I4. It has to do with this stubborn area of low pressure. It brings in these floods of rain. And the flood watch has been extended until tomorrow evening. The rounds of rain will continue. Especially in those area, citrus, hernando, pasco, another 4 to 8 inches possible after already seeing heavy rain for the last 48 hours. Thankfully not as much as out in the gulf of mexico where we ha area. But right along the coastline, citrus, hernando, pasco, anywhere from 4 to 6 inches in the last 48 hours. And notice farther inland, its drier and farther to the south. Yes, you have seen rain, anywhere from. 50 to 2 inches of rain but not as intense. And now look at whats about to come onshore as we speak. Watch out citrus, hernando, pasco county, more rain near highway 19 and continuing down pinellas county. And this small area of rain around i75 in manatee. Here are the totals Going Forward today. Citrus, hernando, and pasco, were going to call your name a lot, an 850 rain chance today, along i
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 twitter as soon as that crash clears. As ivan just said the bay counties all offering sandbags today at several l
Reporter an amazing story. What happened there was called a miracle, he was at flash harbor with his wife and three children with was holding on to his three year old son when he heard a woman screaming for help. He saw someone trying to pull a child from underneath the water. He hand z his son to a complete stranger so he could dive in and rescue the toddler. The boy wasnt breathing and foaming from the mouth. He started cpr woke up and was taken to the hospital and is said to be doing just fine. Im still in shock. He is alive. If it happens again i would do it the same way. Hes been a detention deputy with Hillsborough County six years. The family of the three year old to be interviewed. They said its a reminder to keep close watch on children all the time because it only takes a couple seconds to lose sight of them and something terrible happen. A schoolteacher in Critical Condition tonight after police say a drunk driver ran a red light and slammed into her car. The music teacher a
Im going to type in help, push send. Within seconds i. This response saying there is no Text Service Available at this time. Take a look at the map. The counties in green have text to 911 technology and theres some of those Rural Counties in the state. How does a place like walton county, the panhandle with 57,000 people. Were weapons involved or mentioned . Reporter have more Den Technology than tampa bay. Equipment needso moving parts when it comes to carriers. Its a matter of requesting the service. The carriers have up to six months. Reporter months and possibly another year. In a line of work whenever second is supposed to count. Most of our storms are the typical summertime variety and they are up and down the can see anywhere from sugar mill woods and Citrus County on through hernando into pasco and northern Pinellas County we have quite a few storms right along the coast. And the same from the skyway on south through for the desoto. Bradenton, into sarasota we have another batc
Morning commute. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. I am gene ramirez. And im gayle guyardo. Lets get you out the door on this friday morning with the tropics. Thats right. Early this morning around 2 00 a. M. , they put out a special advisory on Hurricane Matthew because it strengthened so much to a category two hurricane. The latest update came in less than 10 minutes ago at 5 00 a. M. And still 100 Miles Per Hour winds making it a category two hurricane but its expected to become a category three major hurricane through the weeken north early monday morning. Pushing through the eastern portion of cuba and into the bahamas. This is wednesday at 2 00 a. M. Still a category two hurricane. And yes, its expected to stay off floridas east coast. But its close enough to us that i will watch it closely including the fact that some of the computer models, all make it turn to the north but one, notice this line right here, pushing closer to floridas east coast, the majority of on. And ke