President obama was in fact born in the united states. Sometimes, pushing conspiracy theories like this tweet in 2013. How amazing the state director who verified obamas birth certificate died in plane crash. All others lived. Hillary clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it. I finished it. You know what i mean. Reporter evidence clinton or her 2008 campaign pushed the issue of president obamas birth certificate. Trump said if it wasnt for him, the president never would have provided evidence he was born in the u. S. Donalds advisers had the gumption to say he is doing the country a service by pushing these lies. No. He isnt. Impulses. The bigotry and bias that lurks in our country. Reporter now, one other thing that trump had said in his short statement on the birth certificate issue is that by getting the white house to finally release it, he put an end to the issue. That is just not true. The truth of the matter is he continued to suggest that
Izzy runs a boat and jet ski rental. When they call, we have to say its contaminated. It puts our business away. Reporter we have been trying to find out for two days where the waste water is being dumped. Jeff patterson with channel 8. Reporter we tried setting up an interview with the head of public works but hes a busy man. Just trying to find the status of what the Interview Time might be so we can find out where the waste water is being discharged. Repor kathlene peters on the issue. The bacteria levels are so high, we are closing beaches and we need to protect our citizens. Reporter peters wants to bring the Pinellas County delegation together with local leaders to talk about waste water. This is stuff that should have been maintained a long time before this. Reporter but she also believes the city of Saint Petersburg has an obligation to let the public know what is going on. Yes. Those citizens need to know just like i get on my paddle board and go out on the water. We need to k
Stunned as he walked near the pickup truck where the sheriff tells me hed left his 23month old son lawson. He had dropped his daughter addison off at her Elementary School and was supposed to drop off lawson at daycare. Troy parked his car and he left lawson in the car from somewhere around 8 30 this morning until around 4 30 this afternoon. Reporter with lawson still trapped in his car seat behind the drivers seat whitaker even made a run to publix. He didnt realize that the child was in the back until he arrived home from publix. Reporter thats when lumpkin jumped in. I was hoping and praying cpr would be successful. Reporter neighbors watched as investigators went over the truck. It just reinforces you need to spend as much time as you can with your kid because you never know when tragedy will strike. As a dad and seeing a child who had just learned my name, who had waved to me daily calls for me and run over to me with those pretty blue eyes. Me Troy Whitaker is charged with aggrav
Were talking about. Were watching the first Tropical Storm gaston and invest 99l. The National Hurricane center has dropped the Development Chances to 70 . Thats still highly high chances. This is working its way over hispaniola. The National Center is displaced to the north a bit. As you head into the next couple of days, you can see most of our forecast models bringing this towards south florida by the end of this weekend and we see a few of the tracks brings it closer to the west of florida and to the gulf and some dont develop it. Well be watching this very closely still and see if we have any rain out of this system. Well take a look at the tracking storms over hispaniola. To the north were seeing a little bit of a circulation. Were facing a lot of wind shear right now and also fairly dry. A thats why we have not seen it develop quite yet. Hurricane hunters are out there right now investigating it. Tropical storm gaston well look at that as well. Its expected to restrengthen into
Over the next few days. Steve jerve has the very latest and joins us live. Were still a little ways away from this but man weve had to watch this every day for days now. Invest 99l we speculated about it. It was a difficult storm to forecast, still is. Its now a tropical depression and could become a Tropical Storm in the next day or so. Theres enough negative influences so hopefully it would stay that way below hurric tropical depression 9, 8, and of course gaston out to sea. 8 would effect North Carolina were most concerned with 9. You can see the forecast track does strengthen it into a Tropical Storm tonight or sometime tomorrow. The forecast we dont move it to the northwest and northeast which most computer models do. That would be close to a landfall in cedar keys. In this scenario the advancing counterclockwise rotation would be on the southern part of that center of rotation. Wed have to watch high tides at that Time Thursday afternoon. That time will likely change as well as t