Got the attention of the Sheriffs Office they had no time in swooping down. The name of the place is darling darlings. It provides a safe moving loving home for members. Peta started working there as volunteers and they recorded the video. It show as number of disturbing things and 23 pigs emaciated, 41 under weight. Peta said the food supply was inadequate and they would go days without feeding the pigs. One had a broken leg and this one laid on the ground for 14 days in distress until it died. The sheriff said the detectives were shaken by what they found. Fittest, we saw them so malnourished they were not able to function. The sheriffs investigators went to the Property Five days ago with a warrant and they removed 197 animals most of them pigs. Two had to be put down and the detectives arrested the owners thats owner and her husband butch martin. He told our cameras the pigs did not have been described. There were 20 animals out of 120 that needed help. He and his wife are facing 1
A fire that happened last month. That was just a few days before this child was born. Were going to have a lot more on that story tonight at 6 00 p. M. She is living in a rental right now, correct . The house is a house theyre renting . Reporter thats correct. Exactly. That rental house is just a few houses down from the house that caught fire. One by one cities are jumping on the bandwagon of marijuana. Tampa and st. Petersburg have done it so has orlando. Now lakeland is wrestling with the issue. Fox 13s ken suarez here with the latest that. Ken . Reporter when you think about it, decriminalizing pot is a pretty big step for any state. It would be a massive one for lakeland. It is a pretty conservative place and sits in the middle of polk county, a very conservative place. Who is the head of law i have to guess he would say, what are you kidding me . Fibromyalgia and spina bifida keep stacy in constant pain. She says marijuana is her only relief but every time she buys it she worries
Disturbance to the south and gives us a better rain chance this week. This weekend classic Rain Coverage which is up near the coast. How about this. I knew it would be nice. Gorgeous. Filtered sun and high clouds and also lower clouds behind downtown tampa. Sunrise officially in a couple of minutes and looks beautiful. Go out and enjoy. Mid to upper 70s. Even a few 80s. 80 in clearwater. 80 in st. Pete. Lakeland you are at 77 this morning and we it heavy storm. Lots of lightning last night and please be cautious this afternoon and look toward the eastern sky where our rain will be coming from. Also a couple of clouds around this morning but no rain bearing clouds. Closest shower 26 miles offshore that is moving away. We are actually looking to the east for midday inland rain and lateday storms building west about a 50 coverage. Here is invest 99 l which pretty much is a broad area of low pressure with a lot of moisture. There is a lot of wind shear. Stronger. See the reds Near Southeas
The most expensive and demand for the phone had been high. A lot out there. I hope people take them back. The northbound lanes of i had 75 in hernando are closed. Troopers were on the scene afternoon fatal accident. Avoid the area. Can you see the traffic and all northbound lanes of closed right now near brooksville. Following a deputy involved shooting in hernando where the deputies were called out to ridge top loop. And according to report as Health Care Worker notified 911 about a suicidal person who had weapons in the house a deputy and sergeant trained in intervention tried to use less lethal means. The suspect the person inside is they have not identified the person who died. An effort is successful. Manatees stuck in a golf course pond are back in the crystal river. They were trapped during hurricane hermine. And aaron mesmer has been following this rescue effort all day. And did all go as planned . I think we can call this a success. The animals are and 2000 pounds. Another one
You can see on skytower radar that big mess of rain has been slowly inching its way towards the coastline all morning long. If youre washing good day with Dave Osterberg it is showing out getting closer and closer we see individual cells that would make its way on shore. Now were getting into that time where we will start to see more and more persistent rain and embedded in that will be some heavier cells. In fact, you can see basically from clearwater down the coastline, there you see some very heavy rain. These tropical downpours individual cells are racing on to the north. Then north, northwest right now probably about 30 to 35 miles an hour. Down through the south, manate and sarasota, this is just off your coastline. Just starting to work its way up towards longboat and anna maria. Down towards venice. Some of this brushing along the coastline as you get into central Sarasota County. But kind of take that big wide view and you can see this is really, been a lopsided storm. That le