do you have some lanes going eastbound on gandy and also on 275. what i know is a vehicle partially overturned, ran into a guard rail and a person inside is stuck. serious injuries here. they are asking you to avoid the area. you are able to get through but there is such a large presence of police officers and emergency vehicle on scene. be sure to give yourself time heading in that direction. i'm also on top of an accident on the courtney campbell causeway and westbound lanes into pinally as county. the accident is on the tampa side actually. tampa police are on scene here. let's go live and check out the scene. you can see that police are still here trying to figure out exactly what happened. what we know right now is this is a hit and run accident t happened at 4:00 this morning. and the driver who fled the scene was taken into custody. two people were seriously injured in the accident. they are telling us that the westbound lanes won't open up for several hours. you can see traffic on the right-hand side of your screen. they are getting by on t

. >>> now, the midlands most accurate forecast with chief meteorologist jim gandy. >> cold, dry air settled over the area today. this morning 29 at the airport. 27 in the city. 43 in the city and 44 degrees at the airport. tonight we will see colder temperatures. already is 38 degrees -- winds are clear. . tonight we are expecting a low of 24 degrees. tomorrow we will warm up to 49. but skies becoming partly cloudy. clouds tomorrow night. a low temperature then of 35. . more the forecast is coming >> thank you. >>> today president obama announced new actions to fight gun violence in america. the move would expand the number of gun sales that are subject to gun sales closing the gun show loophole. and researching smart gun technology. president obama surrounded by families of gun violence victims including the widow of the south carolina pastor and state senator clementa pinckney. he broke into tears when talking about the first graders killed at sandy hook elementary school three years ago. this is an issue that is colby gallagher spoke to groups on both sides of the issue. >> if it saves o

the howard frankland and the gandy are looking great right now. the eastbound lanes of gandy boulevard at i-275 in the southbound lanes of i-275, actually the exit ramp, this a roadblock in the eastbound lanes. we're going to keep our eye on it and let you know if you need to take an alternate. your alternate would be to the south, 62nd avenue north. we'll be watching these crashes. >>> if you're headed out the door right now, you are definitely heading out to some cold temperatures, frost advisory across much of the area and freeze warnings for citrus and hernando counties this morning where temperatures are at or below freezing across 40 degrees right now in tampa, 49 in st. pete, 34 in sarasota. we're definitely off to a chilly start. with clear skies, you may also find some frost this morning on your windshield. so give yourself an extra moment to scrape that off if you need to. and by 4:00 today, we're still under clear skies, lots of sunshine today and winds shifting from the east to the southeast. we are going to be warming up a bit. by tom

hey, david gandi's -- >> tinie, looks fun, huh? >> yeah, he is.done so much for fashion in the music industry as well. what's so interesting, we were talking about, you know, are men really interested in fashion? well, yes, they are. so many designers over 65, you also have something called new generation, the young designers coming up through the ranks and the top show was attended by so many staff. >> is this mainstream clothing? weren't some of them models. the one next to you with the yellow shirt. >> with a horse. >> you mean you didn't like it? >> different tastes. >> i think that's right. it is an acquired taste, but what you see on the catwalk is diluted onto the high street in a much more commercial way. i think it's the same with the womenswear. i don't know if i'll wear that, it's a bit see through but it's adapted for mainstream. >> tanya, thank you so much for that. i wish you would have brought us more pictures of david gandi. >> i'll try to get him into the studio. >> your avenue married. >> i'm told we have to -- i'm told we have t

the gandy pbridge or leave your house pearly. pso we have been on the howard pfranklin now for five minutes. pand now when we're starting to pget to the peak. pbridge itself. psteve, i don't know if you can pshoot it but you can still see pslow moving bumper to bumper. pat one point when he was talking pit was at stand still. pvery interesting to see what, phow long it takes us to get into pdowntown tampa at 7:30 this pmorning it tooks us a half hour. pi'll let you know how long it ptakes us 8:30 this morning pcoming up in the 9 o'clock hour pas well. pback to you guys. pthat's never been an easy pstretch of road to drive this pmakes a bad situation even pworse. pcareful out there. psure does. p>> deputies are still searching pfor a robber which who might phave the sweetest spelling pants pin town. p>> he's been spotted on psurveillance stuffing perfume pdown his pants. pdetectives say he walked into a pjc penney on grand view parkway erfume. p7 bottles. pdeputies have been looking for phim since last monday. pthey need your help

. >>> now, the midlands most accurate forecast with chief meteorologist jim gandy. >> today we see see nothing but sunshine. high deludes the south. temperatures -- high clouds to the south. temperatures on the cool side. cooler to the north. charlotte is at 44 degrees. 52 augusta. in atlanta it is 49 degrees. here in columbia sunshine. it is 51 degrees. winds at 7 miles per hour but it has been a very dry day. our humidity right now just 23%. the dew point at 14 degrees. how dry it is outside. tonight with clear skies and light winds we drop to 28. tomorrow will be warmer. it will be sunny. temperature of 63 degrees. we will start out clear morrow night but increasing clouds over night with a low temperature of 37 degrees. and there are changes ahead. we will take a look at that coming up in a few minutes. [ music ] >>> democratic president candidate, hillary clinton, bernie sanders and martin o'malley will be speaking maind in clum -- monday in columbia. similar to 2008 when the candidates spoke at the event. king day is organized by the south carolina naacp. it began in 2000 and had

