State of emergency florida is part of these headlines. Headlines dont tell the whole story. Jennie dean is Digging Deeper to find out if this abundance of caution could hurt tourism. Reporter port tampa bay was busy today. We talked to people heading out on a cruise. They were surprised the governor declared a state of health emergency. One thing we learned from the bp oil spill is perception is real. People thought our beaches were covered in oil so they didnt come here. Now if they think florida is dangerous from the zica virus tourists may go somewhere else. I think tourism definitely could be affected. People get scared quickly. It doesnt take much. Governor scott says he has good reason for declaring the health we are requesting that the cdc provide us with at least 1,000 zica Antibody Test kits to test pregnant and new mothers who traveled to affected areas with the symptoms. Reporter in a statement the ceo said he would prefer if the governor took a more cautious approach to the
Right now, an amber alert is in effect for two children last seen in st. Petersburg. They were staying with their grand importants but they are now believed to be with their mother. Authorities fear the children may be in danger. We are live with the very latest. Reporter good evening. Were in front of the grandparents house. This is where the kids were last seen sometime late last night. And its believed that their mother came into the house, she has a key and took them sometime in the overnight hours now take a look at some of the pictures police. This is 5yearold and her brother, a 4yearold. Again, they were last seen sometime last night. Their mother. Now she lost custody of the kids back in august. She was allowed to have supervised visits and this the first time she has taken the kids like this but they say in that if she loses custody of the children that she will kill herself and the children. So theres a lot of concern to find the kids and find out that theyre okay at this tim
While the shooting is offcamera, you can hear what happened next. [ gunfire ] reporter immediately after the shooting, the sheriff defended his guys, claiming thompkins while handcuffed grabbed burdens gun, forcing burden to shoot him. Tonight we know it didnt happen that way. In order for this to have happened, he has to have taken his hands, come around like this, been able to while handcuffed do this, do this, do this, and is then get the gun out. Didnt happen. Reporter the sheriff tells me deputy burden seen here from his days as a st. Petersburg police officer, acted contrary to law and fabricated the events of that night. And there was a good witness. Deputy randall was there the entire time. And testified that dylan was mouthy, but he never offered any active resistance and never reached for or touched deputy burdens gun. Reporter the sheriff told me there was not a struggle for deputy burden to believe he was in any danger for his life. As for thochl kins holmes, he thompkins h
New details today in a lawsuit against disney. An Alabama Family claims a snake wrapped itself around a boys leg, biting him. Doctors say the snake was not poisonous. His great grandmother saw it happen and had a heart attack and died a couple days later. The disney claims the snake was wild, not part of an exhibit. The family plans to file a lawsuit in the next few weeks. A cruise ship that was supposed to end in cozumel on a fourday cruise will stop in three days and wont stop anywhere. The passengers on board could not get off the ship because of fog, so folks that were supposed to leave yesterday got a day to spend in tampa. Very disappointed, but theres nothing we can do it nobodys hurt, everybodys good. They got our bags. We just got to best out of it. Carnival cruiseline gave them a 50 refund on their cruise and 50 for a future cruise. The gasparilla parade is tomorrow and we have Team Coverage as we prepare for giant event beginning with the weather. Hey, julie. Good afternoon.
18 minutes from now, right now were 52 in tampa. Head north to Citrus County and were in the 30s. Chilly temperatures to our north. Citrus county, all the way down to sarasota county. Were looking at high, thin clouds drifting through the area. No rain from these clouds, just, again, persistent, high, thin clouds throughout the day. Throughout your morning, temperatures in the 50s, kind of cool this afternoon, topping off near 70 degrees at 3 00 p. M. Which is where we should be for late january. Candace . All right, bryan, thank you very much. It is the day the bay area has been waiting for, gasparilla. X marks the spot and the place to be is tampa. Hundreds of thousands of pirates are preparing to invade tampa bay today for the historic gasparilla celebration. Mary mcguire joins us live in tampa where the pirates and parade goers are set to be hanging out all day long. Good morning, good morning and happy were just out here enjoying this gorgeous sunrise and the views of beautiful do