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Transcripts For WTVT FOX 13 News At Noon 20160914

They are less restrictive for Ride Sharing Companies less restrictive than had spoken but in last few weeks. I want to outline them for you right now. So these would mean no minimum fare or wait time. Thats something that was a big part of the last set of rules that had been talked about. Also, the rules would require fingerprint based background checks. That is still a major Sticking Point for several of those Ride Sharing Companies including uber. And then also cars cannot be the new rules would also cap the surge pricing at ten times the standard rate. And then also call for no surge pricing during emergencies. There was a major interest from the community on this vote today. Theres video of a rally held beforehand. Not even half the speakers that signed up to speak at the meeting were heard. They only had about 45 minutes for public comment. Now we did get a chance to speak the meeting they are still threatening to pull out of tampa bay if these rules are passed. If they proposed rules are passed. But theres not a final decision on this. We can expect another vote in october where the ptc will take a vote on the final draft of these proposed rules that they move forward with today. As well. Also moving forward with a possible settlement to some litigation with you beer and lift as well. So those two things happening concurrently. But this battle between ride certainly not over. Ill have a lot more coming up this evening. Linda. Everyone before you go it seems to me these new restrictions you just mentioned seem like a bit of a compromise but youre saying maybe not good enough . Well they sounded like a bit of compromise for sure. Especially taking away minimum fares and minimum wait times. But uber says that they are still not okay with that. They say this is all still just these rules that were put forward today. So this, this thing will keep going. And so it continues. Even lambert thank you so much. Well we have developing news out eastern Hillsborough County. Deputies are looking for man accused of a battery on a Law Enforcement officer. Fox 13s Alcides Segui has more. The good news is the Hillsborough County deputy is okay. They got a call roughly around 10 45 last night. A deputy was en route to aggravated 92. When he spotted a vehicle, that was a suspected in the call that he was assigned to. Deputy conducted a traffic stop on that vehicle on Woodrow Wilson street and homosassa road. Now once the vehicle pulled over that traffic stop, the deputy started to get out of his car, the suspect according to Sheriffs Office backed up on toot patrol car ramming the front end of that car. The deputy was knocked to the ground, at the time he was so he fired at least one shot at the suspect. He does not believe that suspect was shot. Additional deputies arrived on sene. Again, that deputy is okay. But as of right now, the search continues for that suspect. If you have any information at all on who that person could be contact the Hillsborough County Sheriffs Office. And of course, this is developing story for more information go online at fox13news. Com. In Hillsborough County, Alcides Segui, fox 13 news. A death under way in brandon. Hillsborough county deputies say they foundz a body in a home near 1200 block of drive around 12 15 this morning detectives are still getting a search warrant so they can go back inside and further investigate at this time investigators say they are not searching for any suspects. Well new at noon a woman is accused of a calling in bomb threat into probation and Parole Office in winter haven. Detectives say Dennis Martinez was attempting to help her by urinalysis sample she called office and told them there was man in front of the building and that man was going to blow the place up. They traced call back to her, now shes accused of a filing a false report. Detectives are investigating her boyfriend jason drake to see if he had any role in that case. And suv rammed into an apartment complex this morning happened at the park at aberdeen complex off bruce b. Downs. Family inside was not hurt. Luckily neither was anyone in that suffer. However the driver is being charged with a leaving the scene and a possession of marijuana. Winter haven city manager is out of a job. Last night the City Commission voted to terminate derek feature. Appointed in 2013 feature was a citys first minority city manager as well a youngest commissioners were critical of his communications skills. They say some of his posts on social media could seen as inappropriate. The assistant city manager will take his place until a permanent replacement is chosen. Hillary Clintons Campaign says thursday. Shell appear at an event in green boro, North Carolina. Clinton has off the trail since sunday when she got sick falling a 9 11 memorial event. She was diagnosed with pneumonia last friday. Meanwhile donald trump has rolled out a child care plan. Foxs mike emanuel has more now from new york. Donald trump seeking to appeal the female and independent voters. The republican nominee has announce ad plan calling for six weeks of paid Maternity Leave those in leadership must put themselves in a shoes of laid off factory work the family worried about security or mom struggling to afford child care. It is topic more often pushed by democrats with Hillary Clinton suggesting four months of paid leave for both mothers and fathers. Trump leaning on his daughter to help unveil the plan. Ivanka trump is working mother of three young children. He recognizes the challenges system he wants to propose Innovative New solutions to those challenges. Meanwhile democratic nominee remains side lined flower deliveries arriver thing at her home as she recover