Still warm and humid this morning as the front is ever so slowly sliding down that way. Dew points are back to the 40s and 50s, meaning no fog but b, just enjoy the beautiful sunshine and the crisp air we have outside today. High temps back into the mid 70s. Vanessa were still seeing lane blockages on manhattan. Were hearing eastbound lanes are being lanes are open so particularly in the ooe bound direction, make sure youre planning extra time. Jen will talk more about the details of this Police Activity in a couple of minutes. Russell its 6 01. Well begin with a news alert out of pasco. Deputies are looking for a man that is armed and dangerous. 26yearold savage has a history of selling drugs. Hes accused of running off from obstruction. Jennifer a man attacks firefighters and police after setting fire to an apartment. It happened on bay to bay boulevard. Firefighters arrived to find smoke coming through the roof. When they tried to reach the second floor with a ladder, they say a man
Dave before you walk out the door, its 79 degrees. Actually better than yesterday but still above normal. Dew points are running 77. Just steamier than that outside. Weve also got that easterly wind flow back at us again today, so sunshine and temperatures in the 90s to start. Well finish with a few thunderstorms late in the day. Now you mention the tropics and of course, were keeping a close eye on this disturbance and thats all it is right now. A disturbance. And its over the Virgin Islands in the area near guadalupe. Thats where the forming center is. Theyre going to send a plane to investigate later today. This may take a few more days to develop, but once it reaches the bahamas, it could become a Tropical Storm or hurricaneful then it has the potential to move through south florida or up the east coast of our state. Thats two Different Solutions and well talk about it in a few minutes. Vanessa were on the roads of incident, both in pasco county. First off a crash could be causing
Becoming pretty strong. But in general, all that tropical moisture has got to go somewhere. Right now its in the gulf and its going to head to the west coast of florida and eventually into the big bend area sometime on thursday. So a lot of convection. Theyre detecting 30, 35 mileperhour wind. That keeps it at a tropical depression. The path for this storm by tomorrow at 2 00 p. M. , you see how its kd latitude but still well offshore and then making landfall sometime on thursday afternoon. The problem for us is going to be the tremendous amount of heavy rain and potential for coastal flooding at the time of high tide. Youre pushing the water youre way. With all the rain weve seen this summer, that could be a problem especially around some of the higher rivers, some of these creeks, these streams and right along the coastline as at almost 7 02 with Shayla Reaves for more on that and sand bags being given out. Reporter youre right. There are several locations throughout the city of tamp
I am about to ruin it for some. We have tons of moisture in the atmosphere, okay. We are not going to go from all that rain to nothing. And transition slowly and notice the showers. The tropical downpours approaching the west coast. Again this morning. And, boy, they are so close if not onshore already right around hudson, southward. New port richey, port richey, holiday, a batch of heavy rain that is moving through anclote now and that is going to come minutes or so, and i know i know the last thing you want is more rain. Here is another shower too. Right over the pinellas part of the gandy bridge and that is moving toward south tampa. So we may have started off quiet. Got the sun up on a quiet note, but this is what we are going to have to deal with unfortunately. And i think the best rain chances will be lets say if you drew a line, i4 north where the best rain chances are going to be throughout the day and just more scattered showers and storms at least by labor day. We will knock
No closed captioning is its a story that really leaves more questions than answers. But right now police are trying to figure out . Why someone attacked a 66year old veteran in a st. Pete parking lot. Here with more is fox13s shayla reaves. Recovery efforts continue all across florida today in the wake of hurricane hermine. These are newly released pictures from fwc. Showing officers helping clean up, and rescue people from their flooded homes. You can see boats tipped over, and what used to be bridges and roads completely torn up. This morning. Thousands of people are still without power. Thats causing frustration in talahassee. As Govenor Scott has question if officials are doing enough to get the power back on. In hard hit Citrus County. The wait for federal aid will go on even longer. New numbers show that nearly 2thousand structures suffered some kind of damage there after hurricane hermine. That includes 70 homes that have . Major damage. Last night the county held an information