Friday im Vanessa Ruffes in for Walter Allen Laura and im laura moody. Jen epstein has the day off as well. Lets start off with a check of the forecast, with dave. dave partly cloudy, breezy and warm with high temps making it back into the mid 80s. Tonight will be clear and lovely, turning much drier, with lows temps heading back into the upper 50s. The weekend looks beautiful with sunshine and cooler temps. Highs will be in the mid to upper 70s, and lows temps in the 50s. Developing this morning. Police are investigating a murder in tampa. And the killer is still on the run. A womans body was found laying in the middle of flora street yesterday. Neighbors say police went around asking if th police say its clear this was not an accident. The name of the victim has not yet been released. A sad update this morning on a sarasota hitandrun crash. The woman hit by a car tuesday night. Has passed away. Right now. Police say they have no witnesses and no description of the vehicle repsonsible
Seconds, and we have 50 degrees in brandon. 54 in crystal river. Temperatures again in the tampa area running about 58 degrees and a high today will likely get back to the upper 70s, close to 80 degrees. Very, very nice so enjoy it. Vanessa definitely looks enjoyable to me. Were following new stuff in dover, a crash at u. S. 92 and if you cant avoid it, plan extra time and use caution. Looks like we have some Traffic Signals malfunctioning in the tampa area. Alamo at 50th street. Signals will be on flash. Teco is in route to fix the situation. In the meantime, remember, youll treat flashing signals as a fourway stop. Laura developing this deputy is dead after chasing a man. Russell deputies were investigating a Crime Stoppers tip about a wanted fugitive at a home in deltona. While interviewing the people inside, deputies heard someone jump over the back fence. Helicopters spotted him in the nearby woods. The canine, named forest, was tracking him when the gunman opened fire. Deputies f
Please avoid. It looks like we have a road ranger now just showing up on scene. Were waiting to see how they handle the situation. We also know that walter is going to be out there giving us a live report as soon as he can. But big mess out there. Drivers, if you do have to exit here, make sure youre doing it and exit earlier. Dont go all the way over here. Youll get stuck. We have standing water reports northbound 275 near 175 so passing by tropicana field. Left center lanes are blocked. P, northbound and southbound on 2 5 itself. We also have an overturned semi truck causing northbound lane block blockage. Well get to those congestion points. You can see 275 southbound coming into the interchange well into the red. This is very, very heavy for this time of morning. Leave early, almost 30 minutes of a drive, 10 minutes mlk to 275 and 16 minutes fowler avenue southbound. Dave . Dave this rain is definitely slowing things down. A couple of minutes ago, a flood advisory for Pinellas Coun
Pone lane is blocked as you head pthat way. Palso we want to talk about the pfog. Preally a big problem yesterday pand we are seeing it again this pmorning. Phowever, it does look a bit pbetter not only today but also pfrom actually when were pchecking in a couple of hours pago and dave can confirm that pfor us. Pthe bridge is open as you can psee. Pwe want to send it out to ken pwho is live near the bridge to pget an idea of what youre pseeing. Pdoes it look improved from when pyou first got there . Preporter really improved. Phow many times have you come to pme and i turned around and said pi cant see the bridge . Pi cant see the bridge . Psee the bridge. Pthis was a very dramatic turn of pevents in just a couple of pminutes. Pwe started to see light, we pstarted to see more and more pcommuters. Pyesterday this was an absolute pmess. Pit was this morning but pcertainly getting much, much pbetter. Pyesterday the place was closed pdown for seven hours from 6 00 pafternoon. Ptake a look
Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. With 66 shot and 12 killed in just a 63 hour period, including a boy riding his bike and a this 14yearold, and two 17yearold girls just standing on the sidewalk. We have a heavy heart. Our souls are burdened. What happened this weekend did not happen in every neighborhood in chicago, but it is unacceptable to happen in any neighborhood of chicago. Laura so far this year, 1785 have been shot in chicago and 318 killed. Believe it or not, shootings are actually down 30 from 2017 and murders are down 25 , but still those figures are well above what chicago experienced earlier in the decade. In 2011 when democratic mayor rahm emanuel was elected, there were 436 murders in chicago. By 2016 that number had
ballooned to 771, a 77 increase and while 2017 was down from the high watermark it still saw a devastating 650 slain. As you might imagine the