We are told there were 31 students on board this bus. There were several injuries. We are here between 5 00 to 7 00. Lets go to some exclusive cell phone video i just got my hands on. Basically, this is video of the woman as she gets out of the car with her child. She is alleged to be the woman in the blue vehicle. And he gets video of the school bus kids hanging out, their hands out the window screaming. There was a lot of commotion and crying. It was a very scary incident. We spoke with one of the parents who rushed up here to get her child. She got a frantic phone call from her daughter on the bus from one of the other kids who had a cell phone. Lets listen in to what she had to say. Mom, my bus has been into an accident. Im really, really scared. I couldnt really hear so i dropped everything from work. Came as fast as i could. I parked in the turning lane, came and saw kids everywhere. Just commotion. Reporter so, again, through u. S. 301 now back open. Those children were coming f
Details of the storms. T the showers anand thunderstorms have been heaviest acrcross south florida. A a reported tornado did d some damagege. We have been talking about this Severe Weather threat during this el nio phase. You cacan see most of ththe cloudy skies around the bay area. That isis a viewew there from new port richey. Some of ouour locations have reported over an inch of rarain. A good trail of clouds and showers. You can see it primarily south of i4. There is a cold front draped across the northern part of the state. We cacan see a wind shift now. The rainin continues to surge up from south to o north as it has been doing. You can see the reports s of a torn, Coconut Creek is where the touchdown occurred. It is estimated toto be ef1 strength which is very strong for florida with up to 100 miles an hour wiwinds. Typically usual florida tornadoes are less than 100 mimiles an hour wiwinds and dont t stay on the ground veryry long. That was the assessmement from the Miami Natio
Lets go inland a little bit. Youre in the 50s in the north. Were burning off those temperatures, were warming you up to 73 this afternoon. No rain in the forecast here today, but as we head into the evening, temperatures will get cool once more, in fact, once the sunsets, well probably get back into the mid60s. Let me tell you about rain in the forecast here coming up. Stay tuned. Details still to come. Thank you very much. And you can track the weather at any time using the storm team 8 weather max app. From the app store. Right now, clean up is just Getting Started after one of tampa bays biggest parties. The pirates of gasparilla left behind quite a mess on bay shore boulevard. Mary mcguire joins us now live here with a volunteer who is giving up her sunday morning to make tampa pretty again. Good morning, mary. Good morning to you candace. Were here on bay shore boulevard which is really the epicenter of all of the gasparilla parties and we know of things but not necessarily known
How theyre raising awareness for Heart Disease and stroke. Good afternoon, im candace mccowan. Thank you for joining us this sunday afternoon. We begin with breaking news. A man is under arrest for killing a motorcyclist while driving the wrong way. Kenneth cabral is accused of going the wrong way and hitting a motorcyclist head on late last night in dunn eedin. He is charge dunn eddin. He is charged with dunedin. He is charged with manslaughter with dui. Well get to the op top moments in a minute. Temperatures have warmed up from this morning. We have sunshine but you can see from the cameras on the beaches of clear water that it does look cloudy and that is due to all of the high clouds streaming by. Well keep the clouds around all day but you see some showers out there over the gulf . Sky and it will not reach us down here on the ground. So keeping it dry. Already 70s popping up on the map in our southern zones. Right now it is 69 in tampa and as we climb through the next couple of
Checks as required by law. A convicted cop killers case goes before the Florida Supreme Court this morning for an appeal hearing. Dontae morris is on death row for three of four murder, two of the murders are the shooting deaths of two Tampa Police Officers in 2010. Today morris attorney will argue that floridas Death Penalty sentencing system is unconstitutional. And the mid as well as getting hammered by midwest is getting hammered by a massive winter storm. Blizzard warnings are in place for parts of minnesota. As much as 10 inches of snow are expected to fall. Over in the bay area, warming up up. Last hour in tampa we were at 71. And now were at 72. Which is warmer than the average High Temperature for this time of the year. Yeah. Lakeland, 70. 70. In fact, we are significantly yesterday. Lakeland, plant city, brandon, all 11 degrees warmer than at 5 00 yesterday morning. Six degrees warmer in tampa. At this point, we dont see the thick fog but we are seeing some lowering of the cl