pi'm rods -- russell rhodes. p>>laura: and i'm laura moody. pwe have an accident involving a ptractor trailer. p>>reporter: right now sky fox is pjust arriving on scene showing pus that the semi truck has been puprighted. pit was overturned but it has pspilled some debris in the proadway. plooks like a whole bunch of psand. pyou can expect these lanes to be pclosed for quite a bit. pthis is along main street near pvan fleet and what we're seeing, preally, as far as the delays in pthe area, mostly eastbound pdelays along van fleet papproaching main street and also pwestbound delays along main pstreet approaching van fleet. pdrivers heading through the parea, if you're usually one to ptake van fleet drive, basically

pyou wish, rhodes. p>>russell: no. pwell -- p>>charley: do me a favor because pi don't have a monitor. ptell me what's going on. p>>russell: there are four of us, pon this set looking at you right pnow. p>>charley: who is there? p>>vanessa: vanessa is here. pjen and lawyer are on vacation. p>>walter: pright? pdavis. p>>charley: let me tell you why pwe're all gathered here today, pbecause we have a go ahead pfriend out there and a loyal pviewer who had a very special pday yesterday and that's why pwe're all gathered here. pmatt, matt is a loyal viewer to p"good day tampa bay" and let me ptell you a little bit about pmatt. pmatt is autistic and his mom pwrote me a very sweet letter. pin it she says that matt doesn't pidentify with cartoons or make pbelieve. phe has a hard time with abstract pconcepts. phe loves reality. pthat's why his favorite tv show pto watch is "good day tampa pbay." pso when matt's birthday was pcoming around, matt is turning p14 years old, his mom said matt, pwould you like to have some pfriends ov

remember, delicious is always 3 good morning, i'm russell rhodes. and i'm jen p>>russell: welcome. pi'm russell rhodes. p>>jennifer: and i'm jennifer pepstein in for laura moody. pit's monday. plet's get the week forecast with pdave. p>>dave: can't complain about the pweekend weather, can we? p>>russell: extraordinary. p>>dave: the mornings can be kind pof cool and that's where we are pright now. pwhile tampa may be sitting in pthe mid 50s, you go east, you pjust get way from the water and pyou see all the buoys on the map pthis morning. p50s along the coast. pwe're going to move quickly for ptoday and what a pretty start to pthe day as well. plots of sunshine, we'll mix a pfew clouds in this afternoon but pnothing is going to stop us from pgetting to the upper 70s for phigh temperatures. p>> very nice. pno complaints along the roadways pthis morning, although there's pan accident reported along 275 pin the area of gandy. pthis camera is just south of proosevelt, southbound taillights pi'll -- i'm not seeing issues phere. asco county drivers, watch out pfor this minor slowdown stat

3 3 i'm russell rhodes, in for walter allen 3 ((vanessa)) and i'm vanessa ruffes, in for jen epstein. let's start off with a check of the forecast, with dave. 3 mostly cloudy with a 30% chance of a shower today. high temps back to the lower 80s. tonight will be cloudy and mild; lows in the upper 60s. lots of clouds for saturday, with showers in the afternoon and evening. high temps near 80. the showers should end sunday morning as it turns cooler. high temps in the lower 70s. 3 (dave 3 3 3 no closed captioning is available for traffic. 3 3 ((russell remembering a young deputy... who died a hero's death... putting himself in danger... to protect someone else on the road. today is the funeral for hillsborough deputy john kotfila... and hundreds of fellow law enforcement officers will be in lutz today, to pay tribute to him... and his career. 3 ((russell fox-13's shayla reaves joins us now from st. timothy's catholic church. it's going to be an emotional 3 3 3 3 ((russell thanks, shayla. 3 3 3 (vanessa in polk, the search continues for a man who stole a car with a toddler inside. it happ

i'm russell rhodes. p>>russell: welcome. pi'm russell rhodes. p>>laura: and i'm laura moody. pgood morning. plet's start off by checking the pweather forecast with dave posterberg. p>>dave: a couple of things. pit is very warm and muggy poutside this morning. pjust about everybody starting in pthe 70s for temps, plus along pthe coastline, we've had some pfog to deal with and psome of the sea fog has worked ponshore from venice up through psarasota. pnotice venice with a quarter pmile visibility. peven the sunshine skyway as well pand this is a look from the pbrookdale, bayshore camera. pwe started well over an hour pbefore sunrise but you can see pthere's no fog there, just slow pcloud cover with high temps ptoday, more sunshine this pafternoon projected to get back pin the lower 80s. p>>vanessa: all right. pand in the last report, we were pkind of watching some pfluctuating travel times going pbetween green and yellow. pit looks like we're back in the pyellow here. pthis is something that is psomething we're experiencing. plowdowns in the westbound pdirection approaching the

pthat's russell rhodes right pthere. pnot he's 80. pbut i can see him sliding down pin a suit. pmuch is it go going to cost? pall ages we are going to have a pkiddie slide we don't want eople to be playing human pbowling with their kids. pfor safety. pand then, the cost starts at p$10. pwe have packages and promotion pand actually right now we have a romotions people go down and pbuy before prices increase you pslide. pabsolutely. pright now really, really pinexpensive i did not say you pwere 80 years old there was an p80-year-old man that slid down pin three piece suit russell come pi said i could see russell in a pthree piece suit sliding down pthe slide. p>> you saying i wouldn't want to pshow myself in swim suit is that p>> you look very fit to me p>> thank you. pyou're so fit. p>> yes. p>> okay. pso this is just a cool idea. p>> is this good day project? p>> yes. pi'm wearing a t-shirt. pcan we come out day before? pfour hours maybe we can set up pslide in good day courtyard. pwe have courtyard. p>> i'm break it down for a plittl

