We want to extends a special welcome to our Fox News viewers. Im meteorologist are arti from our studios here in new York City and weve been covering helene over the last several hours over the last several days. This has been an extremely well forecast storm, before it even formed down in the western caribbean. It looked like something like this was going to happen, so again, we still have technically a Hurricane Storm and Hurricane Center will probably see it downgraded slowly throughout the night, but one unique thing about helene, this particular storm is that it was very large, right . So large storms take a longer time to lose their strength as they move inland so you look up here to the north. Not only do we have a long Wind Damage to get, were going to see some hikely catastrophic rain, and i want to bring Ian Oliver. He started out in st. Petersburg beach and hes now made the trek over to tampa, so kind of on the other side of town, and ian, whether you started on the of other
Its now 5 . . Thanks for joining us. Im Walter Allen Jen and im jen epstein. Lets start off with a check of the forecast, with dave. Hot and humid with a 50 chance of scattered late day storms. High temps in the lower 90s. Tonight will be warm and soupy; lows in the upper 70s. More late day no closed captioning is jen call it karma. Or just bizarre. But theres an odd twist in a fatal road rage incident in Hillsborough County. wally turns out the man who was gunneddown. Actually killed a man 15years ago. In a similar situation wally fox13s Shayla Reaves is at the Sheriffs Office the man who opened fire this wally jen were also learning more about the woman killed during a Police Academy Training Session in punta gorda. And the officer, who pulled the trigger. jen 73yearold Mary Knowlton was takingpart in a citizens training exercise, tuesday night. And the end of the session, she was selected randomly for a shooting scenario. But officer lee coel accidentally shot her several times. Wit
Which is right on time. Checking the average speeds on the interstates, great shape there, all in the green, 70s on i4 and i75 heading into the downtown tampa area. And 70 your average speed over on 275, in Pinellas County from the Sunshine Skyway down to the Howard Frankland bridge. 6 01. Breaking overnight Pinellas County deputies are searching for three suspects that crashed a stolen car into a Safety Harbor home. Abc action news anchor Lindsay Logue arrived at the scene 45 minutes ago. You just spoke to the homes owner. Reporter the homeowner, the woman who lives here told me the impact was so loud she thought someone was breaking into the house. Look at the damage behind me. The white picket fence is in pieces on the ground. The bottom half of the chimney is cut off. The side of the house is destroyed and that window where you see the black trash bag, the glass from that, the impact shattered that glass all the way into the bedroom. Deputies tell me this happened they say a driver
The woman taking care of that puppy. Crystal she said this was ub provokeed. According to the caregiver her puppy was simply being a puppy approaching padi out of curiosity when he was attacked. Padis owner claims the puppy was growling at his dog when padi, quote, nipped his ear. Two very different sides of the story. But the pictures of the injuries speak for themselves. There are teeth marks on the top of obi wans nose from a bite his caregiver says came from simply trying to sniff another dog. I thought it was going to be a normal meet and greet and the dog basically attacked him. Reporter tammy is afraid that fourmonthold golden retriever shes training to be a service dog through new horizon could be scarred for life. Having fear issues can take a dog out of the program. He is being trained to be a wheelchair support dog so he has to be able to go into neighborhood with other dogs. Reporter she took him to the pet clinic in bradenton monday morning to get his puppy shot. Came face
Former pasco county sheriffs deputy ryan fergusons life on facebook looks like that of a loving father and boyfriend. But sheriffs deputies say he beat a 7yearold little girl so badly she could barely breath as her 4yearold brother watched. A complaint affidavit says that he put liquid soap in her mouth as a punishment for lying and threw her on the couch and slapped her according to the report. Investigators say he then hit her in the face repeatedly. The girl says he choked her, holding her down as she gasped for year. Ferguson denied all of this saying that she was hurt after a shopping cart fell on her. The doctor told investigators there was no doubt that her injuries were from a violent and severe beating. Justice needs to be done for the child he abused. Reporter as soon as the Department Found out, they arrested ferguson. This poor child, what they went through, we have no mercy for anybody whether they had been a former Law Enforcement officer or not. Reporter they fired him a