New this morning. Hillsborough deputies are investigating after they found a person dead inside a home. Deputies responded to the home at the 12hundred block of camellia avenue in brandon just after midnight. No word yet on how that person died. Right now. Officials are working to get a search warrant so th investigate further. The fight over zika funding continues today on capitol hill. Governor scott is spending his second straight day in dc. Talking facetoface with lawmakers. The good news is. The long stalemate in washington over how to fund the zika battle. Appears to be almost over. During day one of his visit, Governor Scott met with senator marco rubio and House Speaker paul ryan. He told them the fact that congress cant put aside politics long he was refering to the link between zika and severe birth defects. Floridas congressional delegation also stood together tuesday. Both republicans and democrats. And demanded their collegues pass a bill to Fund Research and Mosquito Cont
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
Media. Announcer from tampa bays number one news station, this is good day tampa bay. Alcides good morning and welcome to good day tampa bay. Time is 9 a. M. I read your script. Yenz jennifer i am jennifer epstein. He is dave osterberg. It is not. Dont be confused. Dave i have more rain. If this was a normal day where we didnt have 20 inches of rain in some spots are it wouldnt be that big of a deal. Nowhere to put this water that is coming down. Big thunderstorms and strong thunderstorms along the pinellas and pasco county coastline. It is moving its way onshore and these will drop an inch, inch and a half of rain in short order meaning that we may pick up some additional flooding in morning, and thats why the flood advisory is out for those three counties, and they will run through 10 15 this morning. And we will have to watch and wait and see what happens with these storms as they start to move further inland whether they prompt more advisories, whether they just weaken and you have
Another day of protesters demanding answers in the death of a man who shot by a deputy. A member of the Hillsborough County s. W. A. T. Team shot and killed lavonia rig inz as they were executing a search warrant of his home. Deputies say rilgins reached for his waistband but was later found unarmed. Do you think were going see more of this . This was day six. The protesters say theyre be out there for as long as is necessary. They spend about halfhour in the middle of demanding that Deputy Caleb Johnson be punished for what happened last week. Take a look. They were escorted the protesters were. They were escorted by several deputies who were on hand to ensure the safety of the protesters and the public. On several occasions the protesters even or i should say the deputies even asked cars on 78th street to go the other direction so that the protesters could have the road. The protesters held signs that said black lives matter and lavonia riggins was killed on tuesday after deputies sa
Foster farms corn dogs. For monster appetites. Its unfortunate for Something Like this happens scare my wife and my family. What seemed like a simple internet sale ended in a mans murder in lakeland. Our whole family we just want answers. We dont understand what happened and we want to know. The streets of clair mer for another day. Angry about a deputy who killed an unarmed man. Its nasty. Its brutal. All that standing water in mass cokot sure is pasco county sure is nasty. And its dangerous too. Well explain why announcer you are watching information 13 and the 10 00 news starts now. Good evening. Im chris cato. Im kelly ring. First up tonight, developing right now what was supposed to advertised online ended with a polk county man dead and now the Sheriffs Office is searching for the killer. Haley hinds is live with how this all came down. Reporter the buyer and seller both agreed meet up here at this Family Dollar on comby road in lakeland. Things went south when the supposed selle