The driver of the truck fled the scene. This is all we know from here. They are trying to get it capped. Thanks paul. We will check back with you as the story develops. Newschannel8 was there when angelica mererro left jail. She admitted to police she lied about her threeyearold son being in the back of a stolen car. That false report led Clearwater Police on a wild goose chase yesterday. In spite of that, mererro insisted she is a good mother. Adrienne pedersen joins us in studio tonight. And i know you talked to her for about five minutes this morning. Though she didnt want to talk. Reporter thats right. Good evening. Talk about changing her tune. When she first walked out of jail, she insisted she wasnt going to answer any questions. Then, she opened up. Apologized. And even started crying. Why did you lie to the police . That means the person was stalking me. In order to get my vehicle, i told them my child was in the car. Reporter she makes it sound so people. Police say they went
Able to stop a gunman ending a rampage in kansas. The exgirlfriend is now under arrest. And breaking her silence. Jennifer garner speaking out for the First Time Since slitting with ben affleck. What she has to say about the nanny and what really broke them up. And moving and grooving. President obama with an impromptu performance during the hey ho even the first lady looked surprised. Today, saturday, february 27th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on saturday morning. Im erica hill. Im jeff rossen along with the first lady is looking at him and saying what are you doing . You said you werent going to do this. The song like that, you just cant not do it. We all started to get in on it. And demi lovato and arizona shakes. And leon bridges, here featured on the today show. You can catch that tonight. Our top story this morning is the race to replace president obama. Republican frontrunner Donald Trumps campaign sayin
How things can change in about two minutes. Good Tuesday Morning and welcome to news channel 8 today. Im gayle guyardo. And im gene ramirez. Its been a busy morning for leslee lacey keeping up with the construction going on on 275 while you were sleeping. So leslee, how good news. Yeah, looks much better than 4 00 a. M. All the lanes have been reopened northbound 2705. It was shut down 275. And now the only thing that remains closeed is the dale mabry offramp. So take lois or howard armenia if you want to exit 275. And now wondering about the construction and all the new traffic patterns happening over the last several week, its part of the widening project where they are putting in another lane from the Howard Franklin. The offramp is close sod howard armenia is what you want to take. And the wind, very, very brisk on the skyway bridge. Use caution moving from pinellas. Yeah, any elevated ready roads or any of the bridges. We had video overnight from meliek on the street. And this is
Land today. Jersey port. The ship was on the way to the bahamas via florida when it encountered a winter storm, powerful winds and tall waves tossed the vessel around for hours and sent furnishings flying. And some people onboard were even hurt. What a mess. The battle over a piece of property in tampa will be a heated topic at todays Tampa City Council meeting. City Council Members are expected to vote today on what to do with a piece of land near st. Josephs hospital. The hospital is proposing a parking lot. Neighbors are against it. In a live report, why residentses claim this is a racial issue. All right, the time right now is 43 00 1. Lets turn things over to span 4 31. Lets turn things over to leigh spann. Its the cold. It is. The good news is, its also not as windy this morning. But for citrus and sumpter, you have a freeze warning until 9 00. You could continue to drop. Thats the purple area for all of pasco and areas away if the coast and hillsborough, manatee and all of polk
Intense portion was moving through hillsborough and Pinellas County. And now its pushing farther and quickly to the south. So from tampa north, things are dry now. And once you get into polk county and south and east where the rain continues. And the tornado watch has been canceled. It was in effect for pinellas, pasco, hillsborough and manatee. Thats been taken away. And we still have the watch until 8 00 a. M. For polk, sarasota, hardy, desoto and highlands. I suspect it will get canceled before 8 00 a. M. Look at this, western manatee, western sarasota dry. This is pushing to the east. And over through Highlands County at this point. Let me show you how we move forward in time. This is the forecast for 4 30, so as you go forward, just one hour, we are dry in sarasota. And almost dry in polk county. One more hour, about 6 30, a drop or two of rain in that, clearing out for the rest of the day. So about two more hours where we have to deal with this before we dry out, 71 today. In wea