Caught on Surveillance Video repeatedly slapping a tenyear old autistic child on a school bus. He is facing child abuse charges. The incident happened two years ago, but lambert has yet to go to trial much to the dis appointmtment of the childs mother who also came to court today following several court delays taking a plplea deal may bring an end to this case. I really didnt know what to expect. Because, so o much has happened in almost two years coming back. Reporter the judge did agree to hear the case that will now take place in june. Neither he nor his attorney wanted to talk about the case, but the e childs mother did. With all the evidence and the documents and the video shows whwhat he does. A video speaks a thousand words. A video doesnt lie. Reporter lambert will have his day in court. His trial is slated to start josh thomas, newschannel8. The School District launcheded an investigation into this incident and uncovered the video after the boys mother complained that her son
Way to the scene and well have updates on this breaking story throughout the morning. Right now lets turn things over to leslee lacey. A triple fatal accident. The Police Department believes that speed was a factor. Use some caution on the road ways today. Heres what is going on, University Parkway is completely blocked between old bradenton over to desoto. So this is actually just west of u. S. 301 when university curves down to the south. Its also just south of the airport. This is the airport. So its at that tail southern end of the sarasota airport. So university is completely blocked there. Because of where its blocked also part of desoto road is blocked there as well. Youre alternate is down here at myrtle street. Not exactly an easy alternate. You have the airport to the north, myrtle street is an alternate to the south. You shouldnt be able to use desoto road. Its a triple fatal. Its quite unusual to hear that. Sad news. We have a fourth person thats at the hospital. So hopeful
You can see behind me here, Central Avenue. You can see behind me here, crime scene investigators are still on the scene trying to piece everything together that happened just after midnight. And now the officers, one from tampa and one from st. Petersburg were members of the Auto Theft Task force. They were traveling down Central Avenue this morning when they were tboned at 54th street north. As it turns out, the car that hit them had been stolen l. A. Week but they were not actually looking for that vehicle. There were six people in it ages 15 to 25, one seriously injured. We were not involved in a pursuit. We were not behind the car at any time. We have two witnesses that verify that. So the two officers, they are both in stable condition. The driver of the car that hit the Police Vehicle is in Critical Condition as im being told right now. Reporter now again, that vehicle had been stolen last week. We are told by st. Petersburg police that the driver actually the owner had left the
Hulk hogans payday from gawker just got bigger. 115 million last friday. Just a little over an hour ago that , same jury returned with a decision in the punitive phase of the trial. Peter bernard live in st. Pete. Peter, that means the original bigger . Reporter bigger. A lot bigger, jen. Good evening to you. Its a banner day for hulk hogan. The jury today decided that gawker needs to pay him 15 million. Another 10 million from gawkers founder, and 100,000 from one of gawkers editors. Heres how it went down today. The tenday trial ended last week with the jury deciding hulk hogan, terry bollea, will get more than he asked for. They awarded him 115 million. Todays decision was after four hours of deliberation. Website one minute and 40 second tape of bollea having sex with bubba the love sponges wife. He did not know he was going record the. The total take for showing the video more than 140 million. I feel great. I really am happy about everythings happened. We protected a lot of peopl
Primary. Hell speak at the Tampa Convention center, but today another well known name in the bay area stumping for him. Would be former Alaska Governor and Vice President ial candidate sarah palin. She went to the strawberry festival to shake hands and pose for pictures and explain why she feels floridians should vote for trump. So thankful that we have a person in such a position to bust up the status quo because thats whats got to go. All these guys have been part of the problem all these years and finally we have an outsider who is so independent not bought and sold by anyone, owned by anybody, only beholden to the people. Finally we have the guy in the right position to take these guys on. Palin also attended the 88th annual arcadia rodeo in De Soto County today to promote trump there as well. Trumps stop in tampa tomorrow comes at a time hes being blasted for violence at rallies across the country. Trump is pointing his finger at supporters of Bernie Sanders while the republican o