pnow vanessa ruffes is down in pmanatee county. pshe's confirming two dead, seven phurt including a child. pneighbors are saying the man is pa grandfather. phis wife and grandkids have been ptaken to area hospitals. pagain, we can confirm two are pdead including that man. pof course, we continue to follow pthe story throughout "good day ptampa bay," and we will bring pyou the very latest as soon as pwe get it. plet's head over to crystal clark plive in sarasota county this pmorning where the damage is pscene there for us? p>> reporter: yeah, alcides. pat this point there isn't a psingle home on the block that pdoesn't have a tree or some ortion of someone's roof in ptheir yard. pthe sun is just starting to come pup, so we look at all this pdamage for the first time. pright now i have sarasota county passistant fire chief with us pbill oak joining us. pare a lot of people reaching out pto you? p>> around 3:00, 3:30 we got a plot of calls for transformers pand power lines down, fire palarms. pthen all of a sudden we started pto get s

a powerful tornado turns pdeadly for one family in pmanatee county. p>> team coverage how those phardest hit are coping with the pdamage and what the state is pdoing to help. p>> . p>> anchor: good evening thank pyou for joining us. pdeveloping first and i severe pstorms ripped to the bay area pearly this morning and the pcleanup is still underway. phere they live love at the owerful tornado hit homes just pleveled to the ground, pieces pof wood everything there all pover. pthis is one of three spots hit phardest overnight. p>> we have a view from the air pkey. plater winding its way down to pbay winds drive in sarasota. pit skipped over lakewood ranch pand hit the mobile home on palbritton road in duets. pwith deadly results here. pand here's a closer look at the paftermath of the discussion. pthe town of duet is in maddie pcounty. pthe tornado hitting there, pleaving the community shaken. pa husband and wife are dead pafter a tornado swept up their pmobile home. pwith them, their son and four pgrandchildren inside. p>> anchor: authorities say pit's

pso if you live in sarasota or pmanatee county, be pashl. pfpl is out there and they're pworking to get the power back on pagain. psiesta key took the brunt of the psevere weather. pkim kuizon joins us now by hone. pcan you tell us where you're at pand how bad it is? p>> the damage out here is very pexcessive. pwhen you come straight through pdown the street, it's a long pstreet that eventually dead-ends pin the water. pas you come up here there are ptrees uprooted and you start to psee. p>> alcides: i'm going to pinterrupt kim for a second. pcan you hear me? pall right. pissues with your phone here. pso we're going to get back to pyou in a second. pmike, i'll toss it over to you puntil we get some technical pissues figured out. pthe good news is that the pweather is out of the area. pit's more central florida now pand the folks in orlando are pdealing with a good portion of pwhat we dealt with early this pmorning. p>> alcides: severe weather in pduette. pwe just got confirmed news -- pwhere is this confirmed from, palex? pnot confirmed. pre

pthe same is true also for pmanatee county sheriff's office. pwell. pand here's what we've be able to plearn so far. pwe did check this morning on psocial media on facebook, and we pdid find learned did urging that psearch that there was a pconnection. pthe two people who are found pnow authorities are trying to pdetermine exactly how they might pbe related or how they might phave known each other beyond pthat. pand if there is any connection pto their deaths. pso here's what we know so far. pauthorities responded to those ptwo different scenes, miles papart. pboth report within an hour first preport came in before 1 o'clock ptuesday afternoon off 8 the pstreet and bradenton. olice say neighbors described phearing gunshots and seeing an pout of control suv crash. pauthorities identified man pinside that suv as 38-year-old pkarl tuxford. pnow he did not survive. p40 minutes later a driver pspotted a body off bishop harper proad in palmetto. pinvestigators say that body pbelonged to 23-year-old jordan pfinland and foul play is pexpected in her death. pt

pin the bradenton section of pmanatee county. pso i would just completely avoid pthat area. pyou can always use state road 64 phead east and then hop on i-75. pthat would a good north south palternate i'll let you know a psoon a lanes reopen as of right pnow all lanes are blocked along pu.s. 41. inellas county a couple slow pspots there. pincluding northbound 275, pthere's a crash at i-175. pslow speeds even after that, 37 pspeed from at trop. pup to a 54th avenue north. palso in pinellas county that pearlier wreck, still being pworked on and clearing psouthbound u.s. 19. pafter ulmerton road. ptow trucks are on scene phopefully it would clear in 15 pminutes or so. pif you're planning a drive over phoward franklin bridge a, looked plike expire rush hour drive give pi don't ever yourself 12 minutes p>> thank you, jen. pwe have a news alert now. pclearwater police are very pconcerned about an elderly man pwith dementia who has been pmissing since yesterday pafternoon his his arment regency poaks south an elderly living pfacility. pman's name is bob taylor. phe's 82 years old a

