you can see a few showers dying east of i-75. crosses over i-75. downtown bradenton between sarasota and bradenton along i-75. you can see heavy rain. all that is now to the east of i-75 down to north port. little rotation. most is heavy tropical downpours continuing to work inland meets up with the from the east coast. big coverage of showers and thunderstorms throughout the interior along the coastal areas, rain is winding down. we are going to get down to mainly sunny skies. you can see the drier air. this is part of a cold front working its way southeast. a cold front. it teases as we go through the next several days. 89?, dew point, humidity 61%. winds westerly ow. that keeps us muggy and pushes showers into the interior. places like brandon, 91?, 85 bradenton showers around, sarasota 91. st. 88?. when you factor in the humidity hat index triple digits. that is what is left of julia, low pressure spinning off the carolina coastline. series of fronts working their way off. everything staying off to the north as the front stalls out across southe

east side of the state. i think of some of our viewing area will have showers 1st thing in the morning especially east of i 75. the afternoon hours. hour by hour our forecast overnight. partly cloudy skies. more morning we see mostly cloudy and then by the afternoon the rain arrives. i will let you know who sees the heaviest rain coming up. >>>'s -- we are hearing 20 minutes of 911 calls. you hear the panic as the staff rushes to move patients out of the burning hospital. with a live pascoe county. >> reporter: me they placed a very large sign advertising that they reopened after that incident. but that night it shut down the hospital for several days. >> our generator is out of service. we have people on ventilators. >> one after the other. dispatchers were bombarded with calls the evening of august 31. generator. i don't see any flames icy smoke. >> hospital officials believe lightning knocked out the power and the backup system. it started an electrical fire in the generator room. >> we have no way of getting any medication or pulling supplies. i need you to come appear or send someone appear please. >> re

still the best rain chance will be east of i-75 where our sea breezes meet up. keep in mind, a 40% rain chance is typical this time of year. it's back today. a little more moisture on monday keeping that rain chance at 50%, on. our average high is 89 and we're there if not above average the next few days >> anjuli: the u.n. security council meets as russia claims u.s. air strikes hit syrian government troops instead of isis targets. they met last night at russia's request. they say it hit a base in an eastern city surrounded by isis fighters. they added the air strike allowed the at least 62 syrian troops were killed and hundreds more hurt. they have halted operations but have not confirmed casualties. >> alcides: rome hosts the first same sex civil union. it took place at the mayor's office, a law formally recognized same sex union was adopted in italy back in june. it was the last of 28 nations to grant legal recognition to of the same rights as married couples but stops short of full equality, mostly notable in the area of adoption. >> anjuli: despite some rai

that pushes the showers near the coast right along i-75 early in by the afternoon notice how most of those storms push east of i-75, pushing into polk and highlands county. those storms wrap up around 8:00 or 9:00. guess what, we do it all again tomorrow, mostly dry and muggy in the morning, afternoon storms pushing inland, about a 40% chance. after that it's a 30% chance for saturday and the first day of fall on thursday. leslee. >>> all right. looking at traffic right now we have this disabled truck out here. this is northbound on and in the right shoulder. this is by martin luther king. keep that in mind on the map. traffic is light so we're not seeing any delays. keeping an eye on it for you. let's move over into pinellas county where we have a wreck in largo. we have injuries rov involved and it's tieing up one of those lanes on indian rocks. no delays on 75 in pasco. that's a look at weather and now back to paul and gayle. >> thank you. >>> a unique program for students at one pinellas school teaching kids a lot more than just the three r's. take a look. >> [screams] >> and, yeah, that's me. i am one

of polk city. also around dundee. that's all going to drift east. east of i-75, you have the best rain chances as we head throughout the late evening hours. as we head passed sunset, most you wake up tomorrow morning, we'll have extra clouds around. we can't rule out a shower near the coast during the morning hours. there won't be too many out there by the afternoon hours. we'll see showers and storms drifting inland. about a 30% rain chance as we head into thursday, rain chances go up even more. about a 40% chance of storms ahead of that front and out in the tropics, we're still watching invest 97l, a 90% chance of development as it moves west toward th caribbean, watching that system closely for you, at this point, looking at seasonable rain chances the next few days and dryer air at even a slight break in the humidity as we head into the end of this week, guys. >>> thanks for that, coming up, the bolts drop the buck tonight in the preseason. >>> dan lucas sell thes us what fans will take away from the first game. >>> remember, get developments in all of today

east coast of florida heading into the evening hours. you can see stronger storms showers in our area. these are all east of i-75. you can see some storms heading toward the bartow area. some showers northeast of lakeland. and showers moving east away from lake wales. also tracking spotty showers and storms in highlands county, as well. our inland spots, well that's where we'll continue to see the showers and thunderstorms for the rest of this evening. notice the bulk of the rain staying outside of the viewing area. most of us will stay dry for the rest of this evening. temperatures tot humidity. we'll have your rain chances for the rest of this week coming up in your full forecast. >> thank you very much. >>> oysters are dug up at low tide. after years of set backs there could be a new twist in the future of oysters. here's mike to explain. >> reporter: what you are looking at behind me is likely the future of oyster ranching in the united states as less bays making it harder for oysters to grow naturally, many oyster entrepreneurs are looking to be ranchers. rob says oyster farming could be the future's answer t

