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WTVT FOX 13 News At Noon November 22, 2016

A nightmare scenario for parents and chattanooga, tennessee. Several children are dead and a many more injured after a School Bus Crash monday afternoon. 37 Elementary School students on board when the bus flipped on its side and smashed into a tree. It took almost two hours for First Responders to get all of the children off the mangled bus. Most unnatural thing in the world is for a parent to mourn the loss of a there are no words that can bring comfort to a mother or a father. And so today, city is praying for these families. An Authorities Say bus driver Jonathan Walker was an arrested following the incident. The 24yearold is facing multiple counts of vehicular homicide a well charges reckless driving and reckless endangerment. Speed is suspected to be a contributing factor in the crash. The ntsb is also investigating. We are looking a what caused prevent it. School District Holding classes today with a counselors on hand to help students and staff in the wake of the tragedy. One parent says he doesnt know how hes going to el it is has first grade son his friend is among those killed. Thats our challenge all night long to see how were going to tell him and how were going to break the news to him because he dont understand death right now. And i just which dont really know how to explain it to him. Ntsb investigators expect to remain on scene for 7 but their investigation into at cause of the crash could take up to a year. In atlanta, jonathan serry, fox 13 news. New at noon, black friday is quickly approaching. Can you believe it . And tampa police are already keeping an eye on shoppers. Officers launched their annual operation secret santa this morning. From now through january 1st tampa police will be closely monitoring parking lots west shore and International Mall and popular Shopping Centers on dale horseback, motorcycles and inside unmarked patrol cars. They say they are looking out for anyone suspicious. And cars that could be easy targets . The big is problem that we face sometimes in crime in this particular area is maybe sense of security. This nice small im going to walkthrough a mall buy seven opalocka 0 and forget to lock my door or leave it in plain view. Police say, where criminals are looking for and shoppers can keeping their cars locked and items out of sight. New at noon st. Petersburg police are looking for a pick pocket. See the woman in pink. Police say she picked the pocket of the man standing in line in front of her taking 5,050 bill when he confronted her she bent over and a well just say she crudely put money in her underwear. She left the south side foot matter on fourth site side while that man called police. Roche accused of a targeting three clearwater businesses over the last 48 hours. Authorities believe the same man is responsible for two robberies monday and another early this morning. Clearwater police think they may have a serial robber on their hands and they say he is getting bolder. Fox 13 Shayla Reeves reports from the scene of this morning robbery at 711 on drew street. Wee getting a new robber accused of a targeting three clearwater businesses in the last two days. Take a good look at your authorities believe same man is responsible for two robberies monday and another early this morning. Surveillance cameras captured these images overnight. Most recent robbery happened a seven11 on drew street. The man is seen wearing a red hoodie. Pulled over his face. Picture is similar to an earlier image made public by authorities. Now the crimes happened at 3 different locations less than three miles apart. Clearwater Police Believe the robber could be driving a silver cameras rolled a crime scene technicians took pictures and collected evidence after authorities arrived on the scene of the 711 robbery. Were told clerk got away with money, and implied he had a weapon in that case. If you recognize the man or at car youre certainly urged to reach out to the Clearwater Police department. Reporting in clearwater, Shayla Reeves, fox 13 news. Thank you, shayla. A woman walked into st. Petersburg Police Department and said she is wanted for a crime she told him look at up so he did. 65yearold Janice Ellenwood was prompting arrested for robbing a bang earlier this month. Surveillance video captured her walking in wearing a wig with long black hair. Ellen wood told officers she saw herself all over the news and decided she wanted to turn herself in. A costly case of a criminal mischief. Teenager from st. Pete is facing several charges for 80,000 luxury cars. Police arrest 18yearold donovan franklin. Back on november 7th he broke into a parking garage at the mcnolt lot of condos on Second Street south. Once inside he broke into two cars Surveillance Video shows him punch 2016 Mercedes Benz causing damage to side panel. What Surveillance Video does not show you is him then jumping on top of a rolls royce and a 2016 mcclarn. Again inn total again 80,000 worth of damage done. St. Pete why. Its hard to tell what is has motivation was. Most of the time people break into cars because they want to steal something. But in this case he just decided to damage these really expensive cars. Jump on top of them and leave dents and cause problems that way. In fact police say franklin didnt steal a thing from any of the cars hes charged with vehicle burglary and criminal mischief. Pinellas park firefighters getting ready for thanksgiving serve. Fox 13 ken suarez caught up with them a publix where they are shopping for all fixings for thanksgiving meals. This is certainly at time to shop. It is thanksgiving and christmas time. Guess what you see the firefighters Pinellas Park Fire Department have been shopping their all morning long. Buying all kinds of things for thanksgiving dinners for needy people in this community. Let me go to jason, hes in charge of this program. So youve been this for a number of years jason ive for three Years Department