What will happen now is we will enter this kind of blackout period where we wont get a lot of information out of the most impacted areas across southwestern part of haiti. When we get pictures back, i think they will be just astonishing. This is 145 Miles Per Hour storm that has made landfall often the Southern Coast of haiti with incredible amounts of rain and the winds, category 4 winds which by the way continue it made landfall over the end of the peninsula here, small strip. North. Continue to head to the one thegest hricanes ever to hit haiti. This is a big deal. It may make a second landfall later on this afternoon and evening across eastern cuba. There is the storm heading to and west not just the bahamas but now as well for us as we are in the cone. I will go closer here. We are now in the game here as far as this storm potentially affecting us with Hurricane Force winds, not in tampa but along the east coast. That is the biggest change in the last 4 hours. If this moves 20 mil
Right along the coast of florida. This is an unusual track. There it is. Right along the coast paralleling the coast. Some of the models make landfall with this thing. Its not set in stone as far as the forecast. Here is now. I will pause it through the bahamas. Major disaster for them with winds of 120 to 130 Miles Per Hour. Basically thursday night we would have a category 4 hurricane within miles east of florida here. Now, the Hurricane Force winds extend out 40 miles. That could be impacting the east coast which is why we have the hurricane warnings up. Then it parallels the coast which is worse because the storm maintains its strength and allows for the dangerous wind to continue hugging the coast up to the north. Lets focus in on our area as far as the impacts. You saw the cone. It remains to be seen. A jog to the west and we are the watches and warnings are posted. Specifically for our area we have polk and high plants county under Tropical Storm Highlands County under Tropical
Biggest thing going on in our country. A sarasota woman struck while walking in her neighborhood. Im Isabel Rosales and i will show you the desperate plea the victims daughter wants you to hear. One Cell Phone Company might owe you money. The now tampa bay starts right now. Lets get to it, kidnapping of a corrections officer first. The officer and prisoner were on work duty around lunchtime when the prisoner managed to gain control of the situation. Lesko live to the mouse ashley yore, she just got to the park where this went down. Reporter , this is well word the prisoner overpowered a inmates inside this building and then took off with the officer in a city of bartow truck, this is the 42yearold david ross, the work crew of five prisoners was taking a lunch break when ross overpowered the officer watching them. He handcuffed the officer and headed toward saint pete, that is where he was taken into custody, the corrections officer is doing okay and ross has been booked into the Pinell
The Polk Correctional Institute identified ross and detectives led agencies know ross was on the way there. 1 1 2 hours after the kidnapping deputies found the stolen car and took ross into custody and then they found a corrections officer at a store, he was able to escape from ross, he tells our crew hes doing just fine. Ross is behind bars on multiple charges including battery on Law Enforcement officer and fraud. Ross was going to be released in february 2019 but now he is facing a whole list of new charges including kidnapping. Reporting live from bartow, ashley yore abc action news. Take a look at the university of nevada, las vegas where clinton and trump will square off tonight in the third and final debate. Less than three weeks to go until election day, tonight the connect with millions of americans especially the undecided voters. Here is where things stand this poll was just released finding if the election were held today, 47 of voters would opt for clinton while 40 would v
Want to point out this equipment to the right we are told by authorities that they are bringing this in to tear apart part of the building to try to fight the fire because it is still active. You can see the firefighters working hard to put the fire out. The warehouse is about 14,000 square feet, the owner very emotional because he fears many of his pets did not survive the fire. Because part of the investigation will start at least at some point hopefully later tonight we will find out what caused the fire. Marisela Marisela Burgos abc action news. We are hearing from the family of two small children killed in a horrific crash last the family was headed home from church almost to the apartment complex just across the street but they did not make it back. It is not okay. It is senseless. It is wanting to lose a family member. I dont know how we will get through this. Another to lose three at once. There is the niy he knew every song on the radio. His sister 10yearold maria isabel. Lova