Weekend. Record highs with 95 for three consecutive days. Its cooler today and some cloud, 84 degrees at Lakewood Ranch not nearly as hot as this time yesterday. Its 86 in tampa and plant city. 85 in st. Pete. You look at whats happening. A lot of scattered clouds and doe soto county and moisture expected into today and the next couple of days. 59 is your average high. Well hit 91 today. A much better coverage of showers and thunderstorms coming our way. Also the tropics are heating up and a brand new Tropical Storm. Its Tropical Storm ian out in the atlantic. Taking a look at that and your weekly forecast coming up. Rite now we are working to Hillsborough County firefighter following the death of his child who was left in a hot car friday. Investigators say Troy Whitaker was taking his children to School Friday morning and he dropped his five year old daughter and supposed to drop off his 23year month old at daycare but he forget. The child was left in for eight hours. Aggravated mans
Extra muggy out the door with a southeast west instead of an east wind. Its 79 in tampa, 73 crystal river, wauchula at 74 this morning. Its 78 in sarasota, no rain but a couple tiny showers well offshore if anybody is doing boating. No fog at least for now. We have a little more moisture building across the gulf, and we look to the south and east for moisture deepening in the days ahead. Good deal of sun this by 5 00 p. M. A 30 chance of showers and perhaps a storm. These slide in from the east and push westward tonight but coverage is lighted. The work week itself looks busy in the afternoons and evenings, though. Dont miss the forecast. Anjuli it was 15 years ago today people all across the country and the world experienced a tragedy theyll never forget. Terrorists hijacked four airplanes and flue them into the and the pentagon. A fourth plane crashed into a field near shanksville, pennsylvania. This morning in new york victims families will gather for a reading of the names of 3,000
Getting a nearly 125 million payout. And lochtes bad night. Excuse me. Excuse me. Wow. The olympic swimmer interrupted on stage during his dancing with the stars debut. At least two men arrested and lochte in shock. It honestly feels like someone reached inside, took out my heart and just stepped on it. His hopes of waltzing his way to a comeback hitting a sour note today, september 13th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. It is a tuesday morning. Willie is in for matt once again. Wow, what a scene last night. Two people were arrested when ryan lochte was dancing. Of all the protests weve seen lately in politics and sports, competitive dancing, not somewhere weve seen it. Well have more on that in a minute. Politics now. Right to the state of the race. Donald trump hosting a rally in iowa now this afternoon before heading to pennsylvania for an event ther
Forecast center. All eyes out there on the atlantic. Reporter absolutely. It is still tropical season. Almost to october. But that doesnt mean we cant see tropical weather. Here, we have Hurricane Matthew officially forming at 2 00. At 5 00 p. M. , we got an update. No change at the strength. This storm is getting much stronger from the Hurricane Hunter aircraft. You can see on the ground there. This is basically south of puerto rico. And, moving to the south of Dominican Republic westerly track. Hurricane hunters as i mentioned, 91 miles an hour wind gusts there today. Observed in the aircraft. So, pretty good strong wind gusts around the center of the system itself. And we will continue to see this system potentially strengthen into a good atmosphere for doing that over the warmer waters and eventually, lower wind shear environment. But higher wind shear for the short term, can still strengthen into a category 2 final position, 450 miles southeast of miami. And we have to continue to
Cuba to the north of the storm itself. The stronger part of the storm is to the east of the eye and the eye is very tight which indicates highintensity. Moving north at 7 Miles Per Hour and the hurricane warnings are the red color throughout haiti Dominican Republic and cuba. The forecast position as at 5 00, this is the difference that west including portions of the bay area in the cone of uncertainty. We have to watch for that over the long haul and the nature of these storms is difficult to forecast. Upper level winds change every day and you need to monitor the storm until its gone from the area. We will check on the forecast coming up so we will tonight red tide concerns and multiple tampa bay counties including pinellas. Is the recent sewage spill making things worse . And Environmental Group believes sewage is impacting the red tide outbreak and water keepers may sue the city of st. Petersburg because of it. Jeff patterson joins us live in tampa and help us connect the dots. Wha