Alarm two weeks ago at jfk airport. Caused by people celebrating the olympics. Good morning. Were looking at our developing story here, this is what well be talking about the next few days, because of the rain potential coming up. This is tropical depression 9, if youre just tuning in, developed it yesterday, its now a closed low and going to move a little further north. So by tonight well probably have a tropical either hermine or ian because another feature in the carolinas that may develop before that. 40 mileperhour winds, and it will be a Tropical Storm tonight. Then yes, moving to the north and then northeast. Huge cone here so just keep it in mind but i think with this feature as it is typical with Tropical Storms the center not as important. Its the rain associated with the storm that is going to get pulled in here well out ahead of it so despite the fact this gets here on thursday rain will begin tomorrow in earnest with already setting up. For today just a typical afternoon summer thunderstorms so its going to be dry through the better part of the day. Then by 1 00 well see the thunderstorms brewing east of us. Then were getting good rain between 4 00 and 7 00. Then more where that came from of course heading into tomorrow as the system begins to get a little closer to us. Well get into the heavier rain which right now looks to be the biggest threat. The roads are dry now. We have a serious crash about. I mentioned it before. We now have more information. In st. Pete, st. Pete Police Telling us that someone was hit at the intersection of 34th street north at 5th avenue north. Also reporting the intersection is blocked so you might want to find another way around it. You can use 43rd street north andst avenue and 1st avenue. More on twitter tampabaytraffic. Times on i4, still in the live look outside at 275 through downtown tampa traffic looking great on the interstates but you might run into some problems on channelside near amalie arena. Ron ron is out there now Rodney Dunigan is out there now. We have a major project starting today and its going to last almost two years, rodney, what can you tell us about that . Reporter folks who travel this area on a daily certainly have to pack patience. As you mentioned this roadway promising could possibly last up to two years. When administrators say when complete it will be a major benefit to those who work in the area as well as local businesses, but you have to get used to the construction the last few months. The first section of this process begins this morning along morgan street. One lane of morgan will be blocked off to all traffic but traffic will still be able to go in both directions. Project has been spread out over time to ease the pain a bit for drivers. When this 35 million project is complete the city is promising wider more walkable sidewalks, more onstreet parking spots and more bike lanes and roads will also be a bit easier for drivers to navigate. Back here live, this entire project also being laid out on a web site dedicated for information for drivers about this project and how to navigate the roads. Of course we have a link to that on our web head to abcactionnews. Com for more on that throughout the morning. Of course the next few months. Reporting live in downtown tampa, Rodney Dunigan, abc action news. The Tampa Police Department is mourning the loss of one of their own, fred arnold iii died during a offduty scuba diving accident in nevada over the weekend. A 27year veteran of the force. He was an outstanding officer risk youth through the Police Explorer program. Shah meeka said he made a huge difference in her daughters life through the program. She wanted to give up a couple of times but he was always there, basically like a father figure but also a male Police Officer figure. Just to encourage her to continue to pursue her career. Officer arnold known for his warm smile and infectious laugh was featured in rookies. Well let you know when funeral arrangements are announced. Deputies say a Pinellas County woman left her kids alone in a hotel room while she went out and drank for six hours. Were getting a first look at claudia acosta, she faces negligent and Disorderly Conduct charges. Deputies say she left her 10 and 13yearolds to wander the tradewinds resort in st. Pete this weekend looking for food. At the same time deputies say she crashed a private party and began to threaten staff at the bar. Shes set to bond out of jail in a few hours. Deputies are looking for the person that shot two men during a home invasion. They also made another discovery. They say that house was full of marijuana plants. They say the suspects kicked in the back door of a home on dew drop lane saturday night. Then a man inside shot the suspects and ran off. The deputies say the suspects are now not cooperating with them. 6 06. A man accused of carjacking a woman as she was leaving work last week is now off the streets polk c say they found 41yearold Shawn