p>>> two people murders in pmanatee county. pthe shocking crimes that have pneighbors searching for answers. p>> man: cyber hacking is a pthreat. p>>> how protecting your asswords, the old habits that pcould be putting you at risk. p>>> an express way expansion pcausing concerns tonight. pa traffic plan that some people pare protesting. p>>> good evening, i'm cynthia in p>> i'm mark, glad to have you pwith us. pfirst up at 10:00, there's a preal chill in the air, i'm sure pyou noticed. eople are staying inside. pmost venturing out, they're all pbundling up. p>> man: i'm from colorado, this pweather is still too cold for pme. pi came back from winter break pand it's freezing. p>>> it's chilly. pthe temperatures are still on pthe way down. phow we talking here? p>> everything is on schedule ptonight. pwe have cold air filtering down pthe state. pthe high clouds were around for pa time earlier today and moved pto the south. pthat allowed good radiation of pcooling. pany cloud cover tends to keep pheat in at night. pon top of that,

pmanatee county deputies say pstewart was watching the 14 pmonth old when the baby started phaving seizures. pthe baby was taken to the pthe child had swelling on the pbrain. pa spinal chord injury and some pold fractures in the process of phealing. pit was from abuse, stewart is pcharged with aggravated pmanslaughter of a child. p>> also new, a spirited debate pat usf as students discuss pallowing concealed carry pfirearms on campus. pthe other bill would allow ermit holders to carry their pguns on college campuses. porganizers say they set up the pdebate because they feel no one pis asking students how they feel pabout guns on campus. p>> students aren't really being pasked their opinions. padministrators are being pignored. pwe really wanted to as a student pgovernment wanted to set up a pforum for students to talk about p>> so the advocates of these pnew gun bills say allowing guns pon campus will make the puniversity safer. pmany disagree. pwhile opinions on the gun issue pvary, security is a top concern pfor students there. p>> more help for victims in ptallahassee. pfiled by a senato

pi don't know if we have ictures, but i tell you, pmanatee county was hit hard and psarasota county hit the hardest. pthere, duette. pthat's where we had the two pconfirmed fatalities and four pchildren taken to the hospital pas well. p>> alcides: one of them pseriously hurt. p>> mike: not a good-looking pscene there. pthat tornado was rated an ef-2 ptornado so winds 125 miles per phour. pit's not all that common that pyou see an ef-2 tornado in this parea, but if it's going to phappen, it's going to happen in pthe winter months and it's going pto happen during el nino. pthat's why it's important to premember as we head through the pnext few months and we're ptalking about this a lot this pmorning is you want to pay pattention, close attention to pthe forecast because this is our psevere weather season. pdo here. p>> alcides: i'm looking at the pscene there in sarasota county. pi was here during hurricane pcharley and i want to point out pthis area specifically, not bay parea-wide, because that's pobviously a hurricane, this icture, that reminds me a lot pof the hurricane in punta gorda

pon to other news another phomicide investigation in pmanatee county. psheriff's office is looking for pshooting. pit happened just before p7 o'clock saturday night. pon 15th street east. pdeputies say that charles pleonard was walking through a pfight. pwith someone and was shot and pkilled. p>> deputies believe that these pare two suspects they got away pin red suv with chrome trim palong the bottom. panyone with information is asked pto call manatee county sheriff's poffice or crime stoppers. p>> it's 8:32 right now. pwe're just weeks away from the piowa caucus. pjust in time a lot of momentum pcandidates. psanders. pall seeing their numbers grow in phawk eye state on saturday pinfluential des moines register pclinton for the democratic pticket seven to marco rubio and prepublican side. peven with the endorsement new oll numbers released yesterday pso show that bernie sanders pstill holds a narrow lead over phillary clinton. pfox news poll shows donald trump pholding on to his sizable lead pover ted cruz and marco rubio. lace. pand then, this happene

