Authorities in polk county are searching for the driver in a deadly hitandrun crash. It happened just after midnight. A car veered off state road 60 in lake wales hitting a young woman in a polk county deputy. The woman was killed and a deputy remains in the hospital fox 13s kelly cowan has more. Was safe and she had wrecked her car in this ditch. Smashed, the windshield it landinged on its passenger side. She actually crawled out through the smashed wind scmeld came out into the median to flag somebody down for help. Reporter polk county Deputy Sheriff stopped to help. He immediately called for e. M. S. And the last transmission that he had was at 12 38. E. M. S. Had not anticipated thought they were arriving to assist that woman who was injured in the crash. Instead when they got here they found her, and the deputy in the grass severely injured it. Was quite obvious from the very beginning that they had been struck by a vehicle. Reporter detectives say a vehicle swerved around the de
And experts are warning that central italy could be hit by more powerful earthquakes after a 6. 6 quake struck over the weekend. It was the third major one to hit in just the past two months. Abcs jennifer eckleson is there. Reporter a 6. 6 magnitude tremor caused widespread destruction. This drone video showing crumbled buildings in the town of the same town already hit by a deadly earthquake in august. The new tremors causing even more damage. Panicked residents ran to safety, emracing, kneeling, praying in the central plazas. Fears rising with each aftershock as more buildings disappear in a cloud of dust. Firefighters helped cloistered nuns to safety, their church destroyed, the bell to youer on the point of collapse. One nun describing what she felt world feeling. You just cant say a tremor. It was more than that. All the house was moving. The earthquake was the strongest in italy in 36 years, hitting a Mountain Area just north of rome. Pope francis mentioned the quake in his week
Night in cleveland. Those are some of our top stories on this halloween monday october 31st. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Are you ready . Im ready. Are you ready . Are they ready . Youd better bring your a game for our big halloween reveal at the end. You think you got this . The mike has been so dropped. Thats a hint. I hope youre ready. We have a nice little surprise for you. Do hide your cats. They might be squealing a little bit. But were going to start this half hour with a little bit of politics and the sudden turn in the race for the white house. The fbi now has the necessary paperwork we need, the warrant to go through a batch of emails that may or may not be linked to Hillary Clinton. Fbi director james comey is facing criticism from his bosses and former colleagues for breaking Justice Department s tradition by announcing an investigation that could influence the election. Former attorney general eric holder has signed a letter along with exfederal prosecu
This is world news now. Just imagine the fright that would have happened if the cubs did not make it past this game. Thas true. But a happy halloween for cubs fans. Happy halloween cubs fans. Happy halloween, everybody. Theyve been celebrating at wrigleyville, i should mention. In the north side of chicago into the Early Morning hours. And youve got a sense that they got a little bit of the momentum back there. Certainly not over. Not over yet. But we begin this morning with the fbi obtaining a search warrant to start reviewing emails that may be linked to hill the emails were found on a laptop that is used by clintons longtime aide huma abedin and her estranged husband former congressman Anthony Weiner np we now know the fbi became aware of the eliminate mails weeks before the information made it to the agencys director james comey. And clinton is calling on comey to release more information as she tries to remain focused on her campaign. We wont be distracted no matter what our oppon
Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Wondering who is that . The juju beat as well . She did like a dab in there. She did everything. Every dance was in there. Happy halloween to you all. By the way, we love photos of costumes. So feel free to send us yours as well and we will be thoroughly entertained. I like turtles. Just random. We begin this morning, though, we have some breaking news from oklahoma. A fugitive murderer or murder suspect, that is, has been killed in a battle with police. Were talking about michael vance, who had been on the run for just over a week. Vance was wanted for the murder of his aunt and his uncle for a shooting at four people including two Police Officers. After not being heard or seen in days vance was spotted by a farmer earlier in the day in the western part of the state. After that. About 3 00 this afternoon a farmer discovered a vehicle in his field, a vehicle that came very close to matching the description of the vehicle wed been looking