pyou've got citrus county, phernando county, pasco county, plight to moderate rains. pkind of circle that area. pbut our main focus right now is pthunderstorm activities still pout here and still a couple of phours away. pthat will come swinging through pon "good day" as that moves to pthe east and with that, we do phave a potential for a few pthink of it as a couple of waves pof rain before we even get into pthe lunchtime hour. pbut once we get through that, pthen it's going to be a wind pevent for us as we're panticipating behind all of this pthe wind to really begin to whip pup. pbehind this cold front, out phere, we've had winds 30, 35 pmiles an hour so gale warnings pare up for later today. pone, two punch of rain before pthe wind kicks in but obviously pthe big, big story is what's phappening to north. pthe snow is beginning, not in pd.c. yet but in virginia, north pcarolina and parts of tennessee pand kentucky. pwe have temps today in the upper p60s. pthe weekend is going to be much pcooler and windy. pwe'll be in the mid 50s for phighs tomorrow. p>>russell: it

pi mentioned that in citrus, phernando county tonight. ptampa 43 for a low and tomorrow artly cloudy, still a bit below pnormal with a high temperature pof 64 degrees and as soon as we pget our temperatures to get back pnear normal, a strong cold front pand the accompanying area of low ressure come back on friday. pthere's a really good chance of pshowers and thunderstorms on pfriday morning. psome models say early, dark pbefore the morning commute, some psay after the morning commute. pwe'll fine tune that as we get pcloser but throw that in the pback of your mind for now. pokay? p>>vanessa: okay. pthank you. pand 7:16. pa crash we're following out of inellas county does have some plane blockage to report along pu.s. 19 at gandy boulevard. psouthbound lane blocked here. plooks like more of a safety pconcern than a delay concern. pwe have some green road sensors pfor you. pkeep an eye out for crews you pmight see working on scene and pthose vehicles involved in the pcrash taking up a travel lane. pthere's a live look at the ptraffic comin

pwe'll go at it tonight with a pfreeze watch for citrus and phernando counties. pthese warnings are getting quite pchilly. pa slow, steady look at the week. pby the end of the week we should pbe in the low 70s but strong, ossibly severe storms early on pfriday. pthat is the way the time frame plooks now. pnow, it could change by several phours and we'll fine tune the pforecast. pa big area of low pressure in pthe gulf is going to move across pthe state. pat the very least, we'll feel pheavy rain late thursday into pfriday and maybe strong storms. p40 degrees in new tampa. pi know. pflirting with the upper 30s in pnew tampa this morning. pit's 43 in palm harbor. pi mentioned mid 30s in citrus pcounty. pbrooksville is at 34 degrees. pyou go further south, upper 40s pfor bradenton all the way south pto the englewood area. pit's 46, 47 degrees wauchula, pdown to arcadia. pbut it's also rainy down there, ptoo. pand we'll show you that in a psecond. pwe have two to five degrees pcolder than yesterday. pit's a noticeable difference pwhen i stepped outside. plike okay, i

pwe're talking about inland ortions of pasco county, phernando county, citrus county pso got down to the freezing pmark. pcrystal river, weeki wachee down pto upper 20s for a brief period pof time this morning. pshowers and thunderstorms around pit looks like it's going to be pmid to late morning, not very pearly which is what we had for pthe past couple of rounds of prain so it will be a little plater in the morning and then it pturns windy and cooler late in pthe afternoon. pfor the parade on saturday, it's pgoing to be a lot like last pyear. palmost certain we had the ptemperatures in the 50s and that pcold wind, same thing is going pto happen this time around as pwell. pthese clouds actually helped us pout. pwe were plummeting, dropping and pdropping and dropping. pwe probably would have made the pupper 30s in tampa. pclouds came in a few hours ago pand just stopped the cooling poff. pnow you've got river view plooking at beautiful blue skies pand a great start to the day. panother shot of high clouds out pto the beach. plook at the temps. p30 at crystal river. p30 brooksville. p

pbut as i mentioned citrus phernando county the possibility pdown around that 32-degree mark ptomorrow morning. pa bit below normal weather will pcontinue for tomorrow afternoon pwith high temperature of 64 pdegrees. pmarine forecast north winds 10 pto 15 knots. psea two to three feet. pmoderate chop. phigh tide is at 4:45. pback up to about near normal ptemperatures by thursday. pfriday line of showers and pthunderstorms. pnow saturday's going to start poff fine. psunday. pwhich may bring us a few more pshowers. pkind of unsettled once we get pthrough friday to sunday time pframe. pdo have one first birthday today pi've got pass along oh, boy, pthis is special one, folks. pwe've got twins she likes to pdance and smile for pictures pkids. pthey both love milk mouse club phouse and bubble guppies. pso there you go. phappy first birthday for everett pand esebell. phappy birthday to them. pwhat a cute pair. pall right let's check roadways pright now. pegg pretty much back to normal pwith exception of 275 pnorthbound. preally this has been a concern psince no lanes opened up povernight. pa

