Mornings where you had to bundle up. You might have some frost on your car. Zephyrhills youre at 34, clearwater 46, 41 plant city, 49 sarasota. A little warmer than yesterday. In tampa youre 5 degrees warmer, plant city 2 degrees warm but max defender 8 once again confirming that we dont have any rain out there. We dont really have any clouds during the afternoon, look for a fast warm up. We make it all the way to 75 this afternoon. To the average of 77 and then tonight certainly not as cold only down to 59 which does happen to be the average, but coming up at 6 08 im tracking Tropical Storm otto, a brand new topical storm. Whats going on on the roadways this morning . All right. Folks, well, weve got a pretty good drive out here. We have a couple little issues southbound on the veterans expressway right at hillsborough avenue a disabled avenue we do have an accident so i want you to be aware of that one. Weve got a pretty good drive on the bay area bridges but we do have a little prob
Chilly this morning but already seen such a fast warm up. We can use max defender 8 to confirm the fact that theres not obviously any rain not even a cloud out there and that is not unusual for this november. In fact, all of november weve only had 1 day with any rain back on the 9th. So, yeah november is typically our dry east month of the year 64 in clearwater and thats warmer than this time yesterday anywhere from 4 to 10 degrees warmer right now than yesterday. So during the afternoon today mid70s, upper 70s tomorrow essentially its going to be nice and warm and sunny for the big feast on thanksgiving but we have a tropical system heading towards Central America. Ill track that for you coming up. The most unnatural thing in the world is for that can bring comfort to a mother or a father and so today the city is praying for these families. That is the mayor speaking just a few hours ago on that Horrible School bus crash that killed 4 boys and one girl on monday. This morning were lea
Behind at least three others. He could strike again. Joining us live in clear water where cameras captured him in the act. Reporter this appears to be his first target yesterday around 3 20 in the morning. He walked in with a tight hooded shirt around his around 2 00 this morning. This time he wore a red hooded sweatshirt doing a good job of concealing his face and same deal, not showing a gun but implying he had one and demanding money. This shows the suspect in a blue hoody going through the same motions he took off in a 2003 or 04 nissan. Theyre confirming that the robbery is connected to the same suspects and we have four robberies connected to the same guy. Thank you. We have some new information this morning about the deadly bus crash in tennessee. Just two hours ago, with i learned more about the five Young Children killed they were in fourth grade, one was in fifth grade and the other was a kindergartener. Six students care. 24yearold Johnathon Walker is now in jail. The scene
Lets start off by checking in with dave. Another chilly morning. dave sunny sky with a chilly start to the day. Pleasant temps are expected this afternoon, with highs back to the mid 70s. Tonight will be clear and not as cold; lows in the upper 50s. Mostly sunny sky on tap tomorrow, with high temps back we begin with a developing story. A Deadly School bus crash with dozens of students on board. Six children are dead and this morning, the driver is under arrest. One of the students on board told authorities the driver wasnt paying attention and driving too fast. 24yearold Johnthony Walker has been charged with five counts of vehi homicide, Reckless Endangerment and reckless driving. The bus was carrying 35 children from an Elementary School when it crashed, turned on its side and wrapped around a tree. The students riding the bus ranged in age from kindergarten to fifth grade. Emergency crews broke into the destroyed bus to pull children from inside, other counselors are being brought
And well warm things up very quickly and yesterday we hit 70 degees. Today well do better. Bring it up to about 75. Vanessa thank you. Take a look right now at the Howard Frankland bridge north end where things are looking good northbound and southbound. By the way, this is going to be the northbound direction and that will be heading into tampa where you have an eight minute drive once you get to the north end of the bridge all the way to the interchange. Nine minutes driving northbound. 75 selmon to fletcher and we do building westbound on i4 heading to the interchange. Russell this morning out of tennessee, a horrible tragedy just before the holidays. A school bus crashed, killing at least five children. Dozens of other kids taken to the hospital. Laura this morning the bus driver is facing a list of charges. Jennifer epstein joins us with the latest. Good morning. Jennifer i can only imagine how those families are feeling this morning to deal with this. Just days before thanksgivin