course that is where we've had issues along the skyway bridge already. that continues to be the case. we'll add the thunderstorms along with the wind later on. more on the storms in a bit. let check the roads with janelle. we're going to head on out to corey dierdorff, he's behind the wheel of our live drive cam. on the veterans expressway around dunn. a lot of construction wrapped up. and it's 12 minutes from van dyke to 275. a little earlier corey was on the howard frankland, talking about the high winds and we have a high wind advisory for the sunshine skyway. not affecting the drive times, still just nine minutes from toll booth to toll booth but both hands on the wheel as you drive across the sunshine skyway bridge. checking the drive times on some of the major roads, u.s. 19, southbound from tampa road to eastbay, 11 minutes. 17 minutes on the veterans expressway from 54 to 275. and five minutes on dale mabry from fletcher to waters.

breaking news throughout the night. the national weather service now confirms a tornado hit pensacola late last night pummeling the panhandle. with heavy rains and very strong winds. >> this new video came in three hours ago showing the storm's fury. you can see storms destroyed homes, absolutely shredding one building's roof. there are reports that the dangerous weather left at least six people hurt though we're still working to find out how serious the injuries are. at least 7,000 families we do know spent the night without electricity because the storms brought down power lines. the team from the national weather service will head to pensacola today to get a better sense of the damage. that same line of storms took a deadly turn in the deep we found out overnight there are still some people unaccounted for, in hard hit louisiana. at least three people are dead, dozens more hurt between louisiana and mississippi. one first responder says it's some of the worst damage he's seen in almost 40 years.

devastation at this rv park in convent, louisiana, you can see power lines snapped like twigs, houses there have even collapsed. in fact crews are still searching the debris now looking for anyone who might be trapped. we are continuing to monitor the scenes there and in the panhandle, lindsay logue is standing by now, she'll go live with an update coming up in our next half-hour. more breaking news at 6:02. the race for the white house, donald trump is gaining momentum ahead of super tuesday with an overnight victory in the nevada caucuses. results are still coming in as we speak but one thing is clear, trump mounted a decisive win with more than 40% of the vote. in his third victory speech in a row he thanked everyone from evangelicals to the poorly educated. >> we won the evangelicals, we won with young. we won with old. we won with highly educated. we won with poorly educated! i love the poorly educated!

the -- we're the most loyal people. you know what i'm really happy about? >> as for the other candidates, it was a close contest for second place. florida senator marco rubio barely edging out ted cruz with a 2.5 percentage point lead over the texas senator but trump got nearly double the number of votes to rubio. ben carson was fourth followed by ohio governor john kasich. with the south carolina primary three days for the democrats, a town hall meeting was last night. bernie sanders talked about when he got arrested at age 22 while fighting segregation during the civil rights movement. he also hit rival hillary clinton hard over her paid speeches to wall street demanding that she release the transcripts. clinton said she would as long as everyone else does including the republican candidates. in other news -- sarasota deputy is counting his blessings after this extremely close call. with yet another wrong-way driver. this close encounter caught on

barreling down i-275's breakdown lane in the wrong deputy's cruiser. deputy finally pulled over the 21-year-old behind the wheel and say he blew a .28, more limit. the issue of wrong way drivers of course has florida officers drivers. abc action newstion reporter rodney dunigan live at the ashley exit and 275. it's not just a problem in florida but across the country. >> reporter: that's right. in fact the ntsb estimates that across the country every year about 400 people are killed by wrong-way drivers. if you remember, two weeks ago now since two men were actually killed right here at the ashley exit when a guy went up the exit ramp the wrong way headed towards 275. i want to point something out. plenty of signs indicate that was the wrong way. you have a no turn on ashley sign here. across the street you have two do not enter signs along with four wrong way signs.

