Carter. And im stacie schaible. We want to begin with your weather. Its chilly and its going to get chillier. Hes meteorologist stacie phillips. Its going to be colder. Looking outside at st. Pete beach. 56 degrees winds out of the northeast. It has been a breezy afternoon across the area, but notice the beautiful blue skies. At least we have that to go with the cooler weather. Tonight, heres what temperatures will be dropping down to. 39 in temple terrace. 42 in carrollwood and 42 in a apollo beach and 39 in plant city. We should be near 40 in bartow. 38 in arcadia. 35 in invernus. We sdroent frost we dont have frost advisories. Dont be surprised if we have patchy temperatures drop to mid30s. Its a possible for late tomorrow into late tomorrow morning. At the moment, clear skies. And looks gorgeous across the state. High pressure in control. Its keeping rain chances out of the forecast. 59 in temple terrace. 59 in lutes. 62 in sun city center. Inland spots have warmed up more this aft
A gorgeous afternoon. You can see from frenchies at Clearwater Beach enjoying the sunshine. No rain expected for the rest of this evening. Temperatures sit nothing the low 70s with our sitting in the low 70s with winds at 10 milesperhour. Temperatures for most of us reached back into the mid80s again this afternoon. 84 in temple terrace. 84 in loots. 85 currently in pa nel inellas park and you can see temperatures inland reaching into the 80s as well. 82 in lakeland and 8 4 in invernus. Cloudy skies around. Temperatures above average in winds will be light out of the southeast, but this area of High Pressure thats been in control for the past week keeping us dry, its going to give in weekend and the rain you see out west will move in. And well talk about our rain chances for the weekend coming up in your full forecast. Construction crews are racing against time to restore the beach of crews are restoring two miles of beach. The crews are in a rush to finish the project before sea turtl
Afternoon, im josh benson. And im stacie schaible. This is first at 4 00. A state. Voters began showing up early at polling places and expected to continue to come to the polls and close at 7 00 p. M. The fatate of one more one candidate hangs in the balance. We have melody michaels with the Candace Mccowan where rubio is hoping for a gamechanger win. A polk county couple reached out after they were told they couldnt vote at their registered location. One on gene king bououlevard. They were told it was closed it was a closed republican voting location. It happened earlier this morning as the polls openeded. A handful of democratic voters were almost turned away. Push with them to makake phone calls and they had silly excuses as to why it wasnt taken care of. Workers eventually found democratic ballots in the closet area. Believe it or not. So they had to make calls to get that sorted out. Eventualally they did. If you have problems at the polls, call 8132215788. Call us anytime. It is
Note that is a cold front behind it. Temperatures back into the 50s. Jonathan. Jonathan thank you, jennifer. A 22yearold dies after falling during a hike at a Nature Center outside of lexington. Weve learned shes from northern kentucky. The Fayette County coroner has identified the hiker as mary stewart of kenton county. She fell while at the raven run nature sanctuary. The facility is closed because of the accident. She slipped and fell over a cliff to her death saturday afternoon. It took rescue crews nearly an hour to reach her body by trying to rappel down the cliff. Once stewarts body was recovered, a boat that they were in capsized with both rescuers and the victim on board. Raven run sanctuarys closed until further notice now. An autopsy is expected to be performed later today. An Indiana High School basketball coach had to be airlifted to the hospital after a team bus carrying 27 players and Staff Members overturned on a busy interstate. The Griffith High School boys indiana wa
Im stacy sc schaible. Marry mcguire shows us how driving too slow will cost you. Were in the height of tourism season in florida and the florida highway is caution gs drivers that they could be fined if they dont obey the minimum speed limits. Florida is a destination state for many moving to the state, we have a lot of people coming here for tourist, people coming here to vacation from across the entire globe actually. So theres a lot of people that bring their driving behaviors here. Sergeant says the state is expected to see close to 100 million visitors in this year alone. Meaning lots of unfamiliar drivers on tampa bay if youre caught driving slow, you could be fined more than 150. Im mary mcguire, news channel 8. The reason so many drivers come to florida is because of the weather. Lets check with meteorologist julie phillips. Its a great time in the tampa bay area. Looking from clearwater beach, you can see clouds hanging around this location. Darker clouds there. Were tracking