Poff bridge and those travel planes that are shut off to pdrivers. Pit looks like minor delays in pthe southbound direction of 275 pnear the south Pinellas County plooks like that might be ertaining to any sort of pdiverting theyre doing with ptraffic. Pkeel weep an well keep an peye on this. Pdave second time this week. Pthats crazy with the fog. Pi have a camera showing us fog pthis morning over the bradenton pbeach area. Pothers are reporting visibility pthat is fantastic. Pagain, its going to aggravate. Psome areas are all fogged in. Pothers, its fantastic. Pso the most visibility i got for pyou on the map is venice. Ptheyre a half mile or so but pits a half mile better than it pwas a while ago. Pthey were down below zero. Ponce the fog lifts out, bringing psunshine back and high ptemperatures should easily get plaura thank you. Pright now were staying on top pof a developing story in tampa. Pa man shot at Police Officers. Ptheir shield stopped the bullet pbut the officers fired back, pkilling him. Prussell it happened in the p3300 block of cherokee avenue. Pthats east of himes and south pof thousand point. Pus. Preporter these police pofficers are lucky to be alive. Pwell get information on this. Ptampa police joining us this pmorning. Pthank you for being with us. P we got the call about 1 10 pthis morning, domestic pdisturbance. Pwe arrived about 10 minutes plater. Pit was fairly straight forward pscene. Phowever, at some point he ointed a firearm at the pofficers and then they backed poff and called for help. Pover the next 45 minutes or so, pseveral of our officers were pworking on a p. A. Just pconversing with him, trying to pget him to come out and to end pthe scene peacefully. Pcarport area. Phe had a gun tucked in behind phim. Pthe officers approached him, ptried to end it peacefully psaying let us see your hands, pdont do it, dont do it. Phe pointed the gun at the pofficers, fire the officers, hit pthe shield in the center and at pthat point, the officers preturned fire on him and he was pkilled. Preporter the woman inside is pexpected to be okay. P she had scrapes and bruises pbut i think shell be fine. Preporter i know this is very pearly in the investigation. Pthis . Pdo we have a name as of yet . P we do not have an pidentification yet, no. Pand i cant answer the question pabout why it would occur. Pthe officers tried to talk him pdown peacefully, and i have no preporter thank you for being pwith us this morning. Pi really appreciate it. Pyou heard him say these officers pare very, very lucky to be alive pthis morning. Pthey showed up and this man papparently tried to pull the ptrigger. Olice officers. Pthankfully they had protect i pdidnt have gear and they were pnot seriously hurt. Pon the other hand, the man was pshot and killed. Pwell continue following this pback to you. Pthank you. Pnew this morning, stolen car pcrashes through a fence and into pa house. Olice tried to pull them over. Pit happened this morning on pmulberry street north. Pno one in the car or the house phurt. Pcustody. Pthe house is structurally sound paccording to tampa fire and prescue. Plaura authorities are psearching for a man who pdisappeared after jumping into plake thonotosassa. Pa man was on a pontoon boat and phe jumped in the water and pstarted panicking and he went punder. Pwitnesses say that he did not pknow how to swim well. Pwell keep you updated. Prussell also st. Pete police pneed help in catching someone pwho is setting fires across the pinvestigators say one person pstarted at least a dozen fires pin the Crescent Lake pneighborhood. Pthe fires began in january. Pmost were in dumpsters but pseveral spread causing thousands pof dollars in damage. Ptake a good look at this psurveillance video. Pit shows a man light a fire in a pgas tank and then walk away. Phes holding a long skateboard pin his hand. Pthe skateboard has square edges, plikely homemade, and they hope psomeone recognizes him for his pin. Plaura new this morning, a big pannouncement from sea world. Pthe parks have announced they pare ending the work of whale pbreeding program. Prussell this is years after ublic backlash sparked by the pcontroversial documentary. Psea world will also begin hasing out theatrical orca pwhale shows. Pthis is the first sea world park pthat opened in 1964 and its panimals we know as killer whales pfor a population of orcas at sea pworld, including one pregnant, pwill live out their lives in the arks habitat. Plaura the city of tampa will pdecide whether to decriminalize pamounts. Pas it stands right now, anyone pcaught with marijuana can face a pfine, jail