pasco, citrus and hernando counties. he's in the weather center now tracking the rain throughout the day so we're prepared. >> looks like the metro area in the clear for now but it's not going to last. >> we're all rainfall the next couple of days. the problem is it's where the rain is heaviest is where the flooding will be. and we have flood watches in effect. you can see this wall of water about to move onshore. it will be a wet go through the morning commute. no lightning here but the issue will be blinding rain and reduced visibility. already impacting 19 from crystal river, vine island, spring hill getting in on it richey. pinellas is drying out but further south manatee getting in on rainfall along 75 and points east are beginning to dry to the west here. we're going to see the heaviest rain to the north and that is where accumulations of another six inches is possible so. we had a half-foot already, more in some areas here. that will combine to produce upperwards of a foot since last friday. that is where we have

thanks for being with us. >> while battling a fire in hernando county. he suffered a heat-related emergency. here's a look in brooksville from eagle 8hd, this is what's left of a double wide mobile home. the firefighter is in critical, but stable condition at dade city hospital. we'll bring you more information as soon as it becomes available. >>> now, zika in your backyard. >> standing water creates

, citrus county, hernando county and pasco. another six inches by the time we get to tomorrow evening is possible here. we're going to hold ono for this time of year. low to middle 80s across the area. because of the cloud cover, because of the rainfall, we will eventually get into some sunshine and back into our typical pattern of afternoon storms but that won't happen until wednesday. until then we have the issue with the heavy rain that could cause flooding especially to the north. which is where you've been tracking issues on the roads. >>> we have some rain and some wet roads, corey dierdorff is driving around and has been all morning. a little earlier he was on u.s.

i'll zoom up to hernando county 98. and generally partly cloudy skies to mostly cloudy and the rainfall potential is much lower. and it is still there. you can see a couple of showers near the coast in the first few hours of the day. and then the storms will start to get more widespread and push inland. when you see the blue or the purple color that is an inch or more. so there will be pockets of heavy rain, especially for areas east of i-75 later in the dad 4:00 f we get little peeks of sunshine, the temperatures are going to spike. yesterday we only stayed at 81. 88 today. and then we start to get back into the low 90s thursday, friday and the weekend. and the rain chances come down. so 4:38. a lot of people waking up to the alarm after a long summer break. >> getting out the door. light. very light driving conditions. clearwater, oldsmar area, safety harbor, your roads are in the green indicating no accidents and no delays. and hillsborough, we have one accident northbound 275, approaching the i-75 apex. and florida

it's also heading into hernando county as well.pplaces have see share of rain over the course of the past 24 to 48 hours. further up on19, a little more scattered but still some moderate downpours. i back out again t show you that even while you get the heaviest of the rain now, behind it we're still going to be the morning and eventually even sarasota, bradenton, you get in on the act with the showers and the storms. the flood watch continues. pasco, hernando, citrus county through tomorrow evening so this isn't the only line of rain that we're going to have to deal with. this just happens to be one first thing this morning. we're going to have more skytower radar views coming up. you know, it's really all about the morning commute at this point and i'm hoping at least right now, it's starting off a quiet note. >>vanessa: so far, so good. as as wn wget lot of ra, we like to caution folks not going fter tha you need to be o the roys, t roadways. so slow it down outere. inhe meantime, if y're just joining , this is a caying over from the lastr it i. it's on memorial hiway. a hvyng'mms

. >>> a hernando county firefighter went from fighting flames to fighting for his life this afternoon. he was battling a fire. this is video from the scene just a couple of hours ago. hernando officials say he was in critical condition when taken to dade city hospital. he is now stable. as for that fire, investigators say it started in a garage and spread to a barn and a shed. >>> tonight a pasco child protection investigator is out of a job and facing charges accused of falsifying a report. investigators say christine saying she tested a couple for drugs when in fact she did not. the cpis have heavy workloads covering 30 and 40 cases each but the supervisor says that's no excuse. >>that never gives anybody the excuse to lie, falsify reports, or to handle something quickly. >>the sheriff is now looking into all of the cases she has handled. >>> some tampa homeowners want the turn down the volume. today bar owners and some neighbors packed city council chambers to talk about the problem. homeowners told the council the music goes too loud too late. >>it's not possible. just in normal c

anywhere from 19, west of 19 in citrus, hernando county, pine island and scoot down and show you. here's new port richey where the rain is just about to come onshore. and see this bright red color, that's an indication of intense rain. that's hudson, holiday, this is sure to take it easy, we have rainfall here along parish and manatee county as well. so these rounds of rain will continue. it's going to stay relatively cloudy like yesterday. which will keep our temperatures more moderate. 84 at noon. 85 at 4:00 p.m. and at any point, you can see the heavy downpours off the gulf of mexico. right now, it's 73 degrees in lakeland and bartow, brooksville, inverness, 72. still a toasty 79 degrees right it has to do with the area of low pressure. it has been stubborn, sitting there just south of the panhandle of florida. and with the wind flow around it, it's just sending these waves of rain onshore. we saw it all day yesterday, some on saturday as well. and look at this, the forecast for 7:30 this morning. just a little bit of time forward from now. and look at the rain that will be pos

