You to make extrs 4 00 and the bay is on. And right now lawmakers are still fighting about how to protect people against the zika virus and blaming each other because they havent accomplished anything yet. This as were learning we have one more travel related zika case here in the county. He brought mosquitoes to show what they are up against. The senate voted down a bill because it included unrelated provisions. But just so you now, the house did its job and the senate has been blatantly political with zika funding. We will find out how to get over again. They should drop the partisan filibusters. They haveords for even thelow bar th have set, it is incredible that they cannot fulfill this basic responsibility of governing. Lawmakers only have about a month to find way to agree on this or the cdc will run out of money to pay to develop a vaccine. Staying on Recovery Efforts from hour kind hermine. We just got final numbers in on the damage to pasco. People are getting help. Like those
Find themselves in hew is doing on the caribbean. Its just getting started. I will let you know when we will know if it will have an impact on the u. S. Its 4 00 and this is the now tampa bay. Hard to believe were actual today but it is news because parents in one county locally are getting calls about creepy clowns. We are letting you know what going on. People have been reporting clowns attacking them and following them. Some are real and some are fake. The Sheriffs Office in pasco countyhave received callsbo clown sightings the past couple of days. Well, they also say clowns are creating facebook profiles, friend requesting underaged children and asking them to meet them at parks. Thats when the robocall went out. As you may be aware, there sweeping the country. This morning a tweet from the clowning around twitter site posted the threat about high schools. We have no reason to believe that our schools are in danger. Fos, we cant make this stuff up. We will report it when it happens
Students stand with their credit and school debt. Its 4 00. Its time for the now tampa bay. First a chopper crashes in palm bay on the east coast of florida about an hour south of cocoa beach. Three people are dead. This plane was coming from Melbourne International airport, thats about 15 minutes north of palm bay drive time. Look at this mess. An abc affiliate in the area says its near a high school. Th the Fire Department you see them spraying the debris right there. We will bring you updates as they come in. In los angeles, a train smashes into a box truck that was on the tracks. 187 people were on the train. Right now crews are setting up a staging area for the media to get there and helping people get off the train. You see that there. Theyre trying to figure out if anyone is hurt in this one. We know at least ten people are hurt at this time. We dont know the severity of latest as soon as it in. Hillary clinton leaving tampa a little ov Hillary Clinton talked to the media for th
Morning. Good morning to you, yeah, it has only weakened slightly down to 155mile per hour winds it only needs to be 156 to be a cat 5 again you can see how intense this storm is. You can see the eye here and it does have some of that overcast now, so it is starting to get upper level winds blowing cloud cover over the eye so it is not quite as clear as it was over the last several hours. The reason it is starting to weaken some, still a cat 4 storm this is not a storm you want to be in the path of it will start to make more of a northerly track over the next couple days then eventually looks like making its way right along the eastern side of jamaica, and then through eastern cuba and then into the bahamas it will weaken along the path as it interacts with land but still talking about a significant system having a islands as it moves across them. At this point even though southeast florida is in the cone of uncertainty most models are in good agreement it will stay off of the east coa
Hours or the good news with this is although it is enhancing our rain chances, it is still relatively weak and it looks like the majority of the heavier rain and gusty winds will be on the east coast of florida from Central Florida on north to jacksonville. If youre planning to travel in that direction, be aware that you could be getting those tropical heavy downpours, especially along i95 from daytona on north over the next 24 and near shore. So if you happen to want to do any boating off of the east coast of florida, they have tropical force storm winds. That is a bit nasty on that side of the state. In our area, we will continue to pull that moisture out of the system. And that will enhance our coverage of rain over the next 24 hours or so. You can see how big the system is. It has been interesting watching it. You see the circulation that was not present yesterday when yesterday, it was about a 10 chance of developing into a tropical system. Then it really blew up with its organiza