of russell's remains. the family settled the lawsuit. the case was closed. but it does mean that over two decades after his death, russell jordan once again is missing viewer discretion is advised. >> msnbc takes you behind the walls of america's most notorious prisons into a world of chaos and danger. now, the scenes you've never seen. "lockup raw." over the years, we've profiled inmates who have committed extreme acts of violence, both in and out of prison. though we found there's a special breed of criminal mind, wh

>>russell: you can't. we were supposed to eat up to mean in hot clicks and i think we pulled it off. still ahead this morning on "good day," the president of the philippines uses how can we say, some colorful language to deri he's dealing with the fallout. >>jennifer: ken has more on returning a flight to its rightful owner. >>reporter: it has to belong to someone. who that is, we're trying to find out. we'll talk to the gentleman who found this in clearwater over i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. he wears it like a crown. "make america great again". but trump made his shirts in bangladesh. his ties in china. and his suits in mexico. in fact, the real donald trump outsourced his products and jobs to 12 different countries. so don't believe the hat. good morning i'm russell rhodes and i'm jen epstein in for laura moody. >>russell: welcome. i'm russell rhodes. >>jennifer: and i'm jennifer epstein. >>russell: let me say this about this. you're right. i took the dogs out early this morning. it's

>>russell: 6:31. jewelry store clerk is fighting for his life after trying to stop a man who ran away with nearly $25,000 in jewelry. run over after clinging to the hood of the man's car. they're looking for the man wearing the dark blue shirt and hat. >>laura: a 10-year-old boy is charged in the death of his 2-year-old cousin. journey blidon was rushed to the hospital with severe head trauma and died a few days later. deputies were told she fell from the play pen. 10-year-old said it was an accident. another physically a bused her and jurney. all three were unsupervised at the time. >>russell: investigator says there are no early clues to what caused a military helicopter crash in palm bay. the older military style hospital had just -- helicopter had just had work done. it was on a post maintenance test flight when it went down tuesday, killing a three person crew. the victims have not been identified. >>laura: and a carnival cruise ship is on the way back to overboard in the bahamas. she jumped from

p>>russell: nice. p>>taylor: that's about where the pright there just falls by the pwayside. oor landon. phe's supposed to be racing to pthe finish line during the psacramento kings game last night pbut he was a little more pinterested in the 20 second nap. punfortunately for landon and his arents, who could have won rize pack, resting doesn't get pyou first place. pdon't be like landon today. p>>russell: i could do that right pthis second in the studio. p>>taylor: all right, you guys. pnext up we have this. pit's an adorable baby kangaroo pwho has become an internet psensation out of australia. pso the story starts off a little psad. phe was rescued by a police pofficer in a small town pnortheast of perth after his mom pwas sadly hit by a truck. pthis officer has become his new pmommy. pa video of the two of them went pviral last week. phere it is. p>>russell: oh, my gosh. p>>taylor: just climbs right in phis shirt. p>>russell: oh, my gosh. p>>taylor: the bond is very tight pand everyone online is jus

>>russell: for the third time job. >>laura: and the latest happened early yesterday morning on i-275. this morning troopers say the person responsible is now in custody. fox 13 shayla reaves is live for us at the orient road jail. good morning to you. >>reporter: we can tell you the man behind bars is accused of not only driving drunk but losing control and causing another man to lose his life. we can tell you 30-year-old peres of tampa is expected to face a judge in a few hours. he's facing a charge of d.u.i. manslaughter in connection with a weekend death of 42-year-old danny hand. now, this all unfolded off i-275 south of fowler avenue. according to authorities, the tow truck operator stopped to help a motorist overnight. as he stood on the outside shoulder, the situation took a deadly turn when another car hand died and troopers later arrested peres and transported him to the orient road jail. tow truck operator shared this message for all drivers over the weekend. >> please don't drink and drive. you know, call so

russell? >>russell: 6:47 right now. florida power and light wants to increase rates by $1.3 billion the next few years. officials han to make their case today. they want to improve facilities users are fighting the rate hike and that includes hospitals, florida retail federation, wal-mart and the u.s. military. final vote comes in november. polk county detectives say a man carjacked a woman outside of the bone fish grill in lakeland. happened around 3:30 yesterday morning as she was heading to her car. detectives say he came up to the driver side window with a chain wrapped around his hand, demanded she get out of the car. he took off. driver was found crashed and burned a few -- the car, was found crashed and burned a few miles away. volusia county, beach patrol are telling swimmers to watch out for jellyfish. more than 300 were stung saturday alone. jellyfish are brought onshore by wind and current. >>laura: it's 6:48. thinking about a career change? coming up, a list of top paying jobs in america. only to watch it cr

