pthere's new northbound roadway, pnew bridge over dale mabrey, new pbridge over himes. pand still you have only those pthree lanes available for travel pat this point. pauthorities with the florida pdepartment of transportation are ptelling us the projects itself pis actually ahead of schedule. pthe plan was to wrap up plane open by the fall. pbut we're told it could now be pas soon as the next two to three pmonths. pit's at that point where you pwill begin to see the biggest pnorthbound. pso, we'll continue to keep you osted on the progress of the roject, but if you'ring go to pbe out and about today, make psure you give yourself a little pbit of time you might not only pone trying to navigate some of pthe traffic pattern changes. pback to you. p>> all right thank you, shayla. pnew at noon a pinellas county pteacher is charged with a dui. pinvestigators say kevin was pcaught driving the wrong way on parmenia avenue in tampa. pthey say he is a physical peducation teacher at garrison pjones elementary. ptroopers say he told the officer pthat he had taken several rescript

pin addition to that, you have pthe folks here on dale mabrey pwell. pthey are going to be merging on pto 275 northbound. pdrivers are being urgeded to use pextra caution. pbe aliter look for drivers that pmaking there way on to 275 pnorthbound from roads just pmentioned. pbut in addition to that, though, pwhat you'll see as you're ptraveling that route is the proadway, just after dale mabrey. ptoday. pcompared to what you probably psaw yesterday. pno more dips or big curves in pthe roadway your visibility is pimproved so you will see further pahead of you. pknow northbound roadways new pbridge over dale mabrey new pbridge over himes. pand we're told this particular roject is even ahead of pschedule. pso at this particular time pflorida department of ptransportation told us it could pbe in at fall when they panticipated getting fourth lanes popen. pthe fourth lane on the psouthbound and northbound side popen. pbut it last check yesterday i pwas told it could in next two to pthree months when they are able pto get fourths lane open in each pdirection. p

pnow those drivers that are pcoming from dale mabrey and pthe i 275 have to merge into the pinterstate which as you know, pand lot of people at home know, pit's very difficult, especially pat this time because no one pwants to let you through. pif they do, let you through, pobviously they have to slow down pto let that driver in. pso again this traffic pattern, pthis issue will continue for panother four to six weeks. pthat's why dot is recommending pyou avoid howard franklin take pgandy bridge instead. por leave your house at least a phalf hour early. pconsidering we saw all traffic pdelays at 7:30 this morning i pwould say if you're trying to pget to downtown tampa or on pother side somewhere in tampa i pwould leave a half hour early at pleast. pbecause even now, at 9:08 in the pmorning, 9:08 you can see that a pstill very, very slow moving. pso we left, actually that was p9 o'clock this morning. pso again not going to improve. ptime we have here anne marie. pbut if you give us maybe another pminute or two you will see the pon ramp of dale mabrey and again pthat's where all the issue

on dale mabrey to cypress, pcypress to himes and turn right p275 north ramp from himes pavenue. pnow again, this all takes effect ptonight and all part longer 275 pconstruction projects. pwe've telling you about now for pseveral years. pand you've likely experienced pyourself. pnow, what we're learning from an pofficials is that the ultimate pgoal is they want to have four planes traveling each direction pwhen this is all said and done. pwe're told this project is pactually running a little bit pahead of schedule. pwe could see those fourth lanes popen up a little bit sooner than pexpected. pbut still, just a few months paway. pso, be sure to take a good look pat your route today because it pmight not look exactly same ptomorrow if you're on 275 this pmorning, guys, back to you. pall right shayla we will talk plater. p>> keep the good news coming. pwe'll so you then. p>> thank you. p>> all right. pthis morning people liver engine arts southwest florida cleaning pup after e f 2 tornado touched pdown it pummelled a cape coral pneighborhood with winds more pthan 100 miles an hour.

