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Down, windshield wipers on, just use caution, might want to leave extra time. Weve also been watching our maps where the area shaded in green is, where were seeing wet roads and the blue is where were seeing ponding. It seems like a lot of the ponding we were seeing through Tarpon Springs, on alt 19 all the way into palm harbor, a lot has dried out so not as wet as we were seeing a little while ago. I think were going to get this on and off all y been following for about an hour now is memorial highway at kelly road closed in both directions, this is going to be in the Town N Country area. To get around this you want to stay on hillsborough which, as you can see is a little slow this morning and then take that to the veterans expressway or vice versa, to go up the veterans expressway to hillsborough to get around this. Were going to watch it and ill let you know here and on t ....
This morning we have Team Coverage. Meteorologist leigh spann is tracking the system for us. News channel 8s mary mcguire is at a sandbag filling location. And our ryan hughes is at ray jay with the bucs big decision to move thursday nights game. We start our Team Coverage with leigh. Leigh, whats going on with the storm . Right now, Hurricane Hunters from Macdill Air Force base right here in tampa left about 12 30. They have been flying around the center of circulation. They found about a 33 Miles Per Hour wind. Again, not just a graphic. This is actually gps tracking where the plane is. It left out of Macdill Air Force base. Once we get the inform ....
Routine. Every traffic stop, you have to be careful and on target. You never know. Reporter Steve Gutierrez is a nineyear veteran. Wednesday around noon he pulled over a vehicle on north 12th and east 142nd avenue. Rayford was in the passenger seat as officer gutierrez got off his motorcycle. I told him to stop. Reporter the surveilla it turned into a parking lot brawl. What is going through your mind when he lunges towards you. You go back to your training. I know he is a big size. Reporter gutierrez used his taser and chased after the suspect but rayford got away. He is a violent repeat offender with previous charges of armed robbery, carjacking, assault. This is an encounter that you see the officers doing the best that they can to deescalate the ation and reporter and that hcso pointing out to me today that how gutierrez handles himself this week shows why he was named the hispanic deputy of the year for his county. Live in t ....