southbound 275 at peastbound gandy. pavoid this area if you can. pif you're exiting the interstate pthis morning, think about 54th pavenue north as a better exit pramp for you to take there. plive look here at 275 and gandy plooking to the south. pyou can see no problems along pthe through lanes. pthis accident is reported on pthat southbound 275 exit ramp. plaura? p>>laura: all right, courtney. pthank you. p2016 hasn't been all gloom and pdoom. pafter being snowed in most of plittle stream yesterday. pmassive snow ball fight broke pout in d.c. as one of several pfacebook. ptheme. pthe snow ball strikes back. p>>russell: and then at the white phouse, the first family's dogs psnow. phere they're playing together in pthe heavy snowfall. pthat storm dumped nearly two pfeet on d.c. and the blizzard pbrought several northeastern pcities to a stand still. pnice. p>>laura: cute. pvideo of the panda. pdid you see that? p>>russell: we have to find that. p>>laura: that was great. p>>russell: cutest thing i've pever seen. p>>dave:

we are having technical difficulties jim gandy's microphone. >> reporter: proposals to bring hundreds of apartments, restaurants and shops to forest drive. news 19's janae frazier is live from the site of the proposal project with more on what has residents upset. voicing their concernsoon facebook page -- concerns on a facebook page, their major concern is an increase in traffic on forest drive which they say is already congested. the beach company is the developer of the project on forest drive. the development would include 298 apartments and 55,000 square feet of commercial businesses, restaurants and shops. i spoke with a woman who lost a family member on forest drive, he opposed to the plan because of an increase in traffic and the development manager said they took the traffic concerns and implemented them into their plan and believes the plan is a great one. >> i wonder about water, sewer, those things. we haven't even gotten fix from the floods yet. >> smaller commercial restaurants and the shops that will be attractive to the neighborhood with the traffic improvements it wil

. >>> now, the midlands most accurate forecast with chief meteorologist jim gandy. >> today was chilly. this morning we dropped to 26 degrees at the airport. 27 in the city. both locations warmed up to 51 degrees. we averaged below normal for this time of year. now he had clouds. temperatures 46 degrees. winds from the northeast at 5 miles per hour. that is producing a wind chill of 44. we are expecting cloudy skies, 34 degrees, partly cloudy skies tomorrow and 56 for our high. to remember night the clouds come back in with a low temperature of 42. >> thank you. >>> following devastation from the floods the south carolina chamber of commerce listed infrastructure as their top concern and calling to fund $600 million annually towards fixing the roads and sustaining them as well. drivers say the flood uncovered that our infrastructure was worse than they ought and we can't keep patching over the issues. >> i think they are horrible and the worse in the country. >> we live in the patch and prey thing. i don't know if you drive our freeways bought lot of places they hope that it holds. >>

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. >>> now, the midlands most accurate forecast with chief meteorologist jim gandy. >> it has been a dry and cool day across the area. at the airport. 30 in the city. warmedwarmed up to 51 in the city. temperatures 40 keys 40 -- 40 degrees and calm conditions. temperatures should drop to 28 degrees tonight. tomorrow we will see sunshine. warmer, up to 63 and tomorrow night an increase in clouds with a low temperature of 37. i will have the rest of the forecast coming up. >> thank you. >>> today folks offered comments and concerns surrounding the state department of transportation. news 19's janae frazier explains the issues. >> there has been instability at the top. >> don't have the money to pay the contractors. >> reporter: one by one people discussed issues and concerns during a over sight committee meeting. >> the process that is important for transparency is not required to be followed. the state chamber said this is something that needs to be required. >> reporter: issues about the need for more funding and resources were discussed but the roads were not the only topic of discussio

. >>> now, the midlands most accurate forecast with chief meteorologist jim gandy. >> it has been chilly today. this morning we dropped down to 27 degrees at the airport. 30 in the city. 50 in the city, 51 degrees at the airport. we averaged 9 degrees below normal for this time of year. winds from the west at 3 miles per hour. tonight the winds will be light. skies will be clear. expecting a low temperature of 26. tomorrow 55 it will by windy tomorrow, 15-25 miles per hour and gusty and then the winds diminish tomorrow night with a low temperature of 29. more coming up. >> thank you. >>> lawmakers met today to discuss the investigation of three women's health clinics that provide abortions. today they were asked about their knowledge about the disposal of fetal tissue from abortions under the investigation. dhec said all fetal tissue is required to be cremated or donated. there is no evident of them accepting money for donations. the investigation started when the governor called for a >> i think that had we not had this investigation there would have been people saying you didn't do you

>>reporter: i am jim gandy in breckenridge, colorado . i have been attending the weather and climate summit. the sun came out and is beautiful. but in the conference. the big news has been the storm back east. we are keeping our eyes on that and we will be wrapping things up in breckenridge early because of the storm and it turns out that many of the attendees at the conference this year, from back east so they are trying to beat the storm home but in the meantime we will continue with what we have been doing here we have some exciting things happening what you may not know, there will be a new generation of weather satellites that will be put into orbit at the end of this year and the project director is giving us all of the details of how that satellite will improve weather forecasting and improve our ability to warn for storms that what we are seeing here we are excited to be part of the actions and i will try one more from breckenridge, colorado. i am jim gandy in. >> don't to do it. don't to do it. >> he might be good at it. should i

