can drop up to 12 towers in gibsonton and hillsborough heights collection community in seffner. this is a proactive step in the fight against zica. >> we want to be proactive. we don't want to wait for the concerns to get out of control. this is our answer to help reduce the spread of the virus. >> reporter: commercial businesses are prohibited from participating in the event. tires from commercial vehicles will not be accepted. this is an important event because the virus is showing no signs of slowing down or stopping the spreading of it. just yesterday we found out there was a new case of the virus here in hillsborough county. >> absolutely. melissa moreno live in tampa. thank you >>> the victim in a pasco county home invasion robbery is now dead. paramedics rushed 81-year-old robert walker to the hospital hours after news channel 8 talked to him about the attack. walker told us the teen who attacked him, 14-year-old alex perez had done it before. investigators are working to determine if walker died of natural causes or from injuries he received during the attack. perez is c

and the southbound 75 exit to gibsonton drive here, an accident. and now let's look at traffic. howard frankland bridge is getting busier but still flowing at good speeds. and here's a look out in pinellas county, traffic busier. especially as you head towards tampa. but it's a beautiful drive. and it's actually pretty nice out there. that's a look at weather and traffic. and now back to paul and gayle. >>> republican presidential nominee donald trump has a very distinctive hair style. >> i would say that. but that went by the wayside on "the tonight show" when jimmy fallon asked trump if he could mess his hair up. >> don't know if i would want to do that. how about you? >> i would do it all day long. looks like fun. >> no. the impromptu make over left him looking different only fallon could get away with that. >>> what need to know before you walk out the door is next. >> including a massive sinkhole in polk county. the concerns about the water now running into the aquifer. >>> and an suv smashed up after it crashes into a building. coming up, a look at devastation left behind.

and we're just looking, this is right near gibsonton. and gibsonton. near gibsonton. right near the mouth of the river where it heads into the bay. and so you've got that large open area there. this is at the williams park boat ramp. so obviously some issues there. with i don't know if this came loose if it was moored out into the river. but obviously coming he shore of that boat. we're seeing more and more of these pictures as the sun comes up. and people are starting to survey the damage in and around their homes. and we've seen so many of these where you see the tree itself it's completely fine. just been toppled right over because strong winds that combined with completely saturated ground where basically the root gives way. root system of trees gives way. we're seeing trees, which normally, are much better at withstanding these kind of situations. and we're seeing it with oak trees. we're seeing 60, 70-year-old oak trees. people are saying as long as i can remember. and it's coming down. and time and time dpen we're also seeing these kind of pictures on homes. we

>>russell: ken is live gibsonton. it's a dramatic image, isn't it? >>reporter: it really is dramatic and scary. just imagine if, god forbid, this happened to you one day. you're in the vehicle with kids, loved ones, whomever, and you flip. just when you think that everybody is only out for themselves, a story like this comes along. dozens of passers by came to the rescue of a mom and her two daughters on saturday. their s.u.v. blew a tire. it flipped and ended up on its that, 50 or so, stopped. they make the controversial move, pulling the moms and one of the daughters out of the s.u.v. then they help the younger daughter. she's trapped under the vehicle. at first only a small number of people tried to lift up the vehicle. they cannot do it. they have to wait until more people get there. but as a group, they are able to pull this off. the good news here is not only that they got help but went to the hospital, they all survived the situation. this is t goes viral. you want to talk about it at the water cooler, tell other people there are good people l

about a mile south of gibsonton drive, there's a crash with lanes blocked. plan extra time or take your alternate. there's travel times, looks heavy here. this is definitely one of the heavier travel times we've seen. 33 minutes 275 southbound so maybe a couple of extra minutes here. looks normal along i-4 westbound and 75 southbound. >>jennifer: thanks. later today officials from the pentagon will be on capitol hill. >>russell: they're expected to face questions over the conflict they will be drilled over why the obama administration has not taken more aggressive steps to end the civil war in syria. the latest cease fire all but collapsed. >>jennifer: chicago mayor emmanuel will announce his plan t help combat the spike of violence in the city. the agenda is expected to include more support and mentorship of yout the department will hire nearly 1,000 more officers in the next two years and all officers will use body cameras and undergo deescalation training. >>russell: in the eastern european nation of georgia, this brawl erupted on a political talk show la

