I do now see his little tongue. Hes like i am less than 5 feet away is it our old buddy i think it is but hes on top of the bushes. Do you get that . Take a picture with your camera on your phone and tweet it because i want to see it better. Okay. Wait. Okay. Take a picture real quick. You guys talk show stopped. You guys talk for a second i will take quick picture. There he is. Ok you be good. Okay. Lets jump into it outside. Were a 71 degrees outside. Nice little warm start here. Brandons at 70. Bartow at 70. Wauchula at 70. Lot of these spots got down in lower 60s this morning. Boy just gets nicer and nicer. 24hour temperature change. Yeah were running about two to four degrees cooler than we were yesterday at this time. Or most part. We should easily get back to upper 80s with lots of warmth. Afternoon breezes. By the way vanessa i sent you snapchat. Oh, okay. A little video of the snake just so you know. I just started to get into snapchat send random snaps to everybody. Whats so
Were confirmed in south florida. Blood donations are being tested across the state and for good reason. A donors blood came back positive for zika in august. The testing lab that caught it in the bay area. New channel 8 chanel shows us how to keep it out of reach. All the blood makes its way to the testing lab in st. Pete. When it gets here, the blood is tested for zika. One blood official confirms the zika virus was found in a donation in florida. The blood was tested at their lab in st. Pete where everybody one blood donors blood is tested for zika virus. One rep could not give us specifics on where the donation came from. The doctors used highly sophisticated devices to test up to 3000 samples a day to provide results within hours to make sure that no zika positive supply. Thats the reason that this strum and the test is in place. One blood wants to ensure that they provide screen or appropriately screened blood in light of the zika epidemic. The fda has confirmed the one positive z
We will get a touch warmer later on this afternoon but the story is this morning. You step outside, got to consider breaking out the light jackets. Good news, we are dry all over the region here with with the max defender 8 radar scanning the skies with a million watts of power. The story, not rain but the chilly temperatures. Theres the look at downtown again where it is now 57 degrees. We have light north, northeast breezes this morning but check out the number, 50s along the especially east of 75, it gets chilly. How about 50 for Wesley Chapel is lakeland. 42 right now in brooksville. And 50 in dade city. High pressure still in charge over the southeast u. S. Giving us the light, northeasterly flow. And overall, winds will be lighter today. And we will have the chilly start at 55 but the afternoon is looking gorgeous with full sunshine, temperatures stopping just shy of that 80degree mark. And long term, slow warming full forecast. Thank you so much. We turn now to breaking news thi
We will get a touch warmer later on this afternoon but the story is this morning. You step outside, got to consider breaking out the light jackets. Good news, we are dry all over the region here with with the max defender 8 radar scanning the skies with a million watts of power. The story, not rain but the chilly temperatures. Theres the look at downtown again where it is now 57 degrees. We have light north, northeast breezes this morning but check out the number, 50s along the especially east of 75, it gets chilly. How about 50 for Wesley Chapel is lakeland. 42 right now in brooksville. And 50 in dade city. High pressure still in charge over the southeast u. S. Giving us the light, northeasterly flow. And overall, winds will be lighter today. And we will have the chilly start at 55 but the afternoon is looking gorgeous with full sunshine, temperatures stopping just shy of that 80degree mark. And long term, slow warming full forecast. Thank you so much. We turn now to breaking news thi
Rise and shine, tampa bay. You are looking live right now at downtown tampa. Good sunday morning. Im paul mueller. Thank you so much for be joining us. If you havent been outside yet, you might want to throw on an extra layer. Lets check with ed on that. Yeah, the temperatures, thats the big story. And max defender 8 showing a dry picture this morning. Another morning with sunshine, barely a cloud in the sky. And look out there, the morning. Venice, clear skies overhead and 59 degrees. And 52 right now in palm harbor. 56 in lutz. 54 for apollo beach and sun city center. And still 40s on the map including crystal river. Youre at 48 right now. Up to 61 now for frost proof. And 53 in dade city. These numbers are slowly but surely starting to warm up. And its going to be pleasant this afternoon as we hit 79. Ahead as temperatures get back to norms by midweek and looks like the outlook, fairly dry with only a slight chance of rain by midweek. We will take you through the next eight days in