Into our newsroom. Allegations of collaborations with cab industry to keep uber and lift to operating in hillsborough county. That was at topic of an emergency meeting this morning of the hillsborough Public Transportation commission. Fox 13s aaron mesmer is there sounds like they were ment of fireworks at that meeting. Yeah, got a really heated. Got contentious at timesBoard Members used lot different words and phrase circus witch nt collusion. And sham as they argued with one another. At state was a Public Perception of the Public Transportation commission. And also the future of executive director kyle cochran has come under fire after emails surfaced between him and members of taxi industry in which he worked with taxi and limo drivers to participate in sting operations aimed at ticketing uber and lift drivers. Cochran says he was simply enforcing regulations limo drivers who compared their partnership to a neighborhood watch. But chairman called for this emergency meeting accused
Construction from overnight is cleared and were starting off with a clean sate there and into downtown tampa looking great. Five minutes to get from here to the Howard Franklin bridge. And we have exclusive dramatic video right now wanted moments before a deadly crash in east tampa and this is a video that youre watching here. It was posted to snapchat and taken from inside the car that caused mlk wednesday night. At one point, the video shows the driver going more than 70 miles over the speed limit, pablo cortez. Reporter good morning to you. That is 70 over the speed limit. The speed limit in this area, 45 miles an hour and do the math. 115 miles an hour there and that was posted to snapchat. And since we posted the video to social media, more than this is video taken from inside the car driven by pablo cortez and taken by his passenger as they drove along an open stretch of mlk on wednesday night. And then, the video was posted to snapchat. And that is just 9 machines before cortez
The Sheriffs Office says its going to rerelease more information a little later this morning. Edward snowden is asking president obama to pardon him. As Andrew Spencer shows us snowden says the leaks were moral and ethical. Reporter president obama doesnt seem to be softening his stan o asked if theres a chance the nsa would pardon him the manner in which mr. Snowden chose to disclose the information damaged the United States. Harmed our national security. Put the American People at greater risk. Reporter Edward Snowden argues his leaks about massive government surveillance programs were a public service. In a video interview with the guardian he says without the off. The former contractor fled the country three years ago, hes charged with espionage. Not everyone agrees what snowden did was wrong. Oliver stone who directed a new film about him praised his actions in an interview with cnn. The United States government developed and deployed a massive global Surveillance System without d
On the back side will continue to move in. By the way this is the track, not much track. This is the forecast for tomorrow night. Its still over the same area. So just giving you an idea of how long the rain is going to last there. For us, the rainfall has already begun its not torrential or widespread but there are a few pockets of rainfall, longboat key getting in on that and even 75 will be wet on the southern side. Widen out the shot and you see everything moving quickly so. Youll be in and out of the showers in no forecast as we take you to the next few days the tropical stays with us today. And we have to wait for the dryness in time for the weekend. That looks good. For this morning, take it a little slow across the southern counties. For most of us no problems but i checked the maps to see where were seeing the wet roads and potential for ponding. It is south as ivan said, sarasota, a little ponding driving those roads, just use extra caution this morning. Otherwise should be a
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