Machine and clean you out. According to deputies, this woman just wrapped up a wal mart shopping trip using somebody elses debit card. Victims tell us its hard to catch. About wiped out my checking account. Reporter thats what happened to this polk county woman. 4,100 at the credit union. I almost fainted. Reporter last october she fell victim to a similar scam where the crooks told her to put her chip enabled debit card under the phone an she sounded really businesslike calling from mid florida and they had to pick up all the old debit cards in the county and be out late that night. Once they get access, of course, to the debit card and pin number its off to the races. Reporter the scam is popping up its ugly head in pinellas and hillsborough counties, negative news about certain banks having customers on alert. The caller insists the bank must retrieve the debit card and pin and send a new one in seen in several years. Ive never heard of a suspect actually going to the home. Usually
South of toledo by a couple miles or so and back up into charlotte county. A bit quick are to get off the interstate. And it looks look youre safe to get back on the very least toledo blade that will cut out big portion of though delays. Riverview drivers you have crash newly reported u. S. 301. Lane blockages reported were also noting here delays southbound as well a northbound in the area. And then well get to this road closure, which we learned about this morning early. Pasco county, old pasco road. Theres construction under way. Closing that road completely from state road 52 all way to overpass road. According to fhp all way into tomorrow. It is company that touts its ability to take care of its property. And community surrounding it. But this morning mo skaic in polk county has lot of explaining to after sink hopely hole opened up near its facilities causing what officials are causing slightly radioactive water to leak into floridas ground water. Near phosphate plant. Company is
78 in sarasota. We make the upper 80s, well push the showers and storms inland this afternoon. However, the overall rain chances still only going to be around 40 . So kind of a lot like yesterday, okay . Nice and dry this morning. Thats good. Were watching a problem spot with the interstates in good shape. 275 at the i4 interchange, taillights head south as you make your way toward the tampa side of the Howard Frankland bridge. All the way to the st. Pete side of the bridge. If youre travelling through brandon this morning, authorities still on scene of a crash, westbound state bound 60, brandon boulevard just before parsons avenue, a right lane is still blocked but no big delays this morning. Still pretty light and quiet out there. Laura thank you. Developing this morning, crews are working to free a group of manatees that are trapped in a golf course pond. Russell they got there during been stuck there nearly two weeks. Shayla reaves is live in Crystal River and theres a lot of heavy
Mast key county to try pasco county to try to determine what caused the fire there. Sadly two dogs died in the homes. Its leap day. Its a day we need to keep our clocks and calendars in sync with the earth and the seasons, and you can get free goodies, too. 4Million People have a birthday today, and we will share the deals for you in a few minutes. The oscar goes to Leonardo Dicaprio. Yeah after 5 nomination, dicaprio finally has an award. Spotlight won best picture, and oscars is trending on its 5 31. Amazing weekend. I will keep it going since awards. Brooksville, 11 degrees warmer than you were at 5 30 on your sunday morning. Lakeland, 9 degrees warmer it will be 74 degrees, femaling very warm with partly sunny skies. An 8day temperature trend will let you know how it feels this nice. The Pinellas Park area, folks, and affecting your drive f youre used to taking bryan dairy road. Its early, and we are not used to seeing the vehicles on the roadway. Right under u. S. 19, and thats wh
Astronaut scott kelly is finally headed home. He handed over command of the monday. And if all goes as planned, tonight just before midnight. And breaking news at this hour, these are live pictures gibsonton. This is the southbound lanes. They are closed at this hour because of a fatal accident involving a motorcyclist. Leslee lacey has been following the story all morning long and latest. Yeah, thank you, gayle. Very sad news to wake up to. Fatal accident, apparently the motorcycle rear ended the other vehicle. And we have a fatal crash affecting southbound i75, in fact, all of the traffic is taken off of the interstate is taken off at gibsonton drive. Take 301 instead and you dont have to worry about being taken off. And we are not seeing any significant delays but its going to take time to head over here to 301. So keep that in mind. And take a look at 275 southbound, folks at 54th avenue south. We have the exit ramp blocked. If youre traveling through pinellas, youre used to taking