a bout of pneumonia. President obama is campaigning on her behalf. I believe there has never been a man or a woman more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as our president. Donald trump is taping an appearance about his Health Records on a dr. Oz show which thats when Hillary Clinton is expected to be back on the campaign trail. Both candidates are also dealing with a fall out from an email hack today, leaked message from former secretary of state colin powell called donald trump a National Disgrace and are blahsing clinton aides for tying him to her email scandal. In chappaqua, new york, mike emanuel. Former israeli president perez is in serious condition after suffering a major stroke. Medically induced coma after doctors say he suffered a significant brain bleed perez who is in the intensive care unit was rushed to a tel aviv hospital after feeling sick. Israeli newspapers report hes fighting for his life. Governor rick scott is on his second day in washington where hes making an urgent plea for zika funding. He met yesterday with a senator marco rubio and House Speaker paul ryan. He told them its just unacceptable for congress not to pass a bill. He says its women at risk and florida already has 80 pregnant women who have this zika virus which puts the fetus at risk for serious birth defects. A zephyrhills private school is a big problem on its hand. An outbreak of a bacteria that can lead to disinterry. The more than a 20 students a Heritage Academy are being allowed back until they have two negative tests. It causes diarrhealike problems and spread from fecal matter mouths and then from person to person. New vision therapy is using video games. Its an entire life we thought he was just a didnt impressive. Little did we know because everything to him was flat. Dr. Jo is going to show us how do, are using this therapy to treat lazy eye. And parts of out from a Tropical Storm. But julia, shes not finished yet. Jim low pressure have look at the storm and hes keeping his eye on another tropical system. Yeah weve got a lot of activity in tropics. Weve go julia which formed late last night. Ian now we have newly formed tropical depression number 12 that moved off coast of africa just the other day. So lots going on in tropics. Weve got lots of rain showing up on skytower radar. Quilted northern works so well, people can forget their bathroom experience. But sir froggy sees all, and forgets nothing. He wasnt made to do anything else. He just didnt realize how unrelenting it would actually be. Whats worse, he thinks, that my arms can never relax and my eyes can never look away. Its a condition where the signals to the brain from a weak, or lazy eye, are overpowered by the strong one. A condition for signals to brain from weak or lazy eye or over powered by trong one that mismatch affects depth perception and ability to see in 3 d. The dr. Jo shows us how both children and adults are overcoming this problem by having a little fun. And it all starts with a video that is comfortable enough . Oh. Yeah. Through these glasses this second grader is seeing this two dependenceal computer image in 3 d. While using a virtual hand to pop virtual bubbles might look like a way to have fun its actually a form of therapy. To fix bens eyes. He has commonly called lazy eye. There you go. Mom rebecca says its working. About two or three weeks in he started getting just better and recognizing shadows in his drawings. Like started taking on three dimensional hints. You look right here. An eye exam at school last year found the problem. But before that, there were clues. Ben struggled with hand eye coordination and didnt seem to enjoy 3 d. His entire life we thought he was things didnt impress him like 3 d. But little did we know it was because everything to him was and kind of blueish outlines when i went to the 3 d things. And i was kind of going like, if thats supposed to be happening. With vivid visions therapy ben sees things he couldnt see before. Can you read the whole row to me . Sure. What does it say . D p x optometrist nathan has been using vivid vision for about six months. I was very surprised at how effective this is. I knew that apply iggy virtd all reality some prijs we use in vision therapy would would be more engaging for our patients. But but i didnt realize how quickly i was going to be able to see effects changes in their vision. Past least eye treats used patch forcing waek eye to work harder. Vivid vision use a contact lens virtual train both eyes to work together. It teaches a brain how to process message and see 3 d. Is so much more engaging and provides so much more visual feedback for patients that i think its going to be become a standard part of vision therapy. Worth the effort. It is worth, so much easier and like you see, you see results quick. Bens improving vision is also helping him catch and throw. We tried practicing it. A. While ago. And i i seem to be improving a lot. While he isnt ready to tread his Virtual World for americas favorite past time, the god no. I know nothing about baseball. He may set his sights on something else. Only sports that i like involve dr. Joette giovinco. What cutie, right . The goshth successful treated adults in 50s but says earlier you start the better the results. And cost varies but may be as high at 3,000. Amajor storm system turned into Tropical Storm julia last night. It caused some problems throughout northeast florida. You can see the gas station in Atlantic Beach had its awning ripped off. And storm isnt over yet. Its moving pretty slowly some areas can see of rain by friday. Weather officials issued a Tropical Storm warning for parts of st. Johns county most duval all way up to georgia. This is what it looked like driving through jacksonville last night. That