christopher conti has a very long rap sheet. 30 pages long. and he obviously was not trying to get caught. >> g got him! >> reporter: chchristopher conti had no regard for human life as he sped through the streets of new port richey yesterday. from six different angles. >> there could have been a family coming home from practice, from picking up the kids after day care. and this individual would have destroyed them. >> reporter: they tried to pull him over and pasco county sheriff's office joined in as conti ran wildclocking speeds up to 6060 miles an hour. >> i saw the suspect's vehicle swerving, driving wrecklessly. >> reporter: deputy paul reagan was part of the pursuit. watch as he tried to stop conti but gets hammered by his truck. >> i see him looking forward and his eyes, they got pretty big to where he knew he had to either come back onto the road or he was going to go into the ditch. i saw him rip onto the wheel and turn into my vehicle. >> reporter: deputies swarmed the truck after stop sticks took out conti's tire and they wrestle hi

deputies say 46- year-old christopher conti was intoxicated and swerving on the road. they chased him from port richey to trinity where he was caught after ramming into two patrol cars. was hurt. once arrested, deputies found drugs and paraphernalia inside conti's truck. he faces a number of charges. when you are in downtown st. pete, you've probably is now that the pier is gone. today, you have a chance to weigh in on what it will look like. 10news reporter emerald morrow is emerald, officials feedback to help shape the future of the waterfront. - that's right - this is your opportunity to help the city decide how to spend the 20 million dollars it has budgeted to build a new pier approach which will connect the pier to downtown st. pete. lot of innovative here's a look at some of the renderings architects have released about how this area could look in the next few years. - restaurants, art spaces, open-air, an open air market...these are looking at placing right in this area for you to enjoy - but they do want you to know that tonight's meeting is not about making m

pascoe county sheriff said christopher conti was out of control and intoxicated. deputies followed him from port richie to trinity where he ran to patrol cars. this body can video shows his arrest. the video you are looking at will help sheriff offices around the case. >>> taxpayer concerns in tampa. the authority to schedule we saw these long lines at the month. file. >>> the ceo gawker on the stand today in the former professional wrestler hulk hogan sex tape trial. the jury looking at how the views celebrity privacy. gawker founder nick denton says right to know and a public figures privacy, there is a other. he was asked by hogan's attorneys what he thought about the article. he said he didn't have a problem with it. hogans attorney made him read part of the article out loud. >> i thought it was a relatively gentle peace under the circumstances. >> dehumanizing. >> think of the end for aj that had a touch of sweetness to it. >> the defense rests sometime tomorrow afternoon. >>> new information about fallout surrounding tampa politicians. if anything went down

the pasco county sheriff's office says 46-year-old christopher conti was intoxicated and swerving on the road. deputies followed him into pinellas county where they say he rammed his truck into two patrol cars. they found drugs and paraphernalia inside his truck. he faces a number of charges including aggravated assault with a vehicle. it's your choice in 2016 and today is a very important day for the presidential candidates. there are 5- primaries-- including florida. more than one- thousand delegates are up for grabs. trump was in tampa on monday where he got support from attorney general pam bondi and former alaska governor sarah palin. protesters who made their way in the room -- managed to disrupt the event 5 minutes. trump's rivals are targeting the g-o-p front runner -- and have been raising concerns about the tone of his rallies. marco rubio needs to win florida to keep his campaign alive. but trump leads the senator-- by a more than 2-to-1 margin. on the democratic side -- hillary clinton and bernie sanders are neck-and-neck in illinois. sanders is focusing on midwestern sta

deputies joined the chase trying to pull over christopher conti on state road 54. he intentionally rammed into patrol cars. stop sticks blew out his tires and he was taken to the grown. he told deputies i'm out of my mind on drugs while he was being arrested. he remain ins the pasco county jail. >>> some polk county business owners want a level playing field when it comes to alcohol sales. right now, polk county law restricts the sale of alcohol before noon on sundays. some polk county business owners f feel they can't compete with businesses in lakeland. ththat city now allows alcohol to be sold from 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m., seven days a week. they want the polk commission to chchange the hours. >> i don't see the point. i would like to have some idea of how much momoney they think morning by not having alcohol sales. i just don't think it is any big deal. >> i think mr. smith has the wrong impression that it is not financially impacting our businesses when it severely is. >> commissioners did vote to have staff comome up with an ordinance similar to lakelands. the

