Around the world celebrate thanksgiving here today for food, family, football and of course rates. Millions of people watched the macys day parade rolled down 6th avenue. Other spent the day helping those in need of helping him. Volunteers deliver thanksgiving meals to those with like challenging illnesses in washington dc. That generosity could be found right here in the bay area pier local deli owner opened her doors to feed those cooked up a thanksgiving dinner for the community. News channel 8 spoke with people that are very thankful of that hot plate. Staff here have been cooking for the last 2 days getting ready to serve others for this thanksgiving. Tracy opened the doors to her deli today to serve those less fortunate. Dozens were treated to thanksgiving fixings. Were talking turkey, potatoes and pie thanksgiving day football. She said she wanted to give back in honor of her father. He was around a lot of people that always didnt have a place to go and were away from home. Year
To see daytime highs into the 80s with that easterly wind. You know its going to warm up during the afternoon. Outside right now were basically sitting upper 70s. But we get into 80s as we go through the afternoon. That means really no big changes as we go through the next couple of days. Visible satellite loop showing partly cloudy skies, winds are primarily easterly direction for today. And right now here in tampa were already up to 81 degrees. Brandon has an 82. Wesley chapel currently at 79. As we go through the weekend there skies. Maybe a little bit of lower humidity a cold front works its way through as we get into second half of the weekend. Russell. Jim thanks. Developing right now, police say a man who was drunk last night when when he crashed a commercial fishing boat destroying it and then took off in boat. Were learning more about what happened. And about the boat that was involved. Fox 13s aaron mesmer is live in madeira beach. Aaron, you found out this is yeah. Russell t
Clouds working there way overhead temperatures run in 50s through the interior. But along the coastline, we are seeing temperatures a bit more mild running in the 60s. 65 degrees over in st. Pete beach. You can see few scattered clouds, really a beautiful looking morning over in that direction. Here in tampa, were at 63. Winds are out east northeast at 5 miles an hour. Were going to continue to warm these temperatures up as we go through the afternoon. Were also going to bring in a few more clouds maybe even an extra shower during afternoon we will talk another cold front which could bring us rain later in week vanessa. Jim, overall big picture on roads not too bad either you head outdoor. We do have one crash carrying over. We new one popping up in case youre just joining myakka city shut down here state road 70 sugar bowl road following an injury crash your work around clay gully road. Get to Pinellas County an along 66th street north just north of 46th avenue north. Lane blocks are
Im dan shaffer. In pasco county people hoping for the best, preparing for the worst as floodwaters inch closer to their homes. Abc action News Reporter Rodney Dunigan is live in new port richey. A retention pond weve seen all morning long is causing big problems for people out there. Reporter the heavy rain weve gotten this morning certainly not helping things. I want to point some things out. Look down the street and see the barriers, they were put up yesterday to show where the the water extending halfway down the block. Its getting deeper. If you look down you can see were estimating this is about 6 to 7 inches just on this road here. If you look there, that is the retention pond, that is causing this problem. Many folks are in fear they will be forced to leave soon. With every raindrop, concern this could possibly get. Along iron bark drive an overflowing retention pond blamed for all this. In this neighborhood it is something theyve dealt with before. The retention pond overflows
Its lilly king and she says, hello, russia. Meet my finish. U. S. Swimmer lilly king sends a message with olympic gold. We can still compete clean and do well at the Olympic Games. Ryan murphy also strikes gold for the usa. Now all eyes on the womens Gymnastics Team as they prepare to hit the mat, the beams and the bar. Will simone biles lead them to victory. Were live in rio for all the action. Announcer live in square and rio de janeiro, this is Good Morning America. And good morning, america. Big night in rio for team usa. Two gold medals last night, lilly king, ryan murphy, they dominated in the pool. Unbelievable and everybody is talking about Michael Phelps and that game face. You have to take a look at it. I was watching. It never changed. He was clearly in the zone and wait till you see what was going on around him. He remained unfazed. Amy at our olympic desk in rio with the Gymnastics Teams moms before their competition tonight. That is all coming up but first that scary ferr