Hot spots are i4 at u. S. 301 and i75 in Hillsborough County. Coming up in ten minutes well look at drive times and see if the bridges are slow into tampa yet. Good wednesday morning. Welcome to 10 news this morning. Im Allison Kropff. Im ian reitz. Thank you for joining us. Today the city of tampa will be giving out dozens of Weather Radios to managers in Mobile Home Parks across the area. 10 News Reporter emerald morrow is live at the mobile Home Community in dale mabry. Why are officials focusing on this right now . Reporter one of the main reasons why officials want to give away the Weather Radios is because of the bad tornadoes we have been seeing across the state. Heres a look at the damage we saw in south florida this week. Dont forget about the damaging all of this Severe Weather is why tampa fire and Emergency Management officials want to make sure each and every Mobile Home Park has at least one Weather Radio to keep neighbors safe and on alert. It adds an additional layer we
Numbers if you have an emergency. There also at our website, wtsp. Com. You can hear, a rally outside the headquarters for pinellas schools. A push to make changes at schools that of the worst in the state. We are there live right now jonathan, what is going on behind you . A couple of dozen protesters trying to get the Pinellas County school board to listen and make changes to what is basically the five were schools in the entire state. This comes from a massive Tampa Bay Times investigation labeling of the failure factory. And essentially they say 2007 the school board got rid of integration and all the schools, which led to this situation. They didnt keep up with funding in the poorer schools as promised. There was massive teacher promised. There was massive teacher turnover and a lot of problems this investigation started over the summer. The National Secretary of education is coming, the state of floridas also investigating. Coming up tonight at 6 00 p. M. We will have reaction fr
Cuba are charter flights. Soon commercial airlines could start bidding for 110 u. S. Cuba flights a day. Some will likely be from this airport. The airlines are bidding over the next two weeks. Last year nearly 74,000 people traveled from tampa to cuba. Im also Digging Deeper to figure out how the upcoming election could change our relationship with cuba. Republican president ial marco rubio and ted cruz have cuban roots and vow to cut cuban ties if elected. They say they have seen no change in cubas oppressive regime. President obama said cuba is making big strides. Today well learn if the flight to cuba could coincide with the ill be back with that part of the story at 6 30. Senator ted cruz is responding to Donald Trumps threat to sue him calling a lawsuit frivolous. Trump is upset over an ad being run by cruz saying donald trump is prochoice. If you want to challenge this ad file a lawsuit. In a statement trump said he is prolife and would not support taxpayer funding for planned p
Blaze in philadelphia. The cold and storms are making this trip back home tough if many. The latest on that battle for the Supreme Court. Youre looking live right now at the Supreme Court building in washington, d. C. The flag there at halfstaff to honor Justice Antonin Scalia. Scalia, the longest serving member of the court. His fight over his replacement already so fierce. Team coverage this morning. We begin with new details about Justice Scalias final hours at that texas ranch. Jim avila has the latest. Good morning, jim. Reporter good morning, george. This luxury hunting ranch is now virtually empty. A hunting trip interrupted by the guest of honor. This morning, Justice Antonin Scalias body is heading to rest at the Supreme Court after being flown to Dulles International this as Good Morning America learns details about his last hours from the man who discovered his body behind the drawn cur tans of this 500 a night room at a luxury Hunting Lodge in west texas. He was totally pea
3 walter its now 5 thanks for joining us. Im walter epstein. Lets start off with a check of the forecast, with dave. 3 dave 3 3 no closed captioning is available for traffic. 3 3 vanessa 3 3 3 3 vanessa 3 3 3 wally now to an update on a big traffic problem in pasco county. A truck that was hauling a crane, slammed into an overpass. That shut down i75 for several hours. Near overpass road, just south of state road 52. One lane re opened around five pm. And all lanes were back open by 11 last night. 3 wally this is a closeup look at the damage that crane caused when it hit the overpass. The driver is aubrey reed from texas. He was not hurt. But he was ticketed for carrying an oversized load. Inspectors spent all night checking out that overpass. To make sure it was structually sound. walter voters head to today, in the very first president ial primary this season. jen already, the final results in one tiny village are surprising. 3 jen Dixville Notch is one of three communities in the st