on top of them a decent thunderstorm and lightning moving to the northwest and down south fro western sarasota. making it down into sarasota in about 40 minutes the looking at futurecast more showers and storms that won't last as long as last night. there is your hour by hour forecast, thunderstorms and leaving waking up to sunshine and storms tomorrow what do they arrive? will let you know in a few > to zika virus the cases in south florida. local the -- mosquitoespread brings the cases in our state at th 28th. the meantime there are desperate measures to salvage a possible vaccines. health oicls diverted $81 million away from other government programs to avoid doing research on trial for two vaccines otherwise money for vaccine research would have run out by the end of this month but the head of health and human services says it will not have prepared as we told you lawmakers went on their seven- week recess without making any kind of decision. >>> reason maryland looking into claims that people smelled natural gas weeks before a deadly explosion. error abc station reports someone called 911

there is ra and it is moving along and at least a half hour to minutes of happy rain in western srmsver sarasota jumped east at 75 hding a some temperatures. and down to sanibel and nea the gbi storms with more moisture and day teim heating. stmsoro the south generated by heating tod. for our friends in citru is a line near inverness that curves newspaper marion cnty. nothing severe here that's moving out of the viewing area. way away. vero that rain is moving away. tomorrow the storms will fire up. theyill jump id.nlan thursday we'll get back to the east wind. and theft aernoon 4.55 in the rain bucket this month. anotheresson how you look back to july which is hot and most areas rain was below average. generally speaking all the time. most summers eventually things kind of even out. now in the areas it is even an average above agevera rain fl this summe38.27 for the year. 27.89 is the average. cooler temperatures because of the clouds and rain. check this out -- every checkpoint in hillsborough and pinellas in the 70s at 6:00. 78 brooksville and bradenton and head inland. by the way the tropics

pete, bradenton, sarasota, western hillsborough county, your rain chance is 50%. eastern hillsborough, eastern pasco, manatee, sarasota, 40% rain chance. and less rain farther inland. talked about that wave off africa. there's a 70% chance that it's going to develop into something tropical, a depression or a tropical storm. but look at the computer models, all in agreement that it's going to stay out to sea and that's good news. we will check on 8s because hopefully there's good news there. >>> it's getting busier. and i just got word of an accident on the parkway, pasco county, northbound and we have lanes blocked at hail road. i need you to keep that in mind. more on that coming up in the next report. quick look at downtown tampa, starting to get slower southbound but still at decent speeds. out the door soon, over the next 20 to 30 minute, expected to get busier. that's a look at weather and traffic on the 8s. back to gene and gayle. for the first time since the olympic games began, team usa did not earn any gold medals. instead, they claimed silver and bronze.

and, a few scattered showers as well for the western part of hillsborough county. further south, manatee, sarasota have seen good downpours on the beaches. raining now, looks sarasota all the way up to just west of bradenton now and down to gulf gate estates. had a few showers pass around. currently raining in north port. 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 ju

sarasota. notice motion it's working its way to north. western hillsborough county, you're likely going to see some of this. also central and northern pinellas county. getting set for some very heavy tropical downpours. this rain just comes down like raez for probably about 10, 15 minutes. then you kind of settle back down into the lighter rainfall totals. and then you look down to the south. more of that developing. we will continue to be developing with lot of this and lighter amenounts as you mo away electric coast throughout afternoon their satellite view of tropical depression number 9 you see how you get features kind of swing off of it and a produce heavy rain over us. this right now basically stationery which obviously not good news. because it gives them more time to strengthen. now it's dealing with lighter wind sheer. there's still that dry air on that northern and northwestern side. but you know i got to say for the most par been dealing with dry air fairly well. remember, dry air tends to kind of choke these systems that's kind walle

moving now through western sections of polk county and a few showers in extreme eastern part of highlands county. good downpours, thou sections of sarasota county east of vamo, all lifting off to the north and northeast and then offshore it's interesting to see this area of low pressure, this tropical storm weak one but still enough to drag this moisture across the area, generate more showers and thunderstorms. just north of venice here as you can see lifting off to the northeast, so still despite a day where you are seeing shower after shower after shower, enough energy to develop to create a thunderstorm so remarkable tropical storm atmosphere and you can feel that today with the amount of rain falling when you see the 84 degrees at 4:00 p.m., 76 at the airport and tampa current temp, 75 in st. petersburg so it's raining there, saturated. area of low pressure back to the west. the tropical storm of course on the easternside, that's where the moisture is rolling across the state. we are in the crosshairs there as more showers generate. it won't probably rain the whole period of time. you can see a little bit lighter back to the west but