pwelcome to "good day tampa bay," pi am russell rhodes. p>> i am laura moody. pfirst we need to start with ptraffic. p>> nasty crash, effecting puniversity parkway. pwe'll show you video from the pscene. peastbound and westbound lanes of puniversity are completely closed pin the area of desoto road, all pthe way to bradenton road. palternate, myrtle street. pclosure can be fairly extensive, pdeadly crash investigation. pif we can, we can show the pvideo. pthree people have passed away in pthis crash. pspeed was likely a factor paccording to police. pone other person injured, pexpected to survive. pwe'll keep you posted any new pdetails that come from this one. p>>> we have cloud cover tampa psouth this morning to the north pmostly sunny. pit is the temperatures that are pgoing to get you. pcooler than they have been. p52 p58 in tampa when i came in, pbrooksville, 48, 46 crystal priver. pgoing to be cooler tomorrow. pwe have about 30 hours, i think pof a nice cool down. phighs in the mid 60s. resident obama and first family pin havana. resident obama first sitti

nutrition to 3 good morning, i'm russell rhodes. p>>russell: welcome. pi'm russell rhodes. p>>laura: and i'm laura moody. p6:30. pwe'll start the half hour with a plook at the forecast with dave posterberg. p>>dave: do you want to see psomething pretty? pnot this. pthat. pthat's the second time you said pthat to me in one week. peast wind. pseven miles an hour. retty there, pretty over in plakeland. pwe do have clear skies and 54 pdegrees. psunshine, temperatures back up pin the mid 70s for this pafternoon. pand enjoy it. panother beautiful day. phow are things on the road, pvanessa? p>>vanessa: overall not too bad. pwe have a serious crash out of priver view and we'll update that pin a second. pabout some other lane closures pwe're seeing in pinellas county, pstill waiting for this to pcompletely clear up. pthis is construction related palong 275 southbound and what pwe're looking at is the offramp pheading to the pinellas bayway. pmaybe it's not completely shut pdown but it is still causing psome lane blockage in the area pso plan a few extra minutes out pthe door if you

pstrawberry festival get ready pbecause russell rhodes is headed pyour way. poh don't stir it up. pget little mini tea cups ready pso russell can ride them. pdo they have those? pno, i don't think so, just pkidding. p72 degrees in brandon now. pa making 95 accept start to day pburst of east southeast wind preally pumped our temperatures pup. pzephyrhills at 68. phard to believe that we even had p40s in brooksville earlier this pmorning. pthey are back in upper 60s. psarasota, lakewood ranch both at p70 degrees. pfrostproof sebring, lake placid, pand haines city all at 69. pyeah. pthat's big difference. p5 degrees warmer in tampa. p10 to 14 degrees warmer from pfrostproof to lakeland. pso, this is big pump up in ptemperatures. pboy i was actually before i came pout here watching online the tv pstations in dallas. pas they are going crazy over pthat big thunderstorm complex pheaded straight for the city. pthere has been severe weather preports of tornadoes. pthat's a mess. pand this is just day one of pwhat's going to be a multi day psevere weather and potential pflash flooding mess

pi'm russell rhodes. pi'm laura moody.

pi'm russell rhodes. p>>jennifer: and i'm jennifer pepstein. plet's head over to dave for a pweekend forecast. p>>dave: you've got to look at pthis. pokay? pthere you go. pbut just look at the colors. plook at the brilliant orange, preds and gorgeous start to the pday here at tampa. pat eight miles per hour. p65 brookdale bayshore camera. peverybody is in the 60s. pit's mild again. pi'll go right back up to the mid p80s for high temps this pafternoon. ptomorrow a couple of degrees pcooler because we'll have more pclouds and the rain does hold poff until sunday afternoon. pwe'll talk more about that pcoming up in just a few minutes. p>>vanessa: good morning. pwe have an update out of pasco pcounty on the lane blockages pwith this jackknifed semi truck palong st. joe road. pfor those just joining us, east pof 75 and we're hearing from asco sheriff that the westbound planes are now open. pthe eastbound is still closed so pfor you westbound drivers who pusually take that route, you pdarby road. pwestbound drivers, you should be pgood to go through

arrrr, that's not even 3 3 3 good morning, i'm russell rhodes and i'm laura p>>russell: welcome. pi'm russell rhodes. p>>laura: and i'm laura moody. pwe had showers overnight. pjust a few. pthe weekend is looking good, pright? p>>mike: even the rest of today plooks good. pwe have showers continuing to ush south of the area so we pshould be good as we head pthrough the rest of today. ptake a look at the temperatures. pyesterday maybe you needed a plight coat. pnot necessarily the case today. p66 in tampa. p68 at bradenton. p63 wauchula. p54 brooksville, 55 in crystal priver. pforecast for today, into the pupper 60s by 9:00 a.m. pstill hanging around that 70 ief pdegree mark by noon and it's low pto mid 70s by this afternoon. pthe exception inland, you'll be pcloser to 80. ptake a look at the three-day pforecast for the weekend. p70 next couple of days. pup to 77 as we head toward the psecond half of the weekend. pjust a sunny and pleasant plooking weekend. phey, jen. p>>jennifer: hey, mike. pwe're making our way to the rush phour drive and sky fox giving us paerial view of the i-4

