Wednesday and leslee lacey has the wednesday commute. Thats right. We have a couple issues going on. Some things pop up and then clear up. I4 a great drive through plant city right now, no delaysment but over here in polk county, westbound i4, kathleen road in the heart of lakeland, an accident. All cleared up but just remaining vehicles to the right shoulder. It wont slow you down. Traffic is getting busier in general. We are seeing more vehicles out there. And look at this, 275 hillsborough avenue, heading into downtown now. Thats a look at weather and traffic. Back to gene and gayle. Leslee, thank you. Right now, the its just two weeks into the baseball season but players in st. Petersburg could be striking out soon. The Sports Management company that manages the league is holding back payments collected from fees. Mary mcguire is live in st. Pete this morning. Good morning. Parents have got to be upset reporter thats right. Parents are outraged over all of this. Nearly 300 kids par
Two weeks into the fall baseball season and northeast Little League is finding itself in a financial slump. A Company Called jevin is holding back payments collected from fees to the tune of almost 35,000. Parents are outraged. Ive spent many hours sweating in that concession stand, so its upsetting to say the least. Reporter the lack of funds is league activity. We have almost 300 kids playing baseball in the fall and we owe thousands of dollars to local printers and tshirt people and landscape people. We owe a lot of money. Reporter 8 on your side contacted the owner of jevin. Dan patack tells me his credit card processor froze his account. Were trying to do somer to short time things and we discuss to do some short board. Reporter do you buy his explanation . It doesnt really matter what his explanation is. The funds are not here and we have a league to run. Reporter parents are pitching in through a gofundme account. As for the missing cash, cops say they dont believe there is crim
Onald it starts to roll toward theres still a little bit of uncertainty as to where the storm will track as it bypasses cuba. Were still expecting it to head toward cuba and from there, you can see a large spread in the forecast models here in the board. Once we get beyond, about 45 days, some uncertainty. Its fairly quiet, 76 degrees. Cooler air to the north. Low 70s for Crystal River and brooksville and many around 70. Near st. Pete beach, showers offshore. Scattered thunderstorms expected later on today. Well look at the full weekend forecast and a detailed check coming up in a few minutes. Thank you. This morning, authorities are investigating a suspicious substance mailed to mosaic headquarters. This comes after the massive the headquarters received the threatening letter containing a suspicious powder last night. Nothing dangerous was detected. Following the report that 215 milliongallons of water tainted we talk to three of the neighbors who are suing mosaic. The fact that the g
Through saturday afternoon. Being being picked up by an upper level trough. That results in a fairly hard right turn of the system. Taking it as a major hurricane toward jamaica. The system is expected to remain as a category 2 hurricane over the bahamas. You see the cone of uncertainty does include extreme southwest florida. Most of the forecast models keep this out to the atlantic, but a lot can change over the next 24 hours. We have to wait and see what effects it will have on the state of florida. We will check in with you in a few minutes. An update to breaking news we have been telling you about. A crash involving a box truck shut down a lane on i4. It is taken out of the situation for a while. The left lane was shut down, you can see, the cars are but within the next few minutes we expect this to open up. We will keep an eye on it. And here, actually, here is what it looked like earlier. We dont have that picture, but we were just telling you about the fact the situation is almo
vo with thousands of quality preowned vehicles. And exceptional customer service, a cross america, a warning. Officials have issued an earthquake warning. It follows a series of trimmers along the fault. A sad update this morning. The 6yearold shot in South Carolina this week has died. A bullet struck one of jacob halls major arteries when a 14 yearold opened fire on a playground. Listen to his mother who calls her son an ange forgiven already. Jacob was more than everything to us. Jacob was everything to the everybody. He was an angel brought to this earth to show love, to show kindness, to show forgiveness. Jacob never had a bad intention ever in his body, in his little six and a half years that he was on earth. He loved me, his mommy. We had a bond like no mother he loved his daddy. He loved to tell stories. He had an imagination that was as big as he was. Simply heart breaking. Investigators say the gunman killed his father just before he drove to the school. He is now charged as a