Forecast. Thank you, jen. And this afternoon, much like we have been seeing the past few daysno rain on, not tracking any showers or storms. We have entered into the dry season now. Here is the view from newport ritchie. No rain at this location and pretty much expect mostly dry conditions for us for the rest of this warm. Were in the mid to upper 80s. It is 89 in bradenton. 86 in tampa. Sitting at 86 currently in inveerness. So a warm afternoon a nice breeze coming in out of the northeast to help cool you off a little bit. Notice the winds at 10 to 15 miles per hour. We have seen gusts up to 20 at times, close to 30. In brandon as of the last check. Well expect that to continue football for the friday night blitz. At kickoff, just a stray shower is possible. Talking about rain chances less than 10 . Most of these games should go on just fine. Nice quiet conditions, and a nice night overall. By the time were leaving the game, well be in the mid 70s. For the rest of the evening, expect
First therefore. Right now breaking news a warehouse on fire. Were in eagle 8 hd over the fire. Paul, what can you tell us . This is at least a 2 alarm fire in the fire is not yet under control. You can see a burning. Im going to push and really close. Heres one of the things they are concerned about. If you look in the center of the screen there the roof. That has happened in the short time we have been here. Firefighters are not inside this building fighting the fire, they are down on the sides making interesting insurance to each of these open doors. The fire is not under control. Hillsboro county sheriff helicopter was here doing surveillance of the area and they heard several explosions from inside the fire. It is a Janitorial Service that also has rentals. They are not are some chemical so they are being very conscious as they fight this fire. Also breaking right now, car that caught fire on top of the Sunshine Skyway bridge is finally being removed from that roadway. This had tr
Winter haven. We want to go straight to eagle 8 reporter, paul, he has the latest. Let me get right to it. Heres the plane. Its a cessna. And the pilot is okay. I want to point that out first. A couple things you can see from this. Its out in a field. You can see the front part of the wing has damage to it. Were not sure why. And the front wheels are down. And the plane did grind through the ground and the pilot was able to get out wide. Take a look at this. Heres the track of the plane. At some point, the plane had some kind of trouble, made it down on to the field. You can see the path that the wheels took and eventually hit the ground here spinning to the side. The pilot is okay, thats the good news, and now theyre going to try to figure out what exactly happened to this plane to have him land in this field or crash in the feel. However youd want to call it. But right now we know the pilot is okay. And we will have more available, in eagle 8 hd, news channel 8. Thanks paul. Right no
Is accused of assaulting one of his own employees and shes only 16. Police are worried there could be other victims. Good evening. Police are concerned because they say this Restaurant Owner attacked this employee after only having known her for a couple of days. Police say last month palamino hired a 16year old girl to work at his restaurant. 2 days later he locked up the business and assaulted here. Her he quickly ran over to nearby called for help. Police are concerned because if he did this to her he could have done this to someone else. It was you know, a very brief time that she had actually worked there. And it was almost the start of her second shift. He faces 3 counts of Sexual Battery against a minor. If you know anything about this case contact the Sarasota Police department. An escaped Polk County Police found 45year old flanagin this morning in lakeland. Reporter good afternoon. He was here working at this maiy when he got in one of these trucks and took off. Deputies foun
Reaforms the belief that it is a grave sin. The policy is a continuation of his year of mercy which ended sunday. Before that only bishops were allowed to absolve. As red tied continues to spread across the tampa bay area a scientist may have unlocked a clue how it is created. The doctor has discovered local rivers could be to blame. He gulf of mexico. Hes conducting Ground Breaking research to combat red tide. And now your first at 4 weather. And we are still dealing with red tide in some parts of the tampa bay area. Heres the currently view though not a lot of folks out on the water today because it is chilly out at st. Pete beach only 63 degrees this afternoon. Had to bundle up this morning with temperatures in the 30s and 40s area wide. Winds coming in now a little bit per hour and in another 61 degrees this afternoon. So were dealing with temperatures that are well below average for this time of the year. You can see at this point a lot of 60s still on the map at 68 in bradenton,