An Amber Alert for 11-year-old Montana Breseman, who also uses the name Jordan, has been cancelled after she was found safe in Tampa. The New Port Richey girl disappeared sometime after 11 am Monday morning from River Ridge Middle School. Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco will have press conference at 9 am.

The National Weather Service has confirmed two tornadoes hit the Bay area over the weekend, Saturday, and EF-1 struck near Bradenton and Sunday it was an EF-0 near Winter Haven. Saturday’s storm caused more than $5 million dollars in damage to a townhome unit, with winds reaching gusts of 95 mph.

The Florida Highway Patrol has identified the seventeen-year-old girl that died after she ran over a live power line and her car caught on fire as Valentina Tomashosky. She got out of the car and immediately stepped on a live wire. She was a senior at Central High School in Spring Hill and was a cadet lieutenant in the Navy JROTC. Valentina would have graduated this year.

COVID-19 numbers took a significant drop Monday with 1,163 new cases recorded. The state total has now reached 2,125,846. Sunday’s severe weather closed many sites and there will be more pop-up sites this week to make up for that. For more on the Vaccine in Florida please check with us here.

With some 1,000 job cuts expected in Hillsborough County Public Schools the teacher union is trying to help find a way to keep those jobs. the Hillsborough Classroom Teachers Association of HCTA wants to offer anyone who loses their job the chance to volunteer to move to another school or teaching unit. Most of the cuts will affect high schools.

It’s coming up on sea turtle nesting season so on your next trip to the beach keep an eye out for the areas marked as nests, and leave them alone. Sunday was Sea Turtle Awareness Day and staff and volunteers from the Clearwater Marine Aquarium were out checking areas where the turtles usually nest.

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