Minutes releasing this video, hoping that someone will recognize this guy. Police saying it shows him at the 7eleven across the street before the carjacking. He is acting erratic in the video and hopes that someone remembers him and his unusual behavior. State Health Officials working as we speak to figure out how someone in Pinellas County contracted the virus without leaving the country. That makes 42 locally transmit the debt of health going door to door doing outreach and sampling but they wont say where in the county. It is being actively spread in the miami area. That does not mean that it cant happen here. All new at 6 00, abc action News Reporter carson chambers gives us a firsthand look at the front lines to ep that from happening in hillsborough county. The first address were going to be going to is 2614 shamrock. Reporter tampa has hundreds worst of the worst. Reporter foreclosures with pools, standing water from south tampa to tampa palms. Breeding grounds for mosquitoes. N
Different tropical depressions form. This one actually predated this one here. Weve got one moving toward the carolinas, one that is going to be of interest to us. This is going to be tropical depression number nine, what we have been referring to as invest 99l. It could be hermine. It could be, well, heading into the gulf as a Tropical Storm and then back toward the big bend area by thursday and into friday. The good it has gotten a little bit better developed so it is moving further out. The bad news is it will come in north of us and bring rain later in the week. We are getting rain right now. As a matter of fact we are seeing pretty good lightning strikes offshore, over 1300 in the past half hour as the storm system moves through hillsborough and pinellas. There are showers in blooming dale, apollo beach, downtown tampa and a few located by but they have moved quickly across as easterly winds continue. We are looking now at temperatures in the mid to upper 80s, still cooling, 88 ta
Ride sharing Companies Like uber and lyft. Today the ptc agreeing on rules mainly with your safety in mind, how to regulate cars d drivers. But the fight is not over yet. Kara is joining us from downtown. Uber and lyft drivers are not happy today. What is the hangup . Reporter you know, it all has to do with the fingerprint background chks. It seems like a simple thing. But from the beginning of this fight, both compan lyft, have said no way, were not going to fingerprint drivers. It comes down to time and money and sometimes the tests can be inaccurate. The county of course is saying its necessary and it will keep you safe. They found out from attorneys that the state law requires that they fingerprint any drivers that they regulate. All right. The next question that i have for you is ridesharing against that finrprinting, right . Rertthats actually true. Theres a coy called fare that prints their drivers right now. Theyre operating in texas. They came into the city of austin after th
There. Good afternoon, tampa bay. Im paul lagrone, in for laura harris. And im ashley glass. We have a lot to cover with the system headed our way. We could be under a Tropical Storm watch by the end of the show. We learned that Governor Scott is on his way to look how the tampa bay is preparing. Rain and wind could start to affect the turnout at the polls in the final few hours florida primary today. A crew at a station just had to break down their camera because of the threat of lightning. It does happen. We have a team of reporters though watching the polls and posted at them in various counties. Sue them all here. But first shay ryan with the most updated track. Shay, what have you got. Right now im going to start with the storms across tampa bay. You can see in tampa, also just to the south of i4, across polk county. All of thesehipo that lightning. All of the quite a few lightnings and storms acrs the area. Remember, the last few days, in fact quite a bit of the summer, we have b
Right now, we are talking about the tropical depression. That is our biggest concern. Hillsborough county, hernando, pass go, pinelm sted here pa in pinellas are all listed here. And pinellas are all listed here. Yes, you can see, this is bring in shay. Habitat tracking the storm. Yes, this has been a tricky system. And as we take a look at whats going on, this is just our typical afternoon storm. But, there is some tropical moisture. So we are widespread today. But we really will not start to see the impacts of that potential Tropical Storm until wednesday so lets go ahead and take a wider look at whats going on right now. We have are very usual southern summer pattern. These are working their way and our direction. We do ve aitge than what we have seen lately, but this will taper off later this evening and then copy will be left with dry conditions. Our typical pattern, heavy downpours, thunder and lightning, and right now that is pet is impacting into pascoe county. So, lets talk tr