Transcripts For WTVT Good Day Tampa Bay 6AM 20161017 : vima

Transcripts For WTVT Good Day Tampa Bay 6AM 20161017

Its going to be another nice day. Well have a couple of very low top showers move across the state from east to west so inland locations, if you get a quick passing shower, dont be surprised but its not going to be the norm. High temperatures will be back to the upper 80s for temperatures today. Good morning. Vanessa good morning, dave. We want to get back to probably what was the bigger crash of the morning. Its clearing. In case youre just joining us, driver ran away, st. Pete area. 28th street south, we had all the southbound lanes blocked at one point but thats clearing. At the very most, just one lane blocked and likely heading out a couple of minutes from now, it will be completely clear but like i said, you should be good to go if you pass on by through the area. Russell a domestic dispute turns deadly. Deputies responded to reports of his pregnant girlfriend when they were forced to pull the trigger. This happened on blue jay drive in holiday. Laura and ken is there in pasco county where the sheriff is saying this would not have ended this way without provocation, right . Reporter apparently things got out of control in this situation. We know this man is dead and deputies say the reason why hes dead is because they shot him because he gave them no other choice. Around 7 00 last night, a and his pregnant girlfriend had an argument totally out of control. He ended up soughting her. She got out of the house. When the swat team arrived, they hoped they culd talk him down. He had been drinking heavily and using prescription drugs. After hours of negotiating, they sent in a robot to see where he was holing up. By that time, he was in the bathroom. When deputies tased him, he charged at them with a knife. Thats when they say they shot him. Were still waiting to hear person, whats his criminal background, what is her background and exactly what happened here. We do know this kind of situation, as the sheriff said a while ago, happens all too often. We have a term for it, death by cop, you know its really unfortunate and we also know this type of thing is going up more and more this kind of situation. Is it drugs . Is it Something Else . We dont know. But well hear more about what happened here later in the morning. In the laura ken, live for us in pasco county. Also the Pasco County Sheriffs Office is warning parents to watch out for a man who tried to lure a man into his van. It happened friday. Deputies say the teen was walking on Bartlett Road when she was approached by a man driving an older model, blue van. We have some images from a neighbors surveillance camera here. The man asked the girl if she wanted to get into the van with him. She refused and she was able to get home safely. If you recognize this van, through a Republican Party headquarters in North Carolina saturday night. Sats governor on sunday called it an attack on democracy. Party posted these images showing the damage, blackened walls, charred couches and burned campaign signs. A window was broken and a swastika had the words, nazi republicans leave town or else. Laura donald trump was quick to point the finger, blaming, quote, animals representing Hillary Clinton and democrats. Updating his followers on twitter, trump wrote all safe in Orange County and hes proud of the North Carolina g. O. P. Party responding, too, quoting we will not be silenced. We will pray for those who seek to harm us. Hillary clinton commenting on the attack calling it horrific and unacceptable. State officials responded with their thanks. Russell nobody was injured in saturdays attack but officials are learning g. O. P. Ochlss across the country. Saying they are taking steps to elect volunteers. I do believe there is an intent to intimidate and florida is probably very high on that list also, the hit list, so to speak. I want you to take extra precautions. Laura that was the chair of the Hillsborough County Republican Party. She called each g. O. P. Office and shes reminding volunteers not to walk to their at night. So far, no one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Russell and the attack comes just days before the third and final president ial debate. It is this wednesday, 9 00. The moderator is Chris Wallace and this will be the first time a fox news anchor has moderated a general election president ial debate. You can watch it right here on fox 13. Has the debate tonight. 4745 in the latest poll. Thats down from last month where rubio led his challenger by five points. Theyll stand face to face tonight for a onehour debate at the university of central florida. There are two more debates planned before election day. Russell early voting is already underway in many states and its prompting candidates to increase Campaign Efforts in the early battle grounds. 36 states and the district of columbia allow for early voting. By the time the polls open, 45 Million People will have already voted. 