Roger perez was on the Howard Frankland bridge early monday morning helping someone with car trouble. After perez started loading the car onto the recker, he got inside the toe truck cab and then hears it large plume. I didnt see him, and then suddenly i saw his shoes. Police identified the driver as allison hoffman. A tip led police to hoffman in saint pete where they arrested her. For those who knew and loved roger perez come up they are frustrated she was able to drive at all after three previous dui arrests. There are people that do wrong in their lives, and they have more lives than a cat, but then you have the person that does good and suddenly their life is gone, and a heartbeat. While the family is devastated, his sister hopes will happen is a wakeup call for allison hoffman. I know that we all make she has caused. Not just for us, the ones that lost him, for her own family as well. She only reconnected with her brother recently when she moved back here and said he was a kind a
She would like to see more rules for Children Home schooled. There are priors and that could be an opportunity to connect with child protective investigations and have them go out and do a welfare check. Possible changes under way. That come a little too late for 11yearold janiya thomas. 10 news has answers. There is system failures in two deaths. We have those stories on wtsp. Com unseen on tv. Just in a suspect identified and charged in a disturbing crime out of pinellas county. Police believe they caught this person accused of attacking a 6 yearold girl in a bathroom. 18 ricky thomas has been charged with battery. It happened in a macys bathroom stall. Ground and tried to cover her mouth and the girl screamed. Thomas said he mistakingly went in the bathroom and he claims he only covered her mouth because he panicked. You worry about who your kids are talking about on social media. This is a reminder that you need to be concerned about your kids encountering strangers. It could be ha
This morning. A 50 in tampa and as we look further to the south around manatee county, temperatures are still closer to 50 degrees. But these temperatures will come down a few more degrees as we head closer to sun rise this morning, and then we will began courtroom lull see them coming back up but check out how cool it is this afternoon, highs near 60degrees and even at noon we have 25 Miles Per Hour wind gusts. So definitely want to grab the extra layer as you head out the door this morning, what is ahead for the weekends. I have changes to the rain chances for saturday and sunday. How are things on the roads. We are getting word there was a huge semistalled in the middle of the road blocking all the southbound lane, cars getting through. I will have more on that in just a little bit but lets check out the causeway. No trouble to tell you about a smooth ride all the way across but we do have a high wind skyway bridge, definitely as say mentioned earlier, both hands on the wheel as you
That the governor declared it a health emergency. The big question tonight, will our tourism try take a hit like we saw in the bp oil spill. We took those concerns straight to the governor today. When people go anywhere in the world they want to feel safe. What theyll know in florida is well get ahead of this. Why the governor added his First Priority is to the 20 million residents of florida. Ceo of visit tampa released a statement saying he prefer the governor take a more cautious approach to the zica virus since no cases of zica have been contracted in Hillsborough County. He went on to say however, the safety of our residents and visitors is a paramount importance. At 10 news we dont want to spread fears about the zica virus. Just the facts. A lot of people have questions tonight. You probably have questions so we are getting answers for you tonight. First and foremost, women who are pregnant are most at risk. Matter how far along in your pregnancy . It appears the answer is no. Do
He also ordered it Health Department to buy 4,000 kit to test for active cases. The key to fighting that virus is eradicating mosquito. We want to stay ahead of the zika virus and that means mosquitoes. We have done it before. I believer we are going to do itd again. It is a fact. Florida senator bill nelson is calling on president obama to apoint a zika cesar. Theres an alarming new in brazil. In both cases, Healthy People got the virus from people who had donated blood. Theyre now tightening procedures to protect the blood supply. 4 31. Lets check your action weather forecast. Difference when you headed out the door, didnt you. Absolutely. You will as well. The temperatures are about 20 degrees on average, lower this morning than they were yesterday at this time. It is 52 in at that tampa. We have 55 in st. Pete. We are in the mid 40s. Did you catch that, in Citrus County . Crystal river, 45 degrees we will see the temperatures come down before they start back up. By noon we will be