Lets go straight to dave for more on that. And our local temperatures. dave no closed captioning is the flames may be out. But danger still remains. Three people have been killed in the wildfires out in tennessee. Many more are coming back to rubble instead of homes. Foxs Jackie Ibanez has the latest on the devastation the fire has left behind. Runs 1 38out stdchyrons 0 000 05 mayor larry waters sevier county, tn0 170 24 mayor Mike Werner Gatlinburg 0 330 37 gov. Bill haslam r tennessee1 131 28 gregory pelc gatlinburg resident 1 291 38 Kelly Wright Fox news correspondent oncam fox news tag i have now been able to confirm the loss of three lives in sevier county. The Deadly Wildfires may have settled down for now in the smokey mountains of tennessee. But officials are warning heavy winds could whip the fires back up. This. After rains mostly extinguished the flames early tuesday morning. Werner says when youve got wind up to 87 miles an hour pushing fire, i mean people were basically ru
Its sad to see that i dont even know how to describe what happened. Reporter greg burton has known steele for years. Through the 62yearolds three late in life pregnancies. One of which was the subject of a reality show on tlc. Her last two kids were conceived using her dead husbands frozen sperm. Just odd. Thats odd. Reporter barton thinks it wasnt until last month that things started to unravel after a fire at their reddington beach home. I think she was coping prett well up until the fire. Days later she gave birth to her baby named kathleen. Steele left all three kids in the car monday when she went into a Cell Phone Store for more than 30 minutes. Detectives say baby kathleen started screaming. And steeles sixyearold son frankie beat his 13day old sister to death. I just cant believe franky would actually harm the baby in the way he did. Reporter the Pinellas County sheriff couldnt believe it either. Ever seen. Terrible tragedyor everybody thats involved. Reporter after steeles hea
And we begin with a news alert. Some American Airlines passengers just had one scary landing. At tampa international. It had issues with the . Landing gear. Fox 13s Shayla Reaves joins us now from the polk county Sheriff Grady Judd calls it a horrific case of child abuse. And he says the man responsible, is finally behind bars. Deputies arrested 28year old shawn tucci for the death of an 11 month old baby boy. They say he first told the childs mother he dropped the baby when he tripped and fell late friday returned home from work she found evidence of something more severe telling investigators there was lots of blood in the childs bouncy seat. At the hospital doctors discovered multiple cuts and burns on the baby along with bite marks and bruising. Tucci is charged with aggravated child abuse. He was arrested in Hillsborough County and will be transferred back to polk county later this week. Also in polk county some dramatic Surveillance Video from inside the circle k gas station on s
Who knows what other cases that chester who represent the molester may be involved in. He has been an expert 1s for dozens of trials but now he is under arrest if disturbing link between the cases and the elaborate lies hes accused of telling. Might three of Police Protests in charlotte. The new demand from the crowd as torturous an officerinvolved shooting continue. I felt like the trust had been lost and what happened, you know, with our sewage crisis. The fallout confronts sewage releases into the tampa bay area. The two improvements the mayor of st. Pete wants to help welcome. Im mark wilson. And im kelly ring. Thanks for joining us. A man whose been a defense witness in dozens of trials needs a defense his own tonight. The polk county sheriff says 57yearold chester gridkowski pretend to be an Expert Witness on Computer Forensics and took part in many child porn cases. Fox 13 tease evan lambert is in our newsroom. What does this mean for those reporter kelly, it could mean those de
Hinds. Thank you for joining us tonight. Flooding on the Anclote River in pasco county tonight. Several areas in the area new york city are under evacuation in New Port Richey are under evacuation order. We penitentiary up with Good Samaritans helping the rescue efforts. Kellie cowan talked to two guys who are lending their time and their boat to rescue stranded neighbors. Anchor sorry about that, we will try get story in just a moment. Also in pasco county, governor rick scott touring the city for storm damage. Governor scott had an update from emergency officials on flooding. They are telling the governor the reason the area is seeing so much flooding is because of runoff starting south. Could the saw the damage and talked to home owners in thousand oaks, trinity and the governor said people need to take evacuation notices seriously. This is lifethreatening. Going to happen. We dont know if we are going to get more rain. There are other storms, and this is just the beginning of hurri