Lets start off with a check of the forecast, with dave. dave no closed captioning is developing this morning. A Jewelry Store employee is fighting for his life. After trying to stop a robbery. A thief made off with nearly 25thousand dollars worth of jewelry from a store at the Brandon Town Center mall. Fox13s Shayla Reaves is jen thanks, shayla. We begin with a developing story out of polk county. The Sheriffs Office is investigating an officerinvolved shooting. They say a man opened fire. Deputies and officers fired back. And now the gunman is in the hospital. This started as a traffic stop. A Drug Task Force including a polk deputy and 3 officers from other local police departments. Pulled over 32yearold Francis Perry. Perry was pulled over on active warrant. Officials also believed perry had a large amount of drugs in the car. Officials say as they approached his car. Perry shot at them. Officers then returned fire. Hitting perry several times. Judd says officers immediately began c
Developing this morning in brandon the search for a jewelry thief. And his getaway driver. Not only did they rob a store. They ran over an employee who tried to stop them. Fox 13s Shayla Reaves is live at the Sheriffs Office right now, a warning for teco customers this morning the Utility Company says scammers are now targeting least one tampa man ended up losing . Hundreds of dollars. Frank ingo says his phone rang friday, and the caller id said teco. The person on the other end told frank he owed about 15hundred dollars. And if he didnt pay up. His power would be turned off. Electricity is . Crucial for frank. Because his mother is currently in hospice care in his home. And his mom was the first thing he thought about frank says the scammers did small things to make them sound more legitimate. For instance, they made up an elaborate excuse as to . Why his automatic payments were no longer working. They even had someone posing as a supervisor ready to talk to him. Teco says between 10
The jury has returned a verdict this this this is not only his victory but everyone else who has been victimized by tabloid journalism. A big victory for hulk hogan because of a sex tape posted on line. It sounded like a sonic boom. But it was a plane crashing and bursting into flames. Investigators still dont know what caused it. Im honored to call john a hero today. He earned it and he deserves it. Their own killed in the line of duty. Good evening, im Cynthia Smoot in for kelly ring. And first up at 10 00 the jury has delivered a bit of a body slam to gawker ruling in favor of hulk hoaken hogan acarding awarding him an astonishing 115 million in his lawsuit. Christen, i know youve been looking into this. Well start with a bit of a tough blow for gawker, though. Definitely, mark, and gawkers attorneys have argued from the beginning that this case could have an impact on freedom of speech and that people may start to use our courts to punish people. The jury took six lowrs to delibera
two rounds of storms came in. lindsay the first one came apart. into the afternoon, a busy part of the day where we will want to come out and about and some storms that will potentially pack a punch with the strong winds. midday early afternoon a time to watch that and a few breaks in the clouds and 70 degrees. no fog and the change here in tampa. first round of rain pretty much done. i have a couple little, little sprinkles to show you near New Port Richey south of hudson. these are quickly riding along. and quickly is the keyword, because look at our batch of storms and how close it is. i wouldnt be surprised as early as 10 a. M. , early as 10 a. M. and it is 11 00 to 4 00 we get into the round of thunderstorms into the round of thunderstorms. you get a few more breaks of sun, that could help fuel those wind gusts into midday. 67 in sebring. 64 in lakeland. we are still on track for a high near 80 degrees today. best chance would be really midday. i think we will start to see p. M. ,
The plane is registered to a nonprofit. They cannot rule out another plane is involved. They are being quiet about that. The faa is on the scene trying to get a handle on what happened, what caused this. All we know the plane crashed during takeoff. It was obvious that the plane was totally engulfed in flames and you know it was obvious that there was probably nobody. No movement in it. We heard pops, pop, pop, pop. Obviously very frightening the cessna twinengine seats six and registered to niner xray in south tampa. A woman at the home said her husband was not involved in the crash but that he was at at the airport cooperating with the authorities. Take a look here, right there you see the x, that x that is closed. Peter o knight is closed. The onscene part is complete. It was heading to pensacola and there is no word who the. Victims are. The airport is closed. At least until the faa and by the airport and the authority says it is ease okay to open up. Evan, thank you. Amazing grace