67 counties in florida with the rest coming later this week. Well early voting is officially under way and in just the first two hours this morning an incredible turn out. Hundreds of people have already turned out to vote. Im here with craig lattimer. Hes supervisor of election for hillsborough county. What are you seeing so far . It very robust. If first two hours we had over 1500 people came out and a voted a one of our 16 early vote sites. Were seeing good turnout. Youre seeing also an in recent years a trend to voting early people want to the go ahead and take care of it sooner. What dw you see in 2012 do you expect to see that again in 201262 percent of our voters voted prior to election day. We just saw in recent primary 72 percent of our voters voted prior to election day. People are taking advantage of early voting because its convenient, and peoples lives are busy. Face it. Election day is the last day to election day, i hope when you wake up youre not sick, somebody need to
We begin this hour with the battle of the swing states that will decide the election. Welcome to the second hour of happening now. I am jenna lee. And i am jon scott. Less than two weeks before the election there is no time to waste for are Hillary Clinton and donald trump. The republican nominee was in full business mode and opening a Brand New Hotel not far from the white house and washington and heading later today to North Carolina. Hillary clinton is spending more time in florida where the race is a virtual tie. She wrapped up a ralliy in lake worth. Mike . Reporter both Hillary Clinton and donald trump are investing significant time and energy in battleground florida in a critical stage in this campaign. This is her first stop on lake worth outside of palm beach and basically this is day two of barnstorming the state. And from here on to tampa area. Interstate 4 corridor that could decide the electoral votes. And clinton said florida can make the difference on november 8th. There
Into our newsroom. Allegations of collaborations with cab industry to keep uber and lift to operating in hillsborough county. That was at topic of an emergency meeting this morning of the hillsborough Public Transportation commission. Fox 13s aaron mesmer is there sounds like they were ment of fireworks at that meeting. Yeah, got a really heated. Got contentious at timesBoard Members used lot different words and phrase circus witch nt collusion. And sham as they argued with one another. At state was a Public Perception of the Public Transportation commission. And also the future of executive director kyle cochran has come under fire after emails surfaced between him and members of taxi industry in which he worked with taxi and limo drivers to participate in sting operations aimed at ticketing uber and lift drivers. Cochran says he was simply enforcing regulations limo drivers who compared their partnership to a neighborhood watch. But chairman called for this emergency meeting accused
We begin this hour with the battle of the swing states that will decide the election. Welcome to the second hour of happening now. I am jenna lee. And i am jon scott. Less than two weeks before the election there is no time to waste for are Hillary Clinton and donald trump. The republican nominee was in full business mode and opening a Brand New Hotel not far from the white house and washington and heading later today to North Carolina. Hillary clinton is spending more time in florida where the race is a virtual tie. She wrapped up a ralliy in lake worth. Mike . Reporter both Hillary Clinton and donald trump are investing significant time and energy in battleground florida in a critical stage in this campaign. This is her first stop on lake worth outside of palm beach and basically this is day two of barnstorming the state. And from here on to tampa area. Interstate 4 corridor that could decide the electoral votes. And clinton said florida can make the difference on november 8th. There
In our area. We will have a report from sarasota coming up. Our Kimberly Kuizon listening to trump and she is just walking out now so as soon as week get her live we will bring that report to you. If you havent voted early your chance is up you have to wait until tomorrow election day a nearly half floridas registered voters have already voted and 13 Million People took advantage of an early vote and vote by mail. Florida is key to trump cam page. If he house. Clinton campaign know that is really well. They are doing Everything Possible to make sure she wins the sunshine state. As part a last minute push dr. Jill biden is also with Jimmy Buffett will perform later tonight. Event Albert Whitted field and a doors open this afternoon about 3 oclock. Of course fox 13 will be there. To talk about all of this lets brink in a fox 13 Political Editor craig patrick. Already voted, trump and biden are campaigning here in florida. His going to make any difference late in game huge difference what