time, even lose their plicense and under this new roposal, Police Officers would phave the option to issue pcitations very similar to ptraffic tickets. Pcitation could carry a small pfine and it would require pmandatory drug counselling. Pcity Council Meets at 9 30 to pknow what happens. Prussell we could hear closing parguments as early as today in pthe hulk hogan sex trial. Pyesterday we heard from the pwoman who had sex with hogan in pthe video. Pshe testified via prerecorded pvideo. Pshe says she didnt know their pshe was upset when they found pout. Pthey had an open marriage. Phogan is suing gawker for 100 pmillion for posting an edited pversion of the video online. Pthe company violated his rivacy. Pgawker argues the video wasnt rivate. Plaura sad story, at least a pdozen horses are dead after a pfire in suburban palm beach pcounty. Pit was an accident. Pfire broke out just before pmidnight tuesday. Pthe fire marshall says it was pcaused by an electrical pmalfunction. Pmalfunction caused sparks to pignite hay and other items, psetting the barn on fire. Pthe roof collapsed. P11 horses did survive, two in pcritical condition. Pthey are being treated by a pveterinarian. Prussell south florida first pgrade teacher has been fired pafter police say she came to pwork drunk. Pthis happened in december. P46yearold worked at the pelementary school in broward pcounty. Pschool employee reported she was rincipal smelled alcohol on her pbreath and learned one of her pstudents had been hurt during an punsupervised trip to the rest proom. Pshe tested nearly three times pthe legal blood alcohol. Plaura top conservatives are pare simple. Pfigure out how to stop donald ptrump from winning the residential nomination or to pfind someone to run as a third arty conservative challenger. Pone name thats getting lots of pattention, paul ryan. Phis predecessor john boehner psays that ryan should be the pg. O. P. Nomination if they choose pto nominate one at the first pballot. Pryan says he will not be paccepting that nomination but he psaid the same thing when it came ptime to pick boehners preplacement last year. Psenator rubio who dropped out of pthe race on tuesday, his olitical future is uncertain. Prules vary by state. Pmost of the delegates are given pout to the candidates. Prussell trump is now more pthan halfway toward that magic pnumber of delegates needed to pwin the nomination. Phe needs 54 , though, of the premaining delegates to clinch pthe nomination before the pconvention. Pyesterday he warned there would pbe serious consequences if the arty tries to take the pnomination away from him. Plisten. P i think you would have riots. Pi think bad things would happen. Pi really do. Pi believe that. Pi wouldnt believe it but i pthink bad things would happen. Prussell trump picked up panother endorsement, governor prick scott. Phe said that its time for prepublicans to coalesce behind ptrump. Plaura president obama told pcourt. Pmerrick garland. P the constitution and the law phas been the corner stone of my rofessional life. Pits the hallmark of the kind of pjudge i have tried to be for the ast 18 years. Plaura garland is widely prespected. Pgenerally considered to be pmoderate, first in his class at pharvard. Phe has an impressive resume, pincluding private practice, pyears as a federal prosecutor pand nearly two decades on the pfederal bench. Prepublican lawmakers have vowed pto fight the nomination. Prussell the young son of plegendary entertainer frank sin psinatra has died. Plaura he was scheduled to erform tonight. Prussell the annual traffic pscore card is out. Pfind out how many hours pcommuters waste sitting in ptraffic every year. Pthe big story on the roadways is pthe Sunshine Skyway bridge being pclosed down. Psecond time this week that phappened. Pit is due to fog. Ptop of the bridge basically pdisappears here so of course, ptake 75 instead of the sunshine pskyway bridge this morning. Pwell let you know when pthat 3 rising rivers have forced thousands from their homes in prussell rising rivers have pforced thousands from their phomes in east texas, the result pof last weeks torrential prainfall topping two feet in psome places. Pthe governor has asked those pliving along rivers to leave. Psome, as you might expect, not pdoing that. Plaura and the texas army pnational guard has rescued more pthan 60 household pets during pthis weeks flooding. Pthe regions major artery of the priver has started to recede. Pmore rain today, more rain pcomplicate the relief efforts pthere, too. Prussell micro chip. Plaura situation like that is riceless. Pdave i think