@look at brooksville, 41 degrees @look at brooksville, 41 @degrees. @52 in wauchula. @58 in st. pete. @24-hour changes are anywhere @from 5 to 15 degrees cooler, @but we will forget all about it @but we will forget all about @it, because we know the sun @goes to work, and with an east @wind, we will hit 74 this @afternoon. @if that is not warm enough for @you, several 80s on the seven @you, several 80s on the @seven-day. @we will time them out coming up @we will time them out coming @up. @>>> it is opening weekend of @the florida strawberry festival @today. @plant city is expecting to @welcome tens of thousands of @concert, their rides, and, of @course, all that strawberry @shortcake. @this year you may also find a @lilt bit of a traffic mess in @places because of road @constructions at the @thonotosassa exit on i-4. @that is exit 19 off i-4. @heading eastbound on @thonotosassa road, fdot is @adding an extra lane and a @traffic light. @now it was supposed to be ready @in time for the festival, but @now organizers worry the @construction equipment will @cause a traffic jam at pea

brooksville, 61. plant city, 64. bradenton, 69. here's the forecast. notice passing clouds throughout the day, yeah, some of the showers get close to us, but really i'm not putting in much of a chance today, 20%. even with the cloud, -- clououds, 81. but in weather and traffic on the 8s, i have the eight-day temperature trend for you. leslee i is here to let you know, it's fog-free. >> that's right. >>> and it's a great drive too. we have a great positioning for you on the roadadways. there's absolutely no delays on i-4 from lakeland to u.s. 75, 22 minute commute. and in and out of pasco county alalso looks good. state road 52 toto 75, roughly 10 minutes. bradentoton, earlier construction is all cleared. there's no more construction now for today at universityty right t at i-75. and throughoutut bradenton, looks wonderful. and a nice view of the sunshine skyway bridge, look at that, vehicles crossing it, no fog, isn't that nice? that's a look at weather and traffic and now back to adrienne and gene. >>> final good-byes to a hillsborough county deputy k

@brooksville at 75. @at the beach a bit cooler @especially our pinellas county @especially our pinellas county @beaches. @low 70s. @plenty warm to enjoy a great @beach day. @futurecast underdoing the @clouds. @the winds out of the northeast. @ball the moderating temperatures @and all about a fantastic sunset @tonight with a few high clouds. @overnight we are back in the @mid-50s. @further south you live the @milder you will be and your @sunshine on sunday is an @extremely weak front with sun, @and reinforces the pleasant @pattern we will be in. @on monday upper 70s near 80. @cool front. @here is ha that weak disturbance @that will move through our neck @of the woods tomorrow morning. @snow showers but nothing major @for parts of the midwest. @when the weather is quiet on the @east coast it is very active on @the west coast and messy storm @system bringing flooding rain @from seattle to san francisco @and outside of la this morning @will be watching a wet weekend @on the west coast. @52 in tampa. @32 in c

brooksville, 62. lakeland, 64. bradenton, 64. great weather today for the strawberry festival. 3:30, ray steven, funny guy. martina mcbride at 7:30. temperatures already pleasant, 10:00 a.m., 74. could feel warm at 3:00 p.m. when it's 48 and a mild evening. and i checked out strawberry short cake yesterday. had the works including ice cream and whipped cream. yeah, it was really, really good. in weather and traffic on the 8s at 5:38, i take you eight days into the future to see how long we stay this nice and meredith is in for leslee. cake? >> it had cake. only offered me cake. i prefer it that way. >> i'll take both. outside. speaking of i-4 which of course will take to you the strawberry festival, this though closer to tampa, i-4 at mlk, we have a road ranger and tow truck onscene of an earlier accident westbound. they're getting that one cleared out of the way. delays. north of i-4 along 275 and i- 75, you are in the green. indicating speeds at or above the speed limit. and your bay area bridges connecting pinellas and hillsbo

let's take a look at brooksville, fantastic out in hernando county. if you live in hernando and you're commuting down to pasco, no delays on u.s. 41. highway 50 looks good. and also i-75, good drive as well. and let's take a live look at 275. this is right at hillsborough avenue and traffic looks absolutely fantastic. we're not seeing any delays there. and also, taking a look at the maps, i just want to mention again trouble creek at rowan road, we have a collision in lanes but no injuries involved in that accident. and you can get by. traffic on the 8s. back to gene and gayle. >> leslee, thank you. >>> a bay area college with a plan to get and keep minority students in school. >> what the college is doing to make dreams happen. >>> and he's the youngest in the history of the venice theater. meet the teen who is beginning his path to broadway from right here in florida. >>> also, the rocket launch with gear almost as complex as the ship it rides in. much more on that when we get back. >>> new this morning, an atlas 5 rocket is headed to the internatio

pin brooksville, moderate rain pfor you. pin the next two hours or so the prain chances drop in northern pcounties. pa few tiny little showers along pi-4. pa heftier shower near lake lacid. pwe have steadier rain south of psarasota and venice, headed your pway shortly. poffshore showers so keep the pumbrella on hand until midday. pthen lose it for the remainder pof the day. pwe're in the mid to upper 60s pand cooler air on the doorstep pand drier air as well. pdon't expect a lot of breaks in pthe clouds today. pday, even though our front is pgoing to move through this pmorning. pwe shave the rain chances in phalf by midday. pby 5:00 p.m. tumbling a little pat 73. pbut it's the wind you notice plate in the day, and you pdefinitely notice a bill chill ptomorrow morning. pa sneak peek at what the models pare shows. p40s in the northern counties, so pkids at the bus stop may need a pwarmer jacket tomorrow, guys. p>> anjuli: for those of pthinking to head out to the pfinal day of the tampa bay air pfest, you may want to pack extr

