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WFTS Action News At 6AM March 8, 2016

Its happening at u. S. 19 and 49th street north. So has he gets there and has more details we will bring that to you. Elsewhere we are still keeping an eye on this crash in Manatee County in bradenton, cortez road at 14th street west. Still hearing theres some roadblock in the northbound and eastbound lanes though my traffic indicators are in the green here. You can see a slight slowdown there because of police activity. Elsewhere in the bay area the interstates looking pretty good. Here we are at i275 and fowler, seven minutes from here to downtown tampa. A commuter train derails in northern california. At least one car overturning into a nearby creek. Its 30 miles north of san jose. Deputies say a downed tree fell on the tracks during heavy rain causing the train to jump the tracks. Nine people were hurt, four seriously. It difficult for rescuers to pull riders from to safety from the partially submerged rail car. Were using the helicopters, were using people on foot, were just making sure theres nobody else around or left on the rail or anything like that. The train was traveling from san jose to stockton when it crashed. Train service on the line will be shut down today as the ntsb starts its investigation. Meanwhile south korea punishing its neighbor to the north in the wake of north koreas latest nuclear threats. South korea saying its sanctioning dozens of people and groups in response to the norths warning that it would unleash a preemptive strike of justice against the u. S. And south korea. Right now were following up on two shootings that happened within minutes of each other in tampa. We start in south tampa where police are investigating whether two separate scenes are connected to a murder. Officers say an ongoing dispute turned violent when someone Bay Apartments on lois avenue. Police say they later found a body next to a car about three miles away. Its still very early in this investigation right now, they say they are still interviewing witnesses but believe the victim was trying to drive and get help but died before he could get to a hospital. They also tell us another person was hurt. Meanwhile hillsborough deputies say they have a suspect in custody now after another double shooting at an apartment complex. Were told someone shot those men during a drug transaction at the beacon isles apartments. Deputies say they found marijuana, a scale and Drug Paraphernalia after catching the suspected shooter. New protection could be in place today in Highlands County in the wake of a troubling steveer sex scandal teacher sex scandal. Decide whether stacey hooks should be fired after deputies found evidence she had sex with middle school. Authorities later found porn on her cell phone and upped her charges. School Board Members will also rules on what to do when someone suspects child abuse or sexual activity. Patients near the ends of tear lives could soon have a new option. Well be watching to see if Florida Governor rick scott is going to sign a just passed medical Marijuana Bill into law. This bill would let terminally ill patients buy and use the drug but cancer patients, quadriplegics and certainly disabilities are still banned from using it. Advocate and lawyer john morgan is calling out lawmakers on this. Calling it typical tallahassee window dressing. In democracy 2016 florida senator marco rubio is hoping for at least one upset as four states go to the polls for the republican today. He may have the upper hand in mississippi thanks to a key endorsement from a Republican National Committee Member there. But he and other candidates are focusing on florida with a make or break primary set for next week. Rubio with rallies this evening in sarasota and sanford. Spoke to a crowd of supporters in tampa yesterday saying hes the best republican candidate to beat the democratic nominee. Give us the best chance to beat Hillary Clinton, she knows that. That is why they attack me more than anyone else. Donald trump will also be in the Sunshine State today stumping in jupiter as his lead over rubio narrows. A new Monmouth University poll shows the billionaire now just eight points ahead of senator rubio, 38 to 30 . Speaking of trump, another billionaire who pulled the plug on a bid for the white house is taking aim at that gop frontrunner. The criticism hes leveling at trump coming up at 6 30. We just found out overnight that democrat Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton will be campaigning in tampa on the same day. Sanders Just Announced a realliy at the Florida State fairgrounds on thursday afternoon. The doors open at 4 00, tickets not required but it is first come first serve. Abc action news is also going clintons event at the ritz ybor on east 7th avenue a few hours before the stand sanders rally. Go to abcactionnews. Com to reserve a spot. A lot of you were talking about this. A Manatee County dog at the center of a social Media Campaign to save his life last year under investigation again. Deputies say they are looking into claims that patty the dog bit another dog at a pet clinic in bradenton. This time around patty bit a 4 1 2monthold service dog in training. That service dog is protected under the law. Pattys owner could be charged with a misdemeanor but nothing is going to happen to batty patty. The hashtag freepatty trended last year after he was almost put down after biting a child over the summer but a ruling from the judge saved pattys life. Yesterday we showed you this backup on the Howard Frankland bridge. Troopers now saying a blown crash on the bridge. Seriously hurt. Everyone else had just minor injuries. Its almost a teal green dodge caravan, yellow paint splattered on the side. Scooby doo nonsense. A head scratching mystery