. >> i am jim gandy in colorado. it is not about snow here. right now it is about weather and climate change. br >>> the dog park in columbia shut down for repairs. city leaders telling us the fencing is being repaired after >>> you noticed our chief meteorologist hasn't been with us the last few days because he is at a weather conference in colorado where the snow is coming down. >> reporter: i am jim gandy at the climate summit where we are meeting with scientists from around the country and studying today i got a chance to have an interview with dr. phil. you may not recognize the name but you probably recognize the name of dr. bill gray who gives the hurricane season forecast from colorado state university. dr. gray started those in 1984. but he has now taken over and for 11 years he has been providing the hurricane season forecast. we had a good discussion about that and we may be going into a new trend as far as hurricanes are concerned which might impact south carolina. that is something i will share with you later. in the meantime we a

. >>> now, the midlands most accurate forecast, with jim gandy, chief meteorologist. >> most of the rain has moved out of the midlands, we have one lone shower to the south of the orangeburg area. the rain is coming to an end. we have clouds around. and today that kept our high temperature actually occurred before daybreak in both the airport and the city. 51 degrees and we drop down to 44 degrees in both locations. it's cloudy, 47 degrees, winds are from the northwest at 3 miles per hour. we're expecting to see clearing with a low of 35, and tomorrow we'll have a sunny day with a high of 60 and we'll have clear skies with a low of 32. >>> hundreds of our ventures walked the halls at midlands tech. there's an initiative to help more vets further their education. >> ultimately i ended up with a traumatic bang injury on a mission. >> transitioning back to life was hard. >> there's stigma about veterans, don't hire a veteran because of ptsd. returning to civilian life isn't easy. >> you pay a weapon with you wherever you have to go. in transition, you have to forget all of the stuff that yo

mother nature cooled things down and we are in store for jim gandy >>> you are watching news 19 at 6:00 p.m. with jr berry and darci strickland. >> chilly out there today. >> yeah. i would agree with you on that. cold this morning. >> not used to it. >> no. no. it is january. we shouldn't be complaining about the cold temperatures but we got spoiled in december. >> it was colder than normal today by 7 degrees. >> then we will keep complaining. >> this is what we saw around the area today. we saw plenty of sunshine. but it wasn't enough to warm us up. clear skies. dry air mass. we had a breeze which kept the wind chill honest throughout the day. high pressure is over the central appellations. it is covering everything east of the mississippi river with clear skies with the exception down in florida and showers in western oklahoma but much of the country right now under dry conditions and chilly temperatures. most readings in the 30s, 20s and 30s. 40s here in the southeast. even out west temperatures continue to be cold. in south carolina right now temperatures look like this. 40 degree

. >>> now, the midlands most accurate forecast with chief meteorologist jim gandy. >> it was chilly this morning but the shine helped to warm us up. low this morning was 33 at the airport. 34 in the city. 61 in ththcity and 62 degrees at the airport. right now skies are clear. winds diminishing. temperatures now 51 degrees and winds out of the southwest at 7 miles per hour. tonight we are expecting clear skies, light winds. low temperature of 30 throws. tomorrow sunny and 64 -- degrees. tomorrow sunny and 64 and a low tomorrow night of 39. i will have the weekend forecast coming up. >> thank you so muchch >>> a pretty cool new project will take your idea for the midlands and what it needs and make it happen but organizers say it will take the community's participation to make it work. the sorry and how you could get involved. >> reporter: a website where anyone from anywhere across the midlands region of any age could log on with a facebook profile and smit ip150 characters or less their -- submit in 150 characters or less their idea. >> reporter: snow your choice potation now is your ch

it may be causing backups on the gandy bridge. 11 miles an hour just as you reach the tampa side. you can actually open up the cameras and see what it looks like. not only that crash, but i think a lot of cars are trying to avoid the howard frankland and moving over to the gandy. that is increasing the drive time this morning. let's check the drive times, 11 minutes on the causeway, 24 on the howard frankland. 17 on the gandy. the gandy is usually our quickest bridge but again a little slow this morning, you might want to consider the courtney campbell across. a quick check of 275 looking great. 17 minutes from the apex to i- 4. >>> if you're headed out now certainly a beautiful-looking start to the day but boy, is it chilly out there. no rain in sight. those clouds are what helped our temperatures a little bit higher than what they would have been jury otherwise. spring hill 44, tampa 47. clearwater 43. siesta key 49. to come back up from our morning lows but it's still going to be chilly through the next couple of hours. even this afternoon with a high of 58 degrees, that is wel

jim gandy, could you grow this in the garden? >> no. we don't have room for it. >> no. [ laughter ] >> this is the cabbage program in south carolina. it was randomly selected by the department of agricultural. he is going to get a $1,000 saverrings bond for that amaze -- savings bond for that amazing looking cabbage. . >> we have -- we have got beautiful red cabbage but it is not mature yet so i am just waiting. >> cabbage is something you have to protect right now? >> yes, when they -- it does okay but it starts to be damaged a little bit once it we have the cabbagealize covered right now -- cabbages all covered right now. . >> i 25,000 -- 25,000 kids participated in that program. >> he will win a thousand dollars. good job. you are getting a thousand dollars. >> and good eating. [ laughter ] >>> it was cold this morning. some areas colder than others. greenwood 20 degrees this morning. 25 degrees in rock hill. 23 greenville. in sumpter 26. 29 degrees for columbia and also in orangeburg and 30 degrees down in charleston. we saw plenty

