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
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 School District says it is preparing to distribute the information but wants to make sure it does not everything happening in the first day. We have lots of things that happen when children in a school environment. Theyre in a classroom that is close, you know, area. When you talk about the flu or Different Things like that. So were always encouraging students to wash their hands and for parents if their kids are sick to keep them home. Reporter overall on the zika front across the state there are 14 new travel related cases today including two cases in Hernando County which are the first ones in that county. State of florida. While 21 have been transmitted here. 57 of those cases were to pregnant women. So yo
Boyd live with the details here. Valerie . Reporter hey, there. Police now have their search warrant or actually in the house looking for evidence. You can see the home right behind me where the tape is across the front door. Earlier today they forced their way inside trying to check on the wellbeing of a person. Officers say virginia ortega lived with her son blake howard at this home. They went to the home after a relative called concerned about blakes safety. But when officers arrived, they say no one answered, so they forced their way in and thats when they found a mother with a gun and a son dead. They say he was murdered in the shower. Where virginia ortega confronted one of the officers with a handgun in hand. She was ordered to drop that firearm which she complied with officers. Miss ortega planned the murder of her son blake howard, and again shot him multiple times while he was in the shower. Reporter and 29yearold college. They released a statement saying, we are deeply sadd
By no stretch of the imagination an athlete. I believe its my opinion that physical abilities, he would find himself lacking when compared to mr. Martin. If this person, this mannequin, were carrying a firearm on their waist, where would the gun be right now in relation to me . Would be at your left inner thigh. Were you aware the defendant described to his best friend, when the defendant slid down that Trayvon Martin was up around his armpits . Were you aware of that . No. I have not heard that. Where would the gun be now . Now the gun would be behind your left leg. The injuries on mr. Zimmermans back of his head consistent with someone doing this on cement . I dont think so. How about this. How about if somebody resisted the attempt . The two lacerations, could that come from cement, someone resisting me pushing down . I believe so. Defense would call Robert Zimmerman senior, your honor. You ask me did i recognize the voice. What did you tell him . Absolutely. Its my son george. The
Now shepherd smith reporting, live from the fox news deck. At last, its thursday, thanks for joining us. Teenage who rallied a community and became something of a local hero no doubt is now a grown man on the run. And at the center of a grizzly murder case. His name is sean petrizino. He has no hands and no legs. Hefs an inspiration to folks in south florida when he kept on smiling after a very bad infection ate through his limbs. Now 14 years later, police in Central Florida say, they want to question him about the murders of his mother and father. Cops are careful to call him a person of interest and not a suspect, but make no mistake, there are no suspects in america post o. J. , only persons of interest. And this man, without hands and without legs is a serious person of interest in Orange County, florida. In the same breath, the cops warn, he has a gun, and should be considered quite dangerous. Police say he went missing after his parents turned up dead at their home near orlando