why he may be worse off after the trip. good evening i'm stacie schaible. >> and i'm keith c ate. and we understand a man tried to rob a clerk with a knife. >> reporter: this robber tried to take cash and the teller defended himself. the clerk is still shaken up but he still does plan to come back. let's go to video from eagle8hd. you can see the scene was roped off earlier. this happened around 3:30 this afternoon. again detectives telling us

gun. the clerk shot him. that man was taken to the hospital with life threatening injuries. we did speak to the clerk's brother who tells us the clerk very shaken up. again so is his family. his wife at home worried. here's what he had to say. >> his wife she was panicking. she has twins coming in soon. and she was freaking out, crying and all that. she thought, i thought something happened to my brother but thank god nothing happened. >> reporter: again the clerk's brother very relieved nothing happened to him brother. but again we're still waiting for more information from detectives this evening regarding this shooting. we're still waiting on a condition update on that man who came in here and attempted to rob this clerk a little bit earlier. keith. >> jamel lanee reporting live with breaking news in tampa. thank you. stranded in the ocean desperate to reach the shore. a cruise ship out of tampa

and the people they rescued all came from cuba. the number of cubans making that daunting journey to the u. s. is skyrocketing. jeff ritter is reporting from tampa with more. >> reporter: more than one cruise ship has served as a rescue vessel recently for people desperate to leave cuba. >> it looked like someone built a shack on top of a row boat. >> reporter: libby was on a caribbean cruise ship when the captain said they were going to turn around. >> these people were in the smallest vessel you've ever seen out in the open water. >> reporter: this is exclusive video of another rescue at sea taken by a carnival cruise ship

>> reporter: it's something the coast guard is seeing a will the of lately. >> month by month, little by little we're getting more and more cubans coming in from the florida straits. >> reporter: the coast guard has seen an increase in the number of cuban migrants they've encountering. >> reporter: lieutenant commander soma told me today they found two primary reasons that people are making this desperate attempt. >> one is well the economic opportunity and the conditions in cuba haven't improved. and two and this is really the biggest up tick, the perception going to change. >> reporter: for some the coast guard says it's a life and death decision. >> very often because they're traveling in unseaworthy vessel, often times out there

them they're in very rough shape. >> reporter: yeah the coast guard maintains the u.s. immigration policy is not changing and hasn't changed they want people to know that so that perhaps they can stem this tide of refugees trying to leave cuba, stacy. so jeff, why do people in cuba believe things are changing? >> there are a lot of rumors flying stacie. people believe because u.s. and cuba relations have changed, they're worried the door will closed. we have an awful case to report of abuse out of sarasota tonight. two parents accused of starving and beating their children.

that third child a 6-year-old boy is in foster care tonight. and a scary start to the new semester for a usf student. someone attacked her while she was unloading her car. on saturday afternoon, the student told police a man grab her and kissed on the cheek in the parking lot of green village. a pit bug attacked a seeing service dog. and now the owner is worried her service dog will no longer work. >> reporter: the owner is worried that her dog is still spooked. in an instant they were attacked by a pack of pit bulls. and so, now she's recovering, he's worried that she's afraid

he doesn't know what he'll do. >> reporter: for richard draper, andy is not just his best friend. as a guide dog, she is his whole world. >> basically she means my freedom. >> reporter: draper needs her, because he's legally blind. and last week, he nearly lost her. >> the pair went for a walk down this street when two pit bulls ran out and attacked them. it took a while to fight them off and andy got pretty banged up. some photos were too gruesome for television. >> she's bleeding from the neck and she's coughing up blood. i'm like i was angry. i was angry because, i was attacked. i was angry because my dog almost got killed. >> reporter: since then andy has been recovering. and draper has been unable to take her on walks. >> are you concerned that this attack could affect her ability to help you. >> yes, it very well could. >> reporter: andy came from south eastern guide dogs. these animals cost 10s of

take up to two years to train. >> andy his guide dog could very easily be traumatized from that and tell him she no longer wants to work. >> reporter: south eastern guide dogs is monitoring andy daily and getting him retrained for her job. but they remain optimistic that he will be able to serve draper again because draper doesn't know what he would do without her. >> reporter: i went to the home where the pit bulls live. the person at the home told me the owner of the dogs was not interested in talking. meanwhile police are investigating. >> reporter: does the guard dog's owner considering filing charges. >> reporter: he says he is considering it if his dog is not able to work again.

