Max defender 8 scanning the skies for you and not finding any rainfall. You have the all clear this morning. Temperatures not bad, 64 in lakeland, down to 63 in inverness, bartow 66, 62 north port. Heres the big story, a cold front pushing through the southeast. Behind it really some chilly air. So during the day today we have all day to warm up. 84 degrees, breezy at times. Actually, mostly dry as this cold front gets closer to us. You will w because we trend much cooler behind this front. All those details. Leslee has the details on the morning commute. A couple of issues but theyre not going to slow you down. We have a crash here by Martin Luther king at 275. Also we have one right at the heart of the junction. I can actually show you what that looks like. There already at 275 at the ramp to i4. A little bit of slowing traffic is light so not too much of an issue. All right. Lets move over now and take a look at our skyway bridge. I would think it was st. Patricks day with that gree
Gayle has the morning off. Gene has a great tease for the weather. Tell us about it. Max defend er er 8 doing a good skwob of scanning the job of scanning the skies for you and not finding my rain yet. 63 lakeland, 66 wimauma and 65 in venice. Its going to take it pretty much all day for the cold front to get in here. You might be seeing some fog in the theres the front now east and west of georgia. Its going to usher in some of the coldest air that we have felt in months. It doesnt get here in the afternoon so temperatures are a degree above average at 84. Look what happens tonight, the average is 67 and we drop to 60. So at 5 08 ill go more specifically hour by hour through your friday. Lets check on traffic and how its moving this morning. Its moving. We have that problem in downtown, a little away. They are starting to clear. We are not seeing anybody outside walking around, which is nice except for the tow truck driver there. They are about to clear this. This is southbound 275 at
Straight ahead. Heres leigh with the good news. Thats right. Weve been tracking this cold front for days now and we still have to wait for it. Heres max defending 8. You can see its scanning the skies and not finding my rainfall, barely finding my clouds. Temperatures are still mild. 63 inverness, 63 lakeland, 69 degrees in sarasota. So let me show you where this cold front is right now. Its just through the ohio area and back towards louisiana. That cool air that weve been waiting on. The cold front will get closer, winds will pick up a bit. Not much rain and a high of 84. Now stay tuned at 5 38 when i have the 8day temperature trend. Leslee is here to tell you what is happening on the roads right now. We have a good drive. Over night construction clear g clearing up. Traffic looks good out there. This is palm harbor that looks wonderful on u. S. 19 and over on well through the land o lake area. I75 looks great in bradenton and sarasota right now. Thats a look at weather and traffic.
Terrifying Home Invasion. Clifton french live outside the Town Country Community where this happened a look at how common these crimes are in that part of town. Reporter there have been dozens of burglaries and robberies in and around this park behind this school bus but the latest crime rises to a new level. These men accused of robbing and 83 yearold woman according to deputies it was this 18year old man who took the robbery to a violent extreme, the report says Ricardo Marquez torres broke into the home and punched the elderly woman several times and drug her around by her hair for stealing a safe with thousands of dollars worth of jewelry inside. 30yearold Thomas Mendez was the driver waiting in his car for him to return with the alexander morellas lives across the street from the mobile home park. This place isnt the greatest. There are crimes here other instances. Robberies. It turns out he is right, in the past year there have been 26 burglaries and six robberies within a halfmi
Election day around the corner. And the final push is on. Today donald trump will be in tampa. The republican president ial nominee crisscrossing florida over the next three days. Tonight hes scheduled to speak to supporters at the mid Florida Credit Union amphitheater at the Florida State grounds. Ryan hughes is there this morning on the campaign trail. With just two weeks to go until election day, donald trump is taking his tour through florida here to the mid amphitheater where hell speak tonight at 7 00. He was in naples in southwest florida last night. If we win on november 8th, were going to fix our rigged system. Its a rigged, broken, corrupt system. Its rigged. Its broken. Its corrupt. They want me to take that back. Let me tell you, folks, its a rigged system. Thats been Donald Trumps consistent message about the election in our voting system. His rally at the fairgrounds where they heard that. If elected, trump claims hell also seek congressional term limits, put in place a f