storm is expected to weak tone a tropical depression later today. And here is man who can tell us whether it has already or whats going on with julia. Thats jim weber. Still a Tropical Storm. Warning have all been discontinued is a rains next areas of georgia and South Carolina. For us, not a bad day. Were seeing 88 degrees out at the beach. Winds are out south, southwest at 14 miles an hour. Were seeing some showers along the coastal areas, but everything will tend to work its way into the interior as we go through the afternoon. But there you see, that is now Tropical Storm julia. Showing this yesterday, those that low spin basically sitting right over the cape South Daytona worked its way up the coastline and actually formed overland about 5 miles west of jacksonville officially at 11 oclock last night. You can see heaviest portion of this is out over water. But were seeing rain bands working there way back on shore. So thats going to really be biggest threat with this. Just heavy rain along the coastal areas of South Carolina and into georgia where some areas can pick up 5, 6, up to 7 inches of rain. Heres latest on julia. 31. 4 north. 81. 3 west. Top winds right now still at 40 miles an hour. Were not seeing those 40 mile an hour winds right on the shore line. Winds are out north or currently moving to the north, northeast at 6 miles an hour. You can see the motion with this as we go through the next couple of days, even though it weakens is just going to hang around as we go through the rest of the work week. And that will be the issues, just heavy rain with this as we go through the next couple of days. You can see from charleston basically all along the South Carolina coastline. Anywhere from 5 to 6 inches of rain is certain lots of activity in tropics. Youve got julia, ian, and now youve got td number 12 way out towards africa. Ian will continue to work its way over open waters. And eventually losing tropical characteristics as we head into friday and into the weekend. And then, heres td number 12 currently with winds of 35 miles an hour. Its moving to west northwest at 14 miles an hour. Now this is expected to briefly get, then weaken somewhat right in middle as stronger wind sheer will tend to weaken the system and a regain itself as we head towards the beginning parts of next week. But still, even the beginning of next week you can see theres ali ward islands. This is still out over open water. A long ways away from any land whatsoever. So just going to be one of these areas well continue to watch. Kr radar picking up showers along coastal areas from Citrus County down towards brooksville. Down along the port richey up into hudson. Youre going to continue to see more showers as we go that you the next couple of hours. And then everything was going to tend to work it is way a bit further inland more showers into pinellas county. Down in towards ruskin manatee and sarasota as well. With showers all working there way out of the gulf of mexico. So the forecast for today, scattered showers and storms. Daytime high about 89 degrees. Then for tonight, we will see see coastal showers a low temperature of 78 and mix of sun and clouds scatter storms daytime high of 89. Winds are out south 10 knots. Light chop on bay. High tide comes up 12 clop 47 this afternoon. Your sevenday forecast, we will go ahead and keep that rain chance about 50 percent over next couple of days tend to dry things out somebody somewhat as we go through weekend still in rainy season so we will keep that 40 percent chance through weekend, linda. Thank you, jim. Twitter is coming to your tv and walmart is come up with a way t plus remember the kitty known a zombie cat hes been through some hard knocks to say the least. Linda Walmart wants to make your actual trip to the store easier. And twitter shifts into video. Walmart wants to make your foxs Lauren Simonetti has these stories and more in your midday Market Report germanys buyer is for 66 billion cash or 28 a share. The deal still needs to pass regulatory approval. It does give a much bigger stake in controversial market for gma gentlemen nedcally modified organisms. The worry is that can mean high seeds and pesticides. Wells fargo reeling from allegations ever illegal activity setting up millions of unauthorized customer accounts. The banks slapped with fines and lost its standing. As large is u. S. Bank by market cap. Its coo apologizing to customers. But also blaming employees for the problem. 5300 workers fired. Live sports streaming via twitter coming to your television. Twitter is launching its app and Microsoft Xbox one user will have access to twitter content including thursday night nfl games live streamed on twitter. And walmart is requesting a patent for assist a. System of self driving shopping carts floated around the store with a roomba like power system. Customers would use walmart apps to sum on carts that can lead them to the items in the store they are looking for. Thats business for more log on in new york im Lauren Simonetti. Well we have some good news for those of you who have been a followed the fate of zombie cat. Remember zombie cat the cat that was hit by a car buried to look dead only to show up days later alive but in need of medical attention after coming back from dead sort of. Humane society of tampa bay treated him. And announced today hes going to be adopted. Adoption will take place at 1 oclock. And if you want to follow the page ill update it after that 1 00 p. M. Adoption. Just look for fox 13s Linda Hurtado, and like the page. There are new questions over governments ability to screen the good guys from the bad guys when searching refugees. Plus a former tampa bay bucs quarterback is weighing in on the debate about

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