which is psitting off the coastline about psix and a half miles in that ptornado warning for sarasota pcounty. pthat goes until 1 o'clock this pafternoon down into sarasota. pthis is really a very long phistory of showing rotation. pjust backing out wider view on pthis. pyou can see all way out into the pgulf of mexico. pwhat we're looking swath showing protating. pat this point no reason to pbelieve that this is going to pweaken substantially as it moves pon towards the coastline. p>> go ahead. pyou can see there. pin excess of 70 miles an our pindicate possibility of large phail in this. pyou can see motion with this. pthis bti is an index that would pbe very from 0 to 10. pand 6.5 is pretty high for us. pthat is. pyou know this is a scale of 1 to p10. pand typically around here, we pget 1s and 2s. pand this one is the computer plooking at the amount of protation. p6.5 is, i mean look at the sheer pvalue, 92 miles an hour off the pcoast. pthe width of the storm about ten pmiles. pthere's the arrival times. pyou're looking at, it you kind pof jump. pbut it looks like to me moving pmore towar

pnate was born a girl but is pthere's no set policy on ptransgender students in sarasota pcounty. pthe school board is trying to pdecide if they should create a pdistrict wide policy. p>>woman: i don't want to make olicy based off fears that paren't based on reality. p>> so the school board says it pwill take time to study what pother districts are doing. pone board member will attend an plgbt workshop. puntil then, each school will pdeal with it on a school by pschool basis. p>>> it's proposing an electric pshuttle program using the six assenger vehicles here with an papp on your phone, you can prequest one of the shuttles to ick you up and drop you off pwithin the downtown area. pthe rides will be free and pavailable every day of the week. pthe city will test out the rogram starting out in may. pif this is something you think pwants to hear back from you. pwhat do we think about that? p>> it's kind of interesting. pnice weather. p>> great weather, you can meet pnew friends on your fancy long pgolf cart of the. p>>> coming up, hopeful high pschool students struggling to pmake one

is preporting a crash with complete plane blockage and intersection pblockage out at the sarasota pcounty area, more specifically pin englewood. pi'm mentioning it because we do phave reports this might involve pa school bus. pbut in the meantime, we can tell pyou the crash involves pintersection crashes as well as pinjuries. pthis is happening clawson road. plooks like we've got some usual pcongestion 275 southbound, pbearss avenue to i-4 is at a 23 pminute ride. pdrivers i-4 westbound plan for p14 minutes from the 75 exit to pthe interchange and then 17 pminutes is your scheduled ride pat least right now out the door, p75 southbound from the junction pof pasco to i-4. p>>laura: gas prices have been plow lately and they're down a pmonday. pthe new average for a gallon of pregular grade in tampa bay is p$1.72. pthat's three cents cheaper than pit's 36 cents less than this ptime a year ago. p>>russell: money can cause parguments in a marriage, pespecially when you try keeping pit a secret. pjerry willis tells about a psurvey with surprising results. p>> my information is better and pi'm ma

pdown into manatee, sarasota, pcounty. pcover. pthat's because we've got more of pthat southeasterly wind and that pwind has been warming up the pbringing a lot of moisture in pthe form of those higher dew oints. pthose higher dew points really phelp to create a lot of fog paround this morning. pyou can see, in the lower 70s, psebring is 72. pwauchula, frostproof at 71. phere in tampa a dew point of 69. pas you head outside, you pcertainly notice it's warmer and pit feels humid outside. pand we're likely going see more pof this fog around by late pmorning. pat the noon hour, we're sitting pat 78 degrees. pst. petersburg just a little bit pcooler at 72. psarasota has a 76. pyou head down to naples already pin the 80s. pbut you do see some slightly pcooler temperatures up across pthe northern part of the state. pbut across the southeast peverything getting cranked up ponce again. pbig cold front you can see pscattered showers in advance of pthe front, and then the large parea of snow. pthat's area bringing big snow pstorm up across

pthis is in manatee sarasota pcounty area. pi-75 university parkway. pthat left lane is blocked. pso you can seat delays. pat this point all way back to pstate road 70 you're going to pwant to plan extra time out door pyou have to head that way. pa little bit north from that oint. inellas county crash at pmcmullen booth road. plane blockage reported. pi checked delays in area. plooks like we're seeing delays pin a minor fashion. peach direction through that pintersection. pexcept for westbound. pand time right now 8:40. pwe know lots of parents always ptry to make sure their kids are peating healthy getting all pnutrients they need to grow pstrong. pit wab especially when your plittle one thinks broccoli is pcan formed even before birth. pfood writer bea wilson talked pabout her new book first bite pnpr a woman who eats a lot pgarlic while pregnant will tend pto be for lack of a better word pgarlic for that baby they will pusually love garlic. pthat continues after birth. pwith breast feeding. pwhatever mom eats her breast pmilk will have a similar flavor pwhich can go either way