lot more of those electronic billboards, also on the interstate warning folks about driving the wrong way. going back to that sarasota case, it was only inches that kept that sarasota deputy from getting hit by that drunk driver on monday. deputies believe that driver, get this, going 70 miles per hour, the wrong way, for more than 12 miles. also on monday tampa police stopped a driver traveling the wrong way on the 50th street exit ramp for i-4 and police were not able to determine if that driver had been drinking and then there was the accident nearly two weeks ago here at ashley and 275, two men died in a wrong way crash at ashley drive, traffic was shut down on that exit for hours. now back here live, the department of transportation has recently installed a number of flashing lights to warn drivers about going in the wrong direction and also to warn them to be looking out for those wrong way drivers. but the one thing tampa police along with law enforcement from throughout this area want drivers to remember, to simply pay attention, look out for

watch where you go on the roads. reporting live near downtown tampa, rodney dunigan, abc action news. in pinellas county, one mom wants answers after the teen she claims attacked her son in 2013 was recently arrested for assaulting another child. we're not identifying the mom but she tells us she's very angry she was not notified when the suspect moved to a school closer to her home. she also said the state attorney's office didn't tell her about the suspect's status and completion of an intensive therapy program. she said she was surprised when she learned about the recent incident. investigators say the suspect lured a student off-campus and tried to assault him. >> i think that the parents deserve to know. that is just wrong. it's broken. it's not right. again, i believe that the administration is more concerned with protecting the privacy rights of this child than they are with the safety of the students. >> the school system says students safety and security

them. the district also added it's not obligated to inform a parent when a student is placed in a new school. 6:07. still ahead -- the object a gunman brought that may have helped him during this weekend's deadly shootings in kalamazoo. and look at titan doppler radar. a tornado watch is in effect now for citrus, pasco, hernando counties. ivan is working to track the severe storms heading to the bay area. coming up, when they will move

we want to show you new pictures now. what the uber driver accused of the shooting rampage was doing in the hours before the massacre. >> the owner of the gun shop said dalton bought a jacket with a inside pocket designed to hold a handgun. he shot six people. and hundreds gathered outside the restaurant to pray for the victims and their families. another huge memorial taking place outside the high school of one of the youngest victims. 17-year-old tyler smith was at a car dealership with his dad when authorities say dalton killed them both. the gofundme page for tyler's mom and sister has raised $20,000, his mother says she's grateful for the support but

all a bad dream and they will be here when i wake up." two of the eight shooting victims survived and we're hearing about a woman's heroic gunman. authorities say tiana caruthers threw herself between dalton and children at a apartment complex as he started to shoot at random. three bullets hit her in the legs but we're hearing she's expected to survive. the kalamazoo sheriff says she actually helped identify dalton from her hospital bed through police photos. light rain beginning to move in across the northern counties. then the heavier thunderstorms still about 90 minutes away and much later for our southern counties. we'll have the latest in the track when i see you in a few minutes. a fight at a children's birthday party you have to see to believe. the innocent act that sparked this knock down drag out fight that caught children in the

i want to recap what is going on here. we're under a tornado watch, northern counties, citrus, pasco, hernando counties until 10:00 a.m. conditions there more favorable for rotating thunderstorms. that continues through 10:00 a.m. then it will expire. we'll see if they decide to expand this. don't think they will. i think the rest of us are really looking at the potential for severe storms. the difference, we're not going to be spinning. it will be just damaging wind potential which is bad enough.

about 1:00 p.m. as i see it now. only because the storms are moving in a nor northeasterly direction. damaging wind to tension continuing through 1:00. after that everything sweeps away. arrival now, as far as the lighter rains, seeing that to the coast to the north and then the heavier thunderstorms remaining a little still further off-shore. i think another hour and-a-half and they will move in. look at this chunk of clear air between essentially, well, pinellas, southern pinellas and hillsborough. it's moving northeast. so it's going to take a while for the southern end of these thunderstorms to begin in to move into. that is why we have a later period for the central and southern counties. ahead of this very gusty winds. janelle has posted you on that. 20 mile-per-hour to 30 mile-per- hour wind gusts. this is well ahead of the storm. this is not thunderstorm gusts. those are the ones that can bring us 50 mile-per-hour, 70

why we're going to pay attention and stay with you throughout the day. stormy today, windy tomorrow. this is a cold front that is spawning the thunderstorms so behind it we turn chilly as we have been talking about all week. full sunshine for thursday and friday but rather cool, highs in the 60s, overnights lows in the 40s. nice weather continues saturday and sunday. i'll be back with another update on the storms in a few minutes. let's check the roads with janelle. >> this is one of those mornings where if you can head out a little earlier and beat the rain, maybe get to work early you may want to do that. map. zooming in you can see what roads are affected now. seeing a little rain on u.s. 19 and alt 19 in palm harbor, tarpon springs and all of this is coming and heading towards i- 75. so again use caution when driving out there this morning, especially if you come across that rain. the interstates still dry however and i-275, this is at 22nd avenue north.

