Transcripts For WTVT FOX 13 News At Noon 20160929 : comparem

Transcripts For WTVT FOX 13 News At Noon 20160929

There was no indication train was actually going to stop. W if know we collided into something we thought something exploded it was just initially just a horrendous, horrendous exploding noise. And concrete dust, and electrical wires and train flying into the depot. Kind of, couldnt believe what i was seeing. Weve just learned that train was equipped with technology designed to slow down speeding trains. U. S. Government orders to install the system but the work has gone more slowly than expected. And again at least one person has died. More than 100 people are hurt. We will continue to monitor the story and bring you updates as soon as we get them op air and online. New at noon, finally, an agreement that will allow uber and lift to operate legally in Hillsborough County. County leaders held a News Conference to explain the agreement a short time ago. Fox 13s kelly cowan was there and she has details for us. Well linda uber pulled out of other cities in country before over two strict requirements like the 15ing print requirement that county leaders are trying to pass here in Hillsborough County. Just look at austin, texas. Uber completely pulled out of that millennial mecca. They say they are prepared to do the same thing in the bay area if a rule like that goes forward. Now today in that press conference we heard ptc chairman that could prevent that from happening a it would require a background check that includes enhanced searches federal Court Records the f. B. I. s most wanted list state and National Sex Offender data bases and interpol and dea most wanted lists. But what it wouldnt require is drivers to submit innering if prints. That something uber or lift driver doesnt have to do any any other city across the country. Now ptc Board Members who worked on this agreement say it shows embrace new technology. Government regulation is good but sometimes too much government regulation stifles progress and holds us back. This is a good thing moving forward as millennial as a 32yearold i will say my jen race embraces this. We look towards the future. This is the way of the future. Two weeks ago when ptc Board Members voted on this was a 52 vote. However, that october 13th vote thats coming up, that would be the finalizing vote on tse rules. That might be a lot closer. Now that this new agreement has come to surface, we could have a 33 split with just one swing vote on that. That would be county commissioner ken haag in. We will following this closely as im sure most people around our county will. For now reporting live downtown, kelly cowan, fox 13 news. Thank you, kelly. Thanks for updating us. Mother of teenage boy accused of a killing his father and wounding two students and this happened in South Carolina yesterday. A volunteer firefighter brought the boy to the ground within minutes of the shooting. That boy never made it inside the school. Sheriff says active Shooter Drill paid off shooter name and age have not be released school has cancelled for the rest of the week. Former Arizona Republican Gabby Giffords and her husband retired extra naught mark kelly are in st. Pete to discuss gun control as part vocal majority tour trying to raise support for what she calls sxhon sense gun co off their nationwide tour in orlando earlier this week. Well have more on her visit to want at 5 and 6. A person was killed this morning one bay areas busiest intersections gulf to bay boulevard and belcher road. As fox 13s Alcides Segui reports, the accident may have been avoided police say if person had just used a crosswalk. A devastating morning for two bay area families. The pedestrian of course, and the driver involved who did not investigators. Detectives telling us the pew dew strewn was trying to cross major roadway and not on crosswalk. We also understand the pew dew strewn was pushing a wheelchair but no one on that wheelchair. This intersection has history of auto crashes. About 80,000 cars pass through this intersection every single day from january 2009 to december 2013, 153 crashes occurred here crossing guard 70yearold doug last carry was killed he was hit by car after the driver according to an investigators ran a red light. I spoke with the department of transportation spokesperson and she tells me a safety awe difficulty was done at this intersection not too long ago and changes were made. Once this investigation is complete, the case will be sent over to the department of transportation and dot will determine if additional changes need to be made. Fox 13 news. And the name of that victim has not be released. New at noon, Jose Fernandezs original Alonzo High School baseball jersey is missing. It was gone electric dug out after last night vigil in his honor. Hundreds gather Alonzo High School baseball field to pay their respects to the pitching sensation. But when they were cleaning out after this vigil School Leaders noticed jersey was gone. Now it had hanging in dug out during ceremony and they are pleading for et cetera return. Killed in boating accident last weekend. Now heres why this so important. Because Jose Fernandez has role model to many in our community including a youth little legal player who dedicated his game tuesday night to fernandez. His mother sent me this video to share with you all. Trading plays a greater holiday Little League he says to his mom video tape this for Jose Fernandez. He steps up to the plate and hits a triple. Trevor went on to hit two more triple and pitch two and a half game he made tribute to number 16 on the mound. Thanks for sharing kind of puts things in