i'm russell rhodes.. p>>russell: welcome. pi'm russell rhodes. p>>laura: and i'm laura moody. pthunder and lightning rolled in pfast overnight. pi don't know if you heard t. pit's already long gone, though. plet's look at dave for the pforecast. p>>dave: it's done raining in the pviewing area. pwe're clearing skies out. pyou can still see some cloud pcover left on lakeland at 61 pwith a south-southwest wind at pthree but watch this. plook at the tampa cam. pas we get clear skies now, pthat's how fast these clouds are pgetting out of here. p61 degrees in tampa with the psouth wind at six miles an hour. pa few sprinkles in highlands pcounty. pthat's it. pall the bad weather is along the peast coast of the state. penjoy the sunshine as it quickly preturns for everybody this pmorning and highs get back to paround 70 degrees. pvanessa? p>>vanessa: sounds good. p6:31 is the time. pwe want to revisit polk county pbecause we're starting to see psome notable delays in the pwestbound direction of i-4 assing by the deadly crash psite. pof course, we mentioned this is pthe eastern polk pa

good morning i'm russell rhodes. >>russell: welcome. i'm russell rhodes. >>jennifer: and i'm jennifer epstein in for laura moody. radar a little less active? >>dave: a little less activity. we had several days in a row with just band after band of rain. at least right now, it's quiet. no, i not going to stay like that all day long because it is august and we still have tons of moisture in the atmosphere but off on the school buses okay, even see a little break in the clouds in the brookdale, bayshore camera. we're at 76 to start. we're back in the mid to upper 80s today. showers moving inland later today. 60% the overall rain chance. it will be there. just not there right now. i like that. okay? >>vanessa: take that after the past couple of mornings. we're going to be busy with all the buses on the roadways, kids going back to schoolment want to plan some extra time. as i mentioned, lane blocks are reported. we don't know the nature of them but you could expect delays through the intersection. live and updated look here, drive times nine minutes for folks

>russell: welcome. pi'm russell rhodes. p>>laura: and i'm laura moody. plet's head to dave with a look pat the forecast. pit's chilly today. p>>dave: it is very chilly today. pmaybe you're heading off to the pbus stop or to work in the next pfew minutes. pgrab your winter gear. ptampa is running close to 40 pdegrees but again, that's one of pthe warmer spots. plook at all of the 30s on the pmap. pbrandon at 37. pwauchula, i mean, just about peverybody. pwe have frosty temperatures pinland, freezing temperatures in phernando and citrus counties. pwith all kinds of dry air in lace, temperatures should get pback in the mid 60s. pland o lakes boulevard, we have pa new crash with an intersection pblockage reported. pwe are seeing some delays, preally most of them in the psouthbound direction where pdelays are sitting under five pminutes at this point so give it pfive minutes out the door if you phead that way. pwe'll watch and make sure you pdon't have to take another route pas delays start to build. pwe wan

p>>russell: thanks. peven after news like that, paccording to the f.b.i., you phave a better chance of being pstruck and killed by lightning pthan you do being shot and pkilled by an active shooter. premember yesterday we showed you phow the hillsborough county psheriff's office trains for pthis? ptoday we're going to talk about pwhat you should do if you're pever in this situation. phillsborough county deputies ptraining on this state of the part simulator, in this case, an pactive shooter. p>> hands up! p>>russell: it's part of what pthey use to train deputies at pthe tactical training site in plithia. panother is tactical city. pas a training exercise, deputies pcan go from room to room to ursue a shooter. pbut what would you do if you pwere ever in this situation? p>> okay. pthat's the easiest and best way. pget away. pcall 911, give us as much pdescriptive data information as pyou can because we're coming, pwe're coming as quick as we can, pwe're coming with as many pdeputies as it takes to stop pth

>>russell: u.s. coast guard searching for a missing boater when he did not come home the next day, his wife called for help. yesterday crews found his 22 foot fishing boat. it had drifted 100 miles west. no sign of him. crews have searched for him and they plan to be back on the water again today. >>laura: authorities say a florida state university student may have been on drugs when he killed a couple. >>russell: 19-year-old austin was biting a dead man's face when deputies found him monday night. they say he fatally stabbed michelle and john stevens outside of their home. the neighbor, jeff fisher, tried to intervene but was stabbed five times. he got away and called 911. fisher is expected to survive. he suffered dog bites, cuts and during his altercation with deputies. he's held under guard at a hospital and has not yet been formally charged. >> one of the first things we try to do at a crime scene and begin to understand the motive of the offender because it's the motive of the offender that act

>>russell: and i'm russell rhodes. a lot ahead this morning.

p>>russell: that was cool. p>>taylor: this is tweeted from pmember of the public that helped pduring a foot chase and the best art, they used the hashtag ptripped up and legend. retty god. p>>russell: sure is. p>>taylor: right after that just pkind of went along. p>>russell: i saw it just walk. p>>taylor: back to you. p>>laura: all right. pit is a reunion week on american pidol and some of our favorite pcontestants from the past will pbe making special appearances. p>>russell: we'll show you who in p20 minutes and the cruise that pcannot end soon enough but the pcaptain of the battered anthem pof the seas slowed down to parrive back a okay birth plan. top of the brown box. alright got it! aromatherapy. lotion. woo. grey basket bottom right. you are so organized. and the selfie stick. yeah don' t give me that look... life is packing for an early delivery, and an ikea closet okay birth plan. top of the brown box. aromatherapy. lotion. woo. grey basket bottom right. you are so organized. and the selfie stick. yeah