p>>russell: we've learned the pnames of two men killed in a pserious crash in sarasota pcounty. p22-year-old matthew santiana and plewis via. pit closed the southbound lanes pfor nearly 24 hours. ptraffic had to be detoured pthrough north port because of a pfuel leak. pit's opened now. ptroopers say the driver lost pcontrol and hit the median. pthe impact caused the roof on pthe car to hit a utility pole. phe was airlifted to tampa pgeneral and he's in critical pcondition. p>>laura: a disturbing situation pat a school in highlands county pthis morning. pmiddle school students are psuspected of sharing sexually pexplicit pictures and videos of pthemselves with other kids and ptonight, school leaders are phoping to put an end to it. pschool district is holding a pmeeting about sexting at a pchurch in lake placid. pthey want parents to be there. plast week we reported at least pnine kids at lake placid middle pkids are between the ages of 12 pand 14. pdeputies tell us this could be pconsidered child pornography and pthe students could face criminal pcharges on the matter. pauthorit

pvenice and southern sarasota pcounty currently sits at 72 pdegrees. peven as you head down across the pextreme southern part of the pstate you're only finding ptemperatures running in the mid p70s where west palm beach is at p75. pdown in miami, 76 degrees. pyou head up into the panhandle, pnot bad. pa bit cooler as 61. pup in pensacola and panama city. pthe winds all coming out of the pnorth and northeasterly pdirection. pa little stronger language the peast coast where vero beach the p17. pnortheast 21 miles an hour. pbut everybody enjoy that is very pdry air over the state. pthat's really going to be case. pnot only today and tomorrow, but pall the way through the weekend. pnot until first part of next pweek that these winds will peventually tart to turn more pdirection. pand will start to see that dew oint slowly climbing up as pfront heads in our direction. pbut as you look across the psoutheast right now. pvery quiet conditions. phigh pressure's in control. pths really hard to find a cloud panywhere across the southeast. pyou really have to go o

pcounty. pbradenton, sarasota, you're pgoing to get heavy rain, pthunder, lightning and gusty pwinds. pthat's minimum. pokay? pwhether or not you get severe pthunderstorm wind gusts and/or pan isolated tornado remains to pbe seen but it's something to be pwatching as it pours onshore the pnext 20 or 30 minutes. pso far it's holding its own, pthis whole thunderstorm complex pbut it's making for a very wet pstart to the day. pthe models yesterday were pthinking this is going to come pin a little later in the morning pbut sometimes with the el nino attern, they could be off by a pfew hours. pthere's the big thunderstorm and pbradenton, sarasota, all the way pto st. petersburg keep a close peye because it's very heavy prain. pit's not too far away. pmaybe 20, maybe 30 minutes. pthen here's the back edge of the pheavier rain moving up to citrus pcounty. pso crystal river, homosassa, panother 30 minutes or so, we'll ush that out of the way and pthen the conditions will start pto move. pwe have the tornado watch from asco county north through 10:00 pthis morning but i expect after pthis move

pwhat can you expect pinellas pcounty down through sarasota, pbradenton? pvery heavy rain. plots of lightning. pand at the minimum some very pgusty winds. pthat's what you can, that's the pminimum. pwe'll watching for the potential pfor some rotation or a water pspout coming on shore. pwe'll watch that and let you pknow if that does happen. pbut in the meantime, this is pgoing to be another huge day for psevere weather, no the just for pflorida, but all the way up the peastern seaboard including this phuge area of a moderate risk pwhich is just east of raleigh, pnorth carolina. pright along i 95 it's going up pinto southeastern virginia. pfurther to the north as well. pthese temperatures, now that prain is kind of settled in pthey've kicked back to about 71 pdegrees this morning. pand by the way above where we pshould be i know some areas phaven't gotten any rain yet polk pcounty hardee county, highlands pcounty. pand a still pretty windy outside pthat south wind is just light preally pumping in warmth and pmoisture. pnotice wind gusts as high as 31 pmiles in sarasota. pso

