Its going to be another nice day. Well have a couple of very low top showers move across the state from east to west so inland locations, if you get a quick passing shower, dont be surprised but its not going to be the norm. High temperatures will be back to the upper 80s for temperatures today. Good morning. Vanessa good morning, dave. We want to get back to probably what was the bigger crash of the morning. Its clearing. In case youre just joining us, driver ran away, st. Pete area. 28th street south, we had all the southbound lanes blocked at one point but thats clearing. At the very most, just one lane blocked and likely heading out a couple of minutes from now, it will be completely clear but like i said, you should be good to go if you pass on by through the area. Russell a domestic dispute turns deadly. Deputies responded to reports of his pregnant girlfriend when they were forced to pull the trigger. This happened on blue jay drive in holiday. Laura and ken is there in pasco co
Dave every forecast is important. Russell well, okay. Dave this is just extra special important because we got trickortreaters out there. Russell okay. Dave and its going to be absolutely fantastic. You can look at just how pretty this sunrise is and how great it is to start things off today. I do have temperatures in the upper 60s for tampa. Lower 70s back to the coastline. A couple spots in the lower 60s. Well get in the 80s by noon time and top it off in the mid 80s. Afternoon before the sun goes down, it will be warm in the 80s. Once the sun goes down tonight, it should quickly drop back to the 70s. All in all, a beautiful halloween forecast. Vanessa absolutely. Thanks, dave. Here at 7 01, if youre heading out the door, you could see delays southbound 75. We have a new crash reported in the area of fowler avenue and it is blocking up a lane. Its the right lane actually but it will be where its merging with the folks coming off the entrance ramp. Remaining travel lanes that are open
We are going to get back to this in a couple of minutes. We are going to touch on a few spots, sly closed west of 275 after a truck hit some power polls downing power lines. Waters avenue, in case you missed it, fatality in manatee county. The lanes are now clear. Back here to heavy delays eastbound and westbound between 22nd street and west street, hillsborough river, heavy delays. Work arounds. Right now, we want to get to ken suarez. He just arrived on the scene. Do we have any other information, ken . Vanessa, accident at 11th street. They move the barrier detoured back to nebraska. If you have to take hillsborough, nebraska to 15th, closed down tampa Police Closed quite a while until they figure this out. Tampa police say this involves several vehicles. Possibly two investigators trying to figure out how to whole thing went down. At this point they dont know. Most important thing to remember if you are commuting. If you are going to use hillsborough, it is closed down nebraska and
Looking on the radar examine there were a couple of sprinkles near arcadia. They have just about worked offshore with the northeast wind and that flow working its way across the state from east to west. We may see a few more sprinkles during the afternoon. I know we had a few yesterday. Just want to point that out. Not a big deal. 69 degrees the current temperature in tampa. 71 in st. Petersburg. Our normal lows are like 63 so yeah, its a seasonable morning which will turn into a seasonably warm afternoon with a mixture of clouds and sunshine and highs in the mid 80s. Vanessa . Vanessa on the roadways, weve cleared out from any incidents we were seeing overnight. A smooth ride no matter where youre heading and which roads youre taking. This is a live look here, checking out 275 near gandy boulevard in Pinellas County. Super quiet there. Northbound drivers, maybe heading towards the Howard Frankland bridge, once you get to the tampa side, head up to should only take eight minutes. South
Similar to yesterday. 60 to 70 rain chances mainly in the afternoon. Winds are tropical depression nine are still at 35 miles an hour, though the Hurricane Center confident it should become a Tropical Storm later today. Notice how it starts to increase the intensity by wednesday afternoon and then by thursday morning, its still well offshore. By friday morning its in the jacksonville area. Its making levy county. That path would give us two, maybe three things to be concerned about. Number one, the very heavy rain associated with any tropical system to some minor coastal flooding, especially at high tide. On the eastern side of the landfalling system, you tend to spin up tornados, isolated tornados. Time frame for this is Late Wednesday night right through thursday afternoon. To get the fast moving showers from time to time. Okay . Russell preparations are underway for tropical depression number nine. Communities around the tampa bay area are offering free sand bags ahead of the storm.