It was never his intention, he says, and evans says he has tremendous respect for the men and women who serve our country. He says he has very strong emotions regarding some of the many issues that exist in our society today. The apology from mike evans, we went to a vfw post to get reaction. Its a privilege for him to be able to do this in a free country. Show a little respect. A little gratitude for the people that go day and fight for that right for you. I know we all do make mistakes, but that was just uncalledfor. Everybody has a right to their apology. Well just see what he does next game. Reporter in his apology issued today, mike evans says he will work to bring about change by supporting organizations and movements that fight for equal rights for minorities. This sunday he says he will be back to standing with his latvalla from pinellas. He says, thank you, mike evans. Youre quite the young man. Hope to have the opportunity to meet you someday. Go bucs he made headlines saying
New this morning; the search for a pair of thieves who robbed a female student on Shayla Reaves is there live this morning. Shayla, a big fight is brewing between parents in pasco county and the school board. Its all over the countys plan to redraw some School District lines. Forcing students into new schools. The School District says it needs to redraw School Boundaries because some are overcrowded while others are below normal capacity. Officials say a rise in new Home Construction is causing the problem. Theres not enough funding at the moment to build new schools. Rezoning would mean some students would have to change schools and may be bused several miles farther away from home. At tuesday nights school board meeting, a boundary committee, made up of principals and parents from each school is tasked with drawing the lines. They have 5 proposed maps which now have to be narrowed down to 1 that theyll present to the superintendent. Their next meeting is tomorrow at 8 am at gulf high
In polk county. A series of dangerous home breakins are under investigation. Including a very dangerous one, just added to the list. . 35 guns were stolen from an auburndale home in broad daylight. The burglary happened earlier this and Auburndale Police are now asking for you to be on the look out for . These two cars. One is a White Lincoln towncar with a beige top. The other is a white chevy malibu. Investiagtors believe they are connected to the breakins. If you recognize them. Give Auburndale Police a call. A big vote this morning. Could have a huge impact on hundreds of bay area students. Thats because they may be forced to . Change their schools. And as fox 13s Alcides Segui joins us from the Pasco County School board this morning, for the latest. No matter what the School Committee decides. The superintendent and the board its going to be a busy morning for big cat rescue in tampa. Theyre taking part in the largest rescue of big cats in us history. More than a . Hundred animals
And you have firefighters here on scene trying trying to put that out really dealing with a little bit of smoke at this point. Thats good news. Weve scenery duction in that smoke over the past couple minutes or so. But unfortunately, it is going to be a full shut down as i mentioned in westbound direction. You have all of those lanes blocked. And earlier when we zoomed out i could see a left turn lane in eastbound direction might be affected. Drivers probably want to stick with waters or linebaugh if youre heading usually along busch boulevard. Thats going to be your best work yeah going to be that left turn lane. We will keep you post ad we learn more on this. Couple other things to mention here, northbound 275, still have that left lane blocked at fletcher due to an earlier crash in still dealing with northbound direction shut down. Of u. S. 27 and haines city. A county road 546. Please take tenth street. Dave. Vanessa, starting to warm up nicely outside. And dry air in play i mean g
It happened monday afternoon in chattanooga, tennessee as the bus was carrying 35 students from a local elementary school. 10news reporter emerald morrow is on top of this story. Emerald, this is a parents nightmare. Its forcing officials to take a closer look at school bus safety. Yeah, the governor of tennessee said once they are able to take care of all the families in this situation, this could force them to take a harder look at what can be done to improve school bus safety. Even though numbers show across the nation, to get your kids around. According to our partners at usa today, less than one percent of all crashes nationwide involve school buses. That might be hard to believe after seeing this, though. This is the aftermath of yesterdays accident that stole far too many precious lives and left children and families shaken. Officials say the school bus was the only vehicle involved, and there is no real reason at this point to believe there was anything else going on along the