Deputies are searching for a man that climbed out of a cruiser yesterday, ran away, bare foot and handcuffed. Kellie cowan talked to neighbors who witnessed it all 37 they couldnt believe it happened and shocked that he is still out there. Reporter all happened in a matter of minutes. That is tall took for him to slip away. Deputies arrested co few blocks away from their headquarters but thing quickly went awry. Somehow, he was able to escape from the back of a patrol car through the window. Witnesses nearby say they couldnt believe what they saw. Like little he had his to slide his body out the window. Reporter a manatee sheriff spokesman would not confirm if to window controls. Unsure how he was able to get the back seat window down. Somehow comtrola while han handcuffed got out without deputies noticing. Reporter both shoeless and handcuffed he took off running escaping from deputies. Cantrola does not have a violent criminal history, and detectives do not believe him to be dangerou
All new at 11 00 just within the last 45 minutes Tropical Storm julia now forming over florida. Good evening everyone and thanks for joining us im wendy ryan. Im jamison uhler. Lets get right to chief meteorologist Denis Phillips with the latest on Tropical Storm julia. Dennis . Reporter hi advisory literally just came out. What we were talking about earlier on today kind of figured this would become a depression, but jumped the depression status going straight to a Tropical Storm. Now what does this mean for us . At this point in time we are still looking at the rain. There are Tropical Storm warnings in effect for northern florida, southeastern georgia. Winds of 40 miles an hour. Now in terms of the track, it is expected to go very slowly. So there is the issue. Heavy rains might be up to 10 inches of rain across northern florida from say jacksonville towards macon. Now how will it impact our weather . There is a moisture train if you will that extends from the the center all the way
No closed captioning is available for traffic. vanessa developing this morning the search for a man who climbed out of a patrol car. And tookoff running. Handcuffed, and barefoot. wally how did he do it . And where is he . Thats what Manatee County deputies want to know. wally fox13s Shayla Reaves is on the story for us. Shayla he slippedaway saturday night. That means hes been on the run for about 36hours. The Polk County Sheriffs Office is looking for a person who carjacked someone in a lakeland parking lot. It happened early sunday morning in the parking lot of the Bonefish Grill on pipkin road west. Deputies say the man approached the car with a and demanded the driver get out. The victims vehicle was later found crashed and burned at west pipkin road nad county line road. The thief is described as a white male with a slim build who is about 5 foot 8. He was last seen wearing a dark tshirt, shorts, and a ball cap. New this morning palm harbor firefighters respond to a fire at a con
Thank you for joining us. Im james tully. Hillsborough county deputy hurt after his patrol car was rammed. Fired at the suspects who ran off, at a busy intersection at Woodrow Wilson street in plant city. Lets go to rodney dunigan, hes on the scene, has been there for quite some time. Any word on the suspects . Reporter not at this point. Investigators have been here throughout the morning trying to g as they can. You mentioned that deputy was hurt, thankfully is recovering this morning, expected to be ok. This is a very active scene this morning. Im going to let you see where investigators have set those evidence markers, at the exact spot where all of this happened. Again this information were getting in slowly this morning but what i can tell you is all of this sparked around 11 00 last night. Apparently this deputy who was involved got a call about a aggravated battery call in this area and spotted a vehicle that that case. The deputy pulled that car over and investigators say as t
On the back side will continue to move in. By the way this is the track, not much track. This is the forecast for tomorrow night. Its still over the same area. So just giving you an idea of how long the rain is going to last there. For us, the rainfall has already begun its not torrential or widespread but there are a few pockets of rainfall, longboat key getting in on that and even 75 will be wet on the southern side. Widen out the shot and you see everything moving quickly so. Youll be in and out of the showers in no forecast as we take you to the next few days the tropical stays with us today. And we have to wait for the dryness in time for the weekend. That looks good. For this morning, take it a little slow across the southern counties. For most of us no problems but i checked the maps to see where were seeing the wet roads and potential for ponding. It is south as ivan said, sarasota, a little ponding driving those roads, just use extra caution this morning. Otherwise should be a