The moving wheels. This is happening now, pretty amazing. A casino imploding in las vegas. Can you see it . Yeah. It just what is it, 17 stories . There it goes. That is absolutely amazing. Were watching it now. Its coming down, this is the final phase of the monte carlo riviera, the first tower actually went down a couple of months ago. It was 24 stories. This we just lost our connection there. That was pretty cool. Making way for an expansion of the Las Vegas Convention center. Which is going to be huge. Ive never been a vegas. We have a trip planned as a family and look forward to checking it out. The weather will be perfect. I am sure not much will have been built by the time we get there. 80 degrees in tampa now. 79 in st. Pete. We have clear skies across much of the area so a nice dry start to the day. Planning on taking the dog for a walk or jogging, things are looking good for you. Wherever youre headed on the roads it will be nice and dry to start the day. By noon well start t
Session but a few more counties have their first day of school today. If youre waking them up for school, your kids, were waking you up with Team Coverage. Well check in on summer construction that went on right down to the wire. Plus a new curriculum that will have kids using their own cell phones and tablets to learn. Thank you so much for waking up with abc action news. First to kick off the first day of school in pasco and polk counties, janelle and ivan with traffic and weather together. You wanto it will take a little longer to get there with the buses but no real issues out there now. Next week of vacation, do they leave later in the summer . Thats turning it around, right . Good for you pasco and polk. Shortening up the year. Right. Looking murky out there. Checking with ryan, reporting a little fog on the ground. I dont think it will be a huge deal but patchy fog not out of the question for eastern pasco 7 01 sunrise. So it will be dark for a while. Upper 70s. By pickup time u
To try 41 as an option depending where youre coming from and where youre going. Elsewhere taking a look outside, 275 through downtown tampa looks great. Just five minutes to get from here to the Howard Frankland bridge. 6 bridge 01. Can you hear that . More than 100,000 students in polk county will be waking up realizing summer is over. Todays the first school, for some the first day in a brand new building. Ryan raish is live in citrus academy. Did they get everything done in time . Reporter just in the nick of time. In fact if you were here a week ago there thwas an active construction scene. You would see trucks, cranes, painters hard at work, working 24 7 to try to get this school ready in time. And it is ready for students to arrive any moment for the first the theme is everything civics. So that is kind of the unique part about this school. Every class the students will attend will have some type of circumstances tiein. Were talking about civics tiein. Were talking about taking a
Road rage incident. You can also see this is causing quite the traffic tie up at the moment. Mlk and forbes road shut down. And is expected to stay closed for several hours to come. Heres what we know so far Hillsborough County Sheriffs Office responding to shots fired at this location. Deputies here finding a man in the road performing cpr on the victim. That man turns out was the alleged shooter and he stayed on scene trying to revive the victim pronounced dead. Law enforcement not releasing any identities at this time, only saying that the victim is approximately 40 years old, right now no immediate information as to what is leading investigators specifically as to what sparked this deadly confrontation. Just behind me at the scene the state attorney is also on scene working with Hillsborough County investigators, no word at this point on any potential charges against the shooter. Roads are blocked and a good portion of the intersection remains closed. Janelle is in studio, how can
Upper 70s to about 80 degrees. Its nice and dry as well so you dont have to worry about any wet roads for the commute this morning. Well check with janelle in a moment and see if there are any other tieups. As we work through the day well be up to the upper 80s by noon. That is where well see an isolated shower or two beginning to bubble up inland but we wont really see the majority of our area with showers and storms across it until about 2 00 to 3 00. So youve got a good amount of dry hours today and certainly hot temperatures. 92 as the high with coverage of afternoon showers and storms. I do think the evening commute could be a little messier than the morning commute but you tell me, how are things looking . Looking great. The roads dry. Corey dierdorff is driving over the Courtney Campbell causeway heading into clearwater. No crashes this morning, your drive across the bridge just nine minutes and looking good on the Howard Frankland and the gandy bridge as well. The only crash we