we were at 57 a 60 in bradenton. the cold air is come ing ing from the north down the peninsula. 22 mile per hour winds in clearwater right now, 14 in brandon. gusting up in most cases to 25 miles per hour. that's going to keep us cool all day. obviously below average. average is 77. i'm expect ing 66 even colder tonight. more of us will be in the 40s. coming up in weather and traffic know about rain chances in this forecast. gayle. >> thank you so much , leigh. >>> developing right now, another wrong way driving incident in the bay area. this time a police officer was almost struck head on by the out of control driver. it's a story we first told you about sunday morning. the woman arrested is out of jail this morning and we are told -- and we were there to talk to when she walked out. this is a mug shot of a ja cancela. he was driving northbound in the southbound lanes of 275 in the fowler area. that officer had to swerve to avoid her. shortly after that another tpd officer stopped her and arrested her on the spot f

university closed old bradenton to desoto road. the good news is desoto road remains open so you can use it as an alternate. it intersects university right here at this location but it's an excellent alternate and then you can hop up here and continue on university if you're heading over to i-75. very sad news in the suncoast area this morning. in east lake we have a collision. road at keystone road so be on the lock out for that. we've had some big issues so far in traffic this morning. >>> how is the weather looking leigh? >> extremely different. it's back to winter. stroing -- strong winds from the north bringing in chilly air. inverness in the 40s and you can see temperatures dropping for the next 3 and a half hours. tampa at 57, lakeland 52. it's cool in north port at 61. you factor in the strong winds and it feels even colder. wind speeds at 15 to 20 miles per hour. these little blue numbers that you see are wind gusts. up to 25 to 30. we're going to keep it feel ing like a winter day all day with a high of only 66 and that b

that road shut down between bradenton road, old bradenton road and desoto road. we're going to zoom in, but keep a wider shot with respect to the three victims. sarasota police department 3:00 a.m. we're hearing three people died, a fourth person was taken the hospital. but is expected to survive. police say they don't know what caused this crash at this time, they do believe the speed was a factor. they are till looking to see if drugs or alcohol played a role in the single car crash. we're working to gather the names of those involved in this crash but expect that roadway to be shut down for several hours as this is going to be a here. we're going to dig for details and bring you the latest as soon as we get them. like we said this is a major roadway in sarasota, will be closed for several hours. >>> this happened just at the southern tip of the airport so university closed between old bradenton and desoto road. university dips a little bit near bradenton road. that is where the crash happened so desoto road which runs parallel to university before they interse

also downtown bradenton up to speed. just south of the sarasota airport that's where the triple fatal crash is. single vehicle involved. three people deceased and one more in the hospital. police are saying that they believe speed was a factor. so here's your traffic situation, university parkway is completely blocked between old bradenton down to desoto road. this how do you get around it? they may be letting you by on desoto road. if not you need to go down to myrtle street. an alternate to the north is not good because of the airport. the closest one if you cannot use desoto road is myrtle street. meanwhile a great drive across the bay area bridges. that's some good news. that'ses -- that's a look at weather and traffic. back to candace and gayle. >> thank you so much, leslee. >>> during a heated political campaign there's always time for some fun. >> coming up, the campaign event that had presidential candidate donald trump dancing. >> this is news channel 8 >>> [ music ] >> well, that is donald trump jamming out to

university dips a little bit near bradenton road. that is where the crash happened so desoto road which runs parallel to university before they intersect, that is this crash. if you're coming up from the west you might want to use televast road to 301 and just avoid this entire area altogether because again a lot of activity out there. as the morning rush hour picks up we could see some major delays there so televast will take you well around this crash. corey will continue to follow this and bring us updates throughout the morning so make sure you follow us on twitter @tampabaytraffic. elsewhere in the bay area we're in pretty good shape, this is i- tampa, just about 25 minutes from lakeland into downtown elsewhere no major crashes or breakdowns to tell you about. if you're heading out now you're in great shape. you might feel it a little windy out there. just a little. i felt it. >>> we were so humid in the 80s, i think just the contrast makes it feel even colder. let's head to the weather center and check out what we have going on

so university parkway is closed now between old bradenton road and desoto road. university kind of dips in here at old bradenton road. that is where the crash happened. so desoto road is still open, it run parallel to university before they intersect. that is an option if you're trying to get around this crash. or if you're coming from the west you may want to take talavast road so you stay clear of the accident where there's a lot of activity. you can expect that part of university to be closed for several hours. again, corey dierdorff almost there, as soon as he gets there we will have more on this story

university is closed old bradenton to desoto road. stay with us all morning with this breaking traffic. i'll be >>> live from the news center, this is news channel 8 today. >>> good morning and welcome to news channel 8 today. i'm candace mccowan in for gene. >> i'm gayle guyardo. >>> breaking news, three people are dead after a car crashes in sarasota. right now a fourth victim is in the hospital. this is a picture from the scene at the intersection of old bradenton road and desoto road. so far police do not know what caused the single car crash but they do believe speed was a factor.