Mclaughlin not far from where he allegedly committed the crime. Now faces several charges including Armed Robbery and grand theft. Last weekend detectives say he approached an employee from a bone fish grill restaurant and threatened her. Then stole her car and crashed it. The witness there at the time of the carjacking recognized him at a convenience store. People in west palm are looking for the person who opened fire on an area packed with shops and restaurants. From the gunshots in city place over the weekend when a car hit her. That driver left the scene. Now police are also searching for the driver. Its unclear if that car was connected to the gunshots. The woman is expected to survive. Its really sparked some fear in her. Students forced to role play slavery. Still to come the young girl tells her grandmother about the part of that that scared her most. Later, they were heading to help flood victims when they were caught in their own tragedy. A driver now facing charges for deadly crash, the two reasons Authorities Say he should have 6 10. A teacher in the atlanta area is facing disciplinary action after making fifth grade students play a slavery game in trying to teach her students the slavery and underground railroad. She said the point. Game was for the students to escape a plantation. However the grandmother of the only africanamerican child in the class is upset, says the game was demeaning and hurtful to her 10yearold granddaughter. The one thing that really got her was the move that she had to make was when she met a stranger and that stranger turned out to be a bad guy and then told her to go back into slavery where she beaten. She complained to the school district. Officials say they were not informed about the lesson plan in advance and say it was not approved by the district. Another round of showers and thunderstorms for later this afternoon. Plenty of sunshine before that happens and them of course watching our tropical depression likely to bring us heavy rain the next few days. Well talk more about it coming up after the break. Also coming up imagine having to work for 30 hours a week but still getting the who is the company . The one thing you may be tempted to do to help baby turtles on the beach that might divers found wreckage of a small plane in lake yesterday, went down during a Training Exercise about 1,000 feet from the runway. A boater rescued a woman on board. Investigators havent revealed her condition just yet but say they are planning to release more information later today. Deputies plan to arrest a bus driver after deadly crash involving flood relief workers in louisiana. The group was heading to baton rouge when the bus they were in crashed into a fire truck and three other vehicles. A 21yearold mississippi man and firefighter died. A second firefighter critical condition. One of 36 people hospitalized including at least three children. The investigators say the bus driver, 37yearold Dennis Rodriguez doesnt have a commercial drivers license and is an illegal immigrant from honduras. He will face two counts of negligent homicide. Caught on camera the stunning moment an officer saves a man from being hit by a train. Keep watching this here. The two men struggle before the officer finally is able to pull that man out of the way just speeds by. This happened last week in new jersey. That man had laid on the tracks right as that transit officer showed up apparently trying to commit suicide. Were learning that officer who obviously risked his own life, victor ortiz has been on the force for 16 years. A touching meeting out of north florida because of a bone Marrow Transplant. The recipient and donor live thousands of miles apart but met for the first time in jacksonville over the weekend. Christie henley lives in south dakota last year. She received a bone Marrow Transplant from a stranger and learned of his identity last july. She contacted Adam Peterson on facebook, found out that he lives in texas and arranged to meet in jacksonville. Christie says she considers adam family now and says she would not be here without him. Amazon is testing a 30hour workweek with 40hour benefits but says it doesnt plan to make that change companywide. The move follows a report by that said amazon encourages employees to work up to 80 hours a week without taking very many vacations. Amazon says the employees testing this 30hour workweek will get the same benefits as full time workers. The part timers will work monday through thursday from 10 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. Amazon says the Pilot Program is aimed at moms who want a balance between work and family life. Wildlife officials are asking floridians to keep their paws off not to help sea turtle hatchblings make their i would into the ocean. Kit take them several days to dig out of their nests. During that time they are vulnerable to predators. Humans who are trying to help can make the problem worse than disorienting the hatchlings. Good morning. On a monday. Hope you had a great weekend. Looking pretty good today, early part anyway. 