phere are steady but heavier pshowers along 72. pmyakka may get the tail end of pthat shower activity. pnothing major there. pfurther south we have more praindrops that are faynely light pbut offshore we throw in more pmoderate pockets of rain and atchy sprinkles in and around plake placid. psadly with this set up we're in, pwe have the jet stream to work pwith. pso the instability is elevated pwhen these disturbances roll pthrough. preports of a tornado through pcape coral last night with pinjuries right around 6:45 pyesterday evening. pwe saw some rain with it and saw pstorms and stronger wind gusts pbut no severe weather reported pin the tampa bay area. pwe have .65 inches of rain, pthough. pfor the month we're only a week por so in. pnine days and 10 days today. p1.7 inches so far for the year, pwhich is about average. pit's 69 in frostproof, 72 in pst. pete. pas i take you to the southeast, pthough, there's the cooler air, pthe leading edge sliding in plater today. pyou notice between now and pdinnertime or air mass will pchan

pbut this usf marine science pshowers will take care of that. pwe've got some of those on the pradar as well. pthe steadiest of the rain has preally been south of tampa poverall. pyou closer to where all moisture pinstability are. pright around frostproof area. pa little bit of light to pmoderate rain in past few pminutes. pit's still raining in pfrostproof. psouthward along 27 through avon ark and sebring. phonestly mostly light rain. pit's not a huge deal. pthere is more, sitting back out pover the gulf, just streaming psouthwest to northeast. pin this whole process, it's not pgoing to change much until this pfront, until low pressure system pout in gulf just clear the whole pstate. pso later today, and tonight, pthat's when that process is pgoing to start. pthe chances for severe weather pthe best right down here by pmiami. pwe've watching this i'm sure, ptheir meteorologist are watching pthis line of storms as well. retty hefty rain there. pheading straight for miami, fort plauderdale, all the way up to pwest palm beach. psevere weather down

pshowers and possibilities of pstrong thunderstorms tomorrow pmorning. panywhere from, say, this time pthrough noon. pokay? pand the primary threat, the rimary threat will be very pgusty winds with this line of pshowers and thunderstorms. pnot that there couldn't be an pisolated tornado, but the rimary threat will be very, pvery gusty winds. pafter the front moves through, psay early afternoon, late pmorning, early afternoon, gale pforce winds are possible right pat the coastal waters as the pwinds shift to the west. pyou're looking at 30, 35 pmile-per-hour winds. pyou know what that does to the pbay? pit's really going to make it plook like a washing machine out pthere with that west wind. pand with the high tide for some pspots in the afternoon, that pcould lead to some minor coastal psets up for tomorrow. pi definitely urge you, if your pmorning commute takes you over pthe sunshine skyway and the bay parea bridges tomorrow, i would pcome right back in early. pwe can check the winds, check pthe radar to see how things are ptiming out. pwe're at 50 degr

plater on that's when we see the pshowers arrive. pbest chance of showers, i think, pwill be saturday night and then pturning and staying cooler next pweek. phigh temperatures topping out preally in the low 60s most of pthe days. p71 the current temperature. pdew point is i-is 5. pa relative humidity at 81%. pbarometer 29.29-ins steady and pwinds out of the southeast at 5 pmiles per hour. pother temps around the area it's p69 up in newport ricci. p73 in brandon. p74 already in bradenton. p64 at cross pier. pclouds and a few showers just a plittle bit longer than everybody pso north 71 at brooksville and p70 in crystal river the wider pview, a typical breakdown right, pyou got mid-70s to the south, pmiami sitting at 78. ensacola 56. pcompared to yesterday at this ptime several degrees warmer, in pfact, 10 degrees warmer now than pyesterday at noon in tampa. premember, yesterday yesterday pjust a chilly, chilly start of pthe day. p14 degrees warmer in sarasota. p10 he degrees warmer out at pmarathon, most of the state pfeeling warmer t

ptomorrow late morning, live pshowers and storms move through. pwe'll still manage to make it up pto 70 degrees tomorrow pafternoon. phere is courtney in for vanessa. p>> we're still in good shape pthis morning along the pinterstates. pwe're accident-free and pdelay-free out the door through phillsborough. pno problems here. ptake a look at your north bound ptraffic. pnine minute ride from selmon to pfletcher in both directions pthere, getting by delay-free. pkeep this in mind at 17th pavenue, just south of the selmon pexpressway, an earlier overnight paccident with a car into a pole pand wires down here. pthat still has both directions pshut down at 17th avenue and you pthat's just to the east as an palternate. p>>russell: a massive fire at the pwest chester manor condos next pto i-75. p>>laura: and shayla reaves is plive at the scene. phow did this all start? p>>reporter: good morning to you. pright now investigators are pworking to pin down the exact pcause for this fire but so far, pa spokesperson for tampa fire prescue is telling us they do

pcold enough for some light snow pshowers. pit will be less than an inch, pthough. pwe don't have the right setup pfor a lot of lake-effect snow ptomorrow. pso area wide it will be less pthan an inch. pbut that wind out of the west 15 pto 30. pand you're looking at a drop in ptemperature. p7:00 a.m., 36. pby lunch we're down to 32. pand 5:00 light snow showers, pwindy and 29. pso no alert because i think the psnow is going to be light penough. palso saturday night. pbut then on sunday, that's when pthe arctic air arrives. pand especially sunday afternoon, psunday night. pthat's when i think the snow pwill get a little heavier. pa little heavier lake-effect as pwell. pand going into monday. pmlk day. pmonday is a holiday. pif we didn't have a holiday on pmonday, there would probably be pquite a bit of school closings pbecause the snow here could be pheavy, especially in the plake-effect areas. ponly 14. ptuesday mostly cloudy, 16. p22 wednesday. pa little bit of lake snow pthursday. pwe don't warm until perhaps the pend of next week. phere is traffic. p>> first alert