keep an eye out for your dogs because these are the eyes of the blind. hillsborough detectives are looking for this man. the victim told the gunman he did not have cash so the robber forced the victim to go to a near by atm and withdraw some money. well, a multi million dollars overhaul for a bay area store. we're going to show you which community's grocery store is getting a big make over. >> plus pawn problems for a veteran. what8 on your side found out about his deal with the pawn shot and why police are now involved. temperatures will fall quickly. they already are in many areas with that sun going down and temperatures dropping with the loss of the sun radiation.

the latest embassy news and poll shows rubio in third place in iowa before the caucus there in two weeks. and is running second in new hampshire at this point. a bill that came out about after the p atti the dog case you may recall, that is moving through the legislator. patti dogged a child at a vet office. late today, patti's law cleared the senate community affairs committee and has one more committee to pass before the full senate vote. a bay area grocery store is

store is going to become a safeway. included in the upgrades a starbucks location inside the store. the upgrade is expected to finish this spring. a keepsake pawned out of desperation. >> now it might be gone forever. >> an investigation into a u.s.

two problems, a veteran down on his luck turned to a pawnshop.

taken him for a ride. this veteran brought his sister's wedding ring to the pawnshop hoping to earn enough money to get back on his feet. >> but his trip to that shop farther. real mess. this veteran has all the paper work to prove that he deserves the ring back but the ring is gone and the pawnshop makes no apologies. them. >> reporter: at a low point, army veteran ronny lakeman made a bad decision. >> everything went down and we couldn't afford anything. >> reporter: with his wife's permission he dropped off a wedding ring. he took out a $200 loan and paid interest. it's been two years and cost him a thousand dollars.

balance and pick up the rings but they're gone. the explanation. >> they can't find them, they're missing, they don't know where they went. the lady told me, i can't find them. i'm sorry, they should be there. there's no reason they should be gone. >> reporter: duffey turned to 8 on your shop and i paid the pawnshop a visit. >> where's the ring. >> i'm not speaking about this. >> reporter: the manager stacy harris did not want to talk. >> i would just like to get your side of the story. >> i'm not speaking about this. i've spoke with detectives, i'm not speaking with y'all. >> reporter: detectives tell us that you haven't been able to show them anything to show them what happened to the ring. >> i'm with a customer. >> reporter: she told us to wait outside for the owner to get to work but i guess she changed her mind. >> you're on private property and you need to leave. >> reporter: back at her desk, the owner marie polk called but no answers there either. >> if you took his $50en $50

did you not have his ring. >> then when i call you you tell me you don't know where the ring is then you tell me you know it's been scrapped. which one is the truth. >> reporter: this leaves duffey with little hope of ever getting the rings back. >> if the law says they have to have a record. if you're all of a sudden you come up with the idea that maybe you pull them. why do you keep taking payments? >> reporter: i'm not the only one asking tough questions here, the plant city police department paid the pawnshop a visit today too. they want to know where this ring is and why the pawnshop thought they had the right to get rid of it. >> reporter: is it just me or is this the second time that police have been called to chase you off. >> yeah, i can't deny that. >> how long can a pawnshop legally keep your thing? under what circumstances can you keep it. >> if you stop making your payments they can get rid of it. but the law is clear they have to wait at least 30 days they

