was going westbound this morning. now you can see behind me, there are barricades set up, flashing lights, all kind of alerts for a driver to know that they are not to enter that lane which does. it is a center lane. a raised portion of the highway a raised portion of the highway. and it does change over depending on the time of the day, but these are here to allow a driver to know they are not to enter. they believe that he would have gone on the other side of the road here in order to get on and just before 3 a. M. , he struck a deputy nearly head on. now we did have a picture of the deputys car sent us to by the Hillsborough County Sheriffs Office. that car barely recognizable after this collision. the driver of the wrongway vehicle we are told died on the keen this morning, and the officer the deputy, rather, inside his patrol car, he had to be extricated. the roof cut off of the car. he was rushed to Tampa General Hospital where he unfortunately passed away. now when we spoke to H
Pover anna maria. Pwork et cetera way into braden pto where it will start to full papart other than that rain pchance relatively quiet. P80 for High Temperature. Ptomorrow. Pand still keep temperatures in plower 80s for afternoon highs. Pvanessa good morning. Pgood morning. Retty hectic morning on proadways we will start you off pwith new crash before we get to pwhats going on bridges. Pstay tuned in you have to travel pfrom pinellas to tampa. Pwere taking live look at 275 psouthbound. Pthis is near bird street. Pas we look towards sligh avenue pa crash reported in that area. Pblocking a center lane. Pyou can see travel times are up pquite a bit. Palmost ten minutes worth of pdelays at this point. P36 minuteses your ride from pbeers road to i4 appear soled pback up to fowler at this point. Pdrivers especially through that pstretch between sligh and fowler ptake florida avenue. Pmeantime we mentioned we have pjams going on bridges courtney pcamp em causeway skyfox overhead pthis one fin
showers this morning are light. a huge batch approaching the coast that pretty much fell apart. what is left of is t is happening right now. showers over st. Pete, hillsboro and a sprinkle over parts of southeast tampa. the Northern County showing a couple of other isolated hours west of Hernando County. here is what is headed our way a stronger complex of storms moving very quickly from west to east and by midday in our coastal counties, we will see the first chance of any heavier storms. temperatures this morning are high. cloud cover high as well. 63 in wauchula, 70 in tampa. 72 in st. Pete. brooksville at 66. crystal river, 6 had. and leesburg at 68. here is the deal, round one moving through now. just spotty showers. but round two, a stronger complex of storms as you get this little impulse of energy in the atmosphere raging from west to east. this complex will bring us the storms but possible strong to severe storms. i think the time frame will be 11 a. M. To noon in our coastal
and violence on the streets of chicago. protesters crash at a donald trump rally. forcing it to shut down. what trump himself blames the anger on. from tampa bays number one news station, this is good day tampa bay. anjuli good morning and welcome to good day tampa bay welcome to good day tampa bay. this saturday morning, i am anjuli davis. walter i am walter allen in for alcides segui. lindsay milbourne. anjuli how long has it been. great to have you back. lindsay i am doing okay. weather has been great. heat and humidity. spring breakers are loving it and we will bring you rain. not so much this morning. 63 degrees brookdale, bayshore. and more high clouds. by this time tomorrow we spring forward, so it is still dark out here. 63 in lakeland. we have 73 in lake placid. 65 in tampa. 68 in st. Pete. a little fog around too. it is muggy and our winds are light. please slow it down from eastern pasco county down along of that. riverview, even into desoto light rain. batches of showers he
where he expired. the this is early in the investigation now. we are not going to release any names at this point as we get a hold of the families of both of both drivers. reporter can you explain exactly where this happened. which way the wrongway driver was going . yes, the driver apparently may have gotten on right down the road from us at this point and going westbound while the flow of traffic was eastbound and had begun enter eastbound and had begun entering was up on entering an elevated portion of the expressway. and our deputy was eastbound had had just left Tampa General Hospital after working a traffic crash down in district 4 and was en route back to his district when the vehicle struck. reporter do you know how fast they were going . too early at this point but reporter [reporter asking question] [inaudible] it is too early at this point but appears that the deputy was trying to get out of the way. [reporter asking question] [inaudible] the deputy is deceased. reporter in