Thank you. Things are shaping up really nicely. What a week we have had. Gorgeous weather. Dry weather as well. There is no change in that today. Here is a view out at st. Pete beach. 83 degrees. No rain at this location. Great day to be out on the beach as well with our temperatures topping out back in the mid 80s. Were sitting at 83. 82 at plant city. Coming in at and 81 currently in clearwater. Temperatures are warm. Winds are still coming in out of the northeast. We have had this flow all week long and it has definitely been breezy at times, especially if you live closer toward the coast. A sustained wind at 20 Miles Per Hour at st. Pete. When you factor in the gust, theyre even above 25 Miles Per Hour at times. It has been breezy again this afternoon. That trend is going to continue into the weekend. Overnight tonight it stays very mild. Temperatures will drop back to around 70 with a partly cloudy notice when you wake up tomorrow, temperature also be in the upper 60s to low 70s a
When is dad coming home. Reporter mystery still surrounds his death. Seconds after closing up the q p muhammad was gunned down. When he didnt come home that morning. She went to the gas station and saw crime tape. I think something wrong with my husband i feel it you know. Something wrong with my husband. I feel it. Reporter then the heartbreaking news. He is no more. Reporter gas station surveillance shows two suspects wearing hoodies running off after the encounters. Bliss believe they confronted muhammad took his pants and belongings and one shot him. They found his phone but havent been able to track down his killer. Theres been nothing at this point that weve been able to create a case file charges. Reporter his wife just anonymous if you call crimestoppers a 5,000 reward is being offered. Jen. Melissa you mentioned his cell phone was found. Have they had any leads from that . Reporter right now investigators are looking at it for fingerprints or dna. They havent gotten results bu
Blocked. Reporter she got caught in the middle of the manhunt. Deputies looked in her car for the suspect joseph flanagin. He looked in my back seat i had my brother back there. We had to turn around. Reporter this is hd video of that search near flanagins last known address. Deputies finally found him this morning a few miles away in north lakeland. Court documents show flanagin was arrested in september for petit theft. His third conviction. He was granted trus this allowed him to work outside under supervision. But it turns out this trustee wasnt so trustworthy. Around 3 30 yesterday his supervisor noticed he was missing from the bartow maintenance facility. He had stolen a fleet truck and took off. Soy was it too easy for him to escape . Will this change how you vet the people that are in the program or supervise them . Process improvement is something every agency looks rules of the program and hes going to be hell held accountable for that. Reporter neighbors say it shouldnt have
Were talking about. Were watching the first Tropical Storm gaston and invest 99l. The National Hurricane center has dropped the Development Chances to 70 . Thats still highly high chances. This is working its way over hispaniola. The National Center is displaced to the north a bit. As you head into the next couple of days, you can see most of our forecast models bringing this towards south florida by the end of this weekend and we see a few of the tracks brings it closer to the west of florida and to the gulf and some dont develop it. Well be watching this very closely still and see if we have any rain out of this system. Well take a look at the tracking storms over hispaniola. To the north were seeing a little bit of a circulation. Were facing a lot of wind shear right now and also fairly dry. A thats why we have not seen it develop quite yet. Hurricane hunters are out there right now investigating it. Tropical storm gaston well look at that as well. Its expected to restrengthen into
Julie phillips. Thank you, stacy. And a lot of rain in the forecast for us over the next few days, only increasing at this point. The last advisory to come out from the National Hurricane center, was at 11 00 a. M. And at that point, the max winds were thrill 36 miles per hour. Still tropical depression 9. We have been awaiting this to become a Tropical Storm for about 24 hours at this point. Its just not in the best of environments. The gulf waters may be warm. But its facing a lot of wind shear. Thats really preventing too much in the way of so you can see, its still looking fairly disorganized on our satellite imagery. In the southern portions of the gulf at this point. Moving to the west northwest at 7 miles per hour. By thursday afternoon, thursday evening, were expecting this to make landfall in the big bend region of florida. And at this point, expecting it to be a fairly strong Tropical Storm as it makes landfall land. Then it really moves quickly as notice, by friday morning,