>>russell: and i'm russell rhodes. i really am texting butterball right now. i said, hey, butterball, it's fox 13 in tampa. happy thanksgiving and i just got an immediate response saying, we have received your message. we'll see what they say back. there it is. >>laura: tried and true. hey, dave. >>dave: i remember a couple of call them? >>russell: it didn't work, either, remember? >>dave: we tried to call them. >>russell: this is just a text. >>laura: you're just in the pleasantry part of the conversation so -- >>dave: it's beautiful outside this morning. i love the sunrise at 6:59. it's almost 7:00 sunrise. 59 degrees from that vantage point there. that's the brookdale, bayshore. i can imagine how many people are getting a jog in first thing east-northeast wind, i have one more beautiful shot for you. a couple of clouds mixed in. tampa net cam looks gorgeous. what can i say? another beautiful day coming at us. clouds, sunshine, high temperatures may touch 80 degrees for later today. what do you think about that? >>russell: that would be nice. it's okay. you

p>>russell: okay. p>>charley: in your waking hours, p10% of the time our eyes are pclosed because we're blinking. p>>laura: that's good. pkeep it going. pkeep it coming. p>>charley: an ostrich's eye is pbigger than its brain. pdid you know that? pand finally, i will leave you pwith this disturbing fact. peinstein's eyes, have you heard pthis? p>>russell: no. p>>charley: you read a lot. peinstein's eyes are kept in a psafe in new york city. p>>russell: wait. pyes. pi think i did know something plike this. pand his brain is somewhere, too, pisn't it? p>>charley: his brain is now back pwith his great granddaughter. pit was kept to study and so were phis eyes were given to his eye pdoctor. phe's kept them at a safe in new pyork city. pnow you know some interesting pfacts about eyes. p>>laura: i'm going to tell you pright now, wherever you are pright now is beautiful. p>>russell: sure is. poh, dear. p>>charley: did you hear that? peugini only has one eye. pisn't she gorgeous? p>>russell: she is. p>>charley:

i'm russell rhodes >>russell: welcome. i'm russell rhodes. >>laura: and i'm laura moody. let's check in with dave for a look at the forecast. >>dave: what a pretty start. a little less in the way of cloud cover in lakeland. it's 75 degrees. coastline, the warmer, muggier. we have the dew points sky high and we're seeing showers pop up along the immediate coastline so i think as the morning moves along, we pop up a few showers, we're move inland during the afternoon. high temperatures upper 80s to around 90 degrees. courtney? >> all right. we are starting to see some heavy traffic building up along i-4. if you're heading westbound approaching the 275 interchange, expect to see as you make your way from dr. king to 275. still five minutes but a bump up to about six or seven minutes now as traffic begins to build. good news in the brandon area. authorities cleared the accident before parsons avenue. traffic now getting by, up to speed. irn accident reported along fletcher at i-75. no reported delays as of yet and looks like this is mostly off to the side. >>laura: thank you.

p>>russell: i apologize. p>>jennifer: after winning super pbowl 50, peyton manning is pexpected to announce today he's pretiring. pdenver broncos are holding a pnews conference this afternoon. pmanning is a five time nfl mvp. phe'll retire as the all time pleader in passing touchdowns, assing yards and he's tied with pbrett favre for the most pquarterback wins. p>>russell: donald trump made pquite the entrance at the kad phe's allowed to land on the golf pcourse in a helicopter. phe owns it. phe observe wns several of them. pdriving range. psaturday was the final day of pthe cadillac championship. pending. pit's not clear if the course pwill return as a tour stop next pyear. pthe tip of the spear may be plosing its edge. pnavy seals are telling lawmakers pthey don't have enough combat prifles to go around. pseals returned from deployment pand think say their rifles are pgiven to other commandos pshipping out. ptop officer at u.s. special poperations command in tampa, pflorida says the complaints are pbeing ex

>>russell: it is. >>dave: now that the sun is up, you can see the reflection off those buildings downtown. way in the distance, right-hand side, just beautiful. 62 degrees. the brookdale, bayshore north-northeast winds at three miles per hour. how about this picture? overlooking lake mirror and lakeland, 59 degrees. folks, it's going to be an absolutely stunning day with high temperature around 80 degrees. 78 tomorrow. lovely sunshine will condition in the weekend. sarpt's high around 80. dunkin's sweet black pepper bacon sandwich is back on lovers. be noisy. be silent. be near. be far. be joyful. be together. celebrate joy with dunkin's holiday-flavored coffees, espressos, and donuts. ((russell- angry and resentful. people >>russell: angry and resentful. people protesting donald trump's victory, chanting not my president. it won't stop him from attending an important meeting today, though. plus -- >> bullies are not limited to the playground. i'm in new york with more o cyberbullies coming up. >>laura