department and is now the top cop with bradenton police picked from among 118 applicants. mascareas explains she represents a small group less than 2% of the police chiefs nationwide who are women. >> reporter: bradenton police she says. >> i feel like i'm home. >> reporter: bevon's the city's first female police chief says she would prefer you look past her leadership. >> i'm not sure if gender can define leadership even in policing. >> reporter: she spent her 29 year career as a police officer with st. petersburg police. a cop at 19. too young to drink or buy her own bullets. >> i still tell everybody it is the best job in the world. >> reporter: she rose to assistant chief while being a mother of two boys she adopted in russia 60 years ago. >> a mom. full-time work. part-time student. it is all a balance. life is a balance.

usually is on the water. 62 degrees and 55 in bradenton. notice the difference, brooksville nine degrees warmer than yesterday. tampa, seven degrees warmer. eight degrees warmer in bradenton. 80 degrees and even 23 f you're not on spring break. in weather and traffic on the 8s at 6:38, an eight-day temperature trend for you and let you know how long it's going to stay warm. >>> we have an update on 75. i told you i would watch it because 75 is tricky. it's such a wonderful interstate and then you blink your eye and if there's an accident, there is a congestion problem really quickly. down to about 38 miles per hour here and it's due to a collision southbound i-75 at approaching the accident. it's tying up the right lane. and new tampa, hopefully going to be wrapped up soon. and over here in clearwater, westbound 580. there's road work there. down to 19 miles per hour. >> thank you. >>> right now, cnn is reporting

great drive on i-75 through bradenton. i-4 looks great out of lakeland. that's a look at weather and traffic on the 8s and now back to adrienne and gene. >> all right. thank you. >>> so much more coming up here >>> brace yourselves. a loud and packed weekend is on tap at macdill air air force base. ryan, you have exciting things to tell us about happening this year. >> reporter: adrienne, good morning to you oncece again. a lot going on saturday and sunday. these evenents get underway at 8:00 both mornings. a lot going on here and if you this is the thing for you this weekend. paracommandos, they'll be here this weekend. and we have two joining us right now. first of all colonel, tell me what you guys do, what the thrill is like when it comes to your job? >> the thrill for us is getting to jump out of an airplane. people would call it perfectly good. but we beg to differ. but we will set up the show and come out starting the show off at about 11:30 each morning. the mass exit, that means about six toto eight jumpers come out in a large formation and we wi

university parkway is completed blocked between old bradenton to desoto. you're not going to be able to get by either direction here. that is at that southeast lower corner of the sarasota international airport. this is where this is located. if you're used to taking university, what you can do if you're coming away from u.s. 41 is just take desoto road, hop up on 301 and get back to university. the same thing goes for the other direction. desoto road is a good detour. this is due to a triple fatal accident. a single car crash. one other person is at the hospital. keep in this mind. they're out there investigatingful right now investigating. i'll let you know when it reopens. that's a look at weather and traffic. back to gayle and candace. which foods have gmo's in it. >> the law prompting general across the country. hi, guys! spring is almost here and you know what that means! easter is hopping along. so, if you're looking to stretch your dollar this easter holiday, at your local walmart. tampa, in head-to-head shopping, the total amount saved at walmart

meanwhile, bradenton, cortez road at 14th street, a collision in the bradenton area. 301 looks good as well as i-75 in the sun coast area. causeway boulevard right at 50th street. that's in lanes. all right, let's take a look here, 275 at state road 60, that's memorial highway, we had construction. all of that has cleared. and an earlier fatal crash in well. that's a look at weather and traffic on the 8s. >> thank you. >>> today is international women's day. the special celebration the first lady michelle obama will attend just ahead. >>> and also, wild police chase caught on camera. take a look at the car. the reason this driver was trying to escape police. >>> but first, voters in four states head to the polls today. this as presidential candidates start shifting their attention to florida. the campaign events planned for today here in the sunshine state. in my business i can count on bailing me out all the time... i.t. guy. tech supervisor. and my customers knowing right introducing real-time delivery notifications. >>> it's 5:42. in your vote, this is decision states. today's bigge

between desoto road and old bradenton road. it is close. i will give you a detour because this is of us 301 and will cause delays this morning. we will look at the bridges and get you drive times. >>> welcome to 10 news this morning. i am allison kropff. >> sarasota south of the airport. university parkway is closed after three people killed in an early morning crash. >> garin flowers is live at the scene. >> reporter: they are trying to figure out the cause of the accident but they do believe police are investigating. four people were inside of the car and three have died. a fourth person taken to the hospital but they are expected to survive. this is where it happened, university parkway at desoto road. if you have to get through this area you have to find a detour because it will be closed for several hours. we are still trying to find out what cause is that they believe speed is a possible factor. find a different way to get to where you need to go. police will update us with information. you can go to our app to find out the latest wit

in bradenton there is a crash, a lane is blocked on westbound eighth avenue. coming up as we head into the morning rush hour, i will get you drive times in we will see if the bridges are slowing down. >>> good tuesday morning. i am allison kropff. >>> investigators in california is a tree caused a train to derail. there were 200 people on board. >> nine people were hurt and four seriously. it is a miracle no one was killed. it happened after the train hit a tree that had fallen on the track.

