Otherwise, were looking good, clear and dry with the wind coming out of the southeast today. That will favor, again, the late day thunderstorms. Hear that thunder out there . Things will transpire the same today. Well have Little Pockets here but mostly clear this morning. Were not going to have too much with the fog. Well climb our way out of the 70s, 80s, and back to the lower 09s with the afternoon lower 90s with the afternoon sh it takes a while for the east coast winds to get here and when it does, well watch that more closely. Janelle . Reporter some of the construction i mentioned is right on hillsborough avenue underneath the veterans. Corey dierdorff is driving the express car right now. Traffic is light this morning. Not really causing any major delays. Looks like the veterans is down to one lane there. The construction on the veterans. If you drive that road all of the time, you know that its there. Were also checking the bridges for you this morning. No problems across all
Victory as Michael Phelps and ryan lochte go headtohead with a photo finish now heading for the finals and Carmelo Anthony setting a u. S. Olympic scoring record as they edge out australia in a nailbiter. Were live in rio for all the action. Good morning, america. How about Katie Ledecky, pushing team usa to yet another gold medal in the pool. And look at her teammates, reach out, grab her hand at the end. Another gold for team usa. Big day ahead. Amys tracking all the excitement in rio. It is so exciting here, guys. Team usa dominating in the water and on the bike. Finishing strong, celebrating there with her 5yearold son okay, amy. Well get back to you. First that breaking news, a massive fire in maryland taking down an apartment complex. Firefighters rushing to save survivors. More than two dozen people taken to the hospital. Abcs Gloria Rivera is on the scene in silver spring, maryland. Good morning, gloria. Reporter good morning, robin. The scene here is utter destruction. Officia
Surprise when he came faceto face with a 300 pound alligator. Not how you want to wake up seeing a gator but you do want to wake up here and thanks for joining us. I am ashley yore. I am james tully. Lets go to the peoples champion, bill logan, most accurate forecast. You must of had a lot of fun. The storms are coming out of nowhere. They are called popcorn storms because you get them popping up out of the middle of the day. Then they move on. The storms happened like that yesterday. Right now were seeing showers to the south towards southeast fort pierce and also storms in the gulf of mexico. That is all that is left but we will see a migration of this storms firing earlier this afternoon. We are also seeing the rain lingering around to the southern parts of louisiana although it is back in off backing off towards houston. New orleans is being left alone but they are dealing with lots of flooding rain there. 80 degrees in tampa, and clearwater. Through the day, we see a rainbow storm
Cell phones and tablets with them on this first day. Reporter they are. They want to try and work that in with the learning process. Its the whole idea. Do you ever wonder why your kids, maybe you, getting hooked on mobile games . Remember candy crash . Pokemon go . If the reason is because they are trying to get to the next level teachers at bayonet middle school, they think they can bring it into the classroom. So it opened today after being closed last year for remodeling. They are also remodeling curriculum. Teachers want the classroom to feel the same way, they wont necessarily play video games in math class but they will be using a level up learning system. Keeping students engaged and challenged, an area of study they like at a pace that works for them. One parent we spoke with is ecstatic about this for her daughter. They are going to learn how to use the device for what it was really intended for. So yes, she is here with her projects as well as i will be keeping in touch with
92 in tampa. 93 brandon. A little lower in the places where we see the showers and storms developing. Even by the coast today were going to see temperatures in the low 90s across much of the area. So mid to upper 80s where, again we see a shower and storm hormone help to cool things off. We start with temperatures in the mid to upper 70s. Dry, lots of sunshine. By noon maybe a shower or thunderstorm inland but the majority of the rain wont 2 00, 3 00 and continuing to about sunset before tapering off. Again highs in the low 90s but janelle, its going to feel close to 100 again when you factor in the humidity. If you are heading out the door now, to major problems. Some construction we thought would be out there this title of morning is already cleared. Corey dierdorff is checking out the veterans expressway, just avenue and said its wide open. So no more construction underneath the vets on hillsborough avenue. Were also checking out i4, this is around thonotosassa road and plant city,