Stretches from looks like around avon park all the way across the northern sections of hardy county. Most of polk county is quiet and good new is the thunderstorm activity will likely lessen especially as we head into the later evening hours. That is is a pretty strong storm. Back to you. Here and gone in a hurry. Thank you steve. Classroom crisis in polk county. Doors open this week at a new school. Citrus ridge academy. But schools are being told Melissa Marino has reaction from parents in polk county. Reporter good evening. As you can imagine, parents are frustrated. This school was built to alleviate overcrowding and it is already over capacity. What is today . Tuesday . Tuesday and my kids are not in school yet. Reporter Jacqueline Sanchez is beyond frustrated. She claims she has been trying for weeks to get her tenyear old son enrolled at Citrus Ridge Academy and she says there is not enough room. They said they are not now where do i go from here . School already started. Report
Session but a few more counties have their first day of school today. If youre waking them up for school, your kids, were waking you up with Team Coverage. Well check in on summer construction that went on right down to the wire. Plus a new curriculum that will have kids using their own cell phones and tablets to learn. Thank you so much for waking up with abc action news. First to kick off the first day of school in pasco and polk counties, janelle and ivan with traffic and weather together. You wanto it will take a little longer to get there with the buses but no real issues out there now. Next week of vacation, do they leave later in the summer . Thats turning it around, right . Good for you pasco and polk. Shortening up the year. Right. Looking murky out there. Checking with ryan, reporting a little fog on the ground. I dont think it will be a huge deal but patchy fog not out of the question for eastern pasco 7 01 sunrise. So it will be dark for a while. Upper 70s. By pickup time u
To try 41 as an option depending where youre coming from and where youre going. Elsewhere taking a look outside, 275 through downtown tampa looks great. Just five minutes to get from here to the Howard Frankland bridge. 6 bridge 01. Can you hear that . More than 100,000 students in polk county will be waking up realizing summer is over. Todays the first school, for some the first day in a brand new building. Ryan raish is live in citrus academy. Did they get everything done in time . Reporter just in the nick of time. In fact if you were here a week ago there thwas an active construction scene. You would see trucks, cranes, painters hard at work, working 24 7 to try to get this school ready in time. And it is ready for students to arrive any moment for the first the theme is everything civics. So that is kind of the unique part about this school. Every class the students will attend will have some type of circumstances tiein. Were talking about civics tiein. Were talking about taking a
The fog. Of course by the afternoon you always want to pack rain gear this time of year. Were in the midst of the wet season so well get rhett later today with showers and storms. The coverage not horrendous but 50 , pretty typical. Rest of the upper bay area, upper 70s. Well get to low 90s, it will feel like 100 to 105. Storms then will develop east and continue to move west. Everybody now back for now hopefully quiet. Now is good. Not a lot of cars on the road now. Corey dierdorff is checking out the veterans expressway for us. Hes behind the wheel of our live drive cam. Hes around the airport, not a lot of cones where he is but you will run into some of those cones on the veterans expressway. Not slowing anyone down. Looking at clear drive times on the veterans expressway. Were watching one crash in largo, ulmerton road at 119th with the crash, although my traffic indicators around there are in the green still. You stay my want to give yourself extra time. U. S. 19 looking great thr
Now facing charges. Thats not all. Police say these kids didnt go to school for up to three years. Abc action News Reporter clifton french uncovered this investigation. He joins us live from the home where you can see the conditions for yourself. Clifton. Reporter yeah. You can see how de lab tated this house is from looking at it from the outside. You have broken cars on the outside, broken windows. Police say the inside is just falling apart. As you can see by the sticker, the home is at least one Family Member tells me that none of this Police Report is true. You can barely see this home from the street. The landscaping is overgrown. On the other side of this fence, what looks like an abandoned jumping yard. Broken down cars, trash and tools piled up. A trailer full of bicycles and other junk sits in the backyard. Tattered tarps cover the roof. I felt like it was a lot of bad things going on over here. Reporter tony smith lives across the street. Stayed to themselves. She did on occ