Western caribbean headed for Central America in just a few minutes. And good morning everybody, an update now on this crash in Pinellas County, southbound tar pin avenue is blocked, utah southbound u. S. 19 is blocked at tarpon avenue. Were told it could be like this for another hour or two. If youre getting ready to head out the door you might want to leave yourself a time, alt 19 might be the best option. Were looking great out there, take a look behind me i75 around 301. More cars are out there on the roads now. No crashes or delays on any of the interstates. Back to ewe you dan. The search continues for the person who killed a man and left his body behind a dumpster in pinellas park. The name of the victim, two people collecting cardboard found the body of 38yearold park place. Police still investigating and searching for possible suspects. Were waiting to learn if charges will be filed in a north port shooting. Police say two kids were firing bb guns and one ended up getting hit i
Thankerfthankfully the wrong way driver and the officer are okay. Reporter thats right, deiah. Atthis morning. That wrongway driver is expected to be okay as well. Now investigators are left to figure out exactly what happened at this intersection. We were here at the intersection of east kennedy and hyde park avenue not long after the crash. The damage clear, the officer involved doing better after being rushed to tampa general injured. Air bags on both vehicles did deploy. Investigators telling us the officer was traveling eastbound on kennedy heading into downtown when the wrongway driver entered his path of travel northbound from the South Hyde Park avenue. Thats when the two vehicles collided. South hyde park avenue is clearly marked as a oneway street. This morning investigators still trying to determine why that driver was coming down the wrong way. At this point they have not told us if alcohol was a factor in this crash. Possibly help out in this case, the cameras right here a
And well warm things up very quickly and yesterday we hit 70 degees. Today well do better. Bring it up to about 75. Vanessa thank you. Take a look right now at the Howard Frankland bridge north end where things are looking good northbound and southbound. By the way, this is going to be the northbound direction and that will be heading into tampa where you have an eight minute drive once you get to the north end of the bridge all the way to the interchange. Nine minutes driving northbound. 75 selmon to fletcher and we do building westbound on i4 heading to the interchange. Russell this morning out of tennessee, a horrible tragedy just before the holidays. A school bus crashed, killing at least five children. Dozens of other kids taken to the hospital. Laura this morning the bus driver is facing a list of charges. Jennifer epstein joins us with the latest. Good morning. Jennifer i can only imagine how those families are feeling this morning to deal with this. Just days before thanksgivin
If you are about to head out the door some bridges are starting to pick up especially the Howard Frankland into tampa. The rest of the drive times are not looking too bad. 275 headed south, 15 minutes from the apex to i4. That will pick up and another 30 minutes so leave early and then 75 as you head south from state road 56 down to the selmon expressway, 17 minutes. Good morning and welcome to 10news this morning. I am 10news morning anchor ian reitz. Nine number of developing stories. A plane crash in south america kills several members of a Brazilian Soccer Team. There are survivors. We will have the latest. We will start with the latest on the wildfire and eastern tennessee. This is threatening homes and resorts in the Smoky Mountains. It started on Chimney Top Mountain as one of the most popular hiking destinations. It quickly spread to the resort city of gatlinburg. You can see how big it is. As you look at this video. Lets go to jenny dean and sarah hollenbeck. I want to when yo
Been so far. That is how we roll wrap up the month today. These temperatures already way above average by about 10 degrees. Low 70s tampa, 71 moving down toward venice. The dewpoints very sticky, middle and upper 60s. 70 degrees plant city. It is muggy and that is why it is so warm this morning. The southeast winds wind air. Will see gusts up above 20 milesperhour. Max defender 8 quiet this morning. We could track a few stray showers this afternoon with High Temperatures up around 83 degrees. We will wafer slightly better chances tomorrow before the week cold front arrives. Half the end of the hurricane season. That is right. Officially at least on the canner calendar. We had a hurricane in january traffic is generally light up until around 6 30. That seems to be the case today. This includes 75 down toward brandon. 301 also looks good. Downtown tampa starting at 1 00 this morning, frank the will be closed between tyler and cast ban. Will need to use florida. A tornado that tore throug