The numbers are still very cold. Upper 40s to lower 50s respectable for this time of year. The rest of us in the 60s. All of us warming up with quiet conditions. We will be about 83 for the afternoon high. We will do that with higher humidity. Today is comfortable but changes are on the way the next few days. I will have those in a few minutes. Good morning, everybody. We i have been checking them because Highway Patrol is reporting debris in the roadway in the northbound lanes. I havent seen anything. They have a road ranger heading there to check it out and move whatever it is out of the road. Your drive on i4 is looking great as well. This is what it looks like through plant city. This is thonotosassa road. Your drive through downtown once you get there looking great. Direction. Back to you. Breaking news this morning at 6 01. Four people are dead after a theme park accident in australia. Authorities say they were riding the Thunder River rapids ride at dream world in queensland. Ap
Marijuana. Good morning. Thank you for joining us for abc action news at 9 00. Happening now, people are demanding answers. An emergency meeting is underway as the Public Transportation commission faces questions about unfairly targeting Ride Sharing Companies like uber and lyft. Ryan smith joins us live from downtown tampa with the latest. Good morning, ryan. Reporter good morning. That emergency meeting beginning just moments ago. Inside this county building, we anticipate hearing from only commissioners but also the groups executive director now accused of working hard in hand with Taxi Companies on pushing out uber and lyft from hillsborough county. Ptc staff emails revealing the group paid taxi drivers to pose as travelers luring uber and lyft drivers to specific spots where ptc officers were waiting to fine them. Now accusations of the ptc colluding with the industry it the ticket trap sparked cause by lawmakers for an fdle investigation. A good alternate means of transportation.
Comes to obama care. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. We begin with a crime alert. Police in clearwater are on the hunt for the person or people behind a string of vehicle breakins. The crooks apparently are targeting women. Abc action News Reporter Rodney Dunigan is live at her rei tan united met though heritage United Methodist church. This Church Parking lot is used as a drop off and pick up points for parents using the hit. Its shocking. Its sad, though. You cant take your kids to school any more. If they are that bold to do that, what else would they do. The m. O. Was the same in every crime. They left their purse in the vehicle. The suspect smashed the windows, grabbed what they wanted and took off. Gone a second and it doesnt take very long. Reporter a Church Employee Police Report breakins at several other locations around the countryside community. The they have appears to go after vehicles with purses inside. In one they left behind cell phones and a laptop computer. P
Breaking stories and will bring you the latest. For now, lets go back in studio. There are not lot of schools in the area. We have the middle school, a lot of you use lukes fern lake road to get to school, thats going to be a problem to get it is in front of the entrance here. Your options, head south take van dyke road or if youre more north, state road 54. Hopefully theyll have it back open by the time morning rush hour really picks up. Thank you. Were following breaking developments on another fatal crash, this one claiming four lives the horrific scene had mlk it just reopened about 2 hours ago. Multiple people are injured including some children. Authorities are trying to figure out what caused the tragedy. Live at the scene with some of those unanswered questions. Good morning to you. Troopers have not said what caused this horrific crash last night. They will certainly look into reports from neighbors, people who live here who say that this stretch of road street racing. Tough t
Was a look at the forecast. It will be great, mostly clear, comfortable, back in the 70s where we are now along the coast but cooler, a lot cooler across tampa bay. Low 60s this morning, a nice refreshing start the by the afternoon like yesterday it will warm up into the mid to upper 80s. Radar quiet, we wont show much in the way of cloud cover, dry air moving in, not the front but it will impact humidity. They will be low, a dry heat if you will by 4 00, 87. Trickor treating in the 70s and eventually Cool Temperatures in here. Well talk about the next cool front in my next forecast. This isnt the way we wanted to start the work week but we have a fatal crash in manatee county. State route 64 hitandrun, looking for the 2nd car involved. Right now both lanes of traffic in both directions closed. You need to find another way around. It is a rule road some not a lot not a lot of cars that you can head up to state road 62 and get around that way. The interstate look great, no crashes or br