has doing it for over 10 ive only been in charge of it for three. Trying to keep good tradition here. We get about a dozen meals. And that we pay for out of our union funds. We get reimbursed from our donations coming in from the community. But the money comes from the union where does that come from . We have events throughout year that support that. Our Benevolent Fund which we use for other things throughout year to help people their houses catch on fire, stuff like that. Raising money which is pretty cool. Yes. We we do some movie nights and stuff like that. How do you decide who gets a thanksgiving dinner . Through our application process. Just folks that need the help the most we have a limited number of meals, so its really, its the experience of doing this year after year. And just who you think really needs the help the most we go around and visit everybody. But i think that everybody in general needs the help. That too much. But that is pricey kind of project. How much per meal will you estimate does it cost . Were spending anywhere from around 120 to 140 per cart. That would be for the whole family. That include as turkey, dairy products, breads, numerous vegetables. And just other odds and ends that you have families typically have through thanksgiving meal. To come out and help. No, no. We have a good turn out for this event. Our people like to help out. All the guys that work for the department are very generous. And ladies like dana. Dpa da in an is over there with her family and little logan we met him in the morning show. Exactly. Hes a peach. And at christmas time, you get done with this project you start your christmas project. What is that . We will probably provide toys for close to 100 families. Last year we and it was around 95 families. And plus teachers in area that send us children their way if families they think need help. So its a big operation. And it will start after this weekend. Ill get right on to the christmas stuff. We already have toy boxes in community to collect for season. I think bigger story highs Pinellas Park firefighters are doing this. But there are a lot of an just giving organization that is really go out of way this time of year which is a great thing to see. If we can spread that throughout year wouldnt be better world to live in . Absolutely. This is certainly a great start. Back to you. Thank you, ken on that note lets share more good deeds. Local school collected and filled more than 350 shoe boxes for impoverished kids. St. Petersburg Christian School partner with a samaritan ministries Operation Christmas child out reach for second year in row this year students and families collected and filled wouldnt get more or any this holiday. They also raised more than 2,500 to help cover the cost of shipping those boxes. The boxes will be shipped all over the world to areas designated by samaritan ministries, a st. Petersburg Christian School as spirit of giving through only one you initiative. Good job. Id love to hear what good deed your school is doing this holiday season. Message me on facebook at fox 13 linda hurtado. Or you can tweet me at linda right here on the fox 13 news at noon. When you buy luggage, how do you know its going to hold up . The good question. Up next we will take you behind scenes to a lab where they put your luggage through all kinds of tests to see what it can actually take. Hey jim those pictures at the start show it just looks beautiful out there. Absolutely beautiful. Another cold one this morning we saw freezing temperatures to our north. But as you look outside. You can see Crystal Clear skies. Lots of rebounding nicely for afternoon. Were already into the 70s. In many locations. Complete forecast coming up in sure, you could buy this. Its baking season. Warm up with pillsbury. At progresso, we are now using 100 antibiotic and hormonefree white breast meat chicken in all our chicken soups almost all of us have dealt with damaged luggage at some point. Check out this video of bags being unloaded so check out this video bags of being unloaded. If you look carefully, thats just a handle no bag on it any more. And then theres always bad weather to deal with. Every wonder what it takes to try to fox 13 consumer reporter Sorboni Banerjee gets inside access to a company that invented the rolling suitcase to find out. Welcome to boot camp. For bags. Yeah. Absolutely. So this is where it happens. This where we test everything. Travel pro lets us inside their actually grabbing the bag from the carousel from conveyer belt they actually tossing it and lifting. Its where they push their luggage to the limit. We have to make sure we test above normal usage. To make sure that consumer wont have any issues roller boards and spinners do distance training. So wait these bags are going to be on treadmill for two days . Right. 30 miles rolling. They are going way more miles than i would ever put it. Then see how much the and a whether the bags can withstand weather appear cold air mile high. Straight out of the freezer. Its got frost on it. Youre looking for failures in the material. So what happened to this one . Well that is one of the big things. In this case one the wheels broke. Tester looking for material they use to last for 15 years of normal use. We cut a piece circle piece put it in machine. Constantly for 200 cycles we compare. They deliberately bring the bags the zipper to their breaking points. How many did you sip unzip in 7500 cycles. When youre trying to close your bag, and the bag is like really, really full its liking pulling both sides who would ever overstuff a suitcase . Travel pro wants their fabric to stretch to accommodate at least 60 poun speaking if i were to put my shoes in there my jeans my clothes in there hair stuff mike up in there more shoes in there and everything is pulling the two ends of your bag. So all we know. So 72. Were good. Good to know. Asking for a friend. Torturing more suit cases. So we have to a before we go perfectly fine going to withstand