the sheriff's office says 46- year-old christopher conti was intoxicated and swerving. here. deputies followed him into pinellas county where they say he rammed his truck. they found drugs and paraphernalia inside of his trucks. he faces a number of charges. and tomorrows, it's a very important day for the presidential candidates. there are five primaries including florida and more than 1000 delegates up for grabs. trump with informs tampa today where he got support from attorney general pam bondy. protesters who made their way into the room managed to disrupt the event five times in the first 15 minutes. trump's rival is targeting the gop frontrunner and have written concerns ab the tone of his rally. >> one difference between this and at the donald trump rally, i'm not asking anyone to punch you in the face. >> we're make comments at a rally. that's a toxic environment. >> some fighting words there. marco rubio needs to win florida to keep his campaign alive. but trump leads the senator by more than a two to one margin. and bernie sanders are neck in neck in illinois. >>> n

. >> reporter: christopher conti had no regard for human life as he sped through the streets of new port richey. >> there could have been a family coming home from practice, from picking up the kids at the day care and this individual would have absolutely destroyed them. >> reporter: it started around 6:30 when fhp tried to pull him over. deputies joined in as conti kept running. this deputy tries to stop him but gets hammered by his truck. deputies finally swarm the truck when stop sticks take out his tire and they wrestle him >> you have a person drugged out of his mind driving a 5,000- pound vehicle. that is like somebody running through a mall with a gun waving it. >> reporter: conti is facing several charges including aggravated battery, fling, eluding, and drug possession. nobody was hurt during this incident miraculously. jamel lanee, newschannel8. >>> this picture was just sent in by billll phillips in treasure island showing the fog. here is the picture from boc a cega bay. kind of a cool picture. so we will have the fog kind of huging the immediate coastline. about 8:00 or 9:0

the driver, "christopher conti," eventually rammed his truck into a pair of patrol cars, at "trinity boulevard" and "trinity oaks." no one was injured, and conti was taken into custody, and charged with "aggravated battery" against a law enforcement officer. detectives say: they also 3 "john made us better, he made this program better, he makes this sheriff's office better, and he's gonna be missed." --walter hillsborough county deputy john kotfila, junior... will be laid to rest on friday. he died in the line of duty... in a selfless and remarkably brave way. 3 ((walter)) investigators and witnesses believe deputy kotfila *intentionally drove his cruiser into the path of a wrong-way driver. no one believes that more... than the woman he saved. 3 ((walter "sarah geren" was driving with her boyfriend on the selmon expressway early saturday morning... when she noticed a pair of headlights coming directly at her... the wrong way. she flashed her headlights rapidly at the vehicle... but it just kept coming. moments from impact, a deputy's cruiser came out of nowhere and swerved in front

christopher conti was intoxicated and squirming on the road. hurt. deputies found drugs and paraphernalia inside his truck. he faces charges. >>> if you have been wondering what is next for downtown st. pete, today you have a chance to weigh in on what you want to see near the pier. emerald morrow joins us live. >> reporter: throughout the city's history there have been lots of different fears and attached to each and every one of them. and architects say this is that is why they want everybody to come out and way in on what this would look like because it in something they want if you come out tonight you will see brand-new renderings make refinements to the waterfront plan that has been approved by city council. attraction that connects and the want to drill in on the details of the design. we are expecting to see spaces and restaurants but if you have chance to have your voice heard. if you want to chime in, tonight's meeting is 7:00 at the usf st. pete university student center ballroom at 206th avenue, south. building the approach will be workin

deputies tried to get christopher to pull over, but he refused. conty led them on a chase. when he got to east lake road, he rammed two patrol cars and then tried to hit two others. >> the supervisors were able to get out of the way of trucks. we utilized stop sticks, and finally, the vehicle mechanic mechanically failed. >> he faces multiple felonies. he has an extensive criminal >>> a make or break day tomorrow for the white house. >> florida voters getting a chance to weigh in. florida is the biggest prize, as we know. 99 delegates up for grabs. campaigns going on all across the state. people wanting you to vote. a polling place in tampa to tell us about that final push in tampa bay. michael? >> reporter: some of these volunteers were going around to dozens of polling locations putting in signs in front saying trump. this is the man they want people to vote for. >> reporter: buddy brown has 300 signs in the back of his voting for donald trump instead of rubio. >> i won in a landslide. >> reporter: campaign volunteers had a campaigning day. >> he had the ability and the g