Allen. jen and im jennifer epstein. Happy halloween a first look at your . Frightening forecast. A developing story this morning in polk county. Where the Sheriffs Office is . Still looking for the driver who . Killed a woman and sent a deputy to the hospital. That deputy was actually on the side of the road trying to . Help the woman. When they . Both got hit. Fox 13s Shayla Reaves joins us now from lakeland, and shayla. The florida Highway Patrol is searching for a driver. Accused of starting a crash. Involving . Four nearby hotel. But as fox 13s evan lambert show us. Theres a key piece of evidence . From that hotel. That could get this guy behind bars. Crushed metal, deployed airbags and broken glass left behind after troopers say a hit and run driver caused this 4car Chain Reaction crash. It happened sunday morning at us 19 and roosevelt boulevard near clearwater. Carl thornton, victim1 21i heard a bang like large bang and then felt an impact and the car just started turning and tu
Driver. Mary join us live now in Pinellas County. That driver appeared in court today. The judge raised the bond to each charge to 25,000 and if he posted bond he will have a gps bracelet and a scram bracelet that detects alcohol. He has been behind burglars bars before. He ran a red light under the influence early sunday morning. Plowing into a rod carterrying two beloved bay area music teachers. Our hearts are all broken. Caroline sine who teaches in st. Pete was driving the rod rodcarterrying sean hankins who teaches at miles elementary and shaw elementary. Prayed for her recovery. Shes energetic. Shes get going. Shes got a lot of love that pours out of her. Youre charged with two charges. This afternoon the accused drunk driver went before a Pinellas County jumg. Weve learned he judge. Weve learned he has numerous traffic violations but his lawyer says hes sorry. Hes very remorseful and sorry to hear about what sine is currently on life support and hankins suffered from a broken ba
Rolled over, driver transported to the hospital. This is just on the tampa side of the Howard Frankland bridge right after you come off the bridge. And physically get to the little causeway portion before westshore. You can see the two inside lanes closed now, fhp doing an investigation. Were not sure how long this is going to last. Not really causing delays. Well stay on top of this and let you know as soon as we do when the road will reopen. Ive been watching this crash on our cameras, you can see it here, two inside lanes block, traffic seems to be getting by fine. About a mile back ive been checking the cameras, waiting to see if were seeing any backups. In these cars headlights coming at me are heading northbound. You can see no delays on the Howard Frankland. Lets check drive times across all Three Bridges so we can see exactly how long its taking to get across. Not bad, were still in in in right now the roads are dry so we cant blame wet roads for the crashes. The roads have bee
Because there was nothing i could do. Reporter the cats are not swimming two miles to get to the middle of the span of the Howard Frankland bridge. Reporter dan hester founded the nonprofit meow now and putting up his own money, 5,000 to try and catch this cat killer. Somebody or somebodies know what is going on. Reporter florida Highway Patrol estimates seven cats have been found on the stretch. A handful of others rescued like this kitten saved last week claudeette watched in horror as the cat was tossed out the window of a truck. Fhp helped save it after he ran into her wheel well. He has a little mark on his face, as he hit the pavement. Reporter hester says its not just animals now because whoever is doing this is sick. Anybody that is abusing an animal is ultimately going to just cant tolerate that. Reporter michael paluska, abc action news. 4 32. Breaking news in st. Petersburg, police are trying to discover who shot two men in a car outside a library. The victims went to Bayfro
Lloyd good evening, i am lloyd sauers. Haley and i am haley hi hinds. Thank you for being with us. There is a major category 4 hurricane in the caribbean right now. Over to meteorologist mike bennett with the latest on matthew. Mike we have reached it watch it reach hurricane strength. Here is how it looks right now. Kind of fluctuating in strength over the last, say, 24 to 36 hours or it is off to the west here. To the east side, we are still seeing strong thunderstorms making their way to hispanola as we speak. The currents wind 45 miles per hour. This has been updated at 5 p. M. And moving very slowly to the northwest at 5 miles per hour. Central pressure at 945 millibars. Started that northward turn and should continue on that northward track over the next couple of days. By monday evening, making its between haiti and cuba this is either going to make landfall or close to it to the Greater Antilles as a mayor hurricane causing big, big problems. Rainfall in the range of 20, 30, ev