Crash in tampa overnight. These images, tough to look at as we find out a mother and her 3 children were inside one of those vehicles. We want to get to abc action news anchor, Lindsay Logue outside Tampa International with the heart breaking update. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you, absolutely heart breaking, that mother and her 2 Young Children died in the crash. A third child here condition. There is a 4th person that was involved, a 4th child in serious condition here at the hospital. I want to get you the latest information right now that troopers just gave to us within the last hour, get you up to speed on the crash. For whatever reason, a man named pablo cortes crossed the median into on coming traffic on mlk near coconut palm drive. When he did, he slammed head on into marianela murillos mini that mini van immediately burst into flames, trapping marianela murillo inside along with 4 children. 3 of them, her own. She and her children, a 9yearold and 10yearold, died. Co
Temperature didnt move much from where we were last hour. 63 the current dew point with northeast wind. At vanessa maps cams so we will get a check off ur intersta interstates where we have nothing new to report incident wise. Live look here pinellas, 275 at 22nd avenue north. Running up to speed in this area. Driving from Pinellas Bayway to kennedy. Should only take you 24 minutes along northbound 275. Waiting for the rest of the congestion to clear out westbound i4 sitting 12 minutes to get from 75 to 275. And pretty clear westbound or northbound i should say on 75. Only four minutes between selman and i4. Russell. Its almost 9 02 we will a terrible story a manhunt under way for two people who robbed and murder ad Convenience Store employee. And we have Surveillance Video of killers. You can see the two men running away from the qp Convenience Store on north scenic highway. Im waiting for it. See what i see here. This was around 2 oclock, 2 30 this morning. Police say that thieves at
This white smoke is coming out of here. They are spraying water into the warehouse. Can you see the you can see the melt garage door bent in from the flames and how hot this is. The owner estimates there is a million worth of supplies in there that has burned up. He said there is a lot of Paper Products as well. So that, obviously, leading to the flammability. Saying b here that has made it tough to get this out, it is trapping the heat out to fight the fire and of course before they even speculate about cause, they have to get it out. They move to the next phase but no injuries here. It is causing though some closures on to the veterans that were right by. Right now it looks like traffic is getting by that we can see so far but there have been closures consider dale mabry to avoid this. Well be here and bring you the latest at 6 00. All right. And before we get let yougo before we let yougo, any concerns about the chemicals. There were supplies. They were leading to smaller explosions
State is top on the list. Good morning and welcome to news channel 8 today. Im gayle guyardo. Im gene ramirez. Thank you for wake ing ing up with us on this friday morning. Lets get your friday forecast with least. Good morning, leigh. Good morning. Weve had a nice long stretch of days above average and breezy. Thats exactly what im expecting today. Max defender 8 is confirming that we dont have any rainfall, we havent had any rain all wee extra clouds out there thats keeping us warmer. Right now 65 degrees in zephyrhills, 70 sebring, 72 sarasota, 66 inverness. This has been the trend all week long. Monday morning it was chilly at 61 degrees. Over the week temperatures have come up in the over night hours. 64 degrees tuesday and wednesday morning, yesterday we started at 69 and today most of us are in the 70s. Warm and breezy today. Trend into november. Leslee is going to get that friday commute started. We have a pretty good commute so far except for in the hudson area but its looking
Northnortheast wind at six. Notice the upper 50s to the north. Most of us are sitting in the mid 60s right now. Gorgeous sunrise. A little less than 46 minutes, election day forecast. Lovely start, no weather issues and high temperatures sneaking back in the lower 80s this afternoon. Good morning, vanessa. Vanessa good morning, dave. We do have some traffic issues this morning and it all pertains to the Howard Frankland bridge right now. Been following a crash in the southbound direction so the st. Pete bound lanes. We did have three lanes blocked but now were down to one lane, the right lane blocked, but we have some bad delays here as you can tell. Delays peaked at 28 minutes or so. Now theyre back down to 10 minutes so weigh that into account if youre taking the Howard Frankland. Give yourself extra time out the door. Otherwise, i would advice you to Courtney Campbell looks clear and so does the gandy. Laura election day is finally here. In less than 24 hours, we should know who our