Down the dark tinted windows when four Law Enforcement officers surrounded him. Instead we are met with gunfire. He shoots out of the passenger side of the vehicle toward the height of officers. Reporter hita is an acronym for a Task Force Made up by several agencies who target wanted felons in polk county. We shot back because he shot at us and we have shot at him a lot. Reporter cops dragged perry from the car, performed cpr and called an ambulance. Police chiefs from the three judd saying how glad they are every one of them avoided being shot. These officers have families to go home to and tonight they were faced with a very dangerous situation. Reporter Francis Perry is facing a long list of charges to be added to a rap sheet thats at least 100 pages long. He has numerous arrests in polk county trying to kill Law Enforcement now one of the most serious. And the message is very at Law Enforcement officers if you dont want to be shot. Reporter good message there. The sheriff tells me
60s temporarily. Its a steamy 71 in wauchula this morning. Dew points instead of in the low 60s north of the bay, theyre higher as that even wind brought the moisture back quick yesterday as expected. With it hefr storms last night from lakeland to anna maria. Thank goodness were dry this morning, and we will stay dry this morning as the east wind keeps that storm 60 miles offshore at bay pushing to the wegs. A stalled front still in place it will bring a 40 rain chance Late Afternoon and evening. The movement is to the west, so well be watching sky tower for the bucs games. Cant rule out lightning, unfortunately. In the tropics a powerful hurricane. Category 4 matthew is slowing moving northwest. The outer fringe is approaching haiti where they could see catastrophic rainfall starting right now through wednesday. Heres the 5 00 a. M. Advisory, 150 mileperhour winds making it a strong track storm. This is bigger issues for mountainous southeast cuba and haiti. Slowly pushing through th
Hit florida, in this morning tracking this monster storm. A lot of people talking about this. No question, women sitting for in front of what we havent seen in a long time, since 2007. In the caribbean, welldefined. National hurricane center, 150 mile an hour winds, incredibly lowpressure. Outer rain bands beginning brush against southerns manual as it moves to the north in east. Hurricane warnings flying. This will be a devastating storm for haiti no question, not only because of the wind, monday night 125 miles per hour, but they cant deal with the amount of rainfall that will come as a result of matthew. Also jamaica impacted along southeastern bahamas, and making the closest pass to florida. For the time we get into thursday and friday but notice the cone is quite large, forecast errors are significant , we still have to finetune that insurance the cone for you. But it still looks good for florida as it will be east of us, the reliable models, none have pushed this into florida so
With dave. New this morning hillsborough deputies are investigating an armed robbery. At a burger king. Time ago at the restaurant in the carrollwood area. At the corner of gunn highway and lynn. Deputies say an employee was locking up when a man ran towards them with a gun. The robber later ran off. And deputies searched with a helicopter and k9s. The employee appears to be okay. But that robber is still out there. A Woman Told Police she took her eyes off the road. Just for a few moments. And the result was a . Huge pileup on the Courtney Campbell causeway. The causeway is finally back open this morning. At least . Four vehicles were involved, and several people were seriously hurt. Including . Chi it happened just before seven last night at the base of the bridge, near damascus road. On the clearwater side. And fox 13s ken suarez is live on the causeway right now, with the latest. Take vo was tragic Manatee County deputies are looking for the person who . Killed a woman. 44yearold e
Detectives detective with the Hillsborough County have new information. The owner of this house rents out 3 bedrooms to different couples. One of the tenants overheard an argument and approached a man, wood, and he had a gun and he opened fire. The guy that fired the fatal shot was released and not charged. Learning new information about a case of zika. Before news time there is another case of nontravel related zika in miami beach. That brings the total number of locally transmitted cases to florida to 71. Our governor is asking the federal government to fund zika prevention programs. And right now the future of Ride Sharing Companies like uber and lyft is uncertain in hillsborough. The Hillsborough Public Transportation Commission voted patterson has more about what this means, hi, jeff. Good evening, josh and stacy. This vote today the ptc came from objections mayor from bob buck horn. The legislation that urged the pcp to vote on the state law to be formulated. Uber and lyft packed