A store employee took off after him and ended up on the hood of the suspects car. Reporter a Jewelry Store in the brandon mall is shut down today after a clerk chased out a thief and then ended up being thrown from the car right here on state road 60. Lets take a look at some of the surveillance video. Hillsborough county sheriffs deputies say it happened yesterday evening at about 7 00 at night. An unidentified male stole two pieces of jewelry about 23,000. After grabbing that jewelry, the suspect then ran out and an employee of the store chased him to the car he was driving and then jumped on the hood and was thrown out on to state road 60. That employee was taken to tampa general hospital. Were told they have life threatening injuries. The store is closed today. We will have much more coming up later today. In brandon, rod carter, news channel 8. And hurricane hermine may storms ever for pasco county. Emergency managers are estimating more than 89 million in damages so far. The coun
At our weather. It is a beautiful midday so far. We have plenty of sunshine with their weather clouds. Temperatures are right along the coast and theyre not too bad. 83. Inland it is heating up rapidly. Not much on the radar. One shower popping right over holiday. It is now just to the east of New Port Richey and it is starting to weekend. There is a lot of heat. We are looking at upper 80s and if you 90s already showing up. Hotter than that. As we go into the afternoon, a few showers and storms will start to develop for our inland locations and that trend will continue into the afternoon and evening. 92 degrees. The other thing that is heating up as the tropics. We will take a look at that in the full forecast in a few minutes. The zika virus is sparking new fears in miami beach. Five new locally transmitted cases of the virus have been to 36 cases. Now the cdc has a warning for pregnant women. Dont travel to two parts of miami. There have not been any non travel related cases confirm
Right now People Living in a flooded Mobile Home Park in pasco county are being allowed to go back in their homes. Thats right, hurricane hermine left the sungate Village Community looking like this, it looks like a lake. Chip osowski joins us now. Are the people returning there . Are they feeling like they see what it looks like . Reporter absolutely, josh. And you can see they are pumping water out of this Mobile Home Park but it is much drie days ago. That voluntary Evacuation Order was lifted last night. And today some residents returned home to see the damage. So you guys evacuated . Yes. Yes. Reporter they returned to the their mobile home only to find their belongings ruined. We fixed the floor. Damaged from the water, she knew the it was going to be bad. She and her husband took this video over the weekend. Just the air conditioning. Two cars. The water and drier. Reporter a number of cars in the park were also flooded. Katherine stones brand new kia was one of them. Insurance
Weekend. Record highs with 95 for three consecutive days. Its cooler today and some cloud, 84 degrees at Lakewood Ranch not nearly as hot as this time yesterday. Its 86 in tampa and plant city. 85 in st. Pete. You look at whats happening. A lot of scattered clouds and doe soto county and moisture expected into today and the next couple of days. 59 is your average high. Well hit 91 today. A much better coverage of showers and thunderstorms coming our way. Also the tropics are heating up and a brand new Tropical Storm. Its Tropical Storm ian out in the atlantic. Taking a look at that and your weekly forecast coming up. Rite now we are working to Hillsborough County firefighter following the death of his child who was left in a hot car friday. Investigators say Troy Whitaker was taking his children to School Friday morning and he dropped his five year old daughter and supposed to drop off his 23year month old at daycare but he forget. The child was left in for eight hours. Aggravated mans
10 00. Cat 4 Hurricane Matthew is bearing down on caribbean. Kathy orr is in the weather center. She has the latest showing matthewss track but we got several days before worries about matthews around here. We to take a live look at reading, some are hoping that strange yellow globe reappears. Whats on your radar . Kathy, i dont know if you got your finger on the pulse of matthew. Right now we have areas of fogs, mist and clouds continued. I counted them up six days. Were seeing some drying going on but expect fog overnight and start the day tomorrow. Ultimate doppler that upper level low pressure system spinning nearly a work to our northwest is slowly weakening. You can see it right now over toronto. Its bringing in a few more spotty showers, possibly through bucks county, the Lehigh Valley and the poconos. Otherwise, mainly dry as these continued to move toward the north and east and will be drying it out during the day tomorrow. 63 in philadelphia. Allentown, 62. 65 in millville, 6