>>russell: and i'm russell rhodes. a lot ahead but we're all talking about the weather these days and how nice it is. dave, let's keep it going. >>dave: okay. just because you asked. nicely. we're still over a half hour way

p>>russell: also st. pete police pneed help in catching someone pwho is setting fires across the pinvestigators say one person pstarted at least a dozen fires pin the crescent lake pneighborhood. pthe fires began in january. pmost were in dumpsters but pseveral spread causing thousands pof dollars in damage. ptake a good look at this psurveillance video. pit shows a man light a fire in a pgas tank and then walk away. phe's holding a long skateboard pin his hand. pthe skateboard has square edges, plikely homemade, and they hope psomeone recognizes him for his pin. p>>laura: new this morning, a big pannouncement from sea world. pthe parks have announced they pare ending the work of whale pbreeding program. p>>russell: this is years after ublic backlash sparked by the pcontroversial documentary. psea world will also begin hasing out theatrical orca pwhale shows. pthis is the first sea world park pthat opened in 1964 and it's panimals we know as killer whales pfor a population of orcas at sea pworld, includin

p>>russell: completely. p>>jennifer: you got some pexplaining to do because when pthe president of the pinternational speedway, the pfirst thing he asked for is why pisn't russell here, you know you phave some explaining to do, pright? pthank you for being with us. p>> russell, where are you? pthe deal was open the new pstadium, celebrate what a great paccomplishment this is. pi'm kind of disappointed this pmorning. p>>jennifer: you have to pcelebrate with me instead. p>> i think that's probably a pbetter choice at this point but phow cool is it? pwe're in the new stadium. pnobody is here. pit's a little eery. pthe lights are on but the first pmotor sports stadium lit up at p6:30 a.m. pi haven't seen this before. pit's pretty cool. pwe had a great race last night. pgreat weekend ahead of us. pdale, junior one last night, pkyle busch, some exciting things pgoing on here at daytona. p>>jennifer: talk to me about the p$400 million worth of prenovations. pwhat can a fan expect here? p>> we have wi-fi the whole w

>>russell: thanks. talk later. a class-action lawsuit has been filed against mosaic after that massive sink hole opened up leaking 250 million gallons of radioactive water into the aquifer. lawsuit seeks financial retribution for anyone that lives within five miles of the morgan & morgan is asking anyone who has questions about the safety of their water to contact them. they're testing nearby wells for free. company insists that pumps have prevented the contaminated water from moving past the property line. >>laura: governor scott is using his emergency powers to direct $25 million in state money toward developing a vaccine for the zika virus. it's the third time scott ordered the state to spend the governor has been critical of congress for failing to pass a zika funding bill. lawmakers need to pass a massive spending bill by the end of next week to avoid a government shut down. senate republicans released a draft of the bill to keep the government funded through december. it includes $1.1 billion for zika. democr

p>>russell: and i'm russell prhodes. pwe have a lot ahead. pwe need to start with delays now pon busch boulevard. pvanessa is following that. p>>vanessa: good morning. pwe're watching a serious crash phere along busch boulevard as pyou mentioned. pit's at the intersection with pnorth boulevard and for folks

((russell- a disappearing act. there one minute, gone the next. >>russell: disappearing act. there one minute, gone the next. how he got away from law enforcement. plus -- >>reporter: some surprising new numbers in the race fort white house. i'm in washington. we'll have donald trump and hillary clinton just ahead. >>laura: and amy schumer shows no love for tampa. what she says about the city in a new book and how one local buc star is firing fwhak -- back in a classy way. >>russell: a lot ahead. first the dave and the weather. dave and the weather. >>laura: the man. >>dave: it is. let's do a little forecast for you, sir. 81 degrees, second hour in a row we're sitting just above the 80-degree threshold here in the tampa area. it's the 75 dew point. of course, it's very steamy outside. you would think this warm and muggy, right? there would be thunderstorms all over the place this afternoon. but you have to look up above the surface and that drier air above us is going to to put 20% of the rain chance for this afternoon which means easily back up into the lower 990s. the vanes

(russell- look at this. it's a list of >>russell: look at this. it's a list of places for the students going back to school today. in addition to hillsborough and pinellas, school starts in citrus, hardee, hernando, highlands, manatee, polk and pasco go back to school on monday. sarasota starts later next week. kenny is in largo this morning. in hillsborough county examine pinellas county but we chose largo high school and it was easy because of what's going on here. the school was built in the late 1950s. it has been redone. $65 million invested in this place. take a look and it shows. also we have a lot of new programs very cutting edge that are really the trend in education. let's go to the assistant principal and talk about career technical education. you have automotive. program here. >> we have brand new lifts, brake, tire balance and mounting, we're really excited. unique opportunities for our students to earn certifications above and beyond the high school diploma. we want them to walk out of largo high with an industry certification of so