both directions up to speed, pushing 70 now from the sunshine skyway to the howard frankland. time now 6:17. the new video of the aftermath of a massive home explosion in seattle, washington. just look at the damage. nothing left of that home except for piles of debris. the explosion happened early yesterday morning killing the couple who lived there. and blasts so strong it broke the windows out of a nearby elementary school. county officials received hundreds of 911 calls about the blast including from a naval firefighters still investigating what caused the 6:17. the operator of a scaffold is criticizing new york firefighters for acting too quickly to rescue two workers who were stranded outside the 62nd floor highrise. they are upset they acted to quickly. those two men were replacing glass panels yesterday stalled. firefighters race r wasted no time, cut a glass window and got them inside to safety but

says the firefighters jumped the gun. he claims he had the scaffold working again after a breaker problem caused the stall. by the way the workers were stuck for about an hour, luckily no one was hurt. breaking overnight -- a tornado watch in effect in tampa bay after a violent day and night of nasty weather across the gulf coast. one tornado just confirmed overnight in florida's panhandle. we have team coverage on the devastation left behind, and the danger that could be on the way this morning. but first volvo set to make history with a car you can unlock through an app. in today's "tech bytes," going for a drive? there's an app for that. >> car keys to be replaced with a smartphone app possibly as soon as next year. traditional keys would be available only upon request. more new devices are making headlines at the mobile world congress in barcelona. lenovo unveiled a new phone with 3d motion tracking and depth sensors.

reality technology. htc has a headset with wireless game controllers and hefty $800 price tag. check out the newest version of a walking robot. it's created by boston dynamics for the first time it walks around on two legs. >> it's lighter and not as tall as earlier versions. it can bend down, lift 10 pound weights and place them on shelves.

it's 72 degrees in tampa. traffic moving pretty well. the weather is going downhill. there's a tornado watch nor now parts of the bay area. you're a few minutes away from an update from ivan cabrera. we want to show you video now from connecticut that is making some parents swear off attending birthday parties at chuck e cheese. >> a brawl broke out in the middle of a child's birthday party. that fight began after two women police say bumped into each other near the carousel at the manchester restaurant in arcade. police say the group of brawlers grew to more than a dozen adults. and some children celebrating a friend's party even caught up

>> a 1-year-old was pushed down. a had-year-old sustained bruising and scratching injuries. an elderly person that suffered a panic attack. >> chuck e cheese says it hopes to put parents at ease by putting a security guard in place starting this weekend. the suspects who started that fight by the way are still on the run. a missouri family says it wants to warn other women about the dangers of talcum powder after losing their mother to ovarian cancer. they claim her cancer was caused by decades of using baby powder and shower-to-shower. johnson & johnson must now pay up to $72 million to jacqueline fox's family. she used the company's talc- based powder, baby powder and shower-to-shower for years. medical experts say the powder contrirnted to her ovarian cancer that later turned deadly. johnson & johnson now facing coming up on "good morning, america" what you need to do if you have products like these in your bathroom now.

course our storms coming in, light rain beginning to move in across the northern counties. it's not severe but we have the potential for the storms off- shore that are still yet to move onshore to become quite nasty. details coming up in just a few minutes. also still ahead -- two big breaking stories overnight. we are getting our first sense of the damage from the florida panhandle from a confirmed tornado. and the fight for second place before super tuesday. >> the stunning reason a toddler was almost put away for life for a crime he couldn't have committed. >> good morning, we still have that high wind advisory for the sunshine skyway. also high winds on the other bridges so use caution and we're just getting word of two crashes in pasco county.

a tornado watch in tampa as the area braces for potential severe weather later this morning. it's the same system that spawned deadly tornadoes tuesday. >> ivan has our weather alert. exactly where is the rain falling the hardest now and who is in danger? we're all under the warning as far as the potential for severe weather today.

