The aftermath. Pasco county was one of the hardest hit counties in the state. Starting today finally 3,000 homeowners can put trash out for collection. Abc action News Reporter Jake Peterson live in new port richey. There are several dos and donts that folks need to know. Reporter good morning. True, there are different crews picking up different items. They are going to all the different places in the county. You can see the green and orange dots on the map. Those are areas impacted by the storm. Separating your debris into different piles. Heres the breakdown what have you can do you can separate items into furniture, appliances, construction materials, vegetation and hazardous waste. Keep everything separate. Crews will not separate it for you so if you dont separate it they may not take your trash. Fema crews are going doorto door yesterday assessing damage from hermine. Today the reps will evaluate damage to public property. Their assessment is important declaration could be decla
Or let us know that. Its a pretty big sink hole. Thats a big sink hole, yeah. Reporter as action air 1 flew over the sink hole, we watched the live stream of the abc action news app. My First Impression is that this the simple size and the depth of that sink hole, its obviously it must have been a large void. Reporter usf geologist phillip ben ennham reacting in real time. Do with all of the rain that we have had, with hurricane hermine. It is possible. Think of the sponge as the florida aquifer. Its porous because of the limestone. Think of this as the stack, the Storage Facility where the sink hole is now. Its leaking. And you pour the water on top of the sponge. And what happens . It gets saturated and all of the dirty polluted water is leaking through and penetrating the aquifer on the other side. Look at the stain. Reporter the doctor believes that the contamination will be confined to the immediate area near the mosaic plant in mulberry giving people like james reason to ask ques
45 minutes ago the first Class Action Lawsuit was filed against mosaic because of the toxic wastewater spill. We have Team Coverage on all of this, at this time. We dont have the results pack on the radioactive tests yet just yet. Jackie callaway is kicking off the story today. You could ahold of the lawsuit. It could impact all of People Living near the facility. Jackie. Reporter here, it is. All 23 pages. A lot of harsh lane language in suit. It accuses mosaic of how it handled the toxic wastewater at the facility. It is accused of not doing nearly enough to keep the residents who live nearby at named in the suit. It makes mention of the 2 billion settlement with the e pa last year the epa last year. This class action suit could affect anyone within five miles of the mosaic facility. Anyone who uses water from a well as their drinking water. That number is estimated 5,000 people. It requires an injunction for mosaic to pay for regularly and more heduled testing of the wells. Also the
To arrest him saturday night they say williams put his car in reverse and accelerated towards one of the deputies and sped off. He was driving a car similar to this one, a 2008 infiniti but his is purple. Crime stoppers is offering a 3,000 reward for a tip that leads to his arrest. Ivan cabrera has a check of the forecast on this monday. Good morning. Good morning. The patriots werent in the super bowl so i got enough sleep i didnt see it and i for. Look at the temperatures. Again. Inverness, brooksville, 32. Its brutal here. At least we dont have the wind but that just tells you how cold it is, no wind chill but its cold enough where its going to be brutal. If youre heading out early bundle up. By this afternoon and heading into the evening commute well have a milder finish 24r50eu67b8g9d weekend with on today. But we have more where that came from. More cold air and gusty winds. Ill talk about that coming up. Morning commute. Theres flashing lights but i think its just Road Construct
Were talking super bowl predictions this morning. Im not making predictions. Actually, this guy will be making predictions. Who will check to pick . Pebbles the penguin. It all rights on him today. A lot of you talking about the big game, super bowl 50 kicks off in just a few hours from now. Good morning, everyone, im lindsay logue. And im rodney dunigan. Well get to all of that and moment but first, bills most accurate forecasts. Im going to rely on pebbles. People watching abc action news Weekend Edition will know the pebbles has had a very good record the past few years. Im waiting until pebbles makes his prediction. This is good stuff. Stick around. We will be taking a look at that. And also, i will weigh in with the forecast and whats going on outside. I can safely say without the aid of the penguin that we clockwise and bring in the region right now. But we are going to see those right now the rain mostly off to the south of the bay area right now. Port charlotte down into fort m