sarasota police. p>> we should find out more about pan investigation involving polk pcounty school superintendent. pkatherine leroy says she is pcleared of any wrong doing she pdoesn't say exactly what the pallegations from her associate psuperintendent were all about. pthe complaint and investigation pshould released by a law office ptoday. pbut superintendent already preleased a video statement to pmedia and here's part of what pshe said. p>> but it has been a learning rofessional. pi have come to realize that what pothers described as an out going ersonality can be pmisinterpreted by some. pi regret that. pand i have learned from it. pthe superintendent has declined pto comment to fox 13 about the pallegations. pwe'll follow up on this and plater on today. p>> the search continues for a pmissing boater he's been missing psince saturday night his empty pboat was found near the sand key pcoast guard station. pthere were no life jackets on pboard. pdive teams searched water for phours but found nothing. pthe boater's name hasn't preleased family members say he pmay have been suicidal. p>> fresh of

pcounty road 630. pthis is in frost proof area and pthen also in sarasota county pnear the state park. pslow down, use low beam lights. p>>russell: thank you. pit's 6:01 right now and new this pmorning, hillsborough deputies pmake an arrest in connection pwith a deadly valentine's day pshooting. pfour people pulled into a arking lot along west phillsborough avenue to buy pmarijuana and xanax bars. pafter the deal, they say the pseller rolled down the window pand started shooting. ptwo men hit and one man died. pa witness gave deputies the pseller's phone number that led pthem to ortiz. phe was charged with second pdegree murder. p>>laura: right now police are pinvestigating a double shooting pin north sarasota. psomeone shot a man and a woman, pboth in the leg. pofficers believe it happened pnear the 3,000 block of maple pavenue. psoon after, officers secured two pother crime scenes. pit's not immediately clear why, pwhat if anything those scenes phave to do with the first crime pbut the man and woman are at psarasota memorial hospital. p>>russell: beyonce is coming to praymond james i

sarasota. p43 in venice and mid to upper p30s for the most part in polk pcounty. pa couple of spots back in the plower 40s. pnow, the way today is going to pset up, i want to talk about pcold fronts in general, every pcold front that comes through phere, no two are exactly the psame. pyou look at the map and say this pdoesn't look bad, right? pa little clouds, some tiny prainfall, this is not going to pbe a big deal as the front comes pthrough later today. pbut it is going to turn big time pwindy. pone of those things where you're pgoing to notice it this evening pand go, what is that? pthat's the wind coming through pas the front comes sliding in. pwhile we're starting off mostly pclear right now, you can see pahead of the front the high pclouds are streaming in so we pstart mostly sunny, we will pfinish mostly cloudy. ponce we get in the evening pcommute, as that front moves pcloser, it's packing with it a pton of wind and those west winds pare going to pick up tonight. p20, 25, 30, yeah, 30 miles per phour. plook at the wind forecast. pright now it's calm. pmon

psome 40s snuck back to citrus pcounty, parts of sumter county pas well. pdade city at 50 degrees. p55 in sarasota. plet's check in with polk county pwhere they're in the lower 50s pas well as hardee county, phighlands and de soto in the mid p50s. pnot bad. pnorthwest wind, though, you're pfrom 10 to 20 miles an hour. pthe problem is, behind this pfront, the winds have been so, pso tremendously high that we pstill have dangerous rip pcurrents for today. pwe still have high surf padvisories and small craft padvisories so unfortunately for pboaters, not your day. pwait at least one more for pthings to get better. pnow, with the northwest wind and pthe colder air kind of driving pthrough and into our area, pthat these are strato cumulus pclouds. pa few may sneak in today with pthe sunshine. pno big deal. pno rain associated with those. pother than that it's going to be pbreezy and cooler today as ptemperatures make their way up pthrough the mid 60s so overall, pwe're going to run 10 degrees pbelow normal for this afternoon. ptonight, we are expecting ptemperatures to go back into the p40s. pnow, i th

sarasota, pvenice at 72. pa little bit better, mid to pupper 60s, some spots in polk pcounty through highlands county pbut a very, very mild, much pwarmer start than it was pyesterday. peight to 13 degrees warmer for pthe most part than it was pyesterday. pand also, we had a little bit pmore wind. pyesterday the winds were very plight. pwe had all of that fog. pnow that we have some wind, pguess what? pwe don't have the fog around so pthat's good. pfog-free morning. pwe have winds five to 12 miles pan hour coming in from the psoutheast. pthat's the good news, right? pthe wind takes care of that. pnot so good news is that psoutheast wind also brings phumidity up so the dew points pthis morning are running sky phigh in the upper 60s to around p70 degrees. pas we wait for this cold front pto come through. pthe top half of this front preally brought some strong to ptornados in mississippi, palabama, parts of kentucky. pthere are no watches out but we pdo have a tremendous amount of pheavy rain moving toward patlanta, southward going down to pmobile, alabama and southeast of pnew orleans. pas this line slowly works p

