disappointment because i tried to see the meteor showers this morning. >> you looked up at the sky? >> i did. >> yes, we had a lot of clouds around, but i'll tell you, there were some clear skies out there. you still have time, in fact. it is 5:00 here. we're looking at sunrise at 6:53. so go outside, take a gander, and if you see anything, let us know. by the way, nasa is hosting around 16 million people on their web siteig of course they've got a much better view, as usual. here we go with titan doppler radar. it's quiet now. you won't have to deal with any issues as far as bus stops or wherever you are headed to work this morning. we had a lot of rain in the overnight with all of that humidity out there. some of the roads are on the slicker side. keep that in mind. we'll continue to see the southeast flow and that means a repeat of what we had yesterday, i think, today.

so you have to look up to see if you catch anything. mid and upper 70s through the afternoon. we'll be back into the low 90s at the bus stop for a very short school week. 6:59 will be your sunrise. we'll go after 7:00 a.m. so you may see wet roads. you might bump into a couple. >> right when i was walking to my car this morning, but for the most part, no issues out there to slow you down. no crashes or dierdorff driving around for us, letting us know if there are any crashes or breakdowns on the interstates. so far so good right where he is. looks like he is maybe headed towards the veterans expressway. let's check your drive times on the toll roads right now starting off with the veterans expressway. 19 minutes from 54 down to 275. six minutes on the leroy selmon

interstates right now couldn't get much better than this. we are all in the green. i-4, i-75, and 275 over in pinellas county running at 64 miles per hour right now. deiah? we start this morning with some extremely disturbing news. a pinellas county mother is expected to appear in court to face charges after her 6-year- old son beat his newborn sister to death. >> i steele left her children inside of a locked van while she went into a st. pete cell phone store. >> there was no air conditioning on and the windows were up. steele didn't return to the van for almost 40 minutes. the 13 day old baby started crying uncontrollably. the child says he lost his temper and started slamming the baby on the floor and ceiling of the van and started hitting her in the face. >> the 6-year-old removed baby kathleen from the car seat and

times back and forth. he said he slammed the baby and kept slamming her. >> even though the 6-year-old admitted that he beat his sister, the sheriff says he's not being charged, but his mother is. she's facing aggravated manslaughter of a child for leaving the baby in the van while she ran errands. her 6-year-old son and his younger brother are both in the custody of child protective services. >> we're learning kathleen steele is no stranger to the media. in 2009, she and he about -- series about fighting through difficulties of having children. >> i'm nervous because kathleen's nervous. >> we're absolutely very serious about having another one. >> reporter: phillip steele died of cancer in 2011. steele's youngest two children were born using steele's frozen sperm. we'll pin to follow the story.

on abcactionnews.com. we're following the latest developments about another accident at an amusement park and raising safety concerns across the conditioned. yesterday, a 3-year-old boy fell from a wooden roller coaster in pennsylvania. the boy was talking and conscious before taken about i helicopter to a hospital. the parks haven't provided any details about exactly what happened. then on sunday, 10-year-old caleb schwab was killed while riding the world's tallest water 168-foot water slide is still closed. on monday, three girls were injured. one of them is in critical condition this morning after falling from a ferris wheel in tennessee. more than 400 amusement parks in the u.s. attracting more than 330 million visitors every year. there is no federal agency responsible for oversight. we have chilling new images from punta gorda.

coel in the deadly training officer seconds before he shoots and kills 73-year-old mary knowlton. this happened on wednesday. another picture shows knowlton about to role play that victim. this morning, we're hearing from the woman's son. mary knowlton's son steve says he forgives the officer who shot his mother, and the family is still struggling to deal with the tragedy. >> it just doesn't seem real that the brighte lives is gone. >> mary knowlton was a retired elementary schoolteacher and librarian. she'd been married for 55 years and had two children. steve says the mother was the family's walk. she volunteered to take part in the citizen's police academy for very special reasons. >> we had been talking two nights before about, you know, bad things from the police in this nation after all of the