pturn left on dale mabrey phighway. pdetour will take you cypress phimes and then back to i 275 pnorthbound. pagain the closure starts at p10:30 tonight and ends a 5:30 ptomorrow morning. pnew at noon, hillsborough county pdeputies searching for an armed probber a man was forced to with pdraw money from his bank account pat gunpoint last thursday. olice say a starbuck's employee phighway 301 south in riverview. phe was sitting inside his car pwhen robber walked up took out pgun and demanded money. pwhen victim said he didn't have pany the suspect brought him to pnearby mcdonald's. olice say that's when he forced pman to take money out of atm, pand then ran away. pif you know anything call the psheriff's office. p>>> people living in parts of psouthwest florida are cleaning pup after an ef 2 tornado touched pdown. pit ripped through a cape coral pneighborhood with winds of more pthan 100 miles an hour. pit rooipd trees out ground pknocked down power lines tore papart roof and even damaged pinteriors of homes. pnow a few

pdrivers through this area, where pwe're looking west shore heading pup towards dale mabrey. psaw some really horrible delays pafter that traffic pattern pchange due to construction. pand we're seeing the same delays pthis morning. ptravel times keep ticking up phere at this point we're up to p36 minutes if you're crossing pover howard franklin bridge and pheading up to interchange. pof course as we mentioned before pall of of that is stemming in pup over howard franklin bridge pat this point. pif you can take gandy you can pdefinitely save a couple extra pminutes. pwe will keep you posted how pdelays shape up throughout west prest of the morning. plet's go to developing story a pfew hours a ten u.s. sailors pwere released from iran custody. pthe nine men, one woman were pheld overnight. piran captured sailors and the ptwo naval boats after they say pthe boats entered their pterritorial waters in persian pgulf. pboats experienced mccall roblems while traveling between pkuwait and bahrain and then pdrifted off course. pten sailors expected to be head pback home soon. p>>> you

pheading up towards dale mabrey pwhere that new traffic pattern pis in place. pbasically seeing same delays we psaw yesterday morning right now pyou go oh that looks great psouthbound direction. pright here you can see these are pnorthbound drivers. pactually at the hump so you can psee just how far backed up this pis over the bridge. p31 minutes is the travel time pcoming from the st. pete side pheading up to i-4. pso definitely plan extra time pout the door if you have to head pthat way. pmeantime drivers will want to pavoid east ulmerton road dealing pwith serious injury crash proosevelt boulevard south that peastern intersection with proosevelt boulevard drivers can ptake 118th around this. p>>> well, powerball fooer, it's psweeping the nation. pand jackpot is now $1.5 billion. plump sum pay out $930 million. p>> if you take that, which most pfinancial people are now saying pyou should not do. pbut if you did, that will come pand we are approximating. p>> that's a lot of money, folks. peven people who currently make a plot of money are hoping to win. phere'

pgot some minor delays along psouthbound dale mabrey. pnear cypress meadows road south pvan dyke a crash with partial psouthbound lane blockage watch pout for that you say make your pway through the area. pmeantime we do have building pwestbound delays along brandon pboulevard you can see all that pleading up to area of lithia inecrest where we have a crash pjust before you get to pintersection at oak wood avenue. plane blockage reporting heading pthat way definitely give pyourself a few extra minutes pgoing outdoor if that's along pyour route. plook some travel times. pstill looks really slow along pi-4 westbound we had earlier pcrashes. pno lane blockage but really pfolks are slowing down to take eek what is on shoulder. p23 minute ride from buck man to p75 which is an improvement but pnot too much of an improvement. pbayway to fletcher just under pone hour and 12 minutes along pnorthbound 75 between selman and pfowler. p>> are you tired? prun down? pdo you poop out at parties? pthe answer to all your problems pin this little bottle, i

see how she does her pfriends and family are holding a pwatch party tonight at beef oh pbrady on dale mabrey. pgood luck to her. pall right we all know you pshouldn't feed your dog pchocolate there are other human pthem3 3 ((jen)) they say love knows no bounds... p>>> they say love has no bounds. pand these two guys are brothers pfrom a different mother. pthis is the dog. pand while at the shelter bonded pwith a duck called thing two. pyeah, thing two. psince they met, ru watching this pthey've inseparable. pbest friends. pa duck and a dog. pworkers were concerned at first pone would adopted and other pwould left behind. pbut thankfully the person wanted pto adopt the dog also had room. plook at them for thing 2. pso today, they will go home ptogether to their forever home a pdog and a duck. roves anything is possible. p>> teak speaking of pets we love poh pets sometimes we like to pshow them how much we love them pwith treats while their no harm eople food a can do damage. pvets say pass on the peanut pbutter. pthat's first thing no pete nurt pbutter common way humans give ptheir pedestrian