perspective. I posted picture and will post video on my Facebook Page if you like to see it or share it look for fox 13s Linda Hurtado and like the page. Developing right now a Manatee County deputies are investigating a homicide at a home in bradenton. They received a 911 call around 6 this morning of a person down at tenth street and 58th avenue. When they arrived deputies found somebody dead with a wound. Thats where all information deputies have released at this point and staying in touch with them and well have an date as soon as we learn more. A local Beauty School closed its doors without any warning. Rejeanie goout Beauty Institute as school in carrollwood they offer programs to become license cosmetologists their website did not offer any explanation. They just told students to come pick up any their personal items. Stay with fox 13 we will have more on this story coming up a 5 website, www. Fox13news. Com. Well tampa police are searching for are a missing man right now. His name is robert allen diaz. He was last seen tuesday afternoon at his home sky point condos on ashley drive. Police believe he was driving a 1981 silver twodoor mercedes roadster diaz just had eye surgery and his retina is hazy. If you have any information that could help please call the tampa police department. More sewage problems in Pinellas County after tens of millions of gallons of waste water spilled into bay during haern hermine. Sea of clearwater is now investigating one 50,000 gallon spill near ruth eckerd hall. Officials say a pipe at the sewage station malfunctioned early tuesday. Now it wasnt caught until about 9 hours after it started. And while that leak represents just 0. 1 spilled during hurricane hermine neighbors are still concerned if you live in that area youre concerned. Tuesdays leak first example of governor rick scotts emergency pollution rule and it requires report a pollution incident to state and the public within 24 hours. That law was put into effect after that sinkhole at mosaic and polk county county. We have some good news this afternoon for People Living near that phosphate plant in mulberry first round of test results are back. They say the water is safe to drirng. Mosaic hired an independent company to test private wells after a sing hole opened new wells plant last montana hundreds of millions of gallons of contaminated water poured into aquifer. Test show none of that water le more than 600 homeowners have required or requested well water tests in mosaic Officials Say they are focused on completely those tests and then they will make a decision about retesting the wells in the future. A lot of people are still recovering from the flooding we had a few weeks ago. Hurricane hermine hit the panhandle but we, we got a lot of rain and flooding too. Fortunately storm victims in several counties are now eligible for federal assistance. Fox 13s Shayla Reeves is in pasco county to tell all of you those who qualified can receive some help from federal government for things like temporary housing as well as low cost loans and even help for home repairs. This of course comes just weeks after hurricane hermine drenched parts of the bay area, toppled trees and scattered debris. High waters left some evacuations in neighborhoods hit hard by the storm. So much rain fell over a short period of time drainage systems couldnt handle the volume. The spilling into communities like elfers here in pasco county. Officials shut down some roads for safety, the declaration makes federal dollars available to supplement state and local Recovery Efforts and communities like elfers. Now, just to give you an idea about the impact, this declaration impacts five counties in tampa bay area. Where not only talking about pasco county, but, were also talking about Pinellas County. Hernando county, hillsborough to find out if you or your business qualify for federal aid you can go online and register at disaster assistance. Gov. Also, just starting today, just effective as of 7 00 in morning there phone number that you can call. Its 1800621fema. Or 180066213362. Its available until 9 oclock tonight and you can start at process or get some of your questions ans navigate this federal aid process by calling that number. What is also available in some cases, weve learned aid can available for some temporarily lost work because of this storm. I have some information online. If you want to go on social media you can find me attache la fox 13 on twitter. And ive posted a number of graphics, information that can helpful to you aas you try to Shayla Reeves, fox 13 news. Thank you, for doing that shayla. Well thousands of dead fish are washing ashore in pinellas manatee and sarasota counties. Red tide is to blame. Clean up crews plan on hauling dead fish away when they can. The beach at Treasure Island lot of them. But its not only one. This problem really that stretches south to Sarasota County to see if it affects your favorite beach visit our website we put red tide link at www. Fox13news. Com. Finally, lawmake zika funding. Well give you details straight ahead. And both president ial candidates are hitting the campaign trail hard as election day nears. Well show you where they are focussing their energy when we come back. But first jim will give us a forecast it looked a little dreary. Yeah it does were tracking lots of storms working there way out gulf of mexico pushing into the interior. As you look out Clearwater Beach right now you can see more of these dark clouds into the gulf of mexico skytower radar has active. More showers are lined up were also tracking Tropical Storm matthew. Ill have latest on that coming up in just a f i wore a badge for 38 years knowing how much you trusted us to keep you safe. Yet when a officer was killed in action florida was not doing enough to give their families the help ensure these families get the benefits they are entitled to and the honor they deserve. Dana young has our back and she has yours. Dana young for the florida senate. linda ots just days ahead of a shutdown deadline. Congress voted to keep the government running for the next ten weeks. The ho just days ahead shut down dead lynn congress voted to keep government running house approved bill late last night. Good news for us in florida bill include 1. 