Into downtown bradenton area. Theres your storm, it is tropical depression. However, take look at the satellite. Look at the difference in the presentation from 3 oclock this morning to now. Looks a lot more impressive. I think once they get a plane out there, this will easily be upgraded to Tropical Storm. We need for it to do is start to move. Because only moving north at 2. And the slower it goes more chance of intensification it will have. Still tropical to remember in big bend area. Troll cap storm warning from pasco county north and entire coastline levy county to sarasota is under a flood watch through friday. Well detail all of that stuff coming up in just a little bit. All right. Thank you, dave. And right now were getting several reports of flooding in the area. Before we get to this were actually just learning that the Clearwater Beach roundabout is being closed due to flooding they are in process of setting traffic. In meantime this live picture also concerns flooding as we
Minute with look at the skytower radar forecast. Right now though, some st. Petersburg roads are being flooded because of the consistent rain. Just minutes ago car had to be pushed out road after being stuck. Look at that. All of that water. Keep in mind, were just getting going here with this thing. So, lets start with vanessa and then well move over to dave. Yeah guys we have some big problems on the roadways. Crashes galore and then of course the flooding concerns which well talk about in just a second. Big problems that were seeing here, w back ups overturned vehicle crash Sunshine Skyway bridge with heavy northbound lane blockages. If youre just joining we do have one lane passing the right lane thats going to be passing. But if you can take 75 instead. You might save your self some time sitting in traffic over the bridge. So well keep you up sedated on that crash. Meantime heavy congestion all way around of course were dealing with slick roadways in hillsborough southbound look n
Please avoid. It looks like we have a road ranger now just showing up on scene. Were waiting to see how they handle the situation. We also know that walter is going to be out there giving us a live report as soon as he can. But big mess out there. Drivers, if you do have to exit here, make sure youre doing it and exit earlier. Dont go all the way over here. Youll get stuck. We have standing water reports northbound 275 near 175 so passing by tropicana field. Left center lanes are blocked. P, northbound and southbound on 2 5 itself. We also have an overturned semi truck causing northbound lane block blockage. Well get to those congestion points. You can see 275 southbound coming into the interchange well into the red. This is very, very heavy for this time of morning. Leave early, almost 30 minutes of a drive, 10 minutes mlk to 275 and 16 minutes fowler avenue southbound. Dave . Dave this rain is definitely slowing things down. A couple of minutes ago, a flood advisory for Pinellas Coun
Hes meeting with mexicos president ahead of a highly anticipated speech on immigration. Welcome. Im russell rhodes. Laura and im laura moody. More in a minute. First we want to bring you the latest on td nine. Dave we have a lot of heavy rain and so far, Pinellas County has seen the brunt of it this morning, although some is moving over the bridges. I can hear thunder or i have heard thunder outside the station here. I want to zoom in and its 6 00 in t people have to understand the sun is not up yet but look how hard it is raining with the thunderstorm just pouring onshore. And theyre right along 275 in Pinellas County going up through Pinellas Park so the Howard Frankland is getting some heavy rain. Now over the courtney campbell, up to the mid span portion of the courtney campbell, notice how you go back offshore and theres more rain just kind of waiting in the wings and i think this is what were in for, for you have some heavy rain. That will cause some ponding on the roads a then i
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