Try today remain afloat. The third time he came up, he went down, he never dame came up. People saw this from the shore, called 911. There is a search for the man out here at the Courtney Campbell causeway just east of the main boat ramp right near a sand bar. Here,ly zoom in for you. This is tampa fire rescue. They have divers in the water and the diver haves been in the water the past hour. Maybe a little bit more looking for this Fire Agencies as well as the Tampa Police Helicopter and coast guard on the scene. We have a man pushing a boat from a sand bar. Surfaced, the third time, he never came up. It is a very active scene. Back to you. Paul lamison live, thank you paul. We will stay on top of this breaking story and give you updates as soon as we get them. Well, many people wait until they get in the boating amendments they can vote on. There is one that Florida Electric companies are spending a million to support. They are saying the wording is deceiving. Candace mccowan breaks
Agencies responded. And here is tampa fire rescue. They had divers in the water the past two hours. The divers are now out of the water but they are continuing the search. A coast guard helicopter is here as well. It is still an active scene and they are still actively looking for this man who went under while pushing a boat off the sand bar right off the Courtney Campbell causeway. Thank you paul. A grim situation out there. We will stay with you and get side investigation, safeguarding your vote. Are elections safe and secure or ripe for the picking . A Hillsborough County woman believes someone tried to commit Election Fraud using her personal information. When we did some digging we found there is not much being disown to stop it. Steve andrews joins us now. So, whose job is it to prevent Election Fraud in the first place . Reporter apparently, it is now, the Hillsborough County supervisor of elections relies ton state to weed out phony applications. When i pressed them, i realized
Boating off the courty. Campbell causeway. We have been watching the scene for several hours now, and paul, any update . Reporter good evening, jenn. No updates. This is the boat ramp on the Courtney Campbell causeway and im going to show you the boat with the blah awning. What happened is a man is in the boat with his fiancee and the boat got stuck on a sand bar. He jumped out of the boat on the sandbar to push the boat off, and he had trouble floating and went under once or twice. The third time he did not surface. People from the shore saw this and called 911 and prompted a search. You can see the fire vehicles here. Im going to pan down here. This is where they are concentrating the search. These folks have been out here since before 4 00 p. M. And they are still out here looking in the water to try and resurface and they have boats upped and down this part of the bay looking and divers in the water periodically. If i push in here, here are the divers from tampa search and rescue.
We have those stories and more coming up. First ivan has a look at the forecast and hopefully the weather will be nice. It will be a fantastic weekend. It will feel finally like fall. We are a month late but we will get to it and this weekend. 70 tampa and clearwater. Mid70s in st. Pete. Not representative of what we have as far as the temperature because we are near the water that will be the case as the cold air moves in. Much colder interior north. If you hate the cold air, head out to the beach this weekend next to the water there. As far as temperatures today, one last day of mid80s. We wont see this for several days here. We will talk about how cold we get saturday and especially sunday morning in a couple of minutes. Good morning, everybody. Heading out the door on this friday, a couple of crashes to major delays. A crash i4 westbound after hillsborough. You can see they have moved the crash to the side there. So, not causing problems out there. A crash on the 275 southbound ram
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