Transcripts For WTVT FOX 13 1000 News 20160915 : comparemela

Transcripts For WTVT FOX 13 1000 News 20160915

For the is iewftd sue esh. Concerns over waste water dumb noopped the bay. What is being done to make sure the water is clean and why one local mayor insures it is. This is our new florida. Ah hashtag but still no action. The govenor spends day two no n our Nations Capital fighting for zika funding. So what is the hold up . And a shop lifort take down at walmart turns deadly. New tonight what happened moments before the attack and what employees told investigators. Youre watching fox 13 and the 10 00 news starts now. Good evening everyone. And protesters making good on their pledge to show up at a city of st. Meteorologisting again night. They are angry over the a. Waste water that has been nowrd the bay thanks to hurricane hermine. And the mayor says he is take their suggestions to heart and axel is there to explain it all. What did they say. Reporter well, the mayor spent 45 minutes with the protesters personally outside the meeting where he answered citys response. He also said that he would consider their demands for an independent investigation into the Water Quality. Before the second meeting in as many nights on pier redevelopment could end up in what happened on tuesday. Thats a joke. Reporter oo. Reporter the mayor asked the protesters to go into another room to address their concerns. And would you be willing to investigation. Were going spend a lot of money. Reporter they are demanding to know why warning signs about Water Quality were suddenly removed around the area of st. Pete after last nights meeting on the pier was disrupt ood it is quite ironic that yesterday everything was still dirty and unsafe and today they are saying its clean and really in 24 hours, you wouldnt see that much difference. Reporter the mayor insist said that a study showed the water was back t levels last night and it was 9. 9 clear of fecal matter. But protesters want long term assurances and several members in pinellas including clearwater and largo have over came their systems too sending over 175 million gallons of sewage into the bay. One commissioner wants to launch a task force. There needs to be a study of the in filtration into the the ground waw tech attack the pipes. And they will spend a big portion of 60 million to expand the treatment capacity in the next several years. And the frustration i share as much as those folks do is i cant flip a switch and fix everything even if i had limited dollars. It just takes time to dot repairs we have to do. Reporter and just for some perspective here the mayor says that the city got 24 inches of rain he said it normally takes mark, six months to get that much rain. Evan axel bank in st. Peevment thank you very much. And zika case in south florida continue tin to climb. Tonight two new travel related heir cases in our area. One in hillsborough and one in polk county. First the department of Health Confirmed another local case today in miamidade county. Riel whiel visiting our state, 80 cases transmitted here in florida. All total the statewide stands at more than 800. Funding to fight the virus is running very loasm ghofer rick scott spent a second day in the Nations Capital. He is urging ca congress to pass a billion dollar zika bill. The cdc director says time really is running out. If congress doesnt act, caiftionz their lack of action for decades to come. Im up here because i Want Congress to act soon. I want them to act today. Even after the govenor met with paul ryan, today there are still holdups. Democrats and republicans are fighting over the funding for the other things that are attached to that bill. No one is happy about it. The govenor is back in florida and says the state has and deadly recordings of a shoplifter in lakeland. Three employees charged with manslaughter. Were seeing the moments leading up to the death and hearing the employees describe themselves exactly what happened. Hayley heinz on that one in our control room. What have you learned hayley . The state Attorneys Office released 300 pages of documents as well as audio and video recordings from that early this morning february. While the employees charged in this case told police they were trying to restrain the shoplifter, one witness described something more brutal. Its february 7th, just before 3 00 a. M. 64yearold kenneth wish land is pushing his cart around Lakeland Walmart filling it with 400 worth of items. Video games, toast ter. Rolls passed the register and sets off an alarm and he dishes the cart and runs through the parking lot with employee randy tom could tailing him. And two other employees. Nathan hig gons charged with Second Degree manslaughter. Heres what they told police. And i would like a little help and he it was like he was about to call toy pushed him a little bit. I tried to grab his wrist and just told him from maybe getting in his pockets because i didnt know if he had a gun or no. Just went over and grabbed the guys feet to keep him from kick. I only held him for a minute. Go. I didnt do anything. At one point did say i cant breathe. All three employees acknowledge walmart policy not to touch shoplift eemplez heres what the witness saw. The first gentleman as he he was rung the lady caught up with him and fell on the back. And she was punching him in the head closed fix the the j gentleman never punched back. He was holding his head. Fell to the glownd and got back up. The lady was 12eu8 