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. parea where we have delay backing pup over howard franklin bridge pstill at this hour normally pwe're back into green. pusually see see travel times pabout six minutes cross water pright now 26 minutes. pfourth street to kennedy pboulevard. pso drivers who absolutely have pto head that way should pdefinitely give themselves extra pstra time outdoor looks like pgandy if you have to cross the pwater going to be best

pas expected, moving us to pshowers and storms tomorrow pmorning. pso quiet now. pstormy tomorrow morning. pvanessa? p>>vanessa: see you then. pmeantime, biggest crash it seems plike we're seeing is the one pthat involves waters. ptraffic at the veterans pexpressway eastbound lanes are pblocked. pthree is what we're hearing at plast check. pfor folks just waking up with pus, because this is an update pfrom the last traffic report, pthis is involving a patrol car. pthere are injuries reported. pwe don't know if the injuries pare involving a deputy or maybe pone of the other vehicles pinvolved. pbut of course, we'll keep you osted. pyou might want to give yourself pa few extra minutes if you have pto head that way. panother update to give you. pthis is the one involving the pcrash reported along 75 psouthbound and state road 56. pthe delays we were seeing are pstarting to taper down a bit. pthat's good news. pmaybe sounds like this has moved poff to the side or shoulder but pdebris is reported so just keep pyour eyes pealed but really, pdelays are about two minutes

pwhat is left of the first round pis just mostly light, pesky pshower activity. pback end is working through plakeland now so winter haven, pauburndale, those spots, haines pcity, polk city, it will rain a pfew more minutes and then that prain will move up to the orlando parea where west of 75, it's good pfor now. pall the way down to our southern pcounty. pboy, when i first came in, it pwas just raining heavily all pthis particularage -- particular pvantage point, we moved things pto the east. pthe roads are wet but the rain pis not pouring down on top of pyou so hopefully, that can help pout just a little bit for the pmorning commute. pyou see this green here, half pinch of rain but this darker pgreen well over an inch of rain pfell right over the sunshine pskyway overnight into parts of pmacdill area and up to port ptampa and also a half inch, 3/4 pinch of rain from sebring down pthrough lake placid. pi mentioned another round of prain, many more than one. phere is one that's just starting pto get into radar range. pthis is another shot of heavier prain headed

pshowers are washing it out. pwe're starting in the mid to pupper 60s so even though we have pit's not going to move much. p68 degrees for a high. ptonight is when we begin the pclearing out process and the pcooling off process, too. pso 50 for the overnight low. pat least we'll have the sunshine pback at 65 degrees. pcoldest morning of the next pseven will likely be on saturday pmorning but a very fast movement pfor saturday afternoon as we get pclose to 70 degrees and 73 psunday, 76 monday. pjust looks nicer and nicer into pthe beginning of next week, pvanessa. p>>vanessa: sure does. pthank you, dave. pright now at 7:49, we want to pgive you a look at -- the maps pcome back up. psorry, a glitch there. pfdot cameras along i-4 pwestbound, earlier i mentioned psome delays we were seeing, preally dealing with two crashes phere. pone where we're taking a look at pmacintosh road, off to the pshoulder but looks like folks pare taking a look. pthat's going to be the brunt of pwhere the delays are on i-4 pwestbound. pyo

p69 degrees for a high with pshowers and thunderstorms. pthey should be gone for the most art by early afternoon. pthen windy with leftover shower ptonight. plet's go 51 for the overnight plow. pwe have a big parade tomorrow, pfolks. pit's going to be very windy for pthat with a high temperature in pthe mid 50s. pcome sunday morning, we're going pkeep tampa up 40 with a high psunday of only 58 degrees. pso you see it's going to be prain, storms, wind, cold in that porder as we go through the next p24, 36 hours. p>>reporter: crews have picked up pthe cones blocking two psouthbound right lanes of 275 pand 22nd avenue south. pyou can see traffic now getting pby up to speed so no problems pthrough the area. pheading south in pinellas pcounty, very slow traffic as we pusually see this time of pmorning, southbound 275 from pbearses all the way to i-4. pabout 15 miles an hour in the parea of busch boulevard. pthere's an accident reported psouthbound along the veterans pexpressway near waters. pno report of a road block but pstop and go, about 13

pshowers are moderate in pthese push into southern ortions of polk county and a psprinkle near wauchula and more psteady rain through osprey. pthe cooler air is lagging in the anhandle, but it gets here. ponce it moves in, our winds pick pup as well. pthroughout the day today, gusty pwinds and a high of 70 this pmorning. pfalling temps later today. pmonday and tuesday highs in the plow to mid-60s. pwhat does that mean for the pmorning lows? pwe talk about cool mornings pcoming up. p>> anjuli: homeowners in psouthwest florida will be busy icking up debris in morning. pstrong overnight storms caused psevere damage to many homes in pcape coral. pdegrees were pulled straight out pof the ground, roofs damaged, pstreets flooded with parking plots turning into ponds. phundreds were also left without ower. p>> sitting on the patio, and we pstarted to see lightning and pthen a big flash in the back. psomething like a freight train. p>> like a 747 coming overhead. pwe said, oh, it's a tornado. pwe ran. p>> anjuli: so far there's no pserious reports of injuries. p>>> if you played powerball, pyou'

pnotice, notice, -- though a few pshowers continue to work into ortions of the coast. pwe watch those showers but pnothing severe with that. pjust a few nuisance showers ossible as we head through the prest of the morning hours. pwindy afternoon, and obviously a pbreezy start to the day with pthose storms. pwe continue to see the winds pripping and roaring this pafternoon. ptemperatures peaking around pthereafter. pso peaking in the mid to upper p60s and dropping off into the plow 60s this afternoon, upper p50s by this evening. preally overall a cooler week pahead. paverage. pthe next threat for storms looks pto be on friday. pwe have to watch to see if that ptiming changes over the next pcouple of days, though. pthe current temperature is 65 in ptampa, 70 in sarasota, 71 in priver. p24-hour temperature changes, ptemperatures 10 to 15 degrees pyesterday at this time. pthat helped to provide a lot of pfuel to what we saw in those pstorms today. pdew points, this was more fuel pas well. pdew points in the low 60s to the pnorth, upper 60s to near 70 to pthe south. phere's

