Leigh. How is it looking. Mild. It doesnt feel like we are closing in on december. Temperatures about 10 degrees above average. Middle to low 60s in a lot of locations. 66 in clearwater and st. Pete and down in bradenton thanks to the southeast wind. It turns more southerly heading into the afternoon hours. It gets muggy this afternoon. We dont have to worry about the sprinkles we saw around later in the week. The forecast High Temperature, 83. Its better than half a dozen degrees above average nor this time of year, a few degrees shy of the record. Max defender 8 is quiet after a few sprinkles yesterday. A cold front on thursday. That will be the best rain chance through the rest of the workweek. We will talk about that coming up. First we check in on the live look at i75 in the new tampa area. Looking fine. We have an accident to tell you about in eastern Hillsborough County. Mulberry area state road 60 at county line road. Florida Highway Patrol is on scene. All lanes are clear. No
Hour of our tuesday already above average in many locations and heading up near records this afternoon. 77 degrees right now. Beautiful out of the lakeland auto mall in polk county, just a few high clouds and fair weather clouds welling on up. The predominant wind direction is out of the southeast pumping up some of that warm humid area. 80 in bartow. Venice check out the dew points low 70s already thats muggy stuff especially for this time of the year and youll notice that moving on through the afternoon hours. Theres your wind direction at about 10 to 15 Miles Per Hour. Already seeing gusts this morning up around 20 Miles Per Hour, so it will be breezy through the second part of the day. Max defender 8 is completely clear, breaking news this morning as the sun has risen over the Great Smoky Mountains in east tennessee you can see wildfires moving dangerously close to the resort towns of gatlinburg and pigeon forge. Both of those towns under mandatory evacuation orders. More than 30 h
Things sounds good. The crime rate is lower by just over 3 . Reporter department of Law Enforcement released a midyear report showing that the First Six Months of 2016 were safer than last year. Really driven down by aggravated assault, larceny and burglary. Reporter but its not all good news. Murder is up more than 15 and raped increased by 2 . The 561 does accounted include the victims of the pulse nightclub shooting. That is one reason why murder is up across the state. The number one highest creamery in florida. Reporter ball mcneil who formerly served as floridas department of corrections secretary ran a campaign centered around blowing the crime rate. He says the numbers are concerning. Very much so and thats something we have all got to community and look at the demographics and people who are being released from prison back in our communities, often times with circumstances that fuel crime in our communities. Reporter mcneils new job means he inherits the county with the highes
All the way to lawnwood did not after that you can see whos blocking two lanes because of water was pulling on the interstate near par street causing a danger to drivers. People farther south felt the strong winds. Look at this wind damage in venice. Sarasota Sheriffs Office says no one was injured by this. And look at this video from one of our crews in orlando as they headed out for the story this morning. You can see the windshield wipers could not go back enough to keep up with the rain as they drove along mcguire boulevard neocolonial drive in orlando. And the rain may be over for now but as commented more is coming. Make sure youre prepared by downloading our free weather app to all of your mobile devices. Were following breaking news right now out of Volusia County where a body has been found in the st. Johns river. Skywitness 9 is live over the scene and investigators sent out both in divers to retrieve the body. We are told a man at a nearby fishing dock spotted a contacting d
Following more breaking news in Orange County. Sky 6 is live over the scene of a crash involving a patrol car at o. B. T. And oak ridge road. One person has been hospitalized in this. The gray car was involved in this as well. Its blocking traffic along oak ridge. Avoid the area if you can. Theres a look at the patrol car involved. It looks like it may have hit a pole afterwards. Well stay on top of this and bring you any more information about it as it comes in. Now to more breaking news. This time in downtown orlando. Prosecutors say the man accused of raping and killing a woman at an apartment complex will face murder charges. This is news 6 at 5 00, getting results. Im matt austin. Im lisa bell. That indictment was announced just moments ago at the state Attorneys Office in downtown orlando. Eric sandoval was in the grand jury room and tweeted this as breaking news when it happened. What did the state attorney have to say about this indictment . The state attorney jeff ashton wante