now brooksville has gone down to a half mile. it's just patchy in spots. once the fog lifts out, maybe we get a quick shower today. a tiny little line of rain working towards the coastline. that's the cold front. once that moves through, we'll knock our humidity back down and several nice follow. for today, a transition day. highs in the upper 70s. >>jennifer: also ahead, a page from the bible. someone found it after a destructive fire. wait until you see what one of the verses says. so i use excedrin. it starts to relieve migraine pain in just 30 minutes. and it works on my symptoms, too. now moments lost to migraines are moments gained with excedrin. [heartbeat] i tried hard to quit smoking. but when we brought our daughter home, that was it. now i have nicoderm cq. the nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release technology helps prevent your urge to smoke all day. it's the best thing that ever happened to me. >>dave: 7:14. while it looks gorgeous along the coast, see this? low level clouds. that's what we've been dealing with inland. some of those ma

right now 67 in tampa, 63 inverness and brooksville, 70 in plant city. high pressure stays in charge across our area through the rest of today. if you're doing will cooperate rate for you. just some showers across south florida. heading into your weekend saturday morning mid-50s out there right about where we should be for this time of year. and afternoon temperatures will likely be a little bit warmer as the winds start to transition to more of an easterly and southeasterly direction. so we're going to bump up the highs for a few degrees for saturday and then the next weather system takes shape. this area of low pressure starts to form out over texas. as we start going into pattern. first cold front will arrive on tuesday bringing us a chance of rain followed by a second cold front that looks to arrive either late thursday or early friday. that will also be bringing us a chain of rain. the weekend fantastic 78 for saturday and for sunday 82. it is going to become more humid as we start going towards the end of the weekend. look at the temperatures we st

brooksville, still sitting at 63 inverness is 66 degrees. lakeland, you're -- orlando is 76 degrees and sarasota at 74 throughout the interior, some 60s and 70s, getting into the mid 70s as you go down to highlands county. it was really a pretty significant told front that moved through. temperatures runng up to some cases 12 degrees colder compared to this time yesterday. and then on top of that, the much drier air yesterday with those dew points, they were in the 70s and it really felt fairly muggy outside. now we drop the numbers into the 30s and the 40s, 41 here in tampa. that's the kind of weather, even with these daytime highs getting into the mid and some cases approaching the upper 70s, it still feels very, very the weekend and into about sunday. by sunday, things will start to change because this high pressure, which is sitting to the north, that will continue to shift out into the atlantic and you can see, you don't have to go far to really find more cloudy skies and moisture already starting to make a return. as we go through the

southeast down the road boosting temperatures. 63 saint pete, 57 and upper 40s in crystal river over to brooksville. a chilly start to the day, dade city 59, venice 63 and bradenton 62. let's extend the forecast. going through tomorrow you cool off, i stopped on monday highs near 80 degrees, through the week thursday highs in saturday morning. one week from saturday, 30s across the northern counties. it will probably be colder than this, there's definitely something to look out for, the cold weather will be here in eight days. a look at the seven-day forecast, 76 friday a beautiful weekend, 78 saturday, 81 sunday. morning lows are culpable, rain chances bump up monday and weekend.>>> still to come, more than 1 million android phones infected by hackers. the apps you need to stay away from to keep your information protected.>>> a new kind of chocolate with less sugar. does it have the same taste? the major breakthrough shaking up the candy world. z272iz zi0z y272iy yi0y >>> taking you out of live two breaking news, four children hospitalized after a bus slams into a home. this is a live shot from mi

brooksville has a 75. and then you go down to wesley brandon at 84. 84 down across lake placid. 80 in wauchula. sarasota with at fog around, you're still sitting at 75 degrees. and dew points which is just a measure of the amount of moisture and we've watched these numbers throughout the week just climb right back up into the 70s. so it just has that very muggy feel to the air. but you're starting to see that little hint of the drier air working its way in. now watch what happens as we go way right down over us by tomorrow. we're down into the 40s. that will hold into saturday as well. unfortunately, just not going to last all that long because as we get into first part of next week moisture will make a return right back over the state. there's the front right now. we'll continue to push down to the south. still have that band of clouds. but as the high pressure builds in we will start to clear skies out we go into late tonight into tomorrow. there you see it on future cast fron humidity really a beautiful

have got wall- to-wall sunshine out there, we have got some 60s on our map. 67 in riverview. 63 in brooksville with much of the area south of i-4 already into the 70s at this point. coming up in just a few minutes we are going to talk about when we get the return of some rain chances back into the forecast and we are going to look ahead to a potentially so if you're thinking i don't feel like getting out and about this weekend, you may want to reconsider once i talked about how cold next weekend will be. i will have that forecast in a few minutes. >>> florida fish and wildlife are making sure they rescue all the manatees from the lake. they want to make sure they are all right. they are looking for a mysterious fourth manatee with the manatees swam north from tampa bay to a canal. they got into a lake when a water control gate was opened from tropical storm colin. the manatees could become ill as that water temperature drops. >>> coming up next, sam the movie man looks at some of the best movies from the year. it's awards season. we will look at some of the films up to be talked about. maybe o