gandy boulevard and manhattan, no problems. we'll check traffic again in 15 minutes. >>> breaking news in northwest pakistan -- where moments ago the taliban taking responsibility for a terrorist attack on a university. gunmen stormed the campus shortly after it opened for classes today. at least 20 students and one professor died in the attack. pakistani soldiers ended the siege killing all four gunmen. the pakistan prime minister now vowing to wipe out terrorism in his country. >>> the u.s. and south korea are vowing to make north korea pay a high price for its recent nuclear test. u.s. deputy secretary of state met with south korean officials in soul this morning to -- seoul this morning to discuss making changes in the north. south korea's foreign minister says it's time for the international community to stand up to pyongyang. >>> staid sad news from hawaii where the coast guard is suspending its search for 12 marines missing since two helicopters crashed off the coast of oahu. a five-day search turned up no signs of the m

. >>> when 275 looks like this, down to 16 miles per hour, or less than want we see, the gandy bridge to the south can be a good one, if you take it it can be just as congested as you are go into tampa, during rush hour times, it is usually your quietest bridge, so that would be your best bet if it makes sense for you, if this morning, like this morning, every bridge was backed up, tampa road to the north is your best alternate route, that goes to hillsborough avenue and hooks up with the veterans expressway, let's talk about events, we have a lot of them coming up. usually during event times most people are taking 2795 into tampa. so then the gandy and courtney campbell causeway will be your best bet, you can keep up with on our app, search for 10 news in the app store. >>> if you do have time to take the howard frankland, you see the traffic right here, right traffic by exiting right here at kennedy boulevard and highway. and if you take i 275 in the morning you know it's not a headache in the evening, hillary has you cover weekend 5:00-7:00. >>> happening right now, a huge part of

at that point you might want to take tampa road through oldsmar or the howard frankland of the gandy bridge. i'll keep my eye on this. this is a live look at i-4 west of i-75. traffic is picking up a little bit but no crashes or breakdowns to talk about right now. 21 minutes from county line road to downtown, 14 minutes from county line road to 75 and seven minutes from 75 to 275. board is okay but they're certainly shaken up after a small plane was forced to happened along the highway in broward county. the pilot noticed engine roughness and didn't want to risk continuing the flight. it was headed to the keys. he he had two passengers with him but everybody is okay. >>> this morning severe turbulence is blamed for sending three flight attendants and four passengers on a flight to the hospital. the jet made an emergency landing in newfoundland, canada. one passenger said she thought she was going to die, telling reporters the plane rolled on its side and dropped twice. >>> a gun battle over a $25 service charge left a father and son dead. the argument started at a gun refused to pay

frontage road access to gandy boulevard closed permanently. your alternate and trust me there are plenty of signs, mlk to 94th to get right on to gandy boulevard. back to you. no 5:02. tampa bay buccaneers looking for a new head coach after firing lovie smith last night. >> a lot of folks are talking about this. that decision was made after the team won only eight games abc action news reporter adam winer is live now at 1 buck place where we're expecting to hear more from the bucs management today. >> what are you hearing and seeing from the league about this decision? >> reporter: actually, despite the record a lot of people are very surprised by the decision to fire lovie smith. in part because whoever is going to hire next makes it three head coaches in five years. there was a lot of disappointment with the team this year especially after the team pulled themselves into position to compete and lost their four games of the season. the general manager expected to oversee the process for finding a new head coach and this afternoon he's set to

seven minutes across the howard frankland and six minutes across the gandy. it depends if you want to go to the one of the alternates. if not, leave yourself a few extra minutes if you're headed we'll keep our eye on this. this could cause some significant backup as the morning commute picks up. there's no crashes or breakdowns on other roads in the area. >>> it was pretty cold when i walked outside this morning. >> it will be warmer this afternoon. we're off to a very cold start to the day for our standards this time of year. temperatures are below freezing in homassasa, 28 degrees, crystal river at 31, and in hernando county where we also have a freeze warning until 9:00 this morning, you can see temperatures are at or above freezing around ridge manor into brooksville, spring lake. hernando beach is at 30 degrees. once you get around tampa bay the temperatures get more mild. we have a lot of temperatures in the 30s and hovering just above freezing in lutz and in in tampa the temperature has come down to 39 degrees. this afternoon you may shed a layer becau

and great drive across the gandy bridge though. state road 54 at oakstead, no delays from the earlier accident. traffic looks good on dale mabry highway all the way in to south tampa at this point. that's weather and traffic on the 8s. >> okay. >>> well pirates are already prepping their invasion of tampa bay. coming up, how tampa is preparing for its big event of the year. >> that's right. and also don't mess with this mom. how she managed to scare two men trying to steal her car at a florida gas station. the entire thing caught on camera. >> many of us grew up learning there were nine planets. [coughing] [coughing] [coughing] [coughing] [coughing] coughing disrupts everyone's life. that's why so for longer lasting delsym has an advanced time release formula that helps silence coughs for a full 12 hours. that's three times longer than the leading cough liquid. all night... >>> today in florida, listen to the details of this story, a west palm beach man waking up behind bars now accused of a horrible crime. >> police believe he dec

