Morning. However, once the sun comes up over the horizon it will help burn off some of this fog and well start to warm. Partly sunny skies late morning and into the afternoon and a southerly wind will provide us will high temperatures into the low 80s. The mugginess will stick around today as well. Throughout the day a stray shower or storm cannot be ruled out, especially along i80 and south. A few showers and storms are possible as well through the evening and overnight hours. Low temperatures will drop into the upper 60s. Today fog early, then partly sunny. Slight chance of afternoon storms, mainly i 82 to 88 tonight partly cloudy. Wind se 510 low 67 alo 66 dbq 67 iow 68 64 to 70 new this morning, a springville man is in the Jones County Jail after leading police on a high speed chase. Police say 34yearold Russell Merfeld led police on a motorcycle chase around 11 30. It started in anamosa, went through springville, and marion. It eventually ended after a short foot chase near wittie
Arrested he said his plan was to shoot the officers. He made a statement are you lucky to be alive i put the gun down i heard the shot. Its not my worth my family losing me because of cops. Williams d was arrested. Here he is outside of a squad car. He and his son could face more charges because investigators house inside. Both men are being held at the Pinellas County ill jail. Back to you. Evan, thank you. Lets talk about the tropics, were watching a system that could reach. What do ynk, paul. A threat to i 4 to 5 days. It is nothing is clearcut. We have a development and be a hurricane not concerned about that. It cannot organize at all. It will move west northwest. And approaching the turks and icos. The environment should be more conducive as we head through the the models are all over the place. Showing a hurricane and heading fo texas. And has a weak storm. My a storm going up like this and as i made the model if this was to verify would not be we lindavo today the bay area lost
Age 87. He served the lonstn any priest in the diocese. He pastor of lawrence parish. We have more on his life and legacy, he was the pastor of the people and had no issue pushing the boundaries. They are mourning the las of a man who grew the area for the better. He was known for standing up for his congregation and community went against the status quo. He unique. Im glad there was one i had to deal with. At 87, he passed away on wednesday morning, leaving behind years ofplishm starting and ending at tampas Saint Lawrence Catholic Churc he was a legendary church, the pastor that is relely ra these days, one who years. He came to the bay area back in 1958 and tasked with turning 20 acres of cow pasture into a parish. He did that and more. Over the years growing Saint Lawrence to serve thousands while bee friending some of the influential movers and shakers. He had a unique gift of speaking to anyone, whether its a child or the mayor senator to work to a mutual understanding. Back in 2
New this morning amazing anyone could survive this. A bad crash on kennedy boulevard in tampa. It happened around two this morning , by memorial highway. And the Westshore Plaza mall. A car hit . Three poles before coming to a stop. The driver was pulled out. And taken to the hospital. No word yet on his condition, but it sounds like he wasnt seriously hurt. Police say developing this morning in tampa the search continues for a . Flasher. On the usf campus. And police may now be closer to catching him. Thanks to some new pictures. Fox 13s Shayla Reaves joins us now a father and son are facing charges in pinellas county. After getting into a shootout with deputies. And deputies now say the two men. Were covering up . A gr deputies were trying to serve a warrant on 26yearold Xavier Williams at his home in st. Petersburg. They say he pointed a gun at a detective who was forced to shoot. Investigators say the bullet didnt hit williams, but it did stop him and he was placed in handcuffs. Wi
Laura and saving money. The best day of the week to book your next cruise. You can save up to 20 . And welcome to the 7 00 hour of good day tampa bay. Im laura moody. Russell and im russell rhodes. Probably dont want to go on the cruise in the next couple of days, though. Lets get to dave to talk about whats going on in the tropics. Dave maybe you do to get out of here. We still have a disorganized area over hispanola and is, its obviously much better than it was 10, 15 years ago but it still has issues when theres no definitive area of low pressure and thats why youve been seeing what we call the windshield wiper effect. Models all over the place. Theyre starting to come to a reasonable solution that whatever that becomes, which right now is nothing more than, again, just a weak system, disorganized, whatever it becomes looks like it may run through the state early next rainfall threat. At minimum, a heavy rainfall threat next week. We have to get through the next few days first. How