Toward home. Our goal is to just hold it back. We dont want it to get any closer to these homes than it did yesterday. Reporter yesterday, fueled by the wind, the fire took an unexpected and ferocious turn when it moved into town, destroying at least 175 structures in just mere hours, including deenewell ses. We just had the house remodeled. Burnt to the ground. She did not have time to evacuate her horse. She was relieved when she saw a photo of her house on facebook this morning. We confirmed that her horse survived. She is alive, but they wont let us in to get her. Reporter firefighters say it is too dangerous to let home owners back in. They say the fire is still too unpredictable. Theres still potential the fire could shift. Theres still hot spots and power lines down. Reporter but some residents never left. This man has been keeping a close eye on his house since the fire broke out. Its my house. I do what i can to save my house until the very last minute. Yesterday we thought we
Meteorologist leigh spann. Good morning. After yesterdays high of 95, we have slowly cooled down overnight. We are still at 80 in largo and pinellas park. Riverview, 78 degrees. 77 in wesley chapel. Bartow, 79. And sarasota 79. Rain chances, back out of the forecast for the first few hours of the day. Maybe a stray shower around lunchtime. But as the evening progresses, storms will head toward the coast, the rain chance goes up to 40 . And you will be wishing for later today. Cooler than yesterday but above average. I break it down hourbyhour for you. And leslee will break down the commute. We have a much nicer drive this morning. Not as many vehicles on the roadway yet. Good drive here, about 11 minutes. A lot of lights to go through. And venice, that is sarasota county, toledo blade boulevard, drive. And state road 64 to fruitville, about a nine minute commute. And in sarasota, clark road to state road 70, both on i75, just 10 minutes. Thats weather and traffic. Back to gene and gayl
A chilly rain and snow that will turn colder and windy the further through the day that we go pick there is a yellow weather alert the cause it is going to be nothing like the middle of april. It is feeling more like february outside on your saturday. Live doppler shows the first of what will be two waves of precipitation moving through the area. Places closer to the metro, your temperatures are in the mid40s and it is all rain showers. You can see this differentiation up to 70. We are getting some wet snow mixing in and further in, too the bout ray, it is light rain showers with if you areas of yellow that may be wet snowflakes mixing in and further north, too dayton, with got a little bit of snow mixing in, wet snowflakes and temperatures are sitting above freezing. It is melting on impact and this is april. We are dealing with this . Unfortunately, we are for today. We have more wrap around snow showers from the backside that will move in later this afternoon and there is another ch
Live in miami wh a look at the democratic contest. We begin with jeff live at fiu with reaction. Reporter senator marco rubios bid for the white house coming to an end last night here on the campus of fiu yesterday evening. All of that into the campaign after a big win by donald trump here in the Sunshine State by close to 18 points. Donald trump beat out marco rubio. The Sunshine State shining on donald trump. 99 delegates in winner take all primary. Trump delivering a knockout blow to marco rio ending rubios path to the white house. Im so grateful for all the help. Nothing more you could have done. We worked as hard as we could. I want to congratulate marco rubio on having run a really tough campaign. Hes tough and hes got a great future. Trump in recent weeks turned up the heat in ohio adding extra rallies and speeches while locked in a tight race with john kasich. Trumps efforts falling short in the buckeye state. Kasich takes the win along with his 66 delegates. And kasich says he
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