Why they have officially called it tropical depression nine. The latest information drifts this into the central gulf of mexico. And strengthens to it a Tropical Storm. Thats about 40 Miles Per Hour winds by tomorrow afternoon. And its moving away from florida. But hold up because its going to get picked up and drawn back toward possibly the panhandle, possibly the big bend of florida at this point. This is thursday morning. Still a Tropical Storm at this point. But no matter where its going, its going to impact our weather. Increased rain chances day on thursday. Possibly even some rip currents and high surf. All day thursday it treks through north florida and then entering into back into the Atlantic Ocean and heads away from us. Through the gulf of mexico, its really entering this area with bath water basically. So it has the fuel to strengthen. And heres the issue though, tuesday even, everybody says yes. All the models say in the central gulf. More con have convoluted. We are watc
Izzy runs a boat and jet ski rental. When they call, we have to say its contaminated. It puts our business away. Reporter we have been trying to find out for two days where the waste water is being dumped. Jeff patterson with channel 8. Reporter we tried setting up an interview with the head of public works but hes a busy man. Just trying to find the status of what the Interview Time might be so we can find out where the waste water is being discharged. Repor kathlene peters on the issue. The bacteria levels are so high, we are closing beaches and we need to protect our citizens. Reporter peters wants to bring the Pinellas County delegation together with local leaders to talk about waste water. This is stuff that should have been maintained a long time before this. Reporter but she also believes the city of Saint Petersburg has an obligation to let the public know what is going on. Yes. Those citizens need to know just like i get on my paddle board and go out on the water. We need to k
And then theres Tropical Storm gaston which again should be a hurricane in the next few hours. Then theres invest 99 with the 70 chance of becoming a tropical system. This has the biggest impact on us. Biggest threat to impact us. As of 5 00 this morning, gaston had 70 Miles Per Hour winds. Even by 2 00 today, should be a hurricane. Best news of all, the thing stays out to sea. We like that. Even if it may become a category two hurricane 99l. In the short term, i dont think its going to get much stronger. Some problems to deal with which is just fine. But late in the week and the early weekend, thats when it will enter the area where it could strengthen. But then they begin to diverge, some along the east coast of florida. Something certainly we will pay today, 93 that record 95. In weather and traffic on the 8s, i take you through the wednesday and leslee has the wednesday commute. And we have a problem in pasco county. Lets look here. Zoom in, you need to know that eastbound we have
Surprising but have you seen a gator sprint across the street like this. Oh, my. There it goes. They run really fast. A viewer shared the video with us over the weekend and it caught our attention. This morning, it has over a thousand shares and many more likes. The reason experts suspect he was running. First, the monday forecast. Leigh has an eye on the tropics. Yeah, it got very active over the weekend. We have tropical depression nine which is the most concerned about and theres also tropical depression eight. And theres hurricane gaston. The Hurricane Hunters flying through it. Again, looks like theyre on the way back home now. Wind speed they have picked up so far about 37 Miles Per Hour. So all the information from the hurricane hunt will go into the computer models and that will give us a better idea of whats happening. This is an 1 12 00 p. M. Update from the hurricane center. Last think is that it was going to be a tropical storm, even by late this evening into the central gu
Pulling contaminated water out of the aquifer and pushing it back into the plant where it will be used to process the fertilizer. They have an Extensive Network of monitoring wells they say and the contaminated network has not reached the monitoring wells indicating much of it has been captured. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection was mosaic has notify firstdegree federal eps as well as polk county. We have a crew on the way. This gypsum stack was built back in the 90s with a liner. But when a sink hole develops beneath it, there is no way the liner will hold. Steve andrews live in our tampa news room. Thank you. More breaking news now. A fatal crash is causing some big problems on i75 in hernando county. Newschannel8s paul lamison is in eagle 8 right now over the more about it. Paul . Reporter good evening keith. Here, take a look. We can finally see the accident. These are three of the six cars involved. You can see the back car hit the middle car, crashed up against a