>>russell: this first. a serious crash on the courtney campbell sends eight people to the hospital, including two toddlers. happened just before 7:00 causeway. >>laura: and ken is live for us near the causeway. good morning to you. any update on the kids yet? >>reporter: the most up to date information is that the kids were hurt pretty seriously. a 3-year-old girl, unfortunately critically hurt, a second one, a 2-year-old girl, has life threatening injuries. so here is what happened. around 7:00 last night, a 23-year-old woman was driving on light at damascus road. investigators say the woman was momentarily distracted and slammed into the back of a honda odyssey. the folks in the odyssey were the most seriously injured of everyone and they had to be extricated. the odyssey hit a car in front of it. we don't know why she was distracted. it could be a cell phone call, a text or maybe something fell on the floor. bottom line is this. i think we've all been at least tempted to be distracted. when you see what

((russell 2shot) good morning, i'm russell rhodes., ((jen)) >>russell: welcome. i'm russell rhodes. >>jennifer: and i'm jennifer epstein in for laura moody. >>dave: upper 60s inland. bartow just switched back to 68 along the coastline so warm and muggy along the coast. nice to start off in polk county, hardee county, highlands county. a general theme for today will be coastal showers early, inland during the afternoon as the winds kind of shift to that onshore flow out ahead of the weak front that's going to try to make it into the area sometime during the day tomorrow. we put the rain chance at 40%. storms move inland today. a high temp this afternoon. >>vanessa: thanks. we'll check our major roadways right now and we're not seeing any big crashes or big slowdowns so that's good news heading out the door right now of the shaping up this way, travelling between pinellas and hillsborough county, heading from the bayway to i-4, 275, 26 minutes is that ride. give yourself 12 from buchman to 75 travelling through eastern hillsborough, drivers on 75 northbound, eight minutes between the

>>russell: bring it. >>jennifer: our first hot click, it's important to remember that bears don't speak english. they don't speak at all. >>russell: they don't? >>jennifer: don't be surprised when one doesn't listen to you. garbage can. nope. don't do it. don't -- nope. better not. better not. >>jennifer: a sheriff's officer near lake tahoe got a very special visitor this week. deputy tries to reason with the bear telling him not to knock over the trash can. just don't do it. it's also important to point out the sign i reminding people to keep the door shut at night. this is obviously why. >>russell: do we know if he -- the deputy wins this fight? >>jennif don't ow.russell: pret. >>laura: what is the story behind this? >>jennifer: we're seeing this little girl everywhere right now. it's called a sugar rush, right? during wnesdaynight's 8-3 winovs tweeted this clip. overwhelmed by cotton candy. yeah, give it to me! forget about the game. just give me some more candy! >>laura: cotton candy is good. >>jennif

>>russell: really?p>>jennifer: applicants must use their vampiric wit to imagine what they would say to count dracula if they met him. what would you say if you meet him? if they like it, you might be the one. >>russell: nice place you got here. >>vanessa: i want to spend the night. >>jennifer: if more than 2700 you, you can check out the lego version. legoland dubais created a replica and yes, it is the world's tallest replica structure. this 56 foot tall, 1,000 pound building took 5,000 hours to build. does anyone want to guess how many legos it took? >>russell: how many? >>jennifer: guess. >>laura: i don't know. >>russell: come on, jen. >>jennifer: 436,000. 31. finally this picture captures the moment when a mother sees her child who cannot hug, wash or dress on his own laying on his new service dog. this is shaina and her 5-year-old son who has autism. the dog's name is tornado. she cried for months when other thanks to tornado, she says everything will be okay. this time her tears are because she's

>>russell: and i'm russell rhodes. let's go to dave for a look at thinking about, you know, the rest of their weekend. >>dave: i think it's going to be just like it was yesterday. we talked about this yesterday. remember, we had like 85 almost every day. i don't see any significant changes. one thing that you probably felt and noticed yesterday was that the humidity is coming back just a little bit. not extreme. we also are starting off along the coastline in the lower 70s, upper 60s inland and we'll be filtering in some cloud cover from time to time today, but again, just like we said, back up this afternoon. >>vanessa: thanks, dave. and the only new incident that we're seeing is roadway debris so make sure you're using caution on the veterans expressway. southbound direction in the area of ehrlich road could be in a lane or two. otherwise, we're looking clear on the roads. >>laura: a warning for parents this morning. pasco county sheriff's office is on the lookout for a man who tried to lure a child into the wesley c