petersburg police department and is now the top cop with bradenton police picked from among 118 applicants. mascareas explains she represents a small group less than 2% of the police chiefs nationwide who are women. >> reporter: bradenton police she says. >> i feel like i'm home. >> reporter: bevon's the city's first female police chief says she would prefer you look past her leadership. >> i'm not sure if gender can define leadership even in policing. >> reporter: she spent her 29 year career as a police officer with st. petersburg police. a cop at 19. too young to drink or buy her own bullets. >> i still tell everybody it is the best job in the world. >> reporter: she rose to assistant chief while being a mother of two boys she adopted in russia 60 years ago. >> a mom. full-time work. part-time student. it is all a balance. life is a balance. she sees a need for more community policing. >> i'm interested in seeing officers getting out of the cars more and talking to residents and finding out what quality of life issues are impacting them the most. >> reporter: during her first days on th

and 74 in bradenton. lakewood ranch at 74. so we are certainly on the warm side wherever you're at across the area. in lakeland. bartow at 79. temperatures starting to come down. we're about 20 minutes away from sunset. so we are going to see those temperatures falling a little bit more over the next hour or so. keeping it comfortable for tonight. the wind speeds have come down. most around 10 miles per hour. afternoon around 25 miles per hour quite noticeable. but this is about the end of it. we will continue to see the winds relaxing through the night. and we also remain on the dry side. you can see there titan doppler radar, nice and dry. no rain in sight. nothing moving in any time soon. this slow-moving system is going to inch its way in our direction. it will take until sunday before this front fizzles out as it moves across the state. in the meantime, we continue with that warm and humid southeasterly flow. also staying on the dry side. lots of sunshine out there. in fact we're not even seeing cloud cover that is real t

you can find bradenton a little south of that. just use some caution if you elsewhere, across the bay area, we're in good shape. here is a live look outside at 22nd avenue north. not many cars out there on the road pushing 70 right now from bridge to bridge. and a check of the drive across the bridges this morning. no crashes or breakdowns in either direction. nine minutes across the courtney campbell, and 8 minutes across the gandy bridge. dan? >>> in democracy 2016, the republican presidential candidates worked extra hard lately to target donald trump and convince voters he is anything but a desirable candidate. >> we saw one thing we've yet to see this election, rivals showing support for trump under one condition. when push comes to shove, candidates said they'd support him over the democratic candidate if he scores the party nominations. >> yes, because i gave my word that i would. >> i will support whoever is the republican nominee for >> i'll support the republican nominee. >> mr. trump -- >> there was some hesitation, but

looking good on the tamiami trail in sarasota and also bradenton. state road 64 down to university parkway, roughly a nine money commute. and all week, we've had a lot of construction due to the diverging diamond intersection. but right now, no construction there that is tying up any lanes. that's a look at weather and traffic on the 8s. backck to adrienne and gene. >> thank you. >>> after hosting the special year, usf is handing over that honor to another venue. >> and the new w venue couldn't be happier about it. justst ahead, find out who is getting involved and where the special olympics will be hosted. >>> and then change coming to cuba. when we get back, the changes being made to cuban change, talking ababout currency here. you're watching news channel 8 >>> there's a big change coming with dealing with colors -- with dollars in cuba. the cuban foreign minister made the announce. ment. right now, cubans pay a 10% penalty on dollars exchanged at banks and currency exchange offices. that's u.s. dollars. well the cuban government warned not to ex

also new traffic pattern in the sarasota/bradenton area. at the county line, overnight construction is affecting university and a little bit of i-75. also, people are now using a new overpass as a temporary overpass as they continue to construct the diverging diamond intersection and that's what had you backed up yesterday. people are still getting used to the new traffic pattern southbound i-75 at university parkway. and lake wales, fatal accident, highway 60 at evergreen. and this is a big issue right now. and let's take a live look with meliek on the street. you can see the traffic that is that's one lane. but westbound is completely blocked. and traffic is light. not a lot of vehicles on the roadway. it's very early this morning and there are the two cars. an investigation going on, that's the westbound side where there are no vehicles getting by. it's at evergreen in lake wales. and now back to can gas and gayle. >> -- back to candace and gayle. >>> still ahead, the bay area airports hoping to land the deal to keep planes close. >>> th

bradenton, 69. here's the forecast. notice passing clouds throughout the day, yeah, some of the showers get close to us, but really i'm not putting in much of a chance today, 20%. even with the cloud, -- clououds, 81. but in weather and traffic on the 8s, i have the eight-day temperature trend for you. leslee i is here to let you know, it's fog-free. >> that's right. >>> and it's a great drive too. we have a great positioning for you on the roadadways. there's absolutely no delays on i-4 from lakeland to u.s. 75, 22 minute commute. and in and out of pasco county alalso looks good. state road 52 toto 75, roughly 10 minutes. bradentoton, earlier construction is all cleared. there's no more construction now for today at universityty right t at i-75. and throughoutut bradenton, looks wonderful. and a nice view of the sunshine skyway bridge, look at that, vehicles crossing it, no fog, isn't that nice? that's a look at weather and traffic and now back to adrienne and gene. >>> final good-byes to a hillsborough county deputy k

