Well be moving through the day starting off with quite a bit of cloud cover so even murky at 10 00 a. M. But well start to see more sunshine breaking through by noon. And well be up to 68 degrees. Then we warm up to the low 70s today. I say mostly dry because the rain chances are very low but its not entirely impossible youll catch a shower at some point today. Again that is something were watching an eye on but what are you watching when it comes to traffic . We have a serious crash in the usf area on 234re67er, Corey Dierdorff just arrived on scene, fletcher. What is happening out there . Reporter yeah. This crash is at the intersection of bruce b downs and fletcher. Right now all of sorry, all eastbound lanes of fletcher between downs and livingston shut down, for a fatal accident. A vehicle versus pedestrian. That car you can see there striking a person who is down in the roadway on the other side of that squad car in the middle of the scene. Middle of the wide shot. Go to bearss and livingston and then back around. Well bring you the latest as soon as we get it on air and on line at abcactionnews. Com. Westbound lanes closed now. Expect them to be closed for some time since this is a fatality. Your work around, take bearss here, that is flowing pretty good, all in the green. You can also take fowler, that is a little slower but if youre closer to fowler you want to take that, again heading westbound, maybe to 275. Were going to watch this. Ill let you know if traffic starts to back up. Ill also watch the alternates to let you know how those roads are moving as well. Elsewhere across the bay area, looking pretty good. Live look at the Howard Franklandics tampa side of the Howard Frankland. Less than 10 minutes to get across all Three Bridges now. Your drive from the apex still its 6 02. Big breaking news. Buccaneers looking for a new head coach now after firing lovie smith last night. That decision was made after the team won only eight games during two seasons with smith as head coach. Reporter adam winer is live at 1 buc place where we expect to hear from bucs management today. The reaction from fans is mixed but hows the league reacting . Reporter i think a lot of people were surprised by the move, in part because love only got one season with that lovie smith only got one season with that rookie quarterback jameis winston, but not a total shock since the team failed to make the playoffs again and had eight wins over two seasons. Owner and cochairman saying in a Statement Last night they thanked lovie smith for his time with the team but disappointed by the lack of wins and thats why they were letting him go. Especially since the team didnt win a single game in the they were trying to get a playoff spot. Last night tampa bay bucs beat writer spoke to abc action news by phone to explain what the players are likely thinking now and his thoughts on the firing. Most nfl teams, the locker room is going to be upset when the coach is fired. Its a difficult thing but they have to move past it. They know its a business. For them they are going to have to get used to potentially another defense. Reporter the general manager will oversee the process of hiring a new head coach and he will have a afternoon. Speaking of the coach, in the next halfhour, a little early speculation as to who might be the next head coach and more on to this recent firing. Like adam said count on us to be there when the bucs gm talks about firing lovie smith, 2 00 this afternoon. Well livestream this on our abc action news app and web site. A developing story in lakeland, deputies still looking for the people behind a triple homicide. A fourth victim fighting for his life after he was shot in the face. Polk deputies identified all the victims. David washington, ida branch and an ankle gel cacastro. They believe the motive was drugs. Angelica castro. An update in the next half hour. Everyone who subscribes to Time Warner Cable needs to hear, change your email passwords now. Thieves may have stolen information from more than 300,000 people, Time Warner Cable says this impacts anyone with a road runner email ending at rr. Com. The cable giant is working with the fbi to track down the this didnt come from a breach, rather a phishing attack. 6 0 a. Our assignment 60 5. A sarasota couple accused of a shocking case of child abuse is now free on bond. A doctor and his wife, an attorney are accused of allegedly zip tying their 12 yearold daughters hands and feet and then locking her in her playhouse. Police say doctor eugenio arquaya and his attorney wife victoria locked the child in her playhouse last month. Were told she managed to get out, go to the neighbor for help. The neighbor called 911, so did the father who told dispatchers his emotionally disturbed daughter had run away. Together this couple has seven children, four are adopted. New this morning, there could soon be a new face heading up Central Command at the the wall street journal and the wall New York Times reporting that president obama has a man for the job. An intense rescue from the fierce flooding out west. All caught on camera. The way a womans woman boyfriend put her in grave danger and extreme measures to free her. The warning from the irs about a letter millions of you 6 09, thursday morning. Things are now going from bad to worse for the popular