p>> good morning, russell. p>>russell: and we have discussed pthis subject before, but it's pworth mentioning and visiting pagain. pand we'll talk in a second. pbut first, we have a couple of p911 calls from people caught in pscary situations. plet's listen to the first one. p>> what is your emergency? p>> yeah. pi just got robbed point blank pand i just need the police over phere, please. pwe were working on a car and pthey came in, the two guys, and pwe went to see the car and he pbasically put the gun in my pface. p>> and chad, that's not that punusual. p>> it's not. pin the past month we've had six preported instances just like pthat, russell. pbig business as we know. pbut it's become quite dangerous. p>>russell: we had geoff simon on pyesterday, and we were talking pabout online sales and it's a phuge part of the economy now. psome people make their living pdoing it. pthis next 911 call we're going pto play is, to me, the most ptroubling of all of the listen pto this one. p>> yeah. pi just got robbed. p>>

p>>russell: thanks. pit's 6:04. resident obama will be in pattendance for that game but pit's not the only event on his pitinerary. p>>laura: he's scheduled to meet pwith cuban dissidents this pmorning before participating in pa civil society event at the pu.s. embassy and then this pand head to argentina. p>>russell: two hours of pdiplomacy talk ended monday in pan awkward way. pit was supposed to be a phandshake and ended up being a phigh five, handshake, wrist grap pthing. pan odd ending for intense talks pbetween the two. pour coverage will continue all pmorning on "good day." plater this hour, craig patrick ptakes us on a tour of old havana pand also look for more reports pfrom our sports director scott psmith tonight at 5:00 and 6:00 pand if you're way from your tv, pyou can find their stories on pfox13news.com. p>>laura: the zika virus is about pto be a bigger problem in the pu.s. and even worse, the tampa pbay area is one of nine expected pto be hit the hardest. pnew findings suggest that the pty

((russell- a boundary battle. a >>russell: boundary battle. a debate over which schoolchildren should attend. it may not be the one closest to home. plus -- >> who is going to get some key posts in the administration? i'm in washington. we'll have more on the hiring process coming up. >>laura: and holiday shopping habits. it may depend on what year you were born. find out which generation will accumulate the most debt this december. welcome to the 7:00 hour of "good day." i'm laura moody. >>russell: and i'm russell rhodes. thank you for being here. first the forecast from dave. good morning. >>dave: good morning. it's grab a jacket again.

>>russell: and i'm russell rhodes. the question, where is it headed and when is it going to get here? dave is tracking? so where what's going on? >>dave: since last night, not much has changed. it's slowed down the whole process a little bit. i still think this is headed to the west coast of florida, north of tampa, right in the big bend area with thursday being the day that it makes its way onshore so thursday will be the day when we have the biggest impact felt in our area. i show you the viper radar right now because we have the showers pouring in from the southeast and we will continue to get those fast moving showers from east to west across the state similar to yesterday. 60% to 70% rain chances mainly in the afternoon. winds are tropical depression nine are still at 35 miles an hour, though the hurricane center confident it should become a tropical storm later today. notice how it starts to increase the intensity by wednesday afternoon and then by thursday morning, it's still well offshore. by friday morning it'

>>russell: you're still too young. >>charley: is that it? >>russell: yeah. >>charley: i'm waiting for bob buckhorn to do the equivalent. planes keep flying over our heads here in oldsmar. tower lake. we're here for the tampa bay water ski show team and the boat is in the water. we've got a skier in the water. i wonder what that feels like this morning. stick around. we'll tell you about their free holiday show coming up this satuay >>charley: we're on tower lake in oldsmar and here comes a skier. he makes it look if i could just sit down and relax along the way, and up and over. how about that? "good day." i'm charley belcher from oldsmar with the tampa bay water ski show team. steve is here once again. last time we talked, we were getting ready for a patriotic show over the summer but now it's all about the holiday show which is this saturday and it's free. after everybody has been spending money on friday, it's 1:00 and 4:00 we're doing two holiday shows this year. >>charley: 1:00 and 4:00 and we're just north, just behind, if you will, the oldsmar flea ma

i'm russell rhodes.. >>russell: welcome. thanks for starting your day with us. i'm russell rhodes. >>jennifer: and i'm jennifer epstein in for laura moody. first check in with dave and get the forecast. >>dave: we talk about popup coastline. we have one south of st. petersburg. it's falling apart. i wanted to point out to you it is just sitting there east of bayway so one tiny little shower so far this morning. we will get more of these, especially late this morning and early afternoon. rain chances around 40% to 50% but the high temperatures back up to around 90 degrees. >>vanessa: thanks, dave. we do have a sad update out of pasco county. we're learning that that crash at 19 and state road 52 is now fatality. we do have a scene picture here so thank you so much for sending this along. you can see the blockage is going to be there in the intersection. we mentioned in the last report, we have reports of traffic being diverted in the area. some alternates to u.s. 19, take little road that's going to be there to the east and then you also have east and westbound jasmine so that's an

