Y2300y y5yy cut off before they could evacuate. New at 11 00, a family rescued by three heroes. Good evening. Im jamison uhler. Im laura harris. Wendy ryan has the night off. In pasco county three Unsung Heroes spent labor day pulling families abc action news is live tonight. Cameron. Reporter were in new port richey. The roads are still significantly flooded. As you move back into these neighborhoods it gets even worse. But that didnt stop three men this weekend from risking it all for people they didnt even know. Hundreds of people have felt hermine. In its aftermath families are still being forced from their homes. We noticed a lot of people stuck in their homes. Reporter these three men were not affected by the flooding, but seeing the despair they decided to do what they could by boat. One family helped because they spotted a little girl asking to be rescued. I saw little elizabeth waving. Shes adorable. Reporter the girl was stranded inside her home. Her mom, dad, d sisters surro
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Again, just south of fowler avenue. You can see plenty of Highway Patrol out here, tow truck as well. The driver that was involved in this crash remained on scene. A lot of questions this morning, folks. Were trying to figure out if this driver or this person, if their car broke down along the interstate and they were walking to the next exit. Its still unknown how and what led up to all of this. I can tell you that the car that hit involved in this fatal crash had front end damage on the drivers side and the pedestrian is towards the middle of the interstate but what led up to it, what that person was doing along the interstate is still unknown. Florida Highway Patrol is out here right now, still piecing together what led up to it. I can tell you the medical examiner is here as well to remove the body so if all goes well, i would say in the last interstate should be back open again but unfortunate what happened out here early this morning and what led up to it is still unknown. Keep i
Well take a look at the winners later in this newscast. Serious message mixed in there. Were going to cover the oscars and a lot. Lets talk about our weather this week. We could see changes. Lauren standing by. Lauren. Good morning, were looking at the chance for windy weather and mountain snow. Taking live outside denver. Not too bad. Gusty in some areas. Winter park, gust at 53 milesanhour. As we zoom in here more, not too bad. Windy in golden and the black hawk area and westminster and towards bennett. Overall, not a bad start to the day. Ads we look at our satellite and radar, 39 in denver and colorado springs. 45 in boulder. So pretty mild start to the day. 23 in avon. 31 in grand junction. We have clouds to start the day as well. And it looks to be windy for us today. Partly sunny skies. Maybe a chance for stray showers, but our chance for rain and snow ill ill time it out in may minute, but first joel. Lets at the eisenhower are. You can see the road weather index showing the wi
Jackson, iii. Please welcome charletta sudduth, coauthor of the book i just mentioned here. Your mother will join us a little later here on the program, too. She actually was one of the maids that youre talking about in your book. Yes. Lets talk first of all, it is black History Month and charletta, for you, what does that mean after all these years of looking back at the struggles that africanamericans have yoefr overcome and have still overcome sng overcoming . What does it mean to you . It reminds me of my heritage, how far weve come but how far we have to go and part of me getting involved with this book is just wanting to make sure that we begin to pass on this legacy of stories and the trials, the triumphs that my people have had to endure to get us to this point. Itself to carter wood son, 1926 so the idea for this book, katherine, you collaborated with a broader look at recruiting her. Youre from new orleans and you lived at a lot of times when black maids were in your neighbor