restaurant chain chipotle. Its now facing a new criminal investigation. Federal authorities want to know what went wrong making more than 200 customers sick with norovirus after eating at one california restaurant. Last year several outbreaks sickened dozens of people who bought meals at chipotle. Since then chipotle said its putting Safety Measures in place to ensure that its employees safely handle food. Also weve got a heads up this morning, in the next few days a botched letter from the irs just might end up in your mailbox. Its causing confusion but irs officials want to you know its not a scam, you should not throw the letter away when you get it. Nearly three million of you are expected to receive this Identity Protection pin letter the letter discusses what ip pin you should use when you file your 2014 tax return. But really should say 2015. Regardless of that typo the irs says its crucial that you hold on to this letter. Definitely dont want to throw this letter away thinking its a scam because if you do and you forget to put or dont put that number on your tax return your return is going to be rejected. Irs says the botched letters will be sent out through the rest of the month. New developments this morning on a copywright battle over this selfie taken by an endangered monkey in indonesia. A federal judge in San Francisco has now ruled that the macack cannot be the copy right owner. The Animal Rights group peta last month filed a lawsuit saying the monkey owns the rights. And peta wanted them to give the money to the monkey. The monkey took the picture in photographer left his camera unattended. As far as the weather is concerned, low clouds out there, watching for fog but as the kids are headed to class i think the biggest kevin is remembering that extra concern is remembering that extra layer. I think its still chilly by florida standards. And later this afternoon when the kids are heading home, mostly dry, quite a few clouds but a little more sunshine in the mix and highs near 70. Breaking news were following now, westbound fletcher avenue shut down at livingston, just a block west of downs boulevard. This is a live look at the scene. A car hit a pedestrian, its a fatal accident so you can expect that road to be closed 6 15. Powerful new images of the reason we always tell you in Severe Weather turn around dont drown. Firefighters scramble to rescue a woman trapped in a truck by surging floodwaters near San Francisco. Police say the boyfriend drove it into standing water and it flipped on it side. And even worse, it was wedged against a telephone pole making it tough for rescuers to reach the woman. After an hour of working actually below the water line crews managed to free her. Bad crash now on fletcher Corey Dierdorff is there now. This is a fatal crash. I drive this stretch of fletcher all the time. There are a lot of pedestrians along that roadway. Reporter unfortunately this was just at the crosswalk of bruce b downs and fletcher. No street lights, its kind of dark. And the intersection is shut down right now, westbound fletcher between bruce b downs and livingston is closed after this fatal accident here as traffic investigators start their investigation into exactly what happened. About a halfhour ago they responded to the scene, a report of a person struck by the Jeep Grand Cherokee you can screen. They arrived and pronounced that pedestrian dead on scene. You can expect the roadway to be shut down some time as sheriffs deputies start their investigation and interviews involved. Janelle, you always have the best workarounds, what are people seeing as far as delays and what should we do to avoid yes, a 15d situation. For the most part traffic is still light now so you shouldnt have trouble using some alternates. One thing you can do is take north 50th street to fowler and get to the interstate that way. You can also take bearss, that is moving well. Both alternates in the green now but ill keep an eye on them and let you know as the morning pushes on if we start to see any backups here. This is 275 through downtown tampa, traffic starting to pick up a little bit but still looking great. Just a 5minute drive from here to the Howard Frankland bridge. Checking the drive times on i4 coming into the downtown tampa area, 22 minutes from county line road to downtown. 15 minutes from county line road to 75. And just 7 minutes from 75 to 275. Still a little chilly when i walked outside today. Temperatures are in the 50s and we are nice and dry. Or at least rainfree through the area. Weve got a lot of low clouds so its just making it feel pretty murky. You can see that low cloud cover sticking around through about noon before we start to see more sunshine coming through. Its those gray tones that you see behind me now, that is that low cloud cover. It coeven develop into patchy fog but could even develop into patchy fog but so far visibility at ground level has been excellent. Its once you get to the street light or tree top level we start to see the low clouds lingering but the winds have been Strong Enough at the ground level that theyve been ok. Its the rain once again windy me that we will start to behind me that we will start to see tomorrow. Rain unlikely but not impossible. Well see a few scattered showers tomorrow as that area of low pressure works its way across the gulf, then across our state. On saturday higher rain chances. This is from the next cold front that i have been advertising. And yes, it did, it picked up speed. So were looking at rain even on sunday. As you start off the day saturday it wont be terribly wet at that point as long as this front keeps the speed it has now, that the models are showing now. By sunset if not a little before well start to see a pretty heavy band of rain moving through, may even here a rumble of thunder with it. With the timing of that front changing those temperatures on sunday will be leveling off midday, if not even gradually falling as that cooler air settles in, but starting monday well really start to feel that chill again. That is floridas most accurate 7day forecast. 