. >>> a fire at a gibsonton storage facility torched several rvs this started in one rv on highway 41 and it quickly spread. in all 2rvs are a total loss, a third has major damage. a fishing boat destroyed. they are working to tell about the property out here. >>> new information in a jewelry heist last week. deputies believe they have a new picture of the suspect and it is a much clearer picture. this comes from a similar case in pasco county. eight days ago an employee jumped on his car and he is in serious condition. >>> he came back from the grave so to speak and is getting a new home. >>> today the humane society celebrated the adoption of bart known as the zombie cat. his previous owner buried him in 2015 after he was struck a car. the owner swore the cat was dead but bart was very much alive and clawed his way out of the grave. the humane society helped him. >> he didn't know what a toy was. he didn't know what a litter box was. he didn't know what a cat bed was so initially was getting him healthy and then it was teaching him how to be a spoiled cat which he picked up on very,

and taking a quick look at more travel times through gibsonton and sarasota on 75, 301 to bruce b down, 14 minutes. and st. pete, the 175 to the howard frankland bridge, eight minutes and. a great drive on 75 in sarasota. back to gene and gayle. >> all right. thank you so much. >>> our team coverage continues in sara where some residents are out of their homes this morning as water from the whitaker bayou crept a little too close for comfort. news channel 8's ryan hughes is live along the bayou this morning. ryan, what's the level like right now. >> reporter: good morning once again. we are not far from tamiami trail on a dock over the buy take a look. you can see the water is probably two feet from the dock and roughly two feet from the top of the retaining wall behind me. so significantly different than last night at 11:00 p.m. when it really looked ominous out here. and at that hour, people were getting out of their homes as quickly as they could. listen here. >> is it under water? >> no, it's coming in now. >> you're all right though? >> yes, i'm fine. >> nice officers to come and

. >>> crews in gibsonton keeping a close eye on a fertilizer plant after a barrier wall caught on fire. the big concern keeping watch on chemicals close by and making sure the fire does not reignite. we don't know the cause and no weather team in florida, abc action weather. >>> beautiful day across the bay, bill logan joins us now with a look at your forecast, and a chances of rain -- any chances of rain tomorrow. >>> it will come later in the day late afternoon into -- late afternoon into the evening, quick moving about 30 to 40% coverage. if you get stuck, you could get quite a bit more -- maurice, click -- quite a bit of rain on the doppler over toward bartow, highland city back in the lakeland as well also -- also seeing some showers right along us 301 several -- seven hills back into san antonio working at the spring hill and another -- spring hill and another cell white as you get into the panhandle area right around the big bend over toward trenton and bell up from inglis, all of this looming along seabreeze front and we have more on the way tomorrow, take a look outside steamy

fire is under investigation at a gibsonton rv and boat storage facility. hillsborough county firefighters posting the wednesday afternoon. as you can see, a lost the rvs were charred. >>> new developments this morning. an 83-year-old clear water woman unfortunately has died more than a month after she was beaten. police believe her own son is to blame. daniel richards is now in jail on murder charges. we first told you in july when police arrested him on attempted murder charges. detectives believe richards threw his mom to the floor, stomped on her, beat her, an >>> the florida teenager accused of practicing medicine without a license will not be getting out of jail any time soon. a judge has revoked his bond. police arrested malachi love robinson on fraud charges. police say he tried to buy a car using fake employment information. he now has a public defender, his fourth attorney since he was first charged. >>> a 4-year-old south florida his years. police say johnnie morris picked up that buy while running away from officers. the child bit him and got aw

we have a crash to tell you about in gibsonton at simms road. looking good, though, not seeing any slowdowns but take a look at 301 through that area. pretty slow heading southbound and northbound as well. bit of a slowdown here as well. you might want to leave yourself a few extra areas. i-275 at gandy picking up there. traffic is moving along but pushing 70 from the sunshine sky way. let's check in with action air one. captain al, good morning. >>> good morning, janelle. we flew do i-4 right at macintosh road on the right-hand side of the shot, no problems here. here's ivan with your forecast. >>> checking in with the temps in the 70s and 80s. drier air will limit the storm coverage today. we'll have a few showers and storms. we're talking 10 to 20% mid-07s across the interior counties. right now, titan doppler radar is quiet. similar for the afternoon with the dry air that will inhabit shower and thunderstorm activity. we'll have rain chances at about 10 to 20. as we take you into the weekend, we're tracking karl and lisa, neither of which wi

