Our state and other battleground states. Plus murder mystery in a bay area neighborhood investigators found a womans body and residents are on edge. Good morning and welcome to news channel 8 today. Lets start off with a check on the weather. It is a warm start to this thursday. It is already 63 in zephyrhills and brooksville. 67 armadale. 71 sarasota. A thin layer of ou notice we have a couple showers coming in off the atlantic ocean, even maybe a sprinkle in sarasota county. Otherwise say we have a high of 84 which is above the average of 81. We have a low tonight at 68. At 5 38 i do have an eightday temperature trend letting you know how much cooler it will get this weekend. Leslie will let you know what is happening on the roadways. But we do have some issues out there. No delays on i 40 near the plant to be area. 60 minutes between each of the polk parkways. Wesley looks good and so does Wesley Chapel looks good and so does i 75 near the area. No lanes are blocked and we dont have
Good morning, thank you for joining us. Lets head over to leigh spann for a little bit of weather. It hasnt been too bad for this morning. We have patchy cloud cover but it is quite one. We have already made it to 76. There is a light breeze not quite as strong as the breezes of the last few days but you can notice patchy clouds, not the same amount of rain as i was watching yesterday. Yesterday we saw steady stream of small showers making their way into the east coast. Rain chance but most of us will stay dry. It is early 77 in tampa and brooks city. The afternoon high, 84 degrees above the average of 81. The cold front arrives late tomorrow with only a 10 percent chance of rain. We are cooler and breezy or cooler and breezy for saturday. We will have your exact numbers coming up. Cubs are World Series Champions in 2016. Can we stop and take this in. Incredible stuff. 108 years without a championship ended with an amazing game 7. We hope you watched it because it was one for the ages.
And some of that anger is boiling over here in the tampa bay area. Eagle hd flying over the anti trump protest. Demonstrators here telling us they want their voices heard even though the election is now over. Lets get right to jenn holloway who is live for us tonight. Jenn . Reporter well jen, things are calm and quiet as far as the protest is concerned here. It is really just a typical thursday night. We have seen a lot of those protesters leave the area heading to their trump signs. But earlier tonight when that protest started around 8 00, a rot of people were not sure what to expect. Protesters sort of blocking 7th avenue through the heart of the city around 8 00 tonight. According to tampa police a couple hundred came here with signs and chants, expressing their dissatisfaction with the president ial election outcome. We dont want regressive policies. We dont want regressive people in office. Reporter but these young people know the power of social media. Even though the crowd isn
To lay the traditional wreath. This is a ceremony we see year after year at the tomb of the unknowns, a bit of a somber event. This represents all those who have died in battle. Today we thank our veterans. Those who survived and did not. A very special day in the united states. There are events happening because nationwide this day is celebrated as Remembrance Day marking the end of world war i, november 11th. Major hostile lit tees came to an end at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Here we say a big thank you as youre looking live at the traditional wreath laying ceremony. Over to leigh spann to take a look at our beautiful weather. It has certainly been a beautiful day. A lot of ceremonies going on including some parades and look at that conveniently enough, blue skies 73 degrees, low humidity just a great day to be outside. So thank you to all the veterans for sure. Were now warming up to 72 in lakeland, 75 in tampa, 77 in sarasota. So the official veterans day fore
And here was the view egg angle 8 hd. Gorgeous view and heres what it looks like outside from lakeland, more blue skies. 78 degrees at this location and really temperatures have been comfortable this afternoon, a lot of us staying in the upper 70s or just very low 80s and no rain. We have really dry air thats moved in. So were tracking a few clouds around. Besides that though expect the clear skies to continue as we head into with comfortable temperatures as well. Were sitting at 79 in plant city, 76 in tampa, so friday night Football Games tonight at kick off expect mild temperatures in the upper 60s by the final play youll be cooler dropping back into the low 60s, if youre going to be out late this evening late dinner have that light sweater. Overnight will fall to around 56 in tarpin springs, 49 tomorrow in inverness, 59 in tampa, 57 in sarasota. So temperatures are going to be cool afternoons the next couple of days just about perfect hovering right around average in the upper 70s