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At the Consumer Electronics show in las vegas, im andy choi. The device costs about 15 to 20 depending on where you buy it. The product still looks the or minus soon on it anymore. The stick has wifi, it will say congratulations youre pregnant or sorry youre not. With a look at some cool Virtual Reality products at the Consumer Electronics show heres our business headlines. In tech bytes Virtual Reality is the talk of the Consumer Electronics show. Oh you could list rift oculus rift announcing it is taking preorders for the headset. Price tag is 600. Sony showed off its high tech turntable. The stylus device allows users to convert old albums into Digital Audio files that can then be stored on your computer. This expects to go on sale this spring. Bmw thinking of replacing some of the oldest technology on a car. The mirrors. What . Check out the i8 concept car, three cameras instead of rear computer one catch. U. S. Law still requires that cars have rear view mirrors. 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Joshua van buskirk told a california newspaper his groomsman never reached out to year but denies the fires and behind. Officers were able to track van buskirk and arrest him once they realized all the arson victims were in hijacks wedding party. His wedding party. 6 26. Ive abandoned the boots but you are sticking with them, shay . Mid50s across the area. For me im still a little cold. I still got the boots on but yeah, were going to be topping out at 71 today. Mostly dry today, slight chance for a shower or two but we will be cooling back down to the mid to upper 60s after sunset. So if the kids have after School Activities it doesnt look like anything weatherwise should be too problematic. Maybe if they get chilly like me they might want an extra layer if they are outside for any length of time. Ill have floridas most accurate 7day forecast, timing out the rain and next cool front coming up. We have some problems on the road to tell you about. 6 27. Breaking news, this traffic fletcher avenue shut down at livingston, just a block west of bruce b downs, you can see the backup as police work the scene. A car hit and killed a pedestrian. Janelle martinez with the live at 6 30, were live on the scene of a bad crash at fletcher avenue at bruce b downs, at livingston. A pedestrian killed by a car there. The road is shut down while the Investigation Continues and likely will be for several hours. Janelle martinez joins us now with the workarounds. This is a very busy stretch of road. It is, around the usf area, va close by. Your alternates pretty well known here. You can take 50th street to fowler and get to 275 that way. Both those streets moving pretty good now in the green but as this morning commute picks up we could start to see some congestion on the roads. Ill keep an eye on it and let you know if we do start to see that congestion and how to get around it. Elsewhere in the bay area we are just getting a report of a crash i275 southbound around busch boulevard. I cant see the crash here but i am seeing some backups here, this just came in seconds ago so well try to figure out more about that but we are hearing from fhp there is some roadblock here. As you can see traffic is starting to back up so ill keep an eye on that as well. Make sure youre following me on twitter at tampabaytraffic for the latest on both crashes. As far as the veterans were in the green, looking great, 18 minutes from 54 to 275. And six minutes from waters to 275. When i went out the door this morning it was a little chilly. Shay, is it going to warm up later . It is going to warm up. Much like they were yesterday but look at the rivergate tower tampa camera. This is what im keeping a close eye on this morning. We have a low deck of clouds right now the visibility is gate at ground level, but all it will take is the winds to really come down about 5 Miles Per Hour and then we may start to see some patchy fog developing at the ground level. At this point its a little higher up at the top of the buildings or street lights or treetop level. Again not causing problems for the drive yet. Temperatures right now in the 50s so yeah, its another cool start to the day by our standards. And when it comes to high temperatures today, as long as the clouds start to break around noon well make it to highs near 70 degrees, even some low 70s across Hillsborough County. Off to the north in Citrus County youre going to see temperatures possibly as low as the upper 60s. Especially if that cloud cover sticks around.