pwesley chapel, freezing weather pthis morning as far south as pmanatee county. pthat will burn off and melted paway pretty quickly once the sun pcame up. pwe have plenty of sun as you plook at the visible satellite ploop available. pjust a beautiful looking pmorning. pwe'll continue to see a lot of pclear skies. pthe winds, we've had a northerly pwind that's quickly switching paround to more of an east and peventually becoming more of a psoutheasterly wind so what that pdoes is that really moderates pthose temperatures, already pseeing the mid 60s in many plocations here. ptampa we're at 62 degrees. pwesley chapel, 63 along with plakeland, bradenton 63. psarasota has a 62. p65 as you head down towards psebring so we'll see the warming ptemperatures over the next pseveral days, but do you know pwhat? pwe have to get another front pheading our way which could pbring us some severe weather as pwe head into wednesday and pthursday. plook at the rest of the country pto our north where they saw psnowfall totals, over 24 inches pin some cases, up to 30 inches pof snow.

pthose are the northbound pheadlights heading out to pmanatee county. preports of a lane blocked with proad work near the top of the pbridge so add an extra 10 to 15 pminutes onto the commute. pshot is. pwide. pwe need every drop of this psunlight because it is cold poutside this morning. pi want you to look at these 7:00 pa.m. temperatures. p36 in brond brandon. peven clearwater at 39. pbradenton at 39. pbrooksville, crystal river below pfreezing. pyeah, it was very frosty in most pof these areas as well as if pyou're in the 30s, you're likely pdealing with frost this morning. pa lot of sunshine today. pbelieve it or not, even though pwe're colder than yesterday at pthis time, we'll be warmer in pthe afternoon as we shift the pwinds to nor of a southeasterly pdirection to bring temps back to pthe mid to upper 60s. p>>laura: another big story, the psnowstorm up north. pmore than 30 inches in a lot of laces. p>>russell: and the cancellations pcontinue. pfox 13 is in washington with the platest. p>>reporter: this was my walk to pwork this morning. pnot th

pleonard's death was third phomicide in less than week in pmanatee county. pand the sixth so far in 2016. p>>> let's take a live look right pnow at gaslight park in downtown ptampa where pirates are there pdemanding that mayor bob pbuckhorn surrender the city this psaturday's gasparilla. plet's listen in for a second see pwhat they are saying. p>> the mayor su come to your pwishes at citizens if you chant pgive them the keys. pgive them the keys. pgive them the keys. pgive them the keys. pthere will be an opportunity for pyou to break into that chant pafter the good lord chamber land pthen give them the keys. pgive them the keys. pwe'll see if that does it. pfor any period of time you know pthat they have won this battle pevery year. pthat leads to the gasparilla arade which takes up bay shore pboulevard this saturday. pwe'll talk more about that and pweather for that coming up. p>> many of us have taken over pthose taken over the counter ain medications for relief. pbut there's something you may be pignoring dr. joe will explain pit's so critical and jim is

p>>> we're also following a pdeveloping investigation out of pmanatee county. pdeputies are investigating a phomicide there. pthey found an unidentified man pdead near a wooded area. pthe deputies were searching 15th pstreet east for a suspect with a pmultiple felony warrants when pthis came across the body. p>> new this afternoon a otential shooting threat ptriggered extra security at almetto. pthe threat was made through psocial media. pit didn't specifically target pthe manatee county school, but pit did mention lincoln students. pso as a result schools across phave taken some extra recautions. pschool officials sent out an pautomated phone call to parents plast night and this morning just pto inform them they also asked pstudents not it bring backpacks por purses to school. plincoln middle usually has one presource officer at the school. pbut today extra officers are pstationed there. pthere's been a gop debate pdebacle. prepublican front runner donald ptrump says he is skipping ptomorrow's fox news debate. phe says he's been treated punfairly by at network

pmanatee county, murder charges pagainst duane cummings. p>>laura: he's accused of fatally pshotting a man and his girl pfriend. pone body was found in bradenton pand the other in palmetto. pcummings was allegedly upset pbecause finland stole money from phim. phe's been in jail since last pweek on kidnapping charges. pthe murder charges are new. p>>russell: jamal john smith preward keeps going. phe's wanted for three victims pwho were fatally shot this pmonth. psmith is from miami and goes by pthe nickname of jj or wolf. pif you know where he is, call pcrime stoppers. p>>laura: a group of burglars in plakeland were content stealing pelectronics from a home on ebble brook boulevard. pthey took the family dog, too. ptoby is a 1-year-old yorkie. pirreplaceable. p>> it was pretty rough, pespecially rough on the kids. pwe had a dog since basically the pbirth of the dog so they're preally attached to him. p>>laura: and we have some psurveillance video that shows pthree thieves. pa closer look at the psurveillance video shows they're pbetween 16 a

