And tried to carjack a trying to get away. Reporter this criminal is a very violent man. Just before 8 00 wednesday night, he attacked a woman who worked at the 88 spa off of tamiami trail in venice. Then, the bold attacker hopped into the back of a pickup driving toward publix. As the pickup truck driver noticed the person was able to hit the brakes and caused the person to fall from the pickup. Reporter in the lot, the man tried employee. When that failed, he attacked that worker and took off running south. In the meantime, the injured masseuse made her way to a nearby shell station. She was taken to sarasota memorial for treatment. This morning while the search continued nearby schools were briefly placed on lock down. The children were never in any danger. We felt like this was the safest way to do it rather than notice firefighter parents earlier in the morning and have the student out and about. Are working with nearby agencies to find this dangerous man. In venice, john rogers,
I dont believe in standing up for it since theres more than one religion. Reporter he may be only 12 years old, but mark dawson, a 6th grader at liberty middle school, sure knows what he believes in. Reporter why is this so important to you . Because i believe in more than one religion and one wait, more than one nation. Reporter he says a teacher yelled at him here at school last month for not standing classroom. Turns out it was the teacher who was in the wrong. A School Spokesperson told me that teacher was unfamiliar with the school policy, but now theyre aware of it thanks to a talk with the principal. So when he does this, do you consider him courageous . Yes, i do. Reporter his aunt said he did the right thing by standing up for what he believes in. Oh, yes. I will stand behind him if hes right and if hes wrong, i will tell him hes wrong. Reporter he continues not to take part even though other kids he claims give him a hard time. Why not just do what everyone else is doing . Be
Max defender 8 scanning the skies for you and not finding any rainfall. You have the all clear this morning. Temperatures not bad, 64 in lakeland, down to 63 in inverness, bartow 66, 62 north port. Heres the big story, a cold front pushing through the southeast. Behind it really some chilly air. So during the day today we have all day to warm up. 84 degrees, breezy at times. Actually, mostly dry as this cold front gets closer to us. You will w because we trend much cooler behind this front. All those details. Leslee has the details on the morning commute. A couple of issues but theyre not going to slow you down. We have a crash here by Martin Luther king at 275. Also we have one right at the heart of the junction. I can actually show you what that looks like. There already at 275 at the ramp to i4. A little bit of slowing traffic is light so not too much of an issue. All right. Lets move over now and take a look at our skyway bridge. I would think it was st. Patricks day with that gree
Straight ahead. Heres leigh with the good news. Thats right. Weve been tracking this cold front for days now and we still have to wait for it. Heres max defending 8. You can see its scanning the skies and not finding my rainfall, barely finding my clouds. Temperatures are still mild. 63 inverness, 63 lakeland, 69 degrees in sarasota. So let me show you where this cold front is right now. Its just through the ohio area and back towards louisiana. That cool air that weve been waiting on. The cold front will get closer, winds will pick up a bit. Not much rain and a high of 84. Now stay tuned at 5 38 when i have the 8day temperature trend. Leslee is here to tell you what is happening on the roads right now. We have a good drive. Over night construction clear g clearing up. Traffic looks good out there. This is palm harbor that looks wonderful on u. S. 19 and over on well through the land o lake area. I75 looks great in bradenton and sarasota right now. Thats a look at weather and traffic.
I will tell you. I will give you a single digit number. It is a five because it is so cold. It is sunshine but a good looking day. Had hardly a included on the sky in the satellite and radar picture. Here are the numbers. First we will go with the actual numbers. Sixteen in philadelphia. One in mount pocono. Nine in lancaster. Eleven in trenton. Thirteen in Atlantic City and 15 in dover. Heres what it feels like. This is what you dress for six is your wind chill in Philadelphia Moving up to allentown and it feels like nine below and a dangerous 14 below wind chill in mount pocono. Feels like three in trenton and then one is your wind chill in Atlantic City. So this is pretty cold morning, one of the coldest we have had this season. We have only had a couple mornings with the single digit, this is one of them. There you go. 7 miles an hour wind doing the trick. Sunrise at 7 04. Breaking down the day we have some below zero wind chills. Sunny and breezy throughout the afternoon but it do