. >>> tens of thousands of black tipped sharks are migrating north past the atlantic coast of florida. this video has more than 500 shares on our facebook page right now. it's a rely look at the mass migration because this weekend sharks got unusually close to the shoreline. migrating north so earlier in the year. >> it's only february but yes, we're seeing changes. >>> tonight at 5:30, trying to save you money. you have till april 18th to file for a return from the irs this year but there are significant advantages to filing early. >> last year when we filed our taxes, the irs flagged our account because someone filed a phony return under my husband's social security number. >> reporter: it was an attempt to steal their refund. filing your tax return early is a great way to get the criminal can file in your name. >> reporter: and filing early has other advantages, getting your refund sooner. the average refund was $2,700 last year. it's beneficial if you owe taxes so you know how big the tax bite will be. >> that way you have plenty of time to figure out where the money is going to c

coast, watch out for some fins off of palm beach. thousands of black-tipped sharks with migrates off the coast. this is video from florida atlantic university, and researchers have tagged some of the sharks to find out why they are wintering in the palm beach area. >> and the gulf at the temperatures are iewnd 58 around 58, and tonight's upper 50's and then even warmer yet as we head into the afternoon on monday. and even if you thought it was a tad cool, it's going to be warmer. a lingering into early tuesday morning, in fact, best chance of showers is going to be monday night, early tuesday morning. rain chances about 60 to 70% and tuesday about 40% and so sandwiched in between, and then mild, pleasant and dry. temperatures a little bit on the warmer side, at least for next weekend. the low this morning, 47 and so it ends up a little bit below average but over all not too bad. a dewpoint of 52, and winds out of the east at 6 and it's 60 in winter haven, and 59 in sarasota and 58 in new port richey and 57 warmer right now by about 10 degrees for some of us and so a much warmer evening and a warmer start to the day, and even warm

coast of florida. and now researchers claim it's part of their annual migration pattern, this is normal. the massive swarm closed several beaches along south florida's atlantic coast. and i'm sure people had phones and cameras taking pictures. >>> that's right. well, depending on where you are, it's either a perfectly, clear gorgeous morning or extremely foggy. now this is the visibility map. see before things get lost in the fog. tampa, lakeland, 10 miles. in between those the two to plant city and brandon, only about a .25-mile. as you drive around, your visibility is going to change. be aware of that. you may run into an area where it's difficult to see. and the fog will begin to erode around 8:00 this morning and by lunchtime, boy it's going to be a great day, 65 at noon. 70 and pleasant at 3:00 p.m. it is cooler this morning. especially brooksville, you're 47. auburndale and polk county, 52. and 52 in sarasota. and bob in venice checked in around 59 degrees. this is the fog. you can see it patchy. it's going to clear out after sunrise. gorgeous day today. a little cooler tomorrow. we will be in the 40s when we start the day but this is a long stretch of

coast of florida... watch out for another predator. this time, in the water. thousands of blacktip sharks are migrating in the atlantic ocean. the sightings are primarily near palm beach. this is video from florida atlantic university. researchers tagged some of the sharks to find out why they're swarming palm beach. every winter, the sharks flock to the coast...looking for warmer water. 3 3 ((dave)) 3 3 ((dave)) 3 3 3 still ahead: it's our patriotic duty... to celebrate the presidents. after the break: a new fun facts... about "presidents' day." 3 plus: the video... is just stunning. an entire bridge... filled with flames. what firefighters had to do... just to *reach it. 3 ((walter but first, here's a look at last night's winning lottery numbers... no big winner in the powerball over jackpot is now up to 189 million dollars for wednesday night. good day is back in less than two. 3 3 3 in our house, imagination runs wild. but at my table, i keep the food real. like country crock's recipe made with real simple ingredients. and no artificial flavors or preservatives. real country fresh taste from real ingredients. welcome to c

at the aquarium, this is similar to the same kind of shark we're seeing off the coast of the atlantic ocean here in florida. except the sharks in the atlantic right now are even bigger. >> stay away from a school of fish and don't go out and dusk or dawn. >> reporter: that's dinner time for sharks, so probably safe to be home having your own dinner at those times. >> and you can track sharks all over the state 24/6 on ocean.org. the closer to tampa bay a bull shark named sabrina is -- this is how you see it here. we are getting that worked out in the control room. we promise you i'll tweet out the link. sharks in the world that are tagged. a lot of them are off the east coast of florida. we talk about el nio all the time and the warmer waters has them moving around. >> right. i can't say i'm a shark migration specialist, i would say those of you concerned about whether the warmer temperatures are attracting the sharks? these are water temperatures here, where it's warmer. so the east coast of florida would have seen the temperatures in the mid- to upper 70s. here on our coast, take a look. gulf water tempe