80s by o 00. 10 . 00. By 1 00. Showers and thunderstorms, pushing to the coast by later this evening. Titan Doppler Radar pretty quiet if youre heading out for the commute or the bus stop. Looking dry but whole different story by later this afternoon with numerous showers and storms. Of course we have our tropical depression 9 which will impact our weather in major ways the next few days right now looks like a big rain threat with the area of low pressure just to the north, western tip of cuba, it will become a Tropical Storm tonight. It will ian because we have another depression that will become a storm in the carolinas. 35 mileperhour winds, 40 tonight and well get that designation of Tropical Storm status. Heres the latest track from the National Hurricane center. Ill take you step by step. Heres month night, 40 mileper hour winds tonight. Tomorrow night. Then it is going to curve to the north and east headed over towards the big bend. Now with Tropical Storms unlike hurricanes the center point sometimes not as important. So if this was going to be a big deal here. But the heaviest of the weather will actually be south of where you see these points here. That is going to be the tropical moisture that is going to get pulled in ahead of it. Despite the fact this is further to the north were still going to be immanaged with the heavy rain. In fact not just as it makes its closest pass to us but well out ahead of it. So that by tomorrow were already getting into the bands of heavier rainfall. And so what will happen is well have a multiday event of accumulating rainfall which could lead to so well watch that closely but again as i mentioned for today, just dealing with our typical afternoon storms and then well get into the heavier rain beginning tomorrow and really continuing right through the end of the week. Theres the system beginning to move in across the north with heavy rain bands setting up tuesday through wednesday. So heavier rain potential this week, certainly well watch our Tropical Storm as it develops today and potential for Tropical Storm conditions, that is some wind involved as well, threat. The biggest threat. Still going to be a hot day today with 92degree day with water temperature at 87. Easterly winds 15 and by the way, boating conditions going downhill big time tuesday through thursday. Seas will continue to build. Windy on thursday with high temperatures by then in the mid 80s. Then well begin to see better conditions by the weekend where we have a whole week to get through with perhaps some wet morning commutes but for now at least on mond we have a serious crash weve been following for about 45 minutes now. This is in st. Pete. At 34th street north, our u. S. 19 and 5th avenue north. That intersection blocked now. So youre going want to avoided that. Hearing reports this was a pedestrian or possibly someone getting out of their car, that person then struck by a truck. Captain al will be heading there shortly to give us pore information but for now avoided this intersection. If you can. 43rd street north is an south. The side streets seem to be running smoothly. Well keep watching it and ill keep you posted here and on twitter tampabaytraffic. Looking at the interstates through st. Pete, looking great on 275, up to speed in both directions, no crashes or breakdowns on the interstates. Checks the drive on 275 through Hillsborough County, 13 minutes from the apex to i4, five minutes from busch to i4 and once you get to downtown its five minutes to get to the Howard Frankland bridge. 6 21. Still ahead investigators now looking at criminal factors in that deadly earthquake in italy. What they say may have made the death toll even higher. Plus, all new details on how damaging concussions can be for student athletes. Two things that get worse when kids get back in the game too soon. First, on good morning, america, Colin Kaepernick defending his protest of the gma first look, kaepernick speaking out. Heres my salute to you. Reporter under fire from fans and fellow players after his refusal to stand up for the National Anthem doubling down overnight. Ill continue to sit. Im going to continue to stand with the people. That are being oppressed. When theres significant change and i feel like that flag represents what its supposed to represent ill stand. Reporter the 49ers quarterback clarifying sunday refusing to honor the flag doesnt mean hes disrespecting the military. Because this country is not holding their end of the bargain up. As far as freedom and justice and liberty to everyone. Reporter but kaepernick says the have itry alhe facing is worth to it make a point. I know what im doing is right. Reporter at 7 00 we away in z23ppz zy6z 6 26. Investigators in italy are looking into whether criminal factors led to a higher death toll. So far nearly 300 people found dead and crews still pulling bodies from the rubble. At this point they do not have any hope of finding more survivors. Now authorities are considering whether negligence or fraud in building codes and shoddy construction may have added to quake last week. New research is proving student athletes should sit out to recover faster after suffering from a concussion. Researchers at the university of Pittsburgh Medical Center studied this, the students who continued to play took twice as long to recover and experienced worse symptoms compared to students who were sidelined. 