually in storms they all come down. Thats broken off at the base, snapped, twisted, torn. Its just a very small example of the incredible power. Trees are down all over the place like that. You have steel poles and lampposts that are bent and moved by the wind. You have a lot of street signage that has been torn out of the ground. So again
That theyre not going to come to think of her work order will talk about it and think about the restaurant into a tiny tear due to apathy about it. Finally the building today. Experts debate the effect of cocoa opal world that would take a look of the topic of like in china first up monday morning a moment or go for hundreds of dollars. Chinese spring festival traditionally and the lantern festival where families get together dead meat dumpling for them to a red apple winter. As a result many families have already purchased went into recently as many provinces in china are having a warmer winter the previous two years people are more enthusiastic about enjoying winter show and on to detail to leave the appellant and have increased by thirty to forty percent of the Previous Year the price for compliment and ranges from twenty to one hundred us. Around three dollars and fifty dollars but for some big winter especially made for the year before. The price to me more than fifty dollars. Lau