This is first at 4 00. We want to begin with breaking news. Polk county deputies say a man intentionally hit a Senior Citizen in the dropoff lane at an elementary school. Investigators believe that Lawrence Franklin refused to drive in the proper lane as instructed by the 79yearold volunteer and then took his foot off the brake and allowed the car to roll into the volunteer causing a minor injury. And more investigation into millions if of gallons of contaminated millions of gallons of contaminated water leaking into the aquifer. Eagle 8 hd flew over the scene moments ago. They are under fire for failing to timely notify neighbors about a sinkhole opening in august. And now Steve Andrews tells us polk county also knew about the incident and failed to go of the sinkhole at mosaic september 9th, a week before we broke the story yet they contend dep didnt live up to its responsibility to notify neighbors. The Commission Chair contends the ball was in deps court when they learned of the le
Waste water issue. St. Petersburg dumped millions of glance of waste water into tampa bay during and after hurricane hermine. Emails are showing the city was warned with a potential problem with waste water long before that storm. Reporter emailed obtained by news channel 8 shows one of st. Petersburg waste water managers managers try to warn the city of fronts in july. The warnings were ignored. The water manager saying they have having waste water spills in the bay and putting the public at risk. It was responded by saying do me a favor and do not copy everyone on these. The emails and consultant report clearly show sewage water would be dumped in the bay in a major rain event hit reporter the current Mayors Office said that i have never saw the emails pointing out the problem. Mayor kriseman is calling finance an investigation of the issue. Two small children reported missing are safe at this hour. Authorities found the Citrus County children with their parents today in georgia. The
And mr. Riggins was transported to the hospital with life threatening injuries. The investigation was for the sale of illegal drugs. A big story to keep on eye on now is the tropics as the tropical depression nine continues to churn out there. Its still a tropical depression as of the 11 00 update. A memt information from the Hurricane Center still 35 Miles Per Hour winds and a lot of more convection and thunderstorm activity. The Hurricane Hunters flew in and said the organization isnt any better than it was yesterday. Still keeping it at a tropical depression and another Hurricane Hunter is scheduled to go in this afternoon and see if it actually has strengthened to a Tropical Storm. The latest forecast coming in as of 11 00 this morning. Its now pushing to the west hour really starting to make that turn to the north. So sometime today or tomorrow it becomes a Tropical Storm and makes the turn back to the north or east. It has 50 Miles Per Hour winds by the time you head into thursda
Panhandle, big bend region of florida, expected to make land fall later tonight as a category one hurricane. You can see hurricane warnings posted for areas north of the tampa bay area. And then as we head into friday, it will continue to move away from us and then up the east coast as we head throughout Labor Day Weekend. So at this point, its looking like this could be the first hurricane to hit florida in over 10 years. Hurricane hunters were out investigating this storm the today. And thats why they were able to upgrade it hurricane. They found wind gusts up to 86 Miles Per Hour. So it has strengthened in the gulf over the course of the last 24 hours. And now its moving more quickly as it heads towards the panhandle of florida. The other big story is, with this tropical system, we have to be mindful that we could see quick spinups or isolated tornadoes. We have parts of the tampa bay area under a tornado watch. Polk county, Citrus County, hillsborough county, up through county, tha
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