Bad today anyway. This is really nice right now. Going to be nicer. Well go from good to better. Okay. Our winds right now currently sitting about 6 oh to 7 miles per hour. You look temperatures. 70 in tampa. 70 in bartow. 70 in clearwater. 73 in sarasota. Northeast winds will shift to the north later today. Really we will go back up to 85 degrees for high today under partly cloudy skies. 83 tomorrow. And then by the weekend, well bring high down. Really just a few degrees. Cant wait to talk to you more about that in just a little bit. Vanessa. All right cant wait to hear more, thanks, dave. 9 01. Want to get to roads its been pretty busy throughout morning latest Major Incident were following off i4 near orient road this is conclusion of what were hearing is an hcso pursuit of breaking, entering suspects. From what were able to tell tire tracks in area it appears i4 and all way down into this ditch. Were hearing that deputies have caught all the suspects apparently some of them tried
Marshall thinks her son should be. We needed them to learn. Reporter not at home suspended. Too many kids are out. Reporter during the 2014 school year with 20 20,000 students were suspended around Hillsborough County schools. The number has now dropped by 8 . The change comes one year after School Board Members opted for a administrators from suspending students. Keeping kids in school is what should we should be thinking of as a goal. Simply saying we will suspend kids does not get is the result we are looking for. Reporter Baxter Jenkins is the executive director and hope the district will consider their input. In some places people are doing fine and in other places control because students do not feel there any consequences. Reporter marshall understands the concerns that she thinks the district is at least in the right direction. It is up to the administrators to be creative. Reporter while the number of suspensions is down the gap between minority students and white students rem
And you have firefighters here on scene trying trying to put that out really dealing with a little bit of smoke at this point. Thats good news. Weve scenery duction in that smoke over the past couple minutes or so. But unfortunately, it is going to be a full shut down as i mentioned in westbound direction. You have all of those lanes blocked. And earlier when we zoomed out i could see a left turn lane in eastbound direction might be affected. Drivers probably want to stick with waters or linebaugh if youre heading usually along busch boulevard. Thats going to be your best work yeah going to be that left turn lane. We will keep you post ad we learn more on this. Couple other things to mention here, northbound 275, still have that left lane blocked at fletcher due to an earlier crash in still dealing with northbound direction shut down. Of u. S. 27 and haines city. A county road 546. Please take tenth street. Dave. Vanessa, starting to warm up nicely outside. And dry air in play i mean g
Dave developing this morning. The 35yearold case of a missing Hernando County woman could be closer to being solved. Yesterday. The fbi announced it had identified the body of tammy jo alexander. She was a former Hernando High School student. 2 years ago a former classmate reported missing. They said they hadnt seen alexander in . 35 years and no one else. Not even her family. Reported her missing during that time. Deputies in new year. Dna evidence confirmed it is alexander. The fbi is now offering a 20 thousanddollar reward for information leading to an arrest in her death. New this morning. The Hernando County Sheriffs Office is searching for some burglars. They broke into the beef o bradys on cortez boulevard in brooksville. This was last wednesday around 3 am. Detectives believe the same people are responsible for burglaries in both marion and sumter counties. Which all happened on the same date. Winter haven police need your help tracking two men behind a robbery. These pictures
Heavily. So this is going to continue to be a big problem through the morning and into the midday hour. Theres clearwater through st. Pete and some lightning embedded there as well. So not just all rain, we continue to see lightning throughout the morning hours. Look at this, this is not from yesterday. This is just this morning, 2 to 5 inches of rainfall fell in a very short amount of time and that is why we had the flooding issues. Widening out the shot you can see this blob of white, that is the depression, were well out good 400 to 500 miles away and were getting that plumb of tropical moisture that continues to move from south to north. Again a multiday rain event and tomorrow getting into the winds. Right now 35 miles an hour. Still the forecast from the National Hurricane center and the models 55 to 65 mileper hour winds. Track shifted a little further west and that is even better news for us that, means the coastal flooding were expecting for tomorrow 1 to 2 feet will be less s