travel related cases were also reported, including two in hernando county. and another clinical trial has begun... for a zika vaccine. it's the second study to begin this summer. there are currently no treatments for zika, leaving scientists scrambling to protect the public... particularly pregnant women whose unborn babies are at risk of devastating birth defects. the director of the national institute of health says he needs additional money and resources. in manatee county: deputies have arrested a bradenton woman on fraud charges. they say jennifer venditti stole money from a volleyball club.. where she was volunteering. detectives believe venditti took approximately 19-thousand dollars from september 2015 to april 2016.. from academy of volleyball excellence". during that time.. she allegedly deposited chec into her personal bank account.. and made unauthorized atm withdrawals. tampa families have a new pool to play in this weekend. mayor bob buckhorn and other community leaders will hold a grand ?re-opening tomorrow for the "cuscaden pool." it's locate

into hernando and citrus county. that's where we've seen two, now we have this flood watch in effect for pasco, hernando, and citrus county. it runs all the way until tuesday morning how. that's not a good sign, because we have rounds of heavy rainfall on the way. max radar significantly quieter now than just a few hours ago. some isolated thunderstorms are further off to the south, but still pass her man dough and citrus -- hernando and citrus county. heavy lightning strikes, heavy rainfall. we'll continue to see a lull for the most part through the evening hours, but we have this area of upper level low pressure in the deep south. it's going to continue to lot of moisture our way. especially along the nature coast over the next few days. this pat everyone holds tough not only through sunday and not that all of this rain is going to come down at once. this is a prolonged heavy rain event that takes us through at least tuesday, and those rainfall tallies will really start to pile up, especially by tuesday. for tomorr

the hernando county sheriff's office is searching for some burglars. they broke into the beef o' brady's on cortez boulevard in brooksville. this was last wednesday around 3 a-m. detectives believe the same people are responsible for burglaries in both marion and sumter counties.... which all happened on the same date. winter haven police need your help tracking two men behind a robbery. these pictures show the getaway car driving around "wallace manor." a woman told police -- the robbers knocked on her door around 8 yesterday morning . when she didn't answer -- they kicked in the door! police say the thieves made off with a t-v and purse. 108 flights delayed... and 16 cancellations-- and that was just at tampa international airport. and this morning - the first several delta flights out of tampa - are either delayed or canceled.. ?again.. forced delta to ground flights... leaving thousands of travelers stranded. while the stop was lifted hours later... it had a huge domino effect. delta says they are now offering passengers who had their flights cance

parents from hernando, sarasota and another county are fighting back.

they will clip northeastern pasco county into hernando county. the bulk of the core metro area dry right now. this will start to fill in over the next several hours. still looking at the heaviest northern polk and hardee county as well. by 7:00, 8:00 tonight, i would expect some of the showers and storms with the high temperatures near 90 to really get going. we will take a closer look at that, opinion point your wake- up forecast coming up in a couple minutes. >> thank you, denis. >>> pasco county deputies on the hunt for two people behind a rare crime. the two people that you see right here, they're response for an armed carjacking at a busy store. eric waxr ctims did that may have saved their lives. >> reporter: detectives say the two people seen in it this surveillance video did not have a grand plan to commit this carjacking. witnesses say a man covered in tattoos and the woman with him seem to be under the influence when they walked across us-19 to this store in holiday. it was 2:30 in the morning. what you can't see is the man pulling a gu

coming from hernando county. >> reporter: hernando cup spoke with 30 year old ronald robbibaro before he crashed into a front yard, but they let him go. he stole ripped through a fence and -- >> he says this truck is weaving on both sides of the lane. >> reporter: the detention sergeant follows but the truck stops and backs up over the deputy's car. >> the coca-cola truck hits the front corner panel of the f- 150. >> reporter: sheriff chris been arrested several times before, once for resisting arrest. >>> a night that started at a hernando county strip club ended with murder at a hotel. kayla collins met her victim jeffrey lott saturday night. they headed to the holiday inn express where they say she shot him several times. then they say she took his truck and >>> on monday, many county health departments will begin offering free zika testing for pregnant women but will there be enough to go around? the department of health has been scrambling to get enough resources ready. >> i just get very nervous and worried about things, you know. because i got a lot going on with the zika virus

