Allen. Well get to the forecast in a minute, but our top story this morning. After 108 years. The cubs . Finally end their world series curse. And it actually happened . Early this morning. Thats right. Because this game didnt end until 12 47 am the final play. Clevelands Michael Martinez grounds out to third in the bottom of the . Tenth inning. And this game pretty much had it all. The cubs lead by . Four runs at one point. And cleveland ended up . Tying the game, with a two run homer in the . Eighth inning. And after a rain ninth. The cubs got the goahead run, thanks to an rbi from former ray ben zobrist. The final score. Cubs 8, indians 7. The cubs also complete an amazing comeback. They were down three games to one in this series heres manager joe maddon. On why he thinks this could be just and thanks that huge hit in the ninth. And his amazing performance throughout this series. Ben zobrist wins the world series mvp. Hes the first player to win the award. His first . Year with a t
Looking on the radar examine there were a couple of sprinkles near arcadia. They have just about worked offshore with the northeast wind and that flow working its way across the state from east to west. We may see a few more sprinkles during the afternoon. I know we had a few yesterday. Just want to point that out. Not a big deal. 69 degrees the current temperature in tampa. 71 in st. Petersburg. Our normal lows are like 63 so yeah, its a seasonable morning which will turn into a seasonably warm afternoon with a mixture of clouds and sunshine and highs in the mid 80s. Vanessa . Vanessa on the roadways, weve cleared out from any incidents we were seeing overnight. A smooth ride no matter where youre heading and which roads youre taking. This is a live look here, checking out 275 near gandy boulevard in Pinellas County. Super quiet there. Northbound drivers, maybe heading towards the Howard Frankland bridge, once you get to the tampa side, head up to should only take eight minutes. South
That is clear unfortunately it will still being alleges bilth longer until delays are clear. Right now taking about 45 minutes to get from top to the bottom. So delay haves actually grown since last time we checked in here. So plan extra time or avoid the area. Pinellas county drivers, delays also growing here. Northbound on 275. And this earlier crash north of 54th avenue north has moved to shoulder. You want to plan extra time ear better yet not lot of time to minutes by taking northbound u. S. 19 instead of 275. Out of sarasota Bayfront Drive shut down thats u. S. 41 at sell bee gardens following a crash police avoid and good news here we have an update on state root 62nd in lake wales area two miles east of highway 630. We had full shut down after semiinvolved crash. Those lanes are now clear. Dave. Vanessa,8 01 mild nice mild start or temperatures this morning really upper 60s along the immediate coastline. This is what it will look like during afternoon hours. Just like yesterday
Bad today anyway. This is really nice right now. Going to be nicer. Well go from good to better. Okay. Our winds right now currently sitting about 6 oh to 7 miles per hour. You look temperatures. 70 in tampa. 70 in bartow. 70 in clearwater. 73 in sarasota. Northeast winds will shift to the north later today. Really we will go back up to 85 degrees for high today under partly cloudy skies. 83 tomorrow. And then by the weekend, well bring high down. Really just a few degrees. Cant wait to talk to you more about that in just a little bit. Vanessa. All right cant wait to hear more, thanks, dave. 9 01. Want to get to roads its been pretty busy throughout morning latest Major Incident were following off i4 near orient road this is conclusion of what were hearing is an hcso pursuit of breaking, entering suspects. From what were able to tell tire tracks in area it appears i4 and all way down into this ditch. Were hearing that deputies have caught all the suspects apparently some of them tried
Marshall thinks her son should be. We needed them to learn. Reporter not at home suspended. Too many kids are out. Reporter during the 2014 school year with 20 20,000 students were suspended around Hillsborough County schools. The number has now dropped by 8 . The change comes one year after School Board Members opted for a administrators from suspending students. Keeping kids in school is what should we should be thinking of as a goal. Simply saying we will suspend kids does not get is the result we are looking for. Reporter Baxter Jenkins is the executive director and hope the district will consider their input. In some places people are doing fine and in other places control because students do not feel there any consequences. Reporter marshall understands the concerns that she thinks the district is at least in the right direction. It is up to the administrators to be creative. Reporter while the number of suspensions is down the gap between minority students and white students rem