Transcripts For WFTS Action News At 6AM 20160210 : compareme

Transcripts For WFTS Action News At 6AM 20160210

Which is right on time. Checking the average speeds on the interstates, great shape there, all in the green, 70s on i4 and i75 heading into the downtown tampa area. And 70 your average speed over on 275, in Pinellas County from the Sunshine Skyway down to the Howard Frankland bridge. 6 01. Breaking overnight Pinellas County deputies are searching for three suspects that crashed a stolen car into a Safety Harbor home. Abc action news anchor Lindsay Logue arrived at the scene 45 minutes ago. You just spoke to the homes owner. Reporter the homeowner, the woman who lives here told me the impact was so loud she thought someone was breaking into the house. Look at the damage behind me. The white picket fence is in pieces on the ground. The bottom half of the chimney is cut off. The side of the house is destroyed and that window where you see the black trash bag, the glass from that, the impact shattered that glass all the way into the bedroom. Deputies tell me this happened they say a driver took a turn on mlk and 5th way too fast the house. The damage here is a lot more than what you can see. The car hit the electrical box cutting off the power. Deputies on scene said the car was stolen from clearwater and right now the driver and two other people are on the run. They immediately had canine units, helicopters, everything out here looking for them, unfortunately didnt find them. But youre kind of, i dont know, these situations are crazy, where do you even start . Reporter danielle does have family and friends here as well as Homeowners Insurance so she will get some help for a little bit. That vehicle was towed less than an hour ago and detectives will be dusting it for fingerprints. They will also be looking for any evidence in that vehicle that leads to the suspects. The driver and two others, again, on the run. As soon as we get an update well bring it to you. Logue, abc action news. Coming up on 6 03. Lets get to democracy 2016 and the two candidates taking victory laps after easy wins in the New Hampshire primary. First on the republican side donald trump heading to tampa later this week, a winner. He scored 35 of the vote last night. More than double any other republican candidate. New exit polls from overnight show deep discontent with the washington establishment. Of course trump spent much of the campaign branding himself as a washington outsider. He showed up to his victory speech blaring the beatles song revolution and promised voters he will defend their constitutional rights. We are going to preserve our very sacred Second Amendment this is not going to be any more chipping away at our Second Amendment the surprise secondplace winner, Ohio Governor john kasich followed by texas senator ted cruz, former Florida Governor jeb bush finished a distant fifth and admitted a weak showing in the debate likely played a role in his loss. I did not i did not do well on saturday night so listen to this, that will never happen again to the democrats, as expected vermont senator Bernie Sanders notched an easy victory in New Hampshire. His rival Hillary Clinton conceding early in the evening. Sanders told his supporters he wants to send a message, the government belongs to the public, not just the wealthy few. He also offered this rallying cry to democratic voters. We will need to come together in a few months and unite this party and this nation because the right wing republicans we oppose must not be allowed to be in the presidency. The biggest loseers from the primary who analysts say show sieges of pulling out of the our assignment editor made phone calls and found out a tai kwon do instructor accused of molesting three children still in jail. A third girl just 8 years old recently came forward to say andrew kim also abused her. Pinellas county deputies arrested kim last week charging him with inappropriately touching two young girls at os tai kwon do in seminole. Os said it fired him over the summer before the accusations even came to light. You may notice new games the next time you head to the hard rock casino. Craps and roulette are a step closer to making their debut at casinos like the one in tampa. House lawmakers voted to move forward, a 3 billion deal between the state and Seminole Indian tribe. The compact would also let the tribe operate exclusively, and offer card games like black jack. Imagine moving to a specific neighborhood to send your kids to a certain school. Now some Hillsborough County their children enrolled at one local school and the battle has them, as you can imagine pretty heated. There is a proposal to move students at Stowers Elementary School to three other schools because that school is over capacity. The move could impact hundreds of kids in the fishhawk area. An official boundary change proposal could go before the school board in march. If the changes are passed they would not go into effect until the 2017 2018 school year. 6 06. Consumer alert. Daimler plans to raleigh 841,000 vehicles here in the u. S. To replace potentially defective airbag inflators made by the takata corporation. That recall involves 705,000 2005 to 2014 and 136,000 sprinter and freightliner vans from 2007 to 2014 model years. This is the latest expansion of the takata recall. As ordered by the national highway Traffic Safety administration. Well have full recall details on our abc action news app. First came cabs, then uber and lyft. Soon there will be a new way to get around tampa bay. Water taxis. Each of the three boats can hold dozens of passengers. The owner of the boats says its the perfect way to dodge traffic by bouncing from Harbor Island to downtown. He says keep an eye out for the new boats. They will officially launch february 27th. What