It has been a comfortable morning. We can use max defender 8 to check on the cloud cover. There are some passing clouds. The clouds overnight help to trap the heat so we stay warmer. 69 tampa. 69 brooksville. 66 urbandale. 69 sarasota. This is warmer than yesterday. This is the 24hour temperature change were lake linden is 4 degrees warmer than yesterday at this time. High of 85, above the average of 82. I will take you specifically hour by hour throughout the day and give you your hollowing forecast but we will help you get out the door this morning. Just one problem affecting traffic. It is actually blocked in both directions right at Heritage Harbor. Outside of their we actually have a vehicle that is disabled. That is what is going on there. Lets go ahead and take a look at travel times. We are up to speed on i 75 coming out of pasco and also into downtown tampa. We are up to speed on 275. A major local roadway is now back open after it was shut down due to a fiery crash that kille
Defender 8 is on the job this morning and doing exactly what it is supposed to be doing, looking for any rain, not finding any giving you the all clear basically, but there are a few clouds. With max defender 8 i can also check those out for you. I dont think it will block the sun especially areas north of i 4. It will make for a pretty sunrise in about an hour and a half. The clouds will also keep you a little warmer. St. Petersburg you are at 71. 2 degrees warmer than we were yesterday at 6 00 in the morning. During the afternoon 85 degrees which is above the average of 82. At 6 08 i will go hour by hour through your day to complain about. Leslie will help you plan out your commute. We have pretty good commute on the interstates but we have issues elsewhere. We are continuing to follow and keep house. Lutz lake fern road is completely shut down at Heritage Harbor. I want you to take vandyke road instead. Southbound 301, fhp tells me this accident is tying up a link right at animal dr
Little through the afternoon more coming up. Good morning were following two fatal crashes that happened late last night. Mlk is back open well have more on that in a moment. We have a car into a house were getting word that the driver of the car was killed. No one in the house was injured it happened at parkway. Lukes lake fern closed in both directions you can take van dyke or if youre more north, you can state of the Union Address road 54 to work your way around this. Well get you more information. Thank you. Horrific crash in tampa, four people confirmed dead, others the scene is just incredible. Live in east tampa. Just a heart breaking scene there. Good morning. I have to tell you, one of the worst crashes i have ever covered in my entire career. Take a look, all six lanes wide open. You can barely tell there was a crash here. Looking at the video we shot broken glass all over the road. Its difficult to even make out the types of vehicles involved in the crash. We do know at leas
Breaking stories and will bring you the latest. For now, lets go back in studio. There are not lot of schools in the area. We have the middle school, a lot of you use lukes fern lake road to get to school, thats going to be a problem to get it is in front of the entrance here. Your options, head south take van dyke road or if youre more north, state road 54. Hopefully theyll have it back open by the time morning rush hour really picks up. Thank you. Were following breaking developments on another fatal crash, this one claiming four lives the horrific scene had mlk it just reopened about 2 hours ago. Multiple people are injured including some children. Authorities are trying to figure out what caused the tragedy. Live at the scene with some of those unanswered questions. Good morning to you. Troopers have not said what caused this horrific crash last night. They will certainly look into reports from neighbors, people who live here who say that this stretch of road street racing. Tough t
The owner told me he has a rescue so sometimes he brings his pets over to give them daily attention, that is why there were cats inside the building and birds inside the building as well as a monkey. He was very emotional this afternoon, anytime i talked to him offcamera he starts crying because he doesnt suspect they survived, there were some cats that did escape but the monkey did not nor did some of the birds. He told me he plans to fix the building at some point but wants to sell it, he had no insurance, this is a big loss for him, hopefully pretty soon the firefighters will get into the building to put the fire out, they have been here for at you heard is a multipurpose building, you can see some cleaning supplies they house in the building many aerosol cans and many are definitely flammable. All of that inside of the warehouse you can see it is endless with the cleaning supplies, we will closely follow the story, stay with us for the updates onair and online at abcactionnews. Com