jen new this morning a bad crash is causing problems on the selmon expressway at this early hour. Highway patrol officers arent releasing much information, other than that it was a . Deadly accident, and parts of the expressway will be closed for awhile. The situation is unfolding, and well bring you updates as they come in. Best advice for now its best to avoid the area, if you can. vanessa were also keeping an eye on a fatal crash on the gandy bridge. A car and a motorcycle ran into each other. All eastbound lanes were closed investigated. Were not getting many specifics on this crash either. Like the name of the person who died, and what ledup to the crash accident. But well update you as soon as we get more information. Information. Get more you as soon as we get more information. jen more proof of how important our area is in this president ial election. One of the candidates will visit tampa again today. Donald trump will hold a rally at the Midflorida Credit Union amphitheatre,
Little bit better. Im glad that they are actually getting involved now. Reporter but, she is still leery about the lack of information from mosaic officials and the dep. The sink hole opened in august leaking more than 200 million gallons of contaminated water into the florida aquifer. The public was not notified about this potential environmental disaster until weeks later. After 8 on your side broke the story. Do you regret not telling the public sooner . Absolutely. Our staff was outdated law. So, the governor gavetous proposed rule, the new emergency rule. That is what we are following now. It concerned me they didnt notify us and they are suppose today be protecting us. Reporter well, if the company does not comply with all of the stipulations, they could be fined as much as 10,000 a day. Stacie . So, have they paid anything up front to guarantee that they will follow this order . Reporter yeah, as of now, if the price to fix all of this goes up, they will have to pay more. All ri
After 4 people were killed at an Amusement Park in australia. Busch gardens is taking action. The park is closing its congo river ride. But for how long . The river rapids ride is similar to the one in australia and Busch Gardens reaves is live at Busch Gardens this morning. Shayla the park says its jen dbx thanks shayla. A suspected drunk drver accused of causing a fiery crash on the veterans expressway. Was supposed to show up in court but didnt make it. Anwar askars Attorney Says hes still in the hospital recovering. Which is why he didnt make it to yesterdays courtdate. Prosecutors say askar was driving drunk when he slammed into another car killing the 2 people wants to go for physical therapy in tallahasse if hes released on bond he faces two counts of dui manslaughter the judge gave him a 200thousanddollar bond. But he will not be allowed to stay in tallahassee. Its been 2 weeks since tow truck operator troy mcguire was hit and killed by a suspected drunk driver. As mcguire was
And well warm things up very quickly and yesterday we hit 70 degees. Today well do better. Bring it up to about 75. Vanessa thank you. Take a look right now at the Howard Frankland bridge north end where things are looking good northbound and southbound. By the way, this is going to be the northbound direction and that will be heading into tampa where you have an eight minute drive once you get to the north end of the bridge all the way to the interchange. Nine minutes driving northbound. 75 selmon to fletcher and we do building westbound on i4 heading to the interchange. Russell this morning out of tennessee, a horrible tragedy just before the holidays. A school bus crashed, killing at least five children. Dozens of other kids taken to the hospital. Laura this morning the bus driver is facing a list of charges. Jennifer epstein joins us with the latest. Good morning. Jennifer i can only imagine how those families are feeling this morning to deal with this. Just days before thanksgivin
Of clear skies as we go through the day. A great amount of sun and also that lower humidity with some slightly cooler temperatures wrapping up the Holiday Weekend really pretty nice. Were at 59 degrees and dew point at 50 and humidity at 52 and the winds are out of the north at 5 miles per hour, which will bring down the really mrevent air over the views area. 47 in brooksville, Crystal River is 46 degrees down to our sout places like bradenton at 57 degrees. Throughout the interior, low to mid50s, lakeland is currently at 52 degrees. Over the past 24 hours theres the difference. You see a huge difference in these temperatures between about 9 00 and in some cases up to 13 degrees cooler than we were this time yesterday. So we will warm it up as we go through the afternoon. Up into the mid and in some cases approaching the upper 70s, but really a lot of sun and that thats on its way, which could bring rain later in the week. Well talk about that in a little bit, alcides. Alcides thank y