of showers midday. the coverage is going to get better. there's the stray shower i found in the inland areas east of i-75. by 4:00, a better chance of rain. 90 degrees. by 7:00, most of the rain starts to migrate towards the coast. if you were going to the beach, now is a good time. rain is coming 86 at 7:00. the seminoles taking on ole miss. the orlando citrus bowl at 8:00 tonight, 84 degrees. i have a feeling will will be tailgaters and rain chances. 85 in tampa, 84 zephyrhills, 86 in sarasota and 84 in lake model for where the clouds will be, look at this, 2:30, most of the rain along and east of i-75. the general trend will be for showers to push closer to i-75 then towards the coast. also notice it's taking a southerly drift as well. that's actually very important. today, we're still socked in with lingering tropical moisture. remember, the winds are coming from the north and that's going to help to draw in dryer air from the north. it will take hold tomorrow afternoon, dropping the rain chance to 20%, keeping the rain chance at 20% on wednesday. it doesn't last long. it's a little taste of the fact

most of the storms pushing quickly east of i-75. by friday morning it looks quiet. it will be muggy. partly cloudy and we will drop the rain chances back to 30% for friday afternoon. tropical storm julia. max winds at 40 miles per hour as it moves slowly to the northeast. 40% rain chances tomorrow and lowe r inchances friday through the weekend. it looks nice with temperatures near 90s. >>> a much awaited sequel is heading to theaters and darker than the original. >>> david daniel and has more in the hollywood minute. >> this time no rules. >> christian gray wants anastasia steel back but his past could destroy their future. here is your first look at 50 shades darker. opening in theaters in february. >> you think you are the first him. >> i was living like a king. >> david bowie's lazarus has new life. based on the movie that fell to earth and opened in new york last year. moves to london last month and the lazarus album comes out the doctor is britannia awards october 28th. traveled to iraq to see how the fighting affected children. >>> a woman arrested calling in

tracking a decent amount of lightning east of i-75 towards river view and brandon and eastern hillsborough county and north of poke city down through dundee and lake whale. expect to see scattered activity for a few hours, a couple isolated showers to the south of us. water vapor imagery shows just to the north of us, that bright red color, that's much drier air. but for now we have a decent amount of moisture. some of the drier air we're going to tap into in the next couple days. our showers and storms will continue to push east of i-75 in the next couple days. polk county and high lands county this evening have the best rain chances. then the rain comes to an end around sunset. we'll show you the lower rain chances in the forecast coming of running a worldwide computer scam. a polk county man fell victim and he's out nearly $60,000. he responded to a pop up ad on his computer for a $499 antivirus software program. a person contacted him from the company, computer tech help.com, and ended up getting the victim to give him access to his bank accounts. the scammers drained his life savings.

east and as we head south, myiaka head and into high lands county. for the rest of the evening, due to the onshore flow, most of the showers are east of i- 75, wrapping up after sunset tonight and it will stay muggy overnight and we'll see lots of sunshine to start the day tomorrow and into the afternoon and evening hours, we'll start to see the showers and thunderstorms develop and calling for a typical 40% rainchance on friday and into air work in into our northern counties. we'll drop the rain chances to 30% for saturday. at this point, though, if you haven't seen the rain, it's hot and steamy. 92 in apollo beach; 90, bradenton and bartow, 96 this afternoon. our dew points are up in the mid-70s and that is feeling muggy and it's going to stay that way for a few more days. not until the middle of next week do see see a bit of relief -- do we see a bit of relief. expect lower rain chances. and it may look better into next week. guys? >> thank you, julie. >>> this is a question. when you get stressed at work, do you ever vent on social media? and is it a good idea? eight on your head irside has answers on that and joining me now is our social media e

this evening the rain will be most of east of i-75. and, close tore the east coast. some of that may try to work its way back like it did last night. just didn't have the same quantity today. an isolated shower i think for then wednesday afternoon, isolated showers and storms will develop. the drier air will work further south and play a part in giving us lower rain chances. for wednesday, 30% chance. same for thursday and friday, 20% chance. high temperatures in the upper 80s . thursday, friday, saturday, fall begins officially. but we continue on with our florida fall weather all the way into the weekend. rain chances are trending downward. we expect the rain chance to be loather time of year. looks like that is what we will the weekend. >> do you know how much so many people are going to appreciate that cooler weather when we get it? >> oh yes. people tell me all the time when it will cool down? you get that this time of year. >> not in the next seven or eight days. gosh darn it. we'll be right back. >> plus, here is what you will see tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. >> uber

mainly east of i-75. the forecast for tomorrow morning is warm. first day of fall tomorrow near 90 degrees. temperatures don't cool off until the second or third week time at wfla.com. >> good night. >>> moving trucks at brad's today. was this instagram of pitt with selena gomez the final straw? >> brad pitt was pretty good. >> and george clooney getting the news from a tv reporter. >> -- divorced. >> plus how they will split up their half billion dwlar fortune and split the kids apart too. mendes get married? who o really broke the news to kelly. >> only thing that surprised me was. >> and you are a a list interview with kate hudson. and katherine heigl just loving pre pregz. >> end up looking like two pigs kind of fighting under a >>> hay everyone. welcome to "extra." i'm mario lopez. lady gaga in short shorts. >> and eddie cibrian is here. and. >> first does this divorce really take brad by surprise? we have every gnaw detail today about how it all went down and how angelina wanted out and the latest new report in brangelina's $500 million divor

