Scandal not only the number of officers accused of Sexual Misconduct but the number who are alleged to have known about it and not done anything suggests that we need fundamental cultural change. In a statement schaaf said if we are inconsistent in how we staff our Police Department, we run the risk of jeopardizing the important gains we have made. Right now the department has no official chief. It is being run by the city manager and a federal monitor is overseeing the hiring process of an interim chief. What are we hearing from protestors calling for change . Reporter a group of activists calling for the city to divest in the department and mayor schaaf to step down saying she shouldnt have waited for things to be so overwhelming before taking action. In november, homeless encampments a Ballot Initiative allowing authorities to remove an encampment after giving a residents 24hour written notice plus offer of other housing. The measure was written by supervisor mark farrell and the su
Obviously. And more rain still coming down light drizzle or mist out there. That said looks like we catch midday break region ride for sun. Were off to pretty mild start. Quiet start. You may want to think about dressing in layers later today in the city we hit 78. Just watching for spotest of spotty showers or thunderstorms as the day progressing and every all similar to what we saw yesterday, meisha, scattered shower or storm. All right well have to take it. Thanks, katie. At least we got the 70s back. Thats what i keep telling myself. Blue route past Baltimore Pike looking hazy and foggy out there. Some of the roadways damp. Wet, they were a lot more wet when i drove in this morning earlier around 3 30 in the morning. Make note of that. Right now some of that clearing we did see some pooling of water earlier on 295. That has since been clear and in fact that pooling of water labeled as flooding. Make note of that thats since cleared and letting us now how wet it can be. Eastbound di
Free. Its august, remember that. But at least on radar now, theres not much to speak of. We do have mid level cloud cover. Streaming through the area. The temperatures hey weve made it to 80 degrees. Thats our 9 oclock temperature at Tampa International. Brandon, 81. 80 in sarasota. 80 in clearwater. With at rain chances today some, lets say 50 to 60 percent. High temperatures are going to squeeze way back in the mid to upper 80s for later today. All right. Thank you, dave. 9 01 if youre with us we have a roadway shut down in the plant city area. This is all due to a deadly road rage incident. So mlk thats affected. We will get to details in just a second with live report. From a traffic standpoint it will be shut down forbes to wilkinson. Thats your area of concern eastbound and westbound. Forbes traffic is getting through northbound southbound direction, so your work around here really u. S. 92 and sydney road and telling folks through the morning 92 a bit jammed up you can easily ge
You know what, so much better. I mean if they had started yesterday or day before it would have been miserable out there. Now weve got sunshine to dry us out for a little bit this morning. 78 degrees in tampa. Bradenton, sarasota, 79. Already in clearwater. And brandon. Today, obviously going to be a little bit warmer. But we also do run that risk of showers and thunderstorms. Late this morning along the coast, then it will shift inland during afternoon. 87 degrees for today. Rain chance between 50 and 60 percent. Vanessa. All right, youre just joining biggest incident on roadway coming us out plant city area. This is an earlier skyfox shot of the area mlk and forbes road where we have mlk completely shut down from forbes to just east of the intersection for a deadly shooting investigation. Were hearing a road rage incident. Ill keep it there for a bit as far as the details because we do have live report coming up with more information. So from traffic standpoint here some work arounds
Ambulance. Fox 13s everyone lambert is live along mlk fords road and plant city with latest i know discussing new details what can you tell us everyone . We just got an email update from at Hillsborough County sheriffs office. And what i can tell you, is that both men involved in this road rage incident have been identified. They have identified the man who was killed as gary durham of brandon. And deputies say the shooter was robert his street is being withheld at this time but the incident happened just east of here. That light behind me is forbes road and it happened along mlk. They found the deceased mr. Durham in the road. And i want to take you to some video of from skyfox so you can see the response to this. Deputies say they got a 911 call alerting them of a shooting. When they got here they found a man dead on the ground. Identified as gary durham. And they said that they found the shooter overhim performing cpr at the time. They say at some point the two men got into a fight