this morning, the gop debate is trending on twitter in tampa. candidates came to verbal blows during the final debate before super tuesday. and they have a lot on the line. senators marco rubio and ted cruz must both win their home states if they have any shot of beating trump for their party s nomination. and this story is going viral this morning. seaworld is confessing to spying on animal rights activists. this comes after peta accused a seaworld worker of infiltrating the group to get intel. ceo s claim the move was meant to keep animals and customers safe. let s get a check on the weather with leigh. it s going to break back out the jackets today because it s not only cold or chilly now, it s going to stay cool all day. in polk county, 40s. 45 lakeland. 45 auburndale. and farther to the north, zephyrhills, 39. 37 in inverness. the closer to the coast, the warmer it. is it s 60 in bradenton. yesterday, the winds are calmer now. notice we re nine degrees cooler than
and the gop debate is trending on twitter in tampa. candidates came to verbal blows during the final debate before super tuesday. and they have a lot on the line. senators marco rubio and ted cruz must both win their home states if they have any shot of beating trump for their party s nomination. and this story is going viral this morning. seaworld now confessing to spying on animal rights activists. this all comes after peta accused a seaworld worker of infiltrating the group to get intel. seaworld s ceo s claims the move was meant to keep customers and animals safe. we have a nice cool down for the weekend, leigh. yeah, a cool snap. we had the cold front that came through two days ago. you felt the winds yesterday. well the winds are lighter but it s getting chilly. 40 in brooksville. 38 in zephyrhills. polk county, 43 in auburndale. and farther south, 47 in arcadia but warmer near the the winds, they re light but because they re light, we re actually colder than this
two people suffered smoke inhalation. we are making calls to find out how serious their injuries are. and let s get a check on the weather. a nice cool down for the weekend. yeah, in fact, returning to winter, even though it s still february. back to temperatures and we would expect sort of our coldest part of the year in january. 39 in zephyrhills right now. cool in clearwater, 52. but 49 in fish hawk. and 46 in plant city. and milder in sarasota at 54. but we are warmer or excuse me, cooler in most places than this time yesterday. lakeland, nine degrees colder than 6:00 yesterday morning. clearwater about four degrees cooler. brandon, seven degrees cool. and cooler. and i expect another batch from the north so highs today only 62. that s well below the average of 74. and colder night tonight with a low of 42. at 6:08 in weather and traffic on the 8s, i walk you hour-by- hour through friday and then tell you about the weekend because really that s all a cool one too.
it is officially the weekend and you re taking a look at a beautiful downtown tampa on this warmer sunday. good morning and thank you for joining us. i m candace mccowan. we ll get to our top story in a moment but let s by checking on the forecast with meteorologist mark collins. hi, candace, we ve seen a quick rebound to the temperatures this morning and us out. very comfortable out there now. you can see how sunny it is. high, thin concludeds out. there 60 thin clouds 60 degrees in sun city center. lakeland holding behind at five it degrees and as we look at tampa international, 54. to plan out your day today, plan on dry conditions lasting right on through the afternoon. by 3:00, we ll be at 7and as we head into the early evening hours, temperatures pull back to close to where they are right now. we ll have changes this week. how much rain is in the forecast? stay with us. weather app. app store. mark, thank you very much. the life of a tow truck driver hit and kil
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