Chances for all of us increase as the moisture comes back at us here. It starts friday and heads into the weekend. Hour by hour forecast takes to us 10 00 with low 80s. And again afternoon highs in the low 90s. Well talk about the higher rain chances in a few minutes and the tropics as well. For now the roads are dry. Its a good way to start the morning. If youre heading to the interstates no crashes or breakdowns to tell you about throughout the bay area. This is what it looks like i 275 and busch, these tail lights here downtown tampa, just five minutes for them. Also checking the drive across the bridges looking great on all three bridges. Even the Sunshine Skyway just nine announce minutes to get across there. Lets check drive times across all three bridges. From pinellas to hillsborough county. Suffered major flood damage to their homes are about to get a big assist. James tully is live in the neighborhood impacted by the anclote river. Are some families able to get to their front
Accident. Fans across the country including here in the bay area are mourning his death and planning to pay tribute to him. Abc action News Reporter Rodney Dunigan live at Alonso High School. We found out a vigil is planned there tonight. Reporter 7 30 tonight family, friends and former teammates of this baseball player will meet here at the baseball field at 7 30 again to remember him and honor him tonight. In the meantime were learning new details about that accident weve learned that the baseball player Jose Fernandez actually had a fight with his pregnant girlfriend just hours before he went out on that boat, actually going out on the boat investigators say to clear his head a bit. Unfortunately just a few hours later Jose Fernandez along with two friends were killed when that 32foot fishing boat hit rocks near miami beach. A friend of one of the men actually urged him not to go out that night. He posted one last message on be careful. Friends of Jose Fernandez right here in tampa
Is better and better news for our friends up in the big bend, which is where it will take the brunt of the storm. Its not a huge deal as far as the wind and storm surge locally here. Well still have to deal with issues. 65 is the Hurricane Center forecasting to makelandful late tonight. It make land fall te matter as far as the rain is concerned. They are under a hurricane warning. Still a watch for us. Were going to have strong winds, 40, 45 Miles Per Hour through today. That along with the push from the water from the storm will result in coastal flooding especially at the time of high tide. Now that the storm is close enough to us, we get the spin into some of the thunderstorms that will develop today. They will be rotating. They have been doing that all morning. It is as far as the heavy rainfall. These particular cells all have the potential to become tornadic. We have to watch that throughout the day. As the water gets pushed in, one or 2 foot storm stirchs and we will have water
Winds. So we are now down to a Tropical Storm. You would expect that as it makes landfall, it did so, of course, last night as an 80 mileperhour storm. This is the track as it heads away from us. As it continues to do so, our weather is getting worse because of the outer rain bands. Well get to it at friday at 1 30. Ten years we went without a landfalling hurricane. There it was at st. Marks. That drought is over, and we take a look at the rainful that continues here with pockets of embedded lightning as well. Frequent lightning, in fact, doing a little better in hillsborough and pasco as well. Hernando and citrus, you are not out of the woods as we get the streams of moisture basically what we call in the hurricanes, a theater band, right . We had one with major impacts across the other and now were patch. What do we have to our west . A gulf of mexico. So its unlimited moisture here. So long as this band sets up here, and it has done so for now, it will continue to rain pockets. Trop
Throughout the morning. Not a steady rain but it will be around and then well continue to see that developing into thunderstorms by 1 00, 4 00 into the evening. Rain Coverage Today 40 . Word of a crash on i75, northbound just after Sun City Center boulevard. Not seeing delays but told this is a serious crash with injuries. Also just a heads up, highway still closed under the veterans expressway, for some construction, not a crash there. This should be moved out of the wa so. Back to you. 5 01. Breaking overnight a florida Highway Patrol is investigating a hitandrun crash that happened on dale mabry. It happened near lakeview drive north of Gaither High School around overnight. No word on injuries yet. Jose fernandez was killed accident in south florida. Abc action News Reporter Rodney Dunigan live at alonso high ol theres an event planned there. Reporter thats right. In fact family, friends and former teammates of this baseball star will be holding a prayer vigil at the high school on