M for the latest. Myfoxhurricane. Coplease head to friday morning. Florida coast friday morning. Please head to myfoxhurricane. Com for the latest. jen the video out of Hurricane Matthew slammed into the poor caribbean island with 145mileper hour winds, leaving a huge path of damage and human suffering in the southwestern peninsula. In fact, people stranded there are now cutoff by flooding. Many home are lost. And more than 10thousand people are still in shelters. Were hearing about several deaths as well. But its hard to get an exact number, and the full extent of the damage, because of bad travel conditions and downed power lines. wally after hitting haiti, and brushing eastern cuba. The storm is now heading toward the bahamas. Residents are boardingup tourists. Some three thousand of them. Are rushing to get out. There are evacuations in place. And those who cant get off the islands, are allowed to stay in shelters. The bahamas should begin to feel Tropical Stormforce winds today. T
Abc action news starts right now. With breaking news. Right now in tampa a live look is protesters gather demanding answers in it officer involved shooting in Hillsborough County earlier this wee team member deputy killed an unarmed lachman this week. Wendy ryan has the night off and lets get to the breaking news. We go live with more on why the protesters are out there and why they are upset. Reporter we just arrived on scene and obviously the protest in full swing. You see in the middle of the street we have a protester confronting Police Officers. Terror. It stems from the Police Shooting you just mentioned. We will show you the video from last night and third consecutive night to protest happen. Last night by protesters arrested for throwing potters and lighting trash on fire. Protest them from the shooting death of a man from palm river. Police entered his home with a narcotics warren city refused to come out of the home. And he was shocked in his bedroom. The investigation has sh
The current track. The last position is about 400 to 450 miles southeast of the city of miami. Again, you can see the forecast computer models, the Spaghetti Models showing it pasting east of florida at this point. The consensus nudged it back west of florida. It typically does that. That is todays thinking. It is still a long away way. Something we will have to monitor, the track you saw l change. We have to continue to watch this very closely. Ofstringenning over the long haul. I want to correct myself on something. This is the 13th named storm of the season. You have been very busy. So, we will talk with you a lit in a little bit. You can track the tropics on our weather max app free to download at the app store. Help for hurricane hermine victims is now available. Hernando, hillsborough, pasco or Pinellas County can get help with funds. You can call the number on the screen for more information. The long battle between uber, lyft, and Hillsborough County could be coming to an end.
Hinds. Thank you for joining us tonight. Flooding on the Anclote River in pasco county tonight. Several areas in the area new york city are under evacuation in New Port Richey are under evacuation order. We penitentiary up with Good Samaritans helping the rescue efforts. Kellie cowan talked to two guys who are lending their time and their boat to rescue stranded neighbors. Anchor sorry about that, we will try get story in just a moment. Also in pasco county, governor rick scott touring the city for storm damage. Governor scott had an update from emergency officials on flooding. They are telling the governor the reason the area is seeing so much flooding is because of runoff starting south. Could the saw the damage and talked to home owners in thousand oaks, trinity and the governor said people need to take evacuation notices seriously. This is lifethreatening. Going to happen. We dont know if we are going to get more rain. There are other storms, and this is just the beginning of hurri
Thanks for joining us. Im Walter Allen Jen and im jen epstein. Lets start off with a check of the forecast, with dave. dave no closed captioning is federal funds will become available today for those affected by hurricane hermine. The aid includes grants and other programs to help individuals and businesses recover from the disaster. Is fox 13s shayla reaves. Good morning shayla. Those who qualify can get some help with housing. Home repairs and loans from the government. The disaster declaration includes the five tampa bay counties on your screen. We are talking about citrus, hernando, Hillsborough Pasco and pinellas. Hurricane hermine drenched parts of the bay area. Toppled trees and and scattered debris. High waters led to some evacuations. So much rain fell over a short period of time,drainage systems couldnt handle the volume. The Anclote River overflowed. Spilling into communities like elfers. Ofci for safety. The declaration makes federal dollars available to supplement state an