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>>dave: especially in hernando and pasco county. some areas have gotten the most rain so far from this whole system and heavy rain, heavy pretty much all of coastal pasco county so you can go from spring hill southward, all the way through hudson, port richey, new port richey, further south now where it looks like heavier rain pin he he will as county, all of this activity working from southeast to northeast. rain chances sky high along the coast, 70%. lesser amounts inland with high temperatures in the mid afternoon but of course, more rain on the roads means a slower commute. right? >>vanessa: definitely urging folks to slow down when the rain comes. we are dealing with a few more crashes than typical this time of morning. most of them will be off to the showed he were. one lane blockage crash we'll get to in a second. right now a live look at the howard frankland bridge closer to the north and tampa side. looks like out here, about a six minute drive for you folks bridge. here is the lane blockage and good news for this one as we

about a cold case with ties to hernando county. the fbi and the livingston county are trying to figure out 70s. they found her shot to death in the field in upstate new york. investigators were not able to confirm her identity until a dna match just last year. >>> tim international airport releasing new numbers on the delta airlines glitch. they are saying, that weather and the computer outage caused 108 delays. the power outage at the hub in atlanta around 2:30 am caused that massive glitch. delta is now waving change fees for customers. and, you have until friday to rebook your flights. >>> a dangerous helicopter stunt catching deputies attention. >>> sexual relationships between teachers and students are becoming more common. most of them are between text and online messages. >> why some believe that loc be stronger. >> it started with a simple kiss . and then, he said, you can't tell anyone about this because i will be filed -- fired, go to jail. >> she moved to 40 years ago after she tells us that her middle school teacher rap

hillsborough county, pinnelas, manatee, citrus, hernando counties, good morning. thank you for waking up early on this first day of school. but a lot more traffic on the roads and the kids on the crosswalks. the crosswalk laws that yo sure that everyone makes it to school safe this morning. weather and traffic on the 8s in three minutes. foster farms presents appetites. even a small one can throw you off your game. they can happen anywhere. and they only get bigger as time goes on. serve foster farms corn dogs, foster farms corn dogs. >>> eastern hillsborough county, fishhawk, we have a report of an obstruction. the hillsborough county sheriff's office is on the >>> teachers are ready to welcome students to the classroom. >> and dangerous crosswalks as students head back to class. we're getting a lesson on crosswalk safety. >>> and michael phelps added more gold to his collection. reaction to last night's wins in rio. >>> good morning. welcome to newschannel 8 today.

. >>> new tonight, hernando county has its first case of zika. the florida department of health announcing in fact two cases in hernando county. both of them travel related. there are now 44 cases of the zika virus in tampa bay. none of those cases are believed to have been transmitted by mosquitoes in florida. >>> a bay area swimmer is making a big splash in rio. margales is doing. >> plus, doing shopping from the comfort of your own home. the best part about it, it's free. how one major retail er is getting in on this personal shopping business. >> and the bucs face the eagles this thursday at 7:00. we will bring you that game on >> it won't be long now. in a couple of months you can take a ferry from tampa to saint petersburg. tampa, saint pete, hillsborough county officials already signed off on it. it plans to run twice a day with three trips on friday. service expected to start in november. >>> now, 8 on your side special coverage o >> clearwater's melanie margales is hours away from the biggest swim of her life. she is in the final of the

they are reported in hernando county. the florida department health said that both cases are travel related. and that brings the number to 44 in the tampa area. but none of the case are believed to have been contracted by mosquitos but travel. >>> in a couple months you can skip 275 and take cross the bay. the commissioners finally gave the green light. the ferry plans to run twice a day two three trips on friday. and service is expected to start in november. continuing is sounds like a great time. it will get people to enjoy both sides of the bay. >> it is a nice way to get across and a nice breeze in your hair. >> you don't have to worry back to school. >>> much better this morning. we don't have any rain. there may be some sprinkles by the time you head to school. but paisley dry and that is -- but basically dry. and that is good news for the teachers and the parents trying to get the kids out this morning. a sprinkle not out of the question. we'll start at 78 and 84 at noon and slightly better chance, 30% at lunchtime

>>dave: especially in hernando and pasco county. some areas have gotten the most rain so far from this whole system and heavy rain, heavy

kind of heading up towards the hernando beach into hernando county and spring hill batch of heavy rain and light down pours happening in pinellas county and one area heading into the northern portion of polk county on top of days of rain. the heaviest rain has been and will continue to be along the coast. i mean the rainfall totals here citrus, hernando and pasco from four and a half to six inches and again lighter totals but still rain farther inland. same county, hillsborough the farther inland not quite as wide spread as far as the heavy down pours and pockets of rain farther to the south. today another day with on and off down pours. better rain chances through the middle of the day at a 70% chance keeping highs at 85. at 6:08 i do have the hour by hour look at your tuesday. meredyth is going to get you through your commute. >> let's take a look outside in picking up at 275 and i-4 with no delays. bay area bridges look really good. we do have an accident where we are seeing rain northbound along 19 at moog road. that should be out of your way shortly. right now taking up one of you

hernando county leaders want you to help shape the rules when it comes to waste and recycling in your neighborhood. now's your chance to volunteer for a new committee that will make recommendations for leaders as they create a new ordinance. eight to 10 people will go to monthly meetings for up to year. the first one is next month if interested open your app on your phone, we posted how to sign up. >>> this just might cure your sweet tooth. in our latest "dir report inspectors found not so sweet stuff in the soft serve machine at a local dairy queen. it's on north 56th street. health inspectors said they found roaches in the soft serve ice cream machine, also found bugs under the blizzard machine and crawling all over a sugar candy box in a food prep area. inspectors shut that restaurant down. dairy queen's associate vice president of communications for more information on other "dirty dining" stories go to abcactionnews.com/dining. >>> 5:50. a simple change could help you save for retirement. >> it's not something you can do, it's something your employer needs to do. >> when companie