was intended as a toy for Christmas Gift has caused just total destruction. A story weve heard before. The Million Dollar mansion goes up in flames over this childrens toy. Well explain why a family could have lost so much more. The everyday item that could 6 10, wednesday morning. New today firefighters say two of the popular hoverboards caught fire in tennessee. Look at the damage it did to the house there. It almost killed two teens. That hoverboard caught fire on the first floor of this house last month and trapped the teens upstairs. To them from outside, says his 16yearold daughter broke a second story window and had to jump out to safety. Was kicking the doors and i thought im going to lose two of my four children today. I was just begging her, yelling, please jump baby, please jump. She jumped out the window without hesitation. I cant tell you how brave that was. After his daughter jump out brian fox helped his teenaged son climb out with a ladder. Firefighters believe the hoverboards lithium battery started the fire. They say friends. Family also bought one and it also caught fire but in that case only the hoverboard was damaged. At 6 11. Check out this video. This is the thatched roof of destin, up in the panhandle going up in flames. The popular beachside restaurants roof caught fire around 6 30 last night. The flames then spread throughout the upper floor but firefighters got there quickly, contained the flames in time so the lower floor suffered only minor damage. Reopen as soon as building inspectors say they can. Another cool start by this afternoon. Were going to warm things up. Temperatures in the mid50s, not as windy. That is going to be key. So its going to feel less chilly but still bundle up because no matter how you slice it, still 50s here. Were going to warm up. Ill tell you when in a few minutes. Still ahead one man, three crimes and jawdropping path of terror cut across south florida. The alarming excuse this guy gave for attacking an elderly 6 15. Wednesday morning. Right now four olympic caliber sailors are recovering from a heart pounding rescue after their sailboats capsized in the gulf. Gale force winds and high waves threw the sailors in the water off clearwater beach. They were racing in a regatta trying to qualify for this summers olympic games. Fortunately these were skilled sailors, were told are used to the rough conditions on the water and the coast guard was already out there monitoring the race so no one was hurt. Its going to be windy again today but not as bad as yesterday . Not as bad. We talked about it yesterday. We talked about small craft. If you have it youre going to tip over. That was the deal yesterday, but the key word i guess is olympic caliber. That is what were talking about there. No question about it. To subside a bit. Its going to still be breezy and Small Craft Advisory posted, gale warnings lifted. Current winds from 10 to 15, gusts this afternoon upwards of 20 miles an hour. So that would be about it. As far as our temperatures, well, thats another story. Low 30s in citrus county. Mid40s across portions of polk county. 52 st. Pete and also clearwater checking in at 50. Titan doppler radar, not much here but we have the low clouds that are going to move in. A few breaks this morning, are the not concerned about the cloud cover today or rainfall potential. Were having neither by noontime with plenty of sunshine. Despite that temperatures still in the upper 50s. Dry and cool air mass still right on top of us. In fact as we lose the wind and lose the cloud cover, tonight look what happens here, we fall back bigtime in the mid and upper 50s. There will mid and upper 30s. There will be no wind chill but it will be cold enough. When we talked about the conditions, 10 to 14 so there is improvement today. Sunset is 6 17 now. Getting a little later. Forecast over the next few days, sunshine and 62. Look at friday, 70 degrees. Then when getting ready for a pretty decent weekend, valentines day sunday, highs in the mid60s. Heres traffic with janelle. Still have that high wind advisory on the Sunshine Skyway and Corey Dierdorff is driving now behind the wheel of our live drive cam. Hes on the Howard Frankland bridge, traffic still pretty light out there. I did just check your drive time, its taking just six minutes to get across the Howard Frankland bridge. Less than 10 minutes across the other two bridges. Heads up, palm harbor, we have a crash reported, southbound u. S. 19 at tampa road, roadblock reported in the southbound lanes, im seeing a little bit of a slowdown there, you might want to take belcher if youre heading out now. Were also seeing delays on highlands boulevard, all the traffic indicators in the red. The crash but if youre are your morning drive takes you on the roads you may want to leave a little early. Lets check driver times on the vet vance, still looking pretty good if heading out. 6 18. Earn knows everyone knows being a parent is hard work but look at the wrangling one mom has to do just to get her four small children dressed. This video is of the gibson family. Its going viral. It shows one laserfocused mom getting her triplets and 2year old in their pajamas. Of course you can give that mom a pat on the back by leaving a comment on my facebook page. I had two in diapers at the same time and that was tough enough. I cant imagine. And my certainly, my brothers wife. They had twins. Four at the same time . Just thinking about it. Late for school . Blame the boss. Bruce springsteen that is. New york dad did that. He wrote a note to his daughters schools excusing them for being late because they went to a springsteen concert the night before. Patrick said it may not seem like a good excuse but wondered how many kids would miss school if god were to appear . The boss is in Fort Lauderdale next tuesday by the way still ahead, gator guilt. The man making International Headlines for a dangerous prank he says hes now sorry for. First, if you want to escape reality, Virtual Reality may be easier to come by. Heres business news. Tech bytes new warnings about lithium ion batteries. They power phones and laptops but can be dangerous, airplane fires. The ntsb recommends such batteries should be separated from other flammable cargo. The faa issued a similar warning. Twitter taking steps to keep users safe from internet trolls. It formed a new trust and Safety Council which aims to prevent various types of cyberabuse and ensure users can speak freely. Now might be the right time to get one of those Virtual Reality headsets. Are the is thatting next week you can order a starting next week you can order a personal computer and oh oculus head set combo. Starting at 1,500. 