brooksville looks fantastic on cortez road no delays and a good drive on county. then i-4 in plant city down to downtown tampa 22 minutes either direction. that's a look at weather and now back to candace and gayle. >> thank you so much leslee. >>> now to a developing story , a woman arrested after driving the wrong way through the streets of tampa is out on bail this morning. she narrowly missed a head-on collision with a police officer. details on the driver. chip. >> reporter: good morning to you. investigators are delling you cancela was spending down interstate 275 southbound in the northbound lanes. a tpd dui driver was driving northbound and had to swerve to get out of her way. she exited right here and was quickly pulled over by another officer. >> crews carted off aja cancela's honda after officers carted her off to jail. the charge, driving under the influence. after she bonded out of jail. a family member did most of the talking. >> can you say anything? >> no, she's not going to say anything. >> they were not pleased to see us. >> get the camera out of

and this is just west of the downtown brooksville area and it is at fort dade road. keep that in mind at cortez and fort dade. no issues there. a good drive into hillsborough county. moving further to the south here in the sun coast area and sarasota, leigh mentioned fog out there. and i'm going to show you a picture in a second but construction has university blocked under i-75 until about 6:00 a.m. take fruitville road or highway 70 instead. here's fog by the tower. you can see, thick there. and look at this, looks like it's rolling towards 22nd avenue south at the bottom of pinellas county. and overnight construction there but you can get by. that's a look at weather and traffic on the 8s. back to gene and gayle. >> thank you. >>> still ahead, thunder sleet morning, the video that will probably make you think twice about your breakfast. >>> and concerns about the chemicals in brewty products. >>> in beauty products. >>> -- in beauty products. >>> a woman thrown to the >>> okay, we're back now. take a look at this video. it shows an officer trying to break up a fig

this is brooksville, no delays. traffic looks fantastic on u.s. 41. u.s. 98, state road 50, also known as cortez road in hernando moving into hillsborough county, up to speed. and i-4 in the paul buchman highway into downtown, 22 minutes either direction on reminder, u.s. 41 still closed down at crenshaw lake/whitaker. that is because of railroad work being done. but by friday, it should be wrapped up and reopened. and in the meantime, you are detoured on to dale mabry highway. >>> remember the new year's resolution about working out? yeah, it's not easy. you get bored sometimes. >> a lot of us do. but still ahead, how you can fast-pass your way into all sorts of gyms and exercise classes across tampa bay so that you can knockout that boredom. >>> and then another tuesday means another night of primaries and caucuses in the presidential race. up next, the states candidates are now focusing on to win more support. you're watching news channel 8 hi, guys! spring is almost here and you know what that means! easter is hopping along. so, if you're looking

and quickly, most of us in the 70s by 10:00 a.m. 70 brooksville. and the hottest part of the day, in the mid- to even upper 70s, staying very pleasant through and dropping back to the 60s by 8:00 tonight. and then 80 and sunny tomorrow. low 80s wednesday, thursday and friday. how about traffic on the 8s? >>> rolling right along, folks. we have an update on overnight construction in the sarasota area. what you need to know, looks -- like the off-ramp southbound to university is reopened but they are picking up the cones. we've still got some construction as well on university westbound, a couple lanes taken away under neither 75. you can get by but nonetheless, wrapping up soon. and again, the on-ramp still blocked. lakeland, things look great in downtown. polk parkway up to speed and i- 4, wonderful drive between each entrance, a fast 11 minute commute. that's a look at weather and traffic on the 8s. back to candace and gayle. >>> well a push to protect our personal information is not taking off like it should be. >> how many businesses are not loo

notice the difference, brooksville nine degrees warmer than yesterday. tampa, seven degrees warmer. eight degrees warmer in bradenton. 80 degrees and even 23 f you're not on spring break. in weather and traffic on the 8s at 6:38, an eight-day temperature trend for you and let you know how long it's going to stay warm. >>> we have an update on 75. i told you i would watch it because 75 is tricky. it's such a wonderful interstate and then you blink your eye and if there's an accident, there is a congestion problem really quickly. down to about 38 miles per hour here and it's due to a collision southbound i-75 at approaching the accident. it's tying up the right lane. and new tampa, hopefully going to be wrapped up soon. and over here in clearwater, westbound 580. there's road work there. down to 19 miles per hour. >> thank you. >>> right now, cnn is reporting

crystal river 52 and brooksville a low of 53. into tuesday afternoon the high temperatures warming into the low 80s. breezy and winds out of the east southeast at 12 and high temperatures across the bay on tuesday topping out in the low 80s. a few areas mid-80s. 83 in brandon. st. pete 79. with high temps in the low 80s. 83 floral city. cultural coast, manatee county high temperature in the low 80s. if you are taking the boat out they water is a moderate chop and low tide in the morning. another sunny day to head out to the strawberry festival. make sure to take a hat and sunscreen. the sun will be strong. warm and breezy and here's your seven-day forecast. if you like this sunny air, you're in for a treat until friday night, and then a 20% chance of showers. the highest chance on saturday but the models are dipping a little bit so we will work on the exact timing of the rain. keep on top of the water. guitar hour by hour temperatures and you can also sign up for breaking news on our 10 news weather app. >>> you think surviving a

