3 thanks for joining us. Im walter Allen Vanessa and im vanessa ruffes, in for jen epstein. We start this hour with a Police Pursuit that crossed the bay. 3 vanessa detectives say it started a couple of hours ago in tampa, when someone stole a vehicle from a car lot. Tampa police pursued. With a chopper up in the air following them. And followed the car all the way to st. Petersburg. Where more officers joined in. The thieves pulled over in a residential area. Parked behind a house and ran behind a house and ran inside. But someone there reported them. This morning, threepeople are in custody. 3 3 dave 3 more sunshine on tap for today, with high temps back into the mid 70s. Clear and seasonable tonight, with lows back to the mid 50s. Mostly sunny skies are expected for both saturday and sunday, with 3 no closed captioning is available for traffic. 3 3 3 vanessa it was just named americas best beach. And the weekend weather is gonna be perfect. But the drive to Clearwater Beach will be
Steve a possible change of date for vote 2016 in North Carolina. State lawmakers propose moving the congressional primary to june and eliminate the need for a runoff. The present primary will happen in march. Im steve daniels. Tisha i am tisha powell. At the same time, they are redrawing new maps after a federal ruling said the current maps are unfair to black voters. Joel is live. Joel barring an 11th hour decision from the u. S. Supreme court, the General Assembly will approve those brandnew congressional maps and the brandnew congressional primary day tomorrow, something all sides agree will cause voter confusion. Republicans in the state house were forced to make a major change over when you get to vote washington. The house bill passed in raleigh. Congress people will now be elected on june 7. While republican david lewis led the charge, he is hoping voters will never have to worry about it. Republicans are counting on chief Justice John Roberts to delay a federal court ruling ord
3 3 3 3 a traffic alert. For anyone driving to americas best beach this weekend. Getting to and from Clearwater Beach is going to be a big challenge. Starting in just a few hours. 3 its all thanks to construction at some Railroad Crossings. Its at two csx Railroad Crossings in downtown clearwater. Drivers will have to detour it bridge. Court street will be closed between south myrtle and south Fort Harrison from 9 a. M. Today. Until 11 p. M. Sunday night. The following weekend Chestnut Street will be closed in the same area during the same times. The detours begin on whats sure to be a beautiful and busy beach weekend. 3 3 a young girls joyride. Caused some serious damage. And now. Shes facing charges. 3 Pinellas Park police say the driver that made that mess. Was a 13yearold girl. And the van she was driving. Was stolen. 3 officers spotted her driving the tan honda odyssy on 82nd avenue in Pinellas Park Late Wednesday night. They say she was driving recklessly. When they tried to stop
Driver in the field at age 20. Dale earnhardt jr. Right behind him and cole whitt, another rookie rounding out to current 20. Labonte the veteran. Biffle had problems. Early on, he had a strong ford until he had the bumpup with Danica Patrick on pit road. Parker kligerman in the 29th position. Look for him to take chances and try to charge to the front in this event. There were big names to start in the back of the pack. Carl edwards, tony stewart, bowyer, johnson. Some guy named michael waltrip. I will follow Jimmie Johnson. Hes done pretty well in nascar. I think ill see where he goes all night long. He only has two daytona 500s. Thats all you have. Whats the big the deal . He dhuz does have the championships. We were listening to him in the interview, you felt bad. We could all relate. Were excited about the opening of the season, the daytona 500. I went to sleep last night thinking this is my best chance. And then the engine goes. The good thing about 2014 is he knows his chance to
Matt kenseth at the outside in the 20. Theres patrick to the inside of ryan newman. Why did we ever believe we could not be talking about matt kenseth before this night was over because he was a lap down. Hes been outside the to 7 most of this race. For 200 some laps we havent spoke much about him. Its showtime. Matt always figures out a way to be up there at the end. Need ear factor in practice or qualifying. As Kevin Harvick and jeff gordon both just logged their fastest laps of the night. Kyle larson in that 42 right now hes running in the 12th position and there you see greg biffle in the 16 just behind him in 13th. Biff has a little right side damage. Got in the wall going off turn one but wasnt very severe and hasnt affected the car much at all. That was early on, several laps ago. He makes battling for 3rd, Dale Earnhardt jr. And jeff gordon. Jimmie johnson moves to the inside of Brad Keselowski for 14th. On that last caution, Jimmie Johnson took four tires, Brad Keselowski they