Brandon, 77. Wesley chapel, 78 degrees. Pasco kids back to school for the first day, 80 in bartow and sarasota right now. Pasco and polk counties, first day back. Off to class, 79 degrees and patchy clouds. And 92 after school when the kids play outside. And about a 40 chance of the late day storms. Notice mostly dry through the first part of the day. The rain chances ramp up to 40 by 5 00 p. M. And storms push towards the coast. At 6 08, i have an hour you. And we are still looking good in lakeland. Polk county up to speed as well. U. S. 92 starting to get busier. And Manatee County as i zoom in. I want you to see that orange dot there. Well, thats a slow down. Thats southbound on i75. And that is after you pass 275. Thats where you hit the brakes, down to about 23 . Fhp tells me that the crash is tying up a lane. South 75 in the palmetto area. Fhp says still tying up a lane at ulmerton road but not seeing delays. Great drive on the Sunshine Skyway bridge. Thats weather and traffic. B
She was just spot son. Reporter karin remembers getting a frantic call from shawns mother early sunday morning. They were going on a date and coming back. Reporter Bryce Mccloud was impaired when he hit them. He remained at the scene. From what i understand, he was cooperative at least up to a point. Reporter both were badly hurt. Caroline succumbed to her injuries monday. But not husband had a chance to stay goodbye. They took us to the place where caroline was and we all got to pay our respects. It was important for eric to say goodbye to her for shawn and he said what he had to say. I said what i had to say and we all told her we loved her. Harvesting sines organs for donation. The band has created a go fund me account to help both families. Keith . Jamel lanee, thank you. New tonight, a disturbing case of child neglect. There food, trash everywhere. At the children lived liken malls in a cage. The children ranged between 8 and 17. They were ordered not to have contact with the chil
Child died at the hands of her sixyearold brother while locked in a van. Peter bernard joins us live outside the store where investigators believe this all happened. Peter, you and i have been doing this a very long time. I have never, just like the sheriff, heard of a case like this. Reporter i have never seen anything like this. I have been in this business for 30 years. This is just a horrific story. This is the Cell Phone Store behind me where the sheriff says the mother of three Young Children left them minutes while she went inside to get her cell phone screen repaired. The Pinellas County sheriff says sixyearold frankie got upset when baby kathleen started crying so he beat her up badly. His mother, 62yearold Kathleen Steele, you see her here, is charged in the death. The baby had a cracked skull and other injuries and the little sixyearold threw her around like a rag dog. The babys mother didnt recognize the severity of the stopped at a rental car agency on the ray home to get
Immigrants. Will that new strategy help win back minority voters or is it too late . Wild weather. Damaging tornadoes in the midwest. A new round of devastating flooding in the south while in california a raging Wildfire Forces new evacuations and now threatens the historic first castle. And expanding the family. Were getting a new puppy with a purpose raising a service dog our new friend is in that litter and youre about to meet him, today, monday, august 22nd, 2016. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Our first day back all of us in to that new puppy smell. Wait, what . I hug you and you get new puppy smell. Were so happy to have you guys back. Its boring around here without you. I brought you a little puppy. I had to give you a welcome. I cannot wait to meet this little critter. It will be fun. Meanwhile, we have a lot of olympic news to talk
Midnight. And this tropical wave just between puerto rico and the dominican republic, its still an invest meaning its a tropical wave, not a tropical system at this point. They are sending in the Hurricane Hunters every day. Yesterday, they didnt find a closed circulation. Thats good news. And in the short term, actually doesnt have a good chance of developing. But once we get into the five day range, thats an 80 chance of becoming tropical. And lets focus on gaston with 45 Miles Per Hour winds. Should weaken and then strengthen again out to sea. And not an issue for land masses. Now thats the difference between that and invest 99. It will impact land masses. It will head toward the bahamas. If its not a tropical system by the time it heads into the bahamas, good chance it will at that point. This is saturday morning. After that, it heads toward the florida area, more than likely, how strong it is, thats still it comes. Anywhere from east florida over toward the central portion of the