matter if you're in citrus county, you'll be maybe 73, 74, from spring hill, crystal river, to brooksville, david city, and the southern counties will be a little closer to arcadia, 79, wachola, 77, and fiesta keys, sarasota, this is where it gets interesting. we've been talking about this for the last four days. by early on this weekend, things will be pretty quiet. we warm up again, but look what happens, a big pocket of cold air towards the end of next week. we'll be on the fringe of it so we'll see some 30s and 40s on get blasted by very cold air and some snow, as well. for us we'll be on the fringe of the real chilly stuff, but 30s and 40s, even a few upper 20s possible in the northern counties next saturday morning. nine days out. for the boaters northeast winds at ten to 15, winds a little breezy. 70 in clear water. your tides, sunrise, and your sunset hour-by-hour, looks great tomorrow. look at that. sunny, right on through the morning. we top out about 76 degrees. in northeast winds at a look at florida's most accurate forecast. rain chances pretty much zip through sunday. early n

further to the north we will pick up on some pockets of fog as well in brooksville half a mile but it's really been in polk county. 60 and i-4 being impacted in significant fashion and perhaps the fog contributing to the crash that we saw a couple of hours ago. this continues to be the case as far as the low clouds. a couple more hours and we'll get those numbers up. as far as the rainfall today, it's because of that front coming in, this one lower our humidity for tonight. a welcome change, at least i'm thinking that. on the northern side of the front not all that cold but back to where we should be for this time of year. shouldn't be this warm this early. the upper 60s to low 70s. we will top off in the upper 70s later on today and then the front comes in and this season, unwrap disney magic... where smiles have no limit... and wonder fills the air. where joy is the reason for it all... and everything is better together. ...at walt disney world resort. where holiday magic is endless. feel the magic again and again... ...become an annual passholder now and get 13 months >>> i >>> i tho

our temperatures running from the mid-50s to 57 in brooksville. 61 in tampa. 64 in sarasota. further south you go, the warmer it is. and it's, like, 80 in keys now. because the front has been hung up over south florida all morning long. but it did go far enough south, taking that humidity with it and drop into the 40s even the 30s as you go further north say o calla up towards the panhandle. it's so dry outside a whole different atmosphere from what we experienced yesterday. and you can thank the the northerly wind for that. 10 to 17-mile-an-hour winds. the air is drying rment warming up quickly. a beautiful day. in fact the next two or three look absolutely gorgeous. it's starting to get warmer as the weekend moves along. beginning of next week, we'll expand this map out and show you a show system developing over texas and that low will crank northeastward bringing a front towards us by late monday or tuesday. the good news is we finally get a halfway decent rain chance in here. we have a great weekend to look forward. mostly sunny. 76 fr a high. 57 for an we'll inch the tem

across the area tomorrow morning when you wake up in comparison to this morning. 60 in tampa, 55 in brooksville tomorrow morning. lakeland waking up to 58, arcadia 64, a significant cool down from where we have been lately. if you are wondering when the best time tomorrow would be a bike ride, anytime. we will be dry and sunny humidity will be lower in the morning and you will feel it through the afternoon as we reach highs in the mid-70s instead of near 80 degrees likely have been lately. if you're wondering about the fog that caused the skyway to be shut down, i will let you know if we will have chances for that coming up in my next forecast.>>> a local city looking to send several people lifetime experience. >>> wait until you hear why this woman was happy about having to take a mug doctor: oh yeah... right there. oh! you got a nickel back there! heh heh! when we say a health care company should treat you like family, we mean more like this. operator: it's gonna be ok, and i'll be right here if you need me. member: really? operator: really. you deserve compassion. you deserve molina healthca

still showing that quarter mile visible in brooksville. breaking apart. not much unfortunately. you have a couple of showers up there in crystal river. once we get beyond that, later today, the winds will shift to the northwest. and then drag in cooler, dryer air. already 77 degrees in brandon. high today's around 79. tomorrow much drier. absolutely gorgeous. high of 76. >> all right. dave, thank you. >> 9:0 one. and looks like our slower spot still going fob i-4 westbound scene. it's been on shoulder for a little while now still just dealing with some of it. good news just a trooper at this point. do remember your move over law. and the fact that you might see some delays lingering in the area. it looks whole lot better as far as delays. still whole bunch of slow speeds between homosassa where the crash is and i'd say about the area of park road. but you can see after you get past that point heading towards polk county parkway, lot of red is gone. delays are between 5 to ten minutes in this area. white. what you don't want someone else to read never has that been more true. and