phigh temperature overcast pshowers late tonight with low of p61. ptomorrow showers and pthunderstorms in has the pmorning. pwindy throughout day, especially plate morning early afternoon phigh temperature of 72 degrees. pif you have to go boating, psqueeze it in this morning. pbecause especially tonight and ptomorrow, we've got a gail watch pout for tomorrow how strong the pwinds will be behind system. ponce that moves through, by pfriday night and saturday, looks pa little bit better. pbut, we've got more rain and ossibility of a few storms on psunday morning as well. pand kind of a one-two punch we phave to throw at you for this pweekend. pcheck a few first birthdays. pwe'll start with a very special pshout out. pwe've got twins. pthat is awesome. pcharles shaw turning 1 today. pthey love playing peek a boo. pi ever never seen twin pictures plike that. pfirst birthday. pi love it. pmason turning one today. phey mason. psmiling guy loves outdoors laying with his trucks and ploves going to disneyworld. phappy first birthday. pjackson sharp dressed

pfort meyers you can see heavier pshowers already starting to make ptheir way on shore. pand then in the highlands county pback towards wauchula. pand arcadia. pyou you can see some activity as pwell. pall moving to the north and the pnortheast right now. pwe will continue to watch more pof this spreading on shore. pas we go through the afternoon. pright now just some light pshowers across the pinellas pcounty, but we've got this cold pback to our north and west. pso we're going to still say in pthis period of unsettled weather pfor the rest of today. pand into tomorrow. pwe'll have more radar views and pcomplete forecast coming up in plinda. p>> thank you, jim. pinvestigators want to know if pfoggy and rainy weather may have pbeen a factor in deadly accident pon 38th avenue north in st. etersburg this morning. pa semitruck was turning on to pthe road when a honda civic prammed right underneath it. pman inside that car was killed. pand two people inside the truck pluckily were not hurt. p>>> we're also following a pdeveloping investigation out of pmanatee county. pdeputi

pthere's the possibility of pshowers but a thunderstorm. pin the week. pany systems we watch very pclosely this time of year. p60 for today. pcool, winter day but breezy. pit you like the cooldown, you plove today, love overnight, 41 pfor the low. ponly a few high clouds. p58 for tuesday. pour average high is 70. pstill on the chilly side. pi think boating will be pcombroufed -- improved ptomorrow. pnext high tide is at 10:31. phere's my seven-day forecast. pwednesday 38. pwe'll watch the storms friday. pweekend looks chilly right now. plet's head over to vanessa who i punderstand is tracking a pretty pbad crash. p>>vanessa: we're still urging pdrivers to probably take phillsborough avenue around the pmlk crash happening just east of p50th street. pwe're learning this is actually pa head-on collision. plooks like a van that collided phead-on with a flatbed truck pwith some serious injuries preported so avoid that area. pin the meantime, other than pquiet as far as the number of pincidents we're seeing as well pas the congestion we're seeing pon the roadw

p38. pover to some morning snow pshowers. pa little lit of -- little bit of plake-effect friday morning. pand then look that, we warm up pover the weekend. phow about 48 on saturday. pwindy and afternoon sprinkles. pa little bit of light rain psaturday night. pand then an alert on sunday for psome light rain and 43 degrees pthere. pi'm not seeing any arctic air pshowing up on the seven day. pthere you go. p>> mark: all right, jech ff. pthank you very much. p>>> big talk around the pnewsroom. poffice blind dates. pnot the kind you're thinking. pthey're strictly professional. p>> romona: sure they are. pa company is taking advantage of pmaking employees more happy. p>> reporter: a toronto based pfirm workplace dating has taken pto a growing level. pthey emphasize creative pthey bring their pets to work, pstand instead of sit and now go pon blind dates with their pco-workers. p>> hey, marcus. p>> i like to meet everyone that pshows up. pas the company grew, people pdidn't know each other's names panymore. pwhich for me, i liked

pno severe whether eather with the pshowers. pi don't see thunder or plightning. pmaybe an occasional downpour. pa couple of lighter showers pthrough sarasota and manatee pcounties, and that's it. pwe get through that, we should pbe good for the res of the day. p67 right now in tampa, 64 in new ptampa, 65 in west chase and to pthe north and 64 in crystal priver, 66 in brooksville and 70 pin sarasota, 66 in myakka city pand 72 in venice. ptemperatures in the mid to upper p60s as you head inland. pthe cold air is filtering in and pby tonight we feel it. pwe wake up tomorrow morning to p45 in tampa, 43 in new port prichey and 38 in brooksville and plow to mid-40s off to the south, pmid to upper 40s as you head ptowards venice and inglewood and psarasota. pcloser to the water there. poverall one of the colder pmornings so far this year is not pthe coldest morning, though, in pthe seven-day forecast. phere's the satellite and radar. pthere's our area of low ressure. pthat continues to push off to pthe east. pthe trailing cold front is ushing through right now. pheavies

peverything so well built is that pshower there. pyeah that's shower off to the pleft-hand side inside. pi mean refrigerator is i mean pmaybe not quite full size dog pgone that's big enough. penough to keep a few beers cold. pfor sure. pi like the way you think, my pfriends microwave a little stove pis this all run off pro bayne pgas? pelectric? pit's a mixer. pit's a mixer customer has pseveral options if he wants with pto cook that's definitely off of pgas. pbut if he wants to run an air pconditioner that off electric. p>> short power and good to go. pyou know some people with air pstream at the get back and do a plot of boon docking one nice pit's only ten foot to the top pthe air conditioners so you can pmy great in some back country pand get up close and up poernl pwith mother nature. pboon docking. pwhen we come back. pthe machines that you might want pto be a powerball winner to ptruly enjoy. pwe're talking about the biggest pand the best of the best, laura. pnice. p>> you know, charley i'm right pthere with you. pmy grandfat

