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Sarah hollenbeck is live. These 20 linemen are needed there . Reporter people have been living like that more than two weeks. Now they are getting help from tampa, including the bucket trucks. They sent five of them over to the bahamas today and those guys just left less than an hour ago to get over there. Hurricane matthew battered homes, it tore off roofs, it picked up an power poles across the tropical island. The damage is so severe in the bahamas that in some areas the electrical system has to be rebuilt from the ground up. Its going to be strenuous work. Right now 20 tampa electric employees are on a bus headed to ft. Lauderdale. Then they will get on a ferry and take that to the island. They will be working 16hour days doing extremely difficult work. Its extremely difficult. Materials you are trying to get on. Especially on an island. Its isolated from the mainland itself. Getting materials over there to work with materials without running out of materials, thats an obstacle in ....
The skies and finding no rainfall almost all of october. Now today i expect to see a few more clouds. It traps the heat that you get during the day so we stay warmer. Right now 70 in tampa, 70 fish hawk, 66 in lakeland, 72 in sarasota and in st. Petersburg. That is warmer than yesterday. Only by a degree in tampa and st. Petersburg. Brandon, youre 4 degrees warmer than 6 00 a. M. Yesterday du thats even above the average of 82 despite the extra clouds. At 6 08 i take you hour by hour through your friday and then plan out your weekend for you. Leslee is going to help you plan out your commute. Looking forward to the weekend. Yeah. Things are business ness busier but good. When i show you surface roads and they are yellow its a good drive but thats a lot of surface traffic lights that you have to go area. St. Petersburg,a great dive on 275. In tampa, bearss avenue down to i4 just a 10 minute drive. We have a collision over in manatee county. Just a heads up. Its off to the side of the ro ....
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Morning, bay area pastors taking astive shooter classes preparing in case of a danger situation. Just ahead, the pastors explain why they feel such classes are paramount for them nowadays. Right now lets check in with leigh. Its much drier than yesterday morning. We are starting to see the offshore showers develop that i believe will push on shore. Not too bad outside. 75 and brooksville, auburndale 78, 78 in sarasota, 77 in plant city. These downpours will develop. They will come in off the gulf of mexico and continue to push into our inland areas. Thats going to help keep temperatures down. After a hot july 88 degrees is going to feel nice. At 4 38 i have an 8day temperature trend to let you know if we stay below meredith is in the this morning for leslee. 2375 275 at tia a small accident. Hillsborough is closed at the veterans for over night road work. That should be out of your way by 5 00, 5 30. Im going to check out my Traffic ....
Brandon, 77. Wesley chapel, 78 degrees. Pasco kids back to school for the first day, 80 in bartow and sarasota right now. Pasco and polk counties, first day back. Off to class, 79 degrees and patchy clouds. And 92 after school when the kids play outside. And about a 40 chance of the late day storms. Notice mostly dry through the first part of the day. The rain chances ramp up to 40 by 5 00 p. M. And storms push towards the coast. At 6 08, i have an hour you. And we are still looking good in lakeland. Polk county up to speed as well. U. S. 92 starting to get busier. And Manatee County as i zoom in. I want you to see that orange dot there. Well, thats a slow down. Thats southbound on i75. And that is after you pass 275. Thats where you hit the brakes, down to about 23 . Fhp tells me that the crash is tying up a lane. South 75 in the palmetto area. Fhp says still tying up a lane at ulmerton road but not seeing delays. Great drive on ....