Thanks for joining us. Im Walter Allen Jen and im jen epstein. Lets start off with a check of the forecast, with dave. dave no closed captioning is federal funds will become available today for those affected by hurricane hermine. The aid includes grants and other programs to help individuals and businesses recover from the disaster. Is fox 13s shayla reaves. Good morning shayla. Those who qualify can get some help with housing. Home repairs and loans from the government. The disaster declaration includes the five tampa bay counties on your screen. We are talking about citrus, hernando, Hillsborough Pasco and pinellas. Hurricane hermine drenched parts of the bay area. Toppled trees and and scattered debris. High waters led to some evacuations. So much rain fell over a short period of time,drainage systems couldnt handle the volume. The Anclote River overflowed. Spilling into communities like elfers. Ofci for safety. The declaration makes federal dollars available to supplement state an
Storm and moving quickly through caribbean, west at 15 Miles Per Hour. This afternoon, it could become a hurricane, category one. Actually going southwest before taking a very abrupt turn to the north. By monday morning, again, all weekend to watch this, its just west of haiti and east of jamaica as a category two hurricane. After that, it interacts with cuba and may weakingen back to a category one hurricane with 90 Miles Per Hour this turn to the eaken ack to the category one hurricane with the 90 Miles Per Hour winds. The consensus right there, it will head north and the longer range models have it moving away from the united states. Now it bears close watching because of how quick it moves toward florida before making the turn. And now the Hurricane Hunters are in the system currents expri the strongest wind gust currently and the strongest Miles Per Hour. Pushing in spotty showers in citrus, Hernando County and hillsborough and pinellas and now even into sarasota and manatee count
Crystal river along highway 19. As it falls apart, maybe getting a few sprinkles in citrus springs. We have a tiny line of showers moving over our bridges so it may rain for a couple of minutes in those spots. Our temps are starting off in the mid to upper 70s for a lot of us and the rain chances are going to run around 40 to 50 , especially this afternoon. As far as matthew goes, 65mileperhour Tropical Storm. Its just entered the Eastern Caribbean and well talk about the latest forecast path for that in a little bit. Vanessa . Vanessa its starting to get busy on the roadways. We do have a serious crash working out of Pinellas County. It will be affecting gulf to bay at the intersection with belcher road. What were hearing, westbound lanes are going to be blocked and while were not getting any confirmation on severity of injuries, we do know theyre we have multiple units on scene and as i mentioned before, big lane blockage. Work arounds, drew or druitt. If youre just joining us, were
There was no indication train was actually going to stop. W if know we collided into something we thought something exploded it was just initially just a horrendous, horrendous exploding noise. And concrete dust, and electrical wires and train flying into the depot. Kind of, couldnt believe what i was seeing. Weve just learned that train was equipped with technology designed to slow down speeding trains. U. S. Government orders to install the system but the work has gone more slowly than expected. And again at least one person has died. More than 100 people are hurt. We will continue to monitor the story and bring you updates as soon as we get them op air and online. New at noon, finally, an agreement that will allow uber and lift to operate legally in Hillsborough County. County leaders held a News Conference to explain the agreement a short time ago. Fox 13s kelly cowan was there and she has details for us. Well linda uber pulled out of other cities in country before over two strict
New this morning tampa police are investigating a shooting. At a gentlemens club. It happened at goodies nightclub on east hillsborough avenue a few hours ago. One man was shot in the leg. The injury is not considered life threatening. No arrests now in south carolina. Where theres been . Another school shooting. This time. At an . Elementary school. Two students and a teacher were wounded. Before the . Teenage gunman was captured. And were learning more this morning about what may have . Sparked the attack. The shooting happened just before two in the town of townville, not far from the georgia border. Students were on the playground when a 14yearold boy drove up in a car and got out, firing a handgun. Thats when two kindergarten boys and a female teacher were hit. The gunman tried to get into the school. But a teacher locked the then called 911. A longtime volunteer firefighter named jamie brock is being called the . Biggest hero of the day. He heard the dispatch call. Arrived by him