Is accused of assaulting one of his own employees and shes only 16. Police are worried there could be other victims. Good evening. Police are concerned because they say this Restaurant Owner attacked this employee after only having known her for a couple of days. Police say last month palamino hired a 16year old girl to work at his restaurant. 2 days later he locked up the business and assaulted here. Her he quickly ran over to nearby called for help. Police are concerned because if he did this to her he could have done this to someone else. It was you know, a very brief time that she had actually worked there. And it was almost the start of her second shift. He faces 3 counts of Sexual Battery against a minor. If you know anything about this case contact the Sarasota Police department. An escaped Polk County Police found 45year old flanagin this morning in lakeland. Reporter good afternoon. He was here working at this maiy when he got in one of these trucks and took off. Deputies foun
Left around here, wind sheer as well limited the growth from this system. As you see on the water vapor imagery that red color around and south of nassau is dry air high above in the atmosphere. I think thats gotten into the storm especially into the western side helping to keep it fairly weak with wind sheer. 30 mileperhour winds says the gusts weve been seeing from the system and you can see that forecast from the Spaghetti Models moves it directly west. Thats been the trend throughout the day. It will likely be very slow to it may help spread some rain our way possibly into the early part of next week. Well check back in with you in a little bit. Meantime Stormy Weather in Sarasota County killed a woman. Lightning struck her in a park inside a gazebo at mlk park on coconut avenue. The woman was homeless and a familiar face in this park and will be missed by those around there. Were still checking with some breaking news, a bad crash in st. Petersburg has traffic on mlk street and 40
Similar to yesterday. 60 to 70 rain chances mainly in the afternoon. Winds are tropical depression nine are still at 35 miles an hour, though the Hurricane Center confident it should become a Tropical Storm later today. Notice how it starts to increase the intensity by wednesday afternoon and then by thursday morning, its still well offshore. By friday morning its in the jacksonville area. Its making levy county. That path would give us two, maybe three things to be concerned about. Number one, the very heavy rain associated with any tropical system to some minor coastal flooding, especially at high tide. On the eastern side of the landfalling system, you tend to spin up tornados, isolated tornados. Time frame for this is Late Wednesday night right through thursday afternoon. To get the fast moving showers from time to time. Okay . Russell preparations are underway for tropical depression number nine. Communities around the tampa bay area are offering free sand bags ahead of the storm.
It eventually merges into the gulf of mexico. The overall trend has been for a weaker storm. Five Day Development chance has dropped to 40 . A lot of models taking it toward the central gulf. One thing thats been inhibiting this development, look at the areas of orange and red. Thats where we have high windshear. That typically stops these things from strengthening. Get better next week, this is how it will impact our area. A big influx of tropical moisture is expected next week. That will result in higher rain chances locally. This morning 79 degrees. Locally 92 this afternoon. Warm and steamy. Rain chance 40 today. As i mentioned, it looks like more area will be getting wet next week. Umbrellas are getting a workout as we start off the next work eight days in greater detail coming up. New overnight a man is injured after a mobile home fire in lakeland. Firefighters responded to the home on new tampa highway before 11 00 last night. The man has burns on his hands and arm. He is expect
Why they have officially called it tropical depression nine. The latest information drifts this into the central gulf of mexico. And strengthens to it a Tropical Storm. Thats about 40 Miles Per Hour winds by tomorrow afternoon. And its moving away from florida. But hold up because its going to get picked up and drawn back toward possibly the panhandle, possibly the big bend of florida at this point. This is thursday morning. Still a Tropical Storm at this point. But no matter where its going, its going to impact our weather. Increased rain chances day on thursday. Possibly even some rip currents and high surf. All day thursday it treks through north florida and then entering into back into the Atlantic Ocean and heads away from us. Through the gulf of mexico, its really entering this area with bath water basically. So it has the fuel to strengthen. And heres the issue though, tuesday even, everybody says yes. All the models say in the central gulf. More con have convoluted. We are watc