Just meeting. They are lining upside by side to fight Companies Like uber and lyft. In another email, cobbing says the more people who let senator simmons know he needs to have reasonable insurance in place, the better. Mayor bob buckhorn says it if there is collusion there, people need to answer for that. But the perception is that is an agency that is way too close in my estimation to the people they are regulating. Reporter we have been trying to track down mr. Cobbing. Cobbing. He had just one meeting today. Just one thing to do. We waited and waited and mr. Talk to you about this. Also breaking information, i got off the phone with the Hillsborough County attorney and he is now asking that the ptc find other legal representation. The county attorney is concerned that if the ptc is dissolved by the state legislature, there might be a conflict of interest there. So he is asking them to find another lawyer. Tell me more. Why would there be a conflict of interest, jeff . Reporter well
First of all, when you look at max defender 8, scanning the skies with all million of its watts and not finding any rain now. In fact were barely seeing a cloud. I can use max defender 8 and widen out a little bit and show you. Theres the cold front right there. North of atlanta at this point. But notice, theres not a lot of rain even on that cold front at this point. I dont expect to see much rain at all. This is the way it looks right now its 79 degrees at that location. 77 in lake land and auburndale. 79 inverness. 83 in sarasota. Our wind speeds increase slightly through the rest of the day, staying mild. Only that 10 rain chance. Behind the cold front, the autumn air arrives. Cooler, less humid, perfect weather for the fall, right . Next week even, staying nice. Plenty of sunshine. Just a slow warming trend. Ill have that eightday for a man suspected of attacking a spa masoose to make his first court appearance. Forte attacked a woman then made his way to apoplex where he tracked
Were confirmed in south florida. Blood donations are being tested across the state and for good reason. A donors blood came back positive for zika in august. The testing lab that caught it in the bay area. New channel 8 chanel shows us how to keep it out of reach. All the blood makes its way to the testing lab in st. Pete. When it gets here, the blood is tested for zika. One blood official confirms the zika virus was found in a donation in florida. The blood was tested at their lab in st. Pete where everybody one blood donors blood is tested for zika virus. One rep could not give us specifics on where the donation came from. The doctors used highly sophisticated devices to test up to 3000 samples a day to provide results within hours to make sure that no zika positive supply. Thats the reason that this strum and the test is in place. One blood wants to ensure that they provide screen or appropriately screened blood in light of the zika epidemic. The fda has confirmed the one positive z
Have been doing a grade search. They have a little square area and they are going back and forth, back and forth, the divers in the water. Also, other fire rescue boats here as well. And what they are doing, they are doing the same pattern. They are looking at the search of the shoreline and tampa police has a helicopter in the air looking so right now, they are looking for a boater who went underwater pull ago boat. He has gnat resurfaced. It is messing traffic up and on the Courtney Campbell causeway. Thank you paul lamison. Donated blood tested positive for the zika virus here in the bay area. Blood centers have been on high alert since the first case of zika was detected in florida. Jamel lanee joins us live in Saint Petersburg where the blood sample was tested. Please tell us more jamel. Reporter well, so far, the positive, it is the only one that has been confirmed in the state of florida. Now, blood is brought here every day to one blood and tested for zika. Testing for the zika
Comfortable reading. We are significantly cooler than this time yesterday. Anywhere from 2 degrees in clearwater to 9 to 11 in spots all thanks to yesterdays cold front that now moving into south florida hence the dew dew points in the 70s. Our dew points are in the 40s. That a bone dry reading and thats why you are not going to see any clouds today. Clear skies all day long, but what we will be watching this morning are northerly surges. If you have boating plans, second half of the day best for you as our winds will cool start, we only rebound into the 70s for highs. 71 at lunchtime. High of 76 is below average. Averagewise we should be at 83. Tomorrow morning even cooler than what we are waking up to tomorrow. You dont want to miss those numbers. Back to you, guys. Crews are on the scene of a deadly crash in tampa. We dont have many details. This happened at the veterans expressway mary the memorial just after 2 30 this morning. We know two people are dead. The road is completely bl