Not too bad. Its not great, but its much better than it has been, and we can actually thank hermine. The remnants of hermine off the northeast coast, and with the counterclockwise wind flow off of it, the red color is being drawn all the way around, and right here in the tampa bay area, and thats why im keeping the rain chance today just 20 . At 4 08, an hourbyhour look at your tuesday, and heres leslee wi reporter its nice after labor day, at least right now. Lets look at what is going on right now. Pinellas county, zooming in on a collision. Its at state road 580 at mcmillan. A slowdown in the area. We have a good drive otherwise. Lets look here at i4 at mcintosh road. Nice traveling through, and skyway bridge, beautiful drive across it. Leslee, thank you. We are following breaking news. A 100yearold home in tampa goes up in flames. The fire broke out shortly after midnight, and you saw the flames there, and now you can see the firefighters there trying to put this out. It took crews
Air. Yeah, its still around but the blue and green, the humidity, farther to the south is trying to creep back in. Its not going to feel as nice as yesterday. But for this time of year, it feels good. Rain chances just 20 through the afternoon. And thats mostly for areas south of i4. We need another day to dry out. The anklet river reached stage. Cyprus creek, peace river, arcadia, all areas still under flood warnings along the river. In weather and traffic on the 8s, i have an eightday temperature trend to get you through the weekend. And leslee has the commute. We have an accident in tampa at broadway and 50th. Seminole, we have a road closure thats kicked off. Northbound, some of the lanes blocked in the middle between east bay and ulmerton. Take starkey road and avoid the mess. Meanwhile, no delays right now because traffic is light or all. And again, that quick reminder to you, out in Sarasota County, state road 72 is closed both directions between state park road over to seidel r
Detectives detective with the Hillsborough County have new information. The owner of this house rents out 3 bedrooms to different couples. One of the tenants overheard an argument and approached a man, wood, and he had a gun and he opened fire. The guy that fired the fatal shot was released and not charged. Learning new information about a case of zika. Before news time there is another case of nontravel related zika in miami beach. That brings the total number of locally transmitted cases to florida to 71. Our governor is asking the federal government to fund zika prevention programs. And right now the future of Ride Sharing Companies like uber and lyft is uncertain in hillsborough. The Hillsborough Public Transportation Commission voted patterson has more about what this means, hi, jeff. Good evening, josh and stacy. This vote today the ptc came from objections mayor from bob buck horn. The legislation that urged the pcp to vote on the state law to be formulated. Uber and lyft packed
Jacksonville overnight. 40Miles Per Hour winds and rain threatened homes and businesses there. A lot of wind and rain hitting northeast florida. And a gas station just east of jacksonville lost a chunk of the awning in the high winds and rain. Its far from us but that does not even were not feeling some of julias effects. Lets check in with leigh spann for more on that. Yes, and in fact, just across basically the state of florida at this point from us but its just our effects winds which makes it just tropi ill zoom in and show you more. It s left gie coasat this point. But its South Carolina stnggoe advisory 11 00 from the Hurricane Center and they kept it as a Tropical Storm with 40 Miles Per Hour winds. And in this forecast, even in Citrus County and down into la ni . A county, most of down into hernando county. And most of the rain along the coast. And same thing into pasco and pinellas county. This is a look from the hyundai of New Port Richey where its 82 degrees. About. 20 of ra
Mulberry. We flew above it less than three hours ago, you can see a giant black hole with water flowing into it. Millions of gallons of contaminated water went into the floridan aquifer. There is no way for the liner protecting it to hold with the sink hole. A weeki wachee man is debt after deputies shot him responding to a 911 call at his home. The and surrounded by guns. Reporter a tragic and trying experience. That is how the hernando sheriff described what took place in this quiet weeki wachee neighborhood when deputies responded to a 911 call of a mentally unstable man inside a home threatening to hurt himself. As they arrived to try to calm the man down, the team had to Hernando County to investigate. Not only are you scared to death because you dont know what you are going into. If you are going into a person who wants to hurt themselves it is or going into a situation where the person may want to take somebody with them. Reporter neighbors were terrified earlier. They heard the