pcounty, look to the south. pfort myers going up into phighlands county. pback over towards sarasota. psouth of downtown sarasota. pwhere you have clouds starting pto work their way in from the psouth. pi do expect the clouds to kind pof take over later this pafternoon. pand we'll be watching that, that iece of energy over toward pdallas you see that spinning, pmoving toward the east. pthat will be a severe weather roducer. pin fact big time storms today pfrom baton rouge to montgomery, palabama. ptomorrow the threat may diminish pa little bit. pbut tampa to orlando and areas pnorth of that still under a pslight risk for severe weather. pthe timing of it does look to be plate morning into the early pafternoon. pso let's go 77, maybe 78 for a phigh today. pthere could a quick shower. pabout 30 percent from that rain pchance later this afternoon. pbut main line of rain moves pthrough tomorrow light morning pearly afternoon. pwe will follow that with punseasonably cool weather pespecially for are friday and plows in the 40s and highs in the plower 60s. pwe do have a few first birthdays p

sarasota, and they're psets tonight. pthat will help the temperatures pcool. pa little bit of lingering rain pand not much. pcounty. phang in there. pday. plook how quickly the clouds are pgone. pby lunchtime, and it will be pbefore that area-wide we bring pin the sun. pit's a cool day, thoi. p57 is in tampa, near 60 in pwinter haven, 58 in venice and p60 in lake placid. ptonight clear skies, lighter pwinds, colder. pwe wake up at 37 in brooksville ptomorrow. p38 in bartow. p49 in st. pete and a chilly 44 pin tampa. pso plan ahead for the kids at pthe bus stop. pon the backside of this really pstrong area of low pressure, pthat's the drier air mass and pwhat we have today. palong this boundary all kinds of pwhacky weather. pit started out as rain and now pthere's a wintery mix and wet psnowflakes in eastern north pcarolina. pthat moisture rides around the plow. pas bright as it is in boston in pmorning, tomorrow morning it pwill be snowing. pwe have another front. pthis brings a reinforcing cooler pair mass on tuesday. pmonday during the day we start pout sunny and end with a few pshowers. pever-changing pattern an

pcounty. pstill, how quickly things change pin a couple of hours' time. pour temps running 61 in tampa. p61 in st. petersburg. p60 in sarasota. pmid 50s to the north. pthe actual front itself is still pjust offshore so the rain was pwell out ahead of the front. pyou're going to notice a wind pshift to the northwest over the pnext couple of hours and that's pgoing to drag in some drier air. pto be honest, decent timing, pright? pyou get heavy rain overnight so pwe don't have to deal with it at pthe heart of the morning commute por during the day and then you pclear skies out. pwe were a little concerned we pwere going to get some severe pweather. pwe only had one severe pthunderstorm and not much in the pway of damage with that. pmost of the activity, again, pshifting towards the south and pthe east and i mean, rapidly as pwe get back into some sunshine. pit's going to be a beautiful day pas the front comes through, the pwinds will shift to the pnorthwest, keep us at 70 degrees pso granted, both technically pbelow normal but it's going to pbe a nice day. ptonight light jackets, pespecially very early tomorrow pmorning as many

pcounty. pthen just kind of lingering off pthe coastline. pbut you can see it's inching pcloser to the a coastline. pand even as you head down ptowards manatee and sarasota. pa bit further off coast at least peverybody stands for a pretty pgood chance of seeing some pshowers maybe a few embedded pthunderstorms in there as we go pthrough the afternoon into this pevening. pand then, those temperatures, pthey take a big, big tumble talk pmore about that coming up in a p>> thank you, jim. ptoday governor rick scott plans pto talk about zika virus and psteps being taken to prevent the pspread right here in florida. pa briefing is scheduled for this pafternoon at the florida pdepartment of health in phillsborough county. phillsborough is one of four pcounties where governor declared pa health state of emergency. pour wet forecast and warm ptemperatures make it easy for pmosquitos to breed. pfox 13's shayla reeves has pinformation that you need to pknow to prepare. p>> we have a rain in the pforecast, and when you add in pthose already hot and humid pconditions here in florida, it pcan make for the ideal scenario. pfor mosquitos to breed. pso experts want to ma