punching him limp came and put his knee in the wack the third man she is referring to is tom could. He was streaming, let me go, let me go. How long would you guess ta mate how thong long they were on top of him before probably four to 505 minutes. They say he died from mechanical asphyxia due to restraint. And he had 16 broken ribs and Heart Disease them could tell the ribs were broken before they jeffrey homes, the lairdzs for randy tom could says it is tragic that wish umm died but shes employees were just doing their job. He says the employees have the right to detain shoplifters. If convicted tom could, nunez and hig gons could each face 15 years in prison live in the control room. Hayley hiefnltz fox 13 news eye oo. All right hail hayley, thank you. And they say catle have nine lives. And he hit internet by storm survival. He is starting a new life in his forever home of the heat you may remember barkts a zombie cavment the former owner thought he died after he was hit by a car and bawr bur read him in shay low grave but bart include his way oil. Was brought to the Humane Society of tampa bay where they have been rehabilitated him and fighting for custody. They recently got custody and today they celebrated his adoption with cake and champagne. One of the vet techs who nursed new mom. Were so dishietd were finally able to make it legal that he is our cat and we know he will stay in our home forever. He is such a big part of our familiar lynx we cant maj imagine life without him. His familiar home is familiar to him because she has been his foster home for the last year. Think about what hes been through. Go back home. A group of man na trees trapped. What a story this is this. They were washed into a pound pond a couple weeks ago during hurricane hermine. Coming up tonight how they got there and who is giving them a helping hand. What do you got paul . A Tropical Storm nup South Carolina sning place. Well talk about. That it sim pacing our weather in the sense it is bringing tropical moisture from the south and south woasms not a lot of have the thursday forecast in detail in five minutes. Ill see you then. 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Officers can choose to write a ticket instead of making an a reessments similar riewz are if place right now in tampa and also in orlando. Wildlife volunteers in for a busy morning. Getting ready to move a half dozen man na tease tomorrow morning that are stuck in a golf coast pond in citrus county. Hurricane hermine washed them over. A small bridge. Live at the plantation on crystal river. How are they doing tonight aaron. Reporter and its a dyer situation but experts tell me the manatees are stuck in a pond that is full of food for them. So they are basically sphwhimg a buffet. And its time to get back to a crystal river. And in a golf coast pond. You have to watch yourself. But a half dozen man na teams. And that shock didnt last long because manatees are common in the canal that leads into the body of water on the plantation of crystal river. A bridge keeps them out but when hurricane hermine pound citrus county, a storm surge pushed the manatees over the bridge. And the water recede so quickly they werent able to get wasnt long before someone saw them. Actually one of the moms was stuck when we discovered them. This a volunteer fleeing man a team. She and her calf are one of two come boz. It additional adolescent ones. Those are happy manatees right now. Because this water hazard is far from hazardous. Its full of weeds that are a feast for these animals. As soon as they were given an opportunity to cross over into here, it didnt surprise us at them. But time to move on. They will join a eye team of experts on thursday as the manatees will be hauled back to the canal. There are several aligators also in there. There is one much bigger issue. Theres two big moms in here that are pushing 1500 pounds. It could take up to 20 people to get a manatee on a massive stretcher and move too. Its man power. You get a person on every handle and lift and walk. River from what these are calling a manatee vacation. They probably havent had this much to eat ever so i think they will miss this place. And i snoo and i mentioned the one wig issue moving the massive mother cafls, mother manatees but they have to be moved together with their calves so this will be an ee nor nows mows process. They cannot be separated otherwise the cafl can be ab tears not of man a ceesms all six of them, 20 yards to that canal. It will take all the volunteers that start at a. M. And well have a good day crew ow here as it happens. Aaron mess mer. Fox 13 news. And they finally get a quiet spot and untouched vegetation ierks oo and they will be gaining a lot of wait. People who goes out there and throw more food out. Really nice. And a Tropical Storm on the map. A tropical depression way out in the atlantic. Well put into motion today heavy rain moving from southwest to north east. You can see it on the rear view met cavment just a lot of tropical air in place. Then you get a break and it rains again. The rain goes by. You know, the break and eventually it turns towbt a good sunset tonight. Check it out. First off tonight. Double dell recox a lot of rain in eastern Hillsborough County. Nicely done for our boweddy ron and after the glow tonight engel wood. Picnic island. All these photos by the way on my Facebook Page. They make nice wall posters on the computer. Today tropical moisture over us. We still havel