venice though is over 6%.e that train gets built and finished connecting downtown to the beach, the area's going to explode even more than it already has. and i think we have to also keep that in mind. >> so that's a better investment in your view. >> in my view, my winner the one with the most bang for the buck is the venice house. >> congratulations james harris. >> james, you were right on it. you like the beach. it has views too, so you're going to be okay. i'll sell you both. we have $4 million do $2 million on each, borrow 50%, interest rates cheap, lock them both up so we don't have to choose. >> melissa, this is the second time i've played today, i've been wrong twice. >> you can't be wrong. it's what you like. >> both of these are good choices. >> real estate is personal, it's emotional, right? >> but it shouldn't be. >> well, it depends on what your purpose is. >> by the way, there are a couple of people that are familiar names on this show as big investors who would be your neighbors should you buy

englewood about up to venice at light stuff. 7:00 a.m. 80 degrees. rain-cooled air looks great. 81 degrees clearwater beach. lakeland, brooksville. and lake placid venice and up to inverness. this is the track of tropical depression number 9. we want to note the northeasterly term that most computer models suggest will happen. where it question. but the best thinking of the time watch this track. as we learned many time in 2004 that a cone of air mean as huge difference. focus on that more than the center portion of the track. the southern portion is where the strongest winds would be as well as the greatest potential for coastal flooding. there's a lock at the im-- look at the imagery. generally south of the center itself as we determine from looking at that satellite imagery. aircraft in there sampling. 60% rain chance for tuesday. increased moisture. but it's getting into wednesday and eventually on thursday the way our forecast continues at this point. and by friday the storm would move away by the weekend perhaps more normal weather. we hope it

but again venice you've got some rain headed your way and that will actually be a good thing. feels like 88 and 98 in sarasota. so as i mentioned still looking at a couple areas of rain. the bulk of the rain. that has now moved off to the north. that is the second batch of rain. right up 75. again you can see a general south flow. high pressure out over the atlantic. it's going to start to build back towards the state of florida. that's going to put us in a stronger easterly wind and that will drive our shower and thunderstorm activity really for the next couple of days. and you'll notice this evening rain chances wind down. partly cloudy. starting seasonable tomorrow. then by the afternoon there's that easterly wind kicking up by 3:00 p.m. scattered showers. isolated heavy downpours all pushing towards the coastline and also some frequent lightning. cannot rule that out this time of year. and similar story for your tuesday and wednesday. this pattern really just doesn't let up. so 92 for today and for your tuesday as well. 91 degrees for wednesday. rain chances will come back

john sent in the sunrise from venice, a beautiful shot, and then we closed up, pasco county sunset, some beautiful colors with that. lake placid. he loves living away from the pollution. you need that and some of this. mostly clear skies across the tampa bay area. had a little sprinkle far southeastern highland county, that has gone by the wayside, expecting clear skies through the overnight hours. with this on shore flow, can't rule out a shower near the coast. see them developing and pushing inland. tomorrow afternoon, similar to what we experid similar weather pattern to take us into the early part of the workweek, too. isolated showers and storms will be drifting inland the second part of the day, and fizzling out in the evening. rain casss in the next couple of days is below average, 20% for sunday and monday. little extra moisture arrives on tuesday that. will bump the rain chance up to 40%. westerly flow will push that chance of storms inland with timed in the second part of the day. highs are trending slightly above average for the next five tropics, multiple areas of interest in

this is near venice, nissan of venice. holding our temperatures down to 73 there. rainfall today. northern spots, coastal areas. 3 to 6 inches of rainfall, just over the last 48 hours. that's where we do have a flood watch in effect. the national weather service has extend that physical tuesday evening as we're expecting more pockets of heavy rainfall from now through none into the day on tuesday. max radar showing light to moderate rainfall across southern parts of the area. just some lighter napa in the flood watch area. we'll see a bit 0 of a lull through the evening hours. we'll see the potential for another round of heavy rainfall. we'll talk about finally the end of this weather pattern coming fun your full forecast in a few minutes. >> thank you, eian. you can track the weather anytime by useing our weather app. >>> a daring rescue and an amazing story of survival tonight. a driver sees a cat fly out of the howard franklin bridge and stops to save it. quite an incredible story. chip, do we know if this was a case of animal abuse, or what happened here? >> reporter: well, we

venice, north port. this area of thunderstorms moving toward fort meade. the whole area seeing a pretty good coverage. north port, you can see in venice. 81 lakeland. 91 hot dade city. upper 90s in the inland spots. this is the same area of low pressure that brought the rain earlier in the week. this has moved over the southern part of louisiana drenching these folks. estimates, 24 hour rain totals, two feet of rain. this is rare just watching the southeasterly flow, a sea breeze convergence. temperatures have been in the 90s . 30% rain chance. that is the chance for tomorrow. close tore where the west coast sea breeze may be located. for the short term, high resolution says the possibility of evening rain carries until in there until well after midnight. we know because we were here. 93 degrees. 30% rain chance for saturday. also for sunday. so, slightly below normal. but yeah, we will see some rain. as we get into next week, classic florida weather. easterly flow overall. testifies low 90s . maybe a couple of days 50% chance scattered about. mostly relat