. >> take a look at these sharks off the southeast coast of florida hovering around palm beach. professors at florida atlantic university say there are more than 150 sharks here alone. black tipped sharks migrate to warm waters this time of year for mating season. >> florida farmers don't have to worry about oriental fruit flies. the government has worked to eradicate these bugs to protect the agriculture industry. officials are monitoring more than 56,000 traps throughout >> meteorologist marina jurica will give us our forecast -- >> a 10% shot at sprinkle for the coastal counties. good news -- a milder night -- 540. upper 70s for monday and tuesday with the next cold front moving through which will bring widespread showers and maybe if you -- a few thunderstorms clearing by 10 am tuesday leaving is where we are supposed to be for this time of year. the average high 73. we will be there for the rest of the week. i hope you have a great rest of your day. darleen? >> thank you for watching. for more local news tune in tonight at 6. until then, make the united way needs a united hood -- push in tallahassee at s

we're getting that flow around charge of the east coast around the mid-atlantic and also in charge of florida making the weather oh, so very nice. that high is going to be the player through the weekend, especially the flow around it, so we'll stay in east-northeast breeze. probably won't be as windy as today, but still on the breezy side on saturday. the rip current risk still will be running high. so just keep that in mind if you're heading out to the beaches tomorrow. temperatures seasonable. seasonable for the entire weekend, and the rain chance low as clouds mix with the sunshine. it look like any storm system is going to s sy well north of us through the weekend. so that's some good news, especially if you have outdoor plans or if you're just looking forward to a weekend where you do not have to worry about stormy weather shoxing up in your neighborhood. in the morning temperatures in the 60s, and then@we make that climb towowd the upper 70s. winds east-northeast 10 to 15 miles an hour. rain chance really slim between saturday and sunday. by monday rain chance up to 20%. that's nothing.

out on wftv's facebook page, thousands of sharks were seen off the southeast coast of the state, professors at florida atlantic university found these sharks hovering around palm beach and rivera beach last week. in this still frame, they say all of these gray specks add up to more than 150 sharks. >> yikess. sharks migrate to warmer r waters this time of the year to mate. a lot of sharks. >> uh-huh. >>> well, how fitting that i have our daytona beach cam pulled up right now, waters generally cool, in the 60s, low 60s, not a lot of folks out there. >> tonight will be the big story for us. >> get some storms through here and it will be early in the morning, right now, 71 degrees. you can see the folks out there enjoying the temperatures in the low 70s. which is about average for this time of february. but we will continue to see even warmer temperatures tomorrow, but we have to get storms through here first. right now, 73 downtown. town towards osceola county and harmony and deland. winds out of the south and southeast. and that southerly flow feeding into a storm system here to our north. also dragging some sh

of course on the mid-atlantic coast tornado watches there this afternoon. overall so far, 76 tornado warnings for this storm and 17 tornado warnings in the state of florida just in the last 24 hours. as we look at our temperature forecast, one thing we know for sure, this cold front is going to have an impact on us in dropping those high temperatures into the 60s as we go through thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, but by tuesday, wednesday, thursday, the end of next week, temperatures jump right back up in the mid and upper 70s. days. today. it will warn you if there's a at 7:00 a.m. -- a bit sunnier than we saw today and windy conditions from the northwest. windy, much cooler tomorrow, going to feel different tomorrow so be aware of that. the strong northwesterly winds may drive a few of these lower clouds across the state and across the bay area. thursday morning, though, a few clouds early, cooler and breezy with high pressure building in from the west-northwest, breezy conditions throughout the day as we go throughout thursday. for friday morning a chilly start to the day in the 40s, jacket is needed. afternoon looks pretty good, though, still kind of wi