not, i think we'll have isolated tornadoes potentially further north. but we have the watch box here. the thing to look at is all the storms have the potential to be quite strong today and even severe with wind gusts in excess of 60 miles per hour. let's time this out. as far as the storms. there it is, tornado watch box issued earlier this morning, in effect through 10:00 a.m., that's the timing as far as the nastiest storms to the north. citrus, hernando and pasco. the rest of us here between 9:00 and 1:00 p.m. so 6:00 to 10:00 to the north. 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. a little further south. that is because the storms are moving to the north and east. isolated tornadoes, damaging wind potential certainly. i think a higher risk than the tornado threat for today but certainly we'll not rule that out. the rain is already on shore, the lyinger rain. not -- lighter rain. not severe yet. strong storms are about an hour and-a-half away as everything moves north and east. look at this cluster here.

to get through. so this chunk here is going to move through our central and southern counties, between 9:00 and 1:00. then meanwhile a little further sooner today. worrisome for me. this morning. i'll let you know if that continues to get intense. it's weakened a little so nation good news. the rain you're seeing to the in north, it's just light rain ahead of the main thunderstorms. winds are going to be an issue this morning, 20 mile-per-hour, 30 mile-per-hour wind gusts a possibility. and that is just ahead of the storm, once the storms move in we'll have thunderstorms, wind gusts and perhaps up to 60 miles an hour. quick look at the forecast here. we don't show the 7-day forecast as much during a severe weather event for good reason but it is turning colder the next few days with temperatures in the 60s. that is because of a cold front moving through. that is going to spawn severe

that is moving through the gulf damage. we continue to get new video in overnight from the towns hit by deadly tornadoes. at least three people have died so far, dozens more are in the hospital. this is the florida panhandle where a tornado ripped through a two-mile stretch of pensacola destroying entire apartment buildings and town homes, trees there are down blocking streets on i-10, cars, even semi trucks were overturned, at least six people in pensacola were hurt. 40 miles south of baton rouge, louisiana, a mobile home was turned into a scrap yard and possible survivors still being sought there. 30 people are in the hospital. 100 trailers destroyed. in lamar county, mississippi, a tornado picked up a man's home and tossed it 500 feet. that is what is left of that man's home. he was inside at the time and didn't survive. more than two dozen tornadoes have been reported in the region.

damage this morning with updates throughout our newscasts. live in the 1250ud studio, lindsay logue, abc action news. corey dierdorff just arrived on scene of a crash in new port richey, u.s. 19 and state road 54. fhp reporting there's roadblock as you can see in the southbound lanes. this is right at 54. we do have some light rain in the area, corey was telling me a little earlier so you want to use caution. you might want to avoid this area if you can though cars are still getting through. traffic still light but -- if it's still out there when the we could see delays. this is the radar where we can show you where it's raining. look how close it is, creeping up on i-75 there. and getting close to i-275. if i zoom in to where the crash is, that corey was just at you can see we have some rain in the vicinity there, and earlier when i first spotted this accident there was a lot of rain coming down there.

u.s. 19 southbound at state road 54. just south of there we have another crash reported. this one in holiday, u.s. 19 at mile stretch drive. some road block in the intersection but again traffic indicators mostly in the green. you might want to leave a few minutes early but right now we're not seeing any major delays there. time now 6:33. in the 2016 presidential race -- donald trump one step closer to the republican nomination. now that he's kept his winning streak going with the nevada caucuses. >> trump was the favorite to win but the real fight, was between senators marco rubio and ted cruz. the fight for second place was so close, rubio barely edged out cruz getting about 2% more than the texas senator. this morning cruz is saying he's still a strong contender offering up his win in the iowa caucuses as proof. >> as history teaches us that

