Slowdown heading towards the veterans expressway westbound on hillsborough avenue. Not sure if its from the crash or not but you might want to give yourself extra time if youre heading to the veterans expressway. Your drive on 275 looking pretty good, still. Still in the green, 13 minutes from the apex to i4 and down there at the bottom if your starting in downtown its going to take you just five mince to get to the five minutes to get to the Howard Frankland. As you wake up this morning a dangerous carjacking suspect is on the loose in office sending out a major warning. Abc action News ReporterRodney Dunigan is live at the scene of the crime outside of bone fish grill on pitkin road. Is the victim in the carjacking doing all right . Reporter thankfully shes ok but this all could have turned out a lot worse. This all happened after closing time early sunday morning. Apparently this guy walked up to the woman as she was sitting in her car, a toyota avalon. Had a chain around his hand and told her to get out. And thankfully didnt hurt her. He simply drove off a mile down the way where he crashed the vehicle and burned it. Its a very popular area with plenty of restaurants and businesses. Ive been speaking with people this morning and they are concerned were their safety. With their safety. Of course this is something that were going to continue to follow, police now saying they have of the suspect in this case. Hes described as a white male, possibly 58 with a very thin build. At the time he was wearing a t shirt, shorts as well as a cap but Something Else that may be very helpful in this case. Surveillance cameras from a 7 eleven across the street, detectives already got that video. They are hoping that this video will help them to catch the suspect. Again its a story well continue to follow if you have for now reporting live in lakeland, Rodney Dunigan, abc action news. In Manatee County deputies are now looking for the man you see behind me, joel canchyla, they say he escaped from the back of a Police Cruiser while handcuffed. This is after he and a friend crashed their car saturday night. The men were spotted running from the scene. They arrested him for violation of probatioon but as they questioned the friend they believe joel somehow rolled down the squad car window and climbed out. The escape has a lot of people nervous. Also in Manatee County looking for a arm robber, hit a homeless man with a pipe and took off with his wallet. The victim got treatment for minor injuries. We just learned Jacksonville Police arrested this man they say abducted and driver. Cornelius ruiz iii turned himself in. Police say he lured that driver to an abandoned house and forced her into the trunk of her car and drove off. But she got away by pulling the escape lever in the trunk and jumping out of that moving car. It was going 50 Miles Per Hour down the road. She did get road rash from hitting the pavement and head injury but otherwise shes safe. In Hillsborough County deputies say a man showed a strangers doorstep asking for help saying he had been shot. It happened on English Hills court in the area of usf two days after move in day. The victims name hasnt been released, they are saying the victim is expected to survive and havent said anything about a suspect but say the shooting doesnt appear random. Police trying to figure out who killed a father in auburndale. Loved ones gathered saturday night for a vigil in honor of night in his apartment on sunset avenue. The family says electronics and jewelry were missing from the home. If you know anything about the case call police. A lake worth man denied bond after deputies say he killed his wife and took off. They arrested Walter Barrios after he crashed his car on i 95. Police say the two children, 12 and 16 saw some of the attack on their mother. The 70yearold man now charged with dui accused of crashing into tw including a deputys cruiser. Alfredo Rodriguez Jimenez wass lead from jail overnight in Hillsborough County. That crash happened 9 15 last night on north 15th street. Deputies say he hit a car that was then pushed into the deputys vehicle. The deputy wasnt hurt but two people in the other car suffered minor injuries. Loved ones said a final farewell on sunday to a beloved Pinellas Park music teacher killed by an alleged drunk driver. The Pinellas Park performing to remember caroline sine, who worked as a music teacher at John Sexton Elementary School school. A drunk driver slammed into her car. Her boyfriend in the passenger seat was critically hurt and is still in the hospital this morning. Its back to school for Sarasota County kids this morning. The final tampa bay district to start class this is year. Almost 44,000 students there on local counties that started in the past two weeks. This year for the district several new principals and renovations finished over the last few months. Sarasota police want to remind everyone theres zero tolerance for speeding in school zones. And for passing school buses that have those stop signs extended. Fines can range from 150 to 450. Dont forget to be on the lookout for the crossing guards. Time is running out to experience the beach. I dont mean some of the best beach, i mean the beach tampa in amalie arena. There are four days left to enjoy the giant ball pit there. The beach tampa is free but remaining tickets are only available on a first come first serve basis. Democratic u. S. Senate candidate Patrick Murphy will be stopping by st. Pete today, joined by the state representative. Two the will tour the headquarters of luma, a business that lighting. Dont worry if you see a lot of police at the main Airport Post Office in tampa. An Emergency Preparedness drill there from 8 00 to 1 00 today. Services will go on as normal though. Again its just a drill. Still to come a paraglide plunges into a