pi'm russell rhodes. pi'm laura moody. pwe thank you for watching up pwith us monday march 21st. pwe will get straight to vanessa p>> good morning, guys a folks pwaking up with us right now we pshuding down eastbound and pwestbound lanes of university arkway. pthis is in area of de soto road. pand we're hearing that three eople were killed in this pcrash. pthere was a fourth person who pwas injured. ptaken to the hospital. psurvive. pno word yet on exactly when the proad might reopen. pbut latest word from sarasota olice they were awaiting a tow ptruck so they can get this skrek pout of the way. pmeantime some alternates for you pi have here for you on your map pmyrtle street just to south of puniversity parkway. pi will let you know looking a plittle bit jammed up right now. pso if you head to north also peastbound westbound is looking retty clear. pwe'll keep you posted latest pwith us. p>> big, big difference in ptemperatures this morning. plook at the 40s. psnuck all way down into polk pcounty. pyou got lakeland, bartow, winter phaven 48, 49 degrees. pwesley chapel at 49. pst

pi'm russell rhodes. pdave and i are inside. pis it raining? pa few sprinkles here and there.

pi'm russell rhodes. p>>laura: and i'm laura moody. pall that ahead and a whole lot pmore. pfirst we need the forecast from pdave osterberg. p>>dave: good morning here. pit's beautiful outside. pit is a little cooler than pnormal in many spots but it is pwarmer than yesterday. pgoing to be as it comes up in pabout 29 minutes and 14 seconds. plakeland, equally as beautiful pbut cold. p48 degrees. pthe thing is, we're looking at a pvery fast warmup for today. pit shouldn't be a huge issue. pwe're shedding the jackets by pnoon time and the highs today pwill go eight degrees above pyesterday. p>>vanessa: we're still watching p75 southbound in the area of pbruce b downs boulevard. psky fox is still monitoring the pearly mentioned crash and proadway. pif you're just joining us, this pis involving what appears to be pseveral bags full of lawn debris pand you have crews out there pthat have been trying to shovel pall of it up and get the bags pout of the way. pmeantime, right southbound lane phas been blocked and there's a pseparate crash you're hearing pthat came from one of the p

pi'm russell rhodes. p>>laura: and i'm laura moody. pgood morning. pall that ahead and more but pdave. pgotten below 50 degrees now. pwe're at 49 with the sun coming pup in 30 minutes or so. pit's beautiful outside. plet's just say that right off pthe bat. pfull sunshine so we'll have no roblem warming up but right pnow, it is quite chilly not only phere but up to brooksville, it's p37 degrees. pcrystal river at 36. pluckily some frost inland citrus pand hernando counties with padvisories this morning. ponce we get past 9:00, quickly pwarm things up and eventually pget back to the lower 70s but no pdoubt, we have jackets going on pfor everybody outside this pmorning. p>>laura: it is chilly. pall right, dave. p>> we're slow this morning along pthe interstates. pusual stop and go traffic pbeginning to build there and palso delays for drivers psouthbound dale mabry. pan accident just before phillsborough avenue, that is pwhere sky fox is. pthey're checking out the scene pfor us. pyou can see the flashing lights pon scene. pthe right lane was blocked. pd

pi'm russell rhodes. pdave and i are inside. pis it raining? pa few sprinkles here and there. pdealing with over in louisiana. pmississippi, and this has been pthe issue skins the middle of plast week. pthese louisiana storms major pdisaster area. pthousands of homes under water. pdays and days of rain have led pto flood waters. ptopping some the levees. pthis is you can see homes, roads pand entire neighborhoods under pwater. p21 feet. eople always think when rain is pover flooding is over. pthat's really when it begins. p>> when all of those waters go pinto tributaries tributaries go pinto larger rivers. pthat's when you start to get psome serious flooding. pbut has it stopped raining? pit has stopped raining there for pnow. p>> this is obviously going to be pan issue. pmuch of central and south plouisiana, they haven't gone to pschool since wednesday. p>> that's amazing. pit's been that bad. pbecause of all that flooding and proads have been impassable. phopefully we can get that out of pthere quick. p9:01. pa couple showers on our radar as

@fox 13's russell rhodes shows @fox 13's russell rhodes show us @more. @>> reporter: coco josephine and @i love hanging out at the agam, @beautiful piece of public art @installed on bayshore boulevard @across from the academy of the @holy name and monte carlo @towers. @it is called visual welcome by @it has been in tampa since the @'90s but only recently did it @get this high-profile address @in the bayshore. @to be. @people walk by, drive by. @a drive-by artwork. @it is appropriate for a human. @outdoors. @>> reporter: part of the reason @for that is how the agam seems @to move as you move. @when you walk or drive by it, @it changes. @one direction it looks like @this. @the other, it looks totally @different. @robin nye is the manager of @tampa's art division. @she finds the art. @finds the money, public, @private and grant to make @public art happen in tampa. @and she says there is a @difference between this kind of @art and what would you @anniversary a museum. @>> a lot of it has to do with @how you are engaged. @how you encounter. @it in the public, it is very @harsh conditions. @t