down in venice, looking overcast and dark it did not add up to any precipitation. red sox are in town to play the race at tropicana field. 84 degrees. most of the rain should be over before the game. highlands county, de soto, a few thunderstorms as well. our better chances of rain south of the bay moving in this now familiar east to west location. folks in lake placid, you may at 9 pm, 82 degrees. it will be a warm and humid evening. 92 degrees at 4 pm. 83 is the current temperature. tampa, lakeland, clearwater, 85 degrees. 89 degrees in brooksville. 86 in venice. dew points are the upper 70s. when you see upper 70s, that is very oppressive. this is the peak time of year where we see the we had 90 today. at in the high humidity and that makes it uncomfortable. most of the shower activity is further to the south. in the tropics, the sea surface temperatures are warmer. that is why it can play a small factor in helping to strengthen this system in the tropics. we are looking at 99l. that is puerto rico right there. this is the island of hispaniola. it has the domini

that is moving toward venice and englewood. a few scattered showers. as the evening goes along, things should be quieter. 79 degrees at 7:00 a.m. cooler numbers now thanks to 88 lakeland. 90 degrees still a hot one in security sebring. most of the activity has been across central and south florida. high pressure dominates across the south and the northern portion of the state. deeper atmospheric moisture possibly in association with this area of low pressure. we talked about at the top of the newscast will help to increase our rain chances and moisture levels so you will see that in the eight day forecast. the numbers are getting progressively higher. trending west here on the spag in the forecast for the evening hours. 40% rain chance for tomorrow. 50% by sunday. rain chances just increase each day. but you know, if you look at this as an average weekend, which it is about average summer weekend, despite any talk of tropical weather, that is about what we expect this time of the year. as we get into monday and tuesday, depending on the shape this is i

at the nissan of venice. you can see the clouds, the fair weather clouds rolling in and darker skies. a few showers kind of rotate in. so this is the way it has been going in the afternoon hours with the scattered thunderstorms in action along the sea breeze. as for our olympic forecast down in rio at 7:00 a.m., 64 degrees. note the celsius temperature here. 22 celsius at noon. 71 degrees with fair conditions at 4:00 p.m., 75 degrees. and staying on the dry side. our weekend weather 93 degrees. for saturday especially drier air. should stabilize the atmosphere a bit. yes, we will see showers and thunderstorms closer to the west coast on the sea breeze, perhaps not as frequent this weekend. you can call it below normal rain chances. showers and storms north to south. you can see where they are at the moment breezing across the sections of citrus county between hudson and new port richey. those are wrapping up it looks like. moving offshore. maybe a few left. around safety harbor, around the howard franklin, co

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and 11 minutes on toledo blade boulevard and river road in the venice area. and good drive on the interstate in sarasota. an update on construction in the next report. now back to gene and gayle. >> thank you. >>> here's your awe moment today. it's all courtesy of a momma bear and her baby bear cubs. >> they wandered into someone's backyard to have fun. this is the backyard in hanover, new hampshire. this weekend she spotted the family of bears. they hung around sniffing out equipment and one tried to take a swing but it was too tall. the mother found a trash can and tipped it over and guess what? she carried it away. >> that's not nice. >> she believes the bearss were looking for food. -- the bears were looking for food. >> duh. i would rather them look outside than come through the kitchen pantry. we have seen that. >>> facebook is doing something new just for teenagers. >> how the social media site is launching a new app. >>> and the harder to find parking spots at bargain shopping malls. you're watching news channel 8 >>> now a consumer watch. americans l

could sneak into venice. frost proof has a thunderstorm. moving right along to the west and northwest. if you are watching in forecast proof and sebring. small storm that will last a half-hour and the storms near huge thunderstorms with the sebreeze. hernandez not much going on. the wind today -- moving along so no sea breeze with the storms to get caught and develop along the coast. we can get heavy rain without the day time heating they don'tling are for more than half an hour to 45 minutes if that. >> cool because 79 in tamp sa and 90 in sara societyasm 93 ponta gorda. that will be cooling because of rain. lake land is 79. there may be a slight decrease in tropical moisture in a day or 2. there will be storms tomorrow afternoon. they will move along again. computer model are dropping the amount water a little bit. thursday and friday, i will go down a 30% rain chance. decrease in thunderstorm coverage. 50% tomorrow. west of 75. tropical moisture that pounded louisiana is now moving to texas. slightly dryer over us will lead to slightly l