it happened in bradenton at the pet owner works as a veterinarian. emerald morrow is right now. emerald, this is the second time padi has attacked in less than a year. - yes...and this 4- month-old puppy in training to be a service dog is padi's latest victim. - here's a better look at his injuries - you can see all the bite marks around the puppy's nose - his trainer says they were checking out after getting the puppy's vaccinations when padi came out into the waiting room and attacked just a few months ago that padi got off the hook for biting a child's ear... - thousands of rallied behind padi on social media to keep him from getting euthanized... - and a judge ruled that the state's "bite law," which requires a dog to be put down if it severely injures a person was unconstitutional but padi and his owner are still facing some trouble...i'm looking into what could happen next, coming up at 5:30. live in bradenton, emerald morrow, 10news, wtsp today marks two years since malaysia airlines flight m-h- 3-70 disappeared. parliament held a moment of silence today to honor the vict

between desoto road and old bradenton road. it is close. i will give you a detour because this is of us 301 and will cause delays this morning. we will look at the bridges and get you drive times. >>> welcome to 10 news this morning. i am allison kropff. >> sarasota south of the airport. university parkway is closed after three people killed in an early morning crash. >> garin flowers is live at the scene. >> reporter: they are trying to figure out the cause of the accident but they do believe

jim harbaugh and wolverines in bradenton and opened up this morning. friday's workout open to the public and gets under way at five. the rest of the week the practices are closed except the high school coaches. it is harbaugh as he put it, this week will feel like a plane heading down the runway. >>> you build up speed and there is a glide to it and you take off. that's what each day gets faster and faster and more and more ramped up. >>> whatever weeks. we are back in a minute and >>> closed captioning brought to you by lakeland toyota, save abc action news and weather. the most accurate team in florida. >>> we have continuing coverage on abcactionnews.com. >>> have a good night and we will see you back here tomorrow >>> and now abc's "jimmy kimmel live." >> dicky: from h ly t's "jimmy kimmel live!" tonight andy samberg. from "zootopia," ginnifer goodwin. and music from the strumbellas. with cleto and the cletones. and reserve and now, glory be here's jimmy kimmel!

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so bradenton is a parking lot on 75 southbound. head over to u.s. 301. it will make your life so much nicer this morning on your commute. >> that's tough. >> it. is and we usually don't have big issues in the sun coast area, at least not at this time. but tough drive on 75. >> thank you. >>> and thank you for joining us. >> first at 4:00 is the next newscast. boatloads of shrimp, an ice cold coca-cola, and you've got florida's biggest party. select nights: february 6th grab a coke and get up to three months free on any annual pass. you'll enjoy amazing mardi gras plus fun in both universal so grab an annual pass and catch all the fun of >>> good morning. paying respects. police officers salute the hearse carrying former first lady nancy reagan from her home. a funeral being planned for later this week at the reagan presidential library, where she'll be laid to rest next to her husband. a woman being remembered as a devoted wife and a political force who redefined the role of first lady. we look back at nancy reagan's extraordinary wife and talk exclusive

bradenton is 10 degrees cooler. but crystal river, 23 degrees cooler. at the strawberry festival this opening day, charlie pride at 3:30. josh turner at 7:30. today when the doors open, 26 degrees and the slight chill. it warms up nicely. by 3:00 p.m., feeling nice at 76 in plant city. and 69 degrees at 8:00 p.m. in weather and traffic on the 8s at 6:08, i take you hour-by- hour through the day today, the first day of the strawberry festival. i can taste the strawberry short cake as we speak. >> josh turner, one of my favorites. love it. >>> sarasota, here's what's going on, a great drive on the interstate, bradenton as well. and fielding lane at clark road, we have a collision in lanes. we're starting to see a little bit of a delay. you see where it turns from green to orange by the crash icon. well, that's clark road known as state road 72. westbound, a little slow right in that fielding lane area. all right, let's hop over now and look at brooksville. up to speed and no delays in that's a look at weather and traf

upper 70s for sarasota and bradenton. you stay a little more cloudy today. inland areas you have more opportunity to warm up during the morning. you are getting your rain just now. these numbers will be higher than for folks closer to the coast. future cast, once we get these few batches out of here we'll be good. we'll get a few sprinkles time to time. this last thunderstorm we are tracking in polk county is it in terms of the heavy rain we'll be dealing with for today. notice we keep the patchy, overnight. i know the skies look creepy but to catch up own your st. patrick's day forecast. temperatures around 82. it will be warm and humid and cloudy. we are not going to be tracking rain just yet. that arrives on friday. looking for a 30% coverage. looking ahead to the weekend it looks like we have a high to the forecast. about a 60% coverage. sunday later model runs managed to back off on our afternoon shower chances for sunday. hopefully we can get out there and get that out in the morning then we'll enjoy sunday afternoon and the cooler temperatures as high

