3 a heads up if youre about to hit the road. Were getting reports of a serious crash on i275 southbound. Its just north of the bearss exit, in north tampa. So just north of this camera. The Highway Patrol got the call around 230 this morning. No other details. Other than there are reports of debris in the roadway. We have a crew heading to the scene, and well bring you more as soon as we get it. Vanessa will also bring us updates during her traffic hits. Later this hour. 3 trying to decide if a woman is guilty. Of murdering a threeyearold boy. 3 theyve been deliberating for two days and still no decision for kara oconnell. She is accused of killing three year old john taylor baxley. Prosecutors say the toddler suffered weeks of beatings and abuse. Oconnel was dating the boys father justin garwacki. The father is also facing murder charges but cut a deal with the state in exchange for his testimony against oconnell. The defense blames the father for the murder. 3 3 developing this morni
Pworkers that caught him say he pstopped breathing polk county pmedical examiner sees he did not pa die result of medical pcondition and ruled the cause of pdeath homicide. Pduties are asking anyone who may phave witnessed that incident to pgive them call. Ptwo stopping stories out phillsborough county first. Pa student is accused of a pbringing a weapon a school bus. Pdeputies were tipped off at pstudent heading to brandon palternative school was riding a pschool bus with a loaded gun on phis lap. Pdeputies pulled over that bus on phighway 92. Pevacuated students, found the istol. Pa magazine lookeded with 12 prounds, and a black ski mask. Pthey say gun was stolen from ptemple terrace. P18yearold jamar cuss sims was parrested charges are pending. Pa modified lockdown just been plifted for a Plant High School pin tampa. Pschool Officials Say they were pchecking in bo a potential pthreat. Pit was unfounded but pinvestigators say weapons were pfound in a students car during pthat search.
Pany anyway 41 in brandon 38 it pwesley chapel 37 in lakeland. Pat least brooksville finally pgone above freezing. Pi do expect to see a bigger pjump, i think in temperatures pgoing into the 9 oclock hour. Oint is, grab your jackets. Pits cold, and in some cases when we get cold. We can come inside. P [i cap drop ] p when we get cold we will just pcome inside a little sea 3 pon tuesday they brought in a 12 psea turtles on wednesday, 11 robably more today considering phow cold it is out here this pmorning. Pkeep in mind that most of sea pturtles actually keep in mind pturtles are actually reptiles. Pthey assume temperatures of penvironment around them ptemperatures drop, it puts cold pstun. Traffic is being diverted. Not really, a big back up were seeing. But probably going to be a pain in neck if you head that way and have to turn around. So, probably want to take waters. Or you can take less jammed if you take that by the way. A disabled bus were watching busch boulevard westbound bef
Phad some pretty strong wind pgusts headed from Crystal River ptowards citrus springs. Pheavy rain of course the thunder pand the lightning. Pnow this is quickly moving off pto the northeast. Pit should in and out of here pquick enough. Palong 41 between inverness and pcitrus springs very stormy right pnow. Pif you can void that area for pnext 20 or 30 minutes, things pwill then quickly improve. Pi want to go to storm a little pfurther toward the south were pgetting rain right in the inellas county area. Phillsborough tampa over bridges. Pbut the main area of concern for pgulf. Pyou see this red rain, that is pthe radar thats detecting or pindicating there could actually articular storm. P so im going to switch over pto what i call velocity mode. Pshowing. Pstill quite a ways off shore. Pand thats what i want to point pout to you that more than likely pthere some type of water spout pabout 60 miles off shore. Pthat, but that within the hour, pthat whole area will be on pshore. Pwhether
Pnow our northern counties, i pthink youre good. Pi mean youve got rain out way pearly. Psarasota. Pthats the sort of focal point pas this big storm continues to pwork et cetera way toward the peast. Pwe had some heavy rain move over pSunshine Skyway just a few pminutes ago. Pnowths already toward ruskin up pinto riverview. Pweve also got heavener rain out phills bo are and eastern ortions of pasco very few pminimum lightning thunder and pgusty winds. Pat your minimum folks with these pstorms as they quickly work ptheir way toward the east. Pnow it looks like theres panother round of heavy rain now parea. Pthat is also going to go over pthe Sunshine Skyway. Pas go further south as weve pkind of watching off the past phour or so, that one particular pcell continues to every ones in pwhile show a little bit of protation which basically this is plooking inside the storm. Pthe greens, mean the winds pmoving toward the radar. Preds away. Pso if youre looking for plooking for the green right