pshowers and thundershowers may pinitially drift to the south in pand tomorrow. pthen we will have to wait for panother surge of rain to go by. pthe storm prediction center is phighlighting from springhill pall the way to about daytona is phaving the best risk or the phighest risk of severe storms ptomorrow. pi think the primetime will be plate tonight and early tomorrow pmorning. pthat threats will shift to the psouth on thursday as a frontal pboundary begins to head that pway. pso, improving mother by pthursday afternoon. pwith 75 is the dewpoint at 76, pwinds are south it five. paround the country, becomes an papproach of a frontal boundary pwith rain around. pmuch of the country is milder pon the east coast, a lot of pmelting snow. pthree feet of snow are in the p50s today. pall that snow is literally pgoing down the drain. pbehind the front is cold in pchicago, 29. pmelt the snow in york, 38 in praleigh, columbia, south pcarolina, is 65. pforecasts for tonight, rain pwith rain developing after pmidnight. pit down to 64, messy tomorrow pwith rain. pthundersto

pshowers and thunderstors parriving, 66, all of that goes pby and the weather should pimprove by midday on friday. pwe will squeeze in a good day on psaturday. pa round of rain and storms. psome models go in the 20s some pspots tuesday and wednesday. plots going on. pback to you. p>> we will keep the big coats phandy. preturn of an 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. only at seaworld. p>> this is dangerous. p>> when has that ever stopped us pbefore? p>> the truth is out there. pwe all know the x-files was pawesome. pdavid ducv -- ducoveny and pjillian anderson. p>> it was a reunion 13 years in pthe making as the cast and crew pof the the x files celebrated ptheir new 6-episode series. p>> i never have

pshowers off shore right now. pyou can see that line of showers pand everything pushing eastward pand moving quickly as well. pthere may be a few heavier pdownpours down towards sarasota pas well. pthat's the last licks of the prain. ponce we get through that, we pof the afternoon today. pa bit of a cooler day. p656 in west chase and 65 in dade pcity. pwarmer to the south and 72 in pvenice and 72 in inglewood and p63 in wauchula and 67 in psebring. pnational temperature look, you psee very cold air across the pnorthern half of the country pthat slowly filtering south and peast over the coming days. p67 for today, and one of the pwarmer days, in fact, over the pnext few days. p62 for tomorrow and by tuesday phigh temperatures in the upper p50s and back into the low 60s as pwe head towards wednesday, pcloser to normal by the end this is violet. she's been waiting for this moment for awhile. a moment other kids her first bowl of cheerios. because now that cheerios are gluten free, violet, and many others are enjoying

pshowers and thunderstors parriving, 66, all of that goes pby and the weather should pimprove by midday on friday. pthen the clouds roll right back pin. pa round of rain and storms. psome models go in the 20s some pspots tuesday and wednesday. plots going on. pback to you. p>> we will keep the big coats phandy. pcoming up, the long-awaited preturn of an here in vineland, home of progresso, we love all kinds of chicken soups... but just one kind of chicken. white breast meat chicken every time. so if you're not going to make your own chicken soup tonight, do what we do...make it progresso. look at this sweet face. so sweet. ok, we're going to need a napkin gooey, flaky, happy. toaster p>> this is dangerous. p>> when has that ever stopped us pbefore? p>> the truth is out there. pwe all know the x-files was pawesome. pdavid ducv -- ducoveny and pjillian anderson. p>> it was a reunion 13 years in pthe making as the cast and crew pof the the x files celebrated ptheir new 6-episode series. p>> i never have been in this pmuch danger. pairing from 1993 to 2002. pthe show about two fbi pspeciali

pthen your monday morning we'll pbe dealing with lake effect snow pshowers early monday morning, phow much snow are we talking? pi look at this, sandusky by p11:00 because we have seen a psee upwards of two inches of psnow. pthis is measuring how much comes pdown. pit is not going to stack up that pquickly, that fast. pwhen it is all said and done, it pgets the county near three pinches of snow. pwe definitely have an pinteresting day coming our way. p43 tonight, we start off at 43 ptomorrow. pand then we slide all day. povernight, we are fine. pthe rain comes in, 6:00 in the pmorning, 7:00. prain will still be happening. pwe make our way to lunchtime. pit is 44 by lunchtime. pit will be in the 30's. pby dinner time, we'll be into pthe 20's. pby the time you get to bed and pyou think, maybe i should get pout and shovel, we are in the pteens. pmonday is not a bad day, we pcould see more sfoe. pon tuesday and wednesday, carl, plook at the snow. pit could start stacking up. pi hope you brought a snow blower pwith you into town. p>> it makes me feel like i am at phome. pthe browns weren't

pwe still have to deal with pshowers. pexcuse me. pand this yellow indicates rights pgoing into southeast polk pcounty, an um could have tiny plittle moderate downpours. pbut this is really more of a pnuisance rain than anything. pheavy, heavy stuff is down over psouth florida. pand again your sprinkle here and pthis as go further north. pmiami is about to get hit with pserious rain. pthis where i think there's going pto some flooding south alligator palley down into fort lauderdale pand miami. pthey will get heaviest of the prain. pthey are closer to at dynamics pof everything for today. pbut, highlands county de soto pcounty officially in flood watch puntil later this evening. palthough i don't think they will pbe a tremendous amount of pflooding there as i showed you, pit's going to be a much further pto the south. pwe still have a couple of spots pthat are feeling with fog even pfog will lift up off the ground plow clouds are going to hang paround for the most part today. pkeeping number ptemperatures down. pso we will at skuks d

