Session but a few more counties have their first day of school today. If youre waking them up for school, your kids, were waking you up with Team Coverage. Well check in on summer construction that went on right down to the wire. Plus a new curriculum that will have kids using their own cell phones and tablets to learn. Thank you so much for waking up with abc action news. First to kick off the first day of school in pasco and polk counties, janelle and ivan with traffic and weather together. You wanto it will take a little longer to get there with the buses but no real issues out there now. Next week of vacation, do they leave later in the summer . Thats turning it around, right . Good for you pasco and polk. Shortening up the year. Right. Looking murky out there. Checking with ryan, reporting a little fog on the ground. I dont think it will be a huge deal but patchy fog not out of the question for eastern pasco 7 01 sunrise. So it will be dark for a while. Upper 70s. By pickup time u
Abc action news starts right now with breaking news. After nearly two days struggling to survive a music teacher hit by an alleged drunk driver died from her injuries at bayfront hospital tonight. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im wendy ryan. Im this was the last update anyone wanted to make tonight to report caroline sine was taken off life support and tonight her boyfriend is still at that hospital in critical condition. Prayers and an outpouring of support tonight on social media for caroline sine. Late tonight sines gofundme pain posting the sad news. Caroline is in heaven now with her lord. Police say a drunk driver critically injured sign and her sunday morning. Sign who was driving suffered a severe head injury and did not have a pulse as First Responders rushed her to the hospital. Shes an amazing teacher. She always jumps in to do things on family nights, does Amazing Things with the kids in the classrooms. Reporter friends and co workers held a prayer vigil today for
Meteorologist leigh spann. Good morning. After yesterdays high of 95, we have slowly cooled down overnight. We are still at 80 in largo and pinellas park. Riverview, 78 degrees. 77 in wesley chapel. Bartow, 79. And sarasota 79. Rain chances, back out of the forecast for the first few hours of the day. Maybe a stray shower around lunchtime. But as the evening progresses, storms will head toward the coast, the rain chance goes up to 40 . And you will be wishing for later today. Cooler than yesterday but above average. I break it down hourbyhour for you. And leslee will break down the commute. We have a much nicer drive this morning. Not as many vehicles on the roadway yet. Good drive here, about 11 minutes. A lot of lights to go through. And venice, that is sarasota county, toledo blade boulevard, drive. And state road 64 to fruitville, about a nine minute commute. And in sarasota, clark road to state road 70, both on i75, just 10 minutes. Thats weather and traffic. Back to gene and gayl
Upper 70s to about 80 degrees. Its nice and dry as well so you dont have to worry about any wet roads for the commute this morning. Well check with janelle in a moment and see if there are any other tieups. As we work through the day well be up to the upper 80s by noon. That is where well see an isolated shower or two beginning to bubble up inland but we wont really see the majority of our area with showers and storms across it until about 2 00 to 3 00. So youve got a good amount of dry hours today and certainly hot temperatures. 92 as the high with coverage of afternoon showers and storms. I do think the evening commute could be a little messier than the morning commute but you tell me, how are things looking . Looking great. The roads dry. Corey dierdorff is driving over the Courtney Campbell causeway heading into clearwater. No crashes this morning, your drive across the bridge just nine minutes and looking good on the Howard Frankland and the gandy bridge as well. The only crash we
2005. After hurricane katrina, they were working to make the levies more secure. Well show you some of the dramatic rescues coming up. Breaking news into the newsroom within the last hour, armed men have abducted several people from an upscale restaurant in mexico. Prosecutors in western mexico say two several gunmen got out. Officials were saying five vehicles were abandoned at that restaurant, but its not clear if they belong to to the victims or the attacker. Dia said 16 beam have been abducted, but it has t coirmed. The man accused of drinking, and driving, and crashing into a car went before a judge. At the school where she taught. Carson chambers is live at that school in seat u st. Petersburg. What can you tell us . Reporter tonight, we are learning care line is on life support. Her boyfriend in very bad shape, Critical Condition. His back is broken in three places. Sexton actually taught here her hands. She is a music teacher, described as full of life with a beautiful spirit.