That atlanta has and the priorities you have, how do you strategize on the investments in your people and where you are really putting the massive effort. Mayor we try to perform along the lines of excellence. What we are doing right now is trying to make sure that we have the bench strength to execute while knowing that the city is one of the biggest multipliers for the economy. Is ayou want in a city fair referee and someone that runs a city so that a city does the thing it should do well. Exciting time in the life of atlanta. I have about 9000 employees, 8000 on any given day. What youre having is youre having all of the amazing employees who have done the good and noble work of Public Servants for years, but you have a new generation of individuals interested in Public Service, and who may have had a wonderful private sector career, but because they actually wanted to spend time in Public Service doing transformational work, folks like you are joining a government. What i am trying
Same thing as well. As you head out make sure you dont get caught in a blind spot of a semi, leave extra time, both hands on the wheel. Were headed to the skyway now to check it for the next hit. Well have an update in 15 minutes. Some good news from tampa this morning with some of the roadways opening back up though. What have you got . Northbound 275, they are reopening or did overnight, two lanes around himes so were expecting to see some relief there on 275 northbound. Right now i4 heading into tampa looking great. No crashes or breakdowns. These cars here heading right in to downtown. Lets check drive times starting all the way back in the lakeland area, 23 minutes from the edge of lakeland into downtown. 15 minutes from county line road to 75, seven minutes from 75 to 275. Check of the average speeds, from the apex so if you live in the Wesley Chapel area trying to decide between 275 and 75 pushing 70 on 275 from the apex. 70 on i75. Dan . 6 02. Breaking news we first told but at
Extra duty do not do the basic security checks like pat downs. We just spoke with chief john mina. That was not a random act. Im confident belle be able to bring this case to a close ure closure. Reporter detectives do have suspects in this case but are not saying anything else further. We have received the initial incident report. Im going through that right now and ill have if it has any names of the victims or identities of the possible suspects on Eyewitness News at 5 00. Roy ramos, channel 9, Eyewitness News. Detectives are still looking for at least one gunman in the shooting death of a teenager and young man at the florida mall. Weve been following this story since friday night when it happened outside jc penney. Kathy belich is live now. Reporter thats right. Theyll say the shooting was not random but thats about it. It happened outside the jc penney close to the building just before 7 30 friday night. The store was still opened but no one else was injured. An Orange County dep
We talk about temperatures. Were actually milder than we were this time unlike yesterday, today we have the wind out there to contend with. Its going to be quite something here. Sustained winds 15 to 25, i think well go 20 to 25 later today. Then the gusts really going to be howling. Weve already had gusts around 35 to 40 miles an hour through the overnight. That is going to continue today and that is going to be the big problem here. The forecast, again, if you are operating high profile vehicles, both hands on the wheels as you should always have but especially today as those winds are going to be an issue and yes, as dan mentioned, not going to warm up much. Upper 50s and it will feel even colder as we continue with the us. The issue today, i think for commuters, the wind, no question. Fhp already issued a high wind advisory for the skyway. Well get to it in a moment. First lets check with corey checking on the overpass at i 75 northbound. This happened at overpass road in pasco cou
Heres a live look at i95 northwest of 75th street. Northbound lanes were where we were seeing some delays this morning. South of the glades on i95 specifically i95 northbound. We saw about two to three lanes of traffic blocked and that red obviously indicating just a little bit of aslowdown reported there. If youre traraling there it, 125th street, see those speeds at about 10 miles an hour. Nod to that more construction concerns traveling westbound at the dolphin expressway right by the airport at lejeune road. Reports of two lanes oftraffic blocked there. The palmetto expressway northbound at kendall drive, another two lanes of traffic blocked there. Right at the exit ramp, an hour. At least four people dead after two trains bavaria. About 150 people injured in that accident. To be stuck inside still. ll keep following this for you as we get details again. A happy ending this morning for a mom who now has her baby back at home but the story is not over yet. The man who took the woman