6 24. A swordswinging suspect accused of a Violent Crime spree in south florida is behind bars charged with attempted murder. Were about to show you Surveillance Video of the it disturbing. Lauder Hill Police Say this is joe von walker, randomly attacking 81yearold douglas brochet at a gas station with a pipe. Douglas wife tries to break it up, he took such a severe beating he needed 18 stitches and his eyes were nearly swollen shut. He came towards me and his hand was behind his back, i didnt know if he had anything in his hand and he just struck when you see your husband being attacked the only thing you think about doing is that. Unbelievable. Walker also accused of a carjacking in Deerfield Beach and another attack at a swap shop where he grabbed a Samurai Sword and started swinging it at a clerk. Walker later told police he just watched the movie poltergeist and wanted to kill evil. We dont know yet if any drugs were involved. Police in london are thanking the person that helped them catch a suspected drug dealer. A Good Samaritan tripped the suspect who was running from police. Heres a look at what happened. Police posted this video on their twitter account thanking the person who helped them. They were on patrol last weekend when they tried to stop a drug deal but the suspect took off. Police arrested a 17yearold, they say he was not hurt when he fell to the ground. The send suspect got away. The second suspect got away. Ivan, its going to be a little windy and cool. Still a little breezy, certainly going to feel it. 40s definitely a chilly morning commute. Sunrise coming up at 7 12. By the time we get into the lunch hour, temperatures in the 50s, we stay in the 50s today. The difference is the winds will be lighter than yesterday. Then cold tonight. More on that coming up in a few minutes. Coming up the brand new birth defect that experts are now linking to the zika virus. Plus, live roaches near where your food is prepared. The popular Fried Chicken joint you may want to avoid today. Were also following breaking news. Live pictures, where a stolen car crashed into a seminole home, the car is gone but you can clearly see the damage. There was a family inside at the time, the suspects took i remember hearing a huge bang. Glass breaking, then smoke. At 6 30 deputies on the hunt for people responsible for this damage, jolting a safety Pinellas County deputies telling us three people were inside that stolen car when it slammed into the side of that womans house early this morning. Three people in the car ditching it, taking off. Luckily the woman asleep in the house wasnt injured. Abc action news anchor Lindsay Logue is on the scene now getting an update from deputies and well bring you new developments as she gets them. Look for her report coming up in our morning sprint. Ivan says its another chilly and windy day but not as bad as yesterday . Not as windy. We had 40 mileanhour winds yesterday. By the way tropical stormforce winds 39. So were above that. Much better today as far as the winds. Question, upper 40s now to around 50. Just wont be as windy but it will be cool, in fact were talking about temperatures still below average for this time of year. Well check with temperatures in the 50s. Should be in the low 70s, were not going to get anywhere near that. By the way were still very cold, citrus county. 50 clearwater. The winds not as strong, look at the sustained winds now 10 yesterday morning we were talking about sustained winds 20 to 25. Gusts in the 30s. That continues through the afternoon. Day planner today, plenty of clouds in the morning, then sunshine develops, look at the temperatures, holing in the mid and upper 50s. Despite the fact that the winds arent as strong, well head to janelle and talk about the wind advisory still posted for the skyway with less friction over the water. That is still especially high profile vehicles, always a problem. Fhp still has that highs wind advisory on the Sunshine Skyway. Theres the live picture there. On its side, due to the high winds so no joke out there. Not as bad as yesterday but still be careful, both hands on the wheel when you head across the Sunshine Skyway bridge. Heads up lakeland, we have a crash in your area, west pip ken road at old highway 37, fhp pipken. Lets look at the streets so see if its causing delays. All the roads here in the green, although if you are heading that way and you see some delays let me know about it, tweet me tampabaytraffic but at least my indications are that you are good to go if youre heading to the intersection. Were keeping an eye on this palm harbor crash, u. S. 19 southbound attappa road. Reported to be in the at tampa road, reported to be in the clearing stages so no need for a detour anymore that at that location. Captain al is flying over a very busy spot, 275 and busch. Hows it looking . It looks lovely. Actually, the visibility at 1,000 fe

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