To hear of Something Like this happening is just a tragedy. You cant say enough. A tragedy indeed. A toddler died after being left in a hot car today for hours. Normally its a beautiful white and clearwater color, and it did you know tens of millions of gallons of sewage went directly into tampa bay during the recent hurricane. We will tell you what is being done to keep it from happening again. We wont show you the photo or tell you the persons name until after the person is discrimination on the airbnb app. Thanks for joining us everybody. We have a tragedy in palm harbor. A little boy is found dead in the back seat of his fathers truck after being left there all day. Ken swawr suarez is at lane. You certainly dont have to be a parent for your heart to go out, what is even more heartwrenching is the dad is a firefighter. A man trained to save lives and in this case he couldnt save his own sons life. As a firefighter Troy Whitaker was trained in cpr. Little did he know he would have s
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A little back to reality. 73 in bartow. 79 in tampa. 75 in crystal river. 80s moved in st. Pete. Instead of in the blue, we are running only a few degrees warmer. Up to 4 in many pots. Overall good visibility but the morning is dry. We havent seen thatch rain that has resulted in to much heat. Today with a little more moisture creeping in going with more a 30 to 40 rain chance not until after 3 00 in most spots. A swirl here a swirl here south of the keys. A tropical disturbance has a slim chance it will develop and moving west. Will not play a role in our local weather. As we head to the day today, more about the aboveaverage heat. 88 by lunchtime hit 92 today. Between 3 and 8 00 our best chance for scattered showers and storms including at the bulls game tonight. Could be storms around. Your gameday forecast coming coming. Thanks, lindsay, we start with a sad story out of Hillsborough County. Son in the back seat of a hot car. Investigators say Troy Whitaker accidentally left his 23m
All new at 11 00 p. M. , authorities are investigating the death of a toddler who was left in a car all day long. We whitaker. Troy whitaker is being investigated. According to the sheriff, that little boy was left in his car seat in a truck in this drive way for 8 hours. Now, the sheriff is saying, that isnt saying that his father did this on purpose, but he is saying there is no excuse. Its not an intentional act. Your kid. You cant leave your kid in a car in this temperature and leave them to die. A home where it had sounds of two children playing is now filled with red lights. Investigators watching this truck where Lawson Whitaker was found dead this afternoon. Sheriff said his father 41yearold him inside this truck for 8 hours. This morning, he was taking his kids to school and dropped his kids off and was supposed to drop him off at a local day care and he didnt. Instead he went home and parked his truck in the driveway. It was 8 hours later. He noticed he son in the truck store
Clearwater and tampa. Starting off at 75 for apollo beach and lakeland. 76 in sebring. We are looking at patchy fog. Youll notice a couple spot where is the visibility dropped. Inverness down to a quarter mile of visibility in Citrus County. No rain in our area. There are showers back down across the keys. Make sure you have the umbrellas for this afternoon. As we are anticipating some showers and thunderstorms to start developing. Theyll develop in back towards the coast as we go into the afternoon and evening. It is also going to be a hot and steamy weekend. Well look at the temperatures and the very active tropics coming up in a few minutes. Thank you very much. New overnight the fat other of a young boy two died in a hot truck bonded out of jail early this morning. Troy whitaker is charged with aggravated manslaughter after leaving his 23monthold son in his truck for eight hours yesterday. News channel 8 reporter mary mcguire joins us live from the where the father just walked out