the rigorous of the normal use. Thats how rigors of use get rigorously tested beating up bags in an attempt to beat the competition. Sorboni banerjee, fox 13 news. Now you know. Travel protest samples from each batch of luggage before sent to production. And then every six months after its on the market. Suitcase they only have a 1 percent rate of return on their products. Pretty nice. Another chilly morning out there, jim i liked it because i remember you telling me its not going to last temperatures creeping up again. Exactly so. You like the cooler temperatures enjoy it while it lasts. Because each morning will get a little bit warmer bit warmer during afternoon as well. In fact were already into the 70s. Many locations. Our view from our riverview net camera just a beautiful view. Riverview. Looking towards say about west northwest right now. You can see just as far as you can see not a cloud in the sky. Still very dry atmosphere. So we will continue to see plenty of sun as we go through the day. Thats going to allow for temperatures to warm up nicely. We start out on the cold side this morning especially up to our north. Up up in brooksville once again at that freezing mark 32 degrees. 32 up in Crystal River. Here in tampa 49 degrees. St. Petersburg 56. Degrees. Still is a 30s inside interior bartow, 37. Down in wauchula down to 38 degrees this morning. Loads of sunshine, you can see with at visible satellite loop. Few scattered clouds off the east coast. And we continue with primarily a north rl wind starting to become a bit more from northeasterly direction. Thats a little sign that were starting that warming trend. As it becomes more easterly temperatures to not get a quite a cold at night and allows temperatures to get warmer during the day. You can also see that in dew point. Yesterday at this time, that number was down into the 20s. Our humidity was in the teens. We were talking about just being ridiculously dry outside. Now still very dry outside. But we are starting to see a little bit of a return of the moisture. So right now were currently sitting at 71 degrees. At the noon hour. Wesley brandon already at 75 degrees. Down in sarasota, 76 degrees. Bradenton has a 73. And over in bartow and lakeland both at 70 degrees. Yesterday had dew point about ten in tallahassee. Youre seeing a little bit more moisture. Still youve got a dew point of 20. Still ridiculously dry. Weve got numbers in the 30s and 40s. Across central florida. So you still you head outside. It feels delightful outside. Even though weve got warmer temperatures. Right through the middle of country. Weve got rain, working its way into southwestern iowa. And then throughout minnesota, youve got a lot of sleet, freezing rain and snow. Then wrapping back towards denver as well. Talking about some snow. Sae time, wee talking about snow and cold temperatures. Were watching Tropical Storm otto. Td number 16 yesterday. This is now increased its winds up to 70 miles an hour. It is expected to become a hurricane. You can see that track as we go through heading right over central america. And then out into the pacific ocean. Our forecast for us today, looks beautiful. Sunny skies, daytime high of 75 degrees. Then for tonight, clear skies, not quite as cold overnight low of 59 degrees. Another beautiful looking day for tomorrow mainly sunny skies. Daytime high a little bit warmer. 78 degrees. Now on the water, winds are out northeast 10 knots. Seas two feet light chop on bay high tide comes up 9 57 this evening. Heres the sevenday forecast, into the upper 70s, low 80s by time we get into thanksgiving and black friday and very mild overnight lows once we get into the weekend. Linda. Thanks, jim up next teaching lifesaving lessons in the classroom. Well show you the new cpr requirement for all Hillsborough County high School Students and plan to expand to other grades. You want wonderful crisp vegetables. Can the mind body does . Lean protein, fresh fruits. Fitness program is hoping to change how people work out. Dont miss our black friday specials, at havertys furniture. Big savings in store only. This friday, eight am to eleven am. Nointerest financing. Black friday specials, while supplies last. Friday, three hours only. With havertys, your home can be perfect, even when life isnt. Dont miss our black friday specials at havertys. Life looks good. For all you friendsgiving hosts, invite who you want, not who you must. And dont forget something sweet, and golden brown fresh from the oven. Set the table, set the coffee table, set no table at all. The only rule to follow on friendsgiving. Is make it your own. Happy friendsgiving. Warm up with pillsbury. Math, science, and english can prepare students for anything a career may throw at them. But a new setting them up to dr. Jo has that story. And an i know youre a test later on housh long class a Brandon High School may look like any other class. Before you get to go home you have test on those numbers. After this lesson students will carry a new title. One more minute. Life savers. Just turn and put your hand in it Hillsborough County schools requires all students to learn hands only cpr before they graduate. Kind of like a dream. You know come to fulfillment. Appear important to catch young people before they go off into world where more than 350,000 cases cardiac arrest occur each year in rust alone. We may never see them again we want to take whatever chance we have to communicate the information to save a life. The, cardiac arrest. And a practicing this in on someone in their own household. I feel excited because i never been through experience before. Justin hester learning cpr for first time. The lesson will come in handy especially considering how much time he spends with his niece. I love my niece with all of my heart i would do anything to protect her. So i kind of took it upon myself to learn as much as i can from this. Freshman lauren baby sits her nephew and already sees rol

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