They re santa rosa, lee, miamidade, hillsborough, broward, and st. John s counties. Governor rick scott has already declared Health Emergencies in certain areas, which makes state money and resources more readily available to fight the spread. Jim confirmation of zika virus cases in florida prompted local counties to start taking action to prevent the spread. This work was going on, even before the news broke that a case had been diagnosed in Osceola County. Wesh 2 S Dave Mcdaniel joins us live from Seminole County. Dave, you looked into some of the preventative measures being taken. Dave that is right. Mosquito control agencies are doing extra this time of year to make sure the mosquito population is controlled and zika is just part of it. Part of this is el nio, warmer weather. It has been cooler today, but wetter and warmer weather creates more areas for mosquitoes to breed. Osceola county where this was announced, they told me they are trapping more, monitoring the populations of m
Expected with daytime temperatures well above normal by next week. Short term. Despite the continued melting of snow yesterday followed by cooling after sunset, we have not seen much fog develop a hit and run accident turned deadly in carson city last night. After police say the suspect led them on a high speed chase in a stolen truck. It happened just before 8 oclock in the area of College Parkway and airport road. The Sheriffs Office says they tracked down the truck involved in the hit and run. When they approached the driver, they say he rammed their suv then took off speeding. The suspect then lost control and crashed at the carson city airport. The driver was thrown from the truck and killed. Were told the truck was reported stolen earlier in the day. The Washoe County District Attorney has september of 2014 was justified. James luke bowman had an outstanding warrant from the us marshals office. When detectives caught up with him near the intersection of fourth and spokane. They t
Western nevada with generally light winds and valley inversions. A steady warming trend is expected with daytime temperatures well above normal by next week. Despite the continued melting of snow yesterday followed by cooling after sunset, we have not seen much fog develop overnight, except at the a hit and run accident turned deadly in carson city last night. After police say the suspect led them on a high speed chase in a stolen truck. It happened just before 8 oclock in the area of College Parkway and airport road. The Sheriffs Office says they tracked down the truck involved in the hit and run. When they approached the driver, they say he rammed their suv then took off speeding. The suspect then lost control and crashed at the carson city airport. The driver was thrown from the truck and killed. Were told the truck was reported stolen earlier in the day. District attorney has ruled an officer involved shooting in september of 2014 was justified. James luke bowman had an outstanding
Strong rip currents. For thats lets turn to chief meteorologist doug hill. The strong currents will continue at least tomorrow and probably into friday as well and then into the weekend as cristobal, the hurricane responsible for this moves more quickly to the north atlantic, then we should see some improvement. Were looking at our weather bug station at 2nd street and boardwalk. The weather is not the problem, it is simply an effect of the rip created by the strong wave action well offshore from hurricane cristobal located well to the southeast of cape hatterasers. It will pass to the north, northwest of bermuda tomorrow. And the water should slowly lay down a bit as we head through, saturday, sunday, and into monday. As far as the rain goes were watching these little thunderstorm clusters north and west of martinsburg and west of hagerstown. Were thinking most will fall apart before they get anywhere close to the metro area. This is ahead of a cold front they will give us relief from
The kennedy assassination for young adults. Hi am here to welcome you to this session of the southern festival of books where this evening session, as you know our writer for this session is james swanson, the Edgar Award Winning author of the New York Times bestseller manhunt, the 1284 lincolns killer as well as chasing lincolns killers, the bestselling adaptation of manhood for young adults. He had a number of government and big tech posts in washington d. C. Including the u. S. Department of justice. Is two recent books called end of days, the assassination of john f. Kennedy and the presentation this afternoon which is the president has been shot, the assassination of john f. Kennedy. Mr. Swanson . [applause] thank you very much. To give you fair warning the book that has been published in case you want to leave, this is a Childrens Book. And at the festival. My adult book, an end of days is coming out in a couple weeks. I dont see many kids here so i thought i would give you a adv