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suggestions on what to do with the 85 or so acres available for redevelopment around the trop. - in any option officials choose, they want to see a public-private partnership that will really build up resources and opportunities for people in the area. - we ll likely see a mixed use development with housing, retail and entertainment. - but there are some critics of this plan.. - three decades ago, the city used eminent domain to displace lots of people and businesses for the current tropicana fielan community members describe as a thriving african american community.and there are many who remain skeptical about what the city wants to do. - but the city says it is conscious of these concerns.and any new developments placed down here around the trop will reflect what the community wants. - and we ll talk about how the city plans to do this, coming up at 6. - back to you. hillary clinton and donald trump will be back in the same room again tonight, just one day after their ....
latest on the trop. so we are going to get a look at the master plan? reporter: that s right. the fight to keep the rays right here in downtown st. pete is going to come down to three different master plans that city officials are going to be presenting to city council later on today. but it s not just about redeveloping the trop. this is also about redeveloping all of this land down here in downtown st. pete and trying to turn this area into a much more lively place than it is now. so if the city has its way we will see a public private partnership go up. that could include an entertainment district, possibly some sort of research and educational district, possibly housing, businesses and restaurants. of course, the ideal situation for the city is to have the rays build their new stadium here. if they do not, we will see redevelopment happen anyway. but it s redevelopment that 30 years ago the city used imminent domain. city leaders say this time around things are go ....
and getting ready to ship out dozens of linemen to the bahamas. a large portion of the bahamas are still without power since hurricane matthew. 10news reporter sarah hollenbeck is live at tampa electric s operation center in tampa. sarah, several large crews of people have been sent to the bahamas to help. yes, they ve sent one crew after another to relieve the linemen down there who have been working around the clock to restore power to the tropical islands. these teams are taking 3 power trucks and 20 workers to the port in miami, where they ll load up on a barge and ship out. hurricane matthew battered the bahamas with winds over 100 miles per hour.ripping roofs off homes, and knocking out power to19- thousand homes and businesses. hurricane matthew as a category 4 storm and knocked out electricity to 100 percent of the customers of grand bahama power co. damage is so severe that in some areas, the electrical system is being rebuilt from the ground up. it ll be stren ....
candidates are back on the campaign trail this morning after the rivals spent the night roasting each other at a catholic charity dinner. the long- standing event is usually marked by civility between presidential nominees.but with the election less than three weeks away the candidates couldn t keep their gloves from coming off. clinton hits the campaign trail in ohio today.. while trump campaigns in north carolina and pennsylvania today. trump will be in tampa monday night. can you imagine living in the dark, without any power, for weeks? that s what s happening in the bahamas ever since hurricane matthew tore through the and now, just moments ago, more than 20 linemen from tampa electric left to help people in the bahamas. 10news reporter sarah hollenbeck is live at tampa electric s operations center. sarah, this is a huge undertaking. yes, that s why our local crews are bringing 3 of these electrical trucks with them they re saying it could take 6 full weeks before ....
sarah hollenbeck is live. these 20 linemen are needed there? reporter: people have been living like that more than two weeks. now they are getting help from tampa, including the bucket trucks. they sent five of them over to the bahamas today and those guys just left less than an hour ago to get over there. hurricane matthew battered homes, it tore off roofs, it picked up an power poles across the tropical island. the damage is so severe in the bahamas that in some areas the electrical system has to be rebuilt from the ground up. it s going to be strenuous work. right now 20 tampa electric employees are on a bus headed to ft. lauderdale. then they will get on a ferry and take that to the island. they will be working 16-hour days doing extremely difficult work. it s extremely difficult. materials you are trying to get on. especially on an island. it s isolated from the mainland itself. getting materials over there to work with materials without running out of materi ....