pshowers and storms through early pafternoon. pthen the wind takes over late in pthe day. pwhile we hit 69 today, tonight pwe'll drop it back to 50, 51 but pit's going to feel colder than pthat and during the day ptomorrow, it's going to be a lot plike the parade was last year. paround, that windy, raw type day pwith temps only in the mid 50s pand that's what we're looking at pfor tomorrow afternoon. lease no boating. pwe have a gale warning which pkicks in this evening and goes pall the way through tomorrow as pwell. punfortunately, that means we're pnot going to be out in the phillsborough bay watching the arade. p58 for a high on sunday and then pgradually getting back to normal pby tuesday. pcourtney? p>>reporter: you know, still pslow. pearlier road work that was psupposed to wrap up before 6:00 pthis morning is still in place. pthis is southbound 275 near 31st pstreet south. pyou can see the taillights pheaded southbound. pthat far right lane still pblocked and the delays continue pall the way past 26th avenue psouth and then it does start to pthin out but you do wan

petersburg, over 3/4 pmile visibility so you've got pwet roads, you've got some pshowers and you've got a little pbit of fog. pso you have to slow it down. p65 degrees right now. phighs today only in the upper p60s. pokay? p>>vanessa: sounds good. pthank you. pand right now we have a live plook from the ground from one of pour photojournalists. pthis is near the gandy so you pcan see here, of course, psituation with some low pvisibility here. pmake sure you're slowing it pdown. pyou also have some other fog pshots to show you around the bay parea. pwe want to take you to fdot pcamera in polk county. pthis is along i-4 so you can see palso similar visibility concerns phere near state road 33. pit's the same case for these pdrivers. pmake sure you're giving yourself pextra time out the door to pnavigate any visibility issues pyou might encounter. pmeantime, looks good as far as ptravel times are concerned. pno incidents are blocking up the proads. p>>walter: new this morning, pfamilies forced out of their phomes after a fire at a tampa papartment complex. pthis is on huber street, in the

pwhen it gets near us, obviously pgoing to bring with a line of pshowers and thunderstorms. pand that will happen tomorrow pmorning. pnow back and forth and back and pforth the computer models have pgone about timing of it all robably during good day we will phave to deal with line of pshowers and thunderstorms. pthe predominant threat with this pline are going to be high winds. pand this is your severe risk for pfriday. pwe're in marginal category. pit is the first category. pwe do have again a marginal risk pfor severe weather. pthe predominant threat being pthose gusty winds. pthat's what i think we will have pto deal with tomorrow morning. pbut the way this low is cranking pup and moving, even behind the prain tomorrow the winds are pgoing to be a whipping. p30, 35 miles per hour just off pshore. pthat may lead to some coastal pflooding. plet's say it's kind of a one-2 pevent. pfirst a line of rain and high pwinds. pthen behind it, the winds pick pup. pand maybe at the time of high ptide tomorrow afternoon, there's psome minor, not major but some pminor coastal flooding

pfriday we have a good chance of pshowers and thunderstorms to pcome through but relatively pquiet the next couple of days pand cloudy as well. pyou can see with the tampa cam pthat we have a high cloud cover pstreaming through the area. pit's not going to stop from ushing through, filtering pthrough. p50 degrees in tampa, 42 in pbrooksville. pmid to upper 40s for the inland plocations. pi think we get back to mid 60s pfor today. pwith that filtered sunshine, ponce again, friday morning will pbe a bit stormy so we'll discuss pthat in a few minutes. p>>vanessa: thank you. pwe're keeping an eye on i-275 pnorthbound approaching dale pmabry. pthat trouble spot from the heart pof the rush hour commute pyesterday morning. plooks like it's all clear at pthis point as far as those ptravel times go. pnot too many cars on the roadway pyet so of course, we'll watch pit. pwe didn't start to see trouble pfolks were on the roadway. pso if you're heading out right pnow, so far so good. pbut of course, if you're going pto be heading out a little plater, you might want to plan pfor extra time. plooks l

pnot only do we have a chance of pshowers and thunderstorms on pfriday, but then after a brief, pdecent saturday, the clouds come prolling right back in and pbelieve it or not, another pchance of a quick shower on psunday as well. pvery fast moving, progressive pweather pattern. pvanessa? p>>vanessa: thank you. pand right now sky fox is pchecking out the new alignment pgoing on near dale mabry. p275 northbound is where we're pseeing. plooks like drivers can navigate pthis pretty fine so far but keep pin mind, you might have some pdrivers that might be confused. palso just keep in mind also the pwidth of the lanes to certain arts of the stretch will pactually be shorter and a new pmerging conditions coming from pdale mabry and himes avenue in pthe northbound direction of 275. pso we'll watch that throughout pthe morning but like i said pbefore, it looks like everything pis running up to speed at this oint and largo, we usually have ptwo crashes. pone involves a vehicle that pstruck a tree. p12th street southwest at 18th pavenue southwest. plooks like we don't have any plane blockage bein

pand then just some lighter pshowers across i-4. pdown to our south, really pstarting to see lot of this pbreaking apart. pbut over the past few minutes, pwatching another little band of psome showers kind of predeveloping in, so over towards pbradenton down towards sarasota pyou'll see some light to pmoderate rain. pheavier showers now pushing over ptowards arcadia as well. pyou might see some gusts and psome of those down towards parcadia. pthat light to some cases psome heavier storms over towards porlando. pwe had that one tornado warning pover towards new smyrna beach pjust before noon. pthat moved off shore. pthat warning was cancelled. pno confirmation of any tornado ptouchdown with that cell. p65 degrees here in tampa right pnow. pwesley chapel you're 66. pdown in bradenton 67. psarasota 66 degrees. retty much everybody basically pjust sitting in the mid 60s. pa little breezy as you move down pto our south. pbartow 17 miles an hour. psarasota, winds are out psouthwest at 16. pclearwater 12 miles an hour. pwe've had some gust