right out of a classic cartoon. What sparked a real life chase . The way you can score free breakfast and help local kids 6 10. California police say its no mystery why a woman led officers on an intense chase while driving a mini van painted to look like that van from the scooby doo cartoon. Officers say this real life mr. Machine you see there reached speeds of more than 100 Miles Per Hour as the woman inside tried to run from a routine probation track. Her probation officer injected humor into his 911 call. Were told the mystery machine blew through red lights and drove so recklessly officers had to call off the chase to keep others on the road safe. The woman behind the wheel still on the run. Longer selling prepeeled oranges in plastic packaging. People were upset with the plastic being used. They say oranges already have a natural cover. Hours after this picture went viral whole foods tweeted the product was a mistake and was pull from store shelves. In that tweet they also promised to leave the oranges in their natural packaging. What . Prepeeled oranges . Terrible news. 61 this morning, good morning. Its no longer monday. Its tuesday. So that is always a good thing. 80 degrees by the afternoon. A little jacket this morning, still upper 50s to low 60s but a nice warmup coming. Were not done there, even warmer tomorrow. Details coming up. Good morning. We have breaking news, Corey Dierdorff on the scene of a fatal crash in Pinellas Park at u. S. 19 and 49th street. This crash. Well have more coming up in a breaking Traffic Alert from Pinellas Park. This is the northbound u. S. 19 ramp from southbound 49th street. We have a fatal accident. Where one person is dead in a rolled over suv. On the exit ramp. Were going to stay with the wide shot now because of the operations going on. This will affect traffic in the area of 49th street if youre planning on going north on to u. S. 19, you have to find an alternate. Expect this ramp to be shut down for several hours. This accident just happening about 15 minutes or so ago. Youre still going to have that investigation with this fatal accident. It does appear to be a single truck that rolled over, an suv that rolled over on to the ramp, on to northbound u. S. 19 from southbound 49th street so expect some traffic troubles in the area. Work around this incident. How are the rest of the roads looking . In the bay area in pretty good shape. Through downtown tampa 275 at ashley, up to speed in both directions, six minutes from here to the Howard Frankland bridge. Your drive on i4 looking great if youre starting off in lakeland, 22 minutes to get to downtown and down there at the bottom just eight minutes from 75 to 275. If youre heading to the veterans expressway now looking great, all in the green, 17 minutes from 54 to 275. Lets check in on conditions now. Still mild out there, in the low to mid60s although everything is relative, right . Milder than yesterday but still rather cool if you are sensitive. The rest of the tampa bay area in the mid and upper 50s. Titan Doppler Radar pretty quiet. You can see this clear air here across the southeast. Large and expansive area of High Pressure, pretty strong one at that certainly for this well hold off the rain well to days. What is going to happen is the high not going to move much but the southeasterly flow will keep us warm, mild temperature at night. Warm in fact through the daytime hours. A little more moisture to work humidity. Youll notice that as well. Rain just remains here over the next few days and just keeps pouring over the same area as this high continues to block the rain. An atmospheric traffic jam if you will. The moisture just continuing to train over the same area. That is going to be an issue. You dont have weather systems moving, youll have problems with the rainfall. Hi to switch the color i had to switch the color table. Over a foot in some areas of louisiana. Well watch that, that is going to be a big deal for them. Eventually that rain does arrive. It wont be that heavy here because the system will be moving as it moves through, but the timing probably not so good upper 70s to near 80 now. Still milder, low to mid80s. Some areas perhaps 86, 87 degrees on thursday across the interior counties. Then the timing of the rainfall again still iffy. Well fine tune it for estate saturday and sunday. Its National Pancake day. One of the biggest names in breakfast is giving you a short stack for free today. The deal at ihop is good for today only between 00 a. M. And 7 00 p. M. Youll get three free pancakes. They encourage you to donate to Childrens Miracle Network hospitals. 6 18. Still ahead another emotional day expected for hulk hogan in his 100 million legal fight. Why he suspects that sex tape that ruined his life was a setup. It looks like an email from your boss but this is a trick. Choosing their victims in a new tax season scam. First live nfl games could soon be coming to your facebook feed. Reporter in tech bytes a big bidding war for the right to stream nfl games on thursday night. Facebook, amazon, verizon, other outfits are interested. How big are the stakes . Nbc and cbs are paying about 900 million combined for two years of thursday night football on tv. Sony unveiled the worlds smallest compact camera with a 30 times optical zoom lens and features 18 megapixel sensor, popup flash and retractible view finder. Available next month for 350. Look at the all electric car that is setting a new speed record. This heavily modified corvette known as the genovation gxe hit a top speed of 186 Miles Per Hour at the Kennedy Space center in florida. Sounds like a steal . 