@our russell rhode i do everything on the internet. but it's kind of slow. my friends said i should get fios because it's the fastest... i just downloaded 600 photos in 60 seconds. that's seriously better. (man) we're out of 2%. i wonder what else could be better around here? (man) i heard that. now get our best offer ever. super fast 100 meg internet, plus tv & phone for just $69.99 a month online with no annual contract. 100 meg speeds at a price this good? fios can do that. cable just can't. switch to better. ba da ba ba ba @ @>>> some people go to busch @gardens, others go to the @beach, some take in the florida @aquarium. @>> anjuli: maybe you missled @the colorful and creative @sights in our area. @russell rhodes show us more. @>> reporter: cocoa, josephine @and i love hanging out at the @outdoor piece of art installed @on bayshore outside of the @academy of the holy names. @it is called visual welcome by @an artist that has been in @tampa since the '90s are @only recent sdlee it get this @bayshore. @>> it is certainly where agam @intended it to be, wh

p>>> hae everybody it's 8 o'clock pi'm russell rhodes. pi'm laura moody. pgood morning everything peverybody we thank you for pwaking up with us on this pthursday morning march 3rdrd. pstraight over do with look at pthe forecast. p58 not bad way to start things poff. pyes a few degrees cooler than pyesterday at this time. pas that weak front came through. pand we are noticing a little bit pthis morning. pbut it is much drier. pthat's the one that go front did pto us we don't have humidity pfeel today we'll go 74 for high ptemperature. pquick shower tomorrow morning. pi mean quick. pthen high temperatures continue pto get warmer and warmer all pweekend long. pso i can't wait to tell you pabout the seven-day forecast in pjust a few minutes. pjen. p>> keeping updated on a crash in inellas county. pthis is a pedestrian accident phappened just before 5 o'clock pthis morning along 18th avenue psouth. p21st street south. pyou can see from this image from pskyfox, that is still affecting pthe roadways st. pete police on pscene investigating all lanes pare blocked

pi'm russell rhodes. p>>laura: and i'm laura moody. pall that ahead and a whole lot pmore. pfirst you're going to want to pavoid the sunshine skyway bridge pthis morning, at least right pnow. pvanessa is tracking traffic. pgood morning. p>>vanessa: good morning. psunshine skyway bridge is being pclosed to all traffic. pwe've got a live look over the pbridge and it's probably because pvisibilities are a concern this pmorning. pwe have some heavy fog in the parea. ptroopers say some parts of the pbridge are experiencing pvisibilities under 100 feet. eriodically we've been seeing pflashlights, patrol cars driving pover the bridge testing the pvisibilities and i'm sure pthey're not going to open it puntil it's completely safe for pfolks to travel. pin the meantime, stick with 75 pand we'll keep i posted when the pbridge does reopen. pwe have another serious crash to plet you know about, serious road pincident out of the trinity parea. pnorthbound lanes of east lake pare blocked due to a serious pinjury crash where we're hearing pone person is being extricated pfrom the vehicle

p>>> hey everybody it's 8 o'clock pi'm russell rhodes. pi'm laura moody. pgood morning we thank you for pwaking up with us on this pwednesday march 2nd. pwe'll get straight over to dave pwith a look at the forecast. ptemperatures, laura. ponly two spots, lake plass sxud pwauchula are in the 50s, peverybody else starting this pmorning in the 60s. pour temperatures way above pnormal for this time of year. pit's because of cloud cover we phave. pwe do have 66 degrees from that articular advantage point. pi think we get back to the mid p70s for today. pfront comes through. pbut it doesn't bring colder air. pit brings dryer air. pwe'll talk more about that in pjust an a little bit. pgood morning vanessa p>> good morning dave on the proadway we fortunately had a pvery light number of crashes. pso that is some good news. psome bad news here though we do pcrash kind of linksering here pwith full lane blockage and pdelays building in the lake pwales area involving overturned ptractor trailer along state road p60. pbetween tenth and a 11 streets. pwe've got lanes bl

fox 13's russell rhodes is here with how a law enforcement family helped 2 young boys in need. 3 that's right.... a deputy and his wife with the hillsborough county sheriff's office demonstrated the true meaning behind 'protect and serve'.... and they actually went above and beyond that too. 3 deputy phil newman and his wife detective theresa newman.... found out these 2 boys were sleeping on the floor. all they had was a blanket and pillow. so the officers jumped into action... with the help of several brandon businesses they were able to buy a bed, mattress, and new pillow. they even got the boys star wars sheets little boy was so excited he wanted to help put the bed together... by reading the instructions to the deputy. 3 the look on their faces says it all... the husband and wife definitely made their day. 3 3 it's now 5:__. time to check the forecast with ((dave alright, you gotta come look at this. *cool video, indeed.... of a *glacier in argentina, collapsing into a lake. tourists cheered and started snapping pictures. this huge ice formation is in a national park... and every o

pwelcome to "good day tampa bay," pi am russell rhodes. p>> i am laura moody. pfirst we need to start with ptraffic.