inverness and brooksville almost in the 30s. in fact this is a reporting station in brooksville. i wouldn't be surprised if pox around are checking in, in the upper 30s. calm conditions and clear skies allowed for temperatures to satellite and radar though showing -- if n fact i could show you this tomorrow and the like this. big area of high pressure keeps while. mid and upper 70s later today. upper 60s by 8:00. i'll show you the temperatures and how warm i think we're going to get heading into tomorrow and middle part of the week especially across interior counties where -- well, at this point, possibly getting into pool weather here. >> it's been pool weather here. >> my pool isn't heated so i'm a little sensitive. i stay away. you know what i'm talking about. >> i do. >>> if you're heading out the door now, the only trouble spot we're seeing is in pasco. this crash here at state road 52 just east of i-75. it's always a little backed up trying to get to i-75 so it looks like maybe we can see just a longer delay so leave get to i-75 in the san antonio area. we are also hearing

for today a high of 75 or tampa, 71 palm harbor, 74 brooksville, 75 hernando. into the 80s in the southern counties as the cold front will not have worked all the way through. on the coast, still cool, 73 for braden 10. thinking about baseball parks we could have some showers around before the first pitch. i want to see kevin kiermaier figure this out. as the rays and orioles go added at ed smith stadium. the clouds will have to clear the last game for the rays before they had down to cuba. with winds for the voters today . small craft should exercise caution. the seas reach 3 to 5 feet and we get rough on the inland waterways. sun is up at 733 and we will have a nice look at sunset at 742 at 7:42 am. and tuesday morning, 50 tampa, 48 tuesday, then we start getting back warmer into the 80s by the afternoon. >>> kids are to just getting report cards anymore with her grades. more schools are giving them body mass index reports as well. >> a new study from the national academy of science looks at children in new york city. giving kids pmi doesn't do anything to en

@a sprinkle in brooksville but @well offshore. @we are tracking heavy rain but @stronger energy sparking @eventually stronger storms for @us midday. @66 in sebring. @66 in brooksville. @we are at 72 degrees in st. @pete. @we are actually gearing up for @cooler changes second half of @sunday. @so midday, 11 a.m. to 4:00 @watch the stronger wind gusts @in those storms today. @79 degrees and by sunday, 73 @with showers first half of the @day, and then breezy and @turning much cooler. @we will talk how cool when you @wake up monday morning coming @up. @>> anjuli: thank you, lindsay. @>>> top stories. @hulk hogan $115 million richer @before the attorneys fees and @taxes and barring the appeal @that gawkier is promise @that gawkier is promising to @a jury decided that gawker @invaded his privacy by posting @his sex tape on line and @awarded him the 111 million @settlement. @>>> deputy @>>> deputies are looking for @people who tried to rob an ark @tm and tried not to get on @camera. @they were not so successful. @you see them spray paint

we have 56 in brooksville. 56 and leaned down to plant city and also wauchula. right along the coast, 66 in largo. we will definitely be enjoying the sun today along with a few clouds. as those temperatures push into the low to mid 80s. i will have a look at the forecast for tomorrow. so much going on in the bay area. we could see a few spurts of rain. i will have that for you coming up in less than 15 minutes. >>> developing this morning, donald trump called off a rally in chicago after a violent fight broke out your>> he has still scheduled to campaign today. take a look at protesters and supporters trading punches over -- and overwhelming private security guards last night. the violence shows people's raw emotions. possibly, the biggest question now is whether this will sway florida voters. one way or the other ahead of tuesday's primary. >> people who like him like him precisely because he says things that reflect to them freedom of speech. therefore, others worried about the security and don't like the violence and they have not yet different direction. >>

check out these high temperatures. 80 in springhill. 81 in brooksville. along the coast it it is a little cooler. check out manatee county, 80 degrees. better boating conditions coming up. very dry, calm quiet weather on the radar. wind out of the east and maybe a few clouds for inland areas we will see plenty of sunshine and that is a trend that will continue through the seven-day forecast. staying with -- staying breezy until wednesday into thursday. we see warm temperatures with (music playing) i feel pretty (west side story) not every cake can be handcrafted in store by skilled decorators layered with fresh berries and frosted to perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake it'll be remembered for all the right reasons. publix. where shopping >> i was a snowboarding instructor, a bouncer in a nightclub. >> laura logan: and now 44-year- old justin trudeau is a world leader. the new prime minister of canada and his wife will be guests of honor at a white house state dinner later this week. crisis will likely be on the menu. while we were with trudea

@a big jump brooksville. @46 in crystal river. @55 in bartow. @we are all in the blue, so at @this time yesterday. @we had a you lot of clouds and @that weak front from our friday @morning. @24-hour changes mainly near @about 10 degrees cooler than @this time on our friday. @through the afternoon, these @high clouds will be kind of in @and out and they will clear out @tomorrow and that bright blue @sky will be out in full force @on our sunday. @by 9:00, 60. @by lunchtime, 71. @just go a classic, comfortable, @beautiful march day with mys in @especially away from our area @beaches. @>> anjuli: thank you, lindsay. @>>> manatee county deputy @>>> manatee county deputies are @searching for the person @responsible for a hit-and-run @accident on state road 70 east @on sugar bowl road in myacca @city. @a white semi with a green @trailer drove into the @westbound lanes hitting a car. @the car then spun around, went @off the road, and into a barbed @wire fence. @the semi kept going. @the 14-year-old was taken to @the hospital with minor @injuries. @if yo

brooksville, 60. 66 in tampmpa. 66, st. pete. 59 in bartow. and rich in oldsmar is at 62 you see ththe extra clouds this morning. they are patchy. and now forecast mode. notice i i moved this ahead to about 7:15. more clouds, just not much rain. and quickly pushes to the south. it will bring a slight chill to ththe air tomorrow morning but it should be a sunny, mild afternoon on thursday before another weak front friday brings a gorgeous weekend. let's check on traffic on the 8s. >>> yeahah, we're seeing a slight increase now. traffic southbound 275 out of north tampa, this is at bird street. right now though 275 looking pretty good. and we have a new accident being reported south of tampa, riverview area, 50thth street south of causeway. look out for that. currently no road blocked. gayle, gene, back to yoyou. >> thank you. >>> brace face, metal mouth, just one of many reasons most people do not like braces. >> still ahead,d, the reason a dog is now wearing them. at least he won't mind the name calling. >>> but fist, too soon? why this basket

