Closed right now, and you can see traffic is moving slowly. Another crash here. This is is a bad one, right on ulmerton road where a vehicle hit a pole, and reports of this possibly being a fatal crash. We will zoom in here, and you can see all the rescue personnel. The car is a mangled mess up against the pole. You cant even tell, gayle, by looking at this what kind of a car this is. Straight to leslee lacey to find out what you need to know to navigate around those issues. What youre looking here is right here, all the eastbound lanes are taken away due to the nasty crash where the vehicle was just tied and looped around the pole there, and this is where youre routed around it, allow for extra time, especially if youre hopping around 275 to there. Two right lanes are blocked and this is a fatal accident here. And you can see as we showed you before, two lanes taken away, and traffic getting by. Its okay to essays the Howard Franklin bridge, and it will only take 8 minutes to cross it
Hillsborough county, its about eight minutes. So not much slower than normal but you do want to leave extra time. Again, this is a tow truck driver who was killed road loading up a car on his truck. Police are looking for a black volkswagen with front end damage. We also have another fatal crash in port richey were following. A possible fatal crash in clearwater too. Ill have more on all these incidents coming up in about 15 minutes. How are the weather conditions later this afternoon . Some changes from what we had over the weekend. Crystal blue skies saturday and sunday. Not the case today. Not a rainout. I still think youre good for outdoor activities. Some kids in school, some not. A southeast wind takes over for today and cloud cover will begin to thicken. But i think we have heavier showers and storms. In fact over mississippi and georgia now. That line will begin to move through tonight and into the early part of tomorrow. That willing arrive just in time for the commute. More o
Getting through now and because its early traffic is still pretty light. Lets check drive times, in the middle its taking 8 minutes to get across the Howard Frankland, typically takes about six minutes to get across the bridge. We also have this crash that fhp is calling a possible fatal crash. This is in clearwater, happened eastbound olmerton road at fountain parkway. This is just east of the carilon parkway. Drivers have to get off at roosevelt and get back to 275 and come around that way because again the eastbound lanes are blocked. So if youre heading here you definitely want to leave yourself some extra time. Were also following this crash from earlier this morning in port richey, fatal crash southbound u. S. 19 at ridge road. We just got word this the southbound lanes are now open so no more delays on u. S. 19 but it has been a very busy and tragic morning on bay area roads so if you are leaving lets talk about the weather. It was a gorgeous weekend, i think a lot of people are
Story in a moment but first, lets look over downtown order. If youre just joining us, you missed what really was a george sunrise to start our day but you can see a glimmer of it there. Marina jurica is in Severe Center 9. It was a beautiful sunrise, and we have our coldest temperatures at 7 00 and will only warmup from here. Satellite radar showing clear skies that wont stay for long. Well see clouds increase as we head from east to west this afternoon. 36 ocala, 39 deland, 45 orlando, 48 melbourne and New Smyrna Beach so it was a cool start and continues to be cool for about the next couple of hours before we see 60s. Weve seen up to a 22degree temperature drop a couple hours ago this morning and now were anywhere from 9 to 16 degrees cooler and as we head into the day today well be in the mid toupper 60s and chance of spotty shower. Best chance, coming up. The man police said shot three Bethunecookman University students, killing one of them, is in the Volusia County jail. We have b
Ranging from it will be warmer this afternoon compared to the last few days. The rain chance going up tonight and tomorrow. Details ahead. Lets get check on your traffic. We have a crew that just arrived to a scene of that Police Involved crash on the florida turnpike. We are hearing this as is a Police Involved accident as well. If youre heading southbound, three cars involved including the Police Officers cruiser as well. Luckily, the good news we are hearing from the scene everybodys going to be okay. That is the great news, the southbound lanes are still shut down at 216th street. Youre going to be detoured off 216th, you can jump back on. We have another accident you have to worry about as well this move over i can show you is ugly where that is working. Okeechobee road northbound at the florida turnpike and that is where that injury accident is working this morning. Just be careful right in between that intersection. Again was to have the Police Involved crash southbound having a