Now you can know what is about to happen before anyone else. Its a story for dave osterberg. Im laura moody. Russell and im russell rhodes. A lot ahead this morning but speaking of dave, hes not here. Lindsay is and theres rain on the way. Lindsay but not this morning. Dry times until wetter times later this afternoon. Clouds thickening today but we have breaks in them. Its developed to 76. We 80s this morning even though its very muggy. Notice the little swirl. Thats a tropical wave that will move across our area today and with it, giving us patchy sprinkles in polk county. Nothing major. We need to bring in some heating before we opt the late day rain chance to 60 to 70 . Because of the content of moisture in the atmosphere, highs in the upper 80s. Well time out the best arrival of storms coming up. Courtney. The interstates are building up this morning and were seeing delays through plant city along i4 corridor. This is a live look at the westbound traffic. Taillights heading near B
Good morning. Thats right. Three named storms right now in the atlantic. We have ian, julia and newly formed Tropical Storm karl. Now ian is going to head to the north and not be an issue for anyone. So were going to focus on julia and karl. Julia, still a Tropical Storm. It weakened to a tropical depression yesterday and it should return to tropical depression status tomorrow. Its going to move off the South Carolina and North Carolina coast. And now karl. Karl is a 45 Miles Per Hour and slowly gain some strength and in fact this latest forecast has it becoming a category one hurricane wednesday morning but notice its starting to move it to the north. We hope it stays out to sea. In the meantime, feels tropical locally. Uncomfortable amounts of humidity today. Not oppressive. But uncomfortable. And thats going to translate into a typical round of summer afternoon storms, about a 40 on the 8s, i will take you hour byhour through your friday. And leslee lacey has the friday morning comm
Excuse me late summer. Its 81 in tampa. Wither not done with summer. 79 plant city, 82 st. Petersburg, 76 bartow. The average high is 89 thats warm enough. Im expecting us to be right around 90 later today. I expect the rain chances to go up. Im keeping it dry through the morning. A 40 chance of rain Late Afternoon and evening. Tropics. Downtown tampa looks pretty good but we have construction starting around channel side. Lets go ahead and zoom into the riverview area. Im seeing some delays here, 301 at riverview drive. Not as bad anybody. Southbound was in the orange there now its in the yellow. This is an injury accident and its tieing up some of those thats got injured involved and its blocking part of the intersection. Heres a live look at the Howard Frankland bridge. Great drive across it. Only 6 minutes. Thats a look at weather and traffic. Now back to paul and gayle. New developments this morning on weekend bombings in new york and new jersey. A pipe bomb exploded monday near a
Ahmad khan rahami down to a location in linden, new jersey. Police got in a shoot out. Rahami seen on surveillance video. Rahami shot and two officers, both officers are expected to be okay. Overnight five explosive devices found in a backpack on a train station. Thankfully no injuries reported. That came after 29 people were hurt in chelsey neighborhood manhattan saturday night. This bomb used a Pressure Cooker when detonated. Same man dropping a second device. Hours after another bomb exploded before the beginning of a marine core charity run. The race was delayed. Event postponed as authorities began investigating a was an isolated incident. President obama spoke and here is what he had to say. Moments like this i think it is important to remember what terrorist and violent extremists are trying to do. They are trying to hurt innocent people. They also want to inspire fear in all of us and disrupt the way we live. To undermine our values. And aggressive both in preventing senseless
And we are fairly quiet. Rain chances ramp up later today. Just like yesterday, slow moving showers and thunderstorms, and temperatures around 90, a degree above average for today, and overall, the outlook for the next 5 days, seasonal weather and temperatures around 9 to 90, and the humidity will be high. I will preview for now, melissa. We begin with breaking news in philadelphia. Two Police Officers and four others were shot overnight in an ambush attack. One officer was shot eight times in her patrol car. The man fired shots into a bar, hitting a securities guard in the leg, and then he grabbed a random woman to use as a shield as officers approached. Then he shot that woman in the leg. As he fired away, he fired striking a man and woman in the hes. In the chest. Both of those people are in critical condition. Investigators at the scene found an envelope that on the outside was marked doomed or something to that effect they have since opened 2, and that was obvious will trying to h