Sentinel this morning. Ntinel the headlines our community will heal. Eal. The newspaper opted to put a editorial on the front with message of unit. Of u par of it reads we must not muo let sundays heinous act of a o brutality and cowardice defineef our community. Ommu Islamic State radio calledioe mateen a soldier in the fight t against america. The gunmans exwife is speaking out as well as his father who is revealing hisis sons possible motive here. Foxs Caroline Shively joinse us now from orlando with theithe latest developments. Elopme simply horrible. Or good morning. Reporter . Reporter absolutelybsolutely horrifying allison and the big g question of course this morning is who was this man . Mn why did he do this . As thethiss investigation really starts tors ramp up this monday morning we are learning more about theni man who police say is responsible. He would get in his tempers. Mp he would express hate for things, toward everything. Reporter mentally unstable, thatsep how 29ye
This car was shot up during the exchange of gunfire around 11 00 last night. We dont believe the metro transit officer was injured. Were not sure of the condition of the other person that officer was exchanging gunfire with. It happened near the dean wood metro station outside dean Wood Community and remember center and again around 11 00 last night d. C. Police handling investigation still on the scene here. Minnesota avenue is on metro buses running long min mip avenue and this 4900 block of coral street northeast remains closed as d. C. Police in the rain this morning continue investigation steve and alliso allison. All right. Bob. Thank you. In Prince George county a man fighting for his life after he was shot in a parking lot where ice cream trucks are scored. It happened 6 00 last evening in 6100 block of app may have been attempted robber robbery. No word on dus suspect. Montgomery county firefighters battling massive plays here high school when they got there the home was fully
Tunnel. We got word that he is on city streets right new on surface streets. This is video from earlier you can see the car driving along on the highway, and if you watch, the video we have, you can see that police are keeping a very far distance from the black fourdoor sedan. They are being cautious. The chase started in the peninsula in menlo park and they have not said why they are following this person. Look at this other video we have you can see the driver holding something outside of his car and it looks to be a metal object. We watched as he got off the freeway at one point in oakland earlier and caused one accident as i mentioned, and he got back on to the freeway headed now through the east bay and we are watching this closely in the newsroom with a crew on way to the scene in the area and will bring you updates as they happen. Now, over to alexis. How is it affecting things this morning . Police are holding track back obviously foreigns safety and going very slow if you happ
Look west toward the beach we go. Gorgeous start in clearwater beach, but if you wait until 3, 4 00 approaching and off the beach inside. Big warmup. In the low 80s in tampa. 82 in tampa, sarasota and venice. St. Pete and clearwater feeling like with the humidity near 90 in spots. And another warm start to the day and an east wind that pushes the rain to the west. And in the coastal waters. To the sou a for some deeper moisture that are not gradually heading our direction into the part of the week. Around our area high clouds to the south. And plenty of deep tropical moisture and while our disturbance that we have been watching near the bahamas have not moved much, there is more moisture. It is being sheared though. And while we are talking about a sheared system. Notice where that is and the brighter pink and oranges are. That is the convection east and south of the center along the new models to show you. And before you panic, what they are showing is while more models have it clippi
Dangerous storms hammering the eastern half of the country. The death toll climbing to at least eight people. Four of those died in virginia. More than 238,000 people without power from the carolinas to maine. This tuesday there have been at least 34 confirmed tornadoes. We have it all covered including the impact on travel. Well start with miguel almaguer. Reporter the storm took at least eight lives. Three were killed in this region alone. The storm went right through this community. It was a powerful and deadly system. Another night of severe weather. In pennsylvania some 50 homes damaged. Dangerous winds in new york city. In long island firefighters rushed to extinguish cars on in washington, d. C. Hammering hail. It was the smallest towns hit with the biggest damage. Overnight rescues in virginia. Some communities wiped off the maps as homes were destroyed. Took my truck up in the air and glass was coming in. I thought the truck was going to turn over. Reporter frank rose witnesse