Panhandle, big bend region of florida, expected to make land fall later tonight as a category one hurricane. You can see hurricane warnings posted for areas north of the tampa bay area. And then as we head into friday, it will continue to move away from us and then up the east coast as we head throughout Labor Day Weekend. So at this point, its looking like this could be the first hurricane to hit florida in over 10 years. Hurricane hunters were out investigating this storm the today. And thats why they were able to upgrade it hurricane. They found wind gusts up to 86 Miles Per Hour. So it has strengthened in the gulf over the course of the last 24 hours. And now its moving more quickly as it heads towards the panhandle of florida. The other big story is, with this tropical system, we have to be mindful that we could see quick spinups or isolated tornadoes. We have parts of the tampa bay area under a tornado watch. Polk county, Citrus County, hillsborough county, up through county, tha
Chances for all of us increase as the moisture comes back at us here. It starts friday and heads into the weekend. Hour by hour forecast takes to us 10 00 with low 80s. And again afternoon highs in the low 90s. Well talk about the higher rain chances in a few minutes and the tropics as well. For now the roads are dry. Its a good way to start the morning. If youre heading to the interstates no crashes or breakdowns to tell you about throughout the bay area. This is what it looks like i 275 and busch, these tail lights here downtown tampa, just five minutes for them. Also checking the drive across the bridges looking great on all three bridges. Even the Sunshine Skyway just nine announce minutes to get across there. Lets check drive times across all three bridges. From pinellas to hillsborough county. Suffered major flood damage to their homes are about to get a big assist. James tully is live in the neighborhood impacted by the anclote river. Are some families able to get to their front
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Yesterday we saw some major backups. More than an hour it took to get from lakeland to downtown tampa tu to a couple of crashes. Right now smoothsailing. All in the green, 22 minutes from county line road to downtown tampa. 6 01. To a crime alert. A violent attack on a war veteran in st. Petersburg and this Morning Police are working to track down the driver from this surveillance video. Theyve already got an head start with a look at the vehicle they are looking for and also a good description of the guy. Abc action news anchor Lindsay Logue is live at happened. Pretty bold move to attack that man in broad daylight. It was around lunchtime that the attack happened so you can imagine the parking lot here at the walmart would have been busy as well as busy 34th street along this area. The victim says she was completely caught offguard. Jeffrey hardeman is a u. S. Army war vet, disabled and primarily uses a walker and cane to get around. He says last week a man walked up to him in the pa