In other local headlines a polk county teenager survived a scary ordeal. She was all by herself, when two burglars. Broke into her home. It happened monday on eagle crest boulevard in winter haven. 23yearold eric ellison broke into the home with another man. And then, some quick thinking from the 18yearold girl inside. She heard glass shattering and ran to a . Neighbors house to call police. Winter haven Police Arrested ellison, as he was trying to run away. They found jewelry in his pockets. The second man managed to get away. But thankfully. That girl did the right thing, and was not harmed. A new update this morning on the zika virus. State Health Officials reported . Five more travelrelated them were in miamidade and broward counties. But one of them was in polk county. There was also one . Locally transmitted case in miami. There are now more than 11 hundred zika cases confirmed in florida. . Most in south florida. Today in polk county the department of health is conducting free t
Looking good Brookdale Bayshore with only a few clouds this morning and very light winds and hence that soupy foam. In lakeland if you joined us at this time yesterday, a lot of low cloud cover and no visibility iesh us for you and pockets of low clouds in eastern portions of pasco and Wesley Chapel seeing that where you live. Crystal river at 73 and st. Petersburg is the warm spot at 80. Were all dry, and what will happen today is with light by late day where our sea breezes meet up east of i75 is the best rain chance. However, with that sea breeze on the west coast by early afternoon, well at least see a few showers develop and shift east. Whats to our east is tropical depression julia kind of springing back to life. Look at that moisture building. Well have the latest track on that coming up. Rain chances today by the way about 40 in tampa and 90 for the high. A little more moisture with storms still shifting inland 50 rain chance. Alcides an all too familiar site. An explosion rock
Thanks for being with us tonight. Developing tonight. An angry protest in mulberry. Where people are fuming over the leak of 200 thousands gallons of water. Officials at the Mosaic Fertilizer plant call it slightly radioactive. And its leaked into the floridan aquifer. Fox 13s kellie cowan was in mulberry today where protesters took to the streets. Demanding answers the Polk County Department of health says they will test public and private Drinking Water systems upon request. For Contact Information visit fox 13 news dot com. And in hillsborough sizable protest this afternoon. With dozens of people gathering near usfs tampa campus. Those protesters. Were rallying against oilbased energy as well as the mosaic troubles. Fox 13s evan new at six. A scary night in orlando. As a gunman opened fire just outside a pool hall. Killing one man and injuring 6 others. Foxs derrol nail talked the man killed in that shooting has been identified as 37yearold Dwayne Antoine stuart. His family shared t
Around. Not for all of us but for some this morning. Where its not foggy is the beach, and thats where i want to be. Clearwater is looking nice and tranquil. A few clouds this morning. We hop to river view where this is a good net cam to look at. Its hazy as were 1400 feet up. Where we have actual fog and actual low cloud cover is from southern sumter all the way from id say dade city, Wesley Chapel and even plant city, some patchy fog this hopping on i4 from hillsborough headed east. Just be alert the next hour, brandon, your visibility is down as well at 1. 25 miles. 75 in what clul ha and 76 in Wesley Chapel. No big warmup. You climbed one degree in st. Petersburg to 81 and a good deal of sun expected after the low cloud cover lifts. We wait on a light wind to trigger the west coast sea breeze. Watch as we take you through the chances with that light wind on both coasts by 5 00 p. M. That storm chance is at 40 favoring areas east of i75 for any heavier storms late in the day. Until
And welcome three familiar faces back for another term. First the incumbents. Mayor frank cownie. And Council Members Chris Coleman and joe gatto were all reelected. Cownie took 80percent of the vote in his race. Coleman took 73 percent. Gatto ran unopposed. For the first time in more than a decade there will be a new face representing ward two in northeast deses moines. Linda westergaard beat marty mauk by just two hundred votes. Shell replace bob mahaffey who chose not to run for reelection. Westergaard is a realtor and served as president of the Douglas Acres Neighborhood Association for sixteen years. She also founded the Northeast Neighbors and friends group. She says that experience will help her in her new position. One of her Top Priorities is to invest new amenities in neighborhoods that will attract families. Neighborhoods are very important theyre one of my Top Priorities as i enter the next four years, is to keep our neighbors in the neighborhood. We want people to come to