6 27. Coming up at 6 30 a baby just sleeping in her bedroom when someone shoots her. Were following this breaking for answers. A flight to florida takes a terrifying turn. What passengers saw that we have the latest from a driveby shooting in a port richey neighborhood that leaves a 1yearold girl in the hospital. Mourning an Iconic Church leader. The Massive Service planned today to honor his life. There hundreds of jobs are up for grabs now at Tampa International airport. The new businesses there giving travelers more options and big boost to anybody looking for work. Good morning. Thank you for joining us, im deiah riley. Im dan shaffer. Well look at the roads. We have important road work to talk about. Big projects starting today around amalie arena and channelside drive. Enre getting there is going to be tough. It will take a long time. Weatherwise a lot to talk about this week. Titan Doppler Radar pretty quiet but well start with what you need to know to get out the door. I think at this point were going to be dry. No issues, temperatures now in the upper 70s to lower 80s. Were going to stay dry through the better part of the day here and then by 1 00, 2 00 well begin to get into showers and thunderstorms. 77 around apollo beach. Port richey 77. Also in the low 80s, a little is our big story this week, live tropical depression 9, what weve been tracking last several days. Out, very disorganized still at this hour but once it moves into the eastern gulf and will do that tonight should become a Tropical Storm. The moisture out ahead of it will begin to impact us tomorrow. So we have a day to get through here with just our typical afternoon summer thunderstorms. And then well get into steadier rains beginning tomorrow. Temperatures in the low 90s so still a warm and steamy afternoon setting up. Then w tropical depression 9 in a few minutes. If you live around the channelside area youre just going to be aware were starting a lengthy construction project, probably lasting 18 months to 24 months. The improvements are going to be great, wider streets, more parking, but a lot of construction to get there. The first phase begins today. Construction on morgan street, just north of channelside drive, one lane taken away in each direction so you can still to try florida or jackson up to nebraska to work your way around that if youre driving through the channelside area. Well keep you posted on updates throughout the morning on twitter tampabaytraffic. Captain al flying over a serious crash in st. Pete. What can you tell us . Reporter good morning. Very serious accident in the st. Petersburg, 34th street north at 5th avenue north. Apparently a truck and pede motorcycle i, so it could be a truck versus motorcycle. All lane just to 33rd to the east or 35th street to the west will get you around there. That is what spet police are doing now. Traffic is light so not too bad. This investigation is going to be going on for some time. 6 32. Deputies now investigating a driveby shooting that injured a 1yearold little girl in port richey. Anchor james tully is live at that home now on westcott drive in port richey. How is that baby doing . Reporter weve heard good news that child did not suffer any life threatening injuries. Look behind me, theres still a lot of activity here, a lot of investigators on scene. Were going to zoom in on the home they say was shot at last night just before 11 30. Pasco Sheriffs Office hasnt named suspects or even given a vehicle description at this point. What they are saying is one of the bullets entered the bedroom where that little girl was sleeping and struck her on the wrist. Again more officials have just arrived unable to tell me if this home was targeted, why. Why it was targeted. Deputies have watched him speak with some of the neighbors who even at this early hour perhaps surveillance cam contrarathat may are captured. I am looking at the homes on the block and i dont see that but that would certainly help in the investigation. Back to you. Well pass along information when we get it. James tully, abc action news. 6 34. A scary Emergency Landing in florida. After a planes engine failed. Investigators are trying to figure out what caused the problem on the southwest flight. The plane was on its way to orlando from new orleans saturday morning when all of a sudden the plane started quickly. Airline officials confirm there was a mechanical issue with