it feels like 88 in venice, 89 in tampa. by next hour the orange turns to red, and we see more heat building. radar is quitette. one little shower off shore. by 11:00 a.m., though, some spotty showers build to storms slowly inland throughout the day as high pressure is in control. isolated storms chance in tampa and 30% east of i-75. by noon here are the storms in tampa. by 3:00 they shift near or east of i-75, and then by 6:00 p.m. we're done. we hit 91 today. futurecast showing the spotty activity here. here is noon and a few storms, though. because the rain chances are low doesn't mean we don't see slow movers. by 5:00 spotty inland rain ends. by monday morning, back-to-school for sarasota spot shower, you get the drill, inland storms by late day. by tuesday or wednesday, the winds veer east and the storms build west. what's building west is invest 99-l. we bumped down the odds a little bit. still 50% for the next five days. headed towards the islands mid-week. we have to watch it near the bahamas if it makes it next week

it's 79 in clearwater. 79 in venice. another weak area of disturbed weather to our west, that circled in yellow. for us we look to the east for higher than yesterday. they're at 40%, especially between 2:00 and 7:00 p.m. heading to raymond james for the game tonight, do keep in mind if you're tailgating, a couple of storms to dodge. >>vanessa: police activity was causing delays near lutz lake fern road. not seeing any more flashing lights. sky fox was monitoring that situation for us. looks like a lot of speeds have mostly returned to normal. just a minor pop of but overall, 61 miles an hour is your average speed so no big complaints there. we do have some slowdowns on ulmerton road. a crash reported at the intersection with roosevelt. eastbound lane blocks. you can see a small pop of delay in the eastbound direction so give yourself a few extra minutes. >>laura: thank you. hillary clinton puts a new twist on the donald trump slogan saying he wants to make america hate again. she says he's promoting prejudice and paranoi

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we missed out two years ago when you were in venice. it continues to be a great life for you. great life. rem: it is an amazing life because it really enables me to be at places where things are radically changing. or when there is a need to articulate a particular ambition. or whether there is a need to intervene in a situation. it is really a great sequence of opportunity. charlie: what you do, you have to define the time we are in. or what we are missing, even. rem: yes, but o see my role as more of a reporter who is simply alert and describing changes. you findscribed it, the opportunities where to intervene. part of being in that moment in time when things are changing from one condition to another. charlie: you began life as a writer, didn't you? rem: as a journalist. as an interviewer. charlie: you mean i have hope as an architect? rem: you could. [laughter] charlie: at 71, you are going strong. i just mentioned the big products you have going this year. rem: maybe i go strong, but i am part of a large organization. or, office. i think i could never do what i do, we cou

yes, you get more rain on the way just about to holmes beach and move along and palmetto and venice and north port the rain is sliding watching the rain. lake placid and. >> and the rain and you see some off the coast of hernando and you want sunshine to come back and 90s. it will happen. tomorrow a low that is spinning but it will shift to the west and the northwest. >> you have to admit that with pivoting away. and southeast. partly cloudy. >> the 7 day forecast every day. they may drop. the bucs there. >> thursday night cannot come soon e getting old. eagles will be a challenge coming up on thursday night. a welcome change of scenery. 48 hours away. salty. defensive bes into the thrills. the defense on all 9. >>> the impression was the defense kicked butt and offense >> and cut my hand get out. we're not going to hop on, we'll brinyo a new segment where we get to see the musical side to the bucs t is camp karaoke -- bucs. it has joe homily lit hits from the 80s, 90s and today. >> the camp karaoke continues. we have joe holly. confident? >> no. >> '80s. >> here we go. 15 piles to the.

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we are just now seeing that much out there. 85 in venice. the inland communities are starting to warm up quite a bit. we are tracking some showers that have armed over the mouth of old tampa bay. this is the other shower we have been looking up for the rest of the day, it will be warm. 92. we have a 20% child -- chance of an inland store. we will be wishing for that soon. 88 in zephyrhills. 87 in tampa. when you talk on humidity, it feels like triple digits for fish hawk. i want to mention the tropics. we have tropical depression fiona that is continuing to weekend. it will stay out to see. we are monitoring another one. is invest 99. a lot of these storms take the path toward puerto rico. this one does bear watching. as a starts to interact with some of the land, it may have some hard time forming. a 50% chance of development right now. later today, we could have our first tropical depression and it is just off the coast of africa. 100% chance. this will likely be a depression later on today but long-term that one is likely to stay in the o

for lunch try our steakhouse burger happening today in venice: a new humanitarian mission begins... for the people of cuba. this morning, "agape flights" will start loading up their plane with supplies to bring to the island nation. that includes 26 water purification units going to 26 different methodist churches in cuba. there will also be more than sixty packets of food. the church of the pines in nokomis donated the funds for the trip. bad news for the kids today. the glazer children's museum is ?closed.. for annual maintenance. it will be closed tomorrow as well. ironically, the museum just held a beer fest over the weekend. so they might have to clean up from that as well. the future of tropicana field is once again up for discussion today. the city is hosting another "revisioning community meeting." it's tonight at 6-30 at the usf st. petersburg student center. the public can weigh in on the tropicana field land could be redevelopment. the city is anticipating the rays will move out of the trop in few years, to get a ?new stadium. a great deal for fans heading to tonights ray

