It is a very large geographical area of thunderstorms. It is just trying to get organized into an area of low pressure. There may be some difficulty for the shortterm and long term, many of the computer models suggest we could see something much stronger. You can see it is not a very organized system yet but looking at the completion of the computer models over the longterm, it now s this advisory comes in at 2 pm. That longterm movement is what is interesting to us. We have seen the models diverge quite a bit here in a 12 hour period. We have to remind you that when you look at computer models, they change quite frequently. It is still a long way away relatively but because it is moving in that direction, it will have to launch watch the state of florida very donald trump was in the tampa bay area today. He rallied his supporters at the fairgrounds this afternoon telling the crowd that he will be the greatest jobs president that god ever created. Hillary clinton wants to raise taxes a
And republican president ial knowledge knee donald trump speaks at the Florida State fairgrounds. This is in front of thousands of people. Take a look at the crowd. Candace is there and joins us life with the very latest. What was trumps message to voters today . Reporter yeah, good evening. Trump talked about several things today. Touching on everything from crime to trade. The crowd just cleared out of the Entertainment Center here at the Florida State fairgrounds. It was packed here just moments but trump spent plenty of time appealing to many different groups of voters focusing on black and hispanic voters. And we just had a great poll come out from Florida University just about a half an hour ago that were leading. Reporter what better way to get supporters fired up than trump touting a poll from Florida Atlantic showing him up by 2 . And taking a softer tone on immigration wasnt heard today. Were going to build the build the wall and mexico is going to pay for the wall 100 [ appl
Fort meade. Thunderstorms have developed across central and eastern Pinellas County. Just north of downtown st. Pete getting rain. Largo then drifting to the east Safety Harbor area. Farther south you can see north port seeing thunderstorms all the way down south. Not at severe levels. Small hail with thunderstorms that develop on a day like this as well as a lot of lightning and local flooding. More in just minutes coming up. Well tonight voters will be able to see the president ial candidates goto to toe in the first president ial debate of this historic election. Earlier today news channel 8s Jeff Patterson was the only local fig tour to interview Vice President ial nominee tim kaine. Jeff joins us live in lakeland where kaine made a brief Campaign Stop. Reporter yeah, good evening. This is his fifth Campaign Stop in florida since being put on the ticket as the vice even he acknowledges that right now this state is too close to call. Tim kaine has served as a city council member, go
Lets go to Julie Phillips. Were watching Tropical Storm matthew. Max winds at 60 Miles Per Hour. Currently moving off toward the west at 20milesperhour. So while the system was just named its already a very healthy Tropical Storm as it makes its way west into the caribbean. Notice as we go toward the end of this week into this coming weekend it will likely become a hurricane then with an upper notice the shift toward the north. Were expecting a hard turn to the north as we head into this weekend and early next week. Then were expecting additional lengthening. Due to the proximity of the hurricane were watching this of course. Most of the system are east of florida but were still going to watch this very closely. This is a while out. You know how quickly these were watching this closely for you. Max winds at 60 Miles Per Hour. Heres a look at what were expecting on that european model. You can see itll be moving into some very warm waters. It will start to approach some lighter wind she
80,000. Here is more from the sheriffs office. Bring us up to speed on this. Reporter good evening to you. Crawford bennett was the last person anyone would have suspected but his conscious drove him to confess. What in the world was he thinking . That is what friends are asking about crawford bennett, the treasurer of the nights of columbus in port of stealing 80,000. You can only be betrayed by somebody you trust. They are all Good Catholic Church going men. This is one of the last i would have expected this from. He is the president and had to fire bennett after serving side by side with him at this church. He is a deeply religious man, a member of the church for 29 years with a son studying to be sunday school. Shock and outrage. A lot of anger but trying to forgive, trying not to judge. He has to make his own peace. So where did things go horribly wrong . Detectives tell us bennett also ran a business as a cabinetmaker in hudson but struggled financially. Over the last two years k