notice where most of the rain is east of i-75 pushing into our heaviest rainfall east of -- into eastern portions of polk county and highlands county. it's a 40% chance today and tomorrow, 30% sta wednesday gayle and paul. >> thank you some -- thank you so much, leigh. >>> television's biggest night was full on surprises. >> who took hop -- top honors at the emmy's and who made people drive. >> you're watching news channel awards are great. but i'm more than just a trophy. i'm not sitting around collecting dust. i'm moving forward... thinking about all the steps that i haven't taken yet. what helps keeps me going? oikos triple zero greek nonfat yogurt. with 15 grams of protein. zero holding me back. i'm cam newton and i'm unstoppably myself. oikos triple zero, be unstoppably you. >>> hbo's game of thrones and veep took top honors last night. game of thrones won top drama for the second year in it's now the most honored prime time tv series ever. that's right. veep won best comedy series and the star won her 6th emmy as best comedy actress. that's a record. her acceptance speech brought s

and most of it over the east side, especially east of i-75. friday morning, saturday morning and sunday morning, you will wake up to dry, sunny, warm conditions. any shower that's do pop up will probably hold off until 3:00, 4:00. and then everything begins to drift off to the east later in the day. not a lot to worry about, including your weekend plans outdoors. of course the big game going on across the street. an isolated storm possible either saturday or sunday. but if you look at the overall rainfall total through next tuesday, less than a third of an inch on average. drier air is coming in. the problem is along with the dry air is temperatures well above normal. if you're taking the boat out tomorrow, seas one to two feet. look at the water temperature fall in clearwater. that's as high as i have seen it this late in the season. there is your sunrise and sunset. hour by hour forecast. partly cloudy overnight. just a stray shower across the anterior counties. a look at florida's most accurate 7-day forecast. 90 on saturday and sunday. and

that storm chance is at 40% favoring areas east of i-75 for any heavier storms late in the day. until then hopefully you stay cool because you hit 90. >> alcides: developing this morning, a blast ripped through the chelsea neighborhood of new york city hurting 29 people. >> anjuli: right now it's labeled an intentional account and not a terrorist attack. sidewalk whether all of a sudden debris shoots in the air. people take off running. a witness described the moment the explosion jolted the area. >> it sounded like the fireworks, but 1,000 times stronger, and it shook everything. it was boom, boom like if i was in iraq and a bomb dropped. that's what it sounded like. >> anjuli: four blocks away to be a pressure cooker attached to wiring and a cell phone was loeblthed. it was safely remove by a bomb squad and taken to the department firing range in the bronx. right now fbi agents, police and fire investigators are still on the scene trying to figure out exactly what happened. >> alcides: the fbi is taking over the investigation of a pipe-bomb that exploded in new jersey. right no

it's a general west-to-east flow and by 4:00 most of the storms are going to be east of i-75, we'll be topping out near 90 today. so plenty of heat, plenty of dry hours and plenty of sunshine in the mix. how is it going for the morning commute? >>> the roads are dry so, so far so good. matt is behind the wheel of the live drive cam, i-4 around the hard rock casino. not a lot of cars morning. it's a smooth ride all the way back from lakeland to downtown tampa. no crashes or breakdowns to slow you down. this is once you get to downtown tampa, lanes wide open here. tail-lights are heading towards the howard frankland. smooth across the howard frankland. tampa side of the courtney campbell looking great as well. i just checked the drive time across the courtney campbell, and it's just 7 minutes to get across. we have a lot of construction going on in south tampa on more on that in 15 minutes. back to you. >>> 5:02 now. temperament, taxes, race relations are just a few of the issues hillary clinton and donald trump clash on during the first head-to-head presidential debate. >> another big q

of auburndale. these will continue to work their way on to the east. east of i-75, throughout manatee and sarasota counties so not whole lot population out in this area. they will in hardee. de soto county. to our north. rain earlier, most of us starting to kind of wind down still right along 75. to the east of brooksville. throughout hernando county. looking a some storms there. now outside right now because wee had rain work its way through. we're currently seeing at 81 degrees humidity is 85 percent. and currently we've got very light winds, so right now kind of registering as calm winds. 81 in brandon. here in tampa. you head down to a sarasota. clearwater at the same at 82. look land currently sits at 86 degrees. so that ridge is still sitting to our south. that's what's giving us a westerly flow and then a trough line helping to stir up some more activity across the northern gulf of mexico. there, that's what's left of julia. still churning off the carolina coastline. and we're still watching cold fronts across upper midwest. they are saying some nice cool mo

of pinellas polk county. some lighter ones further off to the south and the east out towards frost proof. several spots back up the strongest storms right now east of i-75 in sarasota county, well on up to the east of venice. the north part is also seeing heavier rainfall at this point. rpm folk model over the next few hours pushes these storms further on off to the south, eventually wrapping up with skies turning partly cloudy. comfortable start to our day tomorrow with temperatures in the mid-70s. then we're expecting very only some isolated showers with maybe a few storms around. but a 28% chance of rain. there is a look at your forecast for tuesday. mid-80s by lunchtime. heading for the low 90s with partly cloudy skies in the afternoon. there is the drier air to the north. that red shading there is pushing on off to the south for the next couple of days, which is really going to limit our rain chances well below normal for the first half of september until the weekend, of course for that moisture that will quickly return and our rain chances will start to bump back up. 20% chance fo wednesday afternoon. just 30% chance on thursday and friday and by

