Ride sharing Companies Like uber and lyft. Today the ptc agreeing on rules mainly with your safety in mind, how to regulate cars d drivers. But the fight is not over yet. Kara is joining us from downtown. Uber and lyft drivers are not happy today. What is the hangup . Reporter you know, it all has to do with the fingerprint background chks. It seems like a simple thing. But from the beginning of this fight, both compan lyft, have said no way, were not going to fingerprint drivers. It comes down to time and money and sometimes the tests can be inaccurate. The county of course is saying its necessary and it will keep you safe. They found out from attorneys that the state law requires that they fingerprint any drivers that they regulate. All right. The next question that i have for you is ridesharing against that finrprinting, right . Rertthats actually true. Theres a coy called fare that prints their drivers right now. Theyre operating in texas. They came into the city of austin after th
Following a developing story from pasco county. A 1yearold girl is in the hospital now, after she was shot in a driveby shooting in port richey. Good morning, im deiah riley. Im dan shaffer. Deputies now telling us they do not think this was a random act of violence. Abc action News Reporter james tully is live in port richey. What have we learned about the childs mother that has police thinking this house was targeted . Reporter dan, the Sheriffs Office telling mother is a documented gang member and that is why they believe this home was targeted but what makes this look even more ruthless is what on the home was targeted. This window here, we counted at least 15 bullet holes and we understand that window leads into this little girls bedroom. This 1yearolds room. She was hit by one of the bullets in her wrist. In the hospital this morning recovering. Injuries not expected to be life threatening. We do have video this morning, home Surveillance Video taken from across the street to sho
And im paul lagrone in for ashley glass glass to the. Action air 1 getting a new view of a sink hole at the mosaic plant in polk county. That water is radioactive, toxic and flowing deep underground. Today were focused on finding how far that water is flowing and whether or not its safe for the people who live nearby to drink. The nows ryan raiche i any reason why they kept this sink hole a secret for three weeks . Reporter theyre saying they did the right thing by notifying the Regulatory Agency and didnt tell the public because there wasnt a risk to the public. Thats their words. This is the knawels plant in polk county across the Hillsborough County light where theyre kind of in crisis mode, dealing with a massive sink hole right beyond that completely drained about a 250 million gallon pond of toxic radioactive water used in the fertilizing manufacturing process. Now, here is the video you have to see taken earlier by action air 1. We have been talking about it all day long. Its un
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Or let us know that. Its a pretty big sink hole. Thats a big sink hole, yeah. Reporter as action air 1 flew over the sink hole, we watched the live stream of the abc action news app. My First Impression is that this the simple size and the depth of that sink hole, its obviously it must have been a large void. Reporter usf geologist phillip ben ennham reacting in real time. Do with all of the rain that we have had, with hurricane hermine. It is possible. Think of the sponge as the florida aquifer. Its porous because of the limestone. Think of this as the stack, the Storage Facility where the sink hole is now. Its leaking. And you pour the water on top of the sponge. And what happens . It gets saturated and all of the dirty polluted water is leaking through and penetrating the aquifer on the other side. Look at the stain. Reporter the doctor believes that the contamination will be confined to the immediate area near the mosaic plant in mulberry giving people like james reason to ask ques