People have died from this one storm system. Its bringing heavy snow to the midwest, tornadoes here in florida, louisiana and virginia, collapsing buildings with high winds in pennsylvania and gusty thunderstorms in new england. Five people, including a toddler, were killed wednesday in virginia as a severe storm system moved north after leaving a path of death and destruction in the deep south. Three of the victims a 50yearold man, a 26yearold man and a twoyearold boy died were inside a mobile home in waverly just outside of norfolk. Back here in florida, people are cleaning up this morning in punta gorda where an ef 1 tornado packing winds up to 110 Miles Per Hour caused damage to dozens of homes. Heres what im working on right now im checking to see if people in punta than 100 miles southeast of us, have plus ill show you more of the damage were seeing there. Allison the nasty weather heavy rain causing drivers had to be rescued when flash floods swamped you can see cars nearly cove
Pmorning and its really been pconcentrated from the sarasota parea up toward the sunshine pskyway. Pthat area has sea fog pouring in pwith the westsouthwest wind so pthere, visibilities are down pbelow a mile in many spots. Pinland, its a lot of fog and plow cloud cover. Pit is warm, muggy, its 72 pdegrees outside with a west wind pat eight. Pwhen we break into sunshine this pafternoon, our temperatures pshould make their way back to pthe lower 80s. Pvanessa thank you. Pright now we have a live look pover the Sunshine Skyway bridge. Pwere showing you this because pif youre just waking up, it plooks really quiet out there. Pit is because the bridge is pactually closed. Pdave was talking about fog in pthe area and were getting preports from the troopers that arts of the bridge are pexperiencing visibilities less pthan 100 feet. Pthats concerning for folks. Pwell let you know when the pbridge reopens. Pfor now best bet is i75. Pads, maybe youve gotten a few phere. Plaura today is primary
I 80 westbound is partially snowcovered. Right now, it is 24 degrees. With light snow coming down. Were going to end up with a half inch of snow. Should be out of here by noon. It is going to be a cold one with highs near 26. Elizabeth make sure you keep an eye on 511ia. Org. Give yourself some time because the roads will be slippery. To our big stories now authorities are still asking for your help to find a missing 12yearold girl from newton. Police say Charlene Brown left voluntarily on Christmas Day. Authorities have issued warrants for her mother misty shaver who does not have custody of charlene and her mothers investigators think shaver and carlton may be taking her to texas. If you have any information call newton police. A farmer in Guthrie County may be out 2000 this morning after , one of his cattle was stolen and butchered. Deputies were investigating a breakin when they found blood and part of the cow carcass. Police believe the thieves slaughtered the cow on the property.
Now, to another terrorist threat. San francisco schools announced today that it did receive a threat overnight similar to the one that shut down the Public Schools in los angeles earlier this week. Live outside Galileo High School with the details. Reporter that threat is being labeled a hoax tonight. It certainly got the attention of a lot of people. No specific threat against Galileo High School here or any other school in San Francisco, but police will be maintaining a presence around schools for the time being. Listening to a voice mail sent to parents about a threat of violence against San Francisco Public Schools. For how long are they going to be this way . What are we going to do tomorrow . At this point in time, we have no reason to believe that the threat is credible what so ever. Reporter San Francisco School Superintendent says the threat was almost generic. Sent by email overnight to five distriblgt employees. No specific schools were named. The email threat, i can say, is