we are seeing 70 into crystal river. 72 brooksville. inland a couple of 80s in the mix. 80 in bartow as well as sebring. 81 temple terrace. 71 largo. 78 zephyrhills. we are doing well. we are seeing thick cloud cover shift south. it will take two to three more hours to really get some more sunshine back into the mix. we will get you some before the sunset coming up at 6:30 tonight. late afternoon sunshine. we are talking about 4:00 to 5:00 we'll start to see that because we move in the drier air with this morning's cold front, we will see the dew points coming down. that means our overnight temperatures are going to drop much more. our daytime highs have not boundary. we'll see communities hitting morning's front. 80 plant city. polk city. i-4 will be a popular spot to be flirting with the 80-degree mark. all in all looking really, really nice this afternoon. this nice pattern will hang out with us a little bit longer. here's our future cast. you can see the clouds lingering towards the 3:00 hour. 4:00 or 5:00 we'll see a few bands left

brooksville also 84 degrees. bartow at 79. in and around tampa bay, the closer to the water you get, the more moderate the temperatures are. but still well above average for this time of year. 78 in st. pete. 79 in tampa. 81 in mcclear. mcdill at 79. brandon at 86 degrees. scanning the skies and getting board all day. again, we haven't had any rain. we're on the very dry side. with the winds out there coming from the southeast, even though it's pumping in some low-level moisture as humidity, we're not getting enough moisture and enough lift where we would get showers. again, over the last three hours, not a thing coming down. and the futurecast has been showing a slight chance for a few showers on the east side of the state. but not seeing any of that moving into our area. in fact, through midnight, we continue with the southeast flow. and just a few clouds passing by. nothing that is really going to create a significant blanket to keep us real warm. but the temperatures are still going to be above normal just because of the f

wesley chapel, plant city down to 44 tonight. 38 in inverness, 37 brooksville. could see some frost. yeah, the doesn't last long. we're back above average into the middle of the week. >>> leslee has a check on traffic on the 8s. we know there's a big sad issue this morning. >> yeah. a triple fatal accident, single car crash. apparently speed was involved. at least three people are dead at that point and one transported to the hospital. this is in the sarasota area, suncoast area. let's take a look at the maps here as i back up. we continue to follow this breaking traffic. here's what you need to know before you head out the door, this is right at the southeast corner of the sarasota international airport. university parkway is completely blocked both directions between old bradenton and desoto road. how to you get around it? take desoto. desoto is open. let's go to maleek on the street down there right now. you can see that that vehicle is sort of crunched up beside that tree. this investigation is going to take some time. you can expect university to be closed

look at this, it is 3 in inverness and brooksville. and chilly throughout polk county, 45 in lakeland and winter haven. 44 in north port. obviously cooler than yesterday but it's not as windy as yesterday. really just feels like a taste of winter. it warms up real fast. 63 at noon. 73 at 4:00 p.m. forecast. thank you high pressure. calm winds today. tomorrow, we actually get even warmer with a southeast wind and back to 80. the spring breakers. heads up for the easter weekend, a stalled cold front is going to keep us unsettled. on easter. and leslee, how about traffic it? >>> leigh likes high pressure and i like good drivers. both of them will bring us good news when it comes to weather and traffic. and we have a great drive across the bay area bridges. howard franklin bridge, only taking seven minutes to cross. and that takes you to memorial pinellas, over to manhattan, just seven minutes on the commute. and let's take a look at 275, kennedy to ashley off the howard franklin bridge, it's a great drive here, four minute. and then bears

that is on the left. 47 in brooksville. and 55 in st. pete. we're going 34 degrees for the second full tay. it will not be record-breaking cold. we will not see that until december or january. tough to get this cold at this time in the season. we'll see some patchy frost in hernando and citrus. 4 a.m. to 9 a.m. some spots near freezing. they had a storm in new england. this the view this morning in massachusetts, and this is east of providence, this is monday morning and then 5 hours later, that's what happened the high increasing from the west and the southwest. a nice day on tuesday more sunshine. it will be interesting then it looks good. west of us the high will drift over us, give sunshine tomorrow. more sunshine on wednesday. it turns muggy. this is like a midwinter day. when you have temperatures in the 60s at 5:00. that's chilly for us. it will be chilly in january. 64 in tacoma and 63s around tampa bay. 63 in -- in tampa bay and 63 around it is accumulating on the driveway. a gusty wind at 17. around the country high pressure is ahead

yeah, cool spot, brooksville, 49. but lakeland 55. sarasota is 58. and here's the perspective for you, lakeland, five degrees warmer than this time yesterday. tampa, nine degrees warmer. so you feel the difference. in fact, by the afternoon, well above the average of 75, hitting 80. so in weather and traffic on the 8s at 5:08, i will take you hour-by-hour and show you how fast it warms up through the day. and i know leslee is here to get you through the commute. and there are hot spots. >> yeah, overnight construction. >>> now right at highway 60 and 275, this is what you're seeing. memorial highway ramp is blocked right now. and people are slowing down going hey, i want to turn there. not going to happen right now because of overnight construction. let's take a look as we zoom in. we've got another crash, folk, this one is causeway boulevard at 50th street. looks like injuries are involved. this is a hot spot. i see accidents here a lot. so use caution. and polk county, a fatal crash is westbound on highway 60 at evergreen. meliek on the street, he

