There . Reporter were about ready to get going on this walk any moment. We have a couple of easily 2 to300 people. They have lots of signs talking about their disappointment and frustrations and concerns really for so many different communities, climate change, potential concerns over race and gender equality. A lot of people here with the rainbow flags concerned about what into office. They say now they know the results arent going to change, but its about starting a moment and they want people coming to the protests to get involved in their communities and in the political process. Need to have caring and donate to charities, what little we have we have to fight cannot accept. Reporter those gathering here will be going out and walking down through the park and out towards 1st avenue in a couple of minutes. Theyll be speaking and marching that direction, and another march starting at 9 30 tonight outside of the i go them in a nightclub. Hundreds in u marching to the capitol to protes
Appreciate the attention you have given. As i stated i would like to reiterate one continuing point regarding the detention facility. The president and the National Security committee have determined closing the detention facility is a security imperative. That is a strong term. The president in his leadership of the National Security team believe continued operation of the tension to detention facility weakens interNational Security. Closing guantanamos about protecting, not weakening. The importance of closing the detention facility is echoed by former president george w. Bush and a long list of former secretaries of state, secretary of defense, staff chairman and other former military leaders. As representative engel noted there was a letter by former flag officers including former commandant of the marine corps. Transfers from gitmo are in the National Security interest of the United States and are conducted in a safe and responsible manner. On march 23, 2016, i testified before th
dave and as the storm gets areas getting ready. E bay especially our . Northern counties which are under a hurricane watch. Fox 13s Shayla Reaves joins us from elfers in northern pasco tampa deputies are investigating a breakin and a . Shooting at a home. But the person shot. Was . Not the homeowner. Police say 23yearold Michael Stewart tried to break into a home on west b street tuesday morning. The homes Security System alerted the owner through an app on her cell phone. She saw what was happening. And called 911 called her father. Police say when her father went to the home. He encountered the burglar in the backyard. He was afraid of someing starwas holding. And opened fire. Stewart survived. But police say he alst made a . Deadly mistake stewart was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. He was st arrested on . Another burglary charge three weeks ago. And the man who the polls are closed this morning. And the results are in. From floridas primary elections. And no . Huge sur
Gets in a lightly better environment. As you can see, that is going to be the story here long term. So possibly some time later thursday, up around the big bend area. Most of the tampa bay area out of that window of possible movement. That area as we talked about, the stronger winds. Got to go back to the news room. We have rick scott apparently about to speak to us. So, lets go ahead. Three days of days of food. If you need medicine, make sure to have it on mind. If you need shelter know where it is. If you need a special needs shelter or a pet shelter, know where they are. Dont wait until after it happens. As you know, we have in the tampa bay area, we have nontravel related case of zika. We have do do our part. We can do now and after the storm hits. Our state of Emergency Operation center is at level 2. We have 8,000 members of the National Guard ready to be mobilized if we need them. We are going to do the right thing. We have great local leadership here. We have it all across the
Julie phillips. Thank you, stacy. And a lot of rain in the forecast for us over the next few days, only increasing at this point. The last advisory to come out from the National Hurricane center, was at 11 00 a. M. And at that point, the max winds were thrill 36 miles per hour. Still tropical depression 9. We have been awaiting this to become a Tropical Storm for about 24 hours at this point. Its just not in the best of environments. The gulf waters may be warm. But its facing a lot of wind shear. Thats really preventing too much in the way of so you can see, its still looking fairly disorganized on our satellite imagery. In the southern portions of the gulf at this point. Moving to the west northwest at 7 miles per hour. By thursday afternoon, thursday evening, were expecting this to make landfall in the big bend region of florida. And at this point, expecting it to be a fairly strong Tropical Storm as it makes landfall land. Then it really moves quickly as notice, by friday morning,