For being with us. Happening now, the mercury continues to drop with some cities in our area seeing freezing temperatures and mike, what is this going to be like for moafolks in the morning . Its going to be cold, no doubt about it and you may want to hang on to it throughout the day tomorrow. 53 degrees from our tampa net cam, looking downtown, the winds getting lighter, some areas have already dropped to calm, and so that is going to keep the temperatures up just a bit until the winds drop down below 5 miles per hour. Many areas already colder now than you were this morning for your lows, and you take a look and it is just incredible the difference between temperatures at 11 00 tonight verses 11 00 last night. 25 degrees colder in brandon and 15 degree cooler in tampa, and temperatures are going to continue to drop especially as the winds get lighter. 34 in brooksville, and 46 in sarasota, 41 in frost proof, around 41 down in well. Well talk about how long this cold air sticks around
With dave. A developing story across the country this morning . Several Police Officers were . Ambushed over the weekend. Three. On sunday alone. Including one in st. Louis. The 46 year old officer was targeted while he sat in his cruiser last night. He was sitting in traffic when a car pulled up, and the other he was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, but hes expected to survive. Officers has been out all night searching for the shooter using helicopter patrols and swat teams. They believe he was driving a silver vehicle. Detectives are also going over traffic and surveillance cameras. The officer is a 20 year veteran, with three children. And earlier on sunday . Another officer was shot and killed. This time in san antonio, texas. Police say 50 year old detective Benjamin Marconi was writing a someone executed him. The officer was pulled over, when another car pulled up behind him. That driver then walked up and shot the officers window. Hitting him twice in the head. The
The couple . Did file a police report, mainly because the letter writer knew . Personal details about them. Like . When they take the trash out every week. And when they turn the porch lights off. St pete police are . Not treating it as a hate crime, because no actual threat was made. Tolerance was on display last night in st. Petersburg. They held a candlelight vigil and march to support the Transgender Community and honor those killed in antitransgender violence. Sunday was National Transgender day of remembrance. Transgender advocates hope that acceptance will continue to grow as more events like this one bring more awareness to their community between october 2015 and between october 2015 and september of this year. Almost three . Hundred transgender people were reported murdered worldwide. 26 of them here in the united states. Carnival cruiselines is finally bringing its newest and . Largest ship to florida this week. The carnival vista will do cruises out of miami, starting next
No closed captioning is were following a developing story out of sanibel this morning. Someone shot an officer during a traffic stop. It happened around 8 last night. According to police, the officer was conducting a stop, when someone opened fire. The gunman then took off, but was later found in a nearby into custody after a shootout with police. The officer was taken to lee memorial hospital, where he was treated then released. The motive for the shooting is still under investigation. And in st. Louis the search is on for the person who shot a Police Officer there. According to the st. Louis police chief. The sergeant was shot during what is being called an ambush style attack. It happened last night. The chief says the officer was . Not involved in a call or a traffic stop. He was sitting at a stop shot twice in the face. He is currently in critical condition, but is expected to survive. And in san antonio, texas. Authorities there are looking for the person responsible for shooting
Thank you. About to be 7 01 right now. Big concerns in pinellas county. I should say Tarpon Springs down southbound u. S. 19. We have sky fox thats still monitoring the serious injury crash which you can see shutting down the southbound lanes and forcing drivers to be detoured through a parking lot at tarpon avenue and in the northbound direction. We can tell you that lanes are still reduced to a single lane. You can see that traffic is moving. Actually not too slowly in the nort right lane. Southbound delays are going to be pretty bad. We have backups reported from the scene in the southbound direction all the way to basically the split with alternate 19, alternate 19 is going to be the work around here and well let you know when the lanes reopen. Russell developing across the country this morning, three officers have been shot in three different cities. St. Louis, an officer attacked is very lucky to be alive. He was shot twice in the head detectives say it doesnt make sense. He was