Anchor textbooks, notebooks, pence ilz and zika warnings. You are going to find all of that in your students backpacks this school year. As the mosquitoborne zika virus spreads slowly in south florida the state is asking schools to be proactive. Ordering teachers and nurses to be on the lookout and encourage prevention around their homes. Fox 13s Evan Axelbank at Mitchell Elementary in tampa to explain this new education initiative. Evan . Reporter chris, the governor is even ordering students as well as you said having nurses bree paired to know exactly what to look for when it comes to the zika virus. Take a look. The state is also sending teachers a tool kit so they can include zika prevention in some of their lesson plans. Teachers and staff will be sending home information to parents as well as posting information around the school. The directive is going to apply to students of all ages. The Hillsborough County s choodistrictays it isreparing to wants to make sure it does not eve
Developing this morning. A serious crash this video was sent to us by viewer chester kinder. The accident happened on hillsborough avenue. Just east of the veterans expressway. Thats behind the airport. Officials say 2 of the 3 cars involved caught on fire. Some people were seriously hurt. Well keep you updated throughout good day as we learn more details. Also developing this morning. A 4yearold is hit by a truck in north port. It happened yesterday afternoon at tropicare boulevard and wampee drive. Thats between i75 and myakka river state park. Police believe darted out in front of the truck. He was flown to a hospital in critical condition. No word on his current condition. New this morning. Saint pete police are searching for these 2 women. They walked into gateway liquors on roosevelt boulevard north a couple weeks ago. Then ran out with several bottles of liquor worth more than 700dollars. They got into a newer model red ford mustang and drove away. If you know anything. Call pol
Tuesday. She was picked to be part of a shoot dont shoot role play scenario. She is excited to do it. But during the exercise the 73yearold was mistakenly shot with a live round. She was taken to the hospital but died. Officer cole had been with the department 21 2 years. The recover he fired had been used in previous classes with no problem. How and why this happened is still a major question that the Florida Department of law en answer. We believe that the particular caliber of the weapon used, that there were only blank rounds available to the officer. Being bitter and angry and hateful isnt going to bring her back. She was iconic and she lit up the room. Shes a hero. Reporter officer cole is on administrative leave. We learned he was the subject of an internal investigation after an incident last year where he used his canine partner to take down an unarmed man on a bicycle that man was significantly injured. The departments canine policy changed. He said his family will forgive th
Theres been flooding progressively more and more as the day goes on. Its just getting worse. Right now at 10 00, the death toll climbs in louisiana and more rain is on the way. Saw a few more shots. Panic at a mall in North Carolina. What witnesses say led to the shooting. Just really excited to have them. Plus a big wish leads to a special delivery for a 15yearold girl, why she is so deserving. Youre watching fox 13 and the 10 00 news starts now. Im haley hinds. Im lloyd sowers. We begin with the flooding emergency in louisiana, at least three people have died, more than a thousand people have been rescued as floodwaters continue to rise. As fox 13s will carr reports, evacuations are underway. Torrential rainfall that has swamped the state, causing widespread flooding. The water would get high. The slow moving expected to dump more rain over the weekend. Governor John Bell Edwards said, residents advised to evacuate, should do so immediately. We dont know how wide the water is going t
Developing in Charlotte County this morning a horrible situation at a Citizen Police academy. A 73year old woman is shot and killed. During a Training Exercise at the Punta Gorda Police department. Mary knowlton and another person were picked randomly for a role playing scenario where an officer had to decide whether to shoot. Or not shoot. Nolon was mistakenly hit with a . Live round, and later died. The broadcast live on facebook overnight the officer who shot the woman is the officer who the officer who shot the woman is and the fdle is handing the investigation. Fox 13s Shayla Reaves will be covering this story for us this morning. Shes heading down to punta gorda. And will bring us live updates throughout the morning. A Tarpon Springs family lost their home. But not their lives. After a big fire. The fire started at this mobile home on Saint Charles drive. It took firefighters from both Tarpon Springs and palm harbor to put out the flames. The home was already fully involved the h