tarpin springs building official anthony mostrachio was supposed to join other city heads. but all we found was an empty chair. >> are there any other questions or comments. >> i have a question. where's the state official that has paid thousands to attend meeting like this. this meeting. attendees. >> reporter: that's right and wasn't back at his office. we checked several days and he was nowhere to be found. >> i don't know if he is in the building but he's not going to be making any comments today. >> reporter: his provisional since october. one contractor who needs a license and city permits just to erect fences thinks there's something wrong with that. >> since we have to you know get lie sens, why shouldn't everybody else keep up on their licenses. >> reporter: the city has every director. one that's punishable by a fine. permanent license. his department employees were instructed not to tell us who the official building official >> why is that a secret? >> it's not a secret. it's just, um, since everything is under investigation then the press. >> reporter: a city sp

for tonight, chilly, 49 degrees, clearwater. 47 tarpin springs. these temperatures slightly below normal. inverness, 40. sebring 72 tomorrow. 69 sarasota. and highs low 70s in some of the inland spots. locations. 57 degrees for the evening! jacket probably if you're gonna be out. 69 degrees for saturday. cool start to the day. saturday and sunday, sunday is gorgeous, 73 degrees. temperatures upper 70s into next week, and the usual rain chance routine into wednesday, thursday timeframe. it'll cool down after that. >> and not raining tomorrow. thank you, sir. >>> making noise in music city, getting ready for all- star weekend. walmart set out on a mission to find you the best oranges. to do that, we first had to find the best orange growers. we logged the miles, put in the hours, tasted a lot of fruit, and shook a lot of hands. but we did it for a reason. so that here you'll find the best oranges we've ever had. they're even backed by our 100 percent freshness guarantee. try them for yourself today at >>> if fans need a jolt of reassurance, they nee

wanted to escape the shenanigans around bayshore, sunset off clearwater beach, how about this in tar tarpin springs earlier on today, this is how you survive a brutal florida winter, you got a little fire pit going a sun in the background, that's from chuck in sfety harbor. the numbers came in in january, still have a day to go, i don't know if we're getting more rain. this is really incredible. fort meyers, 12.98 inches for month. six inches and the records in fort meyers go back to 1902. they smashed a record by 5.98 inches of rain. that's all el neen el neen el nino. 5/100ths an inch of rain, el nino continues very strong in the pacific, today we topped off at 68. another blue day averaging a half degree below average for the month. satellite view, same old song and dance, high pressure is moving to the east of us, temperatures are gradually modifying on the peninsula. on the water vapor imagery, when you see all of this, this is all high level moisture, taking a free ride on the subtropical jet. cloudy day, could be a couple of sprinkles on monday as moisture tries to come back on the b

live, tarpin springs from andrew, good job. love that. mist on bayshore from josh. two things, great sunset and the pirate ship on the left, anchored out in the bay. zoom in and look at this. all lit up, looks great from steven watts. here's a hint. couple of weeks or so? go to my facebook page and down load that. seized down quite a bit today. rough over the weekend. and the blues continue. temperatures today only in the mid 60s. we start warming up dramatically. the cold high has shifted east of us. we are on the back side. that means tomorrow, the mercury gets into the 70s with occasional high clouds. then we watch and wait for the arrival of this cold front that's going to move our way. it's a complicate the forecast. it is not clear cut. but the bottom line is, we are going to see a spell of showers and thundershowers wednesday morning, probably into thursday with at least a round or two of severe weather. already, on the water vapor imagery. here comes the subtropical jet, whipping in from the west and southwest. knots. that's a lot of wind for this time of ye

finally this one over in tarpin springs from andrew. great sky today. hope you had a good today was another day in blue. we hit 68 . the average high is 72 . and for the month, after record-breaking november and december, we've gone below average in january. running a half degree below normal per day at t.i.a. that's a big change from what we had at the end of 2015. high pressure is going to eventually move off to our east. once that happens we start getting the return flow. winds coming back from the southeast. means a warmup. and tomorrow will be in the mid-70s and before the cold front arrives thursday, the mushingry could touch 80 at your house at some point by the middle of the week. we'll still deal with off and on cloud cover. this is not going to change much. you can see just a stream of high level winds that will bring with it another round of cloud cover tomorrow and for a time it may turn out to be mostly cloudy during the day. here's your dew point temperatures now they're a little bit lower. air temperatures now holding 65 dew point at 39 a