>> and that didn't happen. >> the last time they have to wait 30 days the receipt was pretty clear he just paid two days before christmas. >> the investigation will go on. i look forward on the outcome of this one. hopefully one day someone will contact you on this one. where is the ring or where is the money. >> that's right. well, winter temperatures have arrived in tampa bay. here's what it looked like along bay shore boulevard today. we spotted plenty of folks bundled up in jackets and hats another cold morning for floridians. that's a very nice idea. we have rain chances moving back in. days are getting a little longer. look at that gorgeous sunset same in the western part of citrus county.

you can see the view from frenchies looks pretty good too. that's a cool temp out of the beach. freeze warnings in place, levie, citrus, hernando county. from 2:00 a.m. until 8:00 a.m. of course it's freeze warning it could be several hours near or below freezing. frost not a great likelihood but there's always a possibility in areas. 52degrees clear water beach. treasure island. these are the current temps, odessa 65. the arcade -- arcadia up to denton. lows tonight with the clear skies radiational cooling the heat we develop goes right up into the sky. 36 crystal river, 43 in sarasota. the rain chances do take a jump. about a 60% chance of showers

we saw the tornadoes down in cape coral on saturday. we have an el nino. we can't rule out the possibility of seeing severe thunderstorms including tornadoes. jackets tonight, absolutely. maybe some high clouds for us. right now again the look at the temperatures around locally are mostly in the 50s as we saw a couple of minutes ago. around the rest of the state you can see 45 degrees up in pensacola. seeing temperatures near 0 degrees. there we go. let's get back to that graphic. if you saw the football game in minnesota that was on sunday. current temps 6 degrees in minneapolis. boston is not bad at 30 degrees. same in new york city at 32 degrees. there's cold air trapped up there to the north. we're tapping into some of that cool air with some of this high pressure to the west. the flow around there on the eastern side of the highs

the flow clock wise. that's why the warming is expected. most of the clouds are well to the south obviously. high pressure will continue to be the big feature the next couple of days. temperatures will stay chilly in the morning and afternoon. actually below normal temperatures. we do take a jump with the temps at the end of the week along with that rain chance. still sunny, maybe a few of those high clouds. high pressure will continue to shift slowly. but we're still getting that cool shift from the north to northeast. that's why the temperatures will continue to stay on the cool side. highs from tomorrow, generally in the 60s throughout this period. 63degrees in plant city. 65 in braydenton. 64degrees on wednesday. there's the rain chance of 30%. then 40% as we get into friday. could be some thunderstorms as we mentioned. had some nasty thunderstorms farther to our south this weekend. as we get into the weekend, we start cooling off again. monday 59.

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last confirmed interview by the bucks. while the media sentiments that this is cutter's job to lose, there's still one more hurdle. the eagles by the way just interviewed a fifth coaching candidate over the weekend. and tonight, is college football's big night. alabama and clemson will play in the national championship game in alabama. we're waiting to have one of these college play offs games be close. there's the alabama defense and clemson offense. and they hope to cap a magical season with a title. >> it would be a dream come true. because those are things that don't happen every day. and if -r us to be able to win will make this very special -- and for us to be able to win will make this very special.

play fast and be confident in yourself. i'm confident in myself. i know the game plan and i know what i'm doing. that's one of the reasons we play fast. the lightning wrap up their western play off tomorrow. and the quiet workings off the ice could take center stage very soon. we're talking of course about jonathan duran reports say. a trade could happen very soon. duran had 14 nhl scouts at his debut last week. one team in particular the st. louis blues kept their top scout around on durant watch. this is not a big deal for heiserman who of course needs equal value for duran but can't afford to take on a big con track. so you're looking at big players coming in. is that equal value? i don't know. usf women's basketball. top 20 today.

gave you kind of a scare. but good for the bulls. >> stacie still licking her wounds over that one. >> it was like missing a two foot put but laces out. >> much the same. >> steve and jim back at 7:00. we'll see you at 11:00.