Avenue. A little west of the ybor city area. Firefighters got the flames under control an hour later. There are no reports of injuries. The cause of the fire is now under investigation. Today all pasco county schools will be open following hurricane hermine but some neighborhoods are still drying out from flooding. As abc action News Reporter Cameron Polom shows us three Unsung Heroes spent labor day pulling families out of danger. Reporter hundreds of people felt the devastation of hurricane hermine in its aftermath families are still being forced from their homes. As soon as we got back there we noticed a lot of people still stuck in their homes. Reporter eric, joe and rich were not affected by the flooding but seeing the despair they decided to do what they could by boat. One family helped because they spotted a little girl asking to be rescued. You ok . Saw little elizabeth waiting. She was adorable. In her home, mom, dad and three brothers and sisters all surrounded by water. You
New at 11 00, a headacheland counselor in handcuffs a lakeland counselor in handcuffs tonight. What he called therapy was really a disgusting crime against women. Good evening thanks for joining us im wendy ryan. And im jamison uhler. Michael paluska is the only reporter at his Lakeland Police left there. Michael . Reporter jamison, wendy, theres a note on the office door that says they are closed due to a family emergency, but that they will reopen. According to this arrest report it goes into graphic detail about what that family emergency is. Lakeland Police Arrested 71 yearold Anthony Conti jr. Late tuesday evening for two counts of felony sexual misconduct. Detectives working late into Office Gathering evidence. Police telling abc action news that conti a licensed Mental Health counselor claimed he was starting a, level i treatment to rid a 29yearold patient of toxins in her body that was causing her depression. That socalled treatment involved touching her on the neck, arms, and
Live from the station taking action for you, this is abc action news. They will be caught. A veteran be in with his own walker in broad daylight. Police good evening, thank you for joining us, i am wendy ryan speaking with this man. Reporter the kind of story that infuriates you, that veteran was attacked while walking along here along the sidewalk to the walmart. The card that was used to shut the car that was used the behind the bomber. He punched me in the side in the head. He was grabbing for my stuff. Reporter he has bruises and a knot on his head. They put me through to the ground and started beating me with a walker. He got all my stufa took off. He was attacked after he got off the bus while shopping the attack. You do not care. People so what happened. Reporter this robber ran to the blue durango. He never thought on a friday afternoon with people coming and going from walmart that he would be a target. A few weeks ago he was in a wheelchair because of an injury and he was the
All new at 11 00 the latest track for Hurricane Matthew just released minutes ago. And within the last few hours, matthew now gaining strength and is now a category 5. Good evening. Im jamison uhler. Im wendy ryan. Thanks for joining lets get over to chief meteorologist denis phillips. This has been an insane 24 hours. 24 hours ago this was a category 1 hurricane. In 24 hours it has gone from a 1 to a 5. That is almost unheard of. There is your center. It is moving due west now at 7 miles per hour. Now, the big question not only is how strong it will get, but i think even the bigger question is where is it going. This is the updated track. Now the one thing that is very, a category 4 hurricane over jamaica by monday afternoon. The forward speed is slowed down a little bit. Not the speed of the storm. How fast its moving. Once it goes over cuba it will likely weaken. But notice this. This track has not changed from the earlier track. Theres been a lot of buzz and questions about whether
Sinkhole are damaging water. The protest to fly old glory wherever, whenever. And is the waterresistant iphone 7 really water resistant . We put lindseys to the test. Theyre to expensive to put to testing. If anyone studio wants to think theres a danger . Im lindsey logue. Im james tully. First, this guy, bill logan, the most accurate forecaster. I have my iphone 7 safely ensconced in an otterbox. And safe. And we would do well to get up folks are out there on what is starting out to be a very clear morning. We have the Doppler Radar scanning. We had showers moving through on what was 20 to 30 coverage for your friday afternoon. Same today. 30 to 40 persist coverage maybe, getting to the 90 gz. St. Petersburg at 80degree. Holding on pretty steady. Away from cracking over the horizon. As it does, going to get to 90 to 91degree. Going to watch the temperatures ramp up quickly and showers in the afternoon and ill show you the timing on that ra rain and what you can expect for the second h