We start with breaking news here. A woman arrested for trying to hire someone else to kill someone she knew. Lets go live to clifton french. Clifton, youre getting brand new information on this from the Manatee County Sheriffs Office. What do you know . Reporter yeah. Paul, right now information extremely limited. All we know, this is a woman who was trying to hire somebody to kill her exhusband. Now, her exhusband lives in sarasota. That is the limited information that we woman as she was leaving the Sheriffs Office here, being charged with this with this crime and being taken to to the Manatee County jail. Here is the deal this womans exhusband has no idea about this plot yet. So detectives have asked us to hold on to video. They havent released any information to us about who this woman is either. Until they can tell her ex to tasoon as we get word that h s been notied, they will give us more were also going to ow you that video. We hope that tithi next half an an hour or so. So som
As a mother, you hear these day care Horror Stories and pray it doesnt happen to your children. The fact of the matter is the employee who was supposed to be watching these children wasnt doing her job at the time. Reporter deputies say 23 yearold casey burke failed to properly care for the children. The arrest report says the kids were napping while burke should have been watching. Instead, she talked to colleagues and ate lunch. At one point, she heard crying neglect which is a felony. We went to the day care looking for answers. But they didnt want to talk. Im not going to talk about it. Reporter 8 on your side went digging into records and found since december, the day care was cited twice for improperly supervising children. The department of children and families is steping in saying in a statement what happened to this child is absolutely unacceptable. We are conducting a child care attorney. Burke no longer works at this facility. We are told the boy that bit this other child n
Reporter hey jen. This is heartbreaking news because so many students, thousands of them will have to start over including a disabled veteran we spent time with today. He had tears in his eyes but hope in his heart when he came here to hcc for help. Ronnie wishi is looking for answers but first, he has a few questions for itt tech. How could you . How dare you . Lets make right done wrong. Reporter ronnie was proud to serve his country. Now he is trying to survive his education. Just. Its busted dreams. I left a good job to go back to school to higher myself. It is all about higher education, you know, trying to do better. I teach my kids that. Reporter as a disabled veteran, this tampa bay native and father of seven was crushed to hear most likely his credits transfer, Hillsborough Community college is trying to help students like ronnie come up with options. Even if some of them dont become an hcc student, at least we can provide them options and explain what they may be in for. Repo
Specifically 77 in tampa. 79 in st. Petersburg, and 75 in plant city, and afternoon high today, above average, and the average is 90, and im expecting 92, and the average is here is important. We spent 98 days with the average high of 90, and during that time this year, right on par. 910. 3 this year. If you want to know when it will start average high is 87 by the end of september. Something to look forward to at 08, and i will take you hour bihour through the commute today. We have a great drive across the bay area bridges, and i will start with the good news first. 275 at fowler. Moving over to the the seminole area, and will zoom in here, just north of ulmerton at seminole boulevard at 16th avenue. They wrap it up in the middle of september, take ridge road or starkey load as well. I just got word of an accident on 66th street. More coming up. Back to gene and gayle. Every day we get more reports of the zika virus transmitting. Today an important event be held to help give momstobe
Let go app to set up victims and rob them, even kills one. Candace mccowan talked to one of the victims who is very shaken up. Reporter corey piece is a father of two overcome thinking about the risk he took trying to sell his ipad. We could have been a lot less fortunate. Reporter he found a buyer who met him at this walgreens when the buyer snatched it. I said are you kidding me . Reporter a second seller who also was robbed in broad daylight, this time, at gunpoint. That seller was pistol whipped. But, sunday, during a third transaction, the buyer escalated. Police say he snatched another cell phone, then shot and killed jeffrey morrow as he ran away. We knew we had to operate quickly. We didnt know when he would strike again. Reporter detectives tracked down 25yearold victor mann. In polk county, candace mccowan, newschannel8. Tonight, the man who forced a shootout with a Drug Task Force just a little over 24 hours ago is dead. Polk Sheriff Grady Judd says Francis Perry refused to