They may be driving a Hyundai Santa fe. You can likely imagine the reaction as we told people this story. That is so heartbreaking to hear. They do good things for the community. It s pretty terrible. It s unfortunate. People are desperate to pick on a little girl scout. That is really heartbreaking. By phone, the girl s mother says she is shaken up. I can t say that i could picture someone stooping that low. I think we can all agree that as someone that deserves to be held accountable. If you recognize the man or great Hyundai Santa fe, they want you to call them so they can solve this case quickly. Jim a wildfire burns through several acres and comes close to some buildings. At one point, the fire even jumped a canal. Matt lupoli walks us through the brush fire battle. Matt fire crews spent hours battling flames in the oak hill area. There is heavy smoke. The fire was fastmoving and apparently jumped a canal that took down about 10 acres. Thankfully, crews worked to stop the blaze. F
75 new smyrna beach. Much more on that forecast and if you want to head to the beach today, think you are going to like that. Here s ted with a look at the roads. Ted 95 northbound by state road 44, move over for about a mile. The left lane is blocked with roadwork. City road just south of Riverside Park road, make plans to get around that crash. Here s the construction on i95. Turnpike southbound has construction in lee county. You will lose a left lane. Jason in just a few hours, a woman accused of hitting and killing a man in Orange County will face a judge. Michelle troopers say syndia saint cyr hit and killed cody garrick yesterday while trying to outrun a sheriff s deputy. Alex villarreal is live this morning. Alex, this is not the first time saint cyr has been in trouble. She has a history of driving violations, including driving with suspended license previously. That was the case in this accident that happened very early sunday morning. We do believe she will be making her fir
For today. In fact temperatures nice and mild like we had over the weekend. The difference will be a few more clouds but certainly nothing terrible. Maybe a light jacket if youre sensitive. Not as cool by any stretch like we had on saturday morning and on sunday morning. A little too cool for most of us then. We recovered nicely as well do today but well have less to recover from as we have mid and upper 50s now. 60 in tampa. As we check in with a few more clouds, low to mid70s between then 64. It is leap day. By the way, if its your birthday i understand dan shaffer is buying cupcakes for everyone watching. I kid. That would get me in trouble. Were going to come back and talk about the next front that is bringing a couple of showers. In a few minutes. Its 5 31 now. Today the Florida Department of education is holding its collective breath hoping not to see a repeat of last years the florida standards assessment test. First round of testing today after changes were made in hopes of mak
Jazmin the judge set a little more than 25,000 bond on sunday s deadly crash, but then revoked her bond on a past case, meaning she has no chance of getting out. Syndia saint cyr didn t speak during this morning s short appearance. She was visibly injured. As she walked to the podium, you can see the bandaid on her left arm. The judge ordered a public defender to work with her. Saint cyr was arrested sunday, after troopers say a deputy tried to pull her over, but she took off. That s when she allegedly slammed into 23yearold cody garrick, killing him. Garrick had just finished deliveries on his first day, working for domino s pizza. His mother says she wants justice. She chose to run from the law. She chose to do it over and over again, to drive without a license. She killed my son. There are a lot of people that will miss him. Jazmin saint cyr got no bond today, because she was accused of fleeing Law Enforcement in saint cyr was ordered not to drive, if at some point in the future she
Still a very active scene out here. I want to show you one of the mobile homes. That is the mobile home where two dogs did not make it out, but there were no other injuries. Fire crews got the call before 8 00 sunday evening. They tell us the fire started in one mobile home on bella bella lane in odessa and then spread to an adjacent home. No one was in that home at the time, but the two family dogs were. A pasco county sheriffs deputy did try getting the dogs out but just wasnt able to. Sandy olen berger lives in the home with her family and was in a meeting at a time when the fire broke out. Shes grateful no one was home at the time but heartbroken her dogs didnt make it out safely. Im not holding up very good because i just found my dogs. Both my dogs are gone. I just thank god im alive. I might not have a house, but very my family and i have my life. Though. Reporter firefighters spent several hours here theyre still here as you can see at this hour. They did locate the two dogs in