look at the hues in play to the north. 43 inverness and 42 brooksville. i think even here we'll get rid of the cool temperature heading into the next few days. it will be a warming trend that will take us into the low -- in fact i think by the middle part of the week we may even see mid-80s but first things first. we get into the 70s for later today. what a gorgeous day it's going to be. full sunshine, low humidity and average temperatures, all in all looks great, whatever you're doing outside. if you're heading out on the morning commute. weatherwise not just this morning, but i don't think we'll have any weather issues for the most part this week. >>> roads are dry, visibility is good right now. here's a quick check of the bridges. courtney campbell causeway, the tampa side of the bridge. i'm waiting for a car -- there's one. see? traffic so light, just a couple of cars. it's taking less than 10 minutes to get across all three bridges now. let's check the drive times on some of the major roads. 11 minutes on u.s. 19 southbound from tampa road to east ba

how about 64 in brooksville. warmer than yesterday. 64 sarasota. 67 in auburndale. and in fact, talked about the southeast wind. usually in the morning we have very calm conditions. out there. in polk county, about a 9 miles winter haven. 9 miles per hour in tampa. and stronger in sarasota at 10 miles per hour right now. and it all has to do with the area of high pressure. and keeping all the rain well back to the west. around it, you get the clockwise wind flow and that's why we're seeing the southeast wind and that's why the warming trend is going to continue. mild in the morning, low to mid- 80s tomorrow. we stay in the low 80s with the best rain chance coming on sunday. leslee, how about traffic on the 8s? >>> well, leigh, all we're construction. dale mabry at 275, that on-ramp from dale mabry to northbound 275, it's closed. it will reopen in time for the morning commute. but if you travel this area often, you know that's a messy area. so i wouldn't expect anything less from that area throughout the day. but there are no issues north of i-4 on i-75 or 275. so so

even 70 in brooksville. and out and about for the lunch break and notice passing cloud, 76 in plant city for the strawberry festival. 74 in sebring. upper 70s to near 80 at 3:00 p.m. and you're coming home from work. upper 60s to low 70s. well, it just continue, low 80s for the rest of the week. and the next rain chance is saturday. >>> well, moving along at good speeds. we have overnight construction. this is usually a hot spot. right now, traveling southbound i-75 right at university, the off-ramp and the on-ramps are blocked and that should wrap up within the next hour or two. it's usually finished by 5:30 or 6:00 a.m. and also westbound university we've got a couple lanes blocked underneath 75. it's part of the new diverging diamond intersection there. in lakeland, looking good. and i-4, no delays between each entrance to the polk parkway. and cons to be good from lakeland through plant city and into ybor. that's a look at weather and traffic on the 8s. >>> a push to protect our personal information isn'

. >> brooksville, you are at 46 degrees right now. polk county, mid-50s. 61 in bradenton and st. pete. but everybody is significantly cooler than yesterday, anywhere from about 5 to 16 degrees cooler than yesterday. and when you head to today to the opening day of the strawberry festival, josh turner at 7:30, again, just a little cool but a really fast 69 degrees at 8:00. in weather and traffic on the 8s at 4:08, i have an hour-by- hour look at your thursday. and leslee is here with the morning commute. >> that's right. love me some josh turner. i saw him last time and wonderful music. >>> let's take a look at traffic. we have a couple issues. overnight construction, that's the name of the game. and if you're traveling southbound on 275, the exit to 54th avenue is closed. 54th avenue south from 7:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. so here's this situation. let's take a live look out there. flip over. you have to continue. what you want to remember is exit before you get to the 54th street south. and then go to u.s. 19 and then you can get to 54th. county. look at this, the kennedy exit is bloc

and low visibility in places like brooksville this morning. the fog forecast, i only expect the fog to get thicker over the next three hours until about 7:30 this morning. again, that fog is going to spread into polk county. and zero visibility in lakeland at that point. but once we get past about 9:00 a.m., we begin to break up the fog for most of us, but right along the coast just like yesterday, the fog will hang tough all day. the rest of us getting up to 82 degrees. in weather and trtraffic on the 8s at 4:38, i have an eight day the temperatature trend and we are trending cooler. stay tuned for that and what's going on on the roadways. >> i know. i hope that cocontinues to stay open. >>> again, the sunshine skyway bridge is open right now but foggy. the veterans expressway, overnight construction folks has the veterans expressway blocked between van dyke to dale mabry highway, both directions. save yourself some time and highway to the north. sarasota, construction has university parkway blocked right underneath i-7575. so i want you to b

we still have brooksville in the 60s. as we go through the day, florida's most accurate dayplanner shows we will get up into the low 80s but that will be around noon. then we get showers pulling through. we will pinpoint the location of the rain and how long it will take to move through the bay area, coming up and about 12 minutes. back over to you. >>> breaking news on tampa bay airfest here is a live look across mcdill air force base. from here things look good on the inside. gates opened about an hour ago. if you are just leaving the house now, you may be in for serious traffic backups. one of our reporters is stuck in bumper to bumper traffic trying to get inside. jake peterson has been on the road since 7:30 am and he's not close to getting to the gates. allow yourself plenty of time it is free to get in and runs through tomorrow. if you are planning on going today, the aerial show starts at if you are planning on going today, the aerial show starts at 11:15 am. prepare for a lot of traffic. yourself plenty of time t

look at the hues in play to the north. 43 inverness and 42 brooksville. i think even here we'll get rid of the cool temperature heading into the next few days. it will be a warming trend that will take us into the low -- in fact i think by the middle part of the week we may even see mid-80s but first things first. we get into the 70s for later today. what a gorgeous day it's going to be. full sunshine, low humidity and average temperatures, all in all looks great, whatever you're doing outside. if you're heading out on the morning commute. weatherwise not just this morning, but i don't think we'll have any weather issues for the most part this week. >>> roads are dry, visibility is good right now. here's a quick check of the bridges.