scattered storms pushing east of i-75. muggy start to the day. humidity is very, very high. it will stay that way for the short term anyway. saturday, 30%. mild. if you're looking for fall to start, don't, not on this forecast. we'll be warm through this period. >>> the highs are close to our average which is 89 degrees. >> it depends where you are. we saw the rain in polk county. >> yes. >> maybe it will cool off once the heart walk rolls around. we need your help to make this year's heart walk bigger and better than before. for me this is personal. here is what i walk year after year. that is my father and they are survivors. our goal is to raise $100,000 first $50,000 we raise. the heart walk november 12th. just go to wfla.com/heart walk to donate and join my team. >> thanks to those who have done that. >>> next, he makes it to one buck place. >>> plus he keeps winning. not just football games. he is off on his latest award. that is coming up next in >>> i'm really good at war. i love war in a certain way. i know more about isis than the generals do, believe me. nuclear,

citrus, hernando pasco north of zephyrhills, this action brandon down to sun city right along 75 there are lightning strikes going along with the storms, northport curves east of i-75 headed toward downtown sarasota and scattered showers west of sebring and avon park moving west. in hernando beach a beautiful shot from last night. storm team 8 wfla on facebook that is where you share photos. the low -- high 88 degrees. some showers possible up until 9:00 p.m. but generally quieter toward midnight and overnight, 77 degrees the current temperature so clearly some showers have been occurring to help lower the temperature a little bit. some low 80s with upper 70s in some spots down here in venice. the hottest spot 90 degrees at the moment, high clouds from the west developing showers and thunderstorms producing clouds and we keep talking about this toward the florida peninsula as we mentioned a 10% chance of possible development, at the very least the moisture coming with it will move across the street combining with the heating of the day increasing rain chances. high-pressure is the main feature and will be this week's way typical florida pattern, we have tropical

we had a little taste of fall yesterday with a coup and i do bring the temperature up to the about 88 degrees this afternoon. and the storms that develop will push east of i-75 in the evening and then taper off overnight with a low of 75. leslee lacey, how about traffic on the 8s? >>> an accident still lingering to the right shoulder, westbound i-4 in the polk county area, folks. right in lakeland. this is is where it's located at. not seeing delays but just a little bit of remnants left. that's what i like to call it. northbound 75 before 275, in the palmetto area, manatee no injuries are involved despite the crash there. we have a good drive through manatee county. vo: we asked women in pinellas county to describe congressman david jolly in one word: woman 1: dangerous. woman 2: backwards. woman 3: out-of-touch... woman 4: that's 3 words. backwards agenda for women. jolly opposes a woman's right to choose and voted to defund planned parenthood and deny women access to basic health care like mammograms and cancer screenings. woman 5: i have 3 words for david jolly... not for women. vo: house majority pac is responsible > > a st. petersburg little league lef

of moisture to work with. i think the same thing on thursday. a dry morning. friday, a dry morning. and then anything that does pop, the heaviest of which will be east of i-75. not just tomorrow night but again on friday as well. can' guarantee no rain for the big football games this weekend. but coverage is only going to be about 20%. so certainly we are looking pretty good. but that heat is not going anywhere. right back in the upper 80s to low 90s across the entire area tomorrow. whether you're in citrus county or sumter or pasco, hernando, all the way down to highlands, sarasota, manatee. look at the temperatures. that means warmer temperatures in the afternoon as well. the tropics, we have two systems we're watching. one poses no threat. that is lisa. karl actually downgrade today a depression. still expected to reintensify and becomea hurricane as it reaches bermuda. lisa poses no threat, as i said. moves into the north atlantic without impacting land. maybe stuff behind it. at this point in time, that is not set in stone. we're looking good across the u.s. for the time being. seas one to that gulf temp is warm. there are your upcoming tides, sunrise a

east of i-75 a lot of the rain tonight is falling east over on the east coast. they are still getting hammered from what we had earlier today. closer to the coast officially 9 to 10 inches of rain with 16 inches of rain and this has been primarily from clearwater down to st. pete. tomorrow we will get some heavy rain at times but i think a lot of this will hinge on just how well developed hermine gets. we have been talking about this since 5:00. still in the mid-70s so this afternoon with the rain continuing to fall. a lot of folks were the heaviest rains to arrive tomorrow. when you get a tropical system like hermine it is common to get prolonged rain. that is an interesting tidbit with florida weather. you get an organized tropical storm you don't normally see this setup like we had today and overnight tonight there will still be rain but look at tomorrow morning. the models setup will be heavier. there may be one thing i guarantee. some folks will get drained on tomorrow with several inches of rain. in general it will not be nearly the rainfall totals that we

east coast is really controlling the flow across the state. showers from southwest to the northeast. kind of the flow basically today. so all of the showers slowly moving off to the east. east of i-75, some thunderstorms looks like just around the borderline there between orange county and polk county. and, sections of osceola county as well. this is just south of lakeland. in the south part of lakeland. it is why we see the dark clouds on the lakeland camera. things are pretty quiet in pinellas. a few break out showers. we will leave them in forecast. a few scattered showers south of wauchula. quiet in sebring. that is where all the activity is. losing doppler to pick out the pictures, a tropical wave off the east coast, you can see a little counterclock wise rotation. sate tropical feature. 93l. not a depression, a storm or anything like that. but as we have seen, it doesn't take much in the tropics this time of year to produce a lot of rain or damage from flooding or high winds. for tomorrow. certainly a warm day. it is 84 degrees right now in temple terrace. we have seen a few showers and clouds here. so, perhaps not as hot, but the dew point is very high. the humidity is extre