she wanted to make it clear to them that she supported them. >> the police chief knew knowlton personally because she was so involved in the punta gorda community. the clear water police department says an officer who resigned last week violated policy for shooting at a moving car in late junep in late-- in late june. he was also under fire for conduct on social media posts. the posts we a trying to organize a protest following police-related shootings. now to the latest on the zika virus. the zika zone is shrinking. the health department has cleared another 4 blocks of any zika activity. the news is not all good. it comes as three other nontravel-related scales of the virus bringing the total number in florida now -- nontravel- related cases of the virus bringing the total number in

miami-dade county superintendent says kids should keep repellent on at home. other students could be allergic. roughly 4,000 students attend schools where people have attracted it. they are allowing students to wear pants and long sleeve shirts that don't match school uniforms. we're getting new details on a brain eating amoeba case in florida. >> the swimmer who came down with the latest case contracted it after water on private property in broward county. the amoeba can cause a rare, extremely deadly brain infection. this new case comes day as of an 11-year-old girl died after contracting the amoeba in a south carolina river. now to the race for the white house. you never know what you will get at a donald trump rally. the last one last night near orlando is no different. we counted five protesters getting thrown out of the

bird after he told trump that he was in love with russia. trump did stress over a new position that president obama's policies formed isis. take a listen. >> barack obama, number one, is incompetent. number two, remember this, number two, he is the founder in a true sense! >> both trump andil must-win state to become president. recent polls show the candidates are in a very tight race in florida with clinton showing a slight edge. eight minutes after 5:00 right now. the owner of the pulse nightclub in orlando and sister of one of the shooting victims denounced trump's speech. they claim that meeting featured a lineup of notoriously anti-gay speakers. marco rubio will speak today.

calling it instead a celebration of faith. hillary clinton would release her 2015 tax returns as early as today. last year, she released seven years worth of returns. political analysts say this move could increase the pressure on donald trump to do the same. clinton has hammered donald trump over his refusal to release his tax documents. the jacksonvilleardens its facebook page. the baby is already on exhibit with his mom. they were once called pygmy chimpanzees. this is the eighth endangered binobo born at the zoo. jacksonville is one of seven zoos in the country with these animals. 70s this morning as we go back into the low 90s this afternoon with the showers and a few thunderstorms later on. the exact timing of when the

weekend forecast are all coming up. >> also coming up, gainsville police are looking for the people involved in a road rage incident caught on camera. why they want to find one woman in particular. >> today, governor rick scott is set to announce the state's latest tourism data. the number of visitors setting a new record for the first half

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jaatllching the area cameras and will haveanother look in a moment. gainsville police are looking for the people involved in a road rage incident caught on camera. you can see it behind me. a pickup truck followed the victim into a gas station parking lot. the truck's driver, jacob sylvester and the man got out and pushed hit the victim before putting him in a choke then a woman in the truck got out and pointed a gun at the victim. sylvester is refusing to identify the three people in the truck with him. his truck had his business name on it so they were able to identify him. another road rage incident in los angeles. the driver of a dark colored honda fired shots at a family with a child inside after the family's suv sprayed windshield

authorities are still looking for the driver. >> how about a third road rage incident near st. louis. a man in a minivan got out and yelled at the driver of this red car. he tried to open the door and kicked and punched the vehicle. the witnesses say the driver of that red car was an elderly man who appeared shaken up by the whole thing. it wasn't jailhouse rock but not for the lack of trying. this has got to be a first, then again it is florida. yes, he is twerking in court during his court appearance in miami-dade county. you can see the judge is not amused. calvin griffith is facing charges of stealing an employee's car from a high school parking lot. >> i'm at a loss for words, deiah. i really am. >> me, too. governor scott is expected to announce that tourists are visiting florida in record numbers. just over 57 million tourists visited during the first half

month total ever. that's surprising considering the state was dealing with the toxic algae bloom in the waterways and zika virus. good news that people are flocking here. >> we love the traffic this time of year. it's florida. my goodness, i'm from here. janelle is a native. we're looking good right now as showers and storms are one of my favorites and one of the reasons i wanted meteorologist. the storms would blow up in the middle of the afternoon seemingly out of nowhere. clear blue skies in the morning and of course you find out you have a little humidity going on, the moisture, sea breezes and heating and all of that will come together today for another round of showers. good storms in the mid and upper 07s. not all of us get hit. we had a good chunk of it last night and right along the coast the storms got going as we talked about yesterday with a