i-275 off of gandy bridge all of those areas will be busy. give yourself plenty of time. festivities kick off tomorrow at 11:00. polk county not looking too bad. polk parkway a delay approaching bartow road at 52 that's morning rush hour. i-4 drivers heading into tampa from polk parkway over to i-75 it is taking 15 minutes. that is a normal drive time for you. sarasota, manatee counties i'm watching the roads for you. as of now no accidents reported or significant delays. i-75, u.s. 301 and u.s. 41 looking good. if you have any problems on the roadways send me an e-mail. i'm your road warrior. i'll take care of traffic issues out there. e-mail me at roadwarrior@wtsp.com. >>> it happened in the bay area. >> a spring hill family is dealing with a depression in their yard. >>> if it catches fire you'll now get a refund. amazon offering a deal for all hover boards sold on its sight. >>> live outside to tampa international airport. we are watching the big boards. thousands of flights canceled nationwide because of this historic snow storm heading to d.c. in the middle of it al

we're going to check out the gandy bridge now. once you get across over to tampa, about 8 minutes to get across the gandy bridge now. less than 10 minutes across the howard frankland and courtney let's look at the drive times on the veterans, in the green as you might expect. major interstates, i-4, i-75 into tampa, looking great. pushing 70, 67 the average speed in pinellas county. from the sunshine skyway down >>> 5:02. county sheriff's office just telling us deputies arrested a false report about planting a bomb at pineview middle school. we're not naming the teen but deputies say he's an eighth grader at the school. the cybercrimes team discovered the threat on instagram suggesting a bomb would go off today at 9:45 when the bell rings. the sheriff's office believes it's false and there's no threat to the school or students. the student will remain out of school pending an expulsion hearing for the second degree felony charge. >>> in hillsborough county firefighters are investigating what started a fire overnight at a vacant ho

and less than 10 minutes across the howard frankland and gandy bridge. so looking great there. behind me here's a live look at i-4 around the ybor city area, nothing going on here, up to speed, no trouble getting into downtown tampa. let's check your drive times on i-4, starting all the way back at county line road, 23 minutes to get into downtown. 15 minutes from county line road to 75 and just eight minutes from 75 to 275. checking the drive from the south, this is i-75 heading up towards tampa, 28 minutes from all the way back at 275 to i-4. 10 minutes at the bottom there from gibsonton drive to i-4. into a $1.5 billion win. it's powerball drawing day. we could see a winner tonight. >> at one point last night there were more than 18,000 powerball tickets sold every minute and if that trend continues today the jackpot could climb even higher than that. >> abc action news reporter lindsay logue live in tampa, at a wawa where powerball sales are happening in less than hand hour. less than an hour. >> reporter: it's running at 6:00 a.m. $1.5 billion on the table tonight. some ex

and gandy looks good too. eastbound martin luther king at falkenburg lane, an accident in the eastbound lane. and past hillsborough avenue is off to the shoulder with no delays. that's weather and traffic. back to gene and gayle. >> thanks, leslee. >>> happening today, the bucs are expected to name a new head coach. news channel 8 will be there in just a few hours when the bucs officially name offensive coordinator dirk koetter as lovie smith's replacement. >> now a lot of people talking about this online this morning and news channel 8's adrienne pedersen has been tracking the reaction for us. what's the verdict? are they happy with the announcement? >> reporter: good morning, gene and gayle. you know the mood seems to be cautiously optimistic. we will get to these comments in a second but first, let's hear from some of other fans. >> i think lovie smith had a good shot. i wish he could have one more year. just to see. because it was much better than last year. but i hope that someone on the inside really kno

. >>> now, the midlands most accurate forecast, with chief meteorologist jim gandy. >> we saw a little bit of light rain move through the area this morning, and by late this morning, much of that rain had already moved out into the coastal region. it continued to move away, but we're remaining with clouds over the area, low clouds, we have a wedge of cool air set is settled into the carolinas. 47 degrees in asheville and in greenwood. 58 degrees over at macon as well as down in savannah. 46 degrees in raleigh, here in columbia, cloudy, 50 degree, our winds are from the north-northeast at 6 miles per hour. here's our forecast for tonight, we're going to be seeing cloudy skies, might be a little bit of drizzle, but not any measurable rain. the low temperature 46. it stays cloudy tomorrow. we're going to be seeing some through late in the day, continuing into tomorrow evening. the high tomorrow, 57, with a low tomorrow night of 51. now, let's take a look at the traffic around the area for this afternoon. and we'll start on the northwest side of town, the lexington highway, moving in prett

on the gandy it's taking about 20 minutes also. the gandy is usually our sure bet. a lot of congestion, a lot of people trying to avoid the howard frankland and moving to the gandy. so now at this moment the 10 minutes is your quickest bridge across. average speeds from the wesley chapel area, 47 your average speed on 275 southbound, pushing 70 now on i-75. on the veterans, things slowly getting back to normal, 25 minutes now from 54 to 275. >>> today madeira beach is looking into a designer drug problem. pinellas authorities say it's become a huge issue at the county and the beaches. we're told some of the biggest offenders are flacka and kradum. flacka can be so intense users are high for days and cradum is an addictive psychoactive drug that can't be detected in drug tests. today a new ordinance will be introduced leaders hope will put a dent in the issue. the goal is to avoid a problem that has come up in other ordinances become unendorsable. >>> overdose reversal kits are available for any high school that wants to carry them. thanks to a new initiative announc