. >> the dumping went on for weeks while a hernando county couple worked to open a restaurant across the road. as you might guess, they told senior investigative reporter steve andrews that clogged up their business plan. >> by the time we were notified of this and i got up to ridge manor, most of that mound was gone. when the wind shifted, let's just say it was less than appetizing. >> reporter: take it from me personally. this smells as bad as it looks. a company called south waste which according to the state receives solids from sewage treatment plants dumped one load here after another. >> the smell is putrid and terrible. >> reporter: regina and charlie hall are opening a restaurant called the smokehouse express in ridge manor. the south waste created this outhouse express right across the road flushing away their business plan. >> people don't want to come to a food truck and eat when it sells like human waste. it is not appetizing. >> very nauseating on a daily basis. the smell would make you sick. >> reporter: charlie and regina photographed and video recorded to a state aff

there's a flood watch for citrus, hernando and pasco counties until tomorrow evening weekend. so it's not that it's going to be one storm that. could say down and brings a deluge, it's the fact that we're going to see rounds of rain for days and days. we have seen multiple inches in this area, 4 to 8 more possible before tomorrow evening. and look at the 48 rainfall totals. thankfully, the heaviest totals have been offshore, almost 2 feet of rainout there. but some of that has snuck onshore. so citrus, hernando, pasco coastlines, already in 5 inches of rain. and farther inland, the totals are less and the farther south, the rain totals are less. yes, you've had rain, anywhere from .50 to 2 inches of rain along and south of i-4 but the heaviest is north of i-4 and along the coast as the rain wraps in from the gulf of mexico. sugar mills, shady hill, there's u.s. 19. it's going to stay wet. i know that's a highly traveled 41 seeing rain. here's where meliek was, heavy rain, even lightning strikes. mostly rain but extends south over the bay bridges. here the feather sound area, d

this is why we had flooding situations in pasco and hernando county. a lot of areas from holiday up to hudson have seen 6 to 8 inches of rain. and plenty more off shore. this evening, there will be more rain developing. there it is. it moves right on through the afternoon and into the evening hours. and then the question will be whether or not it's going to be an issue for the first day of school tomorrow. we will have that forecast coming up in just a couple minutes. >> thank you, denis. >>> flood waters like these in pasco county still threatening several homes there. you can tell by the barriers just how high the water is right now. people are doing what they can to protect their property. but more bad weather is just making things really tough. eric waxler is live in port richie with the race to stay ahead of all of the rain. eric. >> reporter: hey, wendy. yeah. there was a lot of rain earlier today. the flood waters were the problem here in port richie on this street all started because this retention pond overflowed. you see the trucks from the c

parts of pasco and hernando county have seen 11 or 12 inches of rain in that time span. it doesn't take more rain on top of that to cause more flooding concerns because of that flood watch remains in effect through tuesday evening. we'll talk about when this in and look at the seven-day forecast in a bit. >> mike, we know what happened last august in pasco county when we had several days of heavy rain like this. hopefully it won't reach that level. that rain is adding to concern about a pressing health threat. all that standing water makes a perfect breeding ground for most keet. with in south florida spreading zika virus, experts say you have to be pro active. josh cascio reports from pasco county on how to best battle the >> reporter: we're standing on iron bark drive in pasco county. when it comes to mosquositnd their eggs, standing waterike you see here behind me and in some yards, that's the real enemy. if you have a bucket full of water or a kiddy pool or something else, dump it out. that's where mosquitos like to lay eggs. think about this. just a capful of water

where you see the red that's three to fiv inches of in fasco and hernando county have 11 or 12 inches of rain in that ti span. it doe't te more rai to cause m concerns becfhaod watc remains in effect through tuesday evening. we'll talk about when this pattern finally starts to kick in and look at the seven-day forecast in a bit. >> mike, we know what happened rain like this. hopefully it won't reach that level. that rain is adding to concern about a pressing health threat. all that standing water makes a perfect breeding ground for most keet. with mosquitos in south florida spreading zika virus, experts say you have to be pro active. josh cascio reports from pasco county on how to best battle the bite. >> reporter: we're standing on iron bark driveco county. when it comes to mosquitos and you seeggs, standing water like some yards, that's the real enemy. if you have a bucket full of water or a kiddy pool or something else, dump it out. that's where mosquitos like to lay eggs. think about this. just a capful of water left for a week is enough for mosquitos to multiply in. generally it

