Three or four months ago maybe we should get some people together. And i thought that sounds like a good idea. I started trying to find people. It was difficult. Then stuff started happening in dc that was vaguely reminiscent to some of the things we worked on. And all of a sudden everybody seemed to want to show up. This is just fantastic. On a personal level. Raise your hand if you were on the the committee staff. This is pretty amazing. So, we said goodbye to each other 43, 44 years ago. And when i got ready to do this i called jim hamilton who was my boss back then. I say jim, i mean it ill have it in tomorrow. He says gordon you better have it in tomorrow. So it was just like no time has passed for a lot of us. The other thing i was struck with, when we broke up. I dont know how many remember this. Sam dash had a final meeting and we were all stuffed into his office. And he said this has been the most important thing thats happened in my life and im sure it will ever happen in my
Three or four months ago maybe we should get some people together. And i thought that sounds like a good idea. I started trying to find people. It was difficult. Then stuff started happening in dc that was vaguely reminiscent to some of the things we worked on. And all of a sudden everybody seemed to want to show up. This is just fantastic. On a personal level. Raise your hand if you were on the the committee staff. This is pretty amazing. So, we said goodbye to each other 43, 44 years ago. And when i got ready to do this i called jim hamilton who was my boss back then. I say jim, i mean it ill have it in tomorrow. He says gordon you better have it in tomorrow. So it was just like no time has passed for a lot of us. The other thing i was struck with, when we broke up. I dont know how many remember this. Sam dash had a final meeting and we were all stuffed into his office. And he said this has been the most important thing thats happened in my life and im sure it will ever happen in my
We actually had a tractor trailer crash. Were hearing from f. H. P. , hit the guardrail, some fuel pillage in the area. Extensive cleanup will be underway in the area. Avoid, if you did. Looks like you can take florida or nebraska instead. Well talk about some flooding. If im not talking about your specific area, i will get to you. Pinellas county, sre acr completely impassible workers and residents in the area and also retrstricted acce to stell isle. West of alternate 19, south of curlew road in the dunedin area and also flooding reported alternate 19 closer to tarpon springs. Thats going to be closed completely with the work around being u. S. 19. Flooding reported here along some of the beaches. Gulf boulevard, 155th to johns bayshore drive, 143th to 140th. Work around here is 75. As i mentioned as we go throughout the morning, well check on other flooding spots and other flooding problems. Dave weve always known that the west coast of florida prone to storm surge and that is going
Close to 3 00 a. M. , 4 00 a. M. For lot of spots. We had this big storm tide roll through. And you had some flooding issues. Tidal flooding. Tide going out. So thats better, but i mean we still have fresh water issues that were dealing with. And flood watch continues. Weve had Flood Warnings and i imagine were going to see lot more of those throughout day today. Because this moisture channel, this goes a t way out into the gulf, its not moving much. So it just continues to rain at the heavy rain out of metro area for the time being. I know it had to go somewhere in entrepreneurs now south and east. Duette myakka head. Let me tell you, in arcadia now getting into the act. You get into some heavier thunderstorms, and the winds are gusting 25 to 30 Miles Per Hour. So dont be surprised at some tree limbs are coming down with some of these heftier thunderstorms. Also up into polk county we go 60 from brandon to bartow and over to the lake wales area as well. Sort of coming in behind this.
Up the interstate. That car crash and is on the side of the road with the suspects gun still in the backseat. And then they went east on lake mary boulevard, still Law Enforcement going after them, and they crashed into this blas up. There were a couple of crashes along the way on lake mary boulevard as well. One person in custody, three still on the run. We don t think anyone was hurt. We don t we know that no one was hurt in the incident at the steak and shake parking lot. They want to figure out exactly what was going on. Jim five miles of mayhem. Breaking at 6 00, a deadly accident in Orange County. Meredith and i for worker is dead after being struck by a dump truck. Adrian whitsett is live at the scene. Jim we now know the name of the victim. About 30 minutes ago he is 34yearold marvin franklin. He has been on the job for only about a month. As you mentioned, the i4 construction project, all 21 miles, including this stretch near kennedy boulevard, isn t shut down and will be for