. >>> an 8 on your side health warning, a no surprise advisory is in effect at venice pitching pier beach. the people not to get in the water. new results will determine whether swimming listen will be allowed there. >>> mostly dry this morning but not completely dry. we have just watched a new showers come on shore on the coast of man key. i'll zoom down here to ana a rihanna island -- ana marie island. it's going to be a little wet. push closer to the mainland just in just the next few minutes. rainfall potential between now and 1:00. most of the showers are staying west of 75 along the coast. as the day progresses notice how you get showers to push further and further inland eventually making their way into polk and island county. heavy downpours up to 20 inches -- up to 2 inches. 86 at 1:00 and 88 degrees should be the high. we'll keep the higher rain chances in for seasoned and sunday. -- for saturday and sunday. >>> let's check in on what's happening on the roadways. >> a live view outside. is going to be that right-hand side you can see just a handful of folks still out and about.

here in venice, our temperature part of hillsborough county, other parts of the bay area too. 2.11 inches. 6.42 inches above normal. but compared to the same time last year, 28.4 inches, so it was wetter last year. this season is above normal too. thursday night, friday morning, keep in mind we have the meteor shower going on. best observation away from cityi around your neighborhood. but this is going to be an active one. if you want to check that out tomorrow night. thunderstorms continue to break out. some off shore. they're not doing any kind of good job of moving toward inland areas. they continue to produce a lot of rain. watch for local flooding especially along the intstates. 81 degrees at 9:00 p.m. lingering rain still possible. partly cloudy still on the warm side. this area of low pressure is it's hoping to generate showers, but it's having less of an influencer. that's the reason we've seen rainy days and mornings. that will essentially dissipate into the late evening hours. general drift to the east. but showers are possible for the next couple of hours so make that port of y

riverview, 78. 77 in venice. and my weather watcher in wendy in brooksville says it's 75 at her house. and look at this rain across the texas coastline now. and even still getting rain in louisiana. they don't need it. they're going to wake up to clear skies. watch the forecast though. what happens today, it happened to the same thing yesterday, winds from the east. pushes those first few showers around lunchtime into polk county and highlands county. and as the day goes on, the coverage of rain gets better. and the storms will generally about a 40% chance today, tomorrow and thursday. same forecast through friday. but we start to get morning showers off the coast for the weekend. how about traffic on the 8s? >>> all right, a look at the roadways. we will start off in pasco county. a good drive on 75. starts to get slow in new tampa southbound. and in hillsborough, pasco, northbound at the parkway, at hail road, we have lanes taken away here. and that is due to an accident. keep that parkway. and meanwhile, hoppi

. >> rose: we missed out on doing this two years ago or a year and a half ago, when you were in venice. it continues to be a great life for you. >> a great life, yes. >> rose: a great life. it's an amazing life because it really enables me to be at places in the world when things are really radically changing. >> rose: yes. or when there is a need to articulate a particular ambition. >> rose: yes. or whether, for other reasons, there is a need to intervene in a kind of situation which is more or less urgent. so, it's really a great sequence of opportunity. >> rose: and, i mean, because what you do and -- i mean, you help define the time we're in, or what we're missing, even. >> rose: yes, but i see my -- >> yes, but i see my role, to some extent, more as a kind of reporter who is simply alert and who is describing changes and kind of basically, as you describe the change, you also find the opportunities where to intervene. so, in that sense, i don't have the kind of sense of forming the time but really being part of it and being part of that moment in time when things are changing from

south of venice. that's going to creeping up toward north port area. out over the gulf. there's more rainfall while some of this may not make the coast, some of it will. and i just think here for another one of those days flood watch continues pasco her, hernando citrus county. heaviest rain should near coast and to north right through tuesday evening. and then gradually we're going to start to taper this off get back into a more normal set up. just tons and tons of moisture in the atmosphere. thanks to this low. which is pin wheeling around through p last for next day and a half. just waves of rain. not complete wash outs. there will be times when not raining but then you'll get another wave to come through. and that just adds to again more ponding on the roadways highs in mid 80s. tonight overnight low, near 77 degrees. and then tomorrow, forecast shows more rain coming in especially in morning hours. right along the coastline and north. and then, we finally went to start to get back to more normal

