Her side of the story during the today show. And of course, we will have much more on this controversy in just minutes. But first, a check on the wednesday forecast with leigh spann. Is there something going on in the tropics . Well, we have a tropical wave which has about a 90 chance of becoming our next tropical system, whether thats a tropical depression or a Tropical Storm. The Hurricane Hunters are expected to fly into it. The its just east of the caribbean at this point. And most of the computer models take it due west over the next couple days. Its south of cuba. But an upperlevel dip in the jet stream or trough is expected to pick this up and move it almost due north. A very odd look at how the computer models are going. And almost all of them take it toward the bahamas. We will have to wait and see, its just how far west this goes before it moves farther to the north. So we will keep a close eye on it for you. And of course, if it does know. Otherwise, an onshore wind flow pus
Disorganized really in early stages, it actually looks fairly impressive. Youre actually seeing pretty good out flow from this. Youre seeing some pretty strong convection with this as well. Now its moving pretty quickly right now to the west. At about stwun miles an hour. Heres Hurricane Hunter flight. In fact they are still out there at this hour. You can see there have been focussing right in on this area right here. Thats exactly where the center of this is. You notice, were looking an all the really deep convections still sittin on northern side. The center of this doesnt have the strong convection around it. Sop it going to take time to really intensify. You need all of big thunderstorms to start to get consolidate around that center. So it looks like its going to take a little time. It will be slow and strengthening over next several days. But, the forecast does call for that strengthening. In fact, this is expected to strengthen into at least a category 2 hurricane at this Degre
Much more on this controversy in just minutes. But first, a check on the wednesday forecast with leigh spann. F0 yeah, we have invest 97l. And it has a 90 chance of becoming the next tropical system, whether a tropical depression or Tropical Storm matthew. The Hurricane Hunters are expected to fly into it this morning. They flew in yesterday and did not find a closed circulation even though they found strong winds so we will see what they find this sustained winds of 40 Miles Per Hour and its going to continue in the westerly otion through saturday morning. Then its going to react to an upperlevel in dip in the jet stream which is going to make it apparently move almost due north just off floridas east coast is a strange path, i know so were watching it closely to see how far west it does go north. We will get more information. As the moment, i am watching just a couple showers, you see them, yeah, spotty in the gulf of mexico. And they may push onshore in the next few hours. I left in
Wednesday and leslee lacey has the wednesday commute. Thats right. We have a couple issues going on. Some things pop up and then clear up. I4 a great drive through plant city right now, no delaysment but over here in polk county, westbound i4, kathleen road in the heart of lakeland, an accident. All cleared up but just remaining vehicles to the right shoulder. It wont slow you down. Traffic is getting busier in general. We are seeing more vehicles out there. And look at this, 275 hillsborough avenue, heading into downtown now. Thats a look at weather and traffic. Back to gene and gayle. Leslee, thank you. Right now, the its just two weeks into the baseball season but players in st. Petersburg could be striking out soon. The Sports Management company that manages the league is holding back payments collected from fees. Mary mcguire is live in st. Pete this morning. Good morning. Parents have got to be upset reporter thats right. Parents are outraged over all of this. Nearly 300 kids par
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