church. What happened here . And new details in the death of prince that many of you are stunned by. What has investigators calling 6 10. Officials trying to figure out what caused this deadly paraglider crash in utah. A man killed when his paraglider crashed into a Church Sunday moments before services began. Witnesses say they saw it spiraling out of control before slamming into the church roof. Rescuers reached him. No one else was hurt. The owner of a nearby skydiving business says it appears his steering to the got loose and his toggle got loose and his parachute collapsed. Five different tornadoes did this damage in michigan. Trees crashing down on roofs and homes. Roofs ripped off as well. Those strong storms ripped through three different counties saturday night. Communities spent most of sunday cleaning up the debris. The good news, appears was hurt. For us, dry. Limited thunderstorm activity here so not much doing for today. It will be a oneday event as far as the limited coverage. 88 by noontime. Sunny conditions and wont completely shut out the rainfall but it will be low, 20 coverage. Well double it by tomorrow and let you know when the storms will fire. Well check on the tropics as well coming up. Coming up a car flies into a crowd at a concert. Say it was just a mistake. Was a horse charging at 15, 20 Miles Per Hour pulling 1,000 pounds behind it. A woman speaks out about a freak accident where a horse injured her young daughter and husband. Witnesses Say Something spooked police are considering pres yearold woman crashed into a crowd at a concert. Investigators say she hit the gas instead of the brakes. Police say the woman drove on the dance floor injuring herself and eight others. Then she crashed into a telephone pole and another car. Six people had to be taken to the hospital. Three others were treated at the scene. For the first time we are hearing the harrowing details of what happened when a horse ran wild into a crowd in washington state. That spooked horse plowed into a little girl, her father and three others at a was dragging a carriage behind it. That 4yearold was in bad shape when First Responders rushed her to the hospital. Remarkably her condition improved so much she was allowed to leave the hospital surprising her own mother. That woman now talks about how bad the injuries are. Fractured this whole part of her face. Four or five fractures in her face. The dad is still in the icu with broken ribs and serious that horse sending it running down the midway and into that group. New information on the accidental overdose that killed prince. We now know pills taken from his estate were improperly labeled and prince might not have known what he was taking. A source revealing a officials found counterfeit drugs containing fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin. Some pills falsely labeled as oxycodone, a weaker opioid an accidental fentanyl overdose. Investigators now think he took them without realizing they contained fentanyl. 6 16. Good news for the victims of two major wildfires in california. Officials say the arson fire that started in the northern part of the state is now 95 contained. That stubborn fire has destroyed at least 300 buildings since the started on august 13th. In Southern California all evacuation orders from another fire are now lifted. Leave their homes are beginning to return and assess the damage. Our preliminary Damage Assessment in San Bernardino found 105 homes and 216 buildings destroyed. Historic flooding in louisiana damages 60,000 homes. And counting this morning. The red cross is calling this flooding the nations worst disaster since Superstorm Sandy in 2012. President obama is heading to baton rouge tomorrow to survey the flooding firsthand. And louisiana officials are Recovery Centers and setting up temporary bus systems to help people get around baton rouge. More than 3,000 people are still in shelters now. A Pinellas County restaurant is pitching in to help the flood victims. Salty rim grill in st. Pete beach has employees personally impacted by the disaster. Family members who had severe flood damage and friends that lost homes and businesses. The grill just started to ask for donation as couple days ago far, everything from shoes, clothing, diapers, dishes to canned food and water. Employees say the generosity has been overwhelming. Oh, yeah. Its like a mountain. I cant believe it. We were supposed to rent a cargo van. Looks like we have to upgrade to a bigger one. Im so it touches my soul to see the Community Coming together. You can still drop off donations on blind pass way in st. Pete beach all week. They plan and leave sunday. The area got more bad weather over the weekend . Yes. Ive had conversations with meteorologist friends of mine. This is a system that didnt have a name. I think that is one of those things where this essentially the focus over the last couple weeks has not been as intense because of the fact that this was a tropical low, never made it to depression status officially, or tropical storm. The conversation ive been having, we need something to the events as they materialize. A terrible situation for them. That really continues at this time with all that water that is falling. Any additional rainfall is going to be a problem. Of course were in the wet season so this is not too unusual. Anywhere from 2 to 5 inches falling in the last 48 hours but because of what has happened obviously the rivers and streams are swollen. As we add additional volume and that will continue to cause issues for areas that continue to flood there. For us, a whole different world. We have dry air on top of us, limited rain yesterday. A couple of thunderstorms sunday across the interior. I think its a similar setup for today as we stay mostly dry. That will heat us up big time. Rain chances again tomorrow 40 and were watching the tropics with a couple systems well talk about. As far as the futurecast looking for sunshine, a couple of isolated showers or storms, 20 coverage. Then by the time we get into tomorrow well get that northeasterly wind that will take over and atlantic moisture 40 rain chances. Here, a couple systems were watching, this one likely to be a hurricane but should curve north so. Well put it on the back burner. But this is the feature, were going to watch it closely the next few days. That is the one that will potentially threaten not just the caribbean but even the eastern united states, plenty of time to watch it and the intensity is going to vary it as far as the models here. 93 to 95 for the high today. Rain chances going up to 40 to 50 . That will help with the not as holt next few days. And not as hot the next few days and back into summer afternoon thunderstorms. Were watching a crash in the Howard Frankland, in the southbound lanes, if youre leaving tampa and heading to st. Pete across the Howard Frankland youre going to run into just a slight slowdown. You can see the cars over to the side with flashers on. This is a crash with injuries. Lets check drive times. Again from tampa into st. Pete look in the middle, not seeing much of a slowdown, it typically takes six minutes. 8 minutes across the Courtney Campbell and five minutes to cross the gandy bridge. Its beautiful to see how kind people are. A sweet story showing the power of social media. Still ahead, dozens of strangers and even a major retailer uniting for a girl with special needs. But first new details on a miracle rescue of a toddler who capsized boat. Abcs geo benitez shows us what kept her alive. Reporter the incredible story of survival after kennedy, a 23monthold girl is trapped under her familys cappized body in floridas indian river for nearly an hour. We thought we were going to lose her. Reporter the boat flipping after hitting power lines. Parents escape the water safely with their 7monthold but only her heart wrenching cries heard in the darkness. We couldnt tell if she was in the boat or if she was out in the river because we heard cries but it sounded like it was just coming from everywhere. Reporter astonishingly kennedy was floating in a life vest under the boat, in an air pocket. Its a miracle that everything workt like it did. Reporter coming up at 7 00 a. M. We hear from First Responders and how they almost lost hope that kennedy would ever be found. With your gma first geo benitez, abc news, new 6 26. Welcome back. People around the world use the internet to unite over this pink flower print shirt. A utah mom posted a request for the shirt to help her autistic daughter. She had no idea she would get such a huge response. 10yearold cammie attached to the shirt since kindergarten. Problem is its been out of production at target since 2012. So when she wore holes in her shirt beyond repair mom reached out online asking if anyone had an old one they would like to donate. Not only did dozens of strangers send that shirt, target now stepped up moving cammies mom to tears. They dont ever want us to have to scour the internet to find something our daughter i was too after i read that. Target executives tracked down the fabric and are now making it in different sizes that cammie cam can wear into adulthood. Looking pretty good now, a lot of sunshine early this morning, in the 90s this afternoon and limited rain chances, 20 to 30 . Im thinking at most 20 , it will be 105 with the feels like. More coming up. A call for change on student loans. The injury now hurting because of crippling debt and a demand from a florida representative. And how is tampa tackling zika . A new outlook on how long it 6 30 this man is a wanted man on the run after getting out of a patrol car wild handcuffed. The chain of events that led up to the getaway and fears from families nearby now. A fight against a controversial fsa testing gets its day in court. The ruling that could come down today and the lawsuit from parents that pushed it forward. Thank you for joining us on this early monday. First day of school for in Sarasota County. Lets get them out the door quickly and safely. Any problems . So far in sarasota no crashes or breakdowns. Good for the school buses and kids on the first day of school. Dry start . For sarasota and everyone else. I think by the afternoon when you think we would normally have thunderstorms. Still today like yesterday coverage limited. Some dry air helping, rain chances around 20 . So lets break it down. A lot of sun, mostly dry. For tomorrow should get back where we should be this time of year. Of course well continue to follow the tropical waves. Well east of the atlantic, nothing to worry about now. The bus stop looks good, a lot of sunshine, 79. Then well get back into the lower 90s this afternoon. On futurecast and not a lot. By this time, this should be lit up. Its not with that limited rain chance today. We are going to be hot though. Temperatures will feel like about 100 plus this afternoon. Well talk more about the rain coming back fdot cameras checking the junction with i275 andi 4 here, traffic flowing nicely now on i4 and i275. So no issues there. This is the veterans expressway, starting to slow down just a little but were still at 18 minutes from 54 to 275. This is where we start so see a little of that slowdown here at van dyke to 275. That is taking 13 minutes. I do have one crash to tell you about, northport in Sarasota County, southbound i75 at toledo blade boulevard, reports of some earlier roadblocking on i75 but were not seeing any slowdowns, were still in the green there threw the northport area. Captain al is flying over the crash weve been talking about on the Howard Frankland in the southbound lanes. What are you seeing out there . Reporter good morning. Were look