Election cycle. It is true, Price Reductions in tampa are starting to pick up. The house that we are in we just reduced 20,000. He says the reason has less to do with the election anxiety and more to do with supply and demand. The summer is over, the rush of buyers has subsided and inventory is up. As a seller you have to get more aggressive on price. This is a smart time to buy a home. If youre selling, if your home hasnt sold it probably is a wise move to reduce your price mainly because of the time of year. Whether donald or hillary makes it to the white house just remember the summer is typically hot for sellers and the winter warmer for buyers. Timing is everything, speaking the politics, marco debating tonight their first debate in orlando at the university of Central Florida the debate on the race for u. S. Senate begins at 7 00. Catch it live on abc action news on all of our apps and our facebook page. A federal judge rules county election offices should notify voters if the si
Was not shared with Hillsborough County. The sinkhole opened at the mosaic plant in august. It sits close to hillsborough. They kept the lid on this for 19 days. According to hillsborough Environmental Protection Water Division protection, mosaic never reached we were not notified by them. We reached out to them when we had heard of the news. Mosaic insists that its not traveled beyond its traveled. They told 8 on your side that hillsborough epc tested several bodies of water near the mosaic plant and found no contamination. Meanwhile, some we will test results from around t today. The sinkhole. Jeff patterson shows us many more people are anxiously awaiting results. They hired an outside company to individually test wells. So far the outside company is saying their test results show nothing out of the ordinary. The asterisk or the star is the the mosaic plant and the circle is where we took samples. Gary is with the were looking for a fingerprint that would be indicative of mosaics wa
Lindsay 4 degrees. Summer heat is coming back because of the sunshine which out looking west toward the beach. The place to be today as we have great visibility there. Visibility improving in citrus. I knew would happen. Low beams can go off for you, but the ac is on as we are in the low to mid80s this hour. 79 in brooksville. I will toss in those heat index values right now. It feels like 94 at 9 a. M. On september 10. By the way the peak of the atlantic Hurricane Season today. No rain this morni. Showing on the east coast across the atlantic waters, the leading edge of the moisture which late in the day between 4 and 10 p. M. Gives us a 30 chance of showers and storms. They build west through monday, but by monday, there we go moisture continuing to build and a wet week forecast and top tropics coming up. Time is 9 1. A Hillsborough County fire fighter is facing aggravated the back seat of a hot car. Fox 13s kellie cowan is following this story. Good morning, kelly. Reporter good mor
Im gene ramirez. And im gayle guyardo. In a few hour, it will be the first day of fall. Thats right, it begins officially at 10 21. The next question, when is it actually going to cool down . You can put on the orange today like i did but still a summer day. The average high today is 88. Even the average high on october 1st is 87. It takes us til about november 1st before the average high is 81. And then break out the scarves for average high of 75. Eventually it does cool down, just wont be that way today. Drier air is coming in. This is the a look at the amount of water in the atmosphere. Not necessarily the humidity value because thats still high. But drier air is working in and thats going to limit our rain chances in the afternoon. Just a 20 rain chance of showers and thunderstorms between 2 00 and 6 00. 90degrees, even above the average. In weather and traffic on the 8s, i will take you through the first few hours of fall. Its going to be so much nicer than it has been. Eventuall
Tampa all day today. Your privacy verses your security. Apple is going head to head with the fbi. And the tech giant is promising to fight an order from the federal government that could take them as far as the supreme court. This is all linked to the mass shooting in San Bernardino. The feds want app toll unlock terrorist Syed Rizwan Farooks iphone. Apples ceo believes this could set a dangerous precedent. And a Traffic Alert for you this morning. It could put a damper on weekend plans. Pay attention here. Part of a major artery to get to Clearwater Beach will be closed through the weekend. We are talking about court street right before the causeway that gets you to Clearwater Beach. The closures begin tomorrow morning and theyll last through late sunday night so plan accordingly here. And lets head over to leslee lacey to see whats holding up this morning. Well, right now, nothing is holding up too bad. We have a good drive. Nice travel between the paul buchman highway which is highw