Surprising but have you seen a gator sprint across the street like this. Oh, my. There it goes. They run really fast. A viewer shared the video with us over the weekend and it caught our attention. This morning, it has over a thousand shares and many more likes. The reason experts suspect he was running. First, the monday forecast. Leigh has an eye on the tropics. Yeah, it got very active over the weekend. We have tropical depression nine which is the most concerned about and theres also tropical depression eight. And theres hurricane gaston. The Hurricane Hunters flying through it. Again, looks like theyre on the way back home now. Wind speed they have picked up so far about 37 Miles Per Hour. So all the information from the hurricane hunt will go into the computer models and that will give us a better idea of whats happening. This is an 1 12 00 p. M. Update from the hurricane center. Last think is that it was going to be a tropical storm, even by late this evening into the central gu
Now, this seller did pretty much everything right except follow his gut instinct. The meet up site, burger king. A busy public restaurant with surveillance cameras. Mark thought it was the perfect spot to sell his iphone. Man it was a safe place, it was still daylight. Reporter saturday, he posted a brand new iph within minutes, a man named joseph was sending him messages. Man he wanted to buy it now, right then and there. Reporter at the fast food chain off florida avenue in tampa, mark met his perspective buyer but the second he got the crisp 100 bills in hand, he knew something was different. Man the color was quite off. It looked real. Reporter it was counterfeit money and it some of the signs tampa police are warning people man the subtly of how it feels and the grade of paper and all that. Those are all tell tale signs. Reporter mark acted on his suspicions, demanding they go inside to the registers to get a money pen. Man the money pen distinguished it was real. Reporter he noti
Running into the woods. Maryland state police got 911 calls from people in traffic as well as a call from the ambulance driver. Hes very lucky that he wasnt seriously injured. Police found him later that day. We got him the help that he needed. I was surprised he was not hurt. I mean, getting out of that truck and rolling several times like he did, all it takes is to get hit by a car. Reporter well tell you what happened the moment before he jumped out. Jim, back to you. Mark segraves, thank you. Now the increase concerns about a tropical smoothie store. An employee has been diagnosed with hepatitis a and now customers over a pretty lengthy period of time have been exposed. Lets go to news4s darcy spencer. Darcy . Reporter jim, its right here at the tropical smoothie and the owners say what they did as soon as they found out an employee in gainesville, virginia, has contracted hepatitis a. Health Officials Say strawberries were from egypt and served to customers and anyone who ate or d
Laura welcome to the 7 00 hour of good day tampa bay. Im laura moody. Russell and im russell rhodes. We have a lot ahead but theres a disturbance, thing, storm. Were not sure what to call it. Lindsay area of disturbed weather in the tropics. Its an invest. Russell whats the technical term . Lindsay invest. Youve heard us say invest 99l. That means models are running on it because something might develop in the long run. In the short run, this is a mess. Didnt look good it does not look good right now. Cuba, mountains on the southeastern part of the mountain. Combine interaction with the mountains with high behind sheer and a little dry air. Thats why the odds of development only 30 the next two days. But the next five days, theres still a 60 chance this may get its act together and we need to watch it regardless because models do bring it into the gulf. Lets talk about the new computer models. These show a west track toward the keys, the florida straits by in the week. Closer it gets t
Want to spend a day at the vacation kingdom with mickey mouse and his pals. 7 00 on a saturday, thank you for working with us im Lindsay Logue. James tully. We are glad youre up with a busy all the news but first potentially big news in the tropics, bill logan is tracking it keeping us uptodate. Same story we were talking about yesterday this ill organized tropical wave is out there. There we motioning to this camera and it popped up. It is well to the south but by late tomorrow and monday we start to see the moisture from the system making its way across the date for us. Right now, clear on titan doppler radar, there were storms offshore, a few out here along the east coast and we will watch as the storms build along the east coast and pull back toward our side of the state much like yesterday and last the south although we have had some pretty good storms moving to the metro area as well through the evening hours and into the Early Morning hours staying through portions of sarasota a