and brooksville at 41. but i checked in with my weather watcher big monkey in crystal beach, very comfortable and cool at 52 degrees. big area of high pressure across the eastern half of the country. we typically like high pressure. it leads to sinking air and clear skies. but around this big area of high pressure, you get clockwise winds. so today an east to southeast wind. but as the days go on, it will push into the atlantic which will bring our winds from the southeast. so a gradual increase in temperatures. a slow increase in humidity. but not to uncomfortable levels at all, just the low 80s for the rest of the week. today most of us in up the every 70s. 23479 lakeland and tampa -- 79 in lakeland and tampa. bartow, a high of 80. and 78 in tarpon springs. 28 wednesday. 83 thursday. and saturday night, time to spring forward and lose an hour of sleep. >> thank you. >>> well, meanwhile, you can hop on the roadways and you're the. we are pushing into rush hour so it's not great. ybor city, 301 to 275, abou

check out the lows. 45 apollo beach, 46 chest chase west chase, 37 in brooksville. could see some frost on your car. 44 tonight in bartow. i know for the spring breakers you don't want it to be this way for long and don't worry, it won't. it warms back up by the middle of the week and then rain chances for friday and the weekend. >>> let's check in with traffic on the 8s because there's a lot of issues. >> traffic building on i-4 and on the veteran's expressway and we have the triple fatal accident. first look at the travel times, folks. through hillsborough county ybor 301 to 275 up to 9 minutes. starting to build in through the ybor ehrlich to 275 up to 12 minutes. southbound on the veteran's getting busy as well. a collision at dale mabry and waters possibly tieing up a lane. let's take a quick look at sarasota. this is the breaking traffic that we have been following all morning. a triple fatal accident has both directions blocked on university from old bradenton to desoto. take desoto and that will get it's already getting busy there. let's go to maleek on the

brooksville, inverness, already seven degrees warmer. and brandon, about seven should be fantastic today at the strawberry festival. at 7:30, trace atkins hitting the stage. gates open at 10:00 this morning. already feeling nice. so i talked about it being cool. we are close to 70. by 10:00 this morning, and then 82 in plant city this afternoon. and 3:00 p.m., 71 degrees at 8:00. when trace atkins is on the stage. at 5:38, an eight-day temperature trend. but leslee is going to help you get to work this morning and we have some issues but some issues are gone away now. >>> yeah, the fatal accident in polk county, a fatal crash. it's tough to wake up to that but the lanes have reopened on highway 60 right at evergreen. that's in the lake wales area. that's good news. and bradenton now, cortez road at 14th street, an accident here. so heads up. otherwise, bradenton looks good on 301 and 75. causeway boulevard, some eastbound lanes blocked at 50th street. this is a hot spot. i see a lot of accidents here. and in general, there's a lot of con

brooksville, there at 49. the one spot a little cooler than the rest of us but by lunchtime we're going to warm up to the mid-70s and we're not stopping there. the commute forecast 80 degrees. let's check the morning commute on the roads. >>> it's been a little busy this morning. corey dierdorff is behind the wheel driving around for us on i-275 and i-4 around the junction there. traffic till pretty light at this time of the morning. no crashes or breakdowns on the interstates to slow you down, but you might run into construction southbound 275, a little closer to memorial highway. i have an update on the serious crash i told you about a little earlier in lake wales. it's a fatal crash, someone was killed here overnight. state road 60 at evergreen drive. competely shut down the westbound lanes but the lanes are back open now. so no more delays there. no need for a detour. checking your drive on i-4 heading into downtown tampa, traffic looking pretty good here, and checking drive times all the way back from the

. @65 in brooksville. @63 in inverness. @67 in englewood. @67 in lakewood ranch. @near 70 in sebring and 63 @degrees in bartow. @round one has woken up across @the area but the stronger @impulse of energy is right here @moving east-northeast 5 to 20 @mouse. @it will be here before we know @it. @the question remains, will @resee any stronger storms and @that threat exists especially @where we have breaks in the @clouds this morning. @our main threat, any stronger @storms will be wind gusts. @ we will have to respect the @dangers of lightning and heavy @rain and outside chance of @small hail. @i think mainly a wind threat @not expecting widespread severe @weather and could be one or two @here is future cast. @a little slow to bring in our @initial wave of showers and @storms. @by 11 a.m., coastal pasco @county definitely seeing a few @of those storms. @11 a.m. to 1:00 this timing @does look accurate @unfortunately. @big events today and in this @band attract those stronger @wind gusts. @it quickly pushes through. @by 5 p.m. in the northern @counties, definitely not