84 degrees the current temperature. 83 sun city center. 87 in brooksville. 82 in barto and 78 in venice. that's a look at the big picture here. central and southern areas, the most precipitation. still an area of investigation. an invest tropical wave. it will move to the west according to the majority of computer models. we'll continue to watch it throughout the weekend. just stay tuned, go about your business. might pick up a few extra clouds and the rain chances might be better sunday. e special as we get into and tuesday. late next week, things should normalize. back to 40% chance of showers and storm. we'll have to continue to watch it. >> i can't recall the last time we've had to talk about something that wasn't actually something. >> strange. but that's how the tropics work. tropics are a mystery and difficult to forecast. help get the kids back to school. here's what you'll see monday. >> college self defense is hitting a whole new level. why students are learning with active shooters. >> get schooled. >>> it's always good to check your invitations before you mail them out. for

and 73 in venice this morning. zephyrhills, both at 72 this morning. through the day, we roll on through the middle of the day and the temperatures heat up quickly. getting 90 by 1:00. 29 this afternoon with scattered showers and thunderstorms. developing for the inland locations. i mentioned the tropics. tropical storm fiona having a hard time holding together. this system we're keeping our eyes on here as it looks to roll towards the caribbean. and the hurricane center giving about a 50% chance of development. and another system off of if you are tracking fiona, it's expected to have a hard time holding together as it encounters a rough environment over the atlantic. next couple day, right or above average around 90 to 92. this weekend, rain chances coming down. we will talk more about the rain chances in a bit. but first, a quick check of traffic this morning. leslee, monitoring a couple things. >> that's right. >>> not too bad. it could be worse. we have a couple issues. let's take a look at ybor city. 301 to 275, about a 10 minute commute. startin

to the south, my weather watcher bob in venice checked in at 78 degrees. you will see the fast warm-up through the day with morning sunshine. and we have this east to west wind. you will see the first few showers in the early afternoon. and they head west toward the coast and clear out overnight so we can do it again tomorrow starting with morning sunshine, steamy, winds generally bringing those storms in. at the same time tomorrow, that's when we see the tropical bahamas. here's the forecast models, all the different possiblies that can happen with this invest 99d -- possibilities that can happen with this invest 99l. through saturday, it's headed toward the bahamas. and after that, it gets more uncertain. it's the reason why i added in a higher rain chance sunday, monday and tuesday. but not that much higher, only about a 50% rain chance, leslee. >>> looking at traffic, folks. let's move over to tampa. we're going to kick things off southbound armenia, right around 275, we had a person going the wrong way, police caught him. it's a dui situation. two lan

these are the feels like temperatures when you combine humidity. 100 feels like in venice and 101 in wick wa chi. drier air aloft helping to limit the amount of shower activity. the imagery is here. probably tomorrow too that's why we're running a little below normal rain chances. we'll see showers and thunderstorms just not as widespread. short term we saw nothing going on there. partly cloudy skies and as we get into the morning hours dry conditions, very muggy and warm at the peak of the season of warm temperatures. about a 30% rain chance. a lot of the activity to the north a. cold front there. that's noin way through here but provides instability for showers and storms to develop. 30 mrt chance for -- 30% chance for tomorrow. 40% chance on wednesday and thursday. high temperatures in the low 90s in this period. and we'll don't watch the tropics towards the peak of hurricane season. we start to look in the atlanta sxik that's what we're seeing now. >> everyone -- ready. >> everyone's plan is different so you have to be ready. >> mine is showing up here i think. >>> four guys in a

in the low 80s in tampa. 82 in tampa, sarasota and venice. st. pete and clearwater feeling like with the humidity near 90 in spots. and another warm start to the day and an east wind that pushes the rain to the west. and in the coastal waters. to the sou a for some deeper moisture that are not gradually heading our direction into the part of the week. around our area high clouds to the south. and plenty of deep tropical moisture and while our disturbance that we have been watching near the bahamas have not moved much, there is more moisture. it is being sheared though. and while we are talking about a sheared system. notice where that is -- and the brighter pink and oranges are. that is the convection east and south of the center along the new models to show you. and before you panic, what they are showing is while more models have it clipping across the state, that is a weak low that heads out to sea. with a weak system on the east side earlier this week, means the best rain chance. by late in the week we get our winds to flip-flop and so added

just joining us biggest blockage we're seeing coming to venice area. there's crash reported along river road. closing both directions. just north of center road alternates jackson and jack oh rwan we reported this last report a fatality. loop road williams road northbound lane blocked with expectations about 4 hour or so for the closure. want to check in on our majors to see how congestion is faring some trouble spots 275 howard frankland bridge 13 minutes northbound 21 minutes westbound coming to interchange from 75. and then 16, between bruce b. downs and i-4 along 75. americans relies on snap benefits. that breaks down to about 46.5 million americans, that's more than 38.5 million americans considered to be living in poverty. >> newly pre-president obama posed fell regulation want to make sure those who are using benefits are getting most out of them when it comes to their health. usda says it would require convenience stores to offer 7 varieties of food items in each of 4 staple food categories include made, poultry or bread or cereal. vegetables o

