because we know more people are headed to work and school after the pasco is looking good, and myakka city out to manatee county, that's the trouble spot this morning, and i have better news for you. it's the manatee county area, myakka state road 70 block the the betts. it's due to a possible fatal crash, and before fhp said you but now you can turn on betts. the alternate is not as bad. back to gene and gayle. >>> president obama is used to being called names. >> but one world leader went too far. the story is ahead. >>> many people are turning to chemical-based repellant to fight off mosquitoes and the zika virus. i will look at what the doctors are recommended. >>> a tampa police officer who put his life on the line is >>> we are back. time now 6:13, and happening today, funeral services for an officer known for saving a local family and mentoring teens, and the services will take place this morning, and tampa police officer, fred arnold passed away almost 2 weeks ago, and jamel is live where the services will be held. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. like you said, we are at l

manatee county is the issue on state road 70 at myakka city. we have state road 70 blocked both directions at betts road, and you cannot get around it. sugar bowl road, myakka road down to clay gully, and you can go up to county road 675 instead. ? sleep number beds adjust on both sides for your best sleep ever. don't miss the biggest sale of the year. all beds on sale with the queen c2 mattress only $599.99. final days! ends sunday. >>> breaking overnight, flames light up the night sky in tampa, and still ahead, where fire destroyed a 100-year-old home. >>> and also this morning, honoring an officer who decades serving and protecting our community. a look at the life of officer fred arnold and how he will be remembered. >>> fighting mosquitoes with a natural repellants. how you can avoid the chemicals. >>> welcome. good morning. i'm gayle guyardo. >> and i'm gene ramirez. let's see what is in store weatherwise. >> reporter: as you go out to your car this morning, it will

in manatee county in myakka city. state road 70 blocked now in both directions right at betts road. a little bit west of betts. so fhp now opened a little bit more of state road 70, before you had to take state road 64. let me show you the alternate. it to vernea road and back to state road 70. particularly helpful to i-75. still a lot of cars and congestion in the area so give yourself extra time to make that detour. this is what it looks like in pinellas county, i-275 at 22nd avenue south. no issues throughout the st. pete area. a lot of the major roads are clear. and checking the drive onle toll roads -- on the toll roads, and looking great on the selmon. >>> let's look at i-275 and busch. action air 1 flying over the area, typically one of the busiest drives for the morning commute. looks crowded though i just checked the drive time, it's just 6 minutes to get from busch to downtown tampa. >>> all pasco county schools are set to reopen this morning. more cars and bus there's but not everyone will be able to make it to class. >> a lot of families are still after hurricane hermine

out on state road 70 in the myakka city area, there's a fatal crash going on. there's also wacoola road up to state road 64, and there's no easy way. not only is it dark, but there's no easy alternate. it's right at betts road. allow for extra time this morning. back to gene and gayle. >>> this is the game that everyone is talking about, fsu fans celebrating the big comeback win against ole miss. the teams faced off at camping world stadium in orlando. they were down by 15 points, but in the 2nd half, the knowles came back. a lot to talk about, and at last night's game, beau is a 6th grader with autism. you may remember the picture of him eating with travis rudolph. travis surprised him with a >> i'm so glad there's a part 2. the little boy left to eat alone every day. >> he has a new friend now. >> yes, and the friendship continues. that's beautiful. >>> a freebie for your afternoon pick-me-up. >>> the restaurant giving away the sweet treats. >> and the positive news at the pump for drivers. how low the price of gas is. you're watching news channel 8 today. ha

of course we're still watching that serious crash in manatee county, in myakka city, state road 70 still blocked in both directions at betts road. use 64 to work around that. quick check outside, what your bridges look like, the tampa side of the courtney campbell causeway. not a bad drive out there at all. less than 10 minutes to get across all three bridges and your drive on i-75, go the north, 21 minutes from state road 52 to i-4. >>> caught on camera stealing dozens of guns. a gun shop owner in minnesota says three men broke into his business and stole more than 60 firearms in less than two minutes. the shop owner and family actually live on property. they heard the thieves breaking in. by the time they reached the store the men were gone. authorities now looking for the thieves and the guns. >>> authorities in connecticut found a million dollars in marijuana plants growing in the inspectors doing a retune check when the owner wouldn't let them inspect her entire property. police are conducting a criminal investigation now after shutting the day care down. neighbors say they also got