1 billion to address the zika virus. The bill extends current government funding levels until veterans programs as part federal aid program 500 million will go to louisiana, and other states for emergency flood relief and water crisis in flint michigan will also be addressed. Congress is now in recess until november 8th. And that is after the president ial election. Speaking of which, for First Time Since president obama took office, congress overruled his veto of a bill. Bill gives families right to sue foreign governments meaning families of 9 11 victims can sue saudi arabia. What congress is doing is in a mistake he understands why they did it. Says it could damage our relationship with saudi arabia, one u. S. s allies. Now back to the voters in iowa are getting chance to cast early votes for next president of United States and Hillary Clinton is hoping to shore up as many votes as she can before election day, which is just now 39 days away. Wow. Foxxs joel waldman is in god bless you. One day after republican nominee donald trump held a rally in iowa, Hillary Clinton is there urging people to take advantage of this states early voting which began this morning. Clinton trails trump in hawk eye state by about 5 points. Thats despite enjoying a post debate bounce of about 4 points nationally. Hillary clinton practiced and Hillary Clinton was ready with some canned lines she made sure she was going to get out and she did. Since seen on campaign trail every day. Along with a slew of democratic heavy hitters, from her 1time primary rival Bernie Sanders to the president and first Lady Michelle obama. Experience matters. Preparation matters. Temperament matters. And Hillary Clinton has it all. Top officials within Trump Campaign are reportedly frustrated with their candidates monday night. And are determined to right the ship with some sthing thinking he needs to be more aggressive when going after clinton over email scandal as well accusations that the Clinton Foundation was a back doorway of buying influence during her tenure as secretary of state. This is a primo issue. One of their best issues they can use to attack Hillary Clinton. Not about with whom his her husband had congress i 19 inspects. Trump new catch phrase follow the money throw back to watergate scandal meant to exploit trustworthiness clinton current suffer in the polls. In washington joel waldman, fox news already jim i know we have to talk about matthew yeah. But first we have some storms. It looks rather dark at the beach the last time you took that shot. It certainly does. Were looking a lots of rain working its way on of gulf of mexico. Were also talking about matthew. Hurricane recognizance plane has in this throughout morning. Still it is Tropical Storm. Slowly strengthening as you look satellite view, you can tell its got lot of convention convection with it. It also has some we will call call mod ray wind sheer coming from southwest and southwest. Kind of slowing down that intensification process. Which thats good news you dont want to intensify too quickly we dont want a strong storm out there. Still on killed to basically become a hurricane either some time today or most likely tomorrow if it doesnt h but it will continue to work its way on to the west as we go through the next say, 24 to 36 hours. And then, it gets on to that western side of that ridge of High Pressure which is to the north. And then that will allow it to turn to the north. Thats really the big key in all of this is when does it make that turn. Because if that ridge doesnt extend as far to the west as we thought, well then its going to so top winds right now have increased to 70 miles an hour. It is starting to slow down in that forward motion. Currently moving to the west at 15 miles an hour. So you can see, it continues on that track to the west. And then, we look for that turn. More towards the north. That should happen some time over the weekend. And there you see, working its way to north. Now all the computer models major computer model are keeping it to the east of t state. But theres that big question exactly how far to the east of the computer models, well thats where were seeing some starting to see some discrepancies. Not only in the exact position, but how quickly this system moves. Now were looking two major computer models gfs are the black lines. The european are the white lines. Now as we go through time, you watch out very good agreement until you see that turn, then you can start to he big split in models gfs moves it much more the south. Now that Slower Movement would actually be very good news because at the same time, weve got a front that will be working et cetera way across the cuntry. That would tend to pick this system up and move it further out into the gulf of mexico or into the atlantic. Now skytower radar, been busy showing lots of showers along the coastal areas. Also up into Hernando County dade city and then moving into Hillsborough County. These will continue to work their way on to the

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