we are still southbound i-75 at the gibsonton drive exit there. you can see where a truck ended up on its side. they do have the shoulder closed. they are letting traffic get by, albeit slowly. 35, lined up, everything along i-75 is moving smoothly. here's i've within the forecast. >>> all right. you can see another half hour before sunrise. upper 70s across the coast right now. around 80 in st. pete. you can look outside at the river tower cam. it's quiet and that's the way it will stay through most of the day. showers and storms. this is the front that's a tropical storm julia. all of the action is to the east. a few showers are still clipping the carolinas. we had spotty showers in the gulf. this is an invitation and today will be a coverage of 40%. you can see futurecast getting going. by 10:00, still nothing doing as far as any rainfall. once you get into the late lunch period or early afternoon, we'll see the thunderstorms developing through the similar tomorrow and sunday. that's the way it's going to go as we head through the early part of

. >>> northbound 75 at gibsonton drive, but no delays. and the issue in hernando county. and now two issue in hernando. it is completely blocked. fhp tells me they are on the way there. they are told there's a school bus underneath a car here. and it is an injury crash. i will be updating you as this develops. and completely shut down, take cortez boulevard instead. and let's move to the other side of hernando county here. blocked here due to an injury crash right at sunshine grove road. so be on the look out for that. and sun coast parkway looks good as well as the veterans expressway. downtown clearwater, a new accident, chestnut at east avenue. and looks like we have injuries reported and. that's a look at weather and traffic. and now back to gene and gayle. >> thank you. >>> a sad twist in the death of a popular radio personalty. >> what the medical examiner believes killed dave mckay. >>> and a touching tribute at struggles with the death of the pitcher. the moving moment coming up. >>> first, a stand-off between the police and a man on a california overpass. the unu

to help pull a little girl to safety proves it this all happened when a tire blew along i-75 in gibsonton over the weekend. fox 13's ken suarez is live for us along sfi with story. i know lot of people were wondering i-75 was completely shut down while they were working on this. but was story to come out of it. >>> you know this, kind of story doesn't lift your heart on this monday morning i don't know what will. this is really a story about a bunch of regular folks all getting together and putting to save some lives. it happened on i-75 as you said before, saturday, mom and her two daughters around in an suv tire blows the vehicle veefrs flips over and lands on its roof. other drivers immediately stop. they pull the mom and one the daughters out of the vehicle. something a paramedics say you shouldn't do. but they thought it was right thing to do. so they did. now there's, a much bigger problem here. the woman's other daughter is actually trapped under the suv. off of her but they can't because too few people. eventually enough people get together. they have team work going there. they l

301, getting rain and along i-4 and into polk county, one small area of rain here just north of gibsonton where you have a little rain. but again, mainly spotty. some places seeing the rain. everybody is muggy, 89 degrees at 1:00 p.m. and you don't warm up much from there. 40% rain chance and storms by 7:00 p.m. have pushed well east of 5. you can pick out who is either seeing a shower or nearby a shower. cool in zephyrhills at 76. and 10 degrees warmer in plant city at 86. and you get a cool breeze for sure. 88 where it's dry in sarasota and venice, verse 79 in clearwater. again, the only way you get relief. stalled cold front to the north. mainly it's keeping with us an onshore wind. and notice through the next few just migrates farther and farther east and eventually toward the east coast. and then tapers off overnight. and tomorrow morning, now a stray shower is not out of the question again along the coast because of the wind flow. i'm going to bring the rain chance down slightly to 30%. but it's the same general pattern where you see the showers from west to east. and the look at th