brooksville at 73 and 72 in dade city waking up in venice at 73, myakka city 71 and 70 in wauchula and arcadia. enjoy it. a couple showers and storms offshore, but the light winds around moving onshore but they're hanging out and raining themselves out. they're briefly heavy. closest one another one is 30 miles from coastal pinellas. so we're quiet on the radar. with this upper low nearby, the thing about the pattern today is while the chances for rain are about 30% favoring the inland zones. any storms that get going could be stronger today. we say a hint of that yesterday. we watch for a passing shower or storm at raymond james. they're taking on the l.a. rams. make sure you drink water sxr the sunglasses. how about futurecast this morning? look how quiet we stay until lunchtime. as that sea breeze pops and more of a northeast wind late in the day, here we go. 4:00, some scattered showers and storms developing. while they're spotty, if you get under one, you will see a lot of rain from it. a couple downpours build back west and monday morning features dry conditions. light winds keep

then stronger storms eastern manatee county, north myakka city others out along coastal areas near sarasota county. so going to see more as we go through afternoon. overall trend will be a lot activity to work into interior. all being drawn right up into, officially. first advisory put out 11:00 last night. winds of 40 miles an hour. just been very slowly working its way through georgia now. and heaviest portion of this is out over water where strongest winds are. so right along the coastal areas not necessarily seeing tropical storm force winds, but we're certainly seeing some heavy rain across the coastline of south carolina. and this is going to be the issue. as we go through the next couple of days, because you being see right now winds are 40 miles an hour. it's working its way slowly to the north and so even by friday even though it weakens into a tropical depression it's no the winds we're concerned about it's heavy rain this system will bring over next several days. in fact, you can see forecast along the coastal areas of south carolina. between about 5, up to about 7 inches of rain

also rain over bradenton, a couple showers near myakka city. everything moves east to west about it. with an east wind, it's going to be warmer on the west coasten that the east coast. it heats over land and on our coast, 90 in tampa, 91 sarasota, 9 st. pete. the tropics becoming more active. tomorrow -- actually the tenth on average is the peak of the season. one area of d another one developed today off the less are antilles. 10% chance next two days. 20% next five days on the first one. the second one has a better chance of development. this one when it gets going will likely stay across the open atlantic. i will add the european model run this afternoon did show the first one, what's left of it, spinning off the east coast next week. but with no development at all. as you know, we've seen all this environment does not favor any rapid intensification or development i should say anytime soon. 90 the dew point 71. winds are northeast at 3. around the country, high pressure dominates up and down the east coast. it's yet another major heat wave

no sign of ian, julia or carl -- karl. 9 myakka city. 89 in a lot of areas. in fact it will feel like the actually temperature you're seeing here as opposed to 9 usual heat index we get. with the dry air another bonus. i think tomorrow morning mid to get ready for that. walk outside and you'll feel a little different, taste of fall. don't get used to it. we're still in summer. still wet season and we're going back to it, by the end of the week rain chances 30% for thursday and then bumps up friday heading into the weekend. a lot of sunshine early and afternoon storms at 40%. >>> still ahead -- bill cosby's sexual assault trial could become a lot clearer today. the two pieces of key evidence his attorneys want the judge to >>> happening today -- a hearing is going to be held in the sexual misconduct case against bill cosby. lawyers for cosby are expected to ask a judge to throw out two key pieces of evidence in this case. that evidence includes a deposition cosby gave in a 2005 lawsuit by one accuser, in it he talked about having extramarital affairs and givin

on myakka city area. state road 70 a bets road. an eastbound westbound lane blocks here. involving a you can see on the screen. and also a cower which unfortunately was struck by truck we saw it deceased side of roadway looks like you will have to find a work around for that. sarasota, closed here. state road 72 east of myakka park to west of seidel road. and we're hearing time line for this road work about seven days. >>> all right. vanessa, thank you. did you see this story over the weekend during all the hermine coverage, this story started popping up. the f.d.a. told companies they can no longer market antibacterial soap because it's not safe for long-term use? to talk about this. so when it says antibacterial they are saying, don't use it? >> well, this really has to do with 19 different chemicals one of the most common ones. it was in toothpaste antibacterial soap, hand wipes, various things on the market. it was a close ecuador is but there's 19 of these chemicals. what fda has been saying is they've been asking manufacturers to prove number one that they worked be