from bradenton beach back to comfortable temperatures. great sunny skies and nothing going on on storm tracker 10. again. the numbers, 71 now in tampa. 74 in st. petersburg. 73 mulberry. 60s hanging down right now. overall the are looking good. mainly things too much lighter winds today. out of the north still that between 5 to 10 miles per hour. at times please year. with that we had yesterday we're seeing 15 to 20 miles per hour gusts not driving" there any northwoods keeping it dry air in place for next few hours but we will start to see those as we had to the overnight. we will pull in more moisture and warmer temperatures. we will heat things up a little bit into tomorrow and the big difference is not starting off in the 50s with a few 40s into the nature coast. dropping 257 tomorrow and tampa. not as cold as it was this morning where we saw mid-30s and hernando and citrus county. 56 tonight in palm harbor. 58 palm springs. 56 in bradenton. inland spots run cooler during the overnight to the low 50s. 52 lakeland. great day tomorrow.

three died as a result. or bradenton and de soto. closing that stretch of road for five and half hours. the rate of speed caused the car to slip past. the people who died were all 21 >> officers how to tell three families that those lives were cut short and it is heartbreaking for anyone. to have to do that and for the families our thoughts are with them. >> the fourth person taken to the hospital. family members have been notified. police are looking into whether alcohol or drugs played a factor. in sarasota, 10 news. stage as all of the presidential candidates address today. craig boswell is an washington. >> reporter: hillary clinton took the stage for loud applause from the audience at the public affairs committee will do an office is invite israeli prime minister to visit the white house. >> clinton who is already looking ahead to november's general election, went out the case that the next president needs to leave the world -- leave the world from day one. >> we need steady hands. not a president who said he is neutral on monda

and cooler than -- bradenton. and cooler than yesterday. but it's not as windy. than yesterday morning. and then beautiful this we hit 73. and now that's still below average but more comfortable. at 5:08, i will let you know forecast. >>> we have construction out let's take a look at what is going on, i-4 and this is a great drive throughout the polk parkway, no delays here. and let's move over and take a look at lutz. here's what's going on. u.s. 41, i hate to break it to you folks, but it's still blocked, crenshaw lake and whitaker. this project has been going on for a week but it will end at the end of this week. and u.s. 41 should reopen then. in the meantime, you're detoured on to dale mabry highway. that's a look at weather and traffic. back to gene and gayle. >> all right, thank you, leslee. >>> breaking news, a new port richey neighborhood is waking up to a boil water alert. the water main broke in the brown acres neighborhood overnight. crews repaired the line but homeowners are being told to boil their water before using it. crews

but 55 in clearwater. 55 in bradenton. and 48 in lakeland. even though it's cool, it's sunny and it will be a beautiful warm-up to 72. feels nice outside for your lunch break. and 80 at 4:00 p.m. great beach day because tomorrow warm at 82 but add in rain chances at 20%. and up to 40% chance friday. and 50% on saturday. >>> all right, looking at nothing out of the ordinary. u.s. 301 to 275, 11 minutes. ehrlich to 275, 16 minutes. but the big issue, new tampa, 21 minutes now of a delay coming away from the northern apex. and head down toward i-4. it's due to the crash at 8 miles per hour. isn't that nice? southbound i-75 past bruce b down, mulch in the roadway. take 275 through the area and make your way over on fletcher or fowler. 275 looks good right now. not too bad, at least in the northern area. >> thank you. >>> and thank you for joining us on this wednesday morning. the next newscast is first at 4:00. >> and of course, we will keep you updated throughout the morning with breaking news, weather and traffic. >>> good morning. breaking new

single car crash at university parkway near bradenton road. there is some road block here. we're continuing to get more details but in the meantime you do want to stay away from this intersection right here.

tomorrow morning we could see a few little light showers right along i-4 from bradenton and tampa. tomorrow afternoon partly to mostly cloudy, a 10% chance for an afternoon sprinkle or little shower, high around 80 degrees. heading into tuesday we start off with a little sea fog. by afternoon tuesday will be dry. it's going to look good, lot of sunshine and warm, high 81. overnight tonight partly to mostly cloudy, showers north of i-4 continuing to dissolve. so i know a lot of us are perhaps wanting a little rain for the grass. you might get a couple little showers passing through but not a lot and the better chance being i-4 and north which perhaps is good news for the gasparilla music festival and strawberry festival as well. tomorrow afternoon partly cloudy skies, 20% chance for a shower, kind of breezy, warm, high of 80 degrees. tuesday and wednesday we start off with a bit of morning sea fog. right now st. patty's day looks pretty good, friday a 20% chance of a shower and then showers and storms moving in next weekend and that cold front next weekend will bring us some frigid

