Degrees so a tad cooler today. Thats about it. Right now, were 61 degrees in tampa. 62 in st. Petersburg, and inland, 44 in zee hills. Low visibility in central keep that in mind if youre going out and about over the next hour or so. You can see the low clouds on the satellite and radar picture. Those low clouds will burn off and move off to the south. And make way for a descent looking day, so some clouds this morning. This afternoon, lots of sunshine. Breezy and temperatures not too shabby for february. 67 degrees this afternoon. Adrienne. Thanks, brian. Well check back with you. A deadly wrong way crash kill s s two people and sadly this seems to be a trend here in the bay area. Now, the families of the victims are demanding a change. Lets go ahead and take two cars mangled on ashleys exit ramp. Larry thompson was going north on i275 south and hit Eugene Fisher nearly headon. Theyre both unconscious. Yes, i have a pulse on one of them. Unfortunately in the end, both men died. Fisher
The now tablespoon starts right now the now tampa bay starts right now. Breaking news as we come on the air at four. The now tampa bay confirming in the past 30 minutes, polk county superintendent katherine laroy has resigned. She submitted her resignation before the Polk County School board decided if she was going to be fired. This stems from a relationship with greg rivers, reporter ryan raiche is working on the new developments right now. Well have a lot more coming up tonight on abc action news at five. We want you to take a look at the line at the usf sun dome. All the people waiting for the trump rally. We have been out there all day long on the ground. Carson, that crowd is huge. Interesting to me. A lot of people you talked to say they arent going to vote for trump. Reporter some say they are. Person. Some have made up their minds. They want to get a glimpse inside the sun dome. Look at this line, all the way it is critical. Hes got strong support in southern states, but on ma
A couple hundred yards in that direction was the site of a wrongway driver going on the interstate. He did it twice before he died is. I passed the dell mabry exit and someone is going the wrong way. A wrongway driver on 275 southbound. That wrongway driver Larry Thompson exited and reentered going the wrong way. The crash killed him and the other driver eugene fisher. The d. O. T. Tracks dozens of wrongway drivers since 2008. Shouldnt the d. O. T. Do more to prevent it. We are. This is what they have done. Washing beacons, censors alert the wrongway driver. Photos are beamed to the Traffic Control office and the fhp. Turnpike managers credit averting crashes 22 out of 23 times. Why not at every exit ramp. We may have to do that. We have a dozen ramps, we want to make sure its working. A good start but far from a cure. Thats where were putting our focus on as well, not just that people are missing the turns and someones fault for not having a sign. People are putting people in jeopardy
A little low visibility right now especially in plant city and lakeland. Lakeland, you have point three mile visibility. Keep that in mind you may have fog this morning. Satellite and radar showing fog or a few low clouds. Other than that, a nice morning and dry. This morning, a few clouds. Temperatures will be in the 40s to lower 50s. This afternoon, 67 degrees. Yesterday, were right around 71. About 4 degrees cooler today, but a good deal of sunshine, so a pretty nice forecast for this time and february much too shabby, adrienne. A deadly wrongway crash kills two people. Its a trend this season. The family is demanding a change. Lets look thompson was going north on i275 south and hit Eugene Fisher nearly head on. Theyre both unconscious. Yes, i have a pulse on one of them. In the end, unfortunately both men died. Fishers family wants change now. More signs installs, detectors. Fdot said theyre working on it with arrows and warning drivers where not to go. This destroyed so many fami
We found out the superintendent of Polk County Schools has resigned. A recent complaint filed against catherine la roy claims she made sexual over shores the school board was planning to meet in about an hour to consider firing laroyd. The details in a live report. Thats coming up at 5 00. Now lets get a look at your first at 4 weekend with Storm Team Meteorologist phillips. 65 degrees, beautiful blue skies. Fairly light winds coming in out of the west, is the west at 5 milesperhour. This is shaping up to really be a nice weekend for us. This morning, started off nice. Jackie was able to capture this can see the sun rising and if you have photos, you can share on facebook or twitter. We love to see the weather photos. Temperatures sitting in the low 60s. 71 in loots and 69 in Newport Richie and as you head inland, temperatures get warmer. Frost proof at 75 and 77 in bartow. Its a beautiful blue skies. You can see not a cloud in the sky, but as we take a step back, were looking at cloud