Economic downturn. Abuse claims affecting two Major College sports teams. Colorado state suspended football activities. Texas tech firing its Womens Basketball coach. What the universities are saying this morning. Crash investigation. Mangled wreckage littering the runway after an air india plane overshoots its landing. The plane splitting in two. Survivors telling their stories. Hold onto that kid and dramatic rescues. Strangers banding together to help a family trapped by rising floodwaters. Stay there. Come over slowly. How they got them to safety. One of the heros describing those harrowing moments this morning. Go mning, america. Were going to start with the latest on the pandemic. As the world nears 20 million coronavirus cases, deaths here in the u. S. Are increasing in 28 states and the puerto rico. Hospitalizations are up in 27 states, d. C. And puerto rico. With the race on to develop a vaccine, a gallop poll finds 65 of americans would get the vaccine if it were fda approved
The 50s and 60s. Warm sunshine this afternoon except for some beaches and then hot inland this afternooafternon hitting upper 70s to 80s and mid 60s in the evening. And we have slight changes in the 7day forecast coming. France is where covid deaths of exceeded 10,000. The states numbers have been inaccurate for a week because of a Testing Backlog in the hundreds of thousands. Our abc reporter has more on that glitz. California. Reporter a july 25th server outage and state certificate renewed ontime. The backlog between 250,000 and 300,000 records will be resolved, giving us a better sense of the total number of tests. Reporter California Health and Human Services secretary, dr. Mark galley admits most of the records are likely covid test samples, however, not all. Without a resolution, the metrics and percent positive remain unclear for counties across the state. Reporter what were getting is correct but were not getting all of it. Reporter Santa Clara County officer says its business
Hillsborough county, its about eight minutes. So not much slower than normal but you do want to leave extra time. Again, this is a tow truck driver who was killed road loading up a car on his truck. Police are looking for a black volkswagen with front end damage. We also have another fatal crash in port richey were following. A possible fatal crash in clearwater too. Ill have more on all these incidents coming up in about 15 minutes. How are the weather conditions later this afternoon . Some changes from what we had over the weekend. Crystal blue skies saturday and sunday. Not the case today. Not a rainout. I still think youre good for outdoor activities. Some kids in school, some not. A southeast wind takes over for today and cloud cover will begin to thicken. But i think we have heavier showers and storms. In fact over mississippi and georgia now. That line will begin to move through tonight and into the early part of tomorrow. That willing arrive just in time for the commute. More o
Getting through now and because its early traffic is still pretty light. Lets check drive times, in the middle its taking 8 minutes to get across the Howard Frankland, typically takes about six minutes to get across the bridge. We also have this crash that fhp is calling a possible fatal crash. This is in clearwater, happened eastbound olmerton road at fountain parkway. This is just east of the carilon parkway. Drivers have to get off at roosevelt and get back to 275 and come around that way because again the eastbound lanes are blocked. So if youre heading here you definitely want to leave yourself some extra time. Were also following this crash from earlier this morning in port richey, fatal crash southbound u. S. 19 at ridge road. We just got word this the southbound lanes are now open so no more delays on u. S. 19 but it has been a very busy and tragic morning on bay area roads so if you are leaving lets talk about the weather. It was a gorgeous weekend, i think a lot of people are
As you can imagine they were shakeen to see this crime scene. I could say. Reporter kenny wilson shocked to say the least to see this outside of hits front door first thing monday morning. Its very concerning. Reporter Hillsborough County deputies responding before 5 00 a. M. At this home in the 500 block of ja planner drive. Investigators say a group of men broke into this home, four men inside at the time. Deputies say one of the victims was shot. Lived here over a year, nothing like this has happened. Reporter those living in the Community Say its typically safe for families. Peaceful, people walk dogs, babies and kids down the street. Kids playing in the street, playing in the road here. Very, typical, you know, community. Investigators are speaking with witnesses trying to determine a possible motive in this case, they are also trying in the meantime, folks here will be keeping ful eye out. We can certainly take s. And just try to be a little more safe. Its scary to know whoever d