heavy rain pushed on shore along 19 at pasco into hernando county pushing east at 15 miles per hour. shady hills at 6:11. around 6:33 heading towards i- 75. down pours off and on all day. meredyth those wet roads? >> one of our turn lanes is blocked there. this one should be cleared u.s. 19 at darlington. 54 looks fine in terms of accidents but rain in the clearwater area you are accident free. good is in every blue diamond almond. good is a catalyst, good is contagious. and once it gets going there is no stopping what you can do. blue diamond almonds. proud sponsor of the us swim team ? ? a ba ba ba ? >>> all right. check out all of that rain coming down and it is causing some flooding this morning. this is a live picture from port richey where water is covering some of the roads there at the you can see it's barricaded off so folks don't drive through. that can be very dangerous. the water is two feet deep. >> the water is reaching the bottom vertical bar on that barricade. really high water there. be careful heading out to work this morning. new concerns about the zika virus three

dave has more t y23mky yy6y today in hernando county: a way to turn all our ?rain this week... into a good thing. the zopp memorial library in spring hill is hosting a "rain barrel workshop." the cost is 68 dollars and that ?includes the 55 gallon barrel. utilities customers also get a one time 25 dollar credit on their water bill. the purpose of the barrels is to collect rainwater... and store it for later use. today's class starts at 10-30 a-m. and bring a vehie ig ((//2shot)) toss to dave... ((vanessa toss to donald trump fac m - he appeared to mock a reporter with a disability. "you gotta see this guy. 'uhhhh i don't know what i said, i don't remember.' he's going like 'i don't remember'." "putting a wife to work is a very dangerous thing. i don't want to sound too much like a chauvinist." "you have to be wealthy in order to be great. i'm sorry to say it." "he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people that weren't captured." "we've been blessed we haven't had a hurricane in quite awhile. but we're going to have rain. and we're going to have storm surge. we have th

she slimed me. ] >> a hernando county man was arrested for alleged by making a trying to frame someone else for it. he called a winn-dixie and reported a bomb that was going to explode, there was no such thing but the store didn't have caller i.d. and it took months to find out that he use ad woman's known phone number thate spoofed. he had tried to make her look guilty. >> and there is a new program to try to reduce the dependency on drugs and sarasota deputies are hoping to help inmates ajiksed d to h heroin. >> what we are really trying to avoid is the resulting death that occurs because of their soon. inmates have to agree in drug court that they want the help and then they have to go to counseling while being prescribed that shot of vif vif patrol. vivitrol. >> and lakeland p.d. just tweet ad new photo, people all over the country eerkde'sstory and he maybe gettt treats and gifts. >> it's terrible that he was stabbed but it's paying off. he is a celebrity. >> and probably treats for days. >> and a lot of girlfriends, too, they like that. a new cell phone app is being easier for in

, citrus county, hernando county and pasco. another six inches by the time we get to tomorrow evening is possible here. we're going to hold ono for this time of year. low to middle 80s across the area. because of the cloud cover, because of the rainfall, we will eventually get into some sunshine and back into our typical pattern of afternoon storms but that won't happen until wednesday. until then we have the issue with the heavy rain that could cause flooding especially to the north. which is where you've been tracking issues on the roads. >>> we have some rain and some wet roads, corey dierdorff is driving around and has been all morning. a little earlier he was on u.s. down, windshield wipers on, just use caution, might want to leave extra time. we've also been watching our maps where the area shaded in green is, where we're seeing wet roads and the blue is where we're seeing ponding. it seems like a lot of the ponding we were seeing through tarpon springs, on alt 19 all the way into palm harbor, a lot has dried out so not a

it is raining in pinellas county all the way up the coast we have into hernando county. so far, we've kept the real heavy rain at bay. but it really is just another gloomy start. and longboat ski about to get few sprinkle through fort dew so it. reddington beach raining light to moderate. heavy stuff is really not that far off. so something we need to keep real close on because it won't take much to bring some of that morning. i'm hoping that this is just at last morning we have to deal with this. because after today, it looks like the weather pattern will shift. the weather pattern will go back to me of the afternoon and evening storms that we're typically used to in august. through this evening, another couple of inches of rain a possibility. yep, flood watch continues for pasco, hernando and citrus county. but along the coastline t could rain at any time throughout ho temperatures make the mid 80s if we're lucky. because we've only made 82 past couple of days 77 damp and muggy tonight. got first day of school in hillsborough county tomorrow. hope thing to get it the o

hernando county is expected to see significant rainfall and coastal flooding. fox 13's josh cascio went up to spring hill... to show us how people there are preparing. we are in the hurricane watch zonea& so you better believe all eyes are glued to the radar up here. take vo we saw several people in the spring hill area - their homes. many of them telling us - a strong rain shower - can lead to floodinga&so td-9 definetly concerns them. the storm could also bring 3 feet or more of storm surgeaso folks along the beaches in hernando are staying alert too we spoke with one resident - who's tied down his boat and is keeping his fingers crossed. take sot 18;39;29 just double liens - tie em down - take down the bimini cover up center console thats all you can do butt18;39;40 you want to keep it in the water, if it gets too high thats your way outjack evans hernando beach south take vo the county is urging people to be prepared a head of timea& that means, keep a cell phone chargedafill your gas tank a head of timeget batteries in case the power goes out..basically al