6 23. We have an update on the two voluntary firefighters in virginia who were suspended after rushing a toddler to the theyve been reinstated after james kelly and virgil bloom responded to a call of a 18 monthold having a seizure. Instead of wait forget the ambulance they broke the rules and took her to the hospital in their fire truck. Both men were later placed on administrative leave but a Facebook Page calling for their reinstatement received more than 7,000 likes. James kelly says he got messages of support from people all over the country and even from the united kingdom. Amazing. International status, like, seriously, people hitting me up from international. Its amazing the Community Came together to support us. The county fire chief says its standard procedure to put firefighters on leave while the investigation goes on. Firefighters say the girl who had a seizure is now doing fine. If you have not seen this photo take a look. An ocala fathers fast reflexes kept a baseball bat from smashing in his sons face. Old boy were watching a Pittsburgh Pirates Atlanta Braves spring training game at disney worlds wide world of Sports Complex when a bat slipped out of a players happened. He said he saw it flying towards the stands and didnt think twice. It was dad mode. Protecting my son. I just did what i could. The barrel of the bat hit my wrist, when it happened i guess it deflected and spun it. The handle got him in the shoulder which ill take that over the alternative. For their trouble cunninghams were allowed to keep the bat. Stick around for good morning, america. They will be on the show reliving that viral moment in about a halfhour. Temperatures in the 60s this morning. A few 50s. Warming up by the afternoon around 80 degrees. Well check on the extended warmer forecast and also some primaries today. Will the weather play a role there . It was my instinct to run away. It may have saved her life. Runing in a man trying to kidnap her. Coming up, what kept that man from getting a good grip on her. Good morning. Were following breaking news, a very serious crash in the Pinellas Park area at u. S. 19 and 49th street. The ramp getting on to northbound u. S. 19 is blocked. Well talk more about that abc action news live on the scene of a serious crash in Pinellas Park. Reporter Corey Dierdorff is there. What is the latest . Reporter good morning. Getting mixed information on the scene but what we know so far, its a singlevehicle crash rolled over with at least one person transported to the hospital. Its the northbound u. S. 19 ramp from the southbound 49th street north in Pinellas Park. You can see that truck rolled over completely blocking the northbound ramp right now from 49th street to u. S. 19. Very light delays in the area right now but as we move forward into the rush hour this could definitely cause a problem so give yourself an extra five, 10 minutes if you use this stretch of northbound u. S. 19. Janelle . I want to show you a map of where this crash happened. Street north ramp on to u. S. 19. So u. S. 19 and 49th street pretty backed up both northbound and southbound so you might want to avoid that, probably a lot of onlooker alternates. 28th street, however, moving pretty good now so leave extra time if your morning drive takes you there. In Pinellas Park elsewhere, good shape on 275 at 38th avenue south. From bridgetobridge. And checking out your drive times on 275 starting all the way back at the apex to i4 its taking 16 minutes. Once youre in downtown its taking six minutes to get from i4 to the Howard Frankland bridge. Action air 1 is heading over to Pinellas Park now. Its flying there and you can see it flying over 275, looks like now, looking great there. As soon as the helicopter gets to the crash well bring you more information. Conditions now in the 60s. A few 50s, feeling cool this morning. And then well warm up this afternoon. Were running anywhere from five to 11 degrees above where we were this time yesterday. Courtesy of a southeast wind that is going to warm us up not only over the nights coming up but but daytime highs. Hour by hour forecast here, we take to you the mid and upper 70s to near 80. Details on that warmup and 6 31. Completely hue millade. That is humiliated, that is how wrestling superstar hulk hogan felt when the sex tape of internet. Abc action News Reporter Rodney Dunigan live at the courthouse in st. Petersburg. Rodney, hogan is pretty emotional about this. Reason. When he walks back through the 8 00, just a few hours and more of his personal life will be put on display for the entire world to see. He is expected to take the stand once again this morning. Hogan says yesterday that he was at a low point in his life when he was lured into this sexual relationship with the wife of his best friend, tampa radio host bubba the love sponge. At the time hogan says he was going through a tough breakup with his wife testifying again in day one of his privacy lawsuit against the gawker web site he says he didnt authorize the tape to be made or give gawker permission to publish it. Hogan says the taping of his encounter with heather klem was a setup by a couple he believed were his friends. Heather . To the best of my knowledge three, maybe four but it was the only place that i actually felt safe. As crazy as that sounds. Those people bubba made me feel he was my best friend. The people made me feel they loved me. As it sounds, at that time it just it was the only thing i had. Reporter hogans attorney also told the jury that gawker crossed the line and that web site founder nick denton was reckless and profit hungry. For his part denton maintained this case revolves around the freedom of the press. Also says that hogan talked about his sex life publicly numerous times. Of course we will have a crew inside when things get started today, court expected to presume 9 00 this morning and well stream the process on our web site, abcactionnews. Com as well as our abc ac

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