>>vanessa: definitely that incident we are following right now out of myakka city and also some congestion. this is the fatal crash at the top of the hour, state road 70 at betts road. we had reports it involved livestock and sky fox took a closer look at the scene. we found a deceased cow on the side of the roadway. we're unsure if that's the reported fatality in the fatal crash but keep you posted as we learn more. eastbound/westbound blocked off. state road 64 the work around once again. we have some minor delays here pinellas county. ulmerton at a couple of extra minutes. otherwise, not looking too jammed up in the area. looking quite jammed up here. this is a live look i-4. we showed you some eastern hillsborough county camera shots the past couple of reports and it looks like it's backing up even more. this is the camera west of thonotosassa road. westbound traffic looking slow heading in towards the tampa area. 12 minutes from branch forbes to 75. we do have in the red congestion avenue to i-4. 23 minutes that drive. 13 minutes southbound 75 to get from bruce b downs to i-4. >>russe

myakka city. sarasota currently checks in at 88 degrees. and then, mid to upper 80s with a couple of 90s showing up throughout interior as well. a view across the state. you can see there is which was once a tropical storm julia now state help to provide that focal zone for some of these scattered showers. this system is just going to meander as we go through next several days watch it on forecast here. you can see it drifts back and forth eventually towards north. but stays a depression most convection staying well off shore. so they are not going to see flooding rains which were once feared across carolina coastline pick up an inch or two of rain as we go through next couple of days. watch it there, just start to get back into more and southeast erlt wind scattered showers starting to come more towards the afternoon hours, as we head towards the weekend. so forecast for today. hot, steamy, some scattered storms mainly to our north. daytime high of 90 degrees. then for tonight still could see coastal showers around. overnight low around 78

some rain in northport, englewood, venice, myakka city, arcadia. south of tampa bay, you could witness a quick-moving shower, a flash of lightning and that's about it. about the same thing tomorrow. maybe a slightly better chance of showers around the bay area. still 93 in tampa. 88 in naples. the dry air -- we had a smidge of drier, low humidity this morning. now the dry air's moved away. the dew points in the low 70s around tampa bay and that's like summertime. but the dew point in gainesville is pretty good. 57. 61 tallahassee so a slight drop in humidity to our north and a lot of this, by the way, is due to the remnants of has been giving us a north-northeast wind the past couple days helping to usher in dry weather. we're in a little calendar count down row. this is the one talking about fall. 14 days until the first day of fall. the atom nal equinox. 34 days to the lightning opener. four to six weeks until the average first significant cold front arrives. then a big holiday, 53 days until halloween. we'll see a significant drop in temperature

complete blockage in myakka city. this is a possible fatality so some very serious injuries reported here. state road 64 to the north is your work around. meantime to sarasota county, emergency road work here. east of myakka park and we're hearing it's going to be a seven-day project, weather permitting. drivers making long distance journeys. fdot is advising to you take state road 70. >>russell: today marks one week since a hillsborough county deputy shot and killed 22-year-old riggins. almost every day since then, protestors have taken to the streets. yesterday they even shut down traffic. they're comparing his death to the deaths of other unarmed black men at the hands of law en fortsment. deputies were conducting a drug related search of his home august 30. >>jennifer: i made a sudden move for his waist band but he was unarmed. >>russell: activists from driving from hours way to draw attention to his death. without accountability and that we have to start resisting it and we should just be treated just like every o

lakewood ranch, myakka city at 91. bradenton currently sits at 89 degrees. and then throughout interior, upper 80s, one temperature to the 90s. sebring, currently sitting at 92 degrees at noon hour. so really the state. you do see a few more showers down to south a lot of dry air worked its way over the state over past couple of days. ridge of high pressure still pretty much in control across much of the southeast. and that dry air continue to work it is way down the state. that's what keeps our rain chances on the low side as we go through the next several days. i think by time we get into first part of next week we'll start to bring that moisture back into the atmosphere. so rain chances will be heading future cast. notice the afternoon sea breezes some scattered showers that you out interior. the wind down pretty quickly once sun goes down scattered clouds through overnight hours. then for tomorrow partly cloudy skies. first part of day then some scattered showers developing as we get into the afternoon. so forecast goes like this for today, it's another

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