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That will hold us up a little bit. Temperatures are near average to above. We are only at 90 today. All right, over to allie, she has been busy. There are things to talk about. There is something new to talk about, steve. This is a crash in the oakland area. Lets show you on the map. This is near grant avenue. A couple crashed vehicles are involved. According to the chps notes, they are doing a traffic bake break so they can respond to this. We will keep an eye on it. The ll plaza is very busy. You will see it slowing, a 10 to 15 minute delay, this usually clears up in the next hour or so. Here is the drive from the san mateo bridge, no major problems. 6 01, lets go to the days headlines. Happening today, it is the first day of school for students in oakland set to begin in just a few hours. There is still no deal between the Oakland Unified School district and the Teache ....
You can see it is destroyed in this Early Morning fire. We are told that somebody was driving by around 1 15 this morning when they saw the place in flames. It was probably half engulfed at that point and roughly 10 minutes later, the e entire building was engulfed in flames. We are told that at this point, two people were inside, they died, an adult male and adult female as well as a dog also deceased. There were two dogs on the outside. They were injured but they are apparently doing okay at this hour. Right now the polk county sheriffs Crime Scene Investigation unit is here onscene investigating. They dont know if it was an accidental fire or deliberately set. Clearly a long road ahead for the Sheriffs Office and for the state fire marshall who is here onscenene. We will continue e to gather ininformation. ....
Florida is now LAST in the nation in teacher pay, according to a recent survey reported by the National Education Association! We discussed that, the State's pre-emption of the allocation of state education funding, the Hillsborough County Community Investment Tax education allocation to capital improvements, the need for the November referendum on the ballot to raise teacher pay by increasing the millage property taxes, the drop in Florida Bright Futures scholarship awards, book bans, and much more with Jessica Vaughn, Hillsborough School Board member from District 3, North and New Tampa. Listen to the entire show here, on the WMNF app, or as a WMNF podcast wherever you get your podcasts. ....