p>> there's a 100 foot flag pole pon dale mabrey a car wash in pbetween bush and hillsborough. pyeah. pyeah. pdid you do the one at one buc lace? pabsolutely. p>> oh it's yours. pgiant buccaneers flag. pthat's the largest non-u.s. flag pflying in the country. p>> and they. pget out of here. pyou should have opened that. psay that again. pthat's largest non-u.s. flag pflying in the country. pis flying at one buc place. pand you made it. pright? p>> yep. p>> and that you guys can have pmade. pthat's screen printed p>> yes. pwe also do an applique. pand an it is stitched like this pone here. peverything is sown. pyou do a bunch sitcom stuff and pmacdill. psocom. pwe're very fortunate to have psome great, great flag customers pin the tampa market. pthat's nice. pand this would be you do all pgasparilla flags. pis this an example of all sown, pright? papplique, yes a design of outs pwe put together years ago and it phas been a really good seller. pcraftsman ship all done for plocally. pnot that one. pthis undone by my seamstress pthat works out of her home. pbig bucs flag my steam s

pfirst on ramp is dale mabrey. pyou can see the drivers from pdale mabrey actually have to pmerge on to i 275. pwhich is a problem when traffic pthe next on ramp you'll see, pyou'll see a car actually merge pover, use his left hand blinker pemerges over you've got back to pback on himes. pthose drivers have to merge over pto i 275. pthat's very difficult. pmeans that drivers on the pinterstate have to slow down. pand that means that eventually, pthose drivers n the on ramp have pto get on interstate. pand again it's very difficult. pdot says well unfortunately, the pinterstate is not wide enough at pthat spot so it will remain in lace until this phase of the roject is completed. pand they are hoping to have that pdone by mid next month. pso until they complete that hase, the traffic is going to pcontinue being as bad as it is pthis morning. pthe construction is part of a p$222 million highway improvement roject stretching 4.2 miles palong i 275 between downtown pwhen the project is complete, it pwill be beautiful.

pand we're checking fwh on pvillage drive in dale mabrey a preport of a clashes blocking two planes in that westbound pdirection. pmake sure planning extra time pfor emergency responder working pmeantime we have some good news pfor our folks that take the pinterstates we're seeing pclearing conditions along 275 psouth found earlier we had a pcrash kind of causing on looker pconcerns. pnear hillsborough avenue. pthose are completely dong. pten minutes is your ride if pbearss avenue to i-4 eight pminutes southbound 75 bruce to pi-4 if you're coming in along pi-4 westbound from buck man phighway to 75 exit just 11 pminutes. p>>> thank you. p8:18 right now many of us grew pup watching snow white and serve pdwarfs there's a story behind pdisney movie. rince stole a kiss from snow pwhite. pbut that part of story didn't pmake it the to film. eople behind movie say it would phave been too forward for the rince at that time. pso they decided to ditch it. phistorian at the disney archives psays creating imperfect idea is art of the creative process. pinitial kiss wasn't only thing pleft on cutti

pyou can see area of dale mabrey pare basically starting. pso you'll want to give yourself pextra time here, or as i show pyou here, this live look at pgandy just west of the gandy pbridge if you can get over to pthe gandy bridge that might be a pfew minutes quicker. pif you do have to cross the pwater coming from pinellas pheading into tampa. p>> this potential oscar boycott pis picking up some steam. pand now former friend of fresh rince says jada smith needs to pcalm down. pwe will sta talk with dr. jo pdeath of eagle's glenn just two pand a half minutes charley is pin, in kitchen trying to air out pthe that vinegar smell from peaster eggs in there. pand veg meet martha, a beluga of a thousand faces. like her happy-to-see-you face. her dancing face. and her coaster face. how do you say no to a face like that? you don't have to. with an annual pass from seaworld that gives you rides, shows and events, and that face all year long for just $14 a month. and the sooner you buy one, the sooner the fun starts. so come meet martha, the face that