Cause at min flooding. Watch as we zoom in into the rada wre of the bay area bridges are wet. Downtown tampa is experiencing someoderate to heavyain now as it all tracks eastnortheast at around 30 miles per hour. So notice land o lakes, lutz getting ready to move over 275. Wesley chapel coming up at you, i do have some heavy rain just a few minutes away. Then its more light to moderate rain but its been homosassa, these are the areas under the flood watch which by the way, lasts until tomw 70s a with a couple of bands of rain today, this morning well be worried about the potential for some ponding on the roadway. We sent Shayla Reaves into some spots that we think would have some issues if the rain reporter yeah. Youre absolutely right, dave. We he seenhe tainfall continueok up throughout the morning since we arrived and what weve seen probably in the lastho,ur hour and a half or so is it will rain for a little whe, it will slow down a little bi pick up and on d o and so forth througho
State of emergency. Several parts of florida are feeling the effects. We are feeling intense flooding after one day of rain. More rain is on the way. Lets go to steve in the forecast center. What can you expect tonight and tomorrow morning . On and off heavy rain and tropical downpours and sometimes little breaks in the rain. The rain continues for the next several days and as we get to friday, especially, and la westerly wind that causes concern for coastal flooding as well as interior bay. Weve already seen flooding with the heavy rain fall and 6 inches plus in some areas today. Lets take a look what the we see outside. You can see a familiar scene working on two inch of rain at the tinland location. As i mentioned, quiet a bit more than that on coastal spots. That orange strip is a tropical say trust and pascoe county. Friday at 2 00 a. M. Would be the approximate time for land fall. It could strengthen into a hurricane land fall still. Its in a better environment in the next 36 hou
Area. Thats great news. Higher wind shear in place for now. That played a part in weakening the system with the exposed center, lower wind shear, longer term as it gets into the gulf of mexico and the warm gulf waters. It does have some potential to strengthen. So as we look at the spaghetti models. The trend has been to the west. They have been all over the place largely because this has not been a tropical system. But, the best thinking today is a little bit further west. Also, we thunderstorms moving across Pinellas County. Moving offshore. We will talk more about this is a little later on. All right, steve jerve thank you for that. We will check back with you again in just a little bit. Okay. Terrified and alone. An eightyearold girl dropped off more than 30 minutes from her bus stop. Her family turned to 8 on your side to figure out how this happened. Well, the eightyearold i was lost, confused, crying when a substitute bus driver dropped not by a stop or two, but a long way off.
Same thing as well. As you head out make sure you dont get caught in a blind spot of a semi, leave extra time, both hands on the wheel. Were headed to the skyway now to check it for the next hit. Well have an update in 15 minutes. Some good news from tampa this morning with some of the roadways opening back up though. What have you got . Northbound 275, they are reopening or did overnight, two lanes around himes so were expecting to see some relief there on 275 northbound. Right now i4 heading into tampa looking great. No crashes or breakdowns. These cars here heading right in to downtown. Lets check drive times starting all the way back in the lakeland area, 23 minutes from the edge of lakeland into downtown. 15 minutes from county line road to 75, seven minutes from 75 to 275. Check of the average speeds, from the apex so if you live in the Wesley Chapel area trying to decide between 275 and 75 pushing 70 on 275 from the apex. 70 on i75. Dan . 6 02. Breaking news we first told but at
He hopes that one day all suspensions will be banned. They hope to bring the kids to this church to serve the out of School Suspensions to make sure that theyre supervised as the School District continues to look at the policies. Lauren, thank you. Officials are still investigating the cause of a school bus crash. Action air 1 over that scene at 7 00 this morning. The bus collided with a car along kitten trail and hicks road, flipping that car on its side. You can see it right there. Thankfully no students were on the bus at the time. Were trying to figure out how the driver of the car is doing. Deputies in Hernando County need your help finding a woman who they think might be in danger. They want you to watch out for stacie francis. She was last seen in the area of last night and may be with one or more men in a green suv. If you see her, call the Hernando County sheriffs office. Weather team in florida. Abc action weather. Good afternoon, everybody. Those winds are howling. Were stil