pin fact, we have a freeze pwarning out for sumter county, phernando county, citrus county puntil 9:00 this morning. pall of these spots are below 32 pdegrees. pthen a frost warning. pi know, it's been a time since pwe've had this much widespread pfrost but if you're east of 75, pyou've got up this morning. pif you're north, i know many pspots, even parts of pinellas pcounty away from the water have phad a little frost this morning pso that's going to mean a few pextra minutes in the car this pdefrosting. pi would say break out the old pice scraper but how many of us phave those? phalf a dozen? pi don't know. p30 degrees in crystal river. p31 in brooksville. pbarely above freezing in wesley pchapel and 34. pbrandon has been sitting in the pmid 30s for hours now. p39 in winter haven. pyesterday we made it to the mid p50s. pit was a huge struggle just to ptoday we're going to start to pshift the wind and that will pmake a big difference in the pafternoon. pyou've got 29 in tallahassee. p29 in gainesville. p44 in nap em les naples. pmiami, this is real cold. p52 degrees this morning. pbut

rain pbeginning to move out but we pstill have some heavier rain porlando, back to parts of phernando county. pthat leaves behind it a break pthis p>>dave: driving to work in the prain this morning, this is just pround one and even though it's pcoming to an end, which is we're pgetting near the heart of the pmorning commute, all of these proads are wet. psome still have ponding on the proadways because we had some prain overnight. pso this is what is left of our pmorning, very early morning pheavy rain. pnotice around orlando but pquickly moving northeast, also pin hernando, citrus, pasco pcounty, we have light to pmoderate rains quickly moving palong 75 southwest to northeast pand then down to highlands pcounty as well. plet's start here. pbushnell, brooksville, dade pcity, still raining. pflorida turnpike is wet going pall the way to the orlando area pand down to highlands county. pwe're pushing the rain east of phighway 27 now and then you get pback to a nice little break in pthe action. pit's mostly light rain. pa few sprinkles left from lutz pto tampa, town zephyrhills. pgood thing is,

you're walking out the door pnow, just light to occasionally pmoderate rain in citrus county, phernando county, parts of phillsborough as the wave of rain pstarts to work its way onshore. pyou'll want to forget about phighlands county. pthese showers popped up over the ast few minutes. preally, i would expect 6:17, pfrom now through early pafternoon, we're going to have pto deal with showers and pthunderstorms but irpg the pstrongest of the activity is pthis is sort of your prelude, pyour main line of thunderstorms pthat will move through in a few phours. pafter that clears the area, then pwe're okay. pit's just waiting on the wind pand the cooler weather. pup to the north, we've had some pbig thunderstorms this morning. pwe're running from the ptallahassee area. plook at that rain. pgoes up 75 into the atlanta area pwhere, after you go past patlanta, it turns to ice and to psnow and then go winter storm parea. pthis is big for them because pthey've got the nfc championship pgame on sunday and they're ptalking about a quarter to half pinch of ice. pthat's enough to just shut a pcity down. pwin

phernando county deputies are preleasing very little pinformation about what happened. pbut did say they were able to pcatch one of the suspects after pa short foot chase. pthey also say they don't believe pthis was random act of violence peither. ptwo women were air lifted to plocal hospital. pright now deputies are not preleasing their conditions. p>>> hillsborough county man pwaking up behind bars after pdeputies put stop to his pmarijuana grow operation. pearly yesterday morning deputies praid ad home in suburban pcarrollwood. pinside they found two rooms with phundreds of marijuana plants pworth nearly $320,000. pthey also found a gun, heat plamps fans and they believe it pis behind it all 46-year-old preynaldo. ptrafficking and grand theft for pallegedly stealing $8,000 worth pof electricity. p>> 8:06. phow are you feeling? pyou could be screened for pdepression during your routine pdoctor's exam. pdepression common problem that plot of people are not getting ptreatment for. pso if government advisory pcommittee suggests healthcare pworkers get involved in screen

p>>dave: we get the counties to pthe north, citrus county, phernando county, pasco under a pfreeze warning for three more phours. pas you look at temperatures here pat 6:00, we haven't cooled much pin tampa. pthat's because i think with high pclouds coming in the past couple pof hours, it's been cold but pnotice 30 in brooksville, 30 in pcrystal river. p46 -- 36 wesley chapel. ptemperatures seven to 11 degrees pcolder than yesterday. pthere's your freeze warning puntil 9:00 this morning. p>>jennifer: that's a wrap, dave. pdave did they just cut me off? pmid 60s for highs. p>>jennifer: okay. penjoy the in psun city center where a cat may phave saved a woman's life. pfire started just after pthere's a lot of damage to the phome. psafely. pthe cat is still missing. p>>russell: near fire at a home pin valrico. pwe're told smoke alarms went off pwaking up six people inside. pthey all got out safely. pred cross helping them out. ptwo homicides to tell you about pin manatee county. pa 38-year-old man, a 23-year-old pwoman and they were found just a pfew miles apart. p>>laura: and now law enforcem

county. pwould have had frost in phernando. pbecause the clouds came in we pdidn't have that. pit's still chilly. pstill need those jackets. psoto county at this hour. pall way over into highlands pcounty. pbut, let's compare that to pyesterday in 8 o'clock hour of pgood day. p4 to 6 degrees warmer. pso the 24-hour temperature pchange there positive. pi don't think we'll be quite as pwarm as we were yesterday. pyou got a lot of thick cloud pcover coming in. pmainly upper level. pso you get little pokes in the pclouds. plittle breaks. pi love to call everybody makes pfun of me peek a boo sunshine. pthat's what i think we will pseeing enough to get back mid p60s and eventually get back to pupper 60s. pthen we've got this storm system pdeveloping out into gulf. pi think this will low will be a plittle bit further north up ptoward panhandle. pas that comes swinging through pon friday, it looks like during pthe morning hours we will get a pline of showers and pthunderstorms to move through. pand then it's going to stay pquiet until sunday morning with panother line of rain comes pth