67 in brooksville. When you have the lower humidity, temperatures fall more overnight. So we have dropped to 72 in lakeland and auburndale. 76degrees in sarasota. Heres what im talking about. The water vapor, this shows you where the dry air in red and the humid air in blue and green. So just in our area, the reddish area north of i4 certainly is entrenched and now its starting to spread farther to the south. Thats really good news as we dry out. A 20 mostly south of i4. So highs today just above average. Im expecting 91. 90 is the average. At 5 08, i take you hourby hour through your thursday. Good commute. Lets hope that continues throughout the morning folks. But for your thursday morning, looks very good. Paul buchman highway looks good. And 34 over to 75 is just an 11 minute commute. And now on i4 mcintosh to park road, that takes roughly seven minutes on your drive time. Speed. Six to seven across the Howard Frankland bridge. About nine across the Courtney Campbell causeway. That
Hows looking out there, leigh . You know, its still not too bad. We still have slightly lower humidity. 70 in crystal river. Lakeland and bartow, 73. 76 in bradenton. So you see the red color, thats the dry air. Its still trying to hold on but some of that humidity creeping into our southern areas. So todays high, 91. So still warm, just not a lot of rainout there. Mostly south of i4, rain chance about look at your wednesday. And leslee has whats going on on the traffic situation. I was waiting for it. Weve got a good drive. We have a problem southbound 75 by College Avenue, but aside from that, were up to speed. Interstate 4 is a great drive from lakeland through plant city and down to i4. All right, and into ybor city. In fact, if youre crossing the Howard Frankland bridge, its only going to take you roughly six minutes on the drive the. Youre look at maybe seven across the Courtney Campbell causeway. Also the gandy bridge is up to speed. Thats going to take roughly four minutes on t
We have slightly lower hue marylandty, and that also means slight lower humidity, and that also means slightly lower airplane temperatures. 68 in Crystal River at this point. And im shutting the humidity in the not too bad category. After weeks and weeks of being oppressive, it will feel better, and now you can thank hermine. The remnants coast, and the counterclockwise air flow, and the red stream is all the way down to florida. Thank you. We are finally drying things out, and keeping the rain chance today at 20 throughout the afternoon. 6 08, specifically going hour byhour throughout the day, and liz will help you get through the day. On the bay area interstates, no delays, and all interstates looking good. Manatee county is definitely our big issue throughout the through state rode 70, unfortunate news. Possible fatal crash with state road 70 blocked both directions at betts road, and you will not be able to get by. The crash scene extending over a quarter of a mile. Myakka road ove
East central portion of our state. And so as these clouds kind of wrap around this low, the rain will wrap around as well. Heaviest rain will be on the east coast today. And were mainly dry. But weve got a few little sprinkle and in eastern polk county. These will give way to more numerous and afternoon storms. Far from wash out but any rain could locally be heavy especially inland with highs in upper 80s. That rain chance is 60 to 70 percent. I know courtney it good edge busy on roads we will check in wu with you or an update. Jammed along i75 northbound good area to avoid if you can. With this accident weve watching this, this is northbound just before i4 you can see they moved it over to that right shoulder. Was blocking a right center lane. Be sure to slow it down delays beyond selman expressway. So our travel time northbound from selman into i4 is 27 minutes a good area to avoid if you can do that. Now Pinellas County drivers very serious accident authorities curlew at belcher. St
And we talked with a former fbi agent about what this could mean. Maybe justice will be served. I dont know. Reporter news of a new development in the murder case of a mother of two young children, 35yearold nick coaling Brown Simpson and her friend, a 25yearold waiter, ron goldman, still captivating. Could the knife be the new piece of evidence connecting o. J. To the crime or possibly someone else . I think it is sad. And to come up with something. The family has to relive the whole trial again. Reporter the case still open. No one to this day has served a day behind bar force the double murder that left o. J. s own children without a mother. And what goes through my head is this for real . Do we have something here or do we have a hoax . Reporter a former fbi special agent, the former u. S. Attorney and now a criminal defense attorney in tampa. He says if the knife was involved in the murders, even after all of this time and despite it being handled. The blood can get into any numbe