On that in a few minutes. The poltiical battle continues we have mostly cloudy skies that will continue into the afternoon, too, with a few flurries. Snow will track back into the area tonight into tomorrow, but today we wiwi mainly hhve clouds, fog and some flurries. That snow could cause some travel headaches tomorrow morning. Ill have more on that in a few minutes. The poltiical bbttle continues which president will appoint the next Supreme Court justice . Will it be president obama until a new president is in office. Tracie potts takes a scalias flagdraped casket arrived in the dc area constitutional responsibility to nominate a successor. The white house says that wont happen this week while congress is on break. But with flags at half staff, were already seeing possible candidates mentioned thats his prerogative. But we dont have to confirm him and we wont. If there is an up or down vote july. Without conservative scalia, key cases could end up in a tie. We will see unlimited abo
The athletes coming up. Good afternoon everybody, im josh benson. Im stacie schaible. This is first at 4 00. We are waiting for governor rick scott visiting the county devastate by tornadoes. Many victims are still in shock. What were you thinking when you drove back . What the heck is going on here . I didnt realize what was going on. Thankfully, there were no injuries in the storm. Joining us now, Julie Phillips in the weather center. Such a difference today, we have beautiful blue skies. It is breezy as well. The northwest winds at this location coming in pretty steady between 20 and 25 miles so, a breezy day, a rough day on the water, but thankfully, the showers and storms have passed. You can see in the satellite and radar imagery, barely a cloud in the sky, no rain on the radar, things looking dry for the rest of tonight. That front is well off to the south, there is a large system that has made its way into the northeast. Still looking at snow across the mid atlantic, but quiet
Carter. And im stacie schaible. We want to begin with your weather. Its chilly and its going to get chillier. Hes meteorologist stacie phillips. Its going to be colder. Looking outside at st. Pete beach. 56 degrees winds out of the northeast. It has been a breezy afternoon across the area, but notice the beautiful blue skies. At least we have that to go with the cooler weather. Tonight, heres what temperatures will be dropping down to. 39 in temple terrace. 42 in carrollwood and 42 in a apollo beach and 39 in plant city. We should be near 40 in bartow. 38 in arcadia. 35 in invernus. We sdroent frost we dont have frost advisories. Dont be surprised if we have patchy temperatures drop to mid30s. Its a possible for late tomorrow into late tomorrow morning. At the moment, clear skies. And looks gorgeous across the state. High pressure in control. Its keeping rain chances out of the forecast. 59 in temple terrace. 59 in lutes. 62 in sun city center. Inland spots have warmed up more this aft
Im josh benson. And aim stacie schaible. This is first at 4 00. Trump spent his time in florida. He wrapped up a town hall at the Convention Center and thats where our reporter Candace Mccowan is. It has been tense at the rally. Any violence or problems here . Reporter yeah, josh, stacie, good afternoon, talking over the music at the donald trump rally. There was no violence, but the program stopped several times as the protestors interrupted trump and one of them dodging the stage. Law enforcement was escorting those people out. Take a look behind me as trump ramps up. Many people trying to get closer so they can shake his hand. Earlier today, there was a warning at the beginning of this rally telling people here people yelling dump trump. One man charged the stage during this event, but thats not out of the norm for a trump event. Trump is taking questions from the crowd earlier today, but not before he said a few comments about rubio. So these guys, rubio, you know heres what you ha
We will get to imin a second. Happy friday. Im josh benson. And im stacie schaible. We want to go to meteorologist julie phillips. We are kicking off on a beautiful note. Winds out of the informant at 10 miles per hour. Really a gorgeous afternoon. We had a cold front that rolled through earlier and brought us a few showers and a couple of storms but that is long gone. Well to the south of us now. And you can see we are dealing with mostly sunny skies for this afternoon. A little bit of cloud cover for this evening but overall going to be quiet, friday night for us. Behind the front, the winds coming in out of the northwest between 10 to 15 miles per hour. Slightly breezy at times. Shouldnt be too bad. Still warm right now. 72 in temple terrace. Inland spots have heated up. We are coming in 77 at lakeland. For the rest of the evening temperatures will fall back after sunset. A little bit on the cool side to start off saturday morning in the low 50s and talking about a really nice weeke