Of the vernal equinox. Thats when the suns rays are directly over the equator. While the calendar says spring winter is not going away. A snowstorm could hit the mid atlantic later today. Here in florida weve been dealing with a lot of rain. Well check on our forecast with debra shields. Good morning, candace. We had a lot of rain yesterday but today it will not be the same story. Certainly not a wash out. We may see a few showers, about a 30 chance. Take a look at the current temperatures right now. Were in the upper the bay area. Heres a look at the satellite and radar. You can see we are seeing a few showers coming into the pasco, hernando area and down towards the south moving into desoto and highlands county. Now, again, on and off throughout the day we will see some showers and storms. Really showers, maybe an isolated thunderstorm. The main reason for these showers, theres a cold front draped ahead of that cold front thats where you see the showers. As we head throughout the day
Whether this has any connection, we do not know. Weree trying to get a as much information from our crews on the ground, in the air, tampa fire and rescue and tampas me. We have been told that tamampa police will be briefing us at 12 20. Its 12 21 now so were a little behind fromm tampa police as theyre trying to come out and tell t the news media exactly what has happened here. So were getting information that you see from the air, and a little this teterms of what was involvedd in we do know that there were two aircrafaft involved. One aircraft remains on the runway there in a grassy area. Its charred from the fire that occurred following this plane. As we wait for a briefing, im not sure if we can did back to paul or try peter again. Hello, things are prettyy much the same up here. The fire crews arent actively attacking this plane anymore. It look like its pretty much out. Theyre investigators to come out. They got it out pretty quickly. Again we dont know if anyone died in this, i
It was a bittersweet sound. They paid tribute to john kotfila jr. Im proud t to call him a hero. But a lilike of men and women in the room, he was not defined by one moment in time. Reporter master Deputy Gary Herman thought of him as a son and said the man who put his patrol car between a wrongway driver and another motorist saturday morning was always ready to help others. And that is what made him a true hero. Not because of how he died, but because of how he lived. Reporter he comes from a family of cops in california and police from that state showed up in droves for his funeral. His mother and father sat quietly next to his casket while his sister said goodbye. Down here on earth, but gained another one up in heaven. Reporter this family lost a sun, but gained the gratitude of a community and the respect sworn to serve. It was in his dna. That is why he became a cop. Reporter it is in his family dna in fact. The deputy comes from a long line of Law Enforcement officers back in ma
Why this time its the momma getting mad props. Check this out. This is a sea cow, its related to the manitee. You can see its tail is tied. Under water. Some drivers were under the sea in indonesia in a Remote Island area and ran across a fisherman who was saying he would charge money for people to take pictures or even come look at the dugong. Thats just ah. I thought it was caught in fishing line or something. No, it was intentionally put on this creatures tail. This creature is a mom and say that her baby is in another holding area. But its tail was not roped like hers. But the sad thing is the poor creature is believed to have its good to know that social media is used for something pictures. Somebody at the top levels of government was able to see this and execute the release of this poor little sea cow. Now this video, a lot happier. Somewhere else under the sea some divers came across a shark pup. And shark pups like human want attention. This one wanted his back scratched. Just
Ranks near the top of the list as one of the best places to celebrate st. Patricks day. It looks like fun. Im Lindsay Lohan logue along with bill logan. A jammed packed event weekend. It looks as though we will get a break early and then get muchneeded rain later on. Current view from our tower cam or our live camera. Its not really on a tower, its on top of the mainsail beach in, that is at the end of 60 theres 66th. There is some blue and clouds. As you look to the west, there is a bunch of clouds. And a lot of showers out there. Right now we are mostly clear across the region. Nothing showing up on titan Doppler Radar but we are seeing showers push onshore around the big bend area and through the nature coast. 72 in walk chile. 70 in apollo beach. We still have brooksville in the 60s. As we go through the day, floridas most accurate dayplanner shows we will get up into the low 80s but that will be around noon. Then we get showers pulling through. We will pinpoint the location of the