ptonight, as clouds roll back in, pshowers. pand then a better rain chance pfront sneaks its way through the parea. pthank you. pwestbound along gulf to bay pboulevard. pwe have minor delays. pthere's crash that's reported phere with lane blockage. pyou can see stemming from phercules avenue back past u.s. p19, of course westbound as i pmentioned before we're seeing at pleast one lane blocked. pdue to this crash. phere at 8:18 we do want to check pin on our veterans expressway ptravel times. pwe were kind of ticking up from pour last report from 22 minutes psouthbound direction to 25 pminutes. pgood news that's really not pcrack 30 minute window where we preally start to get towards that pheavier side and southbound pdirection. paverage speed south of gunn phighway linebaugh we're dealing pwith lenny mime per hour speeds pnorthbound direction not too pbadly ticked down from 13 pminutes to just 12. p>> all rights thank you. p>> well, bucs thing behind me. robably shoon be for second pday. ptech junks are headed tout pconsumer el

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 coming over the howard pfrankland bridge. pthis is southbound heading ptowards the bridge, coming north pbound over the bridge. pthis is all the traffic that is pheading towards that new traffic attern up near dale mabry and pwe're seeing some delays pstemming from that point of the pinterstate. premember, there's a new merging attern up near d

pshowers and thunderstorms parriving at night. pwe're up to 66. pany rain ends by mid day on pfriday. p69 we squeeze out an okay day on psaturday. pshould go downhill. prain and storms. pafter that, 30s and 40s for pnight time lows. pcoldest arriving next week. p30s. pthat's getting serious. p>> paul, thanks. p10 u.s. sailors are free after a ptense experience. p>> what happened after they were pbeing held b stre-e-e-e-eam stream, stream, stre-eam stre-e-e-e-eam stream, stream, stream when i want you in my arms when i want you whenever i want you all i have to do is stre-e-eam. our cosmetics line was a hit. i could feel our deadlines racing towards us. we didn' t need a loan. we needed short-term funding fast. building 18 homes in 4 months? that was a leap. but i knew i could rely on american express to help me buy those building materials. amex helped me buy the inventory i needed. our amex helped us fill the orders. just like that. another step on the journey. will you be ready when growth presents itself? realize your buying power p>> reporter:

pyou're going to notice by ptomorrow morning, that a line of pshowers and thunderstorms are pgoing to set up in the gulf. pthat's going to come through. pwe're looking midday hours ptomorrow. plet's say between 10 and 2. pgive us that time. pa little bit later than what pwe've had previous two cold pfronts come through. pbehind it, it is going to turn pmuch cooler. pour chances for severe weather pfrom this system for us, are palso going to be on low side. ptoday it will be louisiana, psouthern mississippi, and pof the panhandle. pfor us looking a temperatures pgetting back to lower 70s. pit will be mild. ptemperatures i say 5, six pdegrees warmer than yesterday. ptonight, overnight lows will be paround 59 degrees. pand then for tomorrow showers pand thunderstorms likely. pjust a line of rain. pa little bit of thunder with it pmaybe a few gusty winds phopefully we will keep all of pthat severe weather out of here pi don't want anybody to have it pjust like it will be much pfurther to north. pit does get cool behind system. pwe will drop it to 52 for psaturday morning but high only pfw

pboth of these areas will come ptogether and during the day ptomorrow, there will be numerous pshowers and thunder showers paround, and during the day, some pof these storms will be locally pheavy and a couple of them could roduce some strong winds, maybe protate for a while. psmall chance of a tornado as the parea. pany way to slice it, it's going pto be a wet and stormy pwednesday. ponly slow improvement on pthursday before things turn much pbetter for the weekend. pthere's a lot going on. pwe'll talk more about it at p10:20. p>>> a woman's been accused of pshooting her boyfriend just a pofficers were standing. pit happened tonight at a home on p17th avenue south of st. pete. pofficers tell us they were pcalled to a domestic argument at pa home and they were talking to pkelly right outside her house, pwhen she went inside, got a gun pand shot her boyfriend. pman: made a comment that she pdidn't take care of herself and pshot him. pthe officers came up on the presidence to find out what phappened, she pulled around the pcorner and immediately shot her pboyfriend. pshe shot him in the

phere's my 7 day forecast we go pfrom 38 wednesday morning 38 to pshowers and storms friday and p72. pand just in time for the kids arade saturday. plooks pretty chilly and breezy pby the bay. plucky if we make it into upper p50s. pall right lindsay, thank you. pno one is worrying couping cool ptoday in july a shade tree is pjust what doctor florida giving paway ten thousand trees in honor pharbor day coming up in april pstrategically placed tree wan pdrop bill by as much 30 percent. phomeowners can order their tree pbut it's only one tree per paddress. pand incredible service they rovide. pjust the same. p>> and again, the name of the pgame is keeping warm. ptoday fox 13's ken suarez with psome frontiers men and women who plove doing this kind of thing eople travel from all over to pto take part. pwhap weekend they chose. p>> actually, a thousand people pcoming here, a lot of them pmerchants, 200 people out here pselling their wairs wares. pthis will keep you warm like pthis silver fox tail i see eople wearing them on their phats around back a little bit plower. pall kinds of stuff.

