57 st. Petersburg, cooler up north. Citrus county, hernd county and lower Hernando County and lower 40s. Kind of a high, thin cloud cover which stretches out into the gulf of mexico. No rain today but well have high, thin clouds. Lets call it generally partly cloudy, a filtered sunshine. This morning, temperatures in the upper 40s this afternoon. Partly cloudy, perfect pirate conditions, light winds, good boating conditions and high near 70 degrees. All in all, looks like a pretty good gasparilla saturday. Thank you very much it is the day the bay area has been waiting for. Gasparilla x marks the spot and the place to be is in tampa hundreds of thousands of pirates are preparing to invade tampa bay today for the historic gasparilla celebration. Mary mcguire joins us now where pirates and parade goers are set to be happening out all day long. Good morning, mary happy gasparilla to you, candace. We are definitely in the calm before the storm right now but we want to show you this gorgeou
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Bill, how are we looking for the arrival of the ship . Finally its here. And we have been really kind of iffy with the weekend weather over the past couple weeks. We finally got a good one. That is where the invasion is going to come, the water between Harbor Island and davis islands. Thats what were looking at getting very crowded up there through the channel with a couple hundred pleasure boaters who decide to jump on board with the pirates as they make their way into the city of tampa. Right now we have a pirate tie on. Were kind of festive around here because things are so nice and clear, and theyre going to stay here. Streaming in from the west. Not bringing any rain, but well see the clouds kind of get in the way of the sun a little bit. So sun and clouds through the day today. Right now 53 in tampa, 41 in inverness, 45 in zephyrhills, 57 currently in st. Petersburg, 45 in lakeland and bartow. Well get ready for the beads. The invasion starts at 11 30, parade at 2 00, and the tem
And with that crowd, a heightened threat of recent terrorist attacks across the globe. We have complete coverage tonight beginning with cara. First, we begin with jacqueline. Reporter we are here at a shore boulevard and i can tell you that we have seen hundreds of people if not thousands walking in this area today. We have some stragglers. It wrapped up about two hours ago. We have been here about 10 hours and everything is calm. Everyone knew of the increase in police and there was the watchful eye of Law Enforcement york gasparilla goers are getting loud and creatively crazy. Patrolling the estimated 200,000 in attendance, the also assisting. So strong that even a 30 year parade that took notice veteran took notice. Even outoftowners took note of the events organization. How is everyone walking and drinking, i dont know. Police are strict on underage drinking but for those 21 and up, youre free to walk, drink and score some beads. [ screaming ] reporter were still waiting for police
The private sale of guns on its site but falls short of removing firearms sales completely. And we are going to gasparilla today, hanging out with the pirate crew this morning. Reporter thats right, we are here at the Tampa Yacht Club, where it is pirate central this morning. Well have live interviews with the crew members you talked about, coming up. We are all ready for gasparilla. We belong in that tent. Yeah, we do. If this is your first time to gasparilla, beads are a must. Just like these. Get them all along the parade route. They will throw them out. The closer you get to downtown where the parade ends, the less supply. They will not have a cool bow tie like the one bill logan is wearing this morning. Hes got the awesome gasparilla getup today. We are heading out there live in a little bit and you can see already the activity beginning along the channel, a boat there making its way along the Davis Islands shores as we are starting to see the light of day. We are seeing clouds co