Congo river rapids ride at Busch Gardens closed. Theyre just playing it safe. It seems a bit overcautious. Reporter eagle 8 flew over after hours. Its a popular cooloff spot on hot days and is often used to train First Responders in water issues. The accident happened at dream world in queensland. Two men and two women died on the their mom was trapped under. Reporter rescue workers came upon a gruesome scene with two riders ejected from their raft and two others caught in a conveyor. Busch gardens explained they closed congo river rapids while it worked with other park operators and ridemakers to understand what happened in australia. The statement said all ride are inspected daily. Congo river fans tell me they understand why its closed. In lieu of that they should take extra precautions to its safe so when people get on it, they feel comfortable. Reporter no word when congo river will flow again. It was my first time here, so i was a little disappointed, but overall it was great. Re
It is using its million watts of power and scanning all of the tampa bay area but giving you that clear sign. A sickly, it is barely a cloud out there. Lakeland automall, 78 and sunday sunny. There is a breeze coming in at 50 milesperhour. You will feel that all day. It is really helping to warm us up. 81 plant city. Sarasota 81. This is certainly warmer than this time yesterday. Between yesterday at 11 am and today were 6 degrees warmer in tampa, 7 degrees warmer and plant city and 6 degrees warmer in brooksville. We will be in the mid80s from here on out through the rest of the week. Humidity is slowly increasing but not too uncomfortable laterals levels. Hollowing halloween a few clouds and some warm temperatures. Than 2 weeks to go and Hillary Clinton is in tampa working to fire up voters. Her rally is set for this afternoon. That is where our political reporter is now with the latest on new polls showing florida ground zero for fight to the end. Reporter absolutely. There is a new
Developing this morning. Busch gardens isnt taking any chances after a deadly amusment park accident in australia. The park has decided to close down one of its rides similiar to the one that killed four people in australia. Fox 13s shayla a 2year old boy took quite a tumble in bradenton. He fell out of a secondstory window at the royal palm Terrace Apartments on 26th street east. Deputies say his mother was cleaning her apartment and had the windows open. She heard her 4year old Say Something about not going out the window. And then noticed the 2year old was gone his mother found him lying on the ground below. He was responsive. And appeared to be okay. But was taken to the hospital to be checked out. Deputies say he fell about 15 feet. Tomorrow is his birthday. After a standoff that lasted several hours in pasco county. A man wanted for attempted murder is under arrest. Deputies caught Michael Putnam yesterday inside the Rodeway Inn Motel in new port richey. Putnam had been on the ru
The Sales Team Meetings are in a huddle. You can watch sports on tv from your desk. And yes, even get treated to free beer fridays. This is blue race logistics, a fastgrowing company headquartered in river view. Its unorthodox. And nobody is having more fun than the people here. Reporter blue race launched in the middle of help with shipping. The companys approach, a one stop shop connecting people able to move goods with the places that Companies Need to move them, from a hub in the southeastern u. S. We are putting more freight on the trucks, on the planes and trains that otherwise wouldnt be there. And were saving customers and clients a lot of money. Reporter as a result the business has grown from a small startup to 369 employees outside investment, blue grace is planning to add 700 jobs in the next few years. The company is expanding its office into this space to make room for 200 of those workers later this year. A lot of salespeople looking for customer service, Financial Servi
Chances for all of us increase as the moisture comes back at us here. It starts friday and heads into the weekend. Hour by hour forecast takes to us 10 00 with low 80s. And again afternoon highs in the low 90s. Well talk about the higher rain chances in a few minutes and the tropics as well. For now the roads are dry. Its a good way to start the morning. If youre heading to the interstates no crashes or breakdowns to tell you about throughout the bay area. This is what it looks like i 275 and busch, these tail lights here downtown tampa, just five minutes for them. Also checking the drive across the bridges looking great on all three bridges. Even the Sunshine Skyway just nine announce minutes to get across there. Lets check drive times across all three bridges. From pinellas to hillsborough county. Suffered major flood damage to their homes are about to get a big assist. James tully is live in the neighborhood impacted by the anclote river. Are some families able to get to their front