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
Last year. Breaking it down county by county, hillsborough also declining in arrests. One is too many. Reporter Steve Gaskins says a tampa Bay Area Task enforcement has helped curb drunk driving. The numbers, those are high numbers and were glad that youre guys are getting drunk drivers off the roadways. I would like for them to not be so busy. Reporter madd is taking their cause to convicted dui offenders so they are stopped immediately from driving impaired and not waiting until a second time for them to have that device in their car. Reporter 28 states require those interlock ignition devices after every dui conviction. Right now in florida, its only required after a second offense. In pinellas park, ryan smith, abc action news. And the man who did it is still on the loose right now. The Sarasota Sheriffs Office looking for this man. You see him. He jumped over the counter and robbed the clerk at knife point and then ran away on foot. In hillsborough, deputies looking for this man,
She was just spot son. Reporter karin remembers getting a frantic call from shawns mother early sunday morning. They were going on a date and coming back. Reporter Bryce Mccloud was impaired when he hit them. He remained at the scene. From what i understand, he was cooperative at least up to a point. Reporter both were badly hurt. Caroline succumbed to her injuries monday. But not husband had a chance to stay goodbye. They took us to the place where caroline was and we all got to pay our respects. It was important for eric to say goodbye to her for shawn and he said what he had to say. I said what i had to say and we all told her we loved her. Harvesting sines organs for donation. The band has created a go fund me account to help both families. Keith . Jamel lanee, thank you. New tonight, a disturbing case of child neglect. There food, trash everywhere. At the children lived liken malls in a cage. The children ranged between 8 and 17. They were ordered not to have contact with the chil
He makes it look easy right now. And the United States is onto the quarterfinals. This was a tremendous routine. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Olympic Games with matt lauer live from rio de janeiro, brazil, and Savannah Guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a split edition from rio and new york. Can we start by saying its a Beautiful Day. Can we show you a shot of the most decorated u. S. Woman in olympic track and field history. That is Allyson Felix. She now has [ applause ] a dramatic finish to the 400 also it was the finish that people will be watching for a long, long time. It was a dive that ended in basically a photo finish. Today is also the final day of gymnastics. Simone biles is looking to bounce back on the floor. She finally proved by the way that shes human, all right. She lost her balance on the beam. En you have to give it to 16yearold Laurie Hernandez. She made the most of her lone individual event
The limit. Parents like Jacqueline Sanchez are left scrambling. She finally got a special form to see if another nearby school will take her child. I was coming here for three weeks, twice a week to make sure that he came here. And it was always a situation where he wasnt able to he was not able to start here. Now, you know, i have to go somewhere else. Reporter tonight the district is apologizing for the experience. Saying the overwhelming demand for the new school in a growing part of town is what caused the issues. The students enrolled and present here today will have a spot at citrus ridge but the numbers are over what the capacity for the school can handle. Reporter the district will consider adding porible classrooms to accommodate. James and his family are still crossing their fingers. Fingers, toes, everything. Reporter the superintendent will meet with her staff this thursday to figure out the best way to move forward. It will likely mean portable with hiring more teachers an