Nonstop daily flights will start out of tia. But if you book before november 20, you will get a special rate. Thats right. 59 for you. Free bags, smiles, amazing. A journey of less than an hour. Reporter that is for flights operating december 12 through april 24 of next year. The airline also announcing today it is operating a connecting flight through the Fort Lauderdale deal, the voyage south has to happen before april 24. Looking back, it has been 50 years since we have seen flights to cuba from any u. S. City thanks to the communist revolution. Jen . This is exciting news for a lot of people. Southwest is not the First Airline to fly to cuba. Reporter thats right. Jet blue landed first in santa clara. Then Silver Airways and American Airlines started as new tonight, 14yearold Alexander Perez is charged as an adult in a Home Invasion that killed an 81yearold man. Perez is accused of viciously attacking robert walker. Newschannel8 spoke with walker just hours before he died at the ho
Into our newsroom. Allegations of collaborations with cab industry to keep uber and lift to operating in hillsborough county. That was at topic of an emergency meeting this morning of the hillsborough Public Transportation commission. Fox 13s aaron mesmer is there sounds like they were ment of fireworks at that meeting. Yeah, got a really heated. Got contentious at timesBoard Members used lot different words and phrase circus witch nt collusion. And sham as they argued with one another. At state was a Public Perception of the Public Transportation commission. And also the future of executive director kyle cochran has come under fire after emails surfaced between him and members of taxi industry in which he worked with taxi and limo drivers to participate in sting operations aimed at ticketing uber and lift drivers. Cochran says he was simply enforcing regulations limo drivers who compared their partnership to a neighborhood watch. But chairman called for this emergency meeting accused
A warning this morning for parents this morning. A boy in pasco county says a man tried to lure him into the woods. And it happened Shayla Reaves joins us . Live from Wesley Chapel this morning. With more on this. And shayla. A lot of parents have to be concerned about sending their kids off in Polk County Police in lake wales are trying to track down two people. Who robbed a Convenience Store owner. And then . Killed him. This video shows the hooded robbers running away after shooting mohamed allam, one of the owners of qp, a Convenience Store in lake wales. It happened around two am thursday. Investigators say allam had just closed the store , when the robbers told him to complied, they . Still shot and killed him. If you recognize him, call lake wales police. And take a good loook at these pictures. Detectives in Hillsborough County need your help finding this man. These are surveillance images from a Subway Restaurant on brandon boulevard. Wednesday afternoon. Deputies say this man
Expected to speak the ceremony just gonts under way fox 13 dan maddox is live. We have so much to thank our veterans for. So much indeed. Im going to keep my voice a little low at this point you can tell with ceremony still going on behind me. This really very, very elaborate probably most elaborate veterans day ceremony ive seen. Let me stay out way to show you exactly whats going on. Give you look at just the size of the crowd here. Youre looking at thousands of people, families of vetan veterans themselves. You army, navy, air force just to name a few. This started with collar guard from several different high schools and several different organizations. But this really is juicy truly a very touching ceremony to honor to thank those who have served. And to thank their families as well. Theyve been through a tremendous ordeal. Of course, many of the veterans here are in fact disabled that ceremony. And its, a very moving to see just how touched they are. Right now weve got an i belie
Minute with look at the skytower radar forecast. Right now though, some st. Petersburg roads are being flooded because of the consistent rain. Just minutes ago car had to be pushed out road after being stuck. Look at that. All of that water. Keep in mind, were just getting going here with this thing. So, lets start with vanessa and then well move over to dave. Yeah guys we have some big problems on the roadways. Crashes galore and then of course the flooding concerns which well talk about in just a second. Big problems that were seeing here, w back ups overturned vehicle crash Sunshine Skyway bridge with heavy northbound lane blockages. If youre just joining we do have one lane passing the right lane thats going to be passing. But if you can take 75 instead. You might save your self some time sitting in traffic over the bridge. So well keep you up sedated on that crash. Meantime heavy congestion all way around of course were dealing with slick roadways in hillsborough southbound look n