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Lindsay its refreshing with lower humidity. While it was warm yesterday afternoon, the tradeoff is the mild and comfortable start to the day. I have a few sprinkles out the door. Not many. Should be a dwraet day to get out and enjoy and hopefully you remembered to tall back. Sunrise is at 6 45, an hour earlier with the time change. Its a pleasant 64 in tampa. Out the door more seasonable readings. 63 in brooksville and 65 in winter haven, st. Pete look at you, 66 degrees. So looking back most of us in the blue. A couple degrees cooler, and only one batch of sprinkles to show you. You noticed that east wind has been breezy at times, so we have brought some patchy sprinkles north of tampa bay. These slide off towards the to west towards New Port Richey and lutz and citrus park. The cold front to the south, high clouds from the west today. A mix of sun and clouds this afternoon with that breeze kicking at times. Goodlooking day. We ....
And some of that anger is boiling over here in the tampa bay area. Eagle hd flying over the anti trump protest. Demonstrators here telling us they want their voices heard even though the election is now over. Lets get right to jenn holloway who is live for us tonight. Jenn . Reporter well jen, things are calm and quiet as far as the protest is concerned here. It is really just a typical thursday night. We have seen a lot of those protesters leave the area heading to their trump signs. But earlier tonight when that protest started around 8 00, a rot of people were not sure what to expect. Protesters sort of blocking 7th avenue through the heart of the city around 8 00 tonight. According to tampa police a couple hundred came here with signs and chants, expressing their dissatisfaction with the president ial election outcome. We dont want regressive policies. We dont want regressive people in office. Reporter but these young people know the power of social media. Even though the crowd isn ....
Still warm and humid this morning as the front is ever so slowly sliding down that way. Dew points are back to the 40s and 50s, meaning no fog but b, just enjoy the beautiful sunshine and the crisp air we have outside today. High temps back into the mid 70s. Vanessa were still seeing lane blockages on manhattan. Were hearing eastbound lanes are being lanes are open so particularly in the ooe bound direction, make sure youre planning extra time. Jen will talk more about the details of this Police Activity in a couple of minutes. Russell its 6 01. Well begin with a news alert out of pasco. Deputies are looking for a man that is armed and dangerous. 26yearold savage has a history of selling drugs. Hes accused of running off from obstruction. Jennifer a man attacks firefighters and police after setting fire to an apartment. It happened on bay to bay boulevard. Firefighters arrived to find smoke coming through the roof. When they trie ....
About a half hour ago. Yeah, meteorologist leigh spann was here early at midnight covering this through the morning. Thats right, steve jerve and i were on Facebook Live from about 2 00 a. M. To 3 30 as the storms rumbled through the heart of the tampa bay area. Look how quickly its pushing to the east now along the east coast of florida getting worst of it. Dry from Lakeland North all the way up to Crystal River at this point. And even dry now in manatee county. So i talked about the tornado watch being canceled early for everyone except in Highlands County where you still have the tornado watch which just means that conditions are still there that might be a tornado. But not happening in polk county because the rain is coming to an end. North port, youre finally e ....
Hulk hogans payday from gawker just got bigger. 115 million last friday. Just a little over an hour ago that , same jury returned with a decision in the punitive phase of the trial. Peter bernard live in st. Pete. Peter, that means the original bigger . Reporter bigger. A lot bigger, jen. Good evening to you. Its a banner day for hulk hogan. The jury today decided that gawker needs to pay him 15 million. Another 10 million from gawkers founder, and 100,000 from one of gawkers editors. Heres how it went down today. The tenday trial ended last week with the jury deciding hulk hogan, terry bollea, will get more than he asked for. They awarded him 115 million. Todays decision was after four hours of deliberation. Website one minute and 40 second tape of bollea having sex with bubba the love sponges wife. He did not know he was going record the. The total take for showing the video more than 140 million. I feel great. I really am happy about everythings happened. We protected a lot of peopl ....