Dave it is. Lets do a little forecast for you, sir. 81 degrees, second hour in a row were sitting just above the 80degree threshold here in the tampa area. Its the 75 dew point. Of course, its very steamy outside. You would think this warm and muggy, right . There would be thunderstorms all over the place this afternoon. But you have to look up above the surface and that drier air above us is going to to put 20 of the rain chance for this afternoon which means easily back up into the lower 990s. The vanessa . Vanessa dont get any ideas. Im not calling you the dave. Dave come on. Vanessa thanks, dave, by the hour bridge. Last hour we were watching a crash blocking a left lane. It was in this area between the mid span and the st. Pete side. See how theyre fairing. They kind of peaked at the seven, eight minute mark, back down to normal, completely ideal conditions heading into st. Pete, Fourth Street north. 75 to 275, in the red here southbound 75 fletcher to selmon. Thats 17 minutes. Ru
Lower 90s today. Rain chances only 20 percent. So i think obviously that means just about everybody makes it back into the lower 90s. Higher rain chances vanessa, later this week. Which ill talk about in a few minutes. All right. Well see you then. 8 0 one. Just joining us biggest blockage were seeing coming to venice area. Theres crash reported along river road. Closing both directions. Just north of center road alternates jackson and jack oh rwan we reported this last report a fatality. Loop road williams road northbound lane blocked with expectations about 4 hour or so for the closure. Want to check in on our majors to see how congestion is faring some trouble spots 275 Howard Frankland bridge 13 minutes northbound 21 minutes westbound coming to interchange from 75. And then 16, between bruce b. Downs and i4 along 75. Americans relies on snap benefits. That breaks down to about 46. 5 million americans, thats more than 38. 5 million americans considered to be living in poverty. Newly
What is it . [clicking] car just stopped. [click] must be the battery. Stop fooling around. No, im serious. The car will not start. At least turn the lights on. Moms afraid of the dark. No, im not. [click] rrr. [engine starts] whew [sighs] [laughing] i got you. I got you. Ohh hi, hi, hi. Sorry for the cryptic latenight text, but i promised id fill you in on the way here, and i am a girl who keeps her promises, so, this boy was found two hours ago in the middle of nowhere. Technically he was found outside of crockett, arizona. My point is, hhas clearly been to super hell and escaped some sort of captivity. How do we know he wasnt just dropped off there . Well, he has fresh cuts on the bottom of his feet and his skin is rubbed raw around his ankles from chains. He mustve had a chance to escape and he took it. Or the unsub could have had him in transit. My god, you guys, look at his eyes. Yeah, hes jaundiced. Probably hasnt seenda ylig in a whil yeah, and theres a lot of scars here. And t
Phad some pretty strong wind pgusts headed from Crystal River ptowards citrus springs. Pheavy rain of course the thunder pand the lightning. Pnow this is quickly moving off pto the northeast. Pit should in and out of here pquick enough. Palong 41 between inverness and pcitrus springs very stormy right pnow. Pif you can void that area for pnext 20 or 30 minutes, things pwill then quickly improve. Pi want to go to storm a little pfurther toward the south were pgetting rain right in the inellas county area. Phillsborough tampa over bridges. Pbut the main area of concern for pgulf. Pyou see this red rain, that is pthe radar thats detecting or pindicating there could actually articular storm. P so im going to switch over pto what i call velocity mode. Pshowing. Pstill quite a ways off shore. Pand thats what i want to point pout to you that more than likely pthere some type of water spout pabout 60 miles off shore. Pthat, but that within the hour, pthat whole area will be on pshore. Pwhether
Pnot far away from that falthity pearlier this morning. Pso here is how it all began. Pright now we can tell you its paround that time window when pflorida Highway Patrol did preceive a call about vehicle paccident of some type here on pthe Howard Frankland bridge. Pthis is on the northbound side pof i275. Pwe learned those troopers parrived within 20 minutes of pgetting that call and according pto florida Highway Patrol on the pscene, this is what weve been pable to learn. Pa tow truck driver was preportedly hooking up a disabled pvehicle just before 20 30 this pmorning when he was reportedly pstruck and killed. Ptwo people from that disabled pvehicle were sitting inside of pthe tow truck at the time and pthe driver of the tow truck was preportedly working outside of pthe truck but on the inside planes of i275 northbound. Pnow, florida Highway Patrol ptells us they believe that they pmodel volkswagen black jetta or peos with damage to the right pside of the vehicle. Ptheyre asking any