, palm harbor north and write up 19 into hernando county. those showers continue to drop central part of pinellas county everything moves west and strong thunderstorms in manatee and sarasota county with small hail. moving west and the sea breeze collision with overall easterly flow pushing it back to the west. thunderstorms developed in inglewood and southern part of sarasota county and points south of that and charlotte county. a good complex of storms and outflow coming from that line but looks like right here north which might slow traffic for people going home. 81 degrees this evening and rain-cooled air. 82 at tampa international airport. 83 in st. petersburg. the evening is more pleasant when temperatures drop. tropical storm fiona 45 mile- per-hour winds but not expecting much for it. commuter -- computer models turn north. watching a couple tropical waves including storms coming off africa. here than it did 24 hours ago. the spaghetti model moves it to the north of eventually and then a north turned today. short-term for us showers

the suit includes several districts including pasco, sarasota and hernando counties. we'll keep you updated on today's hearing. >>> to the latest on the zika virus. we'll find out today what is happening in tampa to protect you and your family. >> tampa bay mayor bob enforcement team are meeting 10:30 this morning. they will outlined the ever underway to guard against the zika virus. >> we'll let you know what happens at the meeting. >>> moaive control is hard at work trying to stop the spread of zika in miami. they were in the early morning hours when they say mosquitos are most active. also pellets drop in stormwater and some say the outbreak could last as long as two years. it will be heading to texas and louisiana next and possibly worse there because of the flooding in those states. >> one pregnant woman is staying out of south florida, she's going to stay at her home in atlanta, georgia because of the outbreak. >>> monday, a lot early on. 81, still dark as temperatures climb back up to 88 around lunchtime. 93 for the high today. feeling more like 100 plus with s

it isn't just pasco county. it's also hernando county and citrus county. there's your morning commute. the rain already begins to come in. it isn't just along the coast. that makes into it the metro area. 7:00, 8:00, you're talking decent rain, some heavy rains, and look how long this extends. all the way through the early afternoon ho two, three, maybe even four inches of rain along the immediate coastline, and that's why flood watches remaine effect for those northern counties. hour by hour the rains will move in over the next couple of hours and break off for awhile. but first thing tomorrow morning they ramp up heavy at times. but there is light at the end of the tough. i'll let you know when this rain is going to wind down in a couple of minutes. >>> now to breaking news. a frantic 911 call, and seconds all new tonight they are still on the run. michael paluska has the surveillance pictures investigators want you to see right now. michael. >> reporter: police are not teg who this victim is because she was too shaken up to talk. neighbors told us they

, maybe even hernando county as well. that's why we're watching and that's why the flood watch continues and i know you don't see a ton of rain on the radar, but you have to think over the past few days, we've gotten so much that everything -- the cup is full. there's nowhere for water to go. if you were to get heavier showers, which you may in pasco county, you could run the chance that. so hudson, spring hill, weeki wachee is wet, new port richey. i'm telling you, the showers are just miles offshore. there's anclote. you can see how close they are there. the other thing i wanted to show is as i back up, you can start to see even pinellas county and going to get wet as we're streaming up all of this moisture and it's running southwest to northeast. big picture, here is a line which is steadily working towards the east and out ahead tropical downpours so really, what i'm saying is we've got another wet morning to throw at you and while i do think we're going to have some heavier showers as the morning moves along, i also

county, hernando and citrus, they're wet once again. the culprit has been this low sitting over the northeast. it's over land so it's not becoming tropical in nature, but that keep streaming our way, plus a tremendous amount of moisture that we already have in the atmosphere and that's all it takes to really start some of this heavy rain early in the morning. this is moderate to heavy rain coming down at a pretty good clip and of course, now you're getting into the heart of that morning commute. this is just really going to slow things down. this is travelling and then as i'm looking back to the west, you get a little bit of a break and then another band of moderate to heavy rain is starting to work onshore from tarpon springs southward along 19, right along the coast and the beaches and after that moves through, it will lighten up. so what's happening is you're getting a heavy band of rain and it lightens up. then you get another heavy band of rain. long but there's been a lot of rain in a very short period of time. that's why the floo