north of indian rocks polk north port, evening lwood venice very light showers. slight chance for rain in the forecast but #k078s down -- comes down tomorrow. 82 degrees the current temp. 80 largo. clearwater beach apollo beach 82. arcadia sarasota 82. clouds continue down at the south with the tropical depression farther to about 200 miles west of key west. helping to control the flow easterly flow is in place and will be for the next several days as that flow will continue to drag across the state. lots of atmospheric moisture so showers can certainly start. look at the hurricane hunter aircraft flying out of the tampa bay area. 40 mile per hour gusts now. most of the thunderstorm activity closer to cuba really. with air space there. 35 mile per hour winds as you can see 200 miles west of key west. which is right there and directly to the west the center exposed as we showed you at the top of the newscast. dry air here too colored in red. that and wind sheer coming off an upper low to the north. pushing the thunderstorm activity to the south of the center itsel

i just checked in with my weather watcher bob in venice and he said it's 78 at his house. it has to do yesterday. this is about 9:45. as the day progresses the showers get further and further inland. over all a 50% rain chance because we will see that rain push across the state. on saturday morning a few showers develop along the coast. there's a 50% rain chance. highs at 88 today and tomorrow. >>> meredith is or >> i'm checking out my camera at i h at ml -- at i-4 mlk. this is 275 near i-4, northbound 275 wrapping up some over night road work in that area. it's on the approach to mlk. right now only the inside lane is getting by. i do expect that will be out of your way before we hit morning rush hour. as you know, southbound anyway on 275. we have an accident on northbound 275 in st. petersburg. that's near exit 24. an ambulance is still on scene but right now no roadblock. gene and gayle back to you. >> thank you, meredith. >>> breaking news, tampa police need your help finding a missing 12-year-old boy. take a good look at malee he ran away after an argument with his m

that's how we got the 95 degrees. 73 and overcast not a beautiful day in venice. degrees. hula bay 84 degrees. a northeast wind at six miles per hour. in rio tomorrow 7:00 a.m. 68. 85 at noon. 80 degrees at 4:00. note the celsius temperatures here. maybe a few scattered thunderstorms could help the weather a bit. the international space station at 9:00 tonight a. fairly short trip. 9:35 northwest sky for a pass. san diego the padres in town a rare trip. lingering shower outside. 7:10 for that game if you want to tailgate for that one on a monday. a few showers on an easterly roll. the sea breeze is usually over a land breeze but because it's there's a collision offshore and the thunderstorms blowing up. to the north a few thunderstorms. weakening at this point. hernando and pinellas fairly quiet. putting on a lightning show standing on the beaches and looking to the west. looking back to the west you see quite a few lightning strikes but offshore and moving away from you. le in manatee county like everything else moving along today in the easterly flow and moving towards s

temperatures got pretty hot. 86 degrees here at nissan of venice. this is a time lapse of the south part of sarasota county. you saw the clouds coming and going. the view from connerton in land o' lakes, 82 degrees. rain cooled some showers nearby. and you don't have showers to actually cool off. you can see the outflow. a little overcast here. one tenth of an inch of rain. and at hyundai up in new port richey. traffic looks good anyway. overall mostly cloudy skies. the easterly flow in place. all the shower activity moving from east to west across the region. maybe a little bit drier. lower rain chances for us. the westerly flow will redevelop over the weekend. that will bring the possibility areas. maybe a little warmer to start the day. headed out to the rays game. going to try to tailgate, it will be at least a little cooler thanks to the showers that passed over. 94 degrees. the record set at 1960. a long time ago. forecast tomorrow, we are looking at temperatures near 90 at 8:00 a.m. 93 at 4:00 p.m. scattered thunderstorms pushing west as the

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lakeland s venice could use a few showers. a slight chance a few of those could be to the north of this evening. still a chance as the activity goes to the west. high pressure, from northeast to the southwest. the wrap model picks up on shower activity for the short term. long term quiet. partly cloudy skies. developing showers once again for the afternoon hours. that is in the morning. but in the afternoon, we will likely see the west coast sea breeze. similar to today. the model on that particular we could see similar shower activity as the thunderstorms come together and see the sea breeze collision. 40% chance for wednesday. same for thursday. high temperature near 92 degrees for friday. an then you can see for the weekend, very typical afternoon activity looks like for saturday and sunday. we talked about the tropics. the severe thunderstorm warning for pinellas in effect until 6:45. folks in pinellas, watch for that as it breezes your way. some good wind gusts to baton down the hatches. >> thank you steve. >>> coming up

