Now the candidates are turning their attention to South Carolinas primary. You will want to hear this before you head out the door, problems this morning with a big road project in largo. Those orange barrels lining ulmerton road are there to stay for now. The Company Working on the project just packed up and left. And now a new company is picking up the work. The ulmerton road project was supposed to be done already and now the hope is it will be completed in a few months. And breaking news this morning, right now a home in Safety Harbor is seriously damaged. You can see in this video here, just in to the newsroom, the Pinellas County Sheriffs Office tells us a vehicle hit this home. Its on Martin Luther king street. And now all this happened this morning. And you can see now, the vehicle has been removed. And we are checking to find out what caused this crash. We will have more on this as we learn more this morning. Now at 6 01, lets get a check on weather with meteorologist leigh sp
You can see him right here with a large box in his hand, inside is the chihuly sculpture. Detectives are also looking for someone else, this man wearing a ball cap with long blond hair who happened to walk by starting a brief 10 second conversation after the art was given back. Detectives would love to talk with the mystery men and see what he saw and what he knows. Not necessarily the best hope but he helps tie the puzzle pieces together. Just one more piece of evidence that could help us out. Reporter and you know what its like in a mystery case like this, every little bit of evidence helps so police are hoping that somebody may recognize the face and they can put this altogether and help solve it. Yeah, even a small bit of information can turn the thing on a dime. What about video from the gallery . Reporter well, 28 cameras were rolling at all times and you can imagine how tedious that is, frame by frame by frame trying to figure out who it is. So we will be on the case all night a
The photo that is led them m to the man, 18yearold ricky blake thompson. Right now hereres on his way to the Pinellas County jail, set to be charged with battery. He told detectives he was there friday night to pick up his young son from his estranged wife, and mistakenly went into the womans restroom, a 16year old girl saw him and started screaming, and d he papanicked and put hihis hand over her mouth to keep her from screaming. Do you believe him . Thats a pretty ridiculous story. Ththe police seem to believe him. He was already in in, and when he goes to exit shshe comes in, she screamed, he panics, reacts in a tremendously bad way, and thats what transpired. Reporter now the Clearwater Police are continuing to could be mar charges, but thats all up more charges, but thats up to the statate attorneys office, and im also told the girl and her father has been informed this man is behind bars now. Back to you. All right,t, mary mcguire, reporting live, thank you. Tonight were getting
The one good thing were not morning. That will change this afternoon but at least for the time being while temperatures are in the 30s and low he 40s you dont wand a wind and we basically have calm winds so that is some good news. Look at this. Still its cold. 36 bartow. Brandon 41. Inverness still 32 degrees. Literally freezing across guess what . More cold air is on the way. The one storm that brought us the wind yesterday is gone so were in the middle now narcs is why the winds relaxed and well get some sunshine but another storm, another front is headed our way as we head through later on today so the wind out ahead of it will turn rather gusty and well, with the southwesterly wind at least temperatures getting back up into the middle 60s but by tomorrow well have once against some very chilly temperatures on the way. So that is the way things are going to go here. Heater back here i think. Its so cold. I was freezing when i walked out the door. I think a lot of people are warmers.
Were keeping tabs on breaking news. Three people on the run now after crashing their stolen car into a house. It happened after 1 00 this morning. Two people and their dogs were home when the car came barreling through. Lindsay logue tawbdz with the homeowner who said her dogs were just inches from being hit. Reporter look at the damage left behind. This pile of wood here, this used to be a white picket fence. If you look here you can see the damage to the side of the house and chimney. Where that black trash bag is . That used to be a window. The scene mlk and 5th in quaint quiet Safety Harbor. Danielle westin and her boyfriend fast asleep. I remember hearing a huge bang and glass breaking and then smoke. She says at first she thought someone was breaking in the impact was so hard it shattered the window and glass flew into the bedroom. Reporter and a street sign, ironically a do not enter sign my dogs were on the couch, they were not hurt. Reporter outside a banged up pt cruiser stol