Spots and i rain on skytower radar. A couple of quick showers in and around the sebring area, also along highway 17 and that main line of rain. That is our cold front. Once that moves through, the winds start the shift to the northwest ask and bring in much drier air. Highs today in the upper 70s but tomorrow, much drier and back to normal with highs in the mid 70s. Vanessa of course were watching fog a been watch checking out cameras along i4. This is the camera in the area off i4 and looks a little better here, at least visually, than what we were seeing in the area an hour or so ago. Dave mentioned we could see this fluctuate and there are some cameras that look worse so slow down and use the low beam lights. You dont have anything else in construction projects. Russell developing overnight, after several hours, crews say they finally have a fire at a local rec center under control. Jennifer Shayla Reaves is live in the area. This has to be devastating news to the community. Reporte
All new at 11 00, a 70year old woman suffering burns after a fire breaks out in backyard. Good evening. Abc action News Reporter Cameron Polom has more on what started the fire. Reporter we are standing where the fire started. We are told the flames reached nearly 50 feet up into the trees. We are told the woman was burning old newspapers and receipts in these barrels when it exploded. Something just blew up. This cell phone video shot moments after the blast. The flames burning 70yearold body. Her legs were really bad. The skin started pulling off. Reporter colby davis shot the video. He was doing landscaping down the street when he saw black smoke billowing up from behind the home. I came around the other side. She was here dosing herself with the water. Reporter the flames spread into the trees and nearby barn before firefighters brought them under control. Fire investigators say they arent sure what caused the explosion. She was saying hold my hand. She was scared. Reporter lindas
Vandalized so he built a new one to commemorate her birthday. He has no connection to the girl at all. He was just touched by her story. I have 12 grand kids and i could never imagine my kids doing anything like that to my grand kids. The children are the future. And to have one of them snuffed out at three years old, it is crazy. Tonight, wally and some volunteers will go to the site in orlando and release balloons in caylees memory. Search crews have now found the black box of freighter el faro. Now, that ship sank near the bahamas during hurricane joaquin. The National Transportation safety board retrieved the ship from 15,000 feet of water. That is roughly three miles down. Search crews actually found the recorder in april, but they couldnt remove it then. The ntsb will begin processing the data when crews return from sea and that should be by the enof the week. Now, at 5 30, 8 on your side is helping you to get schooled as the new school year that are nervous. Lindsey mastis shows
Surprise when he came faceto face with a 300 pound alligator. Where this gator was hiding out. Good morning and thank you for waking up with us. I am ashley yore. I am james tolley. You are up with abc. Lets check in with the peoples champion, and floridas most accurate forecast, bill logan. By the way, i just had gator for the first time. I ate it. It is the other white meat. Takes a lot like chicken. I would rather eat it then rescue it. We will have a growling start to the day. Speaking of gators. Seeing a few showers offshore from anna maria island. We can fire up the mainsail the east of i75. Through Temple Terrace towards pennant creek and wesley chapel. None of this is very heavy but just enough to get the windshield wet. Moisture from the southeast and that is where the rainfall is going to come from by later on. Still seeing a lot of moisture out here to the west moving the texas coastline towards houston. It will be a mess for those folks as they cleanup and you see the soggy
Stretches from looks like around avon park all the way across the northern sections of hardy county. Most of polk county is quiet and good new is the thunderstorm activity will likely lessen especially as we head into the later evening hours. That is is a pretty strong storm. Back to you. Here and gone in a hurry. Thank you steve. Classroom crisis in polk county. Doors open this week at a new school. Citrus ridge academy. But schools are being told Melissa Marino has reaction from parents in polk county. Reporter good evening. As you can imagine, parents are frustrated. This school was built to alleviate overcrowding and it is already over capacity. What is today . Tuesday . Tuesday and my kids are not in school yet. Reporter Jacqueline Sanchez is beyond frustrated. She claims she has been trying for weeks to get her tenyear old son enrolled at Citrus Ridge Academy and she says there is not enough room. They said they are not now where do i go from here . School already started. Report