we are looking live outside, this is i-4 just east of i-75 up to speed in both directions. if you're leaving lakeland, heading into tampa or tampa heading over into lakeland you're in great shape. just about 22 minutes to make that drive. we do know on the selmon expressway are in the process of reopening. keep in mind they are going to be closing overnight for the next three weeks. we're doing pressure washing there so closed in both directions between 22nd street and 50th street. you have to get off the selmon, make detours and get back on again. this is the overnight hours from 8:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. so again the selmon should reopen any minute now. future of downtown tampa. jeff vinick's plans for the channelside district around amalie arena are being unveiled today. adam winer is live with a preview. >> reporter: take a moment to imagine what is going to happen behind me. this restaurant/bar in channelside going to be torn down. there is instead going to be a massive office building right here and that is just one small plan of a massive of this entire neighborhood. vi

i-4 just east of i-75 looking great on your drive from lakeland to tampa. drive. >>> coming up -- a fertility doctor is facing felony charges for doing the unthinkable. the appalling crime he's accused of committing. >> obesity and military. details on the growing problem for u.s. troops. >> first buying things with facebook messenger? diane macedo and kendis gibson have details in today's "tech bytes." >> reporter: in "tech bytes" -- big change comes to facebook messenger. >> users now will be able to make purchases in the app without being directed to another site. the new service is available now in beta and will roll out more widely my the end of the year. >>> samsung reportedly believes there's a fix for its galaxy note 7 smartphone. some batteries for the device have been exploding and catching fire. >> the government says it's evaluating the new battery as soon as possible. meanwhile samsung recommends owners stop using the galaxy note 7. >>> high-tech exoskeleton helped a paralyzed woman do something remarkable. miles a day to complete the course in

the overall trend for this kind of developing east of i-75 with the afternoon sea breezes. so outside now, we're at 87 degrees. dew point is 74. humidity is 65 percent. look at the winds, very light. they are out of the southeast at 3 miles an hour. really making for some nice boating weather as well with very calm seas. brandon you're 90. lakeland has an 84. along with bartow. sarasota you're at 88 degrees. st. petersburg 85. you head up to still watching that one area of low pressure, just churning along carolina coastline. high pressure this big ridge starting to build in across the southeast. crying out most areas. but they will continue to see scarred showers and clouds along the coastal areas of the mid atlantic states. then the fronts are on the move across the northern part of the country where they are seeing cooler temperatures, especially in overnights. getting down into the 40s in many locations. minneapolis currently sits at 65 but, same time, we're still talking about at tropics. good news with both of these systems is it looks like they will stay out over open

but anything that develops will be interior, east of i-75 and will rain itself off. tomorrow morning, friday and saturday morning will be dry. nothing to worry about in terms of rain the first half of the day. between 2:00 and 4:00, maybe a so it could be an issue for the second half of the usf-fsu game. something we will have to watch. by 8:00 tomorrow night and for that matter each weekend, the mornings will be dry and the afternoons will be storminess. if you look at overall rainfall totals, there isn't much. the odds are in your area, you probably won't see any rain along the coast over the next few days. a few scattered showers. you will pick up any measure able rain through the weekend. the heat, it's not going anywhere. upper 80s to low 90s each day. averaging one to two degrees above normal. maybe even higher than that in highlands, hardee and desoto county. the water temperature still bath temperature. there are your tides sunrise and sunset. let's look at florida's most accurate 7-day forecast. tomorrow morning at 10:21. the weather won't be fall-like. lows

mostly inland areasful east of i-75. 88 degrees at tampa international airport. dew point 71 degrees. lower dew point, 71 degrees. a west to northwesterly wind. quite a bit of moisture further south. you can see south florida. and also, points south in the bay area. that is where most of the located. some drier air has settled in, so the northern part of florida is just not as active. quite a few clouds here off the east coast, too, but that is classic early fall day. in the tropics, probably be hearing us talk about this invest for a while. we have done that a lot this summer it seems. 97-l. 90% chance of development. investigating with a hurricane hunter aircraft. a wind gust, not organized enough to have a low level circulation to call this a tropical depression, but th next 24 to 48 hours. computer models, kind of up in the air a little bit. but you can see the hard right turn that a lot of the computer models including the american model forecast, when that could happen. that is what the models disagree on. that is what we are currently thinking on that. so,

just a handful of showers east of i-75. waking up tomorrow morning for your friday with skies mostly clear and temperatures will be warm. we are in the upper 70s to low 80s after a high today of 91 degrees. 94 degrees in winter haven. making some records with our the next couple of days as we have rain chances lower than normal and after -- afternoon highs, higher than normal. low 80s right now under clear skies across most of the viewing area. drier air rolled in. when the air dries out a little bit our highs co-op which is why we hit the low to mid-90s today. tomorrow, march the same. if you need to make your plans for the weekend for tomorrow, the first half of the day you are golden. you will wake up to clear skies. it will be warm and muggy but it will be rain free. the only rain the pops up will be between 3:00 and 8:00 much like we had today. we are only talking 15 to 20% of the area picking up an isolated shower. they will not be passed members. they will stall out and have the rain themselves out. i 3:00 on saturday

a 40% rain chance at 5:00 or 6:00 as the storms push east of i-75. now, coming up at 5:08 i have a track the tropics for you. we have a couple of things you will need to know about them. leslee has things you need to know about as welch >> l -- as welch -- as well. >> we have a couple of things. >>> a crash somebody -- northbound on i-75. everything is off to the side of the roadways. earlier it was reported as a vehicle fire. the truck is still out there. hopefully it will be cleared up soon. absolutely no delays. heading over to memorial causeway right at island way. not seeing any delays there in the clearwater beach area. of course here over in largo indian rocks road at gulfview drive an injury accident that's tieing up at least one lane on indian rockings. a great drive 275 at fowler avenue. that's a look at weather and traffic. back to paul and gayle. >> all right, leslee. >>> breaking news this morning, new developments on the weekend bombings in new york city and new jersey. the fbi says a backpack devices was found in elizabeth, new jersey.

