3 thanks for joining us. Im walter Allen Vanessa and im vanessa ruffes, in for jen epstein. We start this hour with a Police Pursuit that crossed the bay. 3 vanessa detectives say it started a couple of hours ago in tampa, when someone stole a vehicle from a car lot. Tampa police pursued. With a chopper up in the air following them. And followed the car all the way to st. Petersburg. Where more officers joined in. The thieves pulled over in a residential area. Parked behind a house and ran behind a house and ran inside. But someone there reported them. This morning, threepeople are in custody. 3 3 dave 3 more sunshine on tap for today, with high temps back into the mid 70s. Clear and seasonable tonight, with lows back to the mid 50s. Mostly sunny skies are expected for both saturday and sunday, with 3 no closed captioning is available for traffic. 3 3 3 vanessa it was just named americas best beach. And the weekend weather is gonna be perfect. But the drive to Clearwater Beach will be
School board member lynn wilson says he was shocked. It was a problem for our School District and for us personally. Reporter he gave sexually suggestive gifts to women as well. Leroy supporters are fuming asking how the district could ridicule her. But never look into rivers past during their investigation. What they always brought up was where she came from before she got here. Nobody tracked back to see where rivers came from and his allegations in his personal record. If it was anything similar to this. Reporter so we went to ask rivers about this investigation. Rivers. Reporter a man with no shirt and white shorts came to the door but quickly ran away. They did a background and reference check on rivers. The subject of an investigation. That is the greatest tragedy. Rivers was also accused of letting employees leave early to meet him at a happy hour as well as letting one of his employees use a state vehicle. One of his employees he was having a relationship with for her personal
Good afternoon, im stacie schaible. Well begin with the change in the weather. Here is meteorologist julie phillips. We have had another warm day here. The last couple days we have made it into the 80s and thats the case right now, the plantation at Crystal River out here. So far today at tampa international, we have made it up to 84 degrees. The prior record was 84 set back in 1990, so we have at least tied that so far. You can see the temperatures inland heated up quickly today, 84 in brandon, along the coast a little cooler. Still 84 in Wesley Chapel and bartow currently. Warm temperatures around, namely just dealing with patchy clouds. Of rain and rain chances for this evening are pretty low for tonight. We dont have to go much farther off to the north to see a lot of showers and storms. You can see a line of them moving through georgia and the panhandle. This is ahead of the cold front were tracking. This is heading in our direction but its a slow mover, facing that high pressure.
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