Overdowntown tampa. Good morning, im candace mccowan. Its now 9 00, and ed has the weekend forecast, getting you up and out the door. Beautiful start to our sunday morning. A lot of sunshine over the tampa bay area, and thats the view from lakeland auto mall. A breeze out there, and again good supply of sunshine for ugh bran zone and lutes. Milder in bartow this morning. 74, and looking at upper 60s to the north. Heres the skycast, and by the man afternoon mainly midand high level clouds from time to time. No rain coming our way, and thats good news if youre headed out to ray jay later for the big Oakland Tampa game there the skies will clear out, degrees, and it looks like the pattern will continue. Into the new work wee, we will look at that, and also the halloween forecast in a few minutes from now. Candace . Tampa bay police need your help in finding the driver who left one woman dead and injured a Police Officer in a hitandrun accident. The family is driver who killed their mother
Joining us here. Right now is 9 00. We have look at your weather. It was raining yesterday and we will tell you what you can expect today and tomorrow. We will see afternoon showers and thunderstorms, nothing to a typical. We are off to a fairly try start this morning dry start this morning. We have mostly sunny skies. We are already warming up in tampa. We just hit 82. 76 in zephyrhills and 77 brooksville. Were ei generally along and north of i 4. That is where were seeing a partly to most was county sky cloudy sky and a few showers up short. South of i sure i4, lots of showers. Still seeing cloudiness over north florida. 89 degrees this afternoon. A few storms fire up along the coast. They push inland as we go through the afternoon. Coming up, we will break down your way. Right now there is a frantic search First Responders working around the clock to find 18yearold austin welch. His sister fell into the peace river while fishing so he jumped into save her aunt sally he has not been
By the end of 2020 will be met by one of the vaccines. We have three vaccine candidates. Weve had many more but three are really, really looking good. That news comes as the u. S. Saw a single day record for new cases on wednesday. Just today florida reporting more than 10,000 new cases, a new daily record high for the state. Our capacity in the hospitals is becoming less and less available, and were seeing a return of a disease that everyone dread freddie day one. Doctors in texas overwhelmed by the number of covid patients. So many in some parts there are wait lists for ventilators. I got 10 calms, young people, excellent candidates. They are so sick if they dont get put on so sick they are probably going to die, i had three beds. Three states paused reopening plans due to spikes in covid cases. Today the nations top disease expert dr. Anthony fauci telling bbc some states may have reopened too soon. In the United States even in the most Strict Lockdown only about 50 of the country l
Burnett. The United States on the verge of setting a new daily high for Coronavirus Infections beating the record set the day before when the u. S. Saw 50,000 new positive covid cases in one day. As of tonight 38 states are headed in the wrong direction and all of them seeing increases cases. Yet if you listen to the president you would think the country is in great shape. The crisis, is being handled. We have some areas where we are putting out the flames or the fires. It is working out well. Now we are opening it up. It is opening up far faster than anybody thought possible and more successfully. He may want to be quite careful declaring success right now. In florida an 11yearold has been the youngest person to die from the virus after the state reported 10,000 new cases, a record. That is not success. Just today georgia and arkansas reported a Record Number of cases. That is not a crisis being handled. In california hospitalizations are at an alltime high and in texas masks are now
Gear up for november, trump is also a motivating force for them. Trump is our biggest ally, just an enormous amount of energy that i have seen and never seen before. Reporter jeff zeleny, cnn, reporter jeff zeleny, cnn, st. Petersburg, florida. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com thank you so much for staying with me. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im ana cabrera in new york. Fourth of july weekend and across america right now, people are deciding how to celebrate americas independence while at the same time a deadly pandemic is mounting a new surge across this country. Theres just no historical precedent. 37 states this weekend are reporting a rising number of new infections, especially florida, which is seeing an especially steep spike in new cases. Florida Health Officials reporting more than 11,400 new cases just today. That is another record high number for singleday cases in florida. Looking around the country right now, washington, d. C. , some people are out but crowds, small so