>>russell: good job. >>reporter: we're live at the wa-wa in brandon where they're loading up the hoagies right now. about 1,000 of them are going to hillsborough helping students in the bay area. why? because they're celebrating their 100th store opening. have you ever wondered what the wa-wa mascot looks like? the wa-wa shorty and the canadian goose is around here somewhere. he's loading up. he's over there. that's what the wa-wa mascot looks like just in case you were wondering. we'll talk about where all the subs are going, talk about the grand opening, what it means to the expansion next on "good day tampa bay." tampa bay." amendment 1 is endorsed by florida's firefighters... because it does solar the right way. amendment 1 protects consumers from scams, and unsafe solar installations. safe solar for the sunshine state. vote yes on amendment 1. for the sun. carson and i have seen some terrible ads attacking our mom dana young. for things she never did. it hurts because mom is cool. she is caring, she

((russell 2shot) good morning, i'm russell rhodes ((laura)) >>russell: welcome. i'm russell rhodes. >>laura: and i'm laura moody. good morning. long morning for cubs fans. alcides segui is checking out some local connections. first we need the forecast with dave osterberg. >>dave: i have a lot of mid to upper 60s for temps. 64 in brandon, 69 in tampa. back to few lower 70s continue. st. petersburg, sarasota and venice. we -- you know, just like yesterday, that northeast wind, we've got a few little sprinkles that have worked toward the east coast of the state and eventually work their way west. one or two isolated sprinkles mixing in with some cloud cover today but you know, we're still going to get back well above normal. high temperatures in the mid 80s for today. vanessa, good morning. >>vanessa: we're getting word from the polk county sheriff's now. they're working a crash that involves a semi truck and a second vehicle. this is about two miles east of state road 60's intersection with highway 630. and the good news is, this is not involving any serious injuries but we do hear t

>>russell: and i'm russell a lot ahead. weather.l c on the skytower radar and meorologist mike bennett who is in for dave. >>mike: beautiful start to the day. sun coming up right now so i this to get you right over to how often do you get this? once a day. dayve o tampa. shower activity moved through last night. that's all wrapped up across the area. mo le afternoon storms popping up as we head throughout the day today. upper 80s by noon and showers and srms arrive late this afternoon and evening. temperatures topping out in the low 90s. we'll take a look at rain chances for the rest of your ven-day forecast coming up. >>vanessa: getting busy on the roadways. big incident we're following out tpd on scene right now, sky fox here showing ts crash. this is hillsborough at air cargo road so it's going to be in the area just east of the veterans expressway. we have a crash from wha we can tell is just a two vehicle crash t we're trying to getore inrmation on why such a big diversion here. eastbound lanes are closed completely an

i'm russell rhodes..((laura >>russell: welcome. i'm russell rhodes. >>laura: and i'm laura moody. let's start off with a look at the forecast the way we always do and dave osterberg. >>dave: good tuesday morning. beautiful outside. i'm looking at the lakeland net cam now and you can see a little cloud cover. what you can't see is it's a lot warmer and a bit muggier than it was yesterday at this time. a lot of us, a lot the coastline. we have mid 60s for you inland and that will translate as temperatures get back in the lower 80s this afternoon. i'm thinking 82 degrees with a mixture of clouds and sunshine. okay? >>vanessa: all right. thank you. and everything seems to be moving along quite nicely on the roadways right now. 275 in the area of bearss is where we're checking out and just a couple of cars on the roadways. ideal travel time southbound and only taking nine minutes from the interchange up to the area where we're looking live. it's nine minutes between fowler avenue and the selmon along 75 and one minute longer, 10 minutes along westbound i-4 between 75 and the interchang

>>russell: and i'm russell rhodes. let's get to dave for the all important thanksgiving eve forecast. >>dave: it's a little warmer outside this morning and nicer. dew points are up so we're getting back to normal. and how pretty is this? tampa net cam, 58 degrees with a northeast wind hour. now i'm going to head you over to lakeland. first time we've seen clouds but still a beautiful start to the day. we're at 54 and they were in the lower 40s yesterday so big difference in temps. end result will be the same, though. back to upper 70s under mostly sunny skies. >>vanessa: wonderful, dave. thank you. 6:30. we're checking back in, in the st. pete crash. 22nd avenue north and 28th street, starting to see some cleanup now in the area and it looks like they're getting a of the directions that were affected so plan extra time and please be careful as the cleanup continues here. live look here at 275 north end of the bridge. southbound lanes are heading away from us and all the tampa bound traffic is picking up. travel times s

