Pete after an hourslong search. Records show shes been arrested for dui three times since 2002. Officers are searching for a missing 6yearold miami girl. We know many of you have family and friends in south florida so were asking you to share this picture from our mobile app so that we can bring ashley jade martinez home safe. Shes 44, weighs 75 pounds, brain hair and hazel eyes. Police say she may be in the company of 53yearold lily hatton lily hatton. Anyone who knows where ashley may be is urged to call 911. Ivan has a look at the rainy forecast. Its been raining all night. We had thunderstorms rolling through. In fact 40 mileperhour winds. We had some Power Outages as well. I think those are likely going to be attributed more to lightning. We didnt really have 60, 80 mileperhour winds rolling through. Older trees on power lines, that kind of stuff. Heres the heavy rain much over for us. Still heavy rain bands with embedded lightning across portionses of highlands county. That conti
Rodney dunigan joins us live outside the courthouse. Rodney, any idea when Allison Huffman is expected in court . Reporter that hearing is set for 1 30 this afternoon, huffman was booked into the county jail last night behind me and in a matter of hours shell be walked from the county jail to the county courthouse a few steps away to face charges. Also this morning were getting a first look at her latest mug shot. Shes become officially charged with leaving the been officially charged with leaving death. She was caught last night at an apartment complex in st. Pete after a daylong search. Investigators believe she drove off after hitting tow truck driver roger perez on the Howard Frankland just before rush hour on monday morning. Perez was helping a stranded happened. Huffmans damaged car was found not far from the accident hotel. Weve also learned that huffman has a long history of trouble with the law with a number of to legally drive. We do plan to be in the inside of that hearing t
Crash site was covered in green but right now your speed on i4 not too bad. In the 60s a little while a little while ago 70s. No delays but you still want to be careful there. The roads are mainly wet south of i4, the blue area is where we have ponding left over from the rain but all along i75 dry out there since the overnight rain. The were wet when i drove the roads were wet when i drove in but seem to be drying out pretty good. In problems on i75, selmon expressway overlooking i75. Just five minutes from the selmon to downtown. We were talking about wet roads, no more rain expected for today so that is good. By the way, weather and traffic together, it is, in fact technically its weather and traffic together. Other and so this machine here tells the other machine hey, its been raining heavily in this area and so that is why janelle gets all the layers as far as the colors there. Its a pretty accurate machine. Well keep you posted. Rain over in highlands county. Not severe, just mode
Colleagues are reluctant to pass again, this bill is one step towards that. This week 32yearold Whitney Beall of lakeland two bill of lakeland to broadcast yourself driving drunk using an apt, periscope plea bargained for no jail time, one year probation plus community service. Her drivers license reinstated in just six months. But in the court of public opinion. The fact she was broadcast herself was not real smart its out there forever. Representative places if youre frustrated by floors dui laws let your representative know it and hold them accountable. His legislation he said is the only proposed law during this current legislative session that would strengthen floridas dui law. Theres more to this story. Its not just about drinking and driving, its about distracted driving. Remember, the tow remember, the Tow Truck Association showed up at allisons Court Appearance attention so that normal people responding to emergencies dont get hurt or killed. Weatherby Law Enforcement or fire
It sure does indeed. In fact these storms, they rolled through the bay very quickly, very early this morning. Bringing along of course the thunder, the bright lightning and it didnt last long, but it knock out power to hundreds. And fire officials believe lightning may have sparked a trailer fire at the village of tampa community. Two people inside were able to get out quickly and are okay. The fire investigator will be on the scene later to determine if there was caused by lightning. Damaging weather also touched down in floridas panhandle destroying more than a dozen homes. This is what it looked like overnight near the town of century. Thats in escambia county. 194yearold woman was trapped in her home and neighbors cut through the debris using a chainsaw to help get her out. So this stuff just blew through here and in fact the line of thunderstorms itself is moving into miami. Out. Look how pretty it is. Hard to believe a few hours ago we had these huge wind gusts, all this rain, th