nomination without winning one of the first three primaries. and there are only two people who won - >> ben carson and john kasich were at the bottom of the pack. they both say they are staying in the race and they are focused on super tuesday next week. into the newsroom, in the last three hours tampa police are searching for a person they say pointed a green laser at one of their helicopters. laser pointers can temporarily blind pilots. cameras rolling as officers searched the area around columbus drive and tampa street for the suspect. once we learn of an arrest we'll be sure to let you know. word from our scription station in west palm beach. a homeless man recovering after a group of loose pit bulls attacked him. the reporter on scene says deputies killed one dog, currently patrolling the neighborhood looking for the others. we're told the man is homeless, slept in the same spot for years. now recovering at the hospital. this morning we're trying to find out the name of the

county. deputies say two vehicles collided at the intersection of road. the crash left one dead, several others injured. so far there's no word on their conditions and we don't even have a cause of the crash at this time. calls. sarasota county. first deputies need your help to find the person who disabled the security system at a from terrible order of eg -- fraternal order of eagles lodge in englewood. the man is pacing around. this video was shot at the lodge on old englewood road. deputies say he spent three hours in the building last wednesday. he took off once a cleaning crew showed up. and watch for this bike thief. sarasota officers say over the weekend this guy simply walked into a parking garage at the renaissance condo complex, cut

that bike is worth nearly $600. that bike is green, has the bar. the hard rock casino is men. the casino tells us there's a servers. apply now at gotoworkhappy.com. we posted a link to the site on our mobile app. after applying you can interview in person at the hard rock cafe during the hiring event from 11:30 to 2:30. weather alert. we're still tracking strong to severe thunderstorms, with the tornado watch box in effect for the northern counties. i'll have the latest into when you can expect the roughest weather to move in through the tampa bay area in a few minutes. we have an update on the crash that corey was just at bringing you live pictures of new port richey southbound u.s. 19 at state road 54 in the clearing stages if you're heading that way no need for a detour.

get there. time now 6:36. accused of a crime he didn't commit. the big mistake that almost sent a toddler away to primp for life.

rescuers say they found the wreckage of a small plane carrying 23 people that crashed in bad weather into a mountainous area in nepal.

that small plane was on a short flight between two mountain villages in nepal when it went missing. again 23 people on board. this is video from the airport that the plane was heading to. you can see people crying as helicopters left to search for possible survivors or debris. again no survivors found. poor weather conditions did hamper the search efforts but again they've found the wreckage. in one of the most incredible cases of mistaken identity i think we've ever seen, a toddler now facing life in prison for a crime that happened when he was just 16 months old. an egyptian military court sentenced the now 3-year-old nor alleged crimes he committed at a protest in 20146789 they admit -- 2014. they admit they got the wrong person. turns out he shares the name with the actual culprit. the little boy now off the hook. >> thank goodness. we're on the hook for severe weather though. you can see storms moving on the nature coast now still

about an hour -- within the hour or so probably. details coming up in a moment. that red box is a tornado watch. some of the storms could be

starting with a weather alert as we check in on our tower cam. nothing doing now but it will change in dramatic fashion as we head on through later this

radar and show you exactly what is going on now. effect through 10:00 a.m. for citrus, pasco, hernando counties. rotating thunderstorms. so we'll watch that closely as hours. in fact we're already seeing the rain beginning to move in. i'll put this in motion and you can see closer. in fact now that we're raining here let's zoom in as far as the rainfall. it's moving in across 19 so if you're watching us from brooksville the rain is on top of you. again nothing severe, moderate rain, getting heavier to crystal river but we're not talking about any severe weather now. that is still off-shore, the strongest of the thunderstorms. stillen stillen -- still an hour from you as everything heads north and east. a break in the middle. then this cluster has to get through our central and southern counties. that won't happen until about 9:00 to 12:00. there's a lot of lightning associated with this. i must say this cell i've been

showed significant rotation off- shore. it was stronger and has been on a weakening trend. so that is certainly excellent news. you can still get strong winds but i like the trend as as i see it now. 6:00 to 10:00 a.m. for strong thunderstorms across the northern and into our central and southern counties. that is when we're talking about 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. i think the main threat will be damaging wind potential. 60 mile-per-hour, 70 mile-per- hour winds can't be ruled out. isolated tornadoes to the north where we have the tornado watch. i still think the threat again is for damaging winds which are bad enough. you don't care how you get the damage, it's the possibility that it happens with straightline winds. by the way, we're on tv now but you're going to be headed to work so you want to get your weather alerts on your ios or android, it can follow you around with your zip code, and if there's a tornado warning or thunderstorm severe warning issued it will alert you today

