Yesterday we saw some major backups. More than an hour it took to get from lakeland to downtown tampa tu to a couple of crashes. Right now smoothsailing. All in the green, 22 minutes from county line road to downtown tampa. 6 01. To a crime alert. A violent attack on a war veteran in st. Petersburg and this Morning Police are working to track down the driver from this surveillance video. Theyve already got an head start with a look at the vehicle they are looking for and also a good description of the guy. Abc action news anchor Lindsay Logue is live at happened. Pretty bold move to attack that man in broad daylight. It was around lunchtime that the attack happened so you can imagine the parking lot here at the walmart would have been busy as well as busy 34th street along this area. The victim says she was completely caught offguard. Jeffrey hardeman is a u. S. Army war vet, disabled and primarily uses a walker and cane to get around. He says last week a man walked up to him in the pa
PSunshine Skyway bridge is being pclosed to all traffic. Pweve got a live look over the pbridge and its probably because pvisibilities are a concern this pmorning. Pwe have some heavy fog in the parea. Ptroopers say some parts of the pbridge are experiencing pvisibilities under 100 feet. Eriodically weve been seeing pflashlights, patrol cars driving pover the bridge testing the pvisibilities and im sure ptheyre not going to open it puntil its completely safe for pfolks to travel. Pin the meantime, stick with 75 pand well keep i posted when the pbridge does reopen. Pwe have another serious crash to plet you know about, serious road pincident out of the trinity parea. Pnorthbound lanes of east lake pare blocked due to a serious pinjury crash where were hearing pone person is being extricated pfrom the vehicle and theyre pgoing to be transported as a ptrauma alert as soon as were pseeing that person delayed. Pfor folks in the area, you know preally the only straight shot plittle road. Pso
Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl for five taliban talibans. Kidnapping hoax, the victim of a reported va lent abduction shows up safe and sound. Police now believe the entire story was made up. The fact that weve essentially wasted all of these resources for really nothing is upsetting. Now that woman is missing again today, thursday, march 26th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a if rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today. Its 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. We have a disturbing twist in the investigation into the p we went to sleep with so many questions about what happened, some of those major questions have now been answered. The copilot or the first officer of this flight deliberately crashed it into the mountains. Decided to take his own lavs and the lives of 149 other people. This was revealed by a friendench prosecutor at he said the copilot want to, quote, destroy the plane. He is identified as Andr
Beau bergdorf and kidnapping hoax the victim of a reported violent abduction shows up safe and sound. Police now believe the entire story was made up. The fact that weve essentially wasted all of these resources for really nothing is upsetting. Now that woman is missing again today, thursday march 26th 2015. From nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a if rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. What a stunner of a headline when you hear this pilot and the plane that crashed might have been outside the door. Every once in a while i get a piece of information that turns in a direction. This might be one of those pieces of information. Its our top story and Big Questions facing investigators now. Why did the pilot leave the cockpit and why was he then reportedly locked out . And one thing that is being ruled out, a midair explosion. Investigators are also saying at this point the crash does not appear t
Miles per hour making it a dangerous category 4 hurricane. Its located southsoutheast of naples. It passed over cudjoe key around 9 00 a. M. And it impacted a large area of the keys and middle keys and upper keys. It continues it upward approach to the naples area as well as captiva and the upper coast. Many reports of hurricaneforce gusts in brevard and lee county at this time. This will be updated at 11 00. But its essentially unchanged from the previous forecast. We are expecting the system to move up the west coast of florida with significant impact. We have hurricane warnings for essentially all of florida except the western panhandle. The timing. South florida will continue to be under the gun for the rest of today and tonight, and well see the impact spreading into the tampa area tonight and continuing up the coast into the georgia and South Carolina area. The storm surge, we are expecting values of 1015 feet from the captiva area down to cape sable. At this point these conditio