Report about 1512 minutes away. About 12 minutes away. And travelers will see more changes at Tampa International airport today. This morning, two new Food Companies are opening up today. Were talking about bay coffee and tea company and aunt anns. And so much fun. News channel 8 today is going live. Well, facebook live. News isnt just all business and we want to show you, many of us are using the social networks new live feature to show you what goes on behind the camera. You can see when we pop up live. Be sure to like our pages. Its 4 31. I know i like leigh spanns page. Its fun to watch lye reports on weather on facebook. Yeah, on Tuesday Morning when we had strong storm, steve jerve and i were live on facebook for an hour and a half. And some people didnt have live on their phones through facebook. And every day around 7 30, i check in with my facebook friends. You know what, i dont have much to talk about in the weather today. Gorgeous. A coolness to the air this morning. As the
Week long, and its spill over into the weekend. Low 610s along the coast. Inverness, theres patchy fog bringing your eyesight down to a mile, and also patchy fog around the tampa executive airport. For the next few hours, holding off into the 50s. Plenty of sunshine to start the day, and then the afternoon high warming up to 75 degrees. Great weather for the runners. Gasparilla distance classic today and tomorrow, and some folks like the nice school 60 degree weather in the morning, and they have got it. Thank you, mark. Speaking of that. The run arers are getting ready right now, working out the last minute jitters, and thousands of people will be taking over bay shore boulevard for the popular races. Mary it sounds like i can hear people behind you, and they are getting ready. A lot of tampa bay is already up early this saturday morning. Today is the 15k and the 5k, and i can tell you, people are flooding in, and they are doing their stretches its great weather. You dont want it to b
We begin the warming trend, that wont happen until sunday. 54 in tampa. But, the 40s, there are a few out there, for you as you would expect across the coast. Brooksville, zephyr hills across the interior, 40 degrees and we are generally in the 40s and 50s, but there is no wind chill. Its not significant wind out there like yesterday as the front barrels through, look what happens here, 61 by lunchtime. 62 by the commute, thats all we are going to muster. Temperatures in the low 60s, setting the stage for a colder night, well talk about that in a few minutes, lets check in with janelle. Reporter fhp is on the scene of what they are calling a fatal crash. Lake alfred area in polk county. This is south of i4, one westbound lane affected, so not a huge traffic problem, but you will see a lot of flashing lights, use some caution if you the other trouble spot, convocation in clear water, chestnut closed from Fort Harrison to myrtle avenue starting from 5 00 am this morning through tomorrow
Courtney campbell, six on the franklin and just six to cross the bridge. 6 01. A convicted killer on the run for 26 years, and theres still no sign of glenn chambers. Look at your screen. This weekend will mark the anniversary of his daring escape, abc action News Reporter rods knee is live in polk county, all of these years later, tips are still coming in. Reporter i dont know you are right about that, dan. Theyre not giving up on this case. In fact latest tip came in last weekend. Now over years, he has been spotted in both florida and alabama, so theres a good chance that he would possibly still be in this area. Check something out. This is a composite picture of what he could possibly look like today and also interesting, we have a picture of this as well. A tatoo on his upper left arm that reads live free or die. It is a motto he has been able he was serving a life sentence for killing his girlfriend in 197 a. He escaped after the verdict but was caught a few days lateer and was t
Nice way to start your weekend. We had august the fog through the middle of the week, not the case with the wind and with drier conditions, cool so if you are certainly in the early riser and going to be outside you will need the jackets with a little wind. It will make it feel call but we do recover, a similar day shaping up. We had the 40s yesterday, still 46 crystal river, cooler in brooksville, and we are in the mid 50s in tampa and st. Pete but by lunchtime we should be around 70 and we will do that with full sunshine and yes the weekend begins, 75 for your evening commute. We will be in good shape with mostly clear skys and we will talk about weekend in detail but lets have a first look here at traffic and see hopefully things are off to a nice start. So far so good if you are heading torture. Be. We will go to the live drive cam on i4 eastbound around the Hard Rock Cafe but dont stop in. You are working. No trouble out there on the roads. You have a smooth ride if you are headin