477,000 and counting in florida. Of the more than 2 1 2 million absentee ballots requested, its pretty evenly split between the parties. To evaluate how students, faculty and staff will vote in the upcoming election. Theyll include races for president , senate and three constitutional amendments. Students collected more than 1600 ballots that accurately predicted that president obama would win reelection. Polling stations open from 10 00 to 2 00. Laura it is 6 07 now. One month after reporting a radioactive water leak in polk county, the company has another mess to clean up. Mosaic facility in plant city. A pump that circulates process the water malfunctioned. Officials say the spill is contained to the property. Back in august, a sink hole opened up in mosaics mulberry plant and spilled 200 million gallons of contaminated water. Testing has come back negative. Russell and Pinellas County leaders are looking for ways to a task force will meet for the first time this morning. Heavy rain during recent storms overloaded the countys sewage system. The county has budgeted 70 million the next 10 years to pay for improvements. The task force will look for longtime solutions. Laura two years after a expensive failure, today could mark a return to flight for one of nasas key mission and imagine, carrying 75 pounds of gear every day, training 20 hours, no sleep and walking more than 200 miles. Coming up, well introduce you to a woman who conquered that challenge that most men fail. Pe this morning. Nice, comfy, although you go to the east coast, a little different story. 80 in palm beach. Today very similar with the clouds, the sunshine. Yeah, its going to be warm. Were going to go back to the sfx [birds] to sample the worlds most delicious fresh seafood dishes. You can take a boat sfx [boat bell] or a plane sfx [jet taking off] or a train sfx [train horn blowing] or you can just let us pack you a bag publix seafood cookinbag dinners choose your favorite seafood then choose the internationally inspired flavors to pair it with. Pack a bag for adventure tonight some prelaunch jitters as commercial space russell some prelaunch jitters as commercial space Flight Company prepares for the First Mission in nearly two years. Orbitals last launch ended in disaster, erupting in a massive fire ball along the virginia coast causing 15 million in damage. After a series of delays an upgraded version is scheduled it last off tonight. If successful, it will carry more than 5,000 pounds of supplies to the sper National Space supply ship will have to hang out in orbit for several days because wednesdays crew launch takes priority. Three astronauts are set to join the three already living at the orbital launch. Laura chinas Space Program is celebrating a successful launch. Theyll dock with an experimental space lab and spend 30 days there and this is scene as a precursor to missions to the country was ex ccluded from the space station. Not to be outdone, European Space agencys mars lander has left its mother ship. It will take three days for the saucer shaped craft to reach the planets surface. This is the agencys second attempt to land on mars. First failed back in 2003. Pimary goal of the mission is to find out whether life has ever existed on mars. Russell a wow. Laura yeah. Dave question for you. You know, i know that everybody is trying to get into space and do the mars thing and stuff and i know that politics, why dont we all do it together . Why doesnt everybody just get together . I think we could get it done together, more effective. Laura compare notes. Dave i guess thats everything in life, right . Russell kinda, sorta. Dave okay. And theres a hint of mugginess outside. 73 degrees in still water and st. Petersburg. 74, i got the upper 60s and you know, its been in the 60s every single morning to the north for the past week, week and a half. Its pretty nice stuff from crystal river, dade city at 68 degrees. 69 in wesley chapel, lower 70s from bradenton all the way down through englewood and inland, i have upper 60s and lower 70s, and down through the sebring area. Winds really no different, kind of left you on friday. It was eastnortheast. Thats what we have for today. But we have also that drier air in the mid levels of the atmosphere so any showers that try to work their way across the state, a lot of them are getting to get eaten up. A few make their way to i75. There will be one or two isolated showers today. Otherwise, well go right back temperatures. Here is one area. Nicole long gone. It did some damage in bermuda. Good for the folks. Just a very hardy island. Now youre looking at this disturbance which runs a moderate chance, a 40 chance for development over the course of the next five days. Well to the east. In fact, its down over the turks and caicos and even if it does develop, i want you to see what the computer models here is the european moldel. You can see the disturbed weather down here as it starts to develop and then starts to move toward the north. At the same time, later this week, were going to be getting a cold front. Here is your cold front by friday, moving into the southeast and as it moves into the southeast, if this does develop into anything at all, you can see its going to start to push it more toward the north were not overly concerned because you have this front thats going to slide and push that eventually out to sea. Then this is just a big area of High Pressure come sunday night, dominating our weather. Were looking at a decent cold front here and its going to be in the friday, saturday time frame. When you talk about a front thats five days away, we have to fine tune the timing of that as we get closer to the weekend. We have some clouds and showers on saturday. Can we push it all to friday . That can tell you we are looking at much drier air for the second half of the upcoming weekend. Look forward to that. 87 for a High Temperature today. The pesky, isolated, inland shower or two. Clear and mild tonight with a low temperature of 70 degrees. And then partly cloudy and warm tomorrow with your high around 87. Still have a moderate chop. Its the east to northeast wind, cant get rid of it. Maybe five knots picking up to our next high tide near the st. Pete pier is at 4 17 this afternoon. Its not until later this afternoon. Heres your next seven. You do see the cooler air coming in on the weekend. As we get closer, well fine tune the rain chances so maybe we squeegee a shower out saturday morning and that will be it. Well wait. Notice sunday, low near 62. Thats nice, vanessa. Vanessa i cannot wait for that. All right. Thanks, dave. Its 6 17 and visibly it is picking up a little bit as more cars heading wherever theyre going this morning, maybe to work. 275 at roosevelt is where this live look is right here. Travel times look good right there. Hillsborough county, looks like northbound 275 also looking good. I4 to 75 taking only 15 minutes. Five minutes the drive westbound i4 driveers heading from mlk to the interchange. Eight minutes heading north. With flooding yet to recede in some communities, Hurricane Matthew has already caused 1. 