now the gandy is backed up, 30 minutes across the gandy, howard frankland and courtney looking better now. >>> fortunately it's a win/win weatherwise. look at the rivergate tower tampa camera, you can see it's a beautiful start to the day. we have more cloud cover today, that is going to be the case all throughout the day. it's not going to be an overcast day though. certainly some sunshine in the mix. 56 degrees now in tampa. we're in the 50s from top-to- bottom, left to right now and much warmer start to the day than yesterday. we're going to be finishing the day in the low to mid-70s. a nice warm-up ahead. nice and dry throughout the day as well. once we get past sunset the rain chances start going up. then the storm chances really in the morning. we will have a chance for some severe storms in the mix tomorrow. right now looks like a very low risk but again want you to be aware there's a threat of [ cheers and applause ] >>> welcome back to "gma" in our supersaver showdown. some very fresh fans here too. >> they're excited to be here as are our three saving experts competing again

-- pat the 7-eleven on gandy and pwest shore. pi'm buying my ticket right now. pwhat do you think? pwhat do you think? pthis is your call, right? p>> yeah. p>>reporter: you guys are going pto be crazy this afternoon. pi fully expect you're going to pbe busy. pquick pick -- doesn't look too pgood. owerball number at 14. pso there it is. pif i win, i will come to work ptomorrow. p>>russell: i'll bet you will. pyou're coming to work to rubber pnose us. pi know you that well. p>>reporter: just coming to go plike this. paha. p>>russell: i would not do that. psee you later. ptake care. p>>reporter: karma is never good. p>>russell: all right. pjust six days do not play owerball. palabama, alaska, ohio, pmississippi and utah. pnone of them have a state run plottery, either but alabama will pthe state faces a huge budget pshortfall. putah is a different story. preligious objections over pgambling will make it difficult pfor them to add any kind of plottery. pand this is not all fun and pgames. pat 7:30, a warning about owerball scams. p>>

pi'll bet you gandy may be a plittle better. pback to you. p>> yeah. pgandy bridge is definitely your pbest bet this morning because ptraffic, as you can see with the pdrive that alcides segui is pmaking across the bridge, stop pand go there across the howard pfrankland bridge. pabout 19 miles an hour. pthis is in the area of west pthose delays continue to the phimes area. pwe do have some bad news for you pif you're planning on taking the pcourtney campbell causeway, pyou'll want to avoid that pthere. ptraffic is having to squeeze by peastbound on the courtney pcampbell cause way with an paccident near the big bridge. ptraffic is able to squeeze by on pthe shoulder but delays are back pinto pinellas county so really, pthe gandy bridge this morning is pthe best bet. p>>russell: thank you. p7:35 right now. pflorida schools get a passing pgrade, not great and it can be a plot better. pquality report from the website peducation week gives florida pschools a c minus. pwe had a couple of things pdragging us down. phigh school grd graduation rate pis 75% whi

pgandy boulevard at southbound p275, this is westbound gandy. pit looks like delays are thinned pout a bit. pd.o.t. shot, you can see rescue pon the scene of the westbound pside of gandy. pit's off to the far right pshoulder now. pjust a minor slowdown. p>>laura: thank you. phistoric blizzard over the pweekend is still causing roblems. p>>russell: the recovery may take pall week. pit could be even longer. pjoel is in washington this pmorning to assess the situation. p>>reporter: good morning. pfederal government will not open pschools are closed also as pthere's just too much snow on pthe ground to move around psafely. ptransportation crews working paround the clock trying to make pd.c. roads passable. pherculean effort required after p13.7 inches of snow officially pdumped down on washington, tying pthe record for the fourth pbiggest snowfall in d.c. phistory. pbut in a strange twist, the snow pmeasuring device used at reagan pnational airport is buried in pthe blizzard leaving weather pobservers no way to record the ptrue amount of snow for ho

and park known as gandy near the area. area bridges. and southbound on the veterans expressway, a collision right at hillsborough avenue. but the good news is, it's off to the shoulder and not slowing not yet. that's a look at weather and traffic on the 8s. back to gene and gayle. >> thank you. >>> something is disappearing checkout lane. >> ahead, the item parents won't see at an aldi that may save them headaches with the children. >>> and then python hunting season is almost here. coming up, why wildlife officials want you to help out bagging these troublesome snakes. >>> and a sleepy beach town is buzzing with news of the winning powerball ticket. a look at where we stand at finding out who hit the jackpot. the new caramel macchiato from dunkin' donuts. let hand-crafted layers and a caramel-flavored swirl uplift your mood. or iced macchiato today. get a busch gardens fun card now and let the fun begin. pay for a day, dive all year, splash all year, thrill, get your fill, and celebrate all year. climb, launch, roar, and soar all year.

