overdowntown tampa. good morning, i m candace mccowan. it s now 9:00, and ed has the weekend forecast, getting you up and out the door. beautiful start to our sunday morning. a lot of sunshine over the tampa bay area, and that s the view from lakeland auto mall. a breeze out there, and again good supply of sunshine for ugh bran zone and lutes. milder in bartow this morning. 74, and looking at upper 60s to the north. here s the skycast, and by the man afternoon mainly mid-and high level clouds from time to time. no rain coming our way, and that s good news if you re headed out to ray jay later for the big oakland tampa game there the skies will clear out, degrees, and it looks like the pattern will continue. into the new work wee, we will look at that, and also the halloween forecast in a few minutes from now. candace? tampa bay police need your help in finding the driver who left one woman dead and injured a police officer in a hit-and-run accident. the family is driver w
joining us here. right now is 9:00. we have look at your weather. it was raining yesterday and we will tell you what you can expect today and tomorrow. we will see afternoon showers and thunderstorms, nothing to a typical. we are off to a fairly try start this morning dry start this morning. we have mostly sunny skies. we are already warming up in tampa. we just hit 82. 76 in zephyrhills and 77 brooksville . we re ei generally along and north of i- 4. that is where were seeing a partly to most was county sky cloudy sky and a few showers up short . south of i sure i-4, lots of showers . still seeing cloudiness over north florida. 89 degrees this afternoon. a few storms fire up along the coast. they push inland as we go through the afternoon. coming up, we will break down your way. right now there is a frantic search: first responders working around the clock to find 18-year-old austin welch. his sister fell into the peace river while fishing so he jumped into save he
by the end of 2020 will be met by one of the vaccines. we have three vaccine candidates. we ve had many more but three are really, really looking good. that news comes as the u.s. saw a single day record for new cases on wednesday. just today florida reporting more than 10,000 new cases, a new daily record high for the state. our capacity in the hospitals is becoming less and less available, and we re seeing a return of a disease that everyone dread freddie day one. doctors in texas overwhelmed by the number of covid patients. so many in some parts there are wait lists for ventilators. i got 10 calms, young people, excellent candidates. they are so sick if they don t get put on so sick they are probably going to die, i had three beds. three states paused reopening plans due to spikes in covid cases. today the nation s top disease expert dr. anthony fauci telling bbc some states may have reopened too soon. in the united states even in the most strict lockdown onl
burnett. the united states on the verge of setting a new daily high for coronavirus infections beating the record set the day before when the u.s. saw 50,000 new positive covid cases in one day. as of tonight 38 states are headed in the wrong direction and all of them seeing increases cases. yet if you listen to the president you would think the country is in great shape. the crisis, is being handled. we have some areas where we are putting out the flames or the fires. it is working out well. now we are opening it up. it is opening up far faster than anybody thought possible and more successfully. he may want to be quite careful declaring success right now. in florida an 11-year-old has been the youngest person to die from the virus after the state reported 10,000 new cases, a record. that is not success. just today georgia and arkansas reported a record number of cases. that is not a crisis being handled. in california hospitalizations are at an all-time high and in texa
cases there are large gatherings happening. or b, play it very safe, following public health advice to gather only with people they know and with a face mask close by. take a look at washington, d.c., right now. this is the national mall. president trump will host a big public celebration there tonight with music, military demonstrations, and fireworks. no need for you to go anywhere. we ll have live coverage right here for you on cnn to enjoy so you can stay safe. but the president barely mentioned the pandemic at his speech last night at mt. rushmore, where, as you can see, several thousand people sat closely together. only a few of them had masks on. this, despite the news breaking shortly before that speech that top trump campaign staffer kimberly guilfoyle tested positive for the coronavirus. she s the girlfriend of the president s son, don trump junior, and was in south dakota preparing to attend that event. elsewhere around the country right now, we have live looks. th