A Backyard Party wednesday night. Three others were injured. Fire investigators are trying to determine what started a fire at a house on 17th avenue in tampa. The home had no electricity. Investigators believe the fire was started by squatters. All right, it is 5 30 on this prefriday. Lets turn things over to brian bennett. I like that. Temperatures in the 60s across much of the tampa bay area. St. Petersburg 67. Tampa, 68. Sarasota right now is 6 6 degrees. Satellite and radar picture. We are dry. Just a few high, thin clouds drifting through the area. So its going to be a nice day. Partly cloudy skies and warm with a high of 83 degrees this afternoon. Warm all across the tampa bay area in the middle 80s. The immediate coastal locations will be a tad cooler. Clearwater right around 79 degrees but for the most part, remaining on the warm side no matter where you live. And coming up at 5 38, ill trend to see if we have any temperatures below 80 degrees. How about traffic . Anybody trav
Transported to the hospital where he expired. This is early in the investigation, now. Were not going to release any names at this point as we get ahold of the families of both drivers. Can you explain where this happened and what way the wrong way driver was going . The driver apparently may have gotten on right down the road from us at this point and going westbound while the flow of traffic was eastbound and had begun entering was up entering an elevated portion of the express way and our deputy was eastbound who had just left tampa bay General Hospital after working a traffic crash down in district 4 and was in route back to his district when the vehicle struck. Do you know about how fast they were going . Thats too early at this point, but it was a high speed crash. Trying to stop this wrong way driver . Its too early in this point. It appears the deputy was trying to get out of the way. Can you say how the deputy was doing . The deputy is decease. This has been a theme here in ta
One person shot there taken toet the hospital. E hpita that stabbing happened justt after three 30 this morning on30 benning road t northeast. Police say that victim iss expected to survive. Ve also on benning road a on a double shooting overnightoternit right near a school. Oo our Melanie Alnwick is liveia in southeast with that part of r the story. Reporterstory. Ory. Melanie good morning. Reporter good morningr g steve and allison. The shooting in the 4700 block of benning road is what rs kicked off this seri wes of violent events here in southeast and near southeast. Eat this one was at 12 52 in the morning. You can see they have startedrtd to clean up the area, pretty p much cleaned it up. Ch c the school right across the street from where multiple shots were told rang out. Ut a source tells me that it was t the spot the shot to dot to o ever that alerted d. C. Police. C to the scene here. To t scene h take a look at the scene. Sne you will see indeed multipleulti gun shots, as ma
Parking lot where there are multiple evidence markers andar shell casings and police still continuing cleaning up andg processing the crime scene sne there. Here you can see they alsoo still have the tape out this o i morning, probably waiting wti until daylight as well toight release this scene, make sureaku that they havent left anything behind in thisehin t investigation. In the two men shot initially, weae were given information thatonha their injuries may have been mae critical. Critical. Then once those men weree transported to the hospital, hpi their conditions were upgradedud saying there they would onlyhere have minor injuries. Ornjur but again, this is just one ofo the incidents last night. Ight an hour after this shootingho here own benning road, there t was a shooting on atlantic atlac avenue in southeast as well. Wel also one male shot there. Tre that man is expected to survive his injuries as well. Aw and then as you mentioned, mentd there was a stabbing also just j a cou
Crash that has caused an incident and that is summit road is closed between section and edge mont road because of an earlier car crash took dune two poles down two poles and wires are down, and they are saying it could be until the afternoon before the area is reopened. Have a photographer on the way to the scene and bring you more images from it. We know that you got to avoid summit, got a report from police that there was a driver going the wrong way 275, and obviously, its very dift to try difficult to try to capture that on the cameras and pulling a person over of the i will let you no if i see anything or if we have anybody pulled over, for now i dont see anything that is causing traffic issues. Hopefully they will get that person pulled over, as we look at the interstates, no other issues pulled over. We will let you know when to today a local mother will be in front of lawmakers showing how its changing her 14monthold daughters life. Scarlet leisure says 14monthold savannah has