For the Third Straight olympic, bolt won the means 100meter the mens 100meter. He becomes the first man to accomplish that. More on that in a bit. Right now, a check on the weather with leigh spann. Good morning. Waking up on this monday morning, we have clouds around, especially along and west of 75. But it is back to the classroom now for more and more students and teachers. First class, 79 degrees. Generally dry. By lunchtime, mostly dry, only 10 rain chance and 88 degrees. And the final bell, more storms and 91 degrees. Rain chances not in the forecast through 11 00 a. M. And the 10 chance at noon. 20 at 1 00 and 2 00. By 5 00 p. M. , thats the best rain chance at 40 closer to the coast. In weather and traffic on the 8s, i have the eight day trend for you. And leslee lacey has the roadways. Great drive on the bay area bridges. Not perfect. We have some issues. Palm harbor, state road 54 to tampa road, 12 minutes. And 13 on u. S. 41. And thats from state road 52 over to state road 5
Clouds along the coastline. And we cant rule out a stray shower developing this morning. But i think most of us are going to stay with rainfree conditions for the morning. So High Pressure in firm control. It limited the rain chances yesterday. I think it will do the exact same thing today. Otherwise, warm this morning. How about 48 at Clearwater Beach this morning . 76 for macdill. 75 in lutz. And generally a mix of 70s and 80s with a warm 81 degrees in tampa. And its going to be a steamy afternoon we will see the temperatures are going to be a bit of above average for today, not many thunderstorms to cool us down. Time for a quick check of whats happening with the roads. Good morning. Below average actually. Yeah. Its a good drive. And now we have an accident reported by the florida Highway Patrol here. And this is supposedly southbound out on the pinellas side of the Howard Frankland bridge. Taking a look at our cameras. This accident could be in between the cameras. Thats near pine
Slowdown heading towards the veterans expressway westbound on hillsborough avenue. Not sure if its from the crash or not but you might want to give yourself extra time if youre heading to the veterans expressway. Your drive on 275 looking pretty good, still. Still in the green, 13 minutes from the apex to i4 and down there at the bottom if your starting in downtown its going to take you just five mince to get to the five minutes to get to the Howard Frankland. As you wake up this morning a dangerous carjacking suspect is on the loose in office sending out a major warning. Abc action News Reporter Rodney Dunigan is live at the scene of the crime outside of bone fish grill on pitkin road. Is the victim in the carjacking doing all right . Reporter thankfully shes ok but this all could have turned out a lot worse. This all happened after closing time early sunday morning. Apparently this guy walked up to the woman as she was sitting in her car, a toyota avalon. Had a chain around his hand
The wakeup forecast. Good morning. Yeah, getting busy in the tropics and thats not expected this time of year, lateaugust, trending towards the peak of tropical season which does occur on september 10th. We have fiona, decaying and likely losing the tropical characteristics the next 48 hours or so. Gaston became a tropical depression last night. That has strengthened. And we are keeping a close eye on invest 99l which has a abou tropical system in next two days. Gaston is expected to strengthen rapidly, likely to a category one hurricane by tomorrow. And here is 99l. Notice the forecast track. All the models in agreement that its heading towards the bahama, 60 chance of development over the next 48 hours or so. So by the time we get towards the early part of next week, we will be watching the potential southeastern united states. We will watch that one closely. Lets hope it doesnt happen. I can tell you what is going to happen, traffic is going to get busier and busier. Right now, a de
There. Tropical storm gaston is expected to become a hurricane, maybe within the next few hours. Invest 99l, starting to look to me a locality stronger. We have a lot stronger. A 70 chance of it developing in the next five days. Gaston, it could be a hurricane by this afternoon. Maybe even strengthening to a category two storm. But its in n the central atlantic but its in central atlantic, not a problem for anyone. Almost all of the computer models take it into the bahamas and i think by the time it gets to the bahamas, it enters an area where it could strengthen intensely. This is the area we will be watching the next couple days. After this, the two most reliable computer models, one takes it up the east coast and in weather and traffic on the 8s, i will take you hourby hour through today and leslee has the morning commute. Welcome back. Lets take a look at whats going on out here, i4 around county road 557 in the polk county area, we are up to speed. 275 through st. Pete, nice drive