5 billion damage in North Carolina. As rivers return to normal, the damage estimates could fluctuate. Russell theres routage in the suburbs of new jersey after a well known bear has reportedly been killed. Remember pedals . This video of pedals. The black bear became an internet thanks to the uncanny ability to walk on the hind legs. Animal rights group claimed he was shot and killed last week. New Jersey Wildlife Officials Say they may never make a positive identification on the bear because he was never tagged. Petition to stop the new jersey bear hunt has more than 25,000 signatures. Laura the armys Ranger School is one of the most gruelling military programs in the world. Major lisa jaster is one of three women who can say she graduated from army Ranger School. She was one of 19 women who signed up for the Experimental Program last year. After the first week of training, only eight women were left. At 37 years old, she was among the oldest and highest ranking soldier of either gender to complete the program. West point graduate and twotime war veteran says her accomplishment is bigger than just bak i wasnt ever thinking i was going to quit but i can honestly say there were many moments where i thought, dear god, i wouldnt be mad if you broke my ankle right now and i had to go to the hospital. Sticking with it and being able to come back and tell people, hey, you can push through, you can climb over obstacles, failure makes you better in the end, that was more of my success than just graduating. Through . For inspiration, she carried a photo of her 3yearold daughter victoria and 7yearold son in her pocket. Russell amazing. Good for her. All right. Coming up later in this hour, big decision by apple. Why the iphones will no longer be tethered to store shelves. Laura this is one way to slow down traffic. How a Police Officer is using first there is shaving. Blades. Sharp and precise. Then gillette shielding. Comfy lubrication before and after. And also cooling. Oooh. I got goosebumps. Gillette proshield chill with lubrication before and after the blades. Shields and cools while you shave. Proshield chill from gillette. The best a man can get. Its time to see whats clicking on the web. Laura time to see whats clicking on the web. Vanessa i got the mornings hot clicks and were going to start off with hes been nominated for three oscars, won dozens of awards but theres no debate, hes one of the greatest movie stars of our time. As it turns out, hes also good at Something Else, too. Running. Look at this. So apparently in another life, he was a track and field star. Comedy duo burger fiction has edited together every clip of movie. He has a need for speed. Everything from 1985 legend to the new Mission Impossible. Laura a legend. I havent thought about that in awhile. Vanessa entire clip is more than 18 minutes long. 18 minutes of running would be interesting to see how our movie stars stack up. Russell you know, hes no kid. When he does run, in like the Mission Impossible movies, hes good. Va im sorry. Vanessa no. No. Im right there with you. Now this one. Im like mesmerized. This is officer paul. He works for the south bend school force and he works the crosswalk armed with light sabres. He says folks have started to take notice. As folks slow down to watch, he said it makes for a nice traffic flow. On top of directing traffic, he also performs light shows for russell that doesnt look real, does it . Vanessa its mesmerizing. Whatever you can do. Oh. Cant go wrong with an animal one, right . Who doesnt like a good belly rub. Wolverine lives at an animal sanctuary. Volunteers noticed his love for belly rubs this month. Look at that face. Laura im a big star of that baby right there. Vanessa clip has been shared thousands of times. Russell even hold the hand there to make certain you keep doing it. Vanessa you know when youre petting the dog . I didnt say you could stop. I know were trying to wake everybody up but this russell thats a perfect lets go back to bed. Vanessa i want to go back to bed. Laura thank you, vanessa. All right. Russell the latest involved on a deputy involved video in pasco. A pregnant woman feared for her safety. 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Cozy up this fall with dunkins coffee and espresso flavors. Sip salty and sweet with our new salted caramel macchiato or drink in the season with the classic taste of pumpkin. America runs on dunkin. russell 2shot good morning, i;m Russell Rhodes laura and im Laura Russell welcome. Im Russell Rhodes. Laura and im laura moody. God morning. Well check in with dave for a look at the forecast. Dave good morning. Upper 60s, lower 70s, picking up from yesterday. Most areas just a couple of degrees cooler. I dont think thats going to change much the next few days. Mixture of clouds and sunshine. You get the warm afternoons, highs in

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