let's dig into this week's "good day goodies." 3 "i'm russell rhodes...bright, golden haze on the medder" "and tomorrow kelly will undock...and urine "hi, dave...i'm a little shy this morning.""what you can't see....wow, wow that hurts." "an excuse to be lazy...you would run too. that's so true." "oh, yeah. oh, yeah....you had us for a second, man.""dave osterberg full of hot air...got nothing better." "we'll keep reminding you of 3 ((jen)) he'd been sitting there for two years... just waiting for a chance to talk to someone.((walter)) well finally, this homeless man got his wish... and what happened next, is so inspiring. frederick's story, after introducing longhorn' s big, bold, steaks. the only way to make em' better was to make em' bigger. our new center cut 10 ounce filet. our perfectly seasoned 16 ounce t-bone. and our fire grilled 18 ounce outlaw ribeye. big, bold, steaks. only at longhorn steakhouse. you can' t fake steak. for lunch, t

pi'm russell rhodes outside with pdave right now. pi know it's, you get afternoon pand getting really warm it feels psummery. pbut still in the morning feeling preally nice. pit is a little windy too. premember in couple of months, pwe'll be standing out here psweating. pnot yet it's night. pour gage we start to a per spire pit's getting hot you look ptemperatures our normal high is paround 76, we're obviously going pto be above normal. p72 in a lakeland bartow 71 in parcadia. pa very warm, very breezy start pto the day. pwe'll go back up to around 83 pdegrees for a high temperature. pmore warmth tomorrow as well. pslight changes late in the pweekend. pi'll discuss those coming up in pa few minutes. pall right dave, thank you. pwe'll see you then. p9:01 the time we're sticking phere in pinellas with looks to pright now it's along 275. pi mention this in last hour of pgood day still dealing with a plane blockages here northbound pdirection, near 54th avenue psouth. pthey moved out quite a bit of pvehicles involved in some of the pcone

pcoming up in just about 15 pminutes, russell rhodes is going pto talk with him live and we're plooking forward to that russ. pthank you laura i am too. pwe've got another deadline to ptell you about besides elections pif you've not done it by now you pever a month to go. ptaxi on everybody's return is do papril 15th or is it 17th irs pasked people to file sooner plater to help curb the fraud. pwalter allen is ahedge there i pthis year p>> i will do the same because i pin on time. pfraud is a big concern. pespecially when you consider palmost half of people that file ptax get refund. paverage refund $3,000. pso when you hear the stories of pfraud thieves filing using your pnames it makes us all nerve. psome slack when it comes to pgetting money back. pbank ray. pand a willing to a wait up to ptwo minutes not to give agency ptime to fight fraud. pbank rat also found half of eople surveyed will use that pcash to pay down debtor buy pnecessary stees only a third pwill save it or invest it. pas of right now irs only process pa they ared of returns it has so pfar, russell. pthank you, we'll

pi'm russell rhodes. p>>laura: and i'm laura moody. pall that ahead and a whole lot pmore. pfirst we need the forecast from pdave osterberg. p>>dave: good morning here. pit's beautiful outside. pit is a little cooler than pnormal in many spots but it is pwarmer than yesterday.

p>> russell rhodes is just the pman. p>> we live here to so you prussell. pwhy people live here. pthen you've got jen epstein from p>> from venus. pthis is no the dave use just pmessing with us. p>> no, no i'm just messing with panchors but this is what its pgoing to look like when i show pabeautiful picture of you penjoying a boating trip. pit will look like this. pthat's mug you're going to get. pa little small, not to scale a pfits a beautiful cup coffee each pone and every day myself. pand we want to give these mugs paway oop gow to the do it right pway. pyou can't just send them to my pfacebook package you have to pclick on that link. potherwise its no the going to pget to the right place, okay? pthere we go. p71 degrees in tampa now. p73 in brandon. plook at the 70s all over the lace. pas we start to warm things up. pbreezy, southeast winds. p8 to 16 miles per hour. pwe recently did have wind gust pof about 25 down toward venice pat least in tampa back to mostly psun skies. plook off to the southwest panother line of clouds getting pthat's not going to be enough pthough to

pi'm russell rhodes. p>>laura: i'm laura moody. pthat's all ahead and a whole lot pmore. pfirst we need the forecast from pdave. p>>dave: that's how i go visit pschools. eek-a-boo. plook at the sun.

p>>reporter: happy birthday to pyou, russell rhodes. pand happy friday, everybody. pwe have a big weekend starting ptomorrow in the tampa bay air pfest that kicks off, takes pflight here in the bay area. psuch a great event. pyou'll talk about the military, pyou've got civilian aircraft and pit's going to be incredible. pstarts at 8:00 in the morning. pwe're going to be talking about pall the aircraft that are taking art in it as well coming up on p"good day tampa bay." pwe're going to be speaking to pthe chef irvine from the food pnetwork and why he's here in the geico motorcycle, 3 p>>dave: 6:31 this morning and pwhile we have a couple of psprinkles over the gulf, not pmuch coming down onshore except pjust north of cedar key. pthe best rain chances today will pwe'll throw in a 20% to 30% rain pchance for good measure but poverall, variable clouds today pand still be warming, though pwe're starting off a few degrees pcooler this morning. phighs back to the lower 80s. pvanessa? p>>vanessa: thank you and we do phave live pictures as promised pof the pedestrian involv

