Its now 5 . . Thanks for joining us. Im Walter Allen Jen and im jen epstein. Lets start off with a check of the forecast, with dave. Hot and humid with a 50 chance of scattered late day storms. High temps in the lower 90s. Tonight will be warm and soupy; lows in the upper 70s. More late day no closed captioning is jen call it karma. Or just bizarre. But theres an odd twist in a fatal road rage incident in Hillsborough County. wally turns out the man who was gunneddown. Actually killed a man 15years ago. In a similar situation wally fox13s Shayla Reaves is at the Sheriffs Office the man who opened fire this wally jen were also learning more about the woman killed during a Police Academy Training Session in punta gorda. And the officer, who pulled the trigger. jen 73yearold Mary Knowlton was takingpart in a citizens training exercise, tuesday night. And the end of the session, she was selected randomly for a shooting scenario. But officer lee coel accidentally shot her several times. Wit
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Deputies tell us that the driver of the truck lost control near the intersection of livingston avenue and robertson trail. A lieutenant with a Clearwater Fire Department and medic are both suspended for having sex while on duty. The medic is suspended for 15 days and her boss, the lieutenant is off the job for 30 days. The family of a 14yearold girl shot in the head is counting their blessings this morning. Abigail caugh gave doctors a thumbs up sign after they asked her a question. The sign is giving her parents some much needed hope in the aftermath of this horrific tragedy. Its 4 31 on this tuesday morning. Lets turn things over to leigh. Its going to heat up later. It certainly will. For at least the 12 hours or so. Theres two storm systems. One to the north and one out in texas. And look at the threat for Severe Weather across east texas. This is the cold front i am tracking that will come here tomorrow morning. And in the meantime, notice no rain. But some extra cloudy skies this
Homes this morning and crews are going to each apartment looking for anyone who may be trapped. And this same line of storms left a path of destruction in other southern states. Two died in louisiana where preliminary reports indicate a tornado touched down in convent. You can see a Mobile Home Park there completely destroyed. The storm ripped apart buildings and tossed around cars. An incredible scene there. Emergency crews estimate more than a hundred homes and rvs are damaged or demolished. And lets get straight to leigh spann because this storm is headed towards our area. Yeah, its knocking on our door at the this point. And now the tornado watch which means that conditions are setting up that we could see an isolated tornado and strong wind, that goes until 10 00 a. M. For sumpter, citrus, hernando and pasco counties. I talked about it. During the early morning, things would be dry. It passed through the panhandle florida and up toward the carolinas. In fact, right around the gain
On the stove is to blame. We are making calls to find out how serious injuries are. The time right now is 4 01 on this friday morning. We made it. We did. And now we have really seen the colder air start to filter in. Inverness, down to 37 degrees. When you walkout side this morning, a wide range of temperatures. Polk county in the 40s. 45 in lakeland and auburndale but at the coast, upper 50s. So we know its at least colder than yesterday. 16 degrees colder in brooksville and inverness. And you thought yesterday morning felt cool, right . So 11 degrees cooler than this time yesterday in lakeland. All day the today. It wont be as windy but there will still be a breeze and well below the average of 74. I am only expecting 62 and then the coldest night of the cold snap at 42. And on weather and traffic on the 8s, i take you hourbyhour through friday so you can get which is really what i was thinking about. It is. And we have overnight construction leading into the weekend. Whats going on