the number one engine. The pilot was able to land safely in pensacola. One of the passengers says she knew something was wrong when the oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling. I had my 5yearold sitting next to me. So i looked out the window, there was all the smoke, then held him more close to me and looked back and it was gone. I just saw medal flapping. Reporter Airline Officials say the 99 passengers and five crew were not hurt during the rough ride. Hundreds of people are expected to pay their respects today to one of the bay areas most beloved and respected Catholic Leaders. Monsignor Lawrence Higgins died last wednesday. Public visitation is noon to 9 00 today and tomorrow, at st. Lawrence catholic church, the parish he founded. His life will be celebrated at a funeral mass wednesday, 11 30 at the church. Today one local organization is making sure families in need are getting protection from the zika virus, bay is going to hand out 15,000 cans of mosquito repellent to anyone who needs it. The latest zika report for florida shows 15 new travel related cases, some from the bay area including three in Pinellas County and one each in Hillsborough County and sarasota counties. There are now 545 travel related cases, there are 42 locally transmitted cases. In democracy 2016 thousands of bay area voters did not wait until election day primary. If you are Still Holding a vote by mail ballot you still have time to drop it off. Important note though that you cannot drop it off at your local polling place tomorrow. Instead take them to any supervisor of elections office. Speaking of the polls they will be open from 7 00 to 7 00 tomorrow. Bring a valid id that contains your signature. One thing youre being asked to vote on to make solar energy cheaper. Amendment 4 would implement new Tax Exemptions for residential who install solar or other Renewable Energy systems. That measure must receive 60 of the vote to pass. Today Tampa International airport is hosting its third and largest job fair yet. There are hundreds of open positions and concessions. The airport is opening dozens of new restaurants and shops this fall. Companies like payway, burger 21, pot belly and more are looking to hire 300 people. To apply go to the Hillsborough CountyAviation Authority room and 4 00. Looking pretty good with temperatures in the lower 80s. Well get back into the low 90s this afternoon. That will be 1 00 with showers and storms setting up. Pretty good tropical downpours between 1 00 and 7 00. Of course were tracking steadier heavier rain with the depression to the south beginning tomorrow. More on that coming up. Coming up the superstars of music causing a buzz online now. Well look back at the most talked about moments and why some say it should have been called the beawards instead. About awards instead. And why wasnt Gabby Douglas 6 40. Many of you talking about last nights mtv video music awards. Beyonce apparently stole the show. Total to a record 25. Its this performance here that had fans on their feet. . I would rather be crazy . For nearly 15 minutes long medley from her groundbreaking release lemonade had saying she queen b had her renaming it the beawards. Shes someone ive love with since i was 22 years old. Apparently people melted after that. Drake professing his love for rihanna. Theyve long tried to avoided rumors of a relationship but apparently drake just confirmed it. Still ahead more than 20 million has been raised for the victims of the pulse nightclub shooting but coming up, why gun violence experts now say that is not nearly the Florida Department of transportation today will homed a workshop to in hold a workshop to talk to the public about the enhanced community project. The meeting will focus on the i 4, i275 interchange along with avenue. That same information will be shared at another meeting thursday at the Seminole Heights library. Action air 1 is over a crash in st. Petersburg. Captain al reporter confirmed fatality 34th street and 5th avenue north. Apparently a woman in a wheelchair was prebearing to cross 34th street, was hit by a tow truck with the car on the back of it. St. Pete police have both directions closed now. The workaround would be a block east or west of 34th street. Traffic particular area but this is going to be closed for some time. This is a tragic accident. Heres janelle with the details. We have a crash that were following now in Hillsborough County. Dale mabry at bearss. Im seeing a little slowdown in the northbound lanes. Kind of unusual for this time of morning at this intersection. Usually we see slowdowns on dale mabry southbound. So be aware if youre heading northbound you may want to leave a few extra minutes. Well keep you posted on backups here on i75 at fowler, these headlights here are heading southbound so just give yourself extra time, this is when i75 around fowler starts to get busy. Lets check your drive times on 75, 24 minutes from 52 to i4. And 13 