No closed captioning is available for traffic. Available for captioning is no closed no closed captioning is available for traffic. Fox 13s Alcides Segui is live on the ground in tampa this morning. Alcides thanks alcides. Now to a tragic story in polk county. Where deputies continue to investigate the death of a five year old boy. After he was hit by a truck. While riding his bike. Fox 13s Shayla Reaves is live near lakeland this morning. Shayla, this happened i cant begin to understand what this family must be feeling. Especially, the eight Year Old Girl who lost her little brother. Youre looking at the scene off saddlewood boulevard, around 5 oclock thursday evening. According to the polk county sheriffs office. A pick up truck struck 5 yearold Austin Crawfordas he and his sister road bikes in front of his next door neighbors home. Deputies say the boy turned and traveled into the road. The passing driver hit him. A neighbor shared memories of the child. We learned neighbors and fam
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
Temperatures like yesterday and the day before that, well get right back up to the mid 80s. Vans . Vanessa and on the roads, no big complaint still. Were clear on the roads. We have one notable construction closure to mention. Its not a full blockage so thats good news and its along the veterans expressway. Southbound direction, you see a speed marker at waters. In the area of waters, two left caution in the area but you can see no big delays to be expected hitting this way. Laura janet reno, first woman to serve as u. S. Attorney general and figure at the center of several political fire storms during the Clinton Administration has died. Russell this morning, her goddaughter broke the news saying she suffered from complications from parkinsons disease. Janet reno went to harvard law school, became a prominent prosecutor before rising to she served nearly eight years. Reno figured into some of the administrations biggest scandals. One is the deadly raid on the complex in waco, texas. I
Moody. I know. I know. Im Russell Rhodes outside with dave. Laura. Hello. Its incredible. It looks beautiful. It looks incredible. A breeze. Its cool. Its nice. I love it. Warmer than normal again today. 98th day since july 1st. That is great. Great right now. It is beautiful outside. You know what it is, those dew points. We got back to upper 50s. Ands long as they can stay there, it will be like this. Were at 73 degrees. Thats our 9 oclock temperature at the airport. Lower 70s couple of spots are still straggling along in the 60s. As russell mentioned breezy 10 to 18 mile per hour indz with. A warm wind. Will get us back likely into the mid 80s for today. Another lovely day tomorrow. Election day, no weather problems in our entire state. High of about 82. All right. Dave, thanks. We want to check roads right now. Its 9 01. We want to update some previous crashes which were larger ones pinecrest we do have improvements to delays we were seeing here northbound direction we still have s
It will be a little chilly when you step out the door this morning especially in citrus counties where were in the 40s, 48 in zephyrhills, a little bit warmer in the Lakeland Polk county area. Everybody is cooler than yesterday. Significantly so. Lakeland 7 degrees cooler, plans 5 degrees cooler. Of course it is veterans day and it should be perfect d the festivities 78 degrees sunny pleasant low humidity. Now, 78 degrees is technically a degree below the average of 79 degrees but its basically right at the average, and tonight just a little bit below average as well as we drop down to 58 degrees. So at 5 08 i have an hour by hour look at your friday this veterans day and our own veteran is going to get you out the door. Thank you to serving out there. Lets take a look at state road 54 about a 10minute commute there. Also up to speed in palm harbor on 19 itself looking very good all the way up in pasco and down into Pinellas County no delays. All right moving over now manatee and Saras