and hernando county has an extra ?perk for students actually have their own ?coffee cafes. the county started up the program at several area high schools... offering students and staff specialty coffee and espresso drinks. and the cafes are actually run by special-needs students. it's a program that helps them prepare for coffee shop jobs... in the real world. and we know a lot of parents will be bringing their cameras along for that first day of school. so why not share those adorable photos with us? just post them to facebook , instagram or twitter... with the hashtag: "good day t-b." and we'll on good day, all morning long. later this half hour in sports: the summer olympics are ?far from over. but we may have seen the two best ?athletes in america... last night. we have highlights, from their golden night. plus... we'll meet one boy who's really ?mowing on a mission. the simple for school. z22p7z zy6z ?? ?? ?? ? ba da ba ba ba ? break 1: 2:00break 2: 1:45 break 3: 1:40endbrk: 1:30 rhyme making political headlines this morning: yet ?another questionable comment from dona

a company that's already built an adventure park in bradenton and plans a third one in hernando county. this is video from one of their parks. the course will have treetop obstacles...for adults and kids. but neighbors of the park are worried about the noise and traffic. they also say they weren't properly ?notified about the project. the city hopes to give final ap next month. the company hopes to have the course built... by the end of the year. tonight's meeting starts at six. you can celebrate sharks today in sarasota. the mote marine aquarium is hosting "shark days." it's a week of shark-related events. it all kicks off today with a screening of "jaws", followed by a q & a with a shark expert. the movie starts at six p-m. all activities are included with aquarium admission. tickets are 20 dollars for adults, 15 dollars for kids 12 and tonight in tampa: you can bang your heads out with 80's rockers... "def leppard." they're on tour with another classic band, "reo speedwagon." it's all going down at the midflorida credit union amphitheatre. tickets start at the bands start rocking ((

a firefighter injured while battling a mobile home fire in hernando county. action air 1 live over the scene right now. the firefighter is being treated at dade city hospital. learnedmeago that the firefighter suffered a heat stro but he is sponsive and in stable condition. that's good news. we do know that area limited on fire hydrants so crews are using tankers for water supply. you can see the are several

yet, they have still extended that hurricane watch into pasco and hernando county. they have actually shifted the path more to the north, more to the west. and it will move into the bend area late. for us, impact will be by far the heaviest late tomorrow night and early thursday, with some wind although not a huge deal at this point. definitely an issue with coastal flooding and high tide on thursday. the tornado factor could definitely be an issue early on thursday morning. outside of that, i think the bulk of the heaviest weather stays to the north and rain is our biggest factor. we will take a closer look at that and tell us how much we expect for your neighborhood coming up. >> thank you, denis. getting ready for this storm. this time though another threat exists, the zika virus. >> potential problems with flooding and more standing water has the mayor promising to help avoid areas that can have zika. >> people are starting to respond to the mayor's mission. >> reporter: they really are, paul. yesterday the mayor said that he bought 5,000 more of these. they're

a couple from hernando county is accused of selling nearly 1- and-a-half million dollars worth of fake designer handbags. while a couple from pinellas county is accused of selling nearly 880-thousand worth of them. investigators describe these more accessible than ever.. and the volume their seeing as "gigantic." most designers post on their websites... ways to avoid buying counterfeits. a major company in the bay area has been ordered to pay nearly 2-million dollars in back wages. "citigroup technology inc." .. which is a part of "citigroup bank" --was found to have not been paying many of its workers overtime. this all stems from a federal investigation. the feds found that the company had wrongly exempted employees from receiving overtime pay. ... cti denied workers time and a half when they worked more than 40 hours in a week. as a result -- the company had to pay 882 employees a total of 1-point-8 million dollars. it also received a civil penalty of nealry 100- thousand for repeat violations. the violations happened between november 2, 2013 and oct 31 2015. a plan to ease traffic

we could see tropical storm- forced winds in hernando county. with the wind flow around it, we get the worst area where you can get the stronger onshore wind flow so that high tide could actually be higher than average. meaning we could see coastal flooding by 2:41 during high tide on thursday. in weather and traffic on the 8s, i have an hour-by-hour look for today before we get into the worsening weather for the week. for the time being, we're going to check on traffic on the 8s. >>> we're going to enjoy the dry roads while we have them. sarasota, looking good. state road 64 down to fruitville road in sarasota, about nine minute.. and up to state road 70, 10 minutes on 75 northbound. all right, checking out gibsonton, still looking good here, 301 to big bend road, a seven minute commute. and 64 to fruitville, nine minutes. that's a look at weather and traffic. back to gene and gayle. >> thank >>> tracking >>> tracking the tropics. our team coverage continues with how many people are preparing for up to 7 inches of rain. >> yeah, that kind of wa