western pasco. a 50% rain chance. an evening. 40% chance from tampa to lakeland down through the eastern portions of pasco, manatee and sarasota. so this is the typical mid- august-type weather. storms start inland and push toward the coast. early heads up, the reverse pattern starts saturday. winds off the gulf of mexico and rain earlier in the day. we will check on traffic on the 8s because more people are hitting the door now after law, if something can go wrong, it will. u.s. 92 was good and then guess what, a crash there. >> did you jinx them? >> i hope not. here's what's going on. manatee county because we have a delay here southbound on i-75 just past the 275, down to 23 miles per hour. that's in palmetto, tying up lanes causing the slow down. here's the accident on u.s. 92. it's also called new tampa highway near county no word if there's injuries but it's tying up lanes. 92 is used a lot through the area. and and downtown lakeland, still up to speed. that's weather and traffic on the 8s. back to gene and gayle. >> thank you leslee. >>> sharing the road with school buses. >> the rules of the road you need to know to ke

western panhandle of florida. and look closer to home. there may be some sprinkles, but not the heavy dunn powers that we've seen in the past couple of mornings. sarasota, you might sneak in here with heavier rain. i've highlighted for you. so off to class this morning. patchy clouds around and 76 and slim rain chance and after school, that is when the rain chances get better, 87 degrees. and look at it here. this morning, 20% and 30% at lunchtime and 50% early afternoon and 60% by the time the rest of us are coming home from work around 6:00 tonight. so i have an hour by hourlike at this first day of school for many kids. with the buses. >> back to school affects all of us, if you have children or not. you will see extra traffic on the roads. downtown tampa already busy here. both directions of 275. but everybody is moving along without delay. 1275 and i-4, 75 and the veterans checking in accident free. we have an issue in pinnelas park where the kids are heading back to school. and the railroad crossing arms are stuck in a down position. avenue. you'll want to use 58th street or. >> 34th street at your alternate routes for now. and csx is heading the

western pasco county. because of the clouds and the showers, you can see temperatures down into the mid places like froth proof, 85 degrees. sebring currently sits at 87. down in arcadia 86 degrees. sarasota currently checks in at 77 degrees. there's that area of low pressure. that has been very slowly working its way to the west. as it does so you've got that whole mass of wet weather, just the deep tropical moisture. that will start to shift more towards the west as we go through next couple of days as it does so high pressure kind reestablishes itself over the state. that means our weather wil again. by the afternoon sea breeze and scattered showers mainly during afternoon hours. watch play out on future cast. there's that low. notice how slowly shifts on to the west. we get better looking conditions for tomorrow. into thursday. heading towards friday. there you see, we've got more sun along the coastline, and then the scattered showers, mainly during afternoon heading into the evening hours. so that's really kind of back to afternoon showers and thunderstorms as we head into the afternoon hos. so the forecast goes like this, for the rest of today, we're looking a scattered storms movi

western pasco. and a lot less now in citrus and hernando county. just light rain. and i want to take you into sarasota county with some pockets of rain. and look at that, there's the rain in the gulf of mexico. this area of low pressure is going the stay with us for the next two days. bringing rounds and rounds of and 60% tomorrow. >>> meredith is in for leslee. it is wet out there. >> yeah, nasty in the westchase area. sheldon shut down at linebaugh due to a tanker that jackknifed there. the alternate, the veterans expressway, henderson, they are jammed up. so heavy delays there. on the map, the bridges where we are currently seeing rain, very slow on both the courtney campbell causeway and the howard frankland bridge. interstates in general just look crummy. south and northbound 75. crash northbound 75 at big bend >>> back now. 8:30 on a monday morning the 8th of august, 2016. the crowd is loud and proud helping with t atmosphere. we have the third oldest zumba school in rio. ? >> we'll see them in a little while. there they are right there. first, can we also mention, jenna bush hager joins us. how