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. p35 wesley chapel, 39 in the plakeland area so quite cold poverall to start. robably the coldest morning pthat we've had. pi know record-breaking ptemperatures but just january pcold for us. pthrough from time to ti

pas it does so we get each one of pthese impulses we get bands of pshowers, a stroke or two of plightning in the as well. pand a humid weather which has pworking its way up from south to pcooler temperatures that are psitting just to our north. pso, we've got another day of pthis we will continuing to watch pmore of these showers, as we go pthrough the afternoon. pyou can see most of this is just plight rain. pjust lig drizzle, but pthen into the gulf of mexico, a plittle bit of heavier rain, in pfact couple strokes of lightning pin this. pyou can see over the past 20 pminutes only about three strokes pof lightning. pso really not a whole lot out pthere. pso we just kind of continue with pthis, just nagging pattern of pthe damp weather. pwhich will continue over the pstate for today. pby tonight, that front's going psouth. pand clear out the skies so a pcompletely looking completely ptomorrow. pbut you can see over the past 24 phours, we've had quite a bit of prain to our south. psome ponding, and some localizedholiday, ended with pteenage girl getting shot. pdeputies say she wasn't shot

p>> cooler weather is working in pright now and we have some pshowers south of tampa bay. pthe steady showers storms are pgone and we say good-bye to the p70s over the next couple of phours. pcooler air is knocking on our pdoorstep. pso that 70 in lakeland may rise pmore before we bring in 60s for pthe remainder of the day. pwinds are fairly light. phere's the wind shift. pthe front is moving through pright now. pclearwater beach already seeing pthe surf enhanced and the rip pcurrent risk is higher today. pit's 69 in clearwater beach ptumbling to the low to mid-60s pthis afternoon. pcurrent temperatures range from p72 in tampa but crystal river is p63 degrees. pwe're opening the door for some pcooler air to settle in. pit will get here throughout the pday, and you'll notice ptemperatures dropping from now puntil about dinnertime. pwhat's also dropping is dew oints, that low level moisture. pif you were up early it was psteamy with dew points near 70 pin sar society and venice. pthey drop to 65 in tampa. pthey drop in crystal river. pit kicks in from the west from p10 to 15

pi'm going with 49 in cleveland. pshowers. pand future view is saying the pbulk of the action will be ptomorrow night. pthat's the cold front. pon saturday temperatures start pthe downward trend sharply. psharp downward trend. pwe're going to start to develop pa little lake-effect snow. pout of the two weekend days and pthere you see the falling p36. pslowly falling. pbut out of the two weekend days, psunday is going to be the better popportunity to get some plake-effect snow in here. pa little better moisture. pso and, of course, colder ptemperatures as well. ponly to be followed by the next pshot of arctic air that arrives psunday night. pwe drop down to 12. pmlk day on monday. psnow, wind and 16 degrees only. psome leftover lake-effect snow ptuesday. p20. pso i have alerts out starting plate tomorrow afternoon through pthe weekend. pand then right up until tuesday. pthen things will slowly moderate pagain. pwednesday 21. pthursday we could be back up pabove freezing. phere is traffic. p>>> first alert traffic on pcleveland

pmostly cloudy, a couple of quick pshowers to finish up tomorrow pwith a high of 75 degrees. pthen the rain chance goes to p60%. pwe have to bring a cold front pthrough on saturday. pi'm going to do my best to psavage out the weekend on psunday. pmid to upper 60s for highs. pclouds roll right back in by ptuesday. pvanessa? p>>vanessa: we have a pair of pcrashes we're following in the ptown 'n' country area. pone of them does involve lane pblockage and the other involves pa vehicle in the building. pthe first one is reported at phillsborough avenue and sawyer proad with travel lanes blocked. pworst delays in the eastbound pdirection. pit doesn't look like we're pdealing with any serious delays pso just a couple of extra pminutes out the door. pthis is at the daycare according pto the sheriff's office. pmemorial highway and pindependence parkway. pthis will be on the north side pof the intersection. pnot hearing about any travel planes blocked. pno injuries, either. pbut we're seeing what i'm pguessing is onlooker delay. pit's in the northbound direction papproaching that inter

pwith that moinl, yes, inpointing at least a few pshowers, but still it's less pthan a 20% coverage. pduring the day on tuesday, we'll pbe watching some sea fog. psoutherly winds for a few days pbring in the warmth, and the pmoisture on top of cooler shelf pwaters. pduring the day on wednesday, plate in the day here come some pof the rain in the wake of this pfront. pbehind it in some slightly pcooler air but doesn't move in puntil friday. pwe rebound bring in the warmth pand late in the week cooler artly to mostly cloudy and 71 pdegrees and a seasonable day. plook at that. p62 is about 10 degrees above paverage this time of year, by pthe way. p76 for a high on monday, and a pcouple more peaks of sun and pthat stray shower chance is pfurther south where you come pclose to 80 degrees tomorrow. pon the water today there's a pwind shift out of the southeast, plight chop toy and gulf bowie at p59 degrees and low tide at 12:12 pon st. pete pier. phere's the seven-day forecast. pin the middle part of the week, plook at 80s. p80s in tampa means low 80s pinland and south. pthursday best rain

pthunderstorms and a line of pshowers tomorrow late in the pmorning. pit will give way to cooler pall those p>>dave: 7:13 on this thursday pmorning. pactually a very pretty start to pthe day. psun will be up in a few minutes. pwe're starting with, i think the pexact amount of cloud cover we phad yesterday at this time. p but the temps this morning are pabout five to 10 degrees warmer pthan they were yesterday. pso considering they were very pcold yesterday, they're cold and pchilly this morning. pbut once we get to the afternoon phours, it's going to be a pdifferent ballgame as for most pof us, especially inland plocations. pwe're going to get back up to pnormal. pnormal for a change? pyeah. pway above or way below. ptoday we'll be back to the lower p70s. p46 in palm harbor. pgetting ready to walk out the pdoor, west chase also at 46 pdegrees. ptampa international still at 51. pyou go north, though, 36 pinverness, 36 crystal river, pthat's cold. pbut remember, you were in the pupper 20s yesterday so nobody is pbelow freezing this morning pwhich is awes