minutes from the apex to i4. Good morning. Good weather. We have that, dry conditions, roads are fine if youre headed out this morning. Bus stop looks good with mostly sunny skies but we will see the clouds beginning to take over by 10 00, 11 00. Then the thunderstorms getting going and everything pushing from easttowest. So well rain pretty good by 1 00 heading into the evening hours. Right now nothing doing across the bay area. We move to the south, this is where the weather is going to be coming from. An area of low pressure, in fact a tropical low. A depression with 35 mileper hour winds over western cuba now. It will develop over the next Tropical Storm. In fact that is forecast to happen tonight and then it heads up to the north and then thursday passing here with Tropical Storm conditions possible on thursday. But that is thursday. Well out ahead of it we have the moisture coming in. So this event begins for us tomorrow and continues through the end of the week. This is going to be a big rain event here as the waves of rain begin to move through with the bands, the actually, center of the storm still, on wednesday morning, well to the south and west but were going to begin to see the potential for significant rainfall here. Upwards of 6 inches throughout the event through the end of the week tuesday through friday and then thursday, windy day that we would have to deal with but the main threat not the winds. Its going to be be the flood potential with all the rain coming in, in waves. So mostly cloudy, 92 will be the warmest day for a while. As the cloud cover takes over and the rainfall does as well. From tuesday through the end of the week. Temperatures holding into the mid80s and then again on conditions as our Tropical Storm begins to approach. More on that coming up in the next few hours. As ivan keeps watch on the tropics, a lot of families are not waiting for flooding. They are getting ready now. We found people getting drenched over the weekend trying to fill up sandbags. Pinellas county and the city of gulfport already opened sandbag sites. The sites in Pinellas County are open today during daylight hours. St. Pete locations 9 00 to 5 00. We have addresses of the locations now on our and on our facebook page. Employees from a local restaurant are set to begin the long drive to louisiana today to deliver supplies to flood victims there. The salty rim grill in st. Pete beach started a donation drive and say the response was overwhelming. Some of the employees there have family and friends impacted by the flooding, theyve lost their homes and businesses so now they are heading to baton rouge to deliver clothing, shoes, diapers, food and water from very generous people. Police releasing new Chicago Bulls star dwyane wades cousin. She was pushing a stroller when she was hit by stray bullets on a chicago street. Prosecutors charged 22yearold darren sorels and his brother darwin with first degree murder in her death. They are documented gang members, darryl was just released from prison two weeks ago and was wearing an electronic monitoring device. They were chasing a 25yearold man when she shot at him but hit the mother of four had just just enrolled one child in school. The one orlando fund raised 23 million so far for the pulse nightclub shooting victims but now gun violence experts say that is not nearly enough to help. They say it wont completely offset medical and other expenses caused by the mass shooting. They say the loss of future earnings for the survivors could reach 20 million and it could be another 16 million for costs associated with survivors. Last week we told you two orlando hospitals that treated victims are donating their medical services. A gunman opened fire in the nightclub last june killing more than 40 people and injuring 53 others. 6 50. Democracy 2016 more political advertising is coming to your flatscreen. Donald Trumps Campaign is making its first major ad purchase, buying 10 million of air time. The new trump ands to air as soon as today in nine key swing states including florida. Meanwhile trump is preparing for a major speech wednesday. He says that is when hell go in depth on his immigration proposal and how he would deport those illegally in the country. Hillary clinton continues to take time off from campaigning over the weekend she attended multiple fundraisers in the hamptons on eastern long island. She is scheduled to appear two more reception theres today. In florida Clintons Campaign campuses. Libertarianle candidate gary johnson is optimistic hell be included in the upcoming president ial debates. He has to average at least 15 in five recognized polls in order to be allowed into the debates. Johnson saying yesterday his support is around 10 now. He admits it would be game over for his campaign if he doesnt get to debate. The coast guard says more than 160 cubans trying to sail to the u. S. Are back in cuba this morning after being intercepted at sea. In all 161 