of days. i don't know if there are more great photographs from folks. 82 degrees this evening. a few scattered thunderstorms. 76 at 8:00 a.m. you can see downpours east of i- 75. temperatures right now, mid 80s , odessa. 84 brandon. 84 clearwater beach. palm harbor, 84 degrees. mid 7 0z out in lakeland. 73 degrees in bartow. we are talking cooler conditions largely because we are looking at the thunderstorms helping to drop some of these temperatures. quite a few clouds remain around the area from west to east, you can see the thunderstorms racing in that direction. which has been the flow today. quite a bit of dry air here to the north of us. that will continue to settle north, very nice conditions for them. this is hurricane matthew. 70 miles an hour winds moverring north, eventually with the turn as we see, lifting in that direction. that position is about 450 miles to the southeast of the city of miami. sitting across the atlantic. a big trough in the upper atmosphere lifting to the north. but, matthew will continue to move to the north around the western side of the system. so, the area of high pressure should allow matthew to continue turning to the nor

we aren't conditioned to that and in the afternoon rain mainly east of i-75 like we saw today developing inland. wednesday morning small morning rain chances, same story we're getting out of this westerly flow pattern, but overall a light flow. 40 percent chain chance tuesday, 30% chance -- 40% rain day of fall. 90 degrees for a high temperature on friday. so there's your fall. saturday, sunday the rain chances remain close to season average and keeping in mind we're in late september now, so the rain chance average will slowly go down. >> tomorrow morning's early rain will make it extra humid and muggy in the morning. >> but you like that. so it's a good way to start the day. >>> coming up next in sports tonight a pair of tampa bay lightning players score goals in th >> head coach koetter tells dan lucas how his team will function without the injured down martin. >> you can go to www.wfla.com to see more details about the come into steak 'n shake for hand-dipped fall milk shakes. better yet, come into steak 'n shake for hand-dipped fall milk shakes at half- price... ...during half-price

but most of the energy will be after 4:00 east of i-75 over in the interior sections of our viewing area. now wednesday we will begin to see the change. storms off to the northwest. if you look closely by late wednesday into thursday, you'll see that right there in case you have forgotten what that is, that's a cold front. now the front itself i'm not sold it's going to make it all the way for our viewing area. but i do think that by late thursday into friday our northern counties, citrus, hernando, pasco, sumter, maybe pinellas and hillsborough will feel some drier air coming in. the mornings you'll notice it. it's s waking up to maybe some 60s to low 70s on friday and saturday morning. that's not the case on tuesday. we still got the heat, we've got the humidity, and we have the afternoon and evening thunderstorms. okay, let's talk tropics because there's definitely some stuff to talk about here. we are past the peak of the season historically. we are right about here, but remember the caribbean can stay very active in september and october thanks to the very warm water. this will beco

the latter morning hours, we'll see some showers and storms move onshore and then eventually go east of i-75 during the afternoon. still 78 degrees in tampa. lower 70s inland. i think for the majority of us, with that 40% rain chance, we'll head back to 88 for a high temp this afternoon. vanessa? >>vanessa: a look at the roads here. we still have a crash working with lane blockage from the last hour.

but i think the bulk of them will be east of i-75 like we're seeing now. then as we head past sunset tonight, most of the rain begins to wrap up. tonight. we'll have a full look at your workweek forecast in a few minutes. >>> we're a few hours away from the first presidential debate of 2016. and it's expected to be the biggest tv audience ever for a debate. >>> that's right, it's the first time hillary clinton and donald trump will take stage together. rod carter is live in hemp stead new york for us right now. rod, tough question, what can to that, then i would be the guy that everyone would want to talk to. really don't know what to expect. i can tell you last night when i got here, there was a lot of activity all ready on this campus. and the first thing i use -- the first word i used on air was that i think this is going to be epic. i heard that a lot here. and i think that's going to be true. the debate takes place inside this auditorium. and there are 100 million people expected to tune in tonight to see this. and i want to show you something. take a

with this humidity though we're going to translate that into some afternoon the storms will push east of i-75 when it's not raining on you a high of 90. so at 6:38 i'll have a look at the tropics and where today's rainfall could fall. >>> a look at traffic now to see what is going on out there. >> big trouble in pasco county. got an update for you. let's take a look at the maps. i've nn mention ing -- i've been mentioning this. just keep this many in mind, north 19 a motorcyclist. fhp is now calling this a fatal crash. so expect extended delays here northbound on u.s. 19, again, at state road 52. what i want you to do is hop over and take little road at this point. looks like southbound you also cannot turn onto state road 52. allow for extra time. that's a look at weather and traffic. back to paul and gayle. >> 6:32. breaking news right now. >>> scary moments over night along the veteran's expressway where witnesses reported gunfire the sheriff's office told us this morning they are investigating. now we have learned that evidence was found that confirms shots were fired but no one is in cus