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 will make your face all year. only here. p>>> good day tampa bay. pi did charley belcher coming to pyou from watson kitchen. pthey formed this company, a pcouple of years ago now? p>> yeah we've been in the pki

you can see showers scattered and across the gandy bridge, and as well as to 75. the rain is falling, and this will be done by noon time, and well, it has already set in. it is big time getting cold. rain falling in st. petersburg 52 degrees, tampa, winds out of the north-northwest at 15 miles an hour with wind gust over 20 miles an hour. you can see that we are anywhere from 10 to 15 degrees cooler than yesterday. the forecast for today showing cold showers early, clearing and 52 by noon, and the go through the afternoon, temperatures remaining in the 50s. we will have your action forecast, and including when it moment.>>> the blizzard is hitting much of the eastern seaboard of new york down to dc. building in washington dc right closed. we also want to show you what it looks like for the folks whiteout conditions. several car crashes, and within a matter of hours. in downtown philly, here is shows, snow plows working overtime, up to 2 inches falling per hour there. happening in kentucky, this is a nightmare. thousands of drivers stranded on i-75 near lexington o

. >>> now, the midlands most accurate forecast with chief meteorologist jim gandy. >> we were expecting rain today and some of you saw very light rain. you can see how the rain has dissipated as it is trying to make its way through the midlands. there have been light sprinkles. across the southern part of the midlands we have showers moving in. st. george, lake mary. spotty showers here in the midlands but we are not seeing much in the way of measurable rains. clouds kept temperatures down but it still got warmer than we were expecting. 50 charlotte. 59 degrees in augusta. in savannah, 63 degrees. in columbia 57 degrees. winds from the east at 10 miles per hour. now tonight it will be cloudy. there will be a chance of a shower with a low temperature of 41. it will be cooler tonight and tomorrow we expect to see a better chance for some rain. it will stay cloudy. the clouds will be slow to move out. 47 degrees. the high temperature. but then we will see clearing tomorrow night with a low temperature of 35. now let's take a look right now and we will look at our traffic around the area th

we have road closures on bay shore, gandy to plat is closed. also bay to bay, between bay shore and isabella. and the davis island bridge exit to the northbound side of bay shore is closing: these begin at 10:00 p.m. parade rout. these residential area, they have the no parking zones and they will implement those. you don't want to get towed. we have the invasion affecting davis island, and don't worry about tampa general. you'll always be able to get to the hospital. this whips around the route and lands around cass street. ashley is completely closed due to the street festival from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. tomorrow. it will be very busy. some transportation tips here, go to gohart.org and they will transport you from ybor into downtown. the in-town trolley is free and runs along marion street, helping you get around as well. and you have the streetcar from ybor into downtown. 11:30 a.m. for the parade and you can sit at home and watch on tv if you don't want to get down there. >> we'll broadcast the parade live here on newschannel 8. i'll coh

. >>> now, the midlands most accurate forecast with chief meteorologist jim gandy. >> we started off with sunshine but we started to see moisture streaming north in the form of clouds. no rain with that. as a result temperatures warmed up a little bit. right now a44 in raleigh. 41 asheville. 44 degrees in atlanta. 50 in augusta as well as savannah. columbia it is partly cloudy. temperatures 49 degrees. winds at 6 miles per hour. wind chill not that much right now, 47 degrees. for tonight it will be chilly but not as cold as we have seen the past two nights. it will be cloudy, 34 degrees. partly cloudy tomorrow with a high of 56 and then 42 degrees tomorrow night. a look at the traffic for this afternoon across the area. todadanot too many accidents to talk about. that is a good thing. northwest side of town things are moving. lexington highway, not too bad. and interstate is in good shape across the northwest part of the city. southeast side, not too bad. one accident, way out on clemson road. otherwise the interstates are in good shape. downtown to the village 29 minutes. more on th

slow on the campbell causeway at 16, a lot quicker on the gandy at 9 miles per hour. we have a crash in pinellas southbound u.s. 19 at gandy, it's a very busy intersection for the morning commute. so to avoid this i would just take 49th street. that seems to be moving better right now. follow me on twitter @tampabaytraffic. i'll let you know as soon as that crash clears. checking the drive time on the veterans, looking slow here as well, all in the red, 52 minutes from 54 to 275. waters to 275. shay? >>> at least the weather is working in our favor. granted, it's chilly out there this morning though. temperatures in the 30s from hernando county on north into brooksville, where it's 36 now. we've had temperatures near freezing this morning in citrus and hernando county but we're starting to see them warm up some now. 46 tampa. in bartow if we are to see rain today it's in the southern counties. rain in south florida may bring a shower across the areas. otherwise, dry and sunny today >>> good morning, america. it's 8:00 a.m. big news concerning breast cancer. the huge h

. >>> now the most accurate forecast with chief meteorologist jim gandy. >> the colder air moved in last night. today we have seen a few clouds come through the area. most of the cloudiness is to the north. lilt light snow -- little night snow in the mountains of north carolina. air is colder in asheville, 29 degrees. atlanta 49 degrees. charlotte 37. savannah 52 degrees. right now partly cloudy skies here in columbia. temperatures 47 degrees. air mass is dry. winds are from the north at 16 that is producing a wind chill of 40 degrees. we haven't felt that this winter. if you are heading out this evening take a jacket with you. it will be chilly out there. over night tonight clear skies. low temperatures in the morning of 25 degrees. we warm up to 46 degrees tomorrow. tomorrow night might be colder down to 23. now the traffic around the area this afternoon. we start on the northwest side of town. right now not too bad through west columbia. slows down near i-20. we have one accident on broad river road that is slowing things down in the area. southeast side of town, slow as you head out