storm spring up over South Carolina. For a couple more days but i think most of the time its not going to be raining at all and now, weve lost heating there. Is a south and southwest wind in play. So later on tonight. There will likely be at least a few showers pump ago long the coast but i dont think there will be anything necessarily wide spread. Temperatures well, now where they should be sn time of year in the low 80s near the coast. Mid to upper zeros inland and of course right now were pretty much in the peek of the hurricane tropical season. Track. Actually we have invest in the central gulf as a 10 chance of development. Thats moving west to texas. We have Tropical Storm julia. We have Tropical Storm ian and tropical depression knox 12, td12 will most likely become Tropical Storm karl with a k as it moves to the northwest. And those who picked this weekend to vacation in charleston, not great. You all weekend long. Going to kind of spin out over the atlantic over the gulf waters. A lot of shear so not expecting significant intensification but still low pressure, Tropical Storm here will bring with it bands of rain and gusty winds. The computer models a little bit confused. I mean, not a lot of wind in the atmosphere so most likely just going to meander out across the now this is td no. 12. For the time being there will be a lot of shear. Not expect Significant Development but nay couple of days, specifically over the weekend. It could become Tropical Storm kar lnchts still tough to say. The high north system,. The gfs doesnt, sunday and monday still way out there. Well be watching it as it moves west across the atlantic and the european model shows ian going be karl moving to the west and then behind that one, another one developing here and thats really about it. So well be watching these two systems with ernest as they move west northwest to the european curves it out across the atlantic by wednesday. Were 82. Dewpoint 76. Winds southwest at 75. Rest of tonight. A pretty decent moon light out there tonight. Isolated showers near the coast. Down to 78. A mix of clouds and sun tomorrow and showers and developing by afternoon and theyll move southwest to north east. Were back up to eight. The out look for friday is more of the same. Should on can i think for most of the High School Football games friday night. 88 for a high. After that were still 85 to 90 for highs. 75 to 80 for loavmentz still bouncing between 30 and 50 rain chances. As the Summer Season conditions continues. Back to you. Sounds good paul. It may just be a van but for a represents so much freedom. You cant measure the viewfl that van in dollars. Theres no way her husbands wheelchair access able van was stolen right out of their driveway. Up next why the thief hurts more than 1als family. Marco. Polo. Marco. Polo. Marco. Marco . Marco . But its not a game when our senator doesnt show up. Im Patrick Murphy. Solving problems means showing up. Showing independence. And working together. Its why i worked to protect Womens Health care and worked with both parties to stop cuts to medicare. Im Patrick Murphy and i approve this message new at ten. A heartless a heartless crime has left this wheelchair bound tampa man with no way to get to his medical appointments. Someone stole his specially designed van right out of his name is eric chapman. He has battled als for five years equals that van for is rob vee os reasons his life line. Its the only way to see his world beyond his front porch. And chris is here now. And this van has a story behind it right. And not only is it his medical life life goat him to his value bell aiments but theres more to it than. That and i hope quhofer has that van out there heres this and the family in her receipted that van to to him who lost his life to als and when he losses his life they were going to donate the van to another family with als. And Margarita Chapman went outside at 11 00 this morning t was gone and it is a devastating blow for this couple. Margarita says not only do they depend on that van to getter can to his medical appointments but its really freedom and normalcy. My husband is trapped in his body with als so we try not to be trapped in our lives. Even even though we might not go out as much but just to know we have the van available to us so we can drive down the road or whatever it is we need to do, it gives us a sense of security. It gives us a sense that were okay in the mist all this. All right. I want every one to stop quha they are doing at home and look road and maybeel of able to hevment a hunter green, 2005 chevy up launder. If you see this van or think you know who might have t Call Tampa Police and erics wife says the thief can return it no questions asked. She says if you dont want to bring to the drive way, just block top of the tblok block. They just want the van back oofnltd police license to this. The thief may have gone off the van because its a wheelchai the metal ramps can be vawl bell as scravment but lets hope they havent destroyed it and they will find desen si in themselves to return it. And lets hope something good bms cops. Replacing it if we have to and im sure a lot of people interested in helping out if they can. Lets find it first. Thank you chris. And three Tampa Police Officers intentionally run down by a driver in arizona. That were not planning three funerals right now. An update on how the officers are doing night and what were . . 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