the weekend we are going to see along the southeastern coast of florida an area of low pressure develop and it'll skirt its way on up the atlantic. what does that mean for us? well, it means we're going to see some moisture that will fall from the sky along the coastline i believe taking you into sumter and lee county and maybe as far inland of calhoun and orangeburg county. the big question has been what type of precipitation. will it be frozen or liquid? i'll show you two model runs we have here. this first one showing you temperatures in the 40s and 30s by 8:00 tomorrow night. we go through the overnight hours, though, and within the last hour the model has changed. these models are all over the place. they're all having a difficult time. this one tries to show along 95 frozen precipitation. that wintery mix going from the florida georgia line all the way or excuse me the florida south carolina line all the way into the state around 9:00 when you're getting up and heading to church and out by the afternoon super bowl sunday. let's take a look at another in house model we call the rpm. this one by early tomorrow morning showin

a killer storm system moved out of the gulf coast and into the southeast and mid-atlantic. at least eight tornadoes touched and florida. david begnaud is in convent, louisiana, where the storms killed at least two people. >> a jumbled mess. these -- these travel trailers were picked up, moved a considerable distance, and really blown apart, torn apart. >> reporter: this rv park in convent, louisiana, is into a scrap yard. your a desperate search through the toppled homes for three people still unaccounted for. >> we don't have a good way of knowing if we have one, two, three people that is unaccounted for. >> reporter: survivors described their narrow escape from the storm's destructive force. >> i got in the bathtub with my dog and they were praying. and i was crying. and i was so scared. i mean, the house would not stop shaking. >> reporter: an elderly man in southern mississippi did not escape and killed when a tornado picked up his home and tossed it nearly 500 feet. can skip one house and catch the next right next door. >> reporter: the damaging weather stretches from texas where winds whipped down rodeo tents in

of sharks are swimming along the coast. take a look. professors at florida atlantic university say in this frame alone, are nearly 150 sharks. black tip sharks my great to warmer waters this time of the year for mating season. professors are trying to figure out why the sharks are attracted to that particular area >> time now, 5:45, a bit cooler. i can't believe we are seeing 30s. >> our northern counties are in the 30s. we have some 40s, but it will warm up as we get into the hour. satellite showing clerisies. taking a look at a big perspective, to our south. it stalled down south and with northerly flow during the day, we'll stay cool in the upper 60s, later this afternoon and this evening, we'll start to pick up on an onshore flow, increasing our clouds and giving us a chance for isolated showers. temperatures are chilly, 36 in ocala. 39 in deland. 43 in the villages and clermont. 49 in titusville and 41 in palm coast and daytona beach. our wind speed, not too bad, out of the north, 5-10. we could be up to 15 along the coast, but not as breezy as yesterday. it fee

. >>> there was an incredible sight over the weekend off the coast of florida. florida atlantic university shot this video. you see there, it shows tens of thousands of sharks off palm beach. all those dots you see down se are sharks migrating to warmer waters. this shark is relatively harmless, so they say. the professor hopes to tag to learn more about the way they migrate. hopefully they migrate off the coast, away from swimmers. >>> back to savannah and carson. >> natalie, thanks so much. illustrated" swimsuit edition is out today and it's ground breaking. >> have you done your research? >> oh, yes. in the spotlight in a whole new way. >> reporter: reaching more than 70 million people, the "sports illustrated" swimsuitditi e always makes a splash. this year, it's also making ot one but three cover models, with very different body types. for the first time ever, there's a plus size model, size 16, who calls the magazine's move beyond epic. rhonda onda rousey, known as the world's most dangerous woman, also graces the cover, nothing but body paint. and hailey, who has been mod

of the gulf coast and into the southeast and mid-atlantic. at least eight tornadoes touched down in louisiana, mississippi, and florida. david begnaud is in convent, louisiana, where the storms killed at least two people. >> a jumbled mess. these -- these travel trailers were picked up, moved a considerable distance, and really blown apart, torn apart. >> reporter: this rv park in convent, louisiana, is into a scrap yard. your a desperate search through the toppled homes for three people still unaccounted for. >> we don't have a good way of knowing if we have one, two, three people that is unaccounted for. >> reporter: survivors described their narrow escape from the storm's destructive force. >> i got in the bathtub with my dog and they wereprayg. ans so. i methe wouldot stop shaking. >> rep anly in rn mssippiot and kdn tornado ed up homeostne 5 . >>ranaca o house a catnext rht next door. >> rorter:wehestretcswindshippodeo houtes. convent, forheest o this or neigorteh heorst ar who wlurve ve he yndeoinjud,ed he h pri owinhee werndt'd >>> htf rueoving rocoinuegeorstem ae hd into wedninrstoiny sn d dw mesnto n yty bosto

