Wanted. Didnt call for the lifting until and we had hoped to continue the beach closure until after the fourth of july weekend. Reporter it allowed people to only access between 11 am and 5 pm and not lounge or sunbathe. Particularly once the hotels, bowling alley, things that are targeted to tourists and inside, much of the community started to feel like there wasnt a rational basis for keeping the beach closed anymore. Reporter they say the order cut access to beaches for people with disabilities. One has been the handicap parking has not been accessible at the majority of county beaches and the second issue has been the sedentary law on the the kids are reopening as there is an increase with 28 in a two day time period and last week there is a third death linked to covid19. They have had the lowest number of cases accepted napa but with those ending the shelterin place order a week from monday only time will tell how the change affects the infection rate. It has become impossible fo
To hillsborough to bruce b downs boulevard. We have new video of a coast guard rescue near johns pass. The boat was taking on water. When the coast guard helicopter arrived, they found the man trying to bail out using a plastic cup. Russell wow. Lets get to Shayla Reaves right now at the Coast Guard Air station. Pin a situation like that, just keep shovelling, right . Reporter thats do. In this case, help arrived just in time. If you think about this, there was a half inch, were told, separating that water from the batteries in the boat. So this really could have escalated quickly. But again, fortunately, the coast guard was able to step in and make a difference. I want you to take a look at th video. This is released to us by the air station here in clearwater. It was captured on thursy so st igine youre alone on a and youre miles from land. Thats to the man on your screen about 12 miles fr johns pass. The situation intensified as you can see there as the coast guard approached. He wa
Beginning go up with highs in the lower 90s. All right. Thanks, dave. Here 2 new lane blockage crashes starting off palm harbor u. S. 19 in area of county road 39. We do have crash appears to be southbound direction. Were seeing some delays. Moderate in nature. Particularly heading that way south. So plan a few extra minutes there. To pasco county state road 54. Heres your lane blockage crash trinity boulevard in eastbound direction. Minor in nature. Just the right turn lane will be blocked. All right. Vanessa, thank you. Nfl season kicked off last night. And with it came another National Anthem protest. Bronco linebacker Brandon Marshal took a knee. There he was. He was only player on either team to do so. Hes a College Teammate of Collin Kaepernicks. After game marshal said he was not against military or police. He said he is against social injustice bronco set team encourages players to stand during anthem but respects their as for Collin Kaepernick the president compared his refusa
Temperatures 70s inland, upper 70s along the coastline. Lower 70s to the north. Its not a bad start. This afternoon rain chances hold at around 20 . That means High Temperatures get back to about 93 degrees or so. Weekend rain chances up a bit but still a bit below normal. Ill explain all of that for you in a little bit. Vanessa . Vanessa thanks, dave. Well touch on trouble spots here at 7 01. This crash from the last hour still carrying over to this one with lane dade city area affecting clinton avenue and prospect road. New crash reported out of tampa, florida and fletcher, also well deal with at least a travel lane blocked. East bay drive and belcher road, a new crash. Most of the delays in the eastbound direction so that will be your area to give yourself extra time as you head out the door. Russell new this morning, a man in distress. Listen to this. Bail water out of his boat. The coast guard got to him. Shayla reaves is covering that story for us this morning. Good morning to yo
Of the usa civil and the truck truck constructors its still not clear what he was doing when he was struck. We felt it was extremely important that we spent the time to step the work, review our plans, review the protocols, our access. Reporter work is shut down along all 21miles and managers will review safety procedures. And theyll ask workers to give input on safety rules. And spend that quality time making sure when we start back to work that we are confident that we have a safe plan for our colleagues. Reporter theres a lot at stake because there are 650 workers and supervisors working on the i4 ultimate project, and they really want to give those workers plenty of time to deal with what happened and assess it before they get back out on heavy ma machineries. A man calls 911 and threatens to go on a shooting spree in a melbourne neighborhood. I want 10,000 at my front door otherwise im going to [ bleep ] kill you. Turns out that was all just a cruel hoax against an army vet and it