as we head throughout the rest of this evening the rain will be spotty and most of it will be east of i-75. so if you have evening plans for the most part it's looking dry. tomorrow morning, lots sunshine to start the day and average teat drier air in place not going to see a lot in the way of rain again. they'll be warm though right back up into the low 90s. heading into saturday, great start to the weekend. dry start on saturday. and then we'll keep it mostly dry into the afternoon hours. high pressure is building in. which drier air aloft. that means not a lot in the way of rainfall. out in the tropics we are tracking what is still tropical depression karl expected to become a hurricane into this weekend but not going to be tropical storm lisa also right now expected to weaken and that's also not going to be affecting florida or the u.s. so for us fairly dry the next few days and our rain chances increase heading into next week. and our temperatures stay hot. near 90. >>> all right julie thank you. coming up, creating jobs for veterans. see how one company is filling much-needed emergen

east. again, lakeland affected by this across i-for and most of this is east of i-75. so that some good news if you're headed into the roadway. but check out the lightning strikes over the last half hour. over 2200 lightning strikes. this is a really intense storm. the biggest concern with the severe thunderstorm warning is for 60 mile-per-hour wind i haven't seen any reports of damage but feel freeo let us know if you do see any in your area. you can see everything is clear off to the west. this is one batch of intense even potentially severe storms moving through eastern hillsborough county. into polk county. but the rest of the area seems more typical hit or miss showers and storms that we see so often this time of year. as we continue through the night we'll see more of these but i've got some good news for you headed into the weekend forecast coming next. >> all right. thank you. >>> looking live now at the stage right there, it is set for the first presidential race , that showed on happening in less than five hours. a debate happening, i should say, hofstra univ

of nice. a nice drive out there for friday. so you can't beat that. we're looking great out there on the interstates. this is a live look here at i-4 just east of i-75. a little more cars on the road, but you are looking at a smooth ride from lakeland into tampa. checking the drive across the courtney campbell drive. to speed taking just ten minutes to get across the courtney campbell at this time. let's talk about construction at wesley chapel. we had a road closure with old pasco road between state route 52. the residents can get through. everyone else will have to find an alternate. you might wand to try i-75. at the moment, i-75 is looking great. as you can see, traffic indicators are in the green so no issues deiah? >>> coming up, burrito lovers rechoice. the chipotle drone delivery service has finally hit the skies. this experiment isn't just about delivering burritos to hundreds of customers. it's shaping the faa. >>> a woman's dramatic 911 call led police to a man's arrest. ryan smith has details in today's gma first look. >> reporter: in this morning's details investigators are piecing together, painting the portrait of a possible serial ki

and then they'll shift east of i-75 during the afternoon. one of those things where, as you get toward, say, the evening commute, most of the activity will be along i-95. winds of 35 miles per hour. again, there's not much left to the tropical depression but what's left is likely to just hang around for the next few forecast track, it's just a big circle, not going to do much the next few days but there's not much to it in general. ian is gone. not gone yet. it's still out in the north atlantic but what we're watching now is the new tropical depression. i know it barely got off the coast of africa and it achieved the spin. 35-mile-per-hour winds and here is tropical depression number 12. now, td12 will likely become tropical storm karl. few days from now as it does struggle with some drier air for a few days and then starts to get its act together as it approaches the islands sometime by the middle of next week. so it's thursday. next tuesday, it's still not to the islands yet. that's how far away it is. plenty of time to keep an eye on that.

best storm coverage is east of i-75. here's the seven-day forecast, rain chances up to 40% through wednesday, but how about friday and saturday? a little milder until the mornings, maybe dropping the rain chances. i hope it pans out. >> anjuli: we're going to try this again. an old south tampa eyesore is getting a new lease on life. a church is taking over a old movie theater serving up films and faith. it's this week's "faith in action." for years it was overlooked. >> they think it's dirty. >> anjuli: told this south tampa movie theater is getting a second shot. it got a makeover of sor year thanks to new owners with an outside the box vision. >> we had a big dream to take this place and really renovate the whole facility for movies and the church and make it beautiful. >> four months later the $500,000 renovation is finally complete. it's now home to radiant church, a young congregation with big dreams for the future. >> the place is functional. 1400 plus people every surgeoned comes here now to experience church in so

but we will see the afternoon breezes starting to kick in later this afternoon and primarily east of i-75. 20% chance of a couple of showers. outside right now, we are at 77 degrees. the dew point at 72. humidity currently sits at 84%. and currently we have calm winds across the area. so 72 over same over in bartow. lakeland at 73 degrees. along the coastline, temperatures are generally running in the upper 70s to right around 80 degrees in st. petersburg. otherwise across the state pretty much the same story but down across the keys you can see temperatures running in the 80s. some lower 70s once you get up in the northern part of the state and into the panhandle. the high pressure really controls the weather across much of the state. we still have enough moisture to the south to produce some otherwise, we continue to see that dry air in the mid and upper levels of the atmosphere over the northern part of the state an down into central florida. that will stick around for about another day. we keep that rain chance about 20% for today, but then we start to work the rain chance back up som

