Agreements reached with democratic leader senator Chuck Schumer and congresswoman nancy pelosi, gives for tax cut gets as gop leaders issue statements fast and furiously and hold news conferences, we singled out what we see as the key sentences he talked to the crowds in just the past couple of hours, along with the resulting spin from inside the beltway. Our Political Panel is going to translate how they interpret it all and what it means to your tax bill . And simplification too, how about that . America facing one heck of a tax bill to get florida back on its feet. Forbes magazine saying dont rebuild the florida keys. That man on the screen represents 26th Congressional District which includes the lowlying ribbon of islands. Hes about to respond to that. How damaged is the ultimate symbol of florida. The orange . Oh, boy, look at the oranges in the mud. Exclusive new video from the citrus groves, looking like morning joe will cost more than a pretty penny. On wall street, the dow he
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
Machine and clean you out. According to deputies, this woman just wrapped up a wal mart shopping trip using somebody elses debit card. Victims tell us its hard to catch. About wiped out my checking account. Reporter thats what happened to this polk county woman. 4,100 at the credit union. I almost fainted. Reporter last october she fell victim to a similar scam where the crooks told her to put her chip enabled debit card under the phone an she sounded really businesslike calling from mid florida and they had to pick up all the old debit cards in the county and be out late that night. Once they get access, of course, to the debit card and pin number its off to the races. Reporter the scam is popping up its ugly head in pinellas and hillsborough counties, negative news about certain banks having customers on alert. The caller insists the bank must retrieve the debit card and pin and send a new one in seen in several years. Ive never heard of a suspect actually going to the home. Usually
Body cam a video shows a sheriffs deputy putting twin toddlers wearing only diapers in the backseat of a child protective investigators car. They had to use what car seats left in the yard. Cpi had come to the home near dade city to check on the kids but deputies say the woman at the home would not let that happen. She came out of the house. She feels threatened and has to roll up the windows. The investigator stayed inside the car for deputies she walked down the driveway and locked the gate shut. We are dealing with a population that is very oftentimes unpredictable. Cpi assistant director Christine Fletcher says the investigators who work for the they have severe untreated Mental Health severe Substance Abuse addictions. Oftentimes Domestic Violence situations that are out of control. When they get the allegations cpi researches, there is always the chance for trouble, in this case she said she reacted the way she did because she was scared when the car drove up to her house. We are
First of 4. Think you for joining us. We want to begin with a quick update to those massive wildfires burning in east tennessee. The mayor is calling this the worst fire in 100 years. Wind whipped flames are causing the damage. There were 8 new flareups and now firefighters have no problems from mother nature. A new challenge that the weather is creating r after the fire mary spearing some small mudslides and rock slides. There is no longer that foliage that is Holding Everything together. The mayor of gatlinburg, the city that draws up to 11 million a year says his time will pull together and recover. It has been pretty dry in the bay area. We saw little rain today, a little bit is there any significant change coming . Chances we dont have any huge chances in the forecast so much like we saw today some of us have seen some real life stuff but as far as real measurable rain to help out, were not going to see a whole lot. Tomorrow we do bring in about a 20 percent rain chance but behind