ken in gibsonton will show us the picture of what they did. >>reporter: good morning. i'll show you the picture in one second. it's unsettling and number two, in that picture. that's the reality of the situation. that's why it's really an amazing story. just imagine being stuck in a car, trapped, or even worse, pinned nurnd neath a vehicle. a woman was driving on i-75 saturday with two daughters when a tire blue. the s.u.v. flipped over the guardrail and ended up on the median on the roof. working together, the good entire family. they pulled the mom and one of the daughters out of the ford expedition. that goes against what paramedics say, which is don't touch anybody until professional help gets there but they thought they were doing the right thing, so be it. then there's the biggest tug at your heart strings story. the younger daughter was trapped under the vehicle itself. a couple of people tried to move the vehicle but you're only so strong. it took more and more people, number where they were able to lift the vehicle up and hold it up until the paramedics got th

. >>> crews in gibsonton keeping an eye on a fertilizer plant after a barrier wall caught on but we do know nobody was hurt. >>> a polk county school employee accused of stealing from a co-worker. both worked at the learning services building. check out this video, deputies say it shows 47-year-old fontello jobahan rifling through her co-workers desk, taking out her purse and stealing money. the victim decided to set up surveillance on her work laptop after purse disappear twice this month. deputies have now arrested jobahan for grand theft. >>> new information this morning after a huge explosion left 29 people hurt in new york city. authorities are now calling it an intentional act. but city mayor bill de blasio say there's no evidence of a terrorist attack. police believe the blast may have been caused by an explosive device in or near a second device a few blocks from that initial explosion site. they say it appears to be a pressure cooker with wires and duct tape. we'll keep you updated as this story develops. >>> this explosion in new york comes hours after a pipe bomb exploded in

fox 13 ken suarez has dramatic image and story behind it from gibsonton. no matter how assize up what certainly proves one thing, there are a lot of people out there that are willing to go out of their way in times of crisis. >> a ma'am and two daughters were on i-75 saturday when a tire on their suv blew out. the vehicle flipped and ended up on its roof, dozens of people who just happened to be passing by stopped to help. they pulled out the mom and one of the daughters who were trapped inside. we just spoke with the good samaritan, who doesn't want to be identified. he says the mom was pretty banged up. >> he w she had blood coming from both sides of her head. a cut on her face. and she seeing that just broke my heart. a second girl was trapped under the suv when enough people arrived they were actually were able to live girl off her so little one was able to get out and get medical attention. now there is a controversial part of this story. that is that many medical people involved unless you are trained to do so. but people here thought they were doing

is i'll not seeing any big delays heading that way but it's westbound once again, we're seeing on gibsonton but it's near 75. looks like sky fox is kind of per using some backups we're seeing in the opposite direction. we have a single lane blocked, by the way. it's on a tow truck so it's probably clear and look even better as far as the travel times getting back towards normal as you head that way. chapel area, state road 54 bruce b downs blvl, some lane blockage here, seeing primarily westbound delays. meantime, looks pretty clear here, 75 at mlk. westbound drivers on i-4 heading eight minutes. there's congestion there and 75 itself northbound selmon to i-4 should take about six minutes. week, down the next. currently we're paying an average of $2.05 for a gallon of regular grade here in tampa. that's three cents cheaper than last week. and you can find several stations selling it for even less so enjoy the lower prices because we don't know how long it will last. >>russell: driver in washington state comes up a clever way to save gas. instead of sitting in traffic, he piece up a cardboar

out of gibsonton, we still have a closure reported to us, u.s. 41 at sims road. that will be closed due to flooding. i-75 is going to be the work around. compiled list of closures current on my facebook page. check out your area specifically as you wish. dave? >>dave: jim and i have been sitting here all morning just watching this radar. you wish you could just turn off the tap. that's what it seems like. just so much moisture in the atmosphere. with skytower radar, we can go into the gulf and show you this moisture channel. as this moisture channel is just streaming our way, watch. we'll go all the way out the southwest wind, all this left over moisture, now the sun is up and we're creating for instability and take a look at that line of rain. it's waiting in the wings to we're beginning to see places like hernando and citrus. >>jim: it's just like a river. it keeps flowing over the top of us and that's that pem we're going to have throughout the morning with the extremely heavy lighter amounts. so you might get little periods where you've got the lighter rain b