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the interstates and i-4 is one of them, westbound direction. just waking up and joining in with us, we have a crash involving a semi which appears to have skidded to the side. it might also involve a box truck and there is also a pickup truck. you can see it right there. looks like it s slammed into the side of the semi. no lane blockages here at that exit from mango but folks are definitely slowing down to take a look. i ll show you the delays year seeing, averaging 18 miles an ur backups up to forbes road. u.s. 92 and we ll keep you updated with the more information we get. southbound drivers heading through pasco county, we have big delays here along 75. reported as well as a second - crash about three miles south so we have two incidents slowing things down and drivers can actually exit at 52. take old pasco road to get around those southbound delays. just off the coast of pinellas and pasco county and in spots that have really seen the fair share of rain the past f ....
vanessa we ll start with you. yeah, good morning, guys. we have big back ups on a few of our major roadways. we will start off along i-4. where we have westbound delays here a man go road. i will try to bring you live look we ve had concerns with video stream. we will move on. i will see if i can get that back for you later. and involve we counted two lars trucks and pick up truck off to the shoulder. but lots of folks slowing down to fake look in this area. westbound once again backed up from mango towards area of branch forbes work arounds being homosassa and u.s. 92. now we will get to this one in pinellas along i 275 in knot bound direction. outside lane block at 54th avenue north. this single vehicle crash we re hearing vehicle hit guardrail and unfortunately, a person inside was ejected. and we have those delays you can see very in the red zone here from the 54th back to an area downtown st. pete. work around here is go going to approaching that crash site as we ....
and now, all of sudden, you get rounds of heavier rain. very close in some cases on shore now. notice around hernando county bay port, and getting down to spring hill, what we re seeing some heavier rain work its way from southwest to northeast. you go down to pasco county into pinellas this heavy rain is really just been looming just kind of sitting off shore. some of it is starting to work its way toward beaches largo as you go out, well let s say clearwater, largo, and through the southern pinellas county beaches, look at that rain coming at you. then more headed towards anna maria island. our wet pattern continues for another morning. i think by tomorrow what we re going to do though, try to shift them a little bit more afternoon and evening. but, temperatures mid 80s today with that 70 percent rain chance. vanessa. all right dave, thank you. and for those who are just joining us now, our biggest concern on roadways earlier vehicle fire in sarasota county. it wa ....
there are a handful of cases that were likely transmitted locally. yesterday, the florida department of health only confirmed that two more people contract the virus locally in miami-dade county. that two more people contracted the virus locally in miami-dade county. before this, the only known cases were north of downtown miami. sources are being warned to avoid the area. we asked the about the wynnewood walls because i heard from a friend that it s pretty there. she said i wouldn t go there because of the zika and not even the locals are going there. we have travel guidelines for pregnant women to be announced as soon as today. federal health officials are looking for volunteers to be infected with zika this winter when mosquitoes are not volunteers to be studied in baltimore. vaccines are also being researched by a pennsylvania- based company. today, there will be a conference about usf about the zika virus. they are expected to attend. university health expe ....
coastal showers and afternoon storms reverse the pattern and will switch things around. we ll talk about that on the futurecast and yes, the tropics as we expect are becoming more active. a lot of good cover out there with temps at 92 for the daytime high and feeling closer to a hundred. the rain chances are around 30%. let s head over to check on the early commute. it is friday. we immediate it. we should we made it. we the drive is looking good on kennedy around mcdill. traffic is up to speed with no crashes or breakdowns. if anything does happen to slow you down, we ll let you know about it right here and of course on twitter at tampa bay traffic. we are checking your drive on i-4. this is what it looks like at the polk parkway. you will run into some flashing lights when you get around park and plant city. however, no road blocks there. just the crashes in the pinellas county. we have reports of a crash here. i ve been checking our cameras around the pin ....