A Backyard Party wednesday night. Three others were injured. Fire investigators are trying to determine what started a fire at a house on 17th avenue in tampa. The home had no electricity. Investigators believe the fire was started by squatters. All right, it is 5 30 on this prefriday. Lets turn things over to brian bennett. I like that. Temperatures in the 60s across much of the tampa bay area. St. Petersburg 67. Tampa, 68. Sarasota right now is 6 6 degrees. Satellite and radar picture. We are dry. Just a few high, thin clouds drifting through the area. So its going to be a nice day. Partly cloudy skies and warm with a high of 83 degrees this afternoon. Warm all across the tampa bay area in the middle 80s. The immediate coastal locations will be a tad cooler. Clearwater right around 79 degrees but for the most part, remaining on the warm side no matter where you live. And coming up at 5 38, ill trend to see if we have any temperatures below 80 degrees. How about traffic . Anybody trav
3 traffic. 3 3 3 walter 3 in pasco county deputies are looking for a man who tried to suffocate, and kidnap, a woman. And Authorities Say she knows him. In fact, hes her friend. 3 walter deputies say Jason Cheladyn attacked the in his car tuesday night, in hudson. Investigators say he asked if she wanted to smoke pot, and when she said no, and opened the door. He put a plastic bag over her head, to keep her from getting away. Thankfully, she was able to escape. Cheladyn may be driving a red hyundai. With florida tag number bps p50. Please call the Pasco County Sheriffs Office if youve seen him, or know where he is. 3 3 jen new this morning a bizarre tragedy in pinellas county. Where a man was runover and killed. By his own car. 3 jen it happened in a parking lot wednesday afternoon. In indian shores. Witnesses say the 40yearold man got out of the car, and started walking around. He appeared to be lost. Then, he realized the car was rolling. He jumped into the drivers seat to try to sto
Meterologist brad edwards is here to tell us what to expect come tomorrow afternoon in the metro. Brad . Brad it sure was nice to see some sunshine today, and i hope you got your fill because the clouds will be returning the rest of the week along with a variety of precipitation. Tonight will be dry with partly cloudy skies and cool and breezy conditions. Temperatures will be in the 20s most of the night for central iowa. The clouds will get thicker during the day wednesday and bring us a chance for light mix of snow sleet or rain wednesday afternoon. The farther north into iowa, the more likely snow will be, but most of wednesdays precipitation will be on the light side. This light mix will linger into the evening for some areas. Thursday is looking warmer overall, so we will mostly have rain showers. The best chance for rain will be thursday Late Afternoon and into the evening. By friday morning there might be some mix again for parts of northern iowa, but i dont expect much mix agai
Are wet and possibly slick in many locations. Hope hanselman is monitoring it for us and has Live Team Coverage from buncombe county. Good morning, hope. Hope good morning, evan, its wicked cold out here, too. Cant we use some recognition . I will use that term all day just because zack used it. So, temperatures are frigid out here. That is frozen over. All of those roads that got any sort of melting yesterday, and we are on sand hill road right now in buncombe county. Where it meets sar disroad. We came ear to show you just because some of the roads are First Priority for the county doesnt necessarily mean they are totally out of the woods. These are some patchy areas you are looking at right now as our photographer ken is walking down the road. We are seeing traffic moving pretty well on the main roads for the majority, but those secondary roads are a real problem today. Thats what is causing so many closures for churches around the area. You are seeing it scroll at the bottom of you
Companies have been. Now from Western North carolinas news leader, this is news 13 at 11 00. Were still feeling the affects of the latest winter storm. Bitter cold now. Meteorologist. Overnight, a lot of wind. Early tomorrow some wind. Then in the afternoon and evening tomorrow the wind begins to relax. Because of the wind and freezing temperatures we have Winter Weather advisories out through 17 tomorrow morning. Watch out in these areas. Black ice on the roads. Disappears. Believe me. Theres still snow flying in some of the Higher Elevations closer to the tennessee border. A lot of it faded. Burst of snow at times over the smokeys but really the idea accumulations if not all of it. They are not done in the northeast. Hammer town for the areas along the i95 corridor. Even in boston and arrest farther east. They are getting a lot of snow. This is going to be an interesting theme. They have two feet plus in some places there. Our snow amounts will be minimal, if anything a light coating