pwelcome to the 7:00 hour of pi'm russell rhodes. p>>jennifer: and i'm jennifer pepstein filling in for laura pmoody. pthat's all ahead. pfirst the friday forecast from pdave. p>>dave: we're starting off with pa little more cloud cover than pwe had yesterday. pstill mild, a bit on the breezy pside with the south-southeast pwind that we had at 11 miles an phour. pbayshore, lakeland, it's equally pas gorgeous with temps in the pmid 60s. pwe'll get right back up into the pmid 80s for highs today. pnext chance of rain, sunday pafternoon. pminutes. p>>vanessa: right now we have sky pfox overhead, 75 near i-4 where pwe have some delays. pthey're not serious at this oint but notable here. psouthbound direction, 275 pjunction to i-4 in the 15 minute pride. pwe also want to remind drivers pin pinellas county, this earlier pshot from sky fox, southbound 19 pfrontage road, 66th street pnorth, single vehicle crash, hit pan r.v. that was parked, did psome damage. pwatch out. pstill blocking the right lane. p>>russell: new this morning, pthere's b

pi'm russell rhodes. pi'm laura moody. pthis wednesday morning. phappy st. patrick's day boys. pto you as well. pit's muggy, it's very similar to pyesterday. phere i got lot of low cloud pcover. pbut we still are dealing with pthat unbelievable coastal fog. pit's weird that it's over there. pand that we got very little phere. pi mean, we are not that far from pthe coast. p>> no. pwe're really not. peverything's great here. pyou go out towards sirata beach. pa little water drop lets on the pcamera bradenton beach we've got pfog there. psea fog is still quite thick. pthat may take some time to burn poff, just wanted to share this pto you one more time. pyou love it, don't you? pdancing leprechaun. pthere he is. pvariable clouds today. pwe're looking an 81 degrees for pa high. pi think they are that happy. pthat is true too. pcalled leprechaun. pi think it was. p>> anyway, so, once we get rid pof that things will be better palong the coast as well. pvanessa. p>> love that movie. pdon't take its gold. pi think that. p>> yeah. pthose were creepy movies. pall right. pwell it looks a

pi'm russell rhodes. poh laura. poh, beautiful. pjust beautiful. pwhat wrong with this? pwhy don't we need to be in gym? plook at us. p>> yeah. pthat's a sight all right. plook at us. pjust look at us. p>> monday at the strawberry pfestival. pnow look at it. p>> 3 thousand calories later prussell is back here this pmorning. pwe're at 70 degrees. pwe've dop it 9 o'clock in the pmorning we are already at 70. pbrandon 72. pclearwater 72. pit a magnificent yet breezy pstart to the day. pwe're going back up to about 81, p82 for a high this afternoon. pcontinued warm tomorrow. p>> you tell me. pi will in a few minutes. p>> okay. p>> all right. pdave see you then. plet's check roadways in meantime p9 o'clock straight up we're in inellas county a couple pincidents to talk about. pnew crash reported at gulf to pbay boulevard in u.s. 19. p1 westbound lane is blocked. pbut you can see we're dealing pwith both eastbound and pwestbound direction delays in pthat area. p>> also, sticking here along the pu.s. 19 corridor in pinellas pcounty traffic signal work pscheduled to start right

((russell 2shot) good wednesday morning.. it's p6:30. pi'm russell rhodes. p>>laura: and i'm laura moody. pwe'll head straight over to dave pforecast. p>>dave: it's mild outside. psouthwest winds, cloud cover, pand catch this. pi do have a couple of sprinkles pon the radar this morning. pthere's not much rain moving pthrough the area today so i pmean, if you get it, consider pyourself lucky but for us, it's pthe clouds, southwest wind. pmorning. pwhile it's mild, then a wind pshift this afternoon to the pnorthwest. pthat will indicate to you, hey, pthe front is through. pwe'll drag in some drier air. pnonetheless, we're still going pto average out to be the mid 70s pfor high temps today. pcheck the roadways. phow does it look? p>>vanessa: we're starting to pslow down a little bit along i-4 pwestbound. pnothing serious. pwe don't have any incidents phere, just looks like normal pcongestion as folks start to hit pthe roadway. pit looks like we're dealing with pcoming from mlk heading into the pinterchange. p>>laura: thank you. pbig night for donald trump and p

pi'm russell rhodes. p>>laura: and i'm laura moody. pit's tuesday, march 8. pwe thank you for waking up with pus. pwe're going to start with a pcheck of the forecast with dave posterberg. p>>dave: it is pretty outside. pi love the fact the sun is up pand bright, beautiful, 60 pdegrees out at the airport. peast-northeast wind at three pmiles an hour. pi want to check in with our pfriends at lakeland. pthey're in the mid 50s with an peast-northeast wind at seven. pexpect clouds, sunshine today pand at least for a few minutes, pwe'll do it again. pback up to the 80-degree mark. pnow let's check the roads. p>> very slow along 275 psouthbound as you make your way pfrom bearses southward with this paccident just causing a minor ponlooker delay adding on to the pslow commute this morning. pheaded southbound, standard 19 pto 20 minutes through that pstretch. pusual every morning but this is padding on a couple of extra pminutes through the area. pwatch out for an accident in pclearwater. pfort harrison at court street. pthis should be in the clearing pstages. p>>russ