rolling in until 6:00 pthis morning. asco, pretty much all of inellas, coastal hillsborough, pmanatee county and again, it plooks like it's gotten a little pbetter over the past hour or so. psouth florida has a flood watch pout. pit includes two counties and pthat's de soto and highlands pcounty. pyou have to deal with the flood pwatch today. pwe've had a lot of rain further psouth from tampa and it pcontinues this morning. ersistent showers are just pstreaming along that jet stream pand some of the rain in high plans county, de soto county, may pbe heavy but i think the pheaviest of the rains are going pto stay much further south, psouth of lake okeechobee. pnot to mention a few showers in pthe tampa area this morning. pi encountered a shower that was pa tiny, brief light one on the pway to work and that's what pwe're looking at right now. pgoing over the courtney pcampbell, back to clearwater pwhere it's raining now only for pcitrus park, over to carrollwood pand then shift to new tampa, a plittle bit of light rain. pwe have some showers around anna pmaria island, bradenton, mostly plight

pit happened sunday morning in pmanatee county. pthe girl's grandparents both pkilled. pwilson's son and his two young pboys escaped with some scrapes. pfamily members val salvaged what pthey could. pthe community has raised more pthan $18,000 for the family. p>>laura: and blue tarps line pbaywoods lane in sarasota. pa second tornado struck sunday pmorning. psecond floor of her house and pher family says this is a total ploss and this house will have to pbe torn down completely. pthey don't plan to rebuild, peither, because the house was pfor sale at the time. pinsurance adjustored toured the pneighborhood to add up the pdamage. pin siesta key, an entire condo pis unlivable after the same ptornado tore off the roof. pthe repairs could take months. p>>russell: and today a man pconvicted of helping drug two pmen before they were found ptortured and killed may be ready pto make a deal. pscott sweigert is already pserving time. phe was recently charged with ptheir murders. pthe two disappeared from a west ptampa gay bar in 2003. panother man killed them but padmits he helpe

p>> new this morning two men have pbeen arrested in connection with pmanatee county murder. pdaniel man were arrested pyesterday afternoon in ptallahassee. pdeputies say they shot ask pkilled charles leonard. pin parking lot of a lawn psaturday. pofficials believe the shooting pwas drug related. p22-year-olds were taken into pcustody a motel. pthe death was third homicide in pless than a week in manatee pcounty. pand and six the so far in 2016. p>> to this disturbing story fort pmeyers police are calling it one pmost gruesome and complicated pmurder scenes they have ever pscene. pauthorities say that patrick pcalled 911 early sunday morning ptold police he shot his wife. pand when police got to the home pthey found that woman and her pteenage son had been shot. pthere was a gun between them. pa 3-year-old and family dog were palso found dead with stab pwounds. pthe 3-year-old was the daughter pof carla. pright now only charged with one pcount of murder and being held pwithout bond. pinvestigators are still trying pto figure out who kid will teen pand the toddler. p>> opoid o

pmanatee county sheriff's office psays roger young was arrested pjust after 8:30 friday night pafter being questioned by child rotective investigators. pyoung was watching the little pgirl while her mother was at pwork during an interview he padmitted to detectives what phappened. pand also told them it wasn't the pfirst time it had hit her too phard. phe is still behind bars on p$75,000 bond. p>>> a man walks into a pconvenience store with plan to prob the place. pbut tampa police say this he was pmet with a gun instead. pthis happened yesterday pafternoon, near north 22nd pstreet and east dr. martin pluther king, jr. boulevard. pinvestigators say a man armed pwith a knife walked into at hope pfood store and demanded cash. pbut it didn't end there moments plater the clerk grabbed a gun pand shot the man. phitting him in the head. pthe suspect was taken to the phospital with life threatening pinjuries. pthe incident and so far, no pcharges have been filed. p>>> lock your doors, set your palarm even if you're home, olice hope that those deter prents will help ward off the erson breaki