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Parents up early to head back to school today. And it will not be rainy like it has been all week. Except for after school. But then youre not trying to impress people. All the rain has shifted towards the western panhandle of florida. And look closer to home. There may be some sprinkles, but not the heavy dunn powers that weve seen in the past couple of mornings. Sarasota, you might sneak in here with heavier rain. Ive highlighted for you. So off to class this morning. Patchy clouds around and 76 and slim rain chance and after school, that is when the rain chances get better, 87 degrees. And look at it here. This morning, 20 and 30 at lunchtime and 50 early afternoon and 60 by the time the rest of us are coming home from work around 6 00 tonight. So i have an hour by hourlike at this first day of school for many kids. With the buses. Back to school affects all of us, if you have children or not. You will see extra traffic on the roads. Downtown tampa already busy here. Both directions ....
Spouts, thats right, at least two of them right there as they moved right over lake pontchartrain. This was at the exact time the Tornado Warning was issued for parts of louisiana. And now similar spouts were spotted over the Mississippi River as well. Now that same line of storms is now moving across florida. Heres a look at the storm team 8 max radar right there. We should start seeing some rain in about an hour. And meteorologist leigh spann is joining us now with a look at whats headed our way. It looks serious. Yeah, and thankfully for us, the worst weather is going to stay to the north. The most significant widespread Severe Weather outbreak will head through georgia, South Carolina and up into north carolina. But we have this trailing cold front and thats ....
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 partys 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. Seaworlds ceos 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 its 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, theyre light but because theyre light ....
This house looks at like now. Were going to have meliek zoom in a little bit. You can see one of the tampa firerescue trucks is leaving the scene. Thats because the investigators are getting ready to go inside. The fire was put out shortly after it was called in. It was called in around 3 50 in the morning. They got the fire out at 4 17. Im told there were four People Living there at the time, all of them adults. A 73yearold female and the rest were all males in their 30s. One person is in the hospital, a 35yearold male. I am told that he has nonlife threatening injuries. A neighbor tells me that he was out here with the garden hose trying to put the fire out himself. And i want you to hear what she says happened. Yeah, he had no shoes. Hes a spanish so hes pretty light skinned but he was dark. Like, you see the blackness all over him. Nose, i seen the blood coming. And instead he had grabbed a lot of hot stuff so, yeah, im hoping ....