swimming off of our coast. >> john: researchers shared the video and ryan has a closer >> ryan: they probably thought no one was watching but, look at the video here from florida atlantic university. a bird's eye view of the ocean and the little dots moving are thousands of sharks migrating north. and let's run the video and it gives you great indication of the tiny sharks, you see, moving and they are -- there are literally thousands moving around down there. and we'll continue to play that and show you the video on there. sharks swimming, under the surface, according to the reach researchers, they did not find many on palm beach but thousands were swimming between palm beach and that many was posted on friday and saturday, they posted, different pictures coming very, very close to the sharks, actually being able to tag them and you can see literally than reach out and put the tags on there and fitted them with five transmitters. they migrate every year from january to march and follow the fish they eat and they say, the transmitter will track their journey this year. and, they winter in florida and go north to the georgia and carolinas, as it warms up. they have bett

coast of georgia and florida. this storm system will work its way up the eastern seaboard thomas for the most part bypass good chunk of the mid-atlantic region. we are tracking more energy out to the west early next week and then on tuesday, with the likelihood of snow we will track that system coming through the great lakes. the call from accu weather for tonight partly cloudy, chilly, zero in allentown, 28 for philadelphia. same thing in dover. dropping down to 30 in cape may, 26 the overnight low in toms river. future tracker six showing us a nice rebound. 9:00 o'clock in the morning 35 in philadelphia 32 in reading. same thing in lancaster. thirty-seven in wildwood and dover. the as we tap in the southeasterly wind it is 47 in philadelphia. thirty-nine in the poconos. keep in mind average for the city, this time of the year is 42. we will go above that, tomorrow, and in fact, maxing out near 50 degrees. now we will talk about the system that we're tracking coastal storm forming off the coast of georgia and florida, late tomorrow night. you can see bulk of that energy stays off shore and works its way from the eastern see game. the

of the atlantic. still a cool, dry start to your saturday but this area of low pressure will develop off florida's east coast leaving us with a 30% chance of an isolated showers. today's highs barely getting into the 60s, will is the 30% rain chance. the low helps keep it cold, reenforcing the air so it is chilly all of next week. how about traffic on the 8's? >> it is windy on the skachl way bridge. use caution. hang onto the wheel going across the sky way bridge. we're seeing delays coming away from state road 52. fhp says there is a crash northbound before you get there but we're seeing southbound delays. we're down to nine miles an hour. leave the house early if you have to pass through the area leaving state road 52. dale mabry highway. the crash off to the side of the roadway getting busy on 41. 56th street at hillsborough avenue. traffic light not working properly. they do believe we have traffic control on the scene. martin luther king at orient road. we have a collision. look at the westbound 94 getting busy as you move into ybor city. u.s. 19 north of over ton. we have a collision with injuries inv

florida appeared much mr. is likely to spin off along the atlantic coast today. fox meteorologist maria molina joins us with the latest. reporter: good morning. they brought more than 100 reports of we look at the threat from florida accent into parts of the mid-atlantic. widespread area of looking at bad and that does include damaging winds and also tornadoes. the greatest risk area including parts of the carolinas and the south mid-atlantic. you can say we have a significant risk. possibly long track tornado will be something to watch out for. eastern parts of north carolina also south carolina and southeast virginia the greatest zone. the other concern with the storm system as we will have strong winds from eastern texas to florida extending northward into parts of new england. wind advisories in high wind warning in effect in several inches of rain will be possible as we eventually move out to sea, talking potentially two or three inches of rain across the northeastern u.s. on the backside of the system. i'm system. i'm a cool site he do with heavy snowfall across michigan, indiana and illinois were several inches of snowfall accumulation possible. more than a foot of snow wi