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Transcripts For WFTS Action News Weekend Edition At 8AM 20160814

Surprise when he came faceto face with a 300 pound alligator. Where this gator was hiding out. Good morning and thank you for waking up with us. I am ashley yore. I am james tolley. You are up with abc. Lets check in with the peoples champion, and floridas most accurate forecast, bill logan. By the way, i just had gator for the first time. I ate it. It is the other white meat. Takes a lot like chicken. I would rather eat it then rescue it. We will have a growling start to the day. Speaking of gators. Seeing a few showers offshore from anna maria island. We can fire up the mainsail the east of i75. Through Temple Terrace towards pennant creek and wesley chapel. None of this is very heavy but just enough to get the windshield wet. Moisture from the southeast and that is where the rainfall is going to come from by later on. Still seeing a lot of moisture out here to the west moving the texas coastline towards houston. It will be a me ....

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Transcripts For WFTS Action News At 530AM 20160816

The moving wheels. This is happening now, pretty amazing. A casino imploding in las vegas. Can you see it . Yeah. It just what is it, 17 stories . There it goes. That is absolutely amazing. Were watching it now. Its coming down, this is the final phase of the monte carlo riviera, the first tower actually went down a couple of months ago. It was 24 stories. This we just lost our connection there. That was pretty cool. Making way for an expansion of the Las Vegas Convention center. Which is going to be huge. Ive never been a vegas. We have a trip planned as a family and look forward to checking it out. The weather will be perfect. I am sure not much will have been built by the time we get there. 80 degrees in tampa now. 79 in st. Pete. We have clear skies across much of the area so a nice dry start to the day. Planning on taking the dog for a walk or jogging, things are looking good for you. Wherever youre headed on the roads ....

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Transcripts For WFTS Action News At 530PM 20160816

The limit. Parents like Jacqueline Sanchez are left scrambling. She finally got a special form to see if another nearby school will take her child. I was coming here for three weeks, twice a week to make sure that he came here. And it was always a situation where he wasnt able to he was not able to start here. Now, you know, i have to go somewhere else. Reporter tonight the district is apologizing for the experience. Saying the overwhelming demand for the new school in a growing part of town is what caused the issues. The students enrolled and present here today will have a spot at citrus ridge but the numbers are over what the capacity for the school can handle. Reporter the district will consider adding porible classrooms to accommodate. James and his family are still crossing their fingers. Fingers, toes, everything. Reporter the superintendent will meet with her staff this thursday to figure out the best way to move forwar ....

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Transcripts For WFTS Action News At 5AM 20160815

The fog. Of course by the afternoon you always want to pack rain gear this time of year. Were in the midst of the wet season so well get rhett later today with showers and storms. The coverage not horrendous but 50 , pretty typical. Rest of the upper bay area, upper 70s. Well get to low 90s, it will feel like 100 to 105. Storms then will develop east and continue to move west. Everybody now back for now hopefully quiet. Now is good. Not a lot of cars on the road now. Corey dierdorff is checking out the veterans expressway for us. Hes behind the wheel of our live drive cam. Hes around the airport, not a lot of cones where he is but you will run into some of those cones on the veterans expressway. Not slowing anyone down. Looking at clear drive times on the veterans expressway. Were watching one crash in largo, ulmerton road at 119th with the crash, although my traffic indicators around there are in the green still. You stay my want to give yourself extra time. U. S. 19 looking great thr ....

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Transcripts For WFTS Action News At 6AM 20160816

Upper 70s to about 80 degrees. Its nice and dry as well so you dont have to worry about any wet roads for the commute this morning. Well check with janelle in a moment and see if there are any other tieups. As we work through the day well be up to the upper 80s by noon. That is where well see an isolated shower or two beginning to bubble up inland but we wont really see the majority of our area with showers and storms across it until about 2 00 to 3 00. So youve got a good amount of dry hours today and certainly hot temperatures. 92 as the high with coverage of afternoon showers and storms. I do think the evening commute could be a little messier than the morning commute but you tell me, how are things looking . Looking great. The roads dry. Corey dierdorff is driving over the Courtney Campbell causeway heading into clearwater. No crashes this morning, your drive across the bridge just nine minutes and looking good on the
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