Lightens up for about a mile or so on the interstate and then gets dense again. You will be encountering this wherever you go. Right now halfmile visibility. Make sure you use the low beams, leave five minutes or 10 minutes of extra time as you head out and leave enough following distance to make sure you dont rear end anybody if fog. Janelle, you have cameras all over the bay area. Are you seeing the same thing im seeing out here . Yeah, a lot of fog. Bind me at 75 and 301, no crashes or breakdowns to tell you about but just south of here around beginsonton reports of gibsonton, reports of large traffic cones that rolled into the middle of the interstate, blocking some of the southbound lanes. Just another example when we have fog like this you want to be extra careful, say ex stay extra alert and use low beams to soif something gets into the roadway you are able to see it and not caution accidents. Bridge, lots of fog on the bridges, not slowing folks down. Still less than 10 minutes
3 our top story this morning the results are in, from the first real vote of the president ial election season. The count from the Iowa Caucuses. Had some pretty surprisng results. First up. On the republican side. 3 ted cruz is the big winner. With 99 percent of precincts reporting. Cruz took 28 percent of the vote, compared to 24 percent for donald trump. And look whos in third place. Marco rubio. He finished just one percent behind trump. A lot of people saying rubio was also a big winner last night. Making himself a real player in this race. No other candidate even got close to these three. Ben carson was in fourth place. With just nine percent. Former Florida Governor jeb bush. Was in sixth place with just three percent of the even on the list. He dropped out of the race last night. 3 3 3 on the democratic side. We are still waiting for a winner. But it might not matter. Both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have reason to celebrate. 3 even with 99 percent of precincts reporting
Its a big day for the president ial candidates. Tonight is the iowa caucus. 8 is on your side during this election. We will have a report from iowa in 2 minutes. New this morning, a Pilot Project will be offered in two neighborhoods using chinese fiberoptic connections. Average cubans use online pay peruse services is. Bryan bennett with the weather. Reporter its a warm note especially considering its february 1st, and january is history. Starting off in the middle 60s, and thats warm. 66 in downtown tampa. Winds are light this morning. Locations, but not a big concern this morning. Satellite and radar picture showing theres a good deal of cloud cover and a few sprinkles falling in Sarasota County right now. Thats a few little sprinkles. Otherwise the headline will be warm temperatures topping off in the upper 70s tomorrow. We will be around 80 degrees. For the first week of february, its going to be a warm one. 80, thats like the temps in arizona. Right now in st. Pete, up to speed. N
Winner however Bernie Sanders is encouraged by the tight race. It looks like we will have about half of the iowa delegates. Thank you, iowa now the candidates are looking ahead to next weeks primary in New Hampshire. Our other big story this morning, the fog. Take a look. It looks like pea soup out there in some areas. This is what it looked like in the plant city area earlier this morning. In fact, a dense fog advisory is in effect for the entire bay area until 10 00 this morning. So lets check in with meteorologist leigh spann this morning. Leigh, this could be a big door. Yeah, because the dense fog advisory is for every single 10 00. Now theres sea fog that last pretty much all day. So there may be some coastal communities that never really get out of the fog. We are at visibility down to zero in lakeland. Only a half mile in plant city. Brooksville and brandon. Just a blanket of fog. The fog forecast to see how long its going to last. It takes you through 10 00 a. M. I think a lay
Doors. We are going to reach out to the New Hampshire voters. It is very, very important. Reporter and rubio Tampa Campaign chair says her trip to New Hampshire shows her sincere commitment to marco rubio and she is not alone. It 80 degrees here, are you prepared . Ingly i had to go online and buy winter boots. Im going to go knock on doors and make phone calls and do what they need me to do. Reporter it is a commitment needed. The grass roots effort works well in New Hampshire. Face to face times with those who know the candidates. And the Clinton Campaign needs all the help they can get. They are behind in the polls headed into New Hampshire and in iowa, clinton barely won. Were you nervous . I knew it was going to be close. Didnt realize it was going to be that close. Reporter like most volunteers, mayor buckhorn will foot his own bill hoping to slaying the sanders momentum. Senator sanders has done a good job energizing the caucus. A lot of young people have showed up for him. Repo