. @56 in brooksville. @down i-75 we go. @a mixed bag of 60s and 70s. @so above-average temps. @we are on track for another @really warm day. @59 in bartow. @67 degrees in sebring. @it is muggy. @dew points are up and they have @gone up the past few days. @combine that with the eating of @the day. @it, of course, feels warmer and @with light wind, a little @patchy fog this morning. @strawberry festival is on going @this weekend. @the grand prix @this morning any fog patchy @from dade city to plant city @maybe along u.s. 31 and nothing @major. @southerly wind fueling our high @humidity value. @the rain to the west is what we @are watching for the weekend. @for today a stray inland @showers. @rain chances 10 to 20%. @but our air temperature will be @warm @warm up to 83 today. @time out the rain. @we, of course, have plans this @weekend. @by lunchtime this is overdoing @it but can't rule out a couple @of inland showers lifting north @throughout the day. @most of the area stays dry @today. @a sea breeze off the beach. @tomorrow morning is dry and @more clouds for sure. @by midday a

and i checked in with wendy in brooksville and she is at 68 degrees. here's the long range forecast. after the fog burns off today, a warm day but a dry one. tomorrow, a front close enoughgh on st. patrick's day and about a 10% rain chance. a little bit closer to us for friday so that bumps the rain chance up to 30%. here comes the area of low pressure in the gulf of mexico which should make for a rainier saturday, 50% chance. 30% sunday. and we see a significant cool down behind it. notice 80 on st. patrick's day. and upper 70s friday and saturday. upper 60s on monday, , leslee. >>> all right, well taking a look at traffic right now. we are starting to normalize on the howard franklin bridge. still a little bit of a slow down here. it's going to take about 10 minutes to cross it. usually it's about six at this time. accident that is now off to the shoulder. that's the only thing that remains. let's go ahead and show you video so you can see what it was like earlier on the howard franklin bridge. it was quite a smash-up here. and we had only one lane g

petersburg, sarasota, pvenice, brooksville, crystal priver, all at 71 degrees. ptampa 69. pclearwater at 71. pforecast today, go up into mid p70s. pfor those heading down to the pgame today, that's right a first pspring training game 1:05 port pcharlotte in upper 70s with pmostly cloudy skies. pand just a very pleasant day peven by last pitch with ptemperatures in the mid 70s. pvanessa. pall right spring training. pexcited about that. p>> let's go ahead ask check proadways 9:01 two big wrecks to pmake mention of here at the top pof the hour this one coming to pout largo area. pstill shot from when skyfox flew pover a couple minutes ago ridge proad a 16th avenue southwest. pyou can see it involves an poverturned vehicle. pand some extrication that had to pbe done. pwe don't have any final report pcrash. pwe do know thattal the lanes are pblocked in this area. pwe do have some jams. lease avoid that stretch of pif you can. pmeantime, southbound veterans pexpressway is still pretty pheavy. pwe have a wreck that was preported earlier over by waters. pleft lane was blocked. pso

pit's 45 in brooksville, 53 in pfrostproof, 5 # in tampa. pso some minor swings compared to pthis hour yesterday, but nothing pmajor. pnow, we have extremely weak cold pfront pushing into the state. pin the wake of it no clouds and pbehind it no clouds. pwe reinforce the dry pattern and pthat will provide us with p75 today is 3 degrees warmer pthan yesterday. pthat gradual warming trend pcontinues throughout the week. pon tuesday flirting with 80 pdegrees in tampa. pinland we're in the low 80s and plate week you won't believe how pwarm some locations will be. pwe talk about the upper level attern and why we stay this pwarm for a while coming up. p>> alcides: a hulk hogan pautograph signing in clearwater pbeach came to an unexpected end pfor reasons. phe was signing autographs on psaturday and a large number of eople were on the second floor pbalcony when they felt a shift pin the building. pfirefighters evacuated the pbuilding and declared it unsafe. pthe fire marshal says the store pwill remain closed until the powner has a structural engin

all right, let's hop over now and look at brooksville. up to speed and no delays in that's a look at weather and traffic. back to candace and gayle. >> thank you, leslee. >>> right now, stop what you're doing and look at the screen. police in winter haven are looking for this man in connection to a carjacking in a drugstore parking lot. lucky for the victim, this was all caught on surveillance video but it is still -- it has her on edge this morning. our josh thomas is live from the parking lot where this took place just more than 24 hours ago. and josh, this is really scary. >> reporter: scary situation no doubt about it, gayle. and i did check with winter haven police and frankly, they are still trying to track down 18-year-old william summerland. here at the walgreens, people are still on edge over what happened here 24 hours ago. this all played out in front of a 24-hour walgreens. you can see the 50-year-old sandra hunter pull into the parking lot. a man can be seen walking carjacking. >> i couldn't -- moments before the carjacking.

also, a few showers moving on from bailiff point from bailiff .2 pine island and brooksville. all of this kind of moving across from the west to the east at about 50 miles an hour. all of it associated with the front that will come swinging and it will bring some changes. here's a look at your current conditions in tampa. cloudy skies. east, southeast winds at 13 and showers falling at the safety clearwater airport. right now in clearwater, 68 degrees with winds out of the east at five. 66 in gainesville. and we will watching area of cooler weather see been as we work through the weekend. 28 in kansas city right now. 59 in birmingham. charleston 58. this will come swinging through and we will have rain pretty much off and on through the morning. by noontime, a good line of showers starting to the big end area. all the way up to lakeland. and we will see some again tomorrow. a bit of showers into the afternoon and we will clear things out just in time for a call monday morning. we will look for a high of 80 in tampa today. here's a look at florida's most accurate seven day fore

a couple of days of clouds and off and on showers. night tonight. 71 in tampa and brooksville. st. pete. 73 in sarasota. low to mid-70s in the peninsula. the air mass is dry. the dew points are in the 30s and 490s. the winds though starting to turn. more to the east. muggy and 70 or so. lots of humidity and highs in the 80s. over the weekend. high pressure tomorrow will shift. and from the peninsula and the southeast it is rain free mostly rain free on thursday. then as the front approaches on friday. it is quiet in the southeast. rain and snow. tools dallas is 76. and denver is 72, we stay in the 50s tonight another good day and the humidity is staying under control on wednesday and thursday. it's not as cool. down to 55. day. highs up near 80 on thursday. dudes -- clouds increasing. if you are boating. winds are south-southeast. a light chop. forecast. doesn't look so great over the weekend. it is tough to pin chance of rain. temperatures up near 80. linda. >>> a teen shot and killed by deputies. revealed to be fake. the questions being asked by the she in 1934, steak 'n shake de