same thing goes here in bradenton. astros taking on the pirates and looking at lakeland, marlins and tigers slug it out. we have action packed film london has fallen. and there is whiskey, tango, foxtrot. >>> el nino is bringing storms to california. this is a neighborhood near sacramento. heavy rain is needed in the northern part of the state because of the drought there. the rain will last today and into tomorrow morning. >>> good morning, everyone. and el nino is having a strong footprint across this side of the country that it will actually cause implications here in our own area. california. mud slides are possible since it has been so dry. but the ripples downstream will leave us with very hot and dry conditions here in the bay area over the next couple of days. there is a cold front moving through at the moment but that just reinforces the low humidity and it will feel very now not too strong but they will pick up out of the north at about 12 miles per hour. temperatures are cool this morning. you will want that

yeah, a lot warmer. 10 degreeees warmer in bradenton. and extra clouds as well, a thin layer of clouds ahead of this cold front. just a sprinkles in southern georgia across the big bend of florida. as the front comes through, about a 10% rain chance. highs today 75 which is the average for thisis the time of the year. at 4:08, i takeke you hour-by- hour through the wednesday. and meredith is in for leslee. thanks for coming in. >> absolutely. >>> it's a mixed bag in terms of traffic at 4:00. let's get you started with a live look at ongoing construction. no big surprise here, 275 near the airport exit. you can see crews onscene. they should be wrapped up and out of the way by 5:00 a.m. we do have an accident in pasco county. the sheriff's office reporting congress shut downwn pine hill to ridge road. scoot over the ususe regency park. if you travel the bay area bridges this morning, no problems. courtney campbell, howardrd franklin and gandy in the green indicating no delays. gayle, gene, back to the you. >> thank you. >>> in your vote,

tampa, bradenton. 71 brooksville. further to the north, look at the cold air just over the that is the second cold front providing some chilly conditions. possibly some frozen precipitation combined cold i air with precipitation with this area of low pressure. even for places like atlanta, northern georgia. they could be experiencing some of that. we will still be on the mild side here. further south, though, we are dealing with these clouds that are kind of moving in this subtropical flow. there are clearer skies. that is generally across the northern part of the state. probe the northern sections of the newschannel8 viewing area. a few light showers possibly down in the florida straits. but for this evening partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies will continue. the forecast model doesn't pick up on all of these clouds but we will still have them in the sky. look at the time stamp there. that is roughly where the weak line of showers will be located. probably south of the baby then. by 10:00, it pushes southward. looks

you might need long sleeves this morning. 55 in bradenton. but notice the difference between yesterday and today. you're five degrees warmer in lakeland. nine degrees warmer than this and we will just keep warming up once the sun rises in two hour, we hit 80 degrees, just a couple clouds. in weather and traffic on the 8s at 5:38, i have an eight-day temperature trend for you into the weekend. don't miss that. and leslee is here to let you the roadways. >> that's right. going to any easter egg hunts this weekend? >> i'm going to be hunting raindrops. bring the umbrella. >> yeah. >>> look at traffic, it looks great. this i-4, u.s. 98 to 75, just 22 minutes. and through wesley chapel from state road 52 to 275, 10 minute commute. we have an accident here, trouble creek at rowan road. not going to slow you down. it was tying up a lane but it's all but wrapped up. u.s. 19 and state road 54 look very good new york city delays there. and let's -- good. no delays there. here's a live picture at kathleen road in the heart of lakeland. no delays. back t

but the local game, , bradenton, the tigersrs and pirates. in sarasota, the braves veverses ththe orioles. yes, there's a 10% rain chance but mostly we have just some extra clouds and low to mid- 70s. tempmperatures running right at average over the next couple daysys. average is 75. we are 75 today. 74 thursday and friday. . back to 75 saturday. . long range we do trend a little warmer up to 80 by tuesday. we will check in now on trtraffic on traffic on the 8s to make sure everything is smooth sailing this morning. >> yeah, we're all good. >>> how much fun are the spring training games and you can't beat the weather right now. >> this is why people come to the area this time of year. >> welcome everyone. we want to let you know early morning, fantastic time to be traveling here, 275 at i-4 in downtown tampa. two hours from now, it will be all jammed upup 275. get out the dooror early inin you cacan. we want to shshow you the bridges also looking good from top to bottom, courtntney campbell caususeway, about 10 minutes. and gandy, fiveve to s

this happen at the pet clinic in bradenton yesterday morning. that 4 1/2-month-old guiden retriever is a service dog in training so that dog is protected under the law. the own deer be charged with a misclean -- owner could be charged with a misdemeanor but nothing is going to happen to patty. the dog was almost put down for biting a child over the summer but a judge saved patty's life in december. >>> a woman says she was hit by a suspected drunk driver and held against her will. the woman was put in the car somehow. largo police say she was in excruciating pain and begged dejesus to call 911 but he refused. she was able to call for help behind the wheel on ulmerton road. she's recovering now with a broken he he will -- pelvis. >>> yesterday on the howard frankland bridge, troopers told us there was a multicar crash when 62-year-old ivan hall lost control after a front tire blew out. it set up a chain reaction with 10 cars. hall was seriously hurt, everyone else had only minor injuries. >>> a woman became a symbol of the boston marathon both, s