east of west chase. up and down the veterans. 4 and east of i-75 around valrico, did you see that lightning strike live, this is south of brandon, also into the pleasant grove area. and like i mentioned, around valrico and into seffner. so it's not widespread. but certainly touching some of the higher populated areas. and some of our major roads through hillsborough county. also into polk county, we have a little bit of rain across i- 4. but, again, this is pretty isolated rain overall for our area. and temperatures have pretty hot and steamy today as a result of the lack of rain. 90 degrees in zephyrhills and brandon. brooksville at 90. 91 in lake wales. the heat is on. we will continue to see isolated showers and storms here tonight. and i'll help you to time out the showers and storms for tomorrow if you're interested in a round of golf or maybe going for a jog, i'll help you time that out coming up. >> thank you, shay. >>> we've got brand-new look today, our first look in fact at the ferry that will take tampa to st. petersburg. >> the video that you see behind us is a promotional video from the com

the latter morning hours, we'll see some showers and storms move onshore and then eventually go east of i-75 during the afternoon. still 78 degrees in tampa. lower 70s inland. i think for the majority of us, with that 40% rain chance, we'll head back to 88 for a high temp this afternoon. vanessa? >>vanessa: a look at the roads here. we still have a crash working with lane blockage from the last hour. travelling 75 northbound direction in the sun city center area. outside lanes blocked north of the sun city area exit. meantime, our speeds are looking good and our travel times as well so buckle up, be safe and enjoy. >>jennifer: this morning, former israeli president peres has died. that comes two weeks after he suffered' major stroke. he minister on three separate occasions before becoming the country's president. he will be remembered for being instrumental in the peace process. >>russell: 1994 he shared the nobel peace prize with the then prime minister and palestinian leader yasser arafat for their work at the oslo accords. president obama released a statement. a light has gone out but the

so pushing a lot of the rain during the afternoon and evening east of i-75. and you can see there will be pockets where you get heavy rain, some places left out of that. but at times throughout the even, again, continuing with 60% even after the sun sets. here's today rain chances, 60%. and i'm keeping the rain chance right at 60% again for tomorrow. again, a lot of moisture still lingering around. and before the rain chances come down, 50% for thursday. and down to 40% rain chance for friday and saturday. and by the way, we have a tropical storm out there. tropical storm ian. right now, 45 miles per hour winds but this is going to be a problem for no one. these are the favorite kind of storm, the fish storms. doesn't get close to us. doesn't get close to the green land. juta moving up to the northern central atlantic ocean there. 89degrees, watch for the downpours as more clouds develop. 76degrees overnight time period. and tomorrow, still 89. still a 60% rain chance. eventually those rain chances do come back down to 40% as we head through the weekend. the g

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for the evening, isolated showers and thunderstorms will mainly be east of i-75. when you wake up tomorrow morning, extra clouds and only rain, especially south of i-4 into tomorrow due to slightly drier air slipping in. thursday morning will feel more pleasant. and thursday afternoon, we call for just a 20% rain chance in the forecast. the rain chances are dropping off as we head into the end of the week. this weekend, pretty classic for us. a 30% afternoon rain chance. with highs in the upper 80s. >> all right, thank you. >>> well, folk, it looks like and angelina jolie. jolie has filed for divorce. they married in august of 2014. a source says both sides want a friendly break-up. tmz is reporting that jolie is asking for physical custody of the six children and pitt to receive visitation. >>> and today we have extras from the emmy awards. >> and a broadway record breaker as well. >> thank you. >> reporter: she won an emmy for playing marsha clark in the people v o.j. simpson. paying tribute to clark afterward. the la times reports that she snuck her into the win

with the west coast sea breeze, and then i think what we'll watch for today instead of spotty storms, there's the potential a couple more may pack a punch east of i-75 with a 50% rain chance in polk and highlands and a 40% rain chance in tampa and more like a 30% rain chance as the beach. so here we go. we have light winds, high pressure to the north, low pressure to the east. tropical depression julia still instead of falling apart may actually bring rain to the carolinas. speaking of rain, we have an actual cold front bringing welcome rain to the northeast. a lot of them are in a drought. behind the front it's welcomed and feels like fall. enjoy it in chicago and minneapolis, 66 in bristol, 72 in new york city. for us today 90 in tampa and 92 in bartow and lake placid. lots of heat. a lot going on in the tropics. we have julia with the advisory coming we have tropical storm karl which struggled this weekend with wind shear, but it will strengthen into the week ahead. not going to impact us and maybe bermuda. a new disturbance out to sea lifting north and west. 70% chance that becomes lisa. here's julia, 30-mile-per-hour winds moving north-northwes

overall rain chance 40% over the coast and inland locations east of i-75, 50% during the arrive. >>russell: take a look at your florida amber alert has been issued for two missing siblings out of citrus county. 3-year-old ryland williams and 1-year-old mason williams forcible ji taken from their guar guardians' house by their mother. stacie williams and her husband ryan could be headed to west virginia with the children. they may be travelling in a 2000 white fort expedition with a florida tag dnsc62. if you've seen the vehicle or 911. >>jennifer: five pipe bombs were discovered in a backpack at a strain station in elizabeth, new jersey. a robot dismantled the devices but it exploded during the. parts of the robot were blown off. no one was hurt but two homeless men reportedly found the backpack in a trash can when they noticed something suspicious. train service was suspended along the northeast corridor. it's not clear if those devices were in manhattan saturday night. earlier in the night, the f.b.i. and nypd conducted a traffic stop near the bridge with links the new york city