for citrus county, hernando and pasco. we have sandbag areas, it's on abcactionnews.com. showers and storms continue, it's still going to be heaviest to the north. we get a break by the afternoon hours and heaviest of the rain pushes a little east but then we reset and get ready for more rain as we head through tomorrow here with temperatures holding in the low 80s. i'm expecting another unsettled day tomorrow with pockets of heavy rain and then janelle, we'll begin to get into a more typical afternoon summer thunderstorm pattern by wednesday. >> the last two days of sum for kids not too -- summer for kids not too fun. >>> corey dierdorff has been out checking the roads. what are you seeing out there? >> reporter: good morning. we're at u.s. 41 southbound at you can see very he was rain coming down -- very heavy rain coming down now, lots of ponding on the roads. it's hard to see this through the picture, but like you were talking about, pasco county seems to be getting a break from the rain right now but the ditches up th

we're told that the vehicle, that was involved in that incident on the hernando county side was then involved in a crash a short time later. we are finding out that the driver of that vehicle who is now been identified to us as 30-year-old ronald michael reportedly hopped out of vehicle, took off running towards a coca-cola plant on the pasco county side. stole the a tractor trailer the cab of the vehicle not tractor trailer attached. took off driving down roadway there happened to pasco county detention deputy and pasco county sergeant both of them en route on way to work happened to be in area when they encountered this vehicle along the roadway. eventually we're told there was some sort of engagement some sort of struggle between the officers involved. we're told the officer was in a situation where according to at sheriff, he said he described being choked out by the suspect. that's when he fired his weapon at least two times. so a this point, still ongoing. still developing. the section of u.s. 41 impacted is expected to be shut down we're told for several hours. of course we wi

county, a firefighter who suffered a heat related injury is now in stable condition, and that is good news because he was critical when they took him to the hospital. a double-wide mobile fire and then it spread to a barn and shed nearby. no other injuries were reported. >> hey! snmsnm(screaming). >> oh my god, that is incredible police officer body camera. he pulled a passenger from a burning car. the driver in the crash was killed but it could have been two people dead if not for the officer. what this officer did that made him a hero. >> and officer dan whitly gets the call of people trapped in a burning suv. keep in mind that the 9-1-1 caller won't go near it because of the intense heat and the fear of explosion. whitney is not even there yesterday and already the situation is too hot. >> from my understanding is there were other people around the area and they felt like too hot to approach. dan whitney is one of our outstanding officers, one of our srt members and honestly it's just a regular day for him. >> you see the suv on fire as dan whitney pulls up. i'm going to step ahead

the hernando county coastline you are not too far behind that pinellas and pasco heading into the day on monday. so weather headlines? more rain developing. it's already out there but just had to move on shore, and it's going to do that monday morning. the closer to the coast you get the more rain but there are signs of the low pressure that's within bringing us moving farther to the north to give us a more typical summer-like pattern. 82 for a high, 82 in brandon, 79 up in br brooksville. expect similar break down as we head into the day on monday. upper 80's for n 90, and dewpoit is 76. proof. dewpoints in the mid 70's and another warm and steamy night, and warm and steamy to start the day on monday as well. here is the wider view. and here is the area of low pressure. you see this one wave of showers pushing through, and you will get another one monday morning pushing through, and this is thu see the its way on shore and so heavy downpours and maybe a few rumbles of thunder. and then more of that redeveloping later on and on into tuesday morning. but there is our -- it kind of take

laura ingall, fox news. >> alcides: sarasota and hernando county have text-to-911 capabilities. hillsborough county is working to have the service available by next summer and pinellas by the end of 2017 and pasco says they are also looking to add the technology but do not have >> jen: great idea. >> alcides: expensive but a great idea. >>> the zika virus is even more prevalent in south florida. >> jen: one tampa's most unique structures is expected to reopen today. kellie cowan is live in ybor city for us. hey, kellie. >> reporter: hey, good morning, guys. this has been closed down for more than seven years and today it is opening up at 10 a.m. it is going to be a huge celebration for the opening, and we will be talking about the history of the pool, and the future coming up. the future coming up. >>> day out there. plenty of sun right now. more sun to come this afte afternoon, but eventually, we will start to see a couple of showers popping up. we will detail that in a full >>> from tampba news station, this is "good day tampa bay." >> alcides: good morning and thank you so mu

which by the way are still that flood watch that's pasco county, hernando and citrus county through 8 o'clock tonight. and not going to take much more in the way of rain to cause a few issues. so please be careful especially along the coast and north. this should be a last morning. then we'll start to reverse the friend and bring afternoon and evening thunderstorms in. which is typical for august. but that low is pretty pesky. it's eventually going to move new orleans get the rain out of here. meantime we have rain along the coast and north. 84 for a high today. inland location you just watching allhat rain. getting a lot of it. we're going to bring more afternoon sxeeng storms beginning tomorrow. as well rain chance 70 percent s today. 60 percent tomorrow. 50/50 on thursday and friday, vanessa. all right, dave. >> on stop. look at this, this is happening in sarasota county right now. this is the southbound direction about a mile south of the university parkway exit. we were wondering about injuries here so far i'm told we're not injuries reported that's good news. but bad news there