State is top on the list. Good morning and welcome to news channel 8 today. Im gayle guyardo. Im gene ramirez. Thank you for wake ing ing up with us on this friday morning. Lets get your friday forecast with least. Good morning, leigh. Good morning. Weve had a nice long stretch of days above average and breezy. Thats exactly what im expecting today. Max defender 8 is confirming that we dont have any rainfall, we havent had any rain all wee extra clouds out there thats keeping us warmer. Right now 65 degrees in zephyrhills, 70 sebring, 72 sarasota, 66 inverness. This has been the trend all week long. Monday morning it was chilly at 61 degrees. Over the week temperatures have come up in the over night hours. 64 degrees tuesday and wednesday morning, yesterday we started at 69 and today most of us are in the 70s. Warm and breezy today. Trend into november. Leslee is going to get that friday commute started. We have a pretty good commute so far except for in the hudson area but its looking
The skies and finding no rainfall almost all of october. Now today i expect to see a few more clouds. It traps the heat that you get during the day so we stay warmer. Right now 70 in tampa, 70 fish hawk, 66 in lakeland, 72 in sarasota and in st. Petersburg. That is warmer than yesterday. Only by a degree in tampa and st. Petersburg. Brandon, youre 4 degrees warmer than 6 00 a. M. Yesterday du thats even above the average of 82 despite the extra clouds. At 6 08 i take you hour by hour through your friday and then plan out your weekend for you. Leslee is going to help you plan out your commute. Looking forward to the weekend. Yeah. Things are business ness busier but good. When i show you surface roads and they are yellow its a good drive but thats a lot of surface traffic lights that you have to go area. St. Petersburg,a great dive on 275. In tampa, bearss avenue down to i4 just a 10 minute drive. We have a collision over in manatee county. Just a heads up. Its off to the side of the ro
Discovered during an investigation into disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner sexting a 15yearold girl. The news is sending shock waves through this 2016 race. Lets get right to mark meridith. He is live in our newschannel8 dc bureau where the latest. Boy, twitter was blowing up as soon as this news came out today. Reporter keith, the chain of events we have been talking about today really are remarkable. And president ial politics has been kind of referred to it was the bus tape for donald trump. Now we know exactly what Hillary Clintons campaign is scrambling to deal with. It is these emails part of the fbi investigation that have been happening now more than a year. A lot of fast moving developments here. All of this coming on the heels as many voters get ready to make up their minds and many are already headed to the polls. It is a campaign bomb shell. Federal investigators telling congress it is reexamining its probe into Hillary Clinton mail server while she is served as se
Steady stream of citizens are casting their votes. Some believe it is much easier then waiting until election day. It went well. I knew what i was coming in for. I looked at my sample ballot and knew what i was coming in for. And i was all decided by the time i got here. It is supereasy. It took five minute to do it. It was my very first ti ordeal. But it was super easy. Reporter the supervisor says many are taking advantage of early voting. Peoples lives are busy. We encourage you to come out and vote. If you are going to early vote. Come out and vote. As this comes on, you will face larger crowds and possibly lines. Reporter do your homework before you show up to vote. Theres three sides to it. So look at it. Read the amendments so you are prepared when you come in to vote. It will make your process a lot smoother. Reporter gertrude momtero wishes she had. I didnt understand the last part about. Theres a lot of questions there that i was not familiar with. Reporter the supervisor of
An aerial view in frostproof. It happened at 6 00 this morning. As jorge pulled out of his neighborhood onto highway 27, they were hit by a chevy silverado. Investigators believe he never saw it coming. His parents always worried about it. They told him to watch going out there. It is horrible trying to get out. It just really is. It is just heartbreaking. Reporter the teens attended frost proof high school. Jorge was getting ready we are told he had just started working to buy his cap and gown. Now instead of a celebration, the family must grieve. We think of them every day. Reporter and the community whose lives they touched. I watched them grow up. Both of them. They were good kids. Very good kids. Reporter you can see a cross has been placed here at are expected to be okay. Melissa, lake immediate and frostproof. They have a Football Game tonight. I guess they have planning something a little special for melanie and jorge. Reporter both teams will come together and the field and ho