Saying anyone on the streets could be arrested. Abc News Reporter Marcy Gonzales joining us. You can see winds are very powerful. Reporter you can see we are getting hit hard by these wind gusts, the pounding rain. This is just the start of what will be a long and dangerous night. Hurricane irma pummeling the sunshine state. Leaving downtown miami under more than waistdeep water, white caps on city streets. Look at this. We have flying debris all over the place. Can you see that . Reporter those powerful winds snapping a krarngs tearing off this roof and knocking this man off his feet. Tornado. Reporter tornadoes adding to the ongoing danger. Theres no warning, theres no this is no way to predict. Reporter the giant storm already blamed for several deaths in florida, including a sheriffs deputy and a correctional officer. Yeah, this storm has really picked up. Reporter after making landfall this morning in the keys as a category 4 with 130mileperhour winds, a second landfall on marco i
Surge tonight. Meteorologist lisa has more. Thats right. Weve seen it weaken over the storm with the wind field expanding as it continues to weaken and move up the coast. Heres a look at it. You can see the yellows there. Were still worried about the possibility of tornadoes, flooding rain and storm surge. As it moves up the coast, it weakens to a category 1 by 2 00 tomorrow morning with winds of 85 miles an hour. Look at the rain, southern george into South Carolina and tennessee. Were looking at this continue to wreak havoc with flooding, and winds at 50 miles an hour and west palm still at 60 to 70 miles an hour for the next several hours. Back home its about the heat. Theres thunderstorms offshore that are pretty strong. Well get a piece of that action and talk about that. A video from naples shows the force of the storm in florida keys with the sheriff saying anyone on the streets could be arrested. Abc News Reporter Marcy Gonzales joining us. You can see winds are very powerful.
At this location since 1981. Its absolutely gorgeous but its deep and a complex cave system so what suited for those that have the training and experience. Reporter the Sheriffs Office says its up to the state to decide if the sink will be closed again. A father and son died at that same location on christmas night in 2013 and signs above the ground an underwater warned divers its a dangerous and possibly deadly location. Breaking news and pasco county. The tampa bay regional bomb squad on its way to check out a pair of suspicious devices found in the fence of hudson cemetery. They will determine what they are and if they are dangerous but traffic is being rerouted. Deputies shut down a section of hudson avenue between u. S. 19 and five a road and we will bring you more information when its available. New tonight we now have an idea how big this sinkhole is this whole at mosaic opened up in august but the public didnt know about it until 8 on your side broke the story. The sinkhole swa
A mass casualty in tampa. Deadly crash invoin we are just learning for people are dead. Michael, are we hearing this right, one of those vehicles caught fire . A difficult seem to be at because family members are showing up and learning their loved ones are dead. Are still bodies in cars over there as one of the vans that was hit by a street racer caught fire. There were a number of different people in each car. If we pan across to the left of the road its difficult to see theres another car over there. We are told there is another person were First Responders had to use the jaws of life to that personnel. One of those people was Gregory Hawkins per gregory was a Good Samaritan and saw what was happening and soft van on fire and pulled three people out. You have to let on your shirt and burns on your arm, what did you se on the back of the seat. So i pulled her out then i went back and there was a young kid, i pulled him out and set him on the sidewalk. I went back there was a heavyset
Allen. jen and im jennifer epstein. Happy halloween a first look at your . Frightening forecast. A developing story this morning in polk county. Where the Sheriffs Office is . Still looking for the driver who . Killed a woman and sent a deputy to the hospital. That deputy was actually on the side of the road trying to . Help the woman. When they . Both got hit. Fox 13s Shayla Reaves joins us now from lakeland, and shayla. The florida Highway Patrol is searching for a driver. Accused of starting a crash. Involving . Four nearby hotel. But as fox 13s evan lambert show us. Theres a key piece of evidence . From that hotel. That could get this guy behind bars. Crushed metal, deployed airbags and broken glass left behind after troopers say a hit and run driver caused this 4car Chain Reaction crash. It happened sunday morning at us 19 and roosevelt boulevard near clearwater. Carl thornton, victim1 21i heard a bang like large bang and then felt an impact and the car just started turning and tu