east coast, it's pretty benign stuff with showers and thunder. it's really when they approach us and things get a little out of hand sometimes with the strong winds and frequent lightning certainly. so we had low clouds this morning because of the rain yesterday. those will evaporate here. then we'll get into some clear skies. then during the afternoon, we'll begin to see the showers building over by 95 and pushing towards the west. so by the evening hours, we'll be talking about rainfall. the forecast if you are traveling, look there is a heat wave. it will feel like 100 to 110 across the northeast today and continue with the potential for severe weather across the mid-section. this is certainly likely what happened with the flight with the severe turbulence that sent a couple of dozen people to the hospital going from boston sacramento. so for us, low 90s or temperatures right along the coast in the upper 80s. we'll have plenty of sunshine early as we check in for the weekend for saturday and sunday. both weekend days about 92.

early part of next week. we'll talk more about the tropics as the national hurricane center is coming through with more on that. first, the friday morning commute with janelle. >> reporter: friday is usually one of the quietest days of the week. right now, we don't have in problems out there. corey is driving around for us behind the wheel of our drive drive cam. he's on 275 right around lois and heading around looking for crashes or breakdowns, anything that might slow morning. so far so good, if anything does happen, he'll let us know about it on twitter. of course i will let you know about it right here. let's check our cameras over in pinellas county at 22nd avenue north. the lane is wide open with a clear shot all the way from the sunshine sky way to the howard frankland bridge. coming up, we'll take a drive heading into the tampa area. all of the traffic indicators in the green right now. that is a good sight even as you approach the junction.

it looks like again looking great in that area. no issues to report and no construction to slow you down. that entire drive is taking just seven minutes. back to you. i admit, i'm not exactly stoked to see this movie coming out in december, but i kind of changed today. it will be in theaters soon. we're seeing a new trailer that was just released. we'll look after the break. >> first this morning, kendis

in today's tech bytes, a new headache for volkswagen. hackers can clone a vehicle's key wirelessly. >> more than 100 volkswagens made in be unlocked and driven off. facebook is adjusting its news feed software again so it is more informative. >> the social network wants you to see what's most important and develop rant to you. amazon is set to deliver a series about hugh hefner. >> according to deadline.com, the hugh hefner story will be

on the video only plan. >> who will play hef? >> those are your tech bytes. have a great day. coming up right now on 5:24. last night, a new trialer for the highly anticipated upcoming "star wars" film was released. >> what got fans excited was the return of the biggest bad guy in the "star wars" universe. take a look. >> are you with me? >> all the way. ? [music] ? >> all right. so you saw the back of his head. that was darth vader. if you are wondering, james earl jones is returning to voice darth vader and the movie opens in theaters december 16th. >> my kids cannot wait. coming up, new technology that allows passengers to skip some lines at the airport.

international travelers. this wasn't all bad. the encouraging signs from the team's first of the new season coming up. >> and good morning, we are checking cameras all across the bay area. looking great right here at i- 75 and the leroy selmon expressway. if you are getting ready to across the bay, we'll check your drive times and tell you how long it's taking to get across theridges.

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we are continuing to follow an absolutely heartbreaking case right now in st. peters where police say a -- st. petersburg where police say a 6-year-old killed his newborn sister. we're looking at the tragedy. good morning, thank you for starting your friday with us. we have a lot of news to get to this morning. >> we do, bufirst, let's look at another day of weather and traffic. buses are on the road. >> another day so we should be used to it. the lines back up with people drop dropping kids off.

she's monitoring. look at this six-hour loop that continued through the night. upwards of 3:00 a.m., it was still raining. just in time right for the morning, we're drying out. we'll have a few clouds out there, but that will be it. those will be gone and we'll get back into full sunshine this morning through midday. i think the lunch outside looks good. hot, but dry. 77 right now in 78 at apollo beach. the bus stop forecast as you check in by next week. then all of us are back to school, right in 78, 8:00 a.m. we'll talk more about this pattern and what it means for the weekend, whether we stay drier or wetter in a few minutes. let's check in on the friday morning commute as we mentioned, it's usually quiet. >> so far so good. corey dierdorff is checking things out for us right around