We are looking ahead to tonights big rematch. You dont want to miss this. F0 first though, a check on the weather. And we have a taste of fall this morning. Its not cool necessarily but it is certainly more comfortable. When you look at the water vapor imagery, how much moisture is in the air. And this red color, thats dry air. And this greenish blue down here, thats humid air. And notice how the humid air is not making its way to the north. So we are covering the tampa drier air which will keep our rain chances small. Out of the forecast for the first half of the day. And then only 20 mostly south of i4. And its good news for the river flooding conditions. We have actually canceled the river at elfers flood warning. Just yesterday, finally dropped below flood stage. And Little Manatee River also canceled. Arcadia, still above flood stage. We need time to dry out. At 5 38, i will take you eight days through the temperature trend. And leslee has the roadways. U. S. 19, palm harbor looks
67 in brooksville. When you have the lower humidity, temperatures fall more overnight. So we have dropped to 72 in lakeland and auburndale. 76degrees in sarasota. Heres what im talking about. The water vapor, this shows you where the dry air in red and the humid air in blue and green. So just in our area, the reddish area north of i4 certainly is entrenched and now its starting to spread farther to the south. Thats really good news as we dry out. A 20 mostly south of i4. So highs today just above average. Im expecting 91. 90 is the average. At 5 08, i take you hourby hour through your thursday. Good commute. Lets hope that continues throughout the morning folks. But for your thursday morning, looks very good. Paul buchman highway looks good. And 34 over to 75 is just an 11 minute commute. And now on i4 mcintosh to park road, that takes roughly seven minutes on your drive time. Speed. Six to seven across the Howard Frankland bridge. About nine across the Courtney Campbell causeway. That
275. A little bit of a slowdown on 54th as you can see trying to get through the interstate. We also have a crash at 126th avenue north. Leave yourself a few extra minutes there. I275 from pasco to hillsborough looking great from the apex to i4. Rodney . The re from hurricane hermine are just beginning. More than 125 homes and properties were damaged. The damage estimates in pasco county alone were 89,000. It would be cheaper to buy up the homes and move everybody out instead of dealing with the impact from flooding year after year. Lindsay, it sounds good but is are. Reporter for some people, that is a real possibility. A week after hermine came through, they are still pumping out thousands of gallons going out into the street onto ridge road. County leaders say absolutely buy up the homes and move us out. Other people say they are not going to go anywhere. The cleanup here will last few more days. Inside not to mention the repairs to waterlogged homes, parks and appliances. Areas alo
Snatched it. I said are you kidding me . I was really taken off guard. It is not what i expected. Reporter blessed is what you might call piece. A second seller who also was robbed in broad daylight, this time at gunpoint. That seller was pistol whipped. But sunday, during a third transaction, the buyer escalated. Police say he snatched another cell phone, then shot and killed jeffrey morrow as he ran away. We knew we had to operate quickly because we didnt know when he was going to strike again. Reporter working with go detectives tracked down 25 yearold victor mann. He said he was remorseful. Im sorry for the soul that was lost sunday night. And he apologized for the bad choices he had made in life. Reporter remorse not enough to give cory his peace back knowing the danger he escaped. Im thankful that no one was hurt. Reporter back here at the family dollar, sheriff judd says the detectives asked mann this robbery. Mann telling him he dropped the cell phone as he was running away and
Theyve matched up his profile that corresponded with his on loin profile that he was using on the app where this sale initiated. They were able to a track him down because his profile picture on that app actually matched one of the pictures that they found for this suspect on facebook. Now he was using a false alias on the app. But they were able to do enough detective work and track down victor mans that way. Today they took him into cussed. Hes been charged with first degree murder and the man actually confessed to the murder. Sheriffs detectives also traced mans to two other burglaries robberies that happened in just the days leading up to this murder. They say that they dont believe that mans initially intended to kill to kill 21yearold jeffery morrow. But this was a robbery gone bad. And take a listen to exactly what happened. They say that day when morrow when he starts to run, the passenger jeffery morrow rolls out with a shotgun. At that time, the suspect hollers at jeffery mor