the good thing about this, the last system moved through overnight. at least everyone is awake through the worst of the weather. we'll keep you posted throughout the morning. the issues ahead of the system, gusty winds already impacting our area. and of range has been moving in across our northern counties. corey dierdorff behind the wheel of our live drive cam. he says it's raining lightly at u.s. 19 northbound in the the bayonet point area in pasco county. you can see raindrops on the windshield there and we had two crashes south there of. if you're heading out you may want to leave a little early and use caution when driving on the wet roads. i have the technology on my maps where i can show you how the roads are affected by this rain. if i zoom into the area, corey was just in, you can see we have a u.s. 19 right in the middle of a lot of this rain. so again just use caution. south of there we had some already cleared. elsewhere on the interstates

dry, just a little bit of congestion on i-4 heading through ybor city which is pretty typical. your drive times starting all the way back in lakeland at county line road, takes 28 minutes to get to downtown. 6:6:47. we're staying on top of the zika virus deceive. in florida the number of travel related cases just jumped to 29. seminole county reporting its very first case. as we get word of an alarming discovery, 14 more people have contracted this virus through sexual contact. according to cdc two cases involved women with who sex with men who traveled to zika- known areas. while there's no vaccine yet a texas hospital says it's found a way to detect whether someone has zika more quickly. it allows doctors to get results in minutes rather than days.

lead to better treatment ahead of the summer months when they are expecting to see zika spread even faster. happening today -- prosecutors will urge the connecticut supreme court to reinstate the conviction of kennedy cousin michael skakel. in the 1975 murder of martha moxley. he was convicted of the murder in 2002, freed in 2013 when a judge grant the him a new trial. the judge found skakel's lawyer failed to argue that skakel's brother could have been responsible for the crime and failed to present a key witness. his connecticut neighbor martha moxley was 15 years old when she was beaten to death with a golf club. cuban state media reporting that ramon castro died in havana yesterday. the older brother of both raleigh and fidel castro. he was not involved in politics, chose a life as a farmer instead. he was 91 years old. this morning we've learned

of cutting an unborn baby from the mother's womb will be sentenced, april 29th. dynell lane facing a minimum of 16 years in prison when prosecutors say they will ask for a longer sentence. just convicted yesterday. lane posted an ad on craigslist selling baby clothes in march of last year. a pregnant michelle wilkens responded to the ad and went to lane's home. investigators say lane attacked wilkens and cut her baby girl from her womb. the baby died. after the conviction yesterday wilkens said she will never understand why. >> i may never get any real answers from her. i may never get an explanation from her. and -- i've come to discover that i really don't want anything from her. >> she survived the attack by locking herself in a room and called 911 but again sadly her survive. this morning we're learning more details about how supreme court justice antonin scalia

the sheriff reports that the justices body was found in bed with a pillow case covering his eyes. he was lying on three pillows stacked up to elevate his death. scalia's doctors say the justice suffered from obesity, coronary artery disease, all ailments that considered to his sudden death. a wesley chapel man wants answers, says he tried to report a suspected drunk driver but says he got no response. >> you have to kill somebody. >> kyle wie showing a pickup truck nearly hitting a motorcyclist near lexington oaks. we called 911 three times in 30 minutes, did he said 911 three times in 30 minutes, but 911 didn't respond. >> i thought i was being a good citizen, help when i can.

>> pasco deputies say there were 19 units assigned to the area at the time and it's not clear how many of them responded to calls or in service when we called -- when wies called. a man lights up like a firework in a kentucky convenience store. it looks like his e-cigarette is to blame. standing at the counter when flames shoot from his pants. the video stops after the flames break out. he ran outside and tried to take the pants off before the employee put it out with a fire extinguisher, he had second degree burns on his leg. officers are called on to boycott the upcoming tour of beyonce. raleigh police just voted against any type of boycott of her tour. this whole controversy started after this performance at the super bowl halftime show. some police unions say it was anti-police and the video also has anti-police messages. and with her tour kicking off

