A huge loss for Major League Baseball over the weekend. On sunday. Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez died, after a boat crash in south florida. And joses death hit very close to home. Because he went to Alonzo High School right here in tampa. Fox 13s Shayla Reaves joins us live from alonzo high this morning. Where the tributes have been pouring in. A local rap artist is dead. After a shooting in haines city. Police tell us 31yearold jonathan lee jordan who went by j. Green was shot along north 10th street around 8 saturday night. It was right near cook field where a youth Football Game was being played. Jordan later died at lakeland Regional Medical center. Police havent made any arrests. A new war is being waged. When it comes to the zika virus. But this time its between elected officials in south florida. And the department of health. Both sides have been going back and forth the past few days. Over the . Location of mosquito traps where . Zika was discovered in those bugs. The mayors o
Pete. Fox 13s crystal clark here with more. Reporter teams are in place, uniforms have been handed out, and at this Point Little League Officials Say they cannot and will not turn back and cancel the season despite being unable to pay their bills. Young players proudly sported their new uniforms at tuesday nights game. But hopefully they kept the tags on. We have local people who have printed our thousands of dollars in debt is how president david vann says the northeast Little League is starting their season. With barely enough money to keep the lights on and the gates unlocked at their field on 45th avenue north. Parents were told to pay their registration fees through an Online Service called jevon. Each time a parent pays the company is supposed to transfer the money into the league funds from all the parents that have paid. Reporter Officials Say many customers were getting charged twice on their websites which alerted their banks. That trigger add Fraud Investigation through Merc
Reporter we met up with nelson outside of his apartment a mile and a half away from the bank. He said he didnt know about that gun and told us several times he wouldnt do an interview. How it 1 30 you could try to murder someone and then 8 00 you are walking the streets. Largo police tell me they charge people for what they have probable cause to charge them with. The state attorney might charge them with more. The victim has a with the law himself. I have a huge list on my phone, several misdemeanor charges, he went to federal prison for manslaughter and yesterday the state attorney decided to go forward with a Battery Charge from a road ra iin april. Portg live in largo. Oach has been found guilty with unlawful sex with a minor. Years and has to register as a sex offender. Police arrested him in november of last year after dna evidence revealed he got one of his udents pregnant. Coing to his file he worked at northeast and the dallas park high school. For information about a tragic d
To buy it. They said no, they want us off the property. Reporter tonight this mother is hoping for a miracle. Im lost. Im homeless. I dont have anywhere to go. Reporter in tampa, clifton french, abc action news. Well, judge university in the last hour we got a call from the bank. They are giving this family an extension until at least october 7th while they investigate what happened. Now the most Accurate Weather Team in florida, abc action weather. Good evening, everyone. This is a look at category 4 hurricane matthew. Stngerhing is a beast getting new ren is actabout to fly in right now. We will see if it potentially could become category 5. This will be a major issue for the island of jamaica sunday into monday. There is the latest track. Afterwards, theres the big question. Once it exits cuba, is it going to be more of a westerly track, northerly track, easterly or stall out . Stalls out for a three or four day stretch out in the bahamas. Obviously a lot of this can change. We will
Think about that. How often do you have the First Advisory issued on a Tropical Storm not over water but over land and i am trying to think i have never seen that before and that may be a reflection of what happened in louisiana with the low producing all the rain for them which is probably a tropical system. It will impact our weather in the sense from a southwest wind and band of showers and storms overnight and most areas dry and tomorrow around tampa bay. 30 about the 3 north. 1. 6 and top winds 40 and likely moving to georgia and weakening with time and shouldnt be a big windmaker. Lots of big rain in the scheme of things and manageable for folks on the east coast. Ponte vedra and Tropical Storm warnings in effect and we will talk about that and our local forecast at 11 20. Frightening for this guy in tampa. The battery in his lap top exploded and caught fire. He says it could have been worse and burned his house down had he not been there. Haley hunt with his warning for all of u