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WFTS Action News At 6AM October 14, 2016

Having to get off at mlk and take florida back around. You can also consider taking the connecter to the expressway and take that into downtown if that is where you are going. Take a look at this. The average speed right now, 17 miles an hour to get from 75 to 275. The good news, the other interstates looking great. 75 southbound in the green, and 275 over in pinellas. 68 the average speed there. All right. Well check your forecast, n 70s. 60s, as well. Still do, in fact. Most of us in the 70s, and were all going to warm up. Once again, higher humidity this afternoon so that 88 will feel more like 92 through the afternoon. Just some spotty showers. 10 rain chance. That would be about it. Then increasing rain chances coming up for the weekend. Well future cast that out for you in just a few minutes. Thanks, ivan. Time now is 6 01. Toll road over gandy boulevard. Take a look. This is what gandy boulevard in tampa looks like right now. This is what the elevated lane would look like leading to the expressway. Abc action News Reporter rodney is live right now with some concerns about this project. Well, a number of Business Owners in this area are concerned about what this road project could mean for their bottom lines. In fact, i spoke with one Business Owner who was pretty much concerned about this. Hit him hard. It took 30, 40 of my sales right off the top. And this project now aims to move all of the traffic off of gandy boulevard in tampa, especially during rush hour, by moving it to an elevated toll road. Construction is expected to bring a few added traffic headaches before finally bringing some relief that it promises. Drivers tell us they are ready its terrible. Its bumper to bumper. If i wasnt born and raised down here, i wouldnt know all the back streets to get around it, but to anybody that has to sit on gandy to commute, i definitely feel bad for them. And the elevated lanes will run for 1. 6 miles from the end of the gandy bridge connecting. Now, especially connecting essentially connecting brandon to u. S. 19 nonstop. Back out here live this morning, of businesses will have to pack their patience. This construction project is expected to last about three years. For now, reporting live in tampa, rodney, abc action news. All right. We re getting our first look at the man accused of killing a hillsboro County High School student and driving away. This is nicholas constantino. We are also getting word he just posted bonds and being released from jail. The clearwater man hit and killed 17yearold ashley. On hillsboro avenue when she was hit. Grief counselors have been at her school. Two major cases headed to court today, including the man accused of kidnapping a lakeland girl. West wild hogs is waking up in a jail cell. Investigators extradited him yesterday from tennessee. They say thats where he brought a fouryearold girl, rebecca lewis, after abducting her from her home nearly a week ago. Lewis is now home safe with her man accused of crashing his truck into a lakeland home killing a woman inside is set to face charges. Investigators say this man here, 24yearold ryan, plowed into that home right into the guest bedroom, hitting janice. The woman who was beloved in her community died instantly yesterday morning. Investigators say after the crash, he tried to walk home. They charged him with dui manslaughter excuse me,allant manslaughter in 2009 chl he pleaded no contest to dui causing injury. A Pinellas County deputy is off the job and facing charges after investigators say he pawned his service weapon. Authorities say steven smith sold his glok. 45 caliber pistol for 250 to the Silver Dollar pawnshop in newport richey. He stole a bottle of hydrocodone that he was supposed to destroy. New this morning, airlines are taking extra steps to prevent a disaster in case a passengers phone battery catches fire evacuate a Southwest Airlines flight in kentucky when a passengers phone started smoking even though the phone was turned off. It was one of the recalled Samsung Galaxy note 7 phones. Now, at least three u. S. Airlines are now adding new fire containment bags to flights. If a device sparks and the fire cant be put out. In democracy 2016, donald trump doubling down on his claim that he never sexually assaulted any women, and hes still getting backing from some vocal supporters. The president ial candidate addressed the claims during a rally in West Palm Beach yesterday. Four women now say trump made unwanted advances on them. Trump says there is evidence to prove his accusers are lying, and hell release that at a later date. He called the whole thing a spears that benefits Hilary Clinton. I will not allow the clinton machine to turn our campaign into a discussion of their slanders and lies. Despite the allegations, some key republicans are reaffirming their support for trump this morning. Republicans like senator roy of missouri and West Virginia gubernatorial candidate argue trump would still be better on key issues like energy and the Supreme Court than clinton. Meanwhile, wiki leaks just released a new batch of hacked emails from Clinton Campaign move the party to a later date. Clinton isnt addressing the email hack. At a fundraiser yesterday, she instead put the focus on Donald Trumps scandal. By defeating my opponent and what he stands for and all of the behavior, the words, and the deeds. The latest email leak also revealed comments from clinton saying the u. S. Woul government failed to curb north Koreas Nuclear program. Two chihauhaus are alive this morning. When firefighters got to this home, already engulfed in flames. Firefighters managed to pull the dogs out of this Burning House just in time giving them oxygen right away. Investigators say they believe this fire was started accidentally. 6 07. Still to come on abc action news that building, and one thing that should have been there that could have saved a babys life. The dog food is really gonna hurt your baby. But her dog died. A pet owner devastated after items got into her dogs pet food that werent supposed to be out the door with 70s this morning. 