Isolated showers. Lows winds e 5 mph friday mostly cloudy. Am showers, pm rain. Highs winds e 510 mph a new timeline developing this of fbi director james comey. Now were learning exactly what went down in the days and hours leading up to that shocking announcement. Suzanne kennedy is following the new developments live at the white house new this morning comeys goodbye letter to staff, the former fbi head said President Trump was within his rights to fire him, but refused to comment on how it went down. Comey beginning the note saying quote. I have long believed that a president can fire an fbi director for any reason, or for no reason at all. He continues im not going to spend time on the decision or the way it was executed. I hope you wont either before his firing comey had been scheudled to testify before the Senate Intelligence committe today at a hearing on worldwide threats. He will now be replaced by acting fbi director Andrew Mccabe. But according to reports comey has been inv
Share. Both covered amenities. Good afternoon, everybody. Thanks for coming. Last night the president was honored to announce judge neil gorsuch as his nominee to serve as the next justice of the Supreme Court. It was an unbelievably phenomenal evening. After being announced, judge gorsuch met with maureen and father scalia as someone of you have reported, his first call after coming back behind the podium was to Merrick Garland who also has come out to say judge gorsuch deserves a fair hearing. In less than 24 hours, he received a widespread praise from across the political spectrum as an inspired choice with sterling academic credentials, a brilliant legal mind, and a steadfast commitment to constitutional principles. During his long career in public service, judge gorsuch enjoyed bipartisan approval having previously been confirmed by voice vote to the u. S. Court of appeals for the 10th circuit. In fact, 12 current Democratic Senators including minority leader Chuck Schumer, fine f
Sponsored by a fraternity, right . Okay, we are having audio problems this morning, but usf Police Officials say the party was hosted by phi kappa phi. Students were shocked to hear about the news. The girl was unconscious at the she was 16 years old, and the fraternity is suspended. The status of the frat is in limbo this morning. We will continue to follow this story and stay in contact with usf officials all morning long to hear what is going on moment by moment. Stick with wfla on that one. Two children are hospitalized after a car crashed into a bicycle as they the children were or the name of their parents. Mary is live this morning. Mary . Reporter well, this morning we were able to confirm the identities of the parents and the kids involved in the terrible crash, and the kids are just 6 and 9 years old, and this all happened last night at just near the avesta apartments on 54th avenue north in st. Petersburg, and the troopers say when traffic westbound was stopped and on the bi
The latest. Reporter the latest is right on lehigh spann has the latest. Reporter the latest is right here. Its right on the border of haiti. Jamaica already seeing heavy flooding, and matthew is the strongest storm to hit the islands in decades. This is where it is right now. Look at the satellite imagery compared to tampa right here, and its about to fall this is just for a brief period along haiti before it heads north this just came in 2 3 minutes ago. 145mile an hour winds. Its interesting it will not interact with a lot of land, and it remains a category 4 hurricane through the middle of the week, and then it is expected to take a westerly track, close to the florida coast, and this is early friday notice the cone of uncertainty. Any deviation west or east will imact us locally. All computer models in agreement, making the shift unfortunately closer to floridas east coast before heading to new england. You think why the shift . This big area of High Pressure in the atlantic has b
Trump. He will not campaign with him. Wants to spend the next 29 days before the election. Working to keep the house in republican control. He told voters. Members, we are told, do what you can to protect your district. Do what is best for you. This is a shifting Political Landscape less than a month to go before the general election. There was no handshake between donald trump and Hillary Clinton sunday night that icy start set the tone for another contentious debate. Discussion turned quickly to recent lipreleased video of trump making lewd and sexually aggressive comments about women. Certainly, im not proud of it. But that was something that happened. I think its clear to anyone who heard it that it represents exactly who he is. Report tt candidates sparred on topics from Foreign Policy to personal temperament and there were surprises. Like the moment trump knocked issue of syria. He and i havent spoken. I disagree. You disagree with your running mate . Reporter mike pence who conf