Road 70 closed now in both directions at betts road so you want to use county road 675 and with a chula road to work around it and state road 64, fhp asking drivers to avoid 70 now. Democracy 2016, Hillary Clinton will be back in tampa today campaigning on usf campus. Expected to talk about national safety. Rert near the usf Student Center where clinton will be holding a rally in a few hours. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Its quiet here now but wont stay that way long. Hillary clinton is expected here in just a few hours. Were expecting her to talk about security in in in the United States but her campaign trump. We know shes already taken jabs at trump most recently in ohio yesterday during a coughing spell. Every time i think about trump i get allergic. Trump had his own response to clintons coughing saying that shes allergic to the media after finally spending time with them yesterday. Clinton is blaming the coughing on seasonal allergies shutting down conspiracy theories abo
Last week. All patients were evacuated after the building lost power. Anchor james tully is live at the hospital. Is every section of the Medical Center fully operational now . Reporter from the emergency room to every floor of Bayonet Point its back open. Last thursday it was a dicey situation. The hospital lost power because of a fire and all 224 patients had to be evacuated. Now in the days since we understand that fire started in a room where the auxilliary generator was being kept. That generator has been repaired. The reason it takes so long, one of the reasons its a hospital. Has to be sterilized. Cleaned very thoroughly. Hospital staff this morning working to bring patients back that were transferred to other parts of pasco county and hernando county. As for the cause, it was initially said lightning was to confirm it was actually lightning but Bayonet Point is back open and fully operational. James tully, abc action news. Thank you. Things are returning to normal for students
To buy it. They said no, they want us off the property. Reporter tonight this mother is hoping for a miracle. Im lost. Im homeless. I dont have anywhere to go. Reporter in tampa, clifton french, abc action news. Well, judge university in the last hour we got a call from the bank. They are giving this family an extension until at least october 7th while they investigate what happened. Now the most Accurate Weather Team in florida, abc action weather. Good evening, everyone. This is a look at category 4 hurricane matthew. Stngerhing is a beast getting new ren is actabout to fly in right now. We will see if it potentially could become category 5. This will be a major issue for the island of jamaica sunday into monday. There is the latest track. Afterwards, theres the big question. Once it exits cuba, is it going to be more of a westerly track, northerly track, easterly or stall out . Stalls out for a three or four day stretch out in the bahamas. Obviously a lot of this can change. We will
Hours or the good news with this is although it is enhancing our rain chances, it is still relatively weak and it looks like the majority of the heavier rain and gusty winds will be on the east coast of florida from Central Florida on north to jacksonville. If youre planning to travel in that direction, be aware that you could be getting those tropical heavy downpours, especially along i95 from daytona on north over the next 24 and near shore. So if you happen to want to do any boating off of the east coast of florida, they have tropical force storm winds. That is a bit nasty on that side of the state. In our area, we will continue to pull that moisture out of the system. And that will enhance our coverage of rain over the next 24 hours or so. You can see how big the system is. It has been interesting watching it. You see the circulation that was not present yesterday when yesterday, it was about a 10 chance of developing into a tropical system. Then it really blew up with its organiza
An update on a florida missing child alert we brought you at the top of the hour. Minutes ago. It was . Cancelled. Three siblings went missing. But they are all apparently safe now and the case has been resolved. This happened in fernandina beach, just north of jacksonville. A developing story this morning in tampa where a . Toddler has been shot and killed. It happened sunday at the clipper bay thats in the 67 hundred block of south lois avenue, just outside of Macdill Air Force base. Fox 13s Shayla Reaves in out there right now. Shayla. What are you get ready for a big debate tonight in st. Petersburg the top two candidates for floridas 13th Congressional District are squaring off. Its democrat. And former florida governor. Charlie crist. Against republican david jolly, the incumbent. Last month, jolly beat challenger mark bircher in the republican primary. Crist . Skipped the primary because his opponent dropped out. The debate starts at seven pm at the palladium theater. Its free a