our weather watcher wendy reporting 53 degrees it morning in brooksville. we've got a dry northeast wind for today. that keeps us rain free just a few fair weather clouds and looks to stay dry. nice to start tomorrow. we'll stay dry with just some passing clouds but our next big weather maker will start gearing up out to the west. so we'll call it 75 right where we should be for this time so comfortable start to the day. we'll bring up the humidity ahead of that rain chance and yes, we do need the rain, rain chances up to 30% by tuesday with system number 1 and then system number 2 brings us another chance of rain by the time we hit your thursday. how are the roads looking this morning? >>> all right. still congestion free on the interstates. great drive through lakeland i- pasco county looking very good right now. and 275 heading out towards the howard frankland bridge and also into downtown tampa that's a quick drive with no slow-downs. we still have an accident here it is working hopefully it's going to clear up soon but keep it in mind kenny harmon road

mid 50s for brooksville, wesley chapel, lakeland, new port richey, upper 50s for tampa and hanging on to the 60 to 62 numbers from pinellas all the way down through sarasota. 12 to about 14 degrees cooler than yesterday. so big difference, of course, the drier air is in place now as well and it should be for most of the weekend. 7 tomorrow. late in the day sunday, the humidity starts to come back in but still lovely with a high of 81. >>vanessa: we want to check some major roadways. we do hav a lot of stop and go in that southbound direction which is not unusual for this time of morning. this is fouler as we mentioned and the slower speeds continue to almost sligh avenue and then we start to see speeds pick up a little bit. no big complaints for times. from bearss, that will only take you 13 minutes and also 13 southbound on 75. bruce b downs to i-4. plan for about a 15 minute ride between 75 and the interchange if you're taking i-4. >>russell: a christmas tree is set on fire and it didn't take long for it to get out of control. >>jennifer: and ahead, 75 years since the attack on pear

our weather watcher, wendy in brooksville reporting 68 degrees. the cold front moving through on a weaker fashion. again only a few hit and miss showers with this as it slides through the area. we'll stay humid, then drier, much more comfortable air starts to roll in, starting tomorrow morning. and you'll certainly feel it by your friday afternoon. as temperatures get back to where they should be for this time of warming up through the weekend but will stay dry with better rain chances by next week. let's see how the roads are doing as we get close to rush hour. >>> we're definitely getting busier, still a good drive on 275 here in pinellas county. not seeing any delays as we go ahead and zoom in, still an accident working 49th street at some injuries involved. that is usually a hot spot. a lot of accidents there. tamiami trail, u.s. 41 seeing big delays southbound and this is right at somerset avenue where we have an accident. that is blocking some lanes so again some of the southbound delays at 41. state road 60 known as brandon boulevard at gor

brooksville at 57. crystal river at 48. so we get to the 40s around here. after the 70s, yesterday morning. lower 60s from bradenton englewood. and polk county upper 50s to around 60. there's your 24-hour temperature wauchula you're 5 degrees cooler to the extreme. crystal river 23 degrees cooler here in 8 o'clock hour versus yesterday. soths just going to be an absolutely gorgeous day. you look state-wide. everybody is cooler. and enjoy this little cool down. enjoy this dryer air. because honestly it looks like by monday morning, the humidity is back. but, the good news out of that is that it also looks as well. which rereally, really really do need. mostly sunny, much drier today with high of 76 degrees. tonight, mostly clear. seasonable. 57 degrees for the overnight low. and all looking a tomorrow, another gorgeous day. not as dry as today, still lovely though. with a high of 78 degrees. i'm going to go back to lower 80s for second half the weekend. plus, 30 percent rain chance. tuesday. okay. all right. dave. sounds good. thank you. it's 8:16. we have s

we still have a little bit left over here brooksville with half mile visibility. many other spots, that the of rain. to move through the area. and that will really be your indication that your cold front is moving through. behind that your winds will shift to northwest and drag in some drier air go back to upper 70s for today and tomorrow. much drier. beautiful. highs back to the mid 70s. >>> all right. good to hear, dave. thank you. westbound i-4 drivers heads up we have major delays approaching homosassa road. we still have crash with lane blocks here. most of lanes are actually going to b direction. you can see just a single lane is passing and it is the right lane. the delays we're seeing right now as we take look at our map, basically, from that point all way back towards county line road. so fur agoing to avoid westbound i 4 direction which i highly suggest that is your area of concern. so do those work arounds there. we'll keep you posted when the lanes clear. meantime we're still waiting for clear lanes here after head-on collision serious injuries 301 blo