are refusing to volunteer to work at her show. that won't be the case when beyonce performs in raleigh may 3rd. beyonce will be here in tampa before that, she'll be here on april 29th. a north carolina pilot is crediting a parachute on the plane with saving his life. the pilot was flying to sarasota when he experienced engine problems near jacksonville. david thomas continued south teamed attempting to make a emergency landing at a plat caairport but didn't make it that far. forced to deploy the parachute. it drops near a house after clipping power lines. thomas suffered minor injuries but is alive to tell his story. 6:52. your morning sprint counting down to "good morning, america." >> the weather alert. severe weather now on its way to tampa bay. ivan is timing out the bad storms that are taking aim at our area now. >> it's beginning to rain heavily across the northern areas which is where we have

conditions are favorable for tornadoes to develop. that includes citrus, hernando, pasco counties. this is the cluster of thunderstorm activity that is about to move. in i must tell you it doesn't look that impressive to me so i think we're going to be in pretty good shape if this holds. but, we are having the potential of damaging wind gusts and gusty winds as we head through the morning. i don't see a lot of rotation here and i don't think it's going to be a huge deal as it heads into our northern neck counties. heavy rain, lightning and gone yes. a break in the middle and then i'm going to take you a little further south. there's the heavy rain that janelle has been tracking. that is going to be an issue. reduced visibility along 19, brookville as well. and this cluster of heavy thunderstorms, also has to work through. it may weaken as it does so but nevertheless here's the timing. 6:00 to 10:00 a.m., northern and then into central counties after 10:00 a.m., between 9:00

continues to shift to the south. the main threat as i see it now, damaging wind gusts, isolated tornadoes especially to the north but right now that threat doesn't look as ominous. as you head to work here's stormshield. it will keep you posted through the morning. as we head through the afternoon i think conditions begin to improve. by the time you get in your car to head home we'll be in better shape. a few showers left over, 70s weather. that begins tomorrow and lasts through the weekend. u.s. 19 up near hudson getting some rain now. that is where corey dierdorff is behind the wheel of our live drive cam. he has the windshield wipers on, a lot of stop-and-go traffic so be careful. we've had a couple accidents in the area, although those have cleared. we have that high wind advisory on the sunshine skyway. still in effect so both hands on the wheel us a travel across the skyway. really all the bridges this

a lot of congestion building on 275 southbound around bush, no wet roads there but again just a lot of congestion, reports of a crash near busch southbound though i'm not seeing it on the cameras. 39 miles per hour your average speed on 275. from the apex to i-4. overnight the national weather service confirming a tornado touched down last night in the florida panhandle. in pensacola that tornado ripped through two miles of the city destroying apartment buildings and townhomes. at least six people were hurt. elsewhere across the south broken homes and hearts and at least three people died during severe weather. nevada. for him. he raked up andarily doubled the points of marco rubio. texas senator ted cruz came in third place. 400, that is how many people the ntsb estimates are killed every year by wrong way drivers. a problem law enforcement is trying to address in florida.

a sarasota deputy's dash cam, he was nearly hit by this drunk driving going the wrong way. and two weeks ago a driver headed up the wrong way on ashley exit 275. the department of transportation recently installed a number of flashing lights on bay area rumps ramps to -- ramps to warn drivers they are going in the wrong direction. cameras were rolling as officers searched columbus drive and tampa street for a person pointing a laser. 4 for the next four wednesdays local chick-fil-as are giving away a free item during breakfast hours. which item is up to each location. "good morning, america" is next. janelle and ivan will be standing by as bad weather moves in. >> during gym imp will be here

good morning, america. breaking overnight, donald trump's huge win in nevada. >> now we're winning, winning, winning the country. >> record turnout. trump relishes his victory. >> we won with poorly educated. i love the poorly educated. >> marco rubio second and less than a week from the super tuesday showdown, donald trump and marco rubio are here this morning. oh, my goodness. holy cow. deadly storms tear through the south. 27 reported tornadoes across the gulf states ripping roofs off buildings, destroying hundreds of homes, flipping over trucks. now new warnings are out this morning as severe storms move east. erin andrews' emotional day in court, the reporter and "dancing with the stars" favorite takes on a hotel and a