p>> morning everybody thanks for pjoining i'm russell rhodes poutside with dave right now. p>> i'm laura moody. pgood morning it 9:00 a.m. only pcan you hear me snow? pyeah i can. pnow you can et phone home thing pdo your thing. pi'm reaching out. pi don't have fingers for it pright now. pit's nice out here. pit is nice out here today. pwe don't have the fog. pit's not quite muggy outside. phowever as we go through the pweekend. pwe're going to start to increase pour rain chances, i mean every ptime a batch of showers gets pclose to the coast, it just pfalls apart. pso the rain chances overall ptoday are in the low side pdespite what you see there. pon skytower radar. ptemperatures are up to 71 pdegrees in tampa. pwell st. petersburg. p60s for everywhere else. pi think today what we'll do get pback to lower 80s for high ptemperatures in general. pbest rain chances coming late ptomorrow or tomorrow night. pmore on that in a little bit. pmaybe we will get russell a pair ptin can and a string. pmaybe he'll hear us. p>> that might work. p>> all right. p9:01 is time. plet's chec

pi'm russell rhodes. p>>laura: and i'm laura moody. pgood morning. pall that ahead and more but pdave.

pi'm rods -- russell rhodes. p>>laura: and i'm laura moody. pwe have an accident involving a ptractor trailer. p>>reporter: right now sky fox is pjust arriving on scene showing pus that the semi truck has been puprighted. pit was overturned but it has pspilled some debris in the proadway. plooks like a whole bunch of psand. pyou can expect these lanes to be pclosed for quite a bit. pthis is along main street near pvan fleet and what we're seeing, preally, as far as the delays in pthe area, mostly eastbound pdelays along van fleet papproaching main street and also pwestbound delays along main pstreet approaching van fleet. pdrivers heading through the parea, if you're usually one to ptake van fleet drive, basically phead on down to main street, ptake that westbound direction pbecause that's where we're pi think i might have said that pflip-flopped before but pwestbound main street, westbound pvan fleet, eastbound main pstreet. pkeep you posted on this one. p>>dave: we showed you a couple pof minutes ago how pretty it is poutside this morning. p

p>> morning everybody thanks for pjoining i'm russell rhodes poutside with dave right now. p>> i'm laura moody. pgood morning it 9:00 a.m. only

p>>> hae everybody it's 8 o'clock pi'm russell rhodes. pgood morning we thank you for pwaking up with us on this pthursday morning. pit's march 7th. pit's st. patty's day. pwe've got a traffic alert to get ptop busy morning for you pabsolutely. pbig inconvenience for folks who pare trying to travel between

p>> and i'm russell rhodes. poutside. poutside with dave right now. pyou said it, a little humid ptoday. pit is a little humid today. pwe will take care of that. pgive me eight, ten hours. pokay. pbecause we do have front on the pway. pone thing the front's not going pto do bring us rain. pa lot of cloud cover outsidebut plook at the 70s. pbrandon 72. pst. petersburg, sarasota, pvenice, brooksville, crystal priver, all at 71 degrees. ptampa 69. pclearwater at 71. pforecast today, go up into mid p70s. pfor those heading down to the pgame today, that's right a first pspring training game 1:05 port pcharlotte in upper 70s with pmostly cloudy skies. pand just a very pleasant day peven by last pitch with ptemperatures in the mid 70s. pvanessa. pall right spring training. pexcited about that. p>> let's go ahead ask check proadways 9:01 two big wrecks to pmake mention of here at the top pof the hour this one coming to pout largo area. pstill shot from when skyfox flew pover a couple minutes ago ridge proad a 16th avenue southwest. pyou can see it involves an

pi'm russell rhodes. p>>laura: and i'm laura moody. pit's tuesday, march 8. pwe thank you for waking up with pus. pwe're going to start with a pcheck of the forecast with dave posterberg. p>>dave: it is pretty outside. pi love the fact the sun is up

pi'm russell rhodes outside with pdave this morning. poh, laura. pit is good. pit is a good day for hoping pstrawberry festival. pi tell you. pnotice that? pas that front came through. ponly chance of rain that we have pin the next 7 days is early pokay. pget it over with. pget it over with. pout here on the weekend looks pgreat. pwe're at 63 degrees. pnice little warm up. peast northeast winds at 6 miles er hour. pbut we have this steady stream pof mid to upper level cloud pcover. pi'm going to be honest with you pthis filtered sunshine is retty. pit's nice. pit's not going to be thick penough that the sun can't do its pjob today. pit will. pby making it back into mid 70s. pthere's your quick little shower pearly tomorrow. pand by tomorrow afternoon our phighs back in lower 70s. pjen. p>> we're keeping track of delays pon sunshine skyway bridge at 9:0 pone. pemergency crews still on scene. pthis is the southbound lanes of pa sunshine skyway bridge. poperativing leaving pinellas pwill be affected by this off to pright side roadway no lanes are pblocked, please