they closed arts of i10, too. Prussell i dont know if they preopened it yet but they had. Pdave its bad. Pthats all in response to that precord rainfall they had about a pweek ago. Pits going to take time for the pwaters to get into the rivers pand continue to rise. Pwe have visibility problems and pif youre just tuning in, well phave more on this in a couple of pminutes, that the sunshine pskyway for the second time this pweek had to be closed and it is pclosed right now because of pvisibility that was less than p100 feet. Pi show you the numbers here and pit doesnt seem to be that bad, pright . Pst. Petersburg reporting pvisibility at 10 miles. Psarasota five. Pthat the fog was just above the psurface. Pright . Pit goes 400 feet high, something plike that. Pif the fog is hanging around at p100, 200 feet, you can see why pthats the issue this morning. Pit may not be. Pvenice has a half mile pvisibility but in general, most pof us arent seeing that. Pits just above the ground that pwe have the fog this morning. P72 degrees in tampa. Pbrandon, lower 70s, more 70s pthan 6 0z 60s on the map. Pfrontal system has slowly begun pits push into the state and robably going to stay to the pnorth of us for the next couple pof days. Pit keeps it very warm and punsettled around here and then plittle pieces of energy move palong or on top of this front pand that helps to enhance the plift and thats where the rain pchances work into today. Pfog will be along the coast. Ptemperatures get back in the p80s. Pit feels good like a summer day poverall. Pthen beginning tomorrow, youre pgoing to start to see little pdisturbances move along where pthe front is and thats when the prain chances start to kick in pand the future cast shows us pwhile were dry for today, pyoull see showers along i10. Pby friday youll start to see, pim close. Pa little closer. Pthen by early on saturday pmorning, heres a wave or a line pof rain that wont be the only pone. Pwe can see late night hours dry pwith rain at nighttime. Pits going to be unsettled this pweekend. Ponce we hit the saturday midday pframe, the front is going to pcome through, clear us out and pthe cooler air takes back over pagain. P81 degrees for a high today. Pmore clouds, a quick isolated pshower storm with a possibility pof 81 degrees but you saw psaturday during the day, you pcould see a couple of waves of prain move through. Pby sunday its all out of here pand look at the difference in ptemps. Pmany of us monday and tuesday pmorning are going to wake up pwith highs in the 40s. Pso if the cool air is coming pback in next week. Pvanessa a nice little change pthere. Pdave absolutely. Pvanessa thank you. Pbig story once again on the proadways, Sunshine Skyway bridge pbeing closed. Pwe do have heavy fog conditions pand reduced visibilities. Eriodically we see flashing plights, perhaps the patrol car pdriving over the bridge. Pi think theyre testing pvisibles. P visibilities. Pso drivers take 75, well be pmonitoring all those travel planes leading up to the closed pdown lanes of the bridge to make psure that the delays arent pgetting too bad. Pvolumes, we dont have any pbridge. Psounds serious. Pits in the area of the carlton plake road, all lanes are blocked pand sounds like a vehicle may phave hit a power pole. Plots of live wires in the road pand the emergency vehicles pblocking the lanes. Pwell let you know when that proad reopens. Pand if you think tampa traffic pis bad, thank god that you dont plive in los angeles. Ptransportation Analytics Company phas released the annual traffic pscore card. Pcity of angels, its number one pwhen it comes to congestion. Pyeah. Pl. A. Drivers waste 81 hours in ptraffic each year. Psan francisco, washington, d. C. , phouston also topped the list of pmost hours waiting in traffic. Pthe report looks at cities that pface challenges solving pcongestion issues fuelled by peconomic and population growth, phigher employment rates and pfalling gas prices. P nationally weve seen an pincrease across the board in ptraffic levels in all cities and preally thats being driven by ptwo economic factors. Pas the economy heats up, more eople get jobs and move into purban areas and that means more eople on the roads. Psecond economic factor, lower pfuel prices. Pas fuel prices drop, people are pwilling to drive further. Pvanessa tampa has two of the pmost congested traffic corridors pon the road. Pboth are on i275. Ptheyre from i4, that pinterchange, to the dale mabry pexit and also the stretch of 275 pdrivers waste, by the way, pnearly 30 hours each year in pthat stretch. Pworldwide, american drivers are