you see in venice 84 degrees and overcast at the moment. a little bit of rainfall falling nearby but not at that location yet. on her chin in land o'lakes 75 degrees and rain cold on a hot with the afternoon going along and familiar sight, classic florida afternoon and temperatures near 90 degrees. in rio tomorrow forecast calls 72 degrees to start the day and not a bad temperature range 27 celsius at noon and 82 fahrenheit at 4 pm and not much in the way of shower activity. a very nice range of rio tomorrow. texas rangers tomorrow night, a friday night game so if you are heading out for tailgating, hopefully will be okay and rain chance dropping. just a slight chance of showers as the rangers come to the tropicana. these are the forecast highs the next few days. the black line is the average this time of year. are. thunderstorms continue along the sea breeze and the east coast sea breeze colliding with it. west coast sea breeze made more progress to the east today and that's why you see more thunderstorms colliding with that coming from th

it's 83 in right now in tampa. 80 in venice. 76 in way ma massachusetts more comfortable to the north and east at 74 in zephyrhills brooksville. and quiet on max radar this morning with clear skies across the bay area. high pressure still in the gulf of mexico. that will suppress our rain chances into the afternoon. about a 30% chance for widely scattered showers thunderstorms. with a northeast flow now under like the last couple days where we have seen the storms push inland and we will see the chance for those towards the coast right through the evening hours. next five day, we will see the rain chance returning to 40% for the second half of the work week. and comes along with heat though. this afternoon, 93 degrees. only a couple degrees shy of the record high temperature. we will be hovering in the low 90s the rest of the week. >> all right. >>> looking at traffic right sun coast area because there's overnight construction to be aware of here. if you're traveling on i-75, the main portion of the interstate looks good. but northbound from university, that ramp ramp is blocked so ta

a no swim advisory is in effect at venice fishing beach. they discovered higher than normal levels of bacteria there. signs are posted. new results will determine whether swimming is allowed again. >>> today tampa firefighters will honor their brothers and will host an appreciation lunch for police officers. >> it's great to see that. a group of citizens will also present a huge parade of cars to police. >> so nice. >> thank you to all the men and women in blue keeping us safe. >> it's great for the community >>> tampa bay comicon is spon us. upon us. -- is upon us. >> university of texas professors don't want guns on their campus. what they want and what the attorney general thinks. >> first george zimmerman punched square in the face. what led up to it and the 911 call he made for help just ahead. >> it's 4:41 rand but we'd rather talk about what's not in it. like no artificial colors or preservative ingredients. and with 70 calories... maybe we're kind of bragging? hey, honey? yes, dear? you're washing that baked-on alfredo by hand,right

someone stole that rifle from venice just two days ago. >>> donald trump calling a foreign payment to iran ransom and a hillary clinton ally saying the hopeful didn't blur her times during secretary of state. two facts that we are putting through the truth-o-meter. >> $400 million in cash. he denied it was for the hostages, but it was. >> reporter: donald trump on the campaign trail claimg $400 million paid to iran back in january on the same day five am s inthe tion deni aave looked i >> it raises a lot of eyebrows. >> reporter: iran had a legitimate claim to the money due to a financial dispute with the u.s. some experts saying because of that the release of the $400 million once the leverage than ransom. this rates the statement as mostly false. >> but i do know that she has abided by the ethics agreement she signed at the beginning which was not to take any action on the part of the state department that mixed foundation business. >> reporter: former michigan governor and hillary clinton supporter jennifer grandholm taking to the air waves after e- mails were released between aide

and i-75 through venice, toledo blade boulevard to river road, roughly 10 minutes. that's a look at weather and traffic on the 8s. back to gene and gayle. cheap and many is times students and parents turn to non-traditional ways to pay for it. >> the one way that could still spell financial trouble for you. >>> and be ware of a baby toy that could pose a choking danger. what you need to know to keep your children safe. it's 4:20 this wednesday morning. >>> parents, listen up. there's a recall involving baby toys that pose a choking danger. there are three alex, jr. brand sets of infant billing toys under -- infant building toys under recall. the problem involves small pieces that can detach. a by by then could swallow them. the toys were sold at barnes & >>> and now an 8 on your side consumer watch. you might want to do your homework before paying college tuition with a credit card. students who pay with a credit card indurr a fee of about 2.6%. for every $10,000 of tuition, you're paying about $260 in fees. >>> domino's has been rolling the dice right. its stock hi