pby tonight we'll introduce a few pshowers and still less than a p20% rain chance and yes 76 is pwell above average. phow about some rain? pwe time-out the next cold front pcoming up. p>> alcides: a flock of whooping pcranes following an ultra light pthere are six cranes this year pthat have been following the pultra light from wisconsin to pst. mark's national refuge in pthe panhandle. pthis maybe the last time the mee pintegration happens. pthey're going to stop supporting pthe program because the birds paren't successful in producing pchicking and raising them in the pwild. p>> anjuli: in jacksonville a p$20,000 reward is being given pfor someone to shot and killed a p22--month-old boy. pthe car he was in was hit by pnight. pthey say the shooting was pgang-related, but no one in the pcar were the intended targets. p>> alcides: china is strongly pcondemning actions taken by the pusz pu.s. government this morning. pa u.s. navy warship sailed near pin the south china sea. pchina and taiwan have poverlapping claims to the roperty. pu.s. officials don't agree and psay these types of shi

pi do have one little line of pshowers, everybody else is pfinally beginning dry out a plittle bit from the overnight prain that we had. pin many spots tampa pinternational one of them. pwe've got over an inch of rain. pin short order. pbut now as we push round number pone out of here a few left over psprinkle it is looks psoutheastern portions of pasco pcounty, this is going to head pinto northern polk county. pand eventually this is the green pswath right here. pso they will get a little bit pmore in the way of rainfall. pgo out into the gulf, that's pwhere we look for our next round pof rain. pand it's already developing. pand kind of shifting from psouthwest to northeast. pand 8:13 in morning i expect ad pcouple of hours we will have to pdeal with this round of rain as pthat moves into our area. pand yes, like the first round, psome of that is going to be pheavy. pso while it's not a persistent prain every minute of the day pkind of day we're going to have pto deal with some rounds. pthis is second round of rain. pyou can see it clearly on the pradar. pit is heading southwest to pno

pthursday our cold front moves prain chance on monday but on pthursday we bring in scattered pshowers and maybe a pthunderstorm. pit looks like a rain event. pwe clear it out in time for next pweekend. pso the timing of that is good. pwe should see two dry weekends pin a row. pfor today 71 degrees and a bit pwarmer and partly to mostly pcloudy, and it's a rain-free pday. penjoy the day and get out and pabout and head to the beach pbefore you work and wish you pwent early in the week when it's pwarmer. p62 for the overnight low. pthat's considerably milder. pscattered high clouds and even pwarmer on monday with a slim prain chance south of i-4. pthe southerly winds could spark pa few isolated showers but pnothing we can't handle. pon the water today, another pdecent day. pseas at 2 feet and southeast pwinds at 10 knots. pwe're at high tide in four pminutes and low tide at 12:12. p80 degrees on tuesday. pwhat a change. psome sea fog mid-week and then pwe bring in the rain and 60s. pso by friday 63 degrees and next pweekend a lot are at the state p66 looks good. p>> alcides: i was going

pbraden to as that cluster of pshowers and storms. pmoves southwest to northeast. pright that you the area. pwe're not done there probably pget another one. pimportant is periods of rain, psome of it could heavy. pcheck back in with jim with more pskytower radar on fox 13 news at pnoon. pafter tomorrow, quiets down. p>> okay. pso we will end this all with a plittle riddle why did the gator pcross the road? pyou know. pand take a look. pfox 13 viewer ryan bailey pemailed us this video earlier pthis morning. pholy tamale. pside. phe was in trinity just pouring pout of his neighborhood when he pawe traffic jam. pall cars stopped waiting and pwatching for the gator to get to pthe other side. pyeah that will stop traffic. pevery time. pwelcome to florida. pis that dave? pthat sounds like dave but i pdon't think so. panyway. pthat will do it for us. pit did sound like dave. pwhy was he saying burger king pcoffee. pmaybe he was doing you want to pget get burger king coffee. pall right. pwe'll leave it there today pwednesday january 27th. plive with kelly and michael pi've

pit gives us filtered sunshine pand everything stays quiet until pfriday morning when a round of pshowers and thunderstorms comes pthrough the area. pthe potential is there for some pstrong thunderstorms. pa lot of that energy make stay pto the north but we have to fine ptune that the next couple of pdays but i would plan some time pfriday. pthunderstorms. ptoday is wednesday and just some phigh clouds today and a high of p64 degrees. ptonight mostly cloudy but the pclouds will keep us up a few pand then for tomorrow, more pcloud cover, near normal ptemperatures as we run things up pto 69 degrees. pboating, okay today. pmoderate chop. pi say okay today because as we pget closer to friday, the winds pand the seas are going to start pto chop up and with two storm psystems coming through three pdays, i think things are going pto be choppy all weekend long. p80% the rain chance mainly in pthe morning hours on friday. pwe're quiet on saturday. pthat rain coming through on psunday looks like it's going to pbe from the morning so outdoor lans sunday afternoon like pwe'll squeeze out okay. p>>van

pand then for tomorrow, some pshowers in the morning. pmaybe some sunshine back later pin the day tomorrow with a high pof around 68 degrees. pas we get rid of the rain in pearnest tomorrow, we're smooth psailing through the weekend and pi say sailing, of course, pbecause we have the invasion pcoming up on saturday. pwhile it should be chilly, it pshould be nice overall. p>>vanessa: not too much to pthank you. p6:42, we do want to talk about pthis crash in the clearwater parea. pit's still causing some lane pblockage. pgood news is this overturned pvehicle crash, this has some pimprovements in the lane blocks. pnorthbound direction, you're pgoing to see one lane blocked popposed to two. pkeep an eye out for emergency pcrews on site working away. pmeantime, we want to show you p275 northbound at ashley drive. pgood news for drivers, we do phave all lanes clear. pbad news is you're probably pgoing to want to give it a few pminutes before you head that pway. ptravel times are still heavy and pwe'll let you know when it pstarts to get back c