And its never too early to start preparing. As we keep an eye on the potential for Tropical Weather to head this way. Pinellas county is giving residents a head start on preparation. The county started making sandbags available at noon today. To allow people time to get them before the rains arrive. Sandbags will also be available tomorrow. At three locations john Chestnut Park in palm harbor. Lealman community park. And taylor park. In largo. Dot com. New this morning a driveby shooting. At a home in pasco county. And deputies say one of those bullets. Hit a . Baby girl. It happened just before 1130 last night, in the 73 hundred block of westcott drive. Thats in port richey. Just east of us 19. Fox 13s Shayla Reaves joins us live now from the scene, with more. And shayla the question on everyones mind. How is that tampa police are a 27year force veteran was killed over the weekend. While on . Vacation. Fox 13s evan lambert has more now on master Patrol Officer fred arnold. And tell us
Alarm two weeks ago at jfk airport. Caused by people celebrating the olympics. Good morning. Were looking at our developing story here, this is what well be talking about the next few days, because of the rain potential coming up. This is tropical depression 9, if youre just tuning in, developed it yesterday, its now a closed low and going to move a little further north. So by tonight well probably have a tropical either hermine or ian because another feature in the carolinas that may develop before that. 40 mileperhour winds, and it will be a Tropical Storm tonight. Then yes, moving to the north and then northeast. Huge cone here so just keep it in mind but i think with this feature as it is typical with Tropical Storms the center not as important. Its the rain associated with the storm that is going to get pulled in here well out ahead of it so despite the fact this gets here on thursday rain will begin tomorrow in earnest with already setting up. For today just a typical afternoon s
The path of tropical depression 9 remains uncertain but predictions have it taking a turn toward our state. That update just coming in right now from the weather service. Still at this point we are talking about a tropical depression. Winds 35 Miles Per Hour, so no big difference there. Its the track that has shifted a little bit, but i want to start you off with the enhanced you see its not a very well organized system, but it does have closed circulation and iss going to continue to track to the west. But until it gets by cuba its not really going to get its act together at all. Winwinds 35 an Miles Per Hour ad moving to the west. We are going to watch this go morning expect it to strengthen into a Tropical Storm. At this point once it turns to the north and east, this is where the models differ a bit on how fares north or east they bring this system but the conesconsensus is near cedar ker big something because of how close its coming to tampa bay that we are going to have to pay cl
International airport right now. Lax tweeted out that police are searching the airport after reports of an active shooter. They say theyre taking every precaution to make sure the into a deadly shooting. And the family says its because he didnt hold open the door for a woman leaving the restaurant. Fox5s Abby Theodros joins us live outside umc where 31 year old Mohammad Duncan died this morning. Its a really disturbing this tragedy ended at umc but started when 31 year old Mohammad Duncan was on his dinner break at the mcdonalds near pecos and las vegas blvd. Now his mom girlfriend and children are left to pick up the pieces. Katra nestor, mother crying i just want to do right by him because he was a good kid, well mannered respectful of all. Its a group no mother wants to be apart of but one katra nestor katra nestor, mother this isnt the first one im losing. One i lost to cancer, one i lost to a car accident. Ran over him. And now i lost one to gunshots this time. It was her youngest
Intensity could change. Thats why we cant let our guard down. What we have as of 5 00 a. M. , a new update is a minimal tropical depression. Its very close to cuba right now. Its near some of the strong wind shear weve seen the last few days. Its moving west into a more favorable environment so the flow around the low, you see that . Flow that goes opposite of counterclockwise and that, in turn, gives us a lot of moisture. The update from the Hurricane Center, its not a named storm. We have another depression near the carolinas that well discuss. Here we go. Moving west at nine into the gulf where water temperatures are quite warm. This model and the Hurricane Center showing this is a minimal Tropical Storm into mid week. By mid week its to our west. Starting wednesday, things go downhill for us and thursday looks to be the more active day. Official cone of error still the official track is north of tampa bay and the big bend. If youre tam with tampa bay, we know we can get coastal flo