Reporter at the scene you see they are trying to get the area cleaned up. Debris was spread out over six lanes of traffic. Theyre mopping it up. Theyre trying to get everything in order before they let cars go through. They closed ten chailanes total. Six that go through the main toll plaza and two fasttrack lanes only and two bus lanes. The driver of this rented box truck slammed into a line of cars at the bay bridge toll plaza after 5 00 a. M. Saturday, then hit the booth and killed the caltrans worker inside who was collecting money. Hit that very last car in line and then kind of caused a chain reaction. Reporter five other cars were badly damaged. Heres one being towed from the scene. Several people had to be rushed to the hospital including the driver of the truck, 32yearold daniel burke, from foster city. He was arrested on suspicion of dui and vehicular manslaughter. The toll booth worker has been identified as 46yearold ceci hawn. The truck was traveling at a high rate of spee
Finding an irs con artist is a difficult task. They can do their dirty kids pretty much anywhere with a telephone. Tonight listen to yourself a call a bay area woman received. Hello. This call is officially a final notice from irs, Internal Revenue service. Reporter Sun City Center dr. Gail dudley recorded this message on her answering machine. The reason of this call is to inform you the irs is filing lawsuits against you. Reporter she saw our 8 on your side story explaining how this st. Petersburg man is accused of ripping off a guy in denver by having someone deported. Did that strike a nerve . Yes, yes. Ive seen these stories before over the last year or two, but last night when i saw that i thought let me just see if anybody else had this happen. Reporter fake irs calls are surging across the country. Since 2013 the agency has logged almost 1 million contacts about the scammers with more than 5,000 victims who lost more than 26 million. Them. You think it was the irs . No, no. I r
Imagined it. We spent two or three weeks just going around to the different bridal shops in the area we found one. There is a lot of emotion attached to that. The wedding was in october and tiffany did what many dried does, she sent the dress out to get cleaned. She planned to store it away. Now she is afraid she will never see it again because of a cruel criminal. Im sad about it. You know, a Wedding Dress is something that has a lot of sentimental value. The ups stopped by to deliver the gown but no one was home. A gold suv a rodeo or passport pulled up just as the driver was about to leave. He said i live here, i have been waiting for you. He signed for it and drove off. All they know he signed for the package using the name jose. You cannot replace that, thats a one time thing. Police are looking for jose lengths people have to take to stop thieves like him. In the case taking the step of a signature, it did not protect themselves so we need to go to even a further step which is do
3 epstein. Those stories in a minute, but now, a first look at your forecast. With dave. 3 3 3 3 3 new this morning hoping to get your tax refund soon . Well you could be out of luck. The irs says it suffered a major it affected several tax still not clear how many of the problem mostly affected people trying to use efile software on wednesday. Several online tools were website is up and running. Prepare and file their returns irs has been working on the problem all night. They filers should see a disrpution in getting their refunds. 3 developing in tampa a controversial meeting at a public park. Is now canceled. The group behind it is called return of kings. Its a pro male movement. That believes women are inferior to men. 3 the meeting was actually planned for Curtis Hixon Park this saturday. To coincide with other Group Meetings around the world. But when word got out this week. Residents and city leaders got furious. And the groups leader was forced to cancel the event, saying he c
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.