credentials, enabling inspector is playing -- building inspector is playing hide and seek with us. i'm keith cate. >> i'm stacie schaible. a gunshot in the middle of a crowded park, the trigger pulled by a 6-year-old boy, and he got the gun out of his mother's diaper bag. thankfully no one was hurt. the mother's boyfriend owned the gun and is now facing charges. judd chapin, this is scary stuff for those visiting the park. >> reporter: yes, it is. i've been to the park before with my family. normally a peaceful place. it was a beautiful day saturday, and very crowded, so it was shocking when a shot rang out action and even more shocking to find out who fired it. >> >. we started talking agent how to be friends with people. >> reporter: 9-year-old bella was in the park in an organized group of friends.

big boom. >> reporter: just a few feet away a 6-year-old had taken a gun out of his mother's diaper bag. >> all of us started freaking out and didn't know what to do. >> reporter: her mother rushed to the park. >> >. it's a pretty traumatic thing that happened to them, and i don't know how by the grace of god, no one got hurt. >> reporter: police came to the park and charged with 37-year- old with negligence was putting the firearm in his girlfriend's diaper bag. >> yank of too many worse places to store' firearm. >> reporter: and also charged him with tampering with evidence. when he found out police were on the way he tried to throw the gun in the bay. >> he had a right to have the gun, but be mindful of how you take care of it. >> reporter: one woman told me today she was afraid to come back to this normally peaceful

>> it scares me, even today i knew i was coming to a little girl's birthday party, but it scare med. >> reporter: yeah, increeded blue the only injury was the circumstances -- incredibly the only injury was the 6-year-old that suffered a cut lip when the gun recoiled. >> what the did boy's mother do after the shot was fired? >> reporter: according to the witness she told me the woman picked up the gun and put it back in the diaper bag as of nothing had happened. >> wow, incredible stuff. lucky nobody was injured. thank thank you. a store clerk turns the tablings on two men -- tables on two men attempting to rob him. the store clerk is thankful for his life tonight. meanwhile the community is aaron, for the police to find

to find the second gunmanment the first is dead. >> reporter: good evening, when they arrived at the liquor store late last night, they found one of the men on the ground, they figured out who he is, and they're hoping to find his partner who they say fired at the store clerk. that's for sure. >> reporter: that's the sent. for many that frequent this liquor store, the clerks inside >> i wouldn't try it. they should have known. this guy in here, they all loaded, ready to go, so he must not know the neighborhood. >> reporter: surveillance video obtained shows the two gunman walking up and into the store. seconds later they both run out. one of the men collapses on the sidewalk.

>> hey, the other guy lost. >> he needs to go home to his family as well, so he had to do what he had to do. >> reporter: i spoke with the store clerk today and he didn't want to talk on camera, but said he and his wife are tankful he wasn't the -- thankful he wasn't the one killed. the gunmen went into the store firing. >> >. oh, they'll find him. >> reporter: today business resumed at the liquor store. the other clerks telling me they're ready to defend themselves if need be. now people like this woman, a mother of five that works near, is anxious to see the second gunman in hand cuffs. >> i'll talk to my boss about that. >> i have constantly have my head on a swivel. >> reporter: the dead suspect is a convicted felon, and he has several drug charges and has been arrested before for being a felon in possession of a weapon, so a lot of people hoping that they can find that second man this evening. keith back to you.

did there, it sounds like people knew this clerk was armed and they took a chance going inside. what about the clerk, will he face any charges? >> reporter: right now they're saying it's simply self- defense, but will send the case to the state's attorneys office, and it's up to them to go forward with charges or not. >> candace mccowan, thank you. and now to breaking news, two arrests in a weekend shooting at a holiday inn express in st. petersburg. 16-year-old charles jones is charged with teamed murder, and sean turner mcgee, 18, is assault. they're both students at armwood high school, and that's where they were arrested. another breaking news story, at least two students taken to the hospital today after a school bus crash. this is eagle 8hd video of the scene at pine brook road and water street in inverness. 2 -- venice.

drug, guns, and explosives, all within reach of a 5-year- old norm a venice coupling is -- now a venice couple is facing charges. dhs came to check on a child in their care, and found rifles, hand guns, two pipe bombs and hand grenades, and also found the drug spice. the child is now in protective custody. he scammed 13 elