Racketeering. The Sheriffs Office telling us today that they do expect to make a larger announcement about these investigations sometime tomorrow. Im reporting in odessa, clifton french, abc action news. Hillary clinton and bernie miami. Carson chambers is covering it all live for us tonight in south florida. Carson. Reporter well, Bernie Sanders campaign is riding a big boost of optimism after the unexpected victory in michigan last night. You will surely see that reflected in his mood today on also the topics they will one of the big ones is jobs and the economy and immigration. We know education reform, it will be broadcast in spanish and english. Latino voters are a key demo in a Battle Ground state like florida. Its a huge question, how well will hillary do with the latino vote. Up to this point we havent seen good polling on how she has done. Even in texas the exit polls were too small to have confidence in them. This will be the first state where we will see how well hillary can
Lets start by checking on our sunday forecast with mark collins. Good morning, mark. Good morning candace. It has been warm overnight and clouds have built in. Ive been watching the rain but it is a long way off. More like this afternoon is the timeframe for when we can see it. Kwie yet conditions over the bay area but backing it out. You can see this band of rain beginning to consolidate and form this linear line that could move into the bay area probably by lunch time today. Well have to key in on a few thunderstorms to move in off of the gulf of mexico and inland zones and rain chance vuning 40 . Not a wash out today but during the afternoon, just gear up for a shower or thunderstorm here, rain chances could amount to a quarter inch to a half inch of rain. If youre going out to the gulf tournament this afternoon, thunderstorms could be a factor. You can track the weather at any time using the storm team 8 weather max app. It is free. Download it from the app. The bay area is mournin
Youre looking at downtown tampa on this beautiful morning. Im candace mccowan. Well get to the top story in a moment but let us check on our Weather Forecast with our meteorologist mark collins. Looks like it will be incredible. It is shaping up to be that way and it will last nice all day long. We have the gasparilla arts festival, strawberry festival and you see the weather is cooperating. There. Winds are in the northeast and that is behind the front. The front moved away. All the high clouds we had yesterday and as we head through the day, well see nothing but sunshine, but that wind will make it feel a little bit cooler along the coast compared to inland. When we check in with the numbers, were warming up. We were at 52 this morning. You can see now 61 in tampa. This afternoon, 74 will be the high with blue skies and dry in fact, that humidity has really dropped off. It makes a comeback and the temperatures rise as we head into the workweek. Well talk about that and get you throug
Rise and shine tampa bay, it is officially sunday. Youre taking a live look over downtown tampa over the hillsborough river. Im candace mccowan. Thank you for joining us this sunday. Well get to our top story in a moment. Lets start by checking on the forecast with mark collins. Were seeing a later start to the sunrise today. Now, clouds are quickly replacing the sunshine. We have this complex of rain in the gulf of mexico. It is still about 150 miles out. Some of the stronger storms, but it is getting closer. As we back out, it is part of the broader band of rain and there are embedded showers and thunderstorms there. You can see the lightning here on our storm team 8 storm tracker. As we head through the afternoon, much of this rain is going to be moving in and i think it is going to be more of an afternoon type event. The nature coast can get in on some of the showers here for the midst Morning Hours but for most of us here in the bay area, it looks like 3 00 through the 7 00 timefr
Theres new hope for thousands of rape victims whos evidence kits have for thousands of rape victims whos evidence kits have sat untested while theyre attacker remains free. Governor rick scott says hell sign a new bill that will prevent similar backlogs from happening again. 10 News Reporter Isabel Mascarenas explains how it will help rape victims heal. 13thousand rape kits holding valuable evidence untested. Leaving many florida cases 15hundred are from the bay area. Is a national epidemic. We know we had to do something cant put a price on public safety. A new bill waiting the governors signature will keep this back log from sot. 1 22 25 what it does is it insures timely testing of evidence collection kits. It also gives victims a voice. The bill requires local Law Enforcement to submit Sexual Assault evidence kits within 30 days. The state has 120 days to process. Sot. 1 28 57 we hold the evidence for a year. That extra time says kathleen kempe, director of Sexual Assault services f