p>> i'm russell rhodes. p>> birds chirping. p>> can you hear the birds? p>> you know. pcan you hear them? pyes. pbeautiful. pa good morning out here. pbirds are singing. pi just feel like singing. pthat's great. pi dare you. pi dare you to break out. pdon't dare me to do that. pit's gorgeous outside today. pin fact i can't believe you have pa jacket on. pi should shed it. plet's show you the temperatures pout here in the 9 o'clock hour. pwe're starting off a double psixes. p66 degrees east northeast winds pat 5 miles per hour. plook how fast we're warming pthings up couple hours ago pbrooksville was in the 40s. pnow they are back in the 60s. pand what should be a magnificent pday overally sunny skies and ptemperatures all way back to the pmid 70s. peven though we have a front pcoming through it doesn't, it pdoesn't change much over the pnext few days vanessa and talk pmore about that in a few. p>> thank you. phere 9:0 one. pwe want to talk about the an pearlier crash and new one. pwe're going to start with new pone out of sarasota county area. pmore specifically north

p>>> hey everybody it's 8 o'clock pi'm russell rhodes. pi'm laura moody. pgood morning we thank you for pwaking up with us on this pwednesday march 2nd. pwe'll get straight over to dave pwith a look at the forecast.

pi'm russell rhodes. p>>laura: i'm laura moody. pthat's all ahead and a whole lot pmore. pfirst we need the forecast from pdave. p>>dave: that's how i go visit pschools. eek-a-boo. plook at the sun. pfirst thing this morning. pthere we go. pyou can see, look at the pretty pstart to the day. pit's warm. pstarting to get -- i want to say pmuggy but you're starting to pfeel the humidity levels rise pjust a bit. ptake your kids off to the bus pstop, lovely. pjust lovely outside. pmid to upper 60s and expect pclouds, sunshine today. pwe're right back in the lower p80s for high temperatures. p>>vanessa: that was a well pattended, successful fundraiser pright there. pall right, dave. pthank you. plet's check the roadways right pnow. pwe have sky fox overhead, flech phe were just before you get to p75 and then eastbound direction, pwe have a crash where you can psee emergency vehicles blocking pthat right lane. pyou can see delays heading in pthat direction. plast hour of "good day" i pmentioned in the last report in pvehicle. pwe got this tweet from a viewer palong. plooks like

pi'm russell rhodes. p>>jennifer: and i'm jennifer pepstein in for laura moody. plet's start with a check of the pweather with dave. p>>dave: do you want to see psomething pretty? pbeautiful morning. pbeautiful outside. pgranted, we're going to need phours but we have 51 degrees. pnortheast winds at seven miles pan hour and that's a gorgeous plake mirror. pit's 48 degrees. pbut sun is up already. pwait until we get to the 9:00 phour and we'll be in the mid 60s pby that point, on our way to the pupper 70s once again. pcourtney bright. p>> we're in good shape in inellas county. pwe do have a minor accident on pthe southbound side. pyou can see here it's all off to pthe right shoulder. ptraffic is getting by delay-free pfrom this point down to the inellas bayway. pno big problems to slow you pdown. pwherever you are slow is the pveterans expressway. pusual time of the morning ptraffic is backing up from that pdale mabry onramp ramp ramp all the way pthrough gunn highway. pand remaining heavy into phillsborough avenue. pgive yourself 15 minutes heading pout through t

p>>> when hey everybody iths p8 o'clock i'm russell rhodes. pi'm laura moody. pgood morning we thank you for pwaking up with us on this ptuesday morning march 8th. pwe will head straight over to pdave look forecast. p64-degree start here 8 o'clock. pthat's nice. pwhere we were at 9 o'clock pyesterday. pso obviously warming things up. pmore of an easterly component to pour wind at 5 miles per hour. pcomfy in lakeland they're the a p63. pbradenton 62. pvenice 61. pmid 60s in clearwater. plook at that warmth for today. pgoing to go right back up to the p80-degree mark with mixture of pclouds and sunshine. pcourtney p>> dave very nice. pwe're sloeing things doin along pbruce b. downs. pauthorities working an accident pthat has two southbound lanes palong bruce b. downs reportedly pblocked. pbefore fletcher and traffic palong those southbound lanes of pbruce b. downs backed up to ptampa palms boulevard. palso very slow, southbound 275, plive look here southbound ptraffic through fowler. pdelays back to beers and heavy pto i-4 right now that will cost pcost you about

p>>> hey effected it's 8 o'clock pi'm russell rhodes. pi'm laura moody. pgood morning, we thank you for pwaking up with us on tuesday pmore than's march 22nd. pwe will get to that developing pstory in brussels in just a pmoment. p away want to get auto you out pdoor with dave osterberg. pgrab jackets, our 8 o'clock ptemperature in tampa still 49 pdegrees. pyeah. er hour. pa couple of 30s brooksville p30s. pactually bartow at 39. pwe'll start to see a big jump in pour temperatures. pnext hour. pbut yeah, chilly start, pleasant pafternoon in high temperatures plikely getting back into the plower 70s. phow are things n the road pcourtney? retty busy along interstates as pto be expected this time of more pthan northbound 275 live look phere tampa side of howard frank plidge bridge. ptraffic jamming an about a 12 pminute trip in between fourth pstreet across the span into a pkennedy. pone spot to keep in mind inellas county drivers, all pweek long, westbound lanes of p580, blocked in between the pmcmullen booth and landmark pdrive for week-long pconstruction.