Good evening, thank you for joining us. Two divers died this past weekend at a wellknown woman wellknown cave diving location. The remote is very remote the remote location is very beautiful but also very dangerous. Reporter take a look at this video of divers explained the deaths sinkhole and you can see why people want to travel. Experience divers caution others, this is a place for people with technical special certifications. Depending on what depth they were using, timers may have been used and that takes a great deal of time and training to understand that correctly. Reporter the Hernando County Sheriffs Office tells us three divers enter the eagles nest cave on saturday but only one survived. They had predetermined a place under the water to meet after about an hour. Experienced diver went to the predetermined location, and the two experienced divers did not show up. The Hernando County Sheriffs Office said it will be up to the state to decide if the sink is closed again. Jeff p
Worried about the water her children have been drinking. Now, with pretty scary test results in her hands, she is worried to even touch the water. Im not a chemistry student. But i think that is pretty bad. Reporter they have 52 radium levels. That is five times the standard. She is worried about the lack of information from the mosaic officials. There is no red dots. This is where we have tested, this is what we have done. No red dots. Reporter state received this letter yesterday from state health officials. It says they left a message last week with her 11yearold son. And sent this letter as a followup. Today, they have called several times to make sure she is not drinking this nasty water. Is it acceptable to you that something that important they would just leave a message with an 11yearold . Gallons of radioactive water into the florida aquifer. But the Company Takes no responsibility for the well saying the materials did not come from their sink hole. Their whole concept has bee
Good afternoon everyone, this is first out for. We are learning that a deputy who was taken hostage by a prisoner on work detail is okay. Were covering the story for you right now and have the latest details. Reporter that evening, a frantic search going on just a sort time ago short time ago. It started this afternoon. Somehow an inmate overpowered a deputy in this park. We are now learning more details about here working. Ross locked the the other inmates into a building in this park. He then stole a work truck and abducted the deputy. The Sheriffs Office and bartow least quickly responded to the area Police Quickly responded to the area after the inmates broke out of the the locked room and let someone know passing by what was going on. The deputy is okay and ross is back in custody and we believe he overpowered him in some way. We believe there was a possibility of him being harmed. We are not sure. We have detectives on the way to interview him now. Reporter ross is back in custod
And 8 on your side will stay on top of this and we will find out what they are willing to do to keep the children safe. Now to the latest in the run to the 2016 president ial election. Early voting starts an ex week here in florida. Most bay area counties begin early voting on monday the 24th. But early voting starts in all of floridas 67 counties october 29 and last through november 5. Florida is expected for Hillary Clinton and donald trump. Thousands of floridians took advantage of an extended Voter Registration deadline. But getting them verified in time may now be in doubt. Democrats hope the federal judge can force them not to cast provisional ballots. Matt galka has the latest. Reporter yeah jen, you the federal trifecta. But this time, election supervisors say it could have been bad news. Reporter they looked to get newly registered voters processed by sunday. The reason, they dont want provisional ballots to be cast. When you cast a provisional ballot, it is not counted unless
We will get a touch warmer later on this afternoon but the story is this morning. You step outside, got to consider breaking out the light jackets. Good news, we are dry all over the region here with with the max defender 8 radar scanning the skies with a million watts of power. The story, not rain but the chilly temperatures. Theres the look at downtown again where it is now 57 degrees. We have light north, northeast breezes this morning but check out the number, 50s along the especially east of 75, it gets chilly. How about 50 for Wesley Chapel is lakeland. 42 right now in brooksville. And 50 in dade city. High pressure still in charge over the southeast u. S. Giving us the light, northeasterly flow. And overall, winds will be lighter today. And we will have the chilly start at 55 but the afternoon is looking gorgeous with full sunshine, temperatures stopping just shy of that 80degree mark. And long term, slow warming full forecast. Thank you so much. We turn now to breaking news thi