Breaking just within the past hour, the patriots and Rob Gronkowskis family putting out a joint statement on the health of a star tight end and points to a season likely being over. Good evening, everyone. Im mark ockerbloom. And im vanessa welch. Tom lyden joins us now. This afternoon the news that gronk got back surgery broke. Yeah, rare opportunity to talk with robert graft on every good team has to overcome a lot of obstacles to get where they want to be on super bowl sunday. The key he says is perseverance. With the help of the patriots medical staff along with the consultation of several medical expert it is has been democratted that it is in gronks best longterm interest to undergo surgery to address his lower back injury. He is expected to have surgery tomorrow. We do not expect that he will be of the 2016 season but await the results of tomorrows surgery before making a final determination. Tom brady was on westward 1 sharing his thoughts on losing we understand the challenge
Soccer championship by iceland. The announcer loses his mind during the call. A translation ahead on this tuesday, june 28th. From abc news, this is world news now. If you need a translation for that one . I think its clear. You had poland. I had the french. Someone else in the room as the brits. I had poland . Did you just make me polish . Portugal. Somebody else here had the brits. Who was that . How did that work out for you . How did that go . Didnt go well. Not at all. He likes it when our teams move. If favorite in two years . Hold out hope. Poland, portugal, same oh, oh. Oh, no. The earrings are sorry. Poland and iceland now. Exactly. Iceland for the win. All right. We begin this morning in West Virginia where the states worst flooding in more than a century is finaling receding and the extent of the damage is becoming clear. Thousands of homes lost and thousands more need rehab before families can return to them. In one town the mayor says 99 of the businesses are gone along wi
Ialmost everything. You know, ke 1 i n 10 houses could get hit by an expensive septic disaster. But for only 7 a month, ridx helps break down waste. Avoid a septic disaster with ridx. Now that waters have receded in virginia, the damage is evident. Thousands of homes damaged and destroyed. Still no water or electricity in many hard hit areas. The governor concedes the state was hit off guard. Devastation on the other end of the country. Central california. Residents are returning to their fire ravaged neighborhoods. At least 200 homes were destroyed. A bodies of an elderly couple were found friday. Their names have not been released. We have new details in a Home Invasion of ta top gun star. She found herself face to face with a stalker inside her home forcing her to fight to break free. The speed is too fast. Its a little bit too aggressive. Reporter shes the actress best known for wooing tom cruise in top gun. Shes recovering from a real life drama. Help me. Reporter thats her callin
Starting day out warm and heating up because of sunshine more of map on the morning more rain will be creeping in this afternoon across inland zones first. Mostly sunny skies here in tampa. Great weather at the beach. But still a little patchy fog, give it another 30, 45 minutes. Brooksville portion of dade city your fog is a little more dense. For most part visibility okay this morning. Still 80 in tampa look at that jump 82 in clearwater. Upper 70s north sprinkles they are slip in from east. We will see inland by midday that 10 percent rain chance. By 5 oclock showers to storms back towards the west coast. 50 percent rain chance of highs in the low 90s. And vanessa has ab busy lady. Lets check in with her with an update unfortunately for folks out Manatee County you guys are dealing with most of trouble spots here. So just to fill you in for folks just joining a crash reported tamiami trail manatee avenue blocking scout bound lanes. That crash site back beyond u. S. 30 one towards 17
Hour. And even more people are in the dark now. According to the nv energy website. There are about 700 customers without power. Each dot on this map represents an outage right now. Well continue to stay on top of this as utility crews restore power. This just in to our newsroom. A School Closure due to Power Outages classes at explore Knowledge Academy are cancelled until tuesday. No School Tomorrow or monday because of damage to a a man prepares to walk the streets of a valley neighborhood. Armed with a gun. Saying hes had it with all the crime. But. The idea of. A one man civilian foot patrol. Getting mixed reviews i would have some concern honestly i think because my kids are out here playing a lot on the street it doesnt bother me to see people want to help our community or the neighborhood 13 action News Reporter. Mahsa saeidi joins us and explains. How this is definitely. Raising eyebrows mahsa. 20 lived here whole life. Tomorrow six am he be walking these streets. Six hour shif