A public thank you from a exploded. On sunday the wind family was boating when that fire tore through the boat. They were too far from shore but just in the nick of time, the whitmer family steered their small boat over and rescued them. Send them to us. Wonderful family. Yeah. They acted like a guardian angel. They whitmers assistant that fire and theyre hoping to have a reunion sometimes in the next week to say thank you in person. A group of 30 cuban dissidents is spending the night in our area after spending a special day visiting ybor city. The cubans are here as guests of cuba in tampa to learn about our country and democracy. In the park they took down an old weathered cuban flag and raised a new flag in its place. Which is a pretty somber moment the key. The visitors are labeled dissidents by their own country because of their ideas on democracy. They were however allowed to travel here as guests of casa cuba. In our consumer watch, the scandal that shook wells fargo is having
Obamas foreign policy. Reporter from fauxes to friends, president elect donald trump is making peace with former rival mitt romney. Think of Donald Trumps personal qualities, the bullying, the greed, the showing off, the misogyny, the absurd 3rd grade theatrics. Reporter now an unexpected change. Trump is romney for secretary of state. Among other candidates, another former rival, the South Carolina governor. During anxious times it can be tempting to fall the siren call of the angry jest voices. Voices. Reporter the frontrunner fort job as emerged. Its a great transition, and the president elect is an open role, believe me. Reporter he has tweeted about working hard with farred keeping the plant in the u. S. Rather than moving to mexico. At the center of the transition his soninlaw jarrod kushner. Essex morgue whether he could serve as an unpaid advisor. Janee norman, abc news. Tampa police want you to see this video this morning. Theyre hoping to catch the driver behind a crash be in
Scenes of flashing lights on i275 at fowler in the southbound lanes. There was a crash but it has moved off to the side. Traffic is still light out there. In fact, we can check your drive times on 275 heading southbound. Were looking good out there, just 14 minutes to get from the apex to i4 and six minutes from i4 to the Howard Franklin brunch. At 5 31 just into the newsroom this morning learned a woman is serious injured in Brevard County while she was loading groceries into her car last night. Troopers say a passing dump truck broke an axle and who tires came flying off the truck and hit the woman. Were still waiting for word on how shes doing. A Hillsborough County prior to wanted for battery is now on paid administrative leave after a bar brawl in the keys. Member of the outlaws motorcycle club. Police say cameras caught him throwing punches in the middle of a biker brawl in key west. Police say the fight started after an argument with a woman last september. Hillsborough deputies
Purchased it. You should be standing in a Swimming Pool now. Reporter instead we are standing on grass and dirt. This picture shows their old pool before a sink hole swallow most of it. It has just been a battle. Reporter even though the hole has been covered, nearly 5 years later the problem has not been fixed. You can actually see under the house, i am going to guess will be 2 feet under. Reporter engineersa and sometimes you laid out and all of a sudden it comes on you that okay, we have a single. Reporter when they finally got the Insurance Company to pay for some of the damages they hit another roadblock, the neighborhood is now considered a flood zone and the county says their home now falls under new guidelines and regulations. Under the new rules the repair. Is that the humphries will have to tear down the home and rebuilds. And rebuild. They are not doing anything to the structure itself. Reporter the county so far is not budging. We intended for this to be the rest of our liv
To report as far as whether or not his status has changed but until about a half hour ago, there were deputies and canine units going house to house and door to door. At one moment it is believed a dog picked up a scent and he was nearby but at this time its still an ongoing search. This is the man, 45, joseph flan begin, last seen at about 3 30 this afternoon at the countys Fleet Maintenance building in bartow. Flanagin is said to have taken a white ford pickup truck but the truck has since been recovered but flanagin is still on the run. He was sentenced to 10 months in september for theft, so he was now, he has behaved well in jail and recently earned the right to spend his remaining time doing out jobs for the county as a kind of a work replease program. Release program. That is how he was able to get away, he was not wearing handcuffs when he got into the truck and he only had four months left to serve. He was going to try to go straight when he got out. How do you know . We talk