p54 in brooksville and 55 in pcrystal river. p24-hour temperature range, much pwarmer now than yesterday. p10 to 15 degrees warmer now than p24 hours ago. pmuch warmer start to the day. pmuggier start as well. pthe big difference here is dew oint just an hour ago in tampa pwas 63. pwe're now down to 57. pso front continuing to now push pthrough the area. pdrier air on the back side of pthe front. pthat's going to be funneling in pas we head throughout the day ptoday. pmaybe a muggy start but i think pby later this afternoon, feeling pa little more pleasant out pthere. psatellite and radar, there's pthat narrow band of showers ushing through. pheavier showers and storms pdevelop across the carolinas and pbehind this, you see all of this pred here. pthat's a lot of dry air. pthat's going to be pushing in as pthat's going to be creating that psunshine today into the day ptomorrow and on into sunday as pwell. phere's how the future cast plays pout. pcold front pushes through. pthis area of low pressure up to pthe north strengthens a

but tomorrow, 7:30. 85 in tampa, 88 in brandon, 84 in winter haven, 85 in wesley chapel and brooksville. tomorrow will be slightly cooler, little bit more in the way of cloud cover and shower activity. mid 80s, upper 70 to near 80, inland. still feel pretty warm and humid. showers and few storms developing early sunday, in fact we may see a now showers later tonight moving on shore. the latest models may make it a pushing to the east coast and in the afternoon. potential for heavy rain into next weekend, of course had a forecast still six to seven days away, let's get through tomorrow before we talk about that. dew point of 65, winds out of the south at 9 miles per hour. 70 in pinellas park, 74 up in plant city, to the north 70 in brooksville, 73 in new port richey, 72 in 73 in frostproof. high pressure is in control right now. trough is pushing this line of showers, and you don't see a whole lot of rain on radar here, there are some showers and storms lined up along this trail here and that's slowly working its way towards us as we head to the rest of the overnight period. into the day

pcrystal river, 46 , brooksville, p48. p50 westerly chapel, lakeland, p52, brandon and tampa area, mid p60s for today. pbreezy, north winds. pwe are going to drop it back to pthe mainly the upper 40s. plook how fast it warms up, ptomorrow afternoon, 73. pby wednesday, cool air gone. phighs approaching 80 at that oint. p>> up next a cool golf charity pyou can check out today. p>> dancing shoes still the bigger the burrito, the bigger the fun. dunkin's new grandde burrito -- a breakfast burrito packed with big southwest flavor. go grande with veggie or sausage today. put more fun in your day with ice-cream-flavored coffees at dunkin' donuts. go for delicious flavors like butter pecan, cookie dough, or new pistachio. enjoy one today. america runs on dunkin'. p>> update here to this deadly pcrash in sarasota shutting down puniversity parkway. phearing from sarasota police, pthey are still working to notify pthe next of kin. pthree people passed away. palso await ago tow truck. pcould be longer until the scene puniversity parkw

and 77 up in brooksville in the 60s. we'll see these rising. they're going to pop up into sunday. the 60s maybe a closing in on 70. the headlines are high. we're going to see the higher humidity behind the showers. i don't see a lot of relief from that humidity i'm looking at rain chances tomorrow. we bump those up to 40% rain chances. they are shifting inland throughout the day. here is a look at the he satellite. notice we saw clouds pushing off the coast. there this is the big system the upper level low and associated front back to the east. that starts to shift east for the day tomorrow. the warm temperatures dew points and moisture and the result may be stray showers. don't expect, most if anything pops up just know there is the possibility saturday afternoon. sunday is the day we're keying in. the best threat the next 7 days we watch the showers. they will line up here. and it is not a wash out but you may keep thaty. warm we remain that way through the rest of the week flooding ends. and sunday into monday. patchy fog. no winter weather. temperatures near 70. 30% on monday

it's six degrees cooler than 24 hours ago, and seven degrees up in brooksville and a few as you head inland, temperatures are going to continue to drop off and plummet through the overnight, and so here is a look at your forecasted lows. when you take up monday, i know we thought they were done but you have to probably bring a light coat out there. 51 in familiar for an overnight low, and 43 up in brooksville, and low 50's heading off to the south and east and the amazing thing this is not even going to be the coldest night. tomorrow night we brought that. certainly things are not quite done in terms of the winter the end of this week i promise it will feel more like spring. here is the cold front dropping through the area, south and east. but you notice the clouds off to the west. there is not a lot of southward push, and heading into the day on wednesday, i'm not expecting the line to drop too much farther south, that meaning the more north you get the farther sunshine you get. heading into the southern part of our viewing area, you may be dealing with more in the way of clouds. th

. >>> we warmed up nicely this in tampa, 61 degrees. 59 in plant city, 50 in brooksville and overnight the temperatures will fall into the mid 50s across much of the area and for that morning drive lots of shine as we're getting up tomorrow morn and tomorrow afternoon's drive home looking nice with a high of 80 degrees. >> thank you shay. we'll check back with you. >> people in pasco county are suffering from flood waters. line >> instructor: wanted to see firsthand some of the work's that's been done. >> kathrine starky walked through some of the spots that were under the water last summer. she wanted to see the improvements that were made. >> it looks good to me and i'm so glad it's dry >> reporter: to try to make things better, the county removed vegetation so if there's more water going through, it doesn't back up. they added this netting so they could keep this creek open so water can continue to flow. >> hopely what they did after the -- hopefully what they did -- work. >> we saw the rain in july and august and it went through the our homes. >> the commissioner hopes the time and