chief meteorologist jim gandy told us last night not to worry about it. it was going to clear up. and that's exactly what happened. when you compare the weather this year to what we had last year, wow, what a difference a year can make. >> yeah, last year, it was just so bitterly cold out there. you know, it may have affected the attendance last year but not this year. i said this earlier this evening, darcy, and i really believe we have gone through so much in 2015, the flooding, with what happened in charleston, with other tragic events in the news this year, and if people are looking get out, and tonight is a testament to that, because according to mayor benjamin, this is perhaps the biggest crowd famously hot new year has seen. >> you can see for yourself from the live shot that the crowds of people goes all the way down main street in downtown columbia. jr just mentioned, the largest crowd in the history of famously hot new year. they're using the hash tag fhny, so if you're watching from home, you want to be a part of the social media aspect of this, you can tweet from home,

live from tampa this morning at gandy boulevard and if you go to bed if you go to bed if you go to bed early, you'll want to set your d-v-r for this. late late show host james corden has adele for his "carpool karaoke" segment on tonight's episode. in a teaser video, the pair are singing to her hits, "hello" and "rolling in the deep," as well as debating whether the star should wear a wig or just a weave. you can catch the c-b-s after the late show with stephencolbert. coming up on 10 news this morning.. right now we're working to confirm that 10 detained u-s sailors are safe after iranian officials say they released them just minutes ago. and as excitement builds for the enormous powerball jackpot, the warning you'll want to hear from

jim gandy. south carolina's weather man is in colorado right now where it is snowing. as it should be but i am in colorado for the weather and climate summit. now what this is an opportunity for a select number of broadcast meadierologist to be able to -- meteorologist to be able to meet. this whole conference grows a week. and there are times for us to get out on the slopes. you are talking to an old southern boy here. i have never been snow keying. yesterday i took my first lessons at snow skiing and yeah, i fell a few times but i progressed and i will give it another try before i leave. in the meantime we have been learning interesting things here. number one, yesterday, tim brown was talking about the drought in california and how the trend is for the west to get dry -- southwest to get drier. even though california is getting rain it won't alleviate the drought and they need three times their rainfall in order to get out of the drought, they won't do it this year. that will be an ongoing problem for them and then later dr. laura was talking about the is now meltin

. >>> now, the midlands most accurate forecast with chief meteorologist jim gandy. >> this morning clear skies and the afternoon. drier air is coming in. with the sunshine today we were able to warm up into the low 60s. 63 greenville. georgia, savannah 63. columbia we are under sunny skies, temperatures 60 degrees. wind from the west at 10 miles per hour. it is been breezy this afternoon but the winds will die off with clear skies. a low of 30. tomorrow sunny with a high of 64 and tomorrow night continued clear with low temperatures of 39. now let's take a check on the traffic around the area this we will. all right. let's go to it, then. around a good part of the city things are moving in good shape. seeing slow downs, first of all, over -- there has been an accident on u.s. 1 in lexington county. it will slow things down towards lexington. on the southeast side of town it is slow. i-77, slow on the sumpter highway. northeast side of town everything is moving at the moment. down for the count a blythewood 17 minutes. from downtown to clemson road about 15 minute. actually things are beg

the selmon expressway from gandy boulevard to i-75 in tampa your drive time 15 minutes. i-4 westbound drivers you are holding on to 54 miles per hour into downtown. let's go live to our sky 10 network camera. traffic picking up in pinellas north getting on the howard frankland bridge. seeing some brake lights. definitely going to see that slow down across the howard frankland bridge into tampa exit. be sure to give yourself plenty of time if you are in pinellas county getting into tampa. live to our sky 10 network camera in polk county i-4 drivers no problems at polk parkway. eastbound and westbound looking great. sarasota and manatee county your drive time looking good. i-75 southbound taking you 13 minutes from i-275 to university parkway. u.s. 41, 19 minutes is your drive time from university. i'll have an update on your bridges coming up. >>> we have a sad update into a ohio explosion that killed a family of four. >>> good thursday morning. it is january 14th. a live look at the nation's capitol. we have another cool start to the day in the bay area. we'll get you ca

>>reporter: i am jim gandy gerber climate summit. if you saw my report yesterday it was snowing pretty good. the latest figures from breckenridge, colorado, we have seen 32 inches of snow this week. back on top of all the snow. they got earlier in the month. today the sun has come out but it's a bit cold and we got a little bit of land, but you can see behind me, it's beautiful today. the snow that came through our area yesterday and breckenridge was the topic of conversation today at the summit. why? because it is that storm that moved down into texas. it's getting better organized and it will be a big snowstorm that hits the mid-atlantic states friday and saturday so obviously some of the people at the conference have had to go back east to deal with weather conditions. we had a good day at the conference and we will continue i hope you are able to tune in and watch them online as they were strained. if you missed any of these storm center communication is the website to go to to see replay of those presentations and that's probabl

eight minutes on the gandy. we're going to check drive times now on some of the majors. >> we're going to check in with action air 1 flying over i-75 and the apex. if you're heading out the door, maybe in the wesley chapel area trying to decide between 75 and 275, both of those interstates looking great this morning. apex to i-4. >>> if you're headed out the door this morning conditions are at least dry but boy, is it colder. you can't tell that from the picture on the rivergate tower tampa camera but again visibility is good, temperatures this morning are about 20 to 25 degrees colder than what they were yesterday at this time. that translates to temperatures in the upper 30s. in citrus county we're at 37 now. brooksville 41. zephyrhills at 45. tampa and brandon at 47 degrees. our warmest temperatures are from lake wales to ruskin and st. pete and farther south and they are all near 50. so pretty cool by our standards for this time of year and this time of day. in this stretch of weather, it's going to last for