pwasting more time in traffic pthan any other country. Pabout 50 hours a year. Pthats followed up by belgium, pnetherlands and germany. Prussell speaking of traffic, pan hour ago, Service Resumed on pone of the busiest public ptransportation systems in the pcountry. Pthe entire d. C. Metro system was pshut down yesterday. Pthey had to do some emergency pinspections. Pinspections were ordered after pan electrical fire on several prail lines monday. Pthat fire was caused by the same pkind of electrical component pthat malfunctioned last year pleading to the death of one erson. Plaura a new report gives a psnap shot of the most and least phealthiest county in america. Pst. Johns county is the phealthiest. Pamount of binge drinking in the ptampa bay area. Pmajority of the least healthy pcounties are in los angeles parea. Prussell nearly three decades pago, back to the future atrolled we would be walking paround in self lacing shoes. Plaura nike has a new design pto knock your socks off. Pon stage at in 1934, Steak N Shake decided the world didnt need another hamburger. It needed a steakburger. So they used 100 percent beef. Quick seared to seal in the flavor. Youll only get from a steakburger. Steak n shake, home of the original 3 3 its time to see whats clicking on prussell all right. Ptime to see whats clicking on pthe web. Plaura taylor katz in the pstudio right now with her green pon. Prussell were all green ptoday. Ptaylor yes. Phappy st. Patricks day. Pi wish you werent. Pi would come and pinch you. Panyway, today you guys, were pstarting off with a moment that padele, that we all know and plove, happened to make one pcouples engagement even more pspecial than it already was. On up you two runs 17oc did you . omg can ptaylor so sweet. Pcan you imagine . Pand then heres the moment where pthey both walk up. Pthis unbelievable moment phappened at her concert just ptuesday night in london. Pthe couple was in attendance as pthey both share a love for padeles music but theres one psong in particular thats pspecial to them, its the one we plove. Pas it was playing, the man got pdown on one knee and it turns pout that adele saw him and pinvited the couple up on stage. Pshe told him it was one of the pmost beautiful things shes ever pseen happen at one of her pconcerts. Pso sweet. Pthanks for sharing their pmilestone with her. Pi mean, thank you, adele. Prussell thats right. Ptaylor i love it. Plaura then theres this. Ptaylor exactly. Papparently crosses the same road pevery day to get fish from the pnearby seafood restaurant. Prussell thats brilliant. Ptaylor its so great. Pat first the restaurant worker ptries to shoo it away but the pvideo is like five minutes in ptotal. Phe realized that the seal pdoesnt take no for an answer so phe runs into the restaurant. Pthere he is, coming back out. Prussell the dog is there pbarking. Ptaylor yeah. Phe throws the fish. Pcome on. Pyep. Pfish. Pthank you. Psee you next time. Prussell that guy has a roblem on his hands. Pthats an every day thing. Ptaylor its going on for pyears now. Pthey named him sammy, the whole pthing. Pwait for the reaction. Peverything is okay. Phes such a god sport about it. Pthe little guy was dyeing easter peggs and it got messier than pexpected. Pthe parents are rushing to help phim but hes like, oh, well. Pwhere are the eggs . Pi want to do it again. Prussell you dont make a big pdeal of things like that. Pif you keep it low key, they pdont get upset, right . Ptaylor yep. Pyoure okay. Pyoure all right. Prussell in cuba less than a pweek away. Pthe stadium is not done. Plaura the last minute pscramble to put the finishing ptouches on. Prussell and were remembering pfrank, junior. Phis unexpected death just hours pbefore he was supposed to the bigger the burrito, the bigger the fun. Dunkins new grandde burrito with veggie or sausage today. America runs on dunkin. vo making the most out of thats why i got a subaru impreza. Love. Its what makes a subaru, and at progressive, we let you compare our progressive direct rate. Great deals for reals . And our competitors rates sidebyside, so you know youre getting a great deal. Saving the moolah. [ chuckles ] as you can see, sometimes progressive isnt the lowest. Not always the lowest jamie. What are you doing . Im being your hype man. Not right now. You said i was gonna be the hype man. No, we said we wouldnt do it. 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Pits likely from folks who are ptrying to come in around or ptaking 75 coming in through pdowntown tampa into the pinterchange here. Pso were already up in the 10 pminute zone, the red