p>>russell: f.b.i. released a new pvideo of what happened during a pdeadly traffic stop involving a pgroup of oregon ranchers pearlier. pone of those ranchers died. pthat's 55-year-old that was part pof a militia group led by bundy. pbundy was taken into custody palong with seven others followed pno indication the standoff will pend any time soon. pthere are calls on social media pfor more militia men to come and rotest. p>>jennifer: the teenager who pulzed the affluenza defense is pback in the united states. pethan couch and his mother were plast month. phe's accused of violating his robation and he could face 40 pyears in prison. pa judge will decide whether to ptransfer his case to the court pcriminal justice system. p>>russell: a lot of people pasking whether new jersey was pexperiencing an earthquake. pu.s. geo logical survey confirms pit was a sonic boom instead. ptook place in the southern pafternoon. psonic boom is the result of pchanges in the air pressure that phappens when an object breaks pt

good morning, i'm russell rhodes >>russell: welcome. i'm russell rhodes. >>laura: and i'm laura moody. good morning. thank you for waking up with us. did you just say that? >>russell: no. you said it. >>laura: all right. let's check in with dave. i need to get back in the groove. >>dave: back in the groove. let's stop a picture. it's a live shot. that looks spooky, yet cool at the same time. i just love t. looking east on kennedy toward the skyline and downtown. there may in your neighborhood be a spot of fog here or there. no matter, though. sunshine will rule the morning to the early afternoon examine then storms will rule the evening commute like they did yesterday. so high temperatures get back to coast and i think 50% inland. >>vanessa: thanks, dave. and still caution drivers to avoid the area of pinellas county. this is the serious injury crash. we're still watching this ridge road at 119th terrace north and still seeing the big blockages there on the ridge. we do have work arounds for you here, 113th street, 119th street so we'll keep an eye on this

>>russell: good morning, russell. you know, the guy at the center of this, the guy we're talking about is micah byrons. when leon county sent out a waiver which basically says what you said, what the state law says and what it allows, that your kid can opt out of saying the pledge, he hopped on the essential ly the school distric said this. i request that my child noted above be excused from reciting the pledge of allegiance. this request includes standing and placing his or her right hand over his or her heart. now, in one of byron's posts he writes, what's happening to our country? his sister equally out of sorts this morning. she didn't hold back. she wrote on the waiver dumbest thing i've ever read. i'm so ashamed of this. conservative groups are saying it's like a rallying call that liberals have infiltrated the school system and they've undue influence. the school system obviously has to respond and it has. the superintendent of schools writing back saying that this is only state law. i'm only letting you guys k

pit's horrible, russell. p>>russell: as we're seeing in pthe video, it is a grup of eople. pthey have equipment. pi mean, they have signage on ptheir cars and everything. pthey look legit. p>> and look at this paving job. pcould you imagine paying this pmoney for a paving job and this pis what you get? pbut at least they completed some ptype of job. pa lot of times someone will be pas trusting to give them the pmoney and full payment ahead of p>>russell: from the video you psent us on what we're using, the prain washed the material away pand the grass is coming through pwhat's left of it and these pfolks are long gone, aren't pthey? p>> they are. ptalk about something horrible. pyou pay -- think you're getting pservice and you don't get it and pthey are long gone. pbe careful. ptake a look at these pcontractors' trucks. pi didn't know this until we pstarted researching the topic. pthey have to have their contract pnumber somewhere on the truck. p>>russell: i've seen that. p>> a lot of these con artists pwon't have it. pyou'll just see a name or psomething on the truck. pbut

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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

russell? >>russell: thanks. 6:17. a deadly pipeline blast is now sparking fears of potential gas shortages and price hikes at the pump across portions of the u.s. blast in alabama shut down a key pipeline that supplies gas to >>reporter: flames continuing to burn in shelby county, alabama after a fatal pipeline explosion there on monday. it appears a piece of construction equipment hit the pipeline and killed one worker, injuring five others. >> doing a job on the colonial pipeline accidentally engaged with the pipe which caused an explosion. >>reporter: explosion shut down line to millions across the southeastern u.s. this deadly incident is the second to shut down the pipeline in just two months. a leak in september led to gas shortages and rising prices across the south. federal officials on scene say that monday's incident happened as contractors were working on repairs realed to last month's leak. >> it was a backhoe. they were getting ready to do another repair on the line we had an incident on earlier. will lik

and i'm russell >>laura: good morning. i'm laura moody. >>russell: and i'm russell rhodes. take a look now at dave for a look at the forecast. kind of nice this morning. >>dave: it is and i'll tell you, over the next three weeks, four weeks, it will start to get nicer and nicer. we're getting past that point. it's still warm and muggy outside. great start to the day overlooking the lakeland net camera at this hour. our temperatures are running low to mid 70s inland. we've got mid to upper 70 as long the coast and the forecast keeps us in the lower 90s the next couple of days and holds the rain chances to around 20%. don't get me wrong. by the weekend, moisture levels ride back in and so do the rain chances and we'll talk more >>vanessa: all right. thanks, dave. see you then. we're watching this crash off the i-4 westbound ramp. this is the ramp to hillsborough as we told you before, lane blockage here, traffic is passing from what we can tell, at least one lane but now we're starting to see impacts to the westbound travel lanes of i-4. just looking slightly under speed with