deputies in bradenton are investigating an overnight murmured. police say 34-year-old nicolette johnson was found suffering from gunshot wounds before 2:00 this morning. she was found in a driveway on 8th street court east. investigators are now on scene piecing together exactly what happened. no word on if any arrests were made or if police even have a suspect. >>> right now tampa police are run driver who killed a man on a bike and just kept going. video from the scene here, we've learned that victim was a man in his 40s. investigators have not released his name just yet. we're told he was riding his bike on interbay boulevard near 6th street south saturday night when hit. we're working with tampa police to get you a description of the car involved. >>> pasco county a car chase leads to two crashes, and started with two 13-year-olds. authorities say the girls were running in the car while driving away in a car along u.s. 19 when they lost control crashing that car into a pole at the intersection of darlington road yesterday just after 4:00 a.m.

crystal river, you're at 64 degrees. 66 in plant city. 65 in bradenton. look what a difference between yesterday at this time and today. brandon and brooksville, -- brandon and inseverest, excuse me, 13 degrees warmer than yesterday. lakeland, about nine degrees warmer. should be great for the strawberry festival. ray stevens hitting the stage at 3:30. and mar tina mcbride at 7:00. pleasant, 74 degrees. could feel hot around 3:00 p.m. when it's 84 degrees. but a mild evening evening when martina is on stage. >>> great reminder about the strawberry festival, each afternoon we are seeing clogged roads, i-4 in particular. so just pay attention later. and let's take to you the maps now though and show you we are in the green pretty much all good 75 up there at the apex. good morning to you in pasco county. moving toward tampa and your bridges, connecting pinellas and hillsborough, no problems here on the courtney campbell, howard franklin or gandy. and good morning pinellas county, u.s. 19, the arch nemesis, well, i'm happy to report, it looks fine, we are ac

. >>> a bradenton man has the ultimate bragging rights after winning the 2016 python challenge. bill booth and his teammates captured the most pythons, 33 of them. they also caught the longest python, 15 feet long. booth told us his strategy was catch the snakes in the early morning when they are less aggressive. >> snakes like to come out and get to the sunshine and warm themselves up and that's what we do, we try to find them when they come out of the water or out of the grass and get in the sun to sun themselves. >> so you get your snake before that's the key right there. booth's team won an $8000 cash prize. they are scanning the pythons to use for leather goods. in all 106 snakes were removed statewide. >>> if you needed a reminder just how beautiful tampa bay is, here you go, eagle 8 hd flew above siesta key this morning. beachgoers got to enjoy clear skies and perfect temperatures, in the 70s across many areas. humidity is very comfortable, just the view is fantastic. brought to you in high definition from eagle 8 hd. what a gorgeous shot. look at that white sand, always

bradenton, 64. great weather today for the strawberry festival. 3:30, ray steven, funny guy. martina mcbride at 7:30. temperatures already pleasant, 10:00 a.m., 74. could feel warm at 3:00 p.m. when it's 48 and a mild evening. and i checked out strawberry short cake yesterday. had the works including ice cream and whipped cream. yeah, it was really, really good. in weather and traffic on the 8s at 5:38, i take you eight days into the future to see how long we stay this nice and meredith is in for leslee. cake? >> it had cake. only offered me cake. i prefer it that way. >> i'll take both. outside. speaking of i-4 which of course will take to you the strawberry festival, this though closer to tampa, i-4 at mlk, we have a road ranger and tow truck onscene of an earlier accident westbound. they're getting that one cleared out of the way. delays. north of i-4 along 275 and i- 75, you are in the green. indicating speeds at or above the speed limit. and your bay area bridges connecting pinellas and hillsborough, up to speed. gayle, candace, back to you. >> all right. >> thank you so

for those who live in sarasota or bradenton, and you work in south st. pete, you're definitely going to want to leave the house extra early because you got to go all the way around through hillsborough county to get there. so right now, it's closed. i will let you know when it reopens. and let's take a live look, not seeing any vehicles pass here. skyway bridge shut down. keep that in mind, due to fog. that's a look at weather and traffic on the 8s. >>> alcohol sales in one bay area county are up for discussion. late they are morning, leaders will consider loosening restrictions in polk county to match the laws of lakeland. this is an issue with a lot of residents and businesses fired up. news channel 8's josh thomas is now live from bartow at the county commission building to explain. josh -- >> reporter: good morning, gene. well, since last fall, you can purchase alcohol before noon in lakeland in the city limits but not in the county. but that could change based on what happens here at a workshop this morning. now polk county commissioners will meet l

