We begin tonight with breaking news. Right now the florida Highway Patrol just opening the northbound lanes at i75 after they were shut down all night. Troopers telling us a truck an overpass. Heres a closer look at the area we are talking about tonight. Overpass road here where everything was closed moments ago. But things are changing. Joins us live from possum county with the latest out there. I want to show you a little bit of those crews. They are actually picking up those koans so that these lanes are reopened and the reason why it was closed for several hours truck carrying a crane hit that part of an underpass. It hit 2 sections. They put what appears to be two tarps across that area. The truck was driving north on i75 near mile marker 282 in pasco county. The driver of the truck from texas was not hurt. Florida Highway Patrol ticketed him because the height of the truck was higher than it should have been to safely pass underneath that bridge and that impact was so hard, we di
Same thing as well. As you head out make sure you dont get caught in a blind spot of a semi, leave extra time, both hands on the wheel. Were headed to the skyway now to check it for the next hit. Well have an update in 15 minutes. Some good news from tampa this morning with some of the roadways opening back up though. What have you got . Northbound 275, they are reopening or did overnight, two lanes around himes so were expecting to see some relief there on 275 northbound. Right now i4 heading into tampa looking great. No crashes or breakdowns. These cars here heading right in to downtown. Lets check drive times starting all the way back in the lakeland area, 23 minutes from the edge of lakeland into downtown. 15 minutes from county line road to 75, seven minutes from 75 to 275. Check of the average speeds, from the apex so if you live in the Wesley Chapel area trying to decide between 275 and 75 pushing 70 on 275 from the apex. 70 on i75. Dan . 6 02. Breaking news we first told but at
Looking at that car its likely there will be. We are going to bring you updates as we get them through the morning. Were following breaking news in st. Pete now. Crews are investigating after an excavator fell into the bay. It happened at the pier construction site, this is video from action air 1 showing the excavator sinking into the bay. The city says this accident was caused by operator error. The person driving the machine was able to jump out before it went into the water. Were hearing its going to take a few days to remove it. New this morning, for the first time in state history a woman is now the head coach for High School Football team. Miami jackson just hired la katrina brunson. She was Defense Coordinator for three other south florida high schools. Brunson once played for an all female team in miami. She is also bernice on south a man accused of attacking a little girl in a mall bathroom friday night bonded out of jail. Police say Ricky Thompson turned himself in and claim
Some people are still stuck in the wreckage. Its still unclear what caused the two trains to go head on on a single track. There will be a News Conference in a bit and well find out more. 4 31. Heres ivan cabrera with the forecast. Were cold, in the 50s. Actually milder than yesterday but because of the wind it feels mighty cold and thats how it will stay throughout the day. Tampa now 55. Were not going to watch the thermometer move much today. Upper by later this afternoon upper 50s by later this afternoon. Bundle up. 15 to 25 mileperhour winds and wind gusts at times in excess of 30. Sarasota 35 mileperhour wind gusts. So bundle up yourself, the kids and everything else. Were going to continue with chilly readings, not getting to but theres a warmup on the way. Well talk about that throughout the day in the extended forecast coming up. Commute. I275 and ashley drive. No problems now. Janelle is watching the Traffic Cameras and will have a complete look at the morning commute and tell
Now, here is what that one sailor told us about what weather conditions were like at that time. The wind just picked up as the clouds went away. And so by the second leg of our first race, it was pretty full on and we still had the steep chop. Reporter now, again, rescuers are saying what helped in this situation is you had very highly skilled, highly trained athletes out on the water who knew how to handle this. Obviously for the people out here now, very dangerous. Again, youre going to want to stay off of the water. What is very good, no one was injured. All of them taken and looked at in a medical tent. Everyone is fine tonight. Back to you guys in the studio. Now the most Accurate Weather Team in florida, abc action weather. Thanks, jacqueline. Jacqueline hit on something that i wanted to mention. These were not inexperienced theme are people competing in the olympics. They pretty much have as much experience out in the water as you can imagine. When you run into winds gusting up