Way. So lets turn things over to leigh spann. Thats right. We still have the Tropical Storm at this point. You can see how its spreading moisture across the peninsula of florida. From the panhandle down to citrus and hernando county, we had these Tropical Storm warnings and watches. And hurricane warnings. This to the panhandle, that is a hurricane warning. For our area, it is a Tropical Storm warning. And Tropical Stormforce conditions within 36 hours. This is the forecast as of 2 00 this morning. Another update will come in within the hour. But the latest forecast has it a category one hurricane this evening with 75 Miles Per Hour winds just off the panama city coastline, coming onshore and through friday morning, notice, its still along the i10 corridor. So we could still see rain on friday before it finally heads into the atlantic. The center of the storm and they found a flight level wind speed of 75 Miles Per Hour meaning the system is strengthening. We could get that update very
Was not shared with Hillsborough County. The sinkhole opened at the mosaic plant in august. It sits close to hillsborough. They kept the lid on this for 19 days. According to hillsborough Environmental Protection Water Division protection, mosaic never reached we were not notified by them. We reached out to them when we had heard of the news. Mosaic insists that its not traveled beyond its traveled. They told 8 on your side that hillsborough epc tested several bodies of water near the mosaic plant and found no contamination. Meanwhile, some we will test results from around t today. The sinkhole. Jeff patterson shows us many more people are anxiously awaiting results. They hired an outside company to individually test wells. So far the outside company is saying their test results show nothing out of the ordinary. The asterisk or the star is the the mosaic plant and the circle is where we took samples. Gary is with the were looking for a fingerprint that would be indicative of mosaics wa
Filled ray jay today it was bulls and noles. What they had to say about this Sunshine State showdown. Announcer from tampa bays number one news station. This is the fox 13 6 00 news. Good evening im hayley heinz. Im lloyd source, thanks for being with us tonights lloyd sowers, thanks for being with us tonight. Breaking news out of charlotte, North Carolina tonight where police have decided to release the body cam and dash cam footage detailing the moments leading up to a officerinvolved shooting. Charlottes police chief said there werent any factors that influenced the release of the video. Saying that they did it as soon as they were able to without compromising the investigation. He told reporters that officers saw marijuana and a weapon and keith lamont scotts vehicle before the shooting. Scotts family and other residents maintain that he was unarmed. Listen, we all know theres a lot of stuff what has happened, what was not on scene, was it a book, is there guan. Were releasing evid
With skytower radar. Good morning. Storms still out in gulf. And just meandering toward the west. Maybe slight north of due west. At around 7 Miles Per Hour. It continues to be a tropical depression at this hour. Now, the Hurricane Center is saying hey this is going to be become a tropicalto s likely to become a Tropical Storm later today. And start that slow intensification. I still think in our area, that rain, and the potential for coastal flooding or going the two biggest issues that we have to deal with. And the time frame for this, might have slowed down by a few hours. Were looking a Late Wednesday into thursday. So Late Wednesday through thursday. Thats when the impacts really are going to be felt from this tropical system. Tropical depression winds of 35 Miles Per Hour. Forecast track in longterm, really hasnt changed much. Bringing up to big bend area of our state. Likely on thursday afternoon as things, heavy rain, but potential for flooding to go along with that rain. And i
News channel 8s Meredyth Censullo is in pasco county. Jamel lanee in Pinellas County. And our ryan hughes in Sarasota County this morning. We want to start with leigh to get the latest from the tampa studios on the storm. Its still a Tropical Storm and still has winds of 60 Miles Per Hour. But look how big this is. This is the center of circulation and seeing rounds of rain coming in near the coastline from it. And the latest advisories remain. Hurricane panhandle and northern portion of the big bend of florida. But closer to home, a Tropical Storm warning. And that means that we could feel Tropical Stormforce wind speeds in citrus, hernando and pasco within 36 hours. Heres the latest forecast. 60Miles Per Hour sustained winds. One big change, picking up forward speed finally. Yesterday, it was basically stationary and now its moving north, northeast at 12 Miles Per Hour. This afternoon, 65 Miles Per Hour winds, getting stronger. After midnight, it could strength on the a category one