No closed captioning is a 71year old man accused of hitting and killing a woman in lake wales, before taking off is expected to make his first appearance in court this morning. Polk county sheriff grady judd. Says Charlie Lewis confessed to being the driver. . After his arrest thursday. Lewis told deputies he had been drinking at a party before saturday mornings crash. The accident killed 33year old jessica enchan tegeeotero. And severely jessica had flagged down the deputy after crashing her car on state road 60, thats when Officials Say lewis drove his truck into them. And kept going. The sierra club is joining forces with a polk county lawmaker. In an effort to tighten regulations on the phosphate mining industry. And expand testing of Drinking Water in mulberry. This is in response to the massive sinkhole that opened at mosaics mulberry fertilizer plant in august. That opening. Dumped aquifer. Mosaic continues to say that water has not spread beyond the plant. Neighbors however say
Skyway bridge and leslee will have more in a bit. But first, lets check on the fog with leigh. It really is not widespread. Its all contained basically from the Sunshine Skyway bridge down through manatee and western portions of sarasota county. This is a visibility map. I shows you how far you can see. And 10, 9, 7mile visibility means basically no fog at this point. Its not until you go down to sarasota where you get less than a mile. So now im going to use a fog forecast. Using the same visibility. How far you can see. Going forward in time now until about 7 45, i expect the fog to get a little bit more widespread for areas near the coast. Basically from tampa west toward the shoreline, places like polk county and highlands, not going to be as bad. The thickest part of the fog should be between 7 00 a. M. And 9 00 a. M. Again, especially near the coast. And after 9 00 a. M. , everybody clears out except the immediate coastline. Most of the day. So if its not foggy for you, the bigge
Sparked overnight in the attic. Thankfully everybody is okay. And closing arguments in the hulk hogan sex tape trial are scheduled to begin today. Terry gene bollea, he is suining gawker for 100 million. The website published a sex tape showing him with the ex wife of a tampabased radio personalty. More on that story y and others in a few minunutes. But we want to check on ththe weather as we head into the weekend, leigh. Temperatures are maybe in some places a degree or two cooler. 60 in brooksville. Down to 58 degrees in zephyrhills. Still well above average but cooler than yesterday. 65 bartow. 61 currently in apollo beach. And patchy clouds across the area already. And i think were going to see more cloud cover throughout the day than we saw yesterday. And you might be drawing your attention into the gulf of mexico. A lot of rain across the i10 corridor and just south of the Panama City Beach area at this point. To stay north of i4. Im only putting in a 20 rain chance for a shower
Heading toward her says Deputy Kotfila intentionally drove into the vehicle to prevent the wrongway driver from hitting her. Kotfila will be laid to rest friday. Gas stations in florida will now be required to upgrade Safety Measures at gas pumps. The new law is designed to prevent Identity Theft from skimmers. Gas stations that dont complete with the new law could have pumps shut down dont comply with the new law could have pumps shut down. The skyway bridge is closed right now because of the heavy fog moving into the area. This is a live look from the Traffic Camera on the bridge. Florida Highway Patrol tells us visibility is less than 100 feet in some spots there. So hard to see anything really. Lets turn things over to leslee lacey to find out more. Yeah, its tough when they close the skyway bridge because theres no easy alternate. It is i75. Is actually condensation on the and this is at the top of the skyway bridge. No longer seeing vehicles go by. Fhp says it ised. The only alte
Loss in arizona. On the republican side, ted cruz won utah and will take that states 40 delegate, however frontrunner donald trump won arizonas gop primary with the prize of 58 delegates. And today, family and friends of Hillsborough Deputy john kotfila will say goodbye in massachusetts. Deputy kotfila die when had a wrongway driver hit him on the selmon expressway. And lets get a check on the weather. Meteorologist leigh spann joining us. Good morning. Theres still a slight chill in the air this morning but not as cold as yesterday. Certainly no frost advisories out there. 45 in inverness, yeah, you will feel that chill. 56 in tampa. 55 in venice. Heres the difference between yesterday and today, its eight degrees warmer in brooksville right now. And we will continue warming up quickly, hitting 80 this and down to about 63 tonight. So in weather and traffic on the 8s, rain chances into the forecast for easter weekend. First, we will check on the traffic this morning. A little bit of o