it's closed between old bradenton to desoto. take desoto road, running parallel to university and move over on 301 and pick back up university. desoto road is your alternate. let's check with leigh and get the weather. >>> certainly is a much cooler way to start the day. speak. beautiful look at lakeland, 49 degrees, 50 in plant city, 52 in tampa, 54 in clearwater and the winds are very strong out of the north, keeping us with a high of 66 today. can't feel my face when i'm with you but i love it >>> monday morning, march 21st, 2016. spring is here, everybody. by the way, we have a little bit of snow. what would you call that precipitation that came down? >> flurries. >> four inches. >> i know. >> little more as you get further up. >> anyway, the weather is the top of the headlines. adjusting here in new york city but other parts of new england will see closer to a foot. they cancelled school in boston al will give us the full skinny on that coming up. >>> president obama has a lot on his plate today as he spends his first full

cooler. 08 in bradenton. this is continuing to have high pressure to the south and aest. notice the flow. the difference tonight is high clouds across the golf. -- gulf. as that works east word that may limit for seeing all of the fog that we saw this morning and yesterday morning. mild and muggy. patchy fog. sea fog potential as well. a stray shower. rape chances down to 40% chance the first day of spring. comfortable sart to the work week. >> mike, thank you. >>> facebook posts come back to haunted a woman until the judge looked area her facebook photos. see what she posted that made the judge slap the cuffs on her and put her in jail. >> he was homeless now he paints pictures of the homeless. see his work and hear why he does it, that's awesome. >> great. >>> forgot your pin. take a selfie. changes that could be coming for 3 the former face for subway is bloodied and >>> the former face for subway is bloodied and bruised. he is beat non-prison. he got a surprise beat town from a fellow inmate who has issues with child molesters. he is serving a 16-year sentence childre

patrick's day. 7 in plant city. 70 in clearwater. 71 in bradenton. and i checked in with big monkey in crystal beach who says 70 degrees this morning. the long range forecast, it's going to stall to the north today which is why i left in a 10% rain chance. but i don't think many of you will see rain. and for tomorrow, the front gets closer so i bumped the rain chance up to 20 to 30%. and i'm momore concerned with saturday with this area of low pressure coming off the gulf of mexico. keeping our rain chance 50% saturday. early sunday, there could be and we actually see a significant cool down. a high on monday just 6 8 degrees. and monday night into the 40s. leslee, let's check on the sunshine skyway bridge. >>> all right, it's still closed and now another problem, folks. this is in the wimauma area, possible fatal crash. we have all lanes blocked d here on state road 674 right at carlton lake road. a collision. we have live wires that are down in lanes. and again, both directions here of 674 are blocked. here's your alternate. it's your detour. wimau

pit happened at his owner's pet pclinic in bradenton. pbut judge ruled patty felt pcornered was defending himself. pwell now patty is accused of a pbiting nose of a puppy training pto a service dog. atty's owner claims the puppy pwas at aggressor in the case but uppies caregiver says the the pattack was unprovoked and she's pafraid bite may scar and prevent phim from becoming a service dog pforever. pthe caregiver has filed a pcomplaint with manatee county psheriff's office. p>> good morning this morning out pof a sarasota county sheriff pdeputies say they found skim perin stalled in gas pump as 7-11 pstation on fruit available road. pdetectives believe they have pbeen there for at least two pweeks. pthey are now looking through psecurity video to track down p>>> in orlando a man accused of pa stealing steaks from from a prestaurant. pit was all caught on camera. pin this video you can see a man pfilling a big with raw meat out pof a walk-in freezer. pwhen the owner of bubba orlando prestaurant tried to stop him the pman grabbed ad kitch

you may notice it's a little morning, 60 in apollo beach. 70 tampa. 67 bradenton. and our forecast throughout the day today, notice going forward around 8:00, yes, more clouds. but these showers are kind of few and far between. yes, they're there and that's why i left in the 20% rain chance. and but clouds the bigger story along with the warm conditions hitting 81 degrees. in weather and traffic on the 8s at 6:38, i have an eight-day temperature trend that will take us through the rain and then trend cooler. but first things first, a lot going on on the roads right now. >> yeah, unfortunately. >>> thing have changed, we are headed into rush hour and we have a big crash here that has both directions of busch boulevard completely blocked. that is eaeastbound and westbound busch boulevard. just west of florida at north. that's where the problem spot is at. you're not going to be able to get by. major delays in the area, especially westbound. so go up to line ball avenue, even befofore you get to 275 or just take waters avenue. either of those look decent. boulevard an

other temps and the area, 57 in tow, 67 in bradenton. tonight's low is getting into the mid 40s in the north but for the most part it's going to 53 in tampa, 51 in bradenton, 51 up in frostproof. here is the satellite and radar. either easterly flow. not a whole lot of cloud cover. heading into the day tomorrow expecting more in the way of sun than we saw today, or more than evening. dry air works into the picture sunday night and by monday we start to shift that wind, more of a southeasterly flow. this high pressure sits here sits here sits here. that's the prime positioning to see a really warm air mass in place. 80, maybe even 90. this front in the west may take its time to get here. maybe not arriving until next newer computer models point to sunday night. behind it you get colder and drier. now that we're in march we start to lose a lot of the cold air behind it, f stability behind -- instability behind it. that's what we're seeing with the front moving through area tomorrow morning. for tonight 54 , cool start to the day tomorrow,