Good morning. Welcome back to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt and sara eisen at post 9. The deal of the day, intel buying mobileye, and shares of mobileye soaring 30 . Well talk to intels Brian Krzanich later in the hour. Meantime, the Trump White House firing u. S. Attorney Preet Bharara after he refused to resign at the request of the white house. Bharara was asked to step down along with 35 other attorneys appointed by president obama. We have Team Coverage this morning. Eamon javers is in eesht, leslie picker. No comments across the board this morning from the white house and the department of justice about their reaction to Preet Bhararas tweets from over the weekend. He had that conversation with the department of justice at about 2 30 on saturday afternoon. After that phone call, Preet Bharara took to his personal twitter account to put out this message i did not resign. Moments ago i was fired. Being the u. S. Attorney in the Southern District of new york will
Minutes to get across all three bridges. Taking a look at the maps, you can see we already have areas shaded in green. That is where were seeing wet roads and if we zoom in we can show you exactly the roads affected so u. S. 19, alt 19 through Tarpon Springs through palm harbor, ponding reported on on the roadways there so give yourself extra time and slow down, use caution. Elsewhere the average speeds on the interstates looking great, in pinellas. Back to you. The race for the white house is coming to the bay area again this morning. Hillary clinton is coming to st. Pete today. Shes touring three daughters brewery. She will speak to a crowd at the coliseum this afternoon at 3 30 and will outline what her Campaign Calls the biggest investment in goodpaying jobs in the u. S. Since world war ii. If you want to go we have details on how you can get a seat posted on our web site at campaign trail today. Hes heading to detroit for a luncheon with a nonprofit Nonpartisan Group that focuses
Down, windshield wipers on, just use caution, might want to leave extra time. Weve also been watching our maps where the area shaded in green is, where were seeing wet roads and the blue is where were seeing ponding. It seems like a lot of the ponding we were seeing through Tarpon Springs, on alt 19 all the way into palm harbor, a lot has dried out so not as wet as we were seeing a little while ago. I think were going to get this on and off all y been following for about an hour now is memorial highway at kelly road closed in both directions, this is going to be in the Town N Country area. To get around this you want to stay on hillsborough which, as you can see is a little slow this morning and then take that to the veterans expressway or vice versa, to go up the veterans expressway to hillsborough to get around this. Were going to watch it and ill let you know here and on twitter as soon as that crash clears. As ivan just said the bay counties all offering sandbags today at several l
Places have already seen 5 inches of rain along the coast of hernando, citrus county, look further into the gulf of mexico. Thats where more than 2 feet of rain has fallen there. Again, thankfully thats offshore. And the farther south you go, the less amount of rain that we have seen but obviously theres still a lot of rain in the gulf of mexico trying to push onshore. We have a little bit of in here near oldsmar, pockets of rain but im more concerned with the gulf of mexico right now as that continues to sort of wave itself on. So waive itself on. Citrus, hernando pasco, under the flood watch, an 80 of seeing multiple rounds of rain. 70 chance near i4. And still heavy rain will continue at times throughout the day and thats going to keep temperatures cooler. Today im expecting 58. In weather and traffic on the 8s, tiff rainfall potential in each area, how much we could see the next few days. It could be treacherous on the roads later today. Yeah, it could get sloppy later today. Right
Live from the station taking action for you. This is abc action news. Now at 11 00, heroic actions when a young man spotted in the sewer filled pond that saved another mans life. More on that dramatic rescue in a live report. Plus, bracing for mother nature. The messy commute ahead as some areas get ready for relentless rain. Good evening and thank you so much for joining us, everyone, im serena. And im john sable. An elderly man saved by a teenager driving by. Explain the steps both the driver and the teenager took that led to a safe ending. Kara. Really so amazing how this all unfolded. Driving in a car here on highlands boulevard in the palm something that sounds like a loud splash and the teenagers in the backseat thought there was an alligator splashing around. As they came around the corner and got a little closer, they saw what had happened. You can see the tire marks right here. A car drove into this retention pond right here and one of the teens spotted. In fact, there was a d