this earthquake happenedabout 80 miles north of rome.now way further north, no long, venice, florence so forth . did they, are they exposed to the same fault line that may have corrupted here north of rome? >> there are different. in different parts of italy. this is a central part of the country where the apennines run and expense isaac seismically active over the past several decades. we know in the past it's been seismically active. when you get further north you have fewer earthquakes, the zones are more diffuse and really you have to get up into the alpine area before you get into places where there's probably a higher potential for earthquakes once again. greg: bottom line real quick john, if you're going to florence, or if you're going to milan or venice, what do you think of that? >> the odds are you're going to be safe from earthquakes. greg: all right, terrific. john and dennis clancy, thank you both for being with us. jenna: now to another big story. we know about the $400 million the obama administration moved and what the state department referred to as leverage to free f

and my weather watcher bob in venice says it's 76 degrees at his house. a time line over the next 48 hours. this tropical moisture around the system with the counterclockwise wind flow continues to increase from the south and east as the day goes on. our winds come more from the south. this is about 12:30, point and look at this, about 3:30, heavy downpours. now not going to rain on you all day but you may see multiple rounds of rain through the evening. this is about 7:00 p.m. tomorrow though of course, that's when we will start to see the system make the turn to the northeast. unfortunately getting closer to us. and by this time tomorrow, this is stopping about 7:15 tomorrow, seeing some showers off the gulf of mexico. so really tomorrow, the rain chances going to go up even rain. and it's going to be thursday when the system moves from the central gulf of mexico to the northeast heading around the big bend of florida which would continue to deteriorate our weather conditions and increase our rain chances. about 80% chance on thursday. but basically 100

venice williams lost the singles match today. u.s.en's basketball team rounded the opener, 119-62. kevin durant with over 25 points. hello to alejandra today. a 2-1 lead against the former team. in stopping, header tied the game and added to union's frustration. 2-2 the final. union with one win in the last seven games. alicia? >> that's sports. jaime, thank you. >>> fans of lucille ball are loving lucy again. a new statue was inveiled in her hometown. it relaces another statue that was not very good. it was dubbed scary lucy. after a push on social media, a new statue was made. the mayor said both will be on display in the park. >>> finally, visitors to camden aquarium got to see a different kind of turtle, a mutant ninja turtle. they showed up to dance with the aquarium's mascot. pictures and signed autographs. that would have been a good one to be at. "castle" is next here on abc 6 news. now for walter perez, melissa magee, jamie apody, jeff chirico and the entire "action news" team, i'm alicia. have a great evening. i approve this

nissan of venice here, 85 degrees. southern part county. the temperatures are warm. not yet cooled off by the showers and the storms. there is your weekend forecast. 93 degrees. less rain around, a steamy afternoon. about a 40% chance of showers and thunderstorms. in other words, about a 30% chance on saturday, 40% on sunday. afternoon, evening hours so low 90s are likely. especially on saturday. 82 degrees at 9:00 p.m. still a lingering shower. showed you radar, there is some activity there. 87 degrees temple terrace. inverness, 88. 89 sarasota. now back to the west. most of our activity is the classic florida with an easterly flow. the east coast sea breeze collides with the west coast sea breeze in this area here. we expected it to. now it is co, the brandon area. pushing to the downtown region. making a lot of noise no doubt. you can see it expends east of north port as well. here is the forecast for the short and long term. a little lower on saturday. at 30%. 40% chance on sunday. for monday, tuesday, wednesday, afternoon hours, best chance of showers and storms

of venice, englewood, bradenton. a few scattered showers points east of that. that's the rain cooled football fields i was talking about. 92 degrees at 4:00 p.m. a hot day. a few more clouds. 92 degrees in temple terrace. these temperatures will obviously drop once the showers drift to the west. over these areas. 88 degrees in lake land. 90 dade city. frost proof. high pressure l the southeast. helping to provide us with an easterly flow. the moisture increasing a little bit from south to north and a bit more activity focused to where the sea breeze convergence is. this is 99l. the center right around here roughly. and again, it is not officially anything. we will just continue to watch. the longer it goes without organizing is good. that would keep the intensity down. whatever may potentially develop. certainly, this is an important way to look at our best thinking. they have been trending to the west. trending north. if it should get in the gulf of mexico. we still have gaston in case you are tracking well out to sea. it could become a hurricane again. it was

pete, inverness and venice. there wasn't much in the way of a west coast sea breeze today. there are still a few showers generated farther south primarily ft. pierce, west palm crossing the state. a few of these may hold together tomorrow night, but mostly after the noon hour for it do? will it develop? it's possible it could go a couple days just moving northwest as a general area of low pressure as the invest 99l. some of this water over the bahamas in the mid-and upper 80s is near record warm for this year. if it can get in a better environment, it may strengthen. thosar media and on the internet, so be careful what you're looking at here. some of the computer models, some to the west and some to the east and even the major models are changing their opinions greatly. it's hard to nail when the storm is not closed off to computer forecast model, a passing shower with some darkened skies, friday morning 77 degrees and scattered showers mostly after 1 p.m., 40% rain chance friday and saturday as we get into the weekend, a 40% chance. we'll watch any potential effect, in any

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