migrants will return to cuba. Cubans who are caught at sea are generally returned home but those who reach american soil are typically allowed to stay. If youre worried about your personal financial situation youre not alone in florida. A new survey finds Consumer Confidence is at its lowest level of the year. The survey for august finds Consumer Confidence dropped by nearly 5 points compared to the previous month. The measurement for those worried about their personal finances dropped by 10 points floridians are still more optimistic though than five years ago at the end of the great recession. Undercover police say they busted Mariah Careys sister. Alison carey is expected in court tomorrow. Police say she advertised Prostitution Services online and solicited money in exchanging for sex undercover officer. She was diagnosed as hiv positive in the 1990s. A trip to the hospital kept gymnast Gabby Douglas from making a trip to the mtv video music awards. She was treated for a mouth injury that became infected. She had serious swelling and bad reaction to medication apparently. She and teammates were supposed to present the award for best female video. They went ahead without her. She posted on instagram she was miss the event. Coming up on 6 53. We start in port richey where a toddler is in hospital after being shot during a drive by shooting while sleeping in her bed. James tully is at the home. Is this baby going to be ok . Reporter good news. Weve heard that child did not suffer any life threatening injuries and is being hospitalized. Pasco sheriffs deputies just passing along this information. Confirming this shooting was not random and that the mother of that infant is a documented gang member. They have not released suspects or description of the vehicle at this time. Were still awaiting that information. What would help the investigation of course is if someone witnessed this or if home surveillance cameras captured this on video. At this hour its unclear if any of that actually happened. Live in pasco county, james were still waiting to find out now how an offduty tampa Police Officer died while scuba diving in nevada over the weekend. Master Patrol Officer fred arnold iii was a 27year veteran of the force. Arnold was featured in the show rookies. Well let you know as soon as funeral arrangements are announced. A public visitation for beloved bay area Catholic Leader monsignor Lawrence Higgins is today and tomorrow at st. Lawrence catholic church, the parish he founded. A funeral mass the church wednesday. Touristses concerned about zika can receive mosquito repellent at theme parks here and in tampa. Starting this morning, driving around channelside is about to get tough. A major Infrastructure Project kicks off that will shut down lanes and reroute traffic. When this 35 million project is complete the city is sidewalks, more onstreet parking and more bike lanes. Roads will be easier to navigate for drivers as well. The first phase kicks off this morning along morgan street. Good morning, we have a crash to tell but, i75 in the northbound lanes just after mlk, looks like we have the center lane blocked here, not what you want to see for the morning commute. So hopefully they will get this crash moved to the side and open that lane back up but very slow now heading northbound on i75. We have a crash near the on ramp 275. Action air 1, captain al, good morning. Good morning. Training 34th street north at 5th avenue north. A lady in a wheelchair was in the process of crossing 34ening street, got hit by a tow truck. You can see st. Pete police investigating, they are going to route you one block east or west to get around that. Fortunately traffic not bad in looking good for this monday. Dry, upper 70s. Warm and humid though. By 1 00 well start with the thunderstorm activity pushing east to west winding things down by 8 00. Were monitoring that tropical depression to the south likely to bring us pretty good rains the next few days. More on that in the next few hours. . Tuv . Her abcs and how to take the spotlight. This is a video of her singing the alphabet song has been shared three million times. A star from modern family even reposted this. With the hashtag bigfinish. Shes feeling it. Good morning, america is next. Keep up to date on air, our mobile app, facebook and good morning, america. Breaking overnight, chaos erupts at los angeles airport. A number of shots. People running all directions. Of reports of an active shooter. The reports false but it sent passengers running scrambling for shelter even starting onto the tarmac. Terminals at a an systems barreling toward the u. S. , carolinas and the gulf in the path of two big storms this morning. Superstar quarterback Colin Kaepernick sparks outrage refusing to stand during the National Anthem to protest racism in america. Now fans are burning his jersey, fellow athletes split with the star speaking out overnight. Here we go. cause i say. And beyonce getting in