60s up to the north. By the afternoon, we climb back in the mid and upper 80s. Rain chances about 10 , just spotty showers with that east flow weve been dealing with the last couple of days. Changes for the weekend forecast, that is still straight ahead. Coming up, new details on a tragic story out of new york. A sixweekold baby dies after plunging down an elevator shaft. Now, we are learning just how unsafe the building is. Investigators say the mother there. The woman and her infant both fell those eight stories down. Somehow, the mother survived this fall. The elevator car was atarntly under repair. Residents say there were no warning science posted. Records show the building had 50 open code violations, including four for elevators. In the past two years, tenants have complained at least 20 times about out of Service Eating its own dog food. Anna vogel unknowingly fed her dog cesar filet mignon dog food. Shortly after, started throwing up pieces of plastic. The company had recalled that product saying a potential choking hazard risk, white pieces of plastic had entered during production. Anna says babushka died hours later. Its really sad, you know. She has been in contact with the company that makes cesars dog food. The company did report the recall to the food and drug administrations and now investigating. Coming up, costume concerns. The service the university of florida is now offering for anyone who might be offended welcome back. 6 15 now. We are learning new information this morning on the man accused of gunning down five people at a mall in washington state. Detectives reveal tried to buy a handgun just hours before that ram pain and failed. Gun store Surveillance Video shows the 20yearold there a short time before he opened fire apologize. This is from the mall. The owner of that gun store turned him away. The rifle used in the shooting actually belonged to the suspects father. A scary scene at a zoo in london. A gorilla escaped from its enclosure, forcing that zoo to go on lockdown. The zoo says the gorilla was in a secure area. Officials had to use a tranquilizer gun to subdue the gorilla. About 100 visitors had to stay in a cafeteria during the search, but luckily, nobody was hurt. New york a fake Good Samaritan whos preying on the elderly. His last attack is caught on camera. Take a look. The man pretends to want to help another man get into his apartment building. Well show you that in a moment. But at the last second, here it is, the supposed Good Samaritan grabs a gold chain off the victims neck and shoves him down. Like a snake in the grass, he should be in jail under the jail. Under the jail. Police released pictures of the crook and hopes someone will recognize him. At one Animal Shelter in the panhandle, the only thing bigger than the dogs they just received is the outpouring of support they are now getting. Last wednesday, the family of a dog breeder in Walton County contacted the alaqua animal refuge. The breeder was in poor health and asked the refuge to take in his 73 gre adoption online. When they heard that we had 73 of them, it completely blew up our facebook and our telephones and it actually shorted out our web site for a short time. Now, right now, theres a waiting list for every single dog. If you still want to help, though, the refuge does need cash donations. They say it takes 80,000 a month just to run the shelter without the added burden of all those great danes. 6 17 now. Flooding, bringing the death toll from Hurricane Matthew to 38 now in the u. S. Rainswollen rivers are still overflowing their banks. Governor pat mcrory toured the flooddamaged areas yesterday. One of the latest victims drowned when the car they were in drove around a barricade and into a washedout road. The second died when he walked into a hole left by an uprooted tree and couldnt get out. And in haiti, the Hurricane Relief effort is entering a second u. S. Military ship arriving offshore thursday to help with aid. Un convoys are finally reaching some of the previouslycutoff communities in rugged areas. The storm killed hundreds in haiti a little over a week ago. The damage has posed particular challenges because of its scope and the debris making some places inaccessible. Some people still havent gotten any help there. It is still unclear if the hardesthit part of flagler will get help from federal officials. Fema officials visited on thursday and focussed their assessment on properties along the state road. Est mats this morning show it could cost at least 3 5000000 to replace that road. Take a look at this. Showing us the impacts Hurricane Matthew had on miami beach. These are before and after pictures showing the storm reconfigured the shore line. Storm shifted sand to an area where the army corps of engineers were already working to rebuild. Crews say that project on schedule. Amazing power of these storms. No question about it. We didnt get the brunt of it there. Carolinas certainly did out towards the caribbean. By the way, tropics after nicole hit bermuda yesterday, pretty quiet. We are looking good. Temperatures nice and cool across the north in the upper 60s. Rest of us into 70s chl humidity still tolerable, however, the further north you go, the drier almost 70 down to the south. So we are looking at some very juicy conditions down to the south, and that, of course, will provide us with higher heat index. All of us, i think, as we warm up today, will generally be with dew points in the mid 60s, which is humid, but not oppressively so. By the way, the dry air thats on top of us yesterday beginning to get pushed down a little bit, little more moisture to work with here. I think that by tomorrow, with the east west flow like today, well have the difference between today and tomorrow will be, i think today were talking 10 to 20 coverage and then tomorrow, 20 to 30 as that moisture begins to become a little bit more available for us here. Then a disturbance will enhance the showers by sunday will become thunderstorms and more coverage 30 to 40 . So were increasing rain chances beginning today. Not so much and then saturday and sunday. The weekend still looks good, and most of us will remain on the dry side, and warm, as well. Temperatures in the upper 80s degrees, in fact, above average here, and itll feel like about 90 with the humidity. Extended forecast takes you into the weekend. 30 chance of showers, and well pop in thunderstorms sunday chl behind that, quickmoving feature there by early next week will dry out. Rain chances back down to ten with highs in the mid 80s. Good morning, everybody. We are following a fatal crash westbound i4 right at the junction to 275. The southbound to 275 closed right now from i4. Our photographer apparently he just packed the crash so cars are starting to move a little bit, but as you can see, it is still slammed right where he is. All these cars heading northbound on 275 and having to turn around at mlk and then take florida back into the downtown area. This is what it looks like on the interstate. Now, i am getting word that they are in the process of reopening at least one of those lanes to get to southbound 275. So i will keep you posted. Right on i4 heading into downtown. Take a look at my map here. So you have a couple of options. Avoid i4 westbound if you can. You can try taking the selman connecter and take the expressway if you are trying to get into downtown tampa and just avoid this mess all together. I just checked the average speed right here on i4. Down to 3 miles an hour. Now, im also getting word that there is a new crash northbound on 275 right at mlk. Thats right where this detour is. Im working to get more details on that, so me on twitter tampabaytraffic for the very latest on that crash. It is 6 22. With halloween just around the corner, the university of florida has a warning for students there. Be sensitive about the costumes that you choose. Yeah. They say dont choose anything that might offend anyone. Even Offering Counseling to those who might be o foended. Costumes reinforce stereotypes cultures or religions. Can report offensive costumes and talk to a counselor if needed 24 7 at the counseling and wellness center. Still to come, a chopper danger. Camera crews catch the moment someone shines a strong laser in their cockpit, putting their lives in jeopardy. Plus. Are you serious . A lifesaving surprise. A daughter takes drastic measures to make sure her dad 6 26. Take a look at this video showing one of the dangers helicopter pilots are facing. Camera crew capturing someone shining a strong, green laser at that chopper, filling the cockpit with glare. Listen to the pilots reaction. Most intense that someones tried to flash the lights in the six years ive been up here. Had it occasionally, was somewhat intense. Police there say this is a serious and dangerous crime. It puts the flight crew at risk because it can blind the pilot. It could land the culprit in prison for a couple of years facing a hefty fine as well. They are still searching for the person responsible. Dad, i found you a kidney donor. I found you a kidney match. Her name is rachel. You are getting a kidney. Are you serious . Yeah. Shes serious. Thats the sweet reaction when a father realized what his jeffs kidneys are failing, and he was phasing an agonizing wait for a transplant up to five years. Thats when his daughter turned to facebook. She started a Facebook Group to find a donor match for her dad and surprised her dad with the news at the airport when she got back from vacation. Me and my wife just saw it. We were crying. We hugged kim, and we were all excuse me. All krieg crying in the airport. It was just an incredible moment. Thanks got the surgery he needed in august, and he is improving every day. He says he felt better instantly after the operation, even went home the next day. Still to come at 6 30. A boy killed in front of his home. The act that put him in danger, and the desperate race from witnesses to try to save his life. Look at this backup on i4. This is due to a fatal crash blocking the southbound entrance from i4 to 275. Flying over this crash right live, from the station taking action for you, this is abc action news. Now at 6 30, a deadly crash is causing a huge backup right now on i4 through downtown. Going to investigators try to clear the scene. Weve been following this deadly crash all morning and how its impacting your morning commute. The i4 275 interchange mess even on the best of days. We want to check in with janelle. I4 is really backed up. We have been watching it all morning. These cars are at a standstill. Us the backups are pretty bad. Hey, you should avoid westbound i4 at all costs because the backup is already back to 50th street as it comes this way. You can see the remnants of the accident and investigation right there. The wrecker right in the middle of the shot. Its actually in the lane thats to the right, which would take you to ashley street, but westbound i4 into the merge with southbound 275 closed completely. It does look like theyve just about wrapped this up, but in the meantime, the backup builds so keep that in mind. You might want to find option. Hillsboro avenue, mlk, maybe even the expressway to the south might get you around this, at least in the next hour or so. Now back to you. Yeah. The connecter might be a better option for you because take a look at these drive times. Its taking almost 50 minutes to get from lakeland into downtown tampa. You can see 15 minutes from county line road to 75 because at 75 is where the backup starts, take 34 minutes just to get into downtown. This crash looking at right mlk. This is one of the detours because all those cars are having to head north on 275 and get off at mlk to turn back around to take florida avenue into downtown, but we now have a new crash here. You can see the flashing lights. Traffic starting to back up here as well. One of those mornings where you want to follow me on twitter and leave yourself extra time to get around. Weather wise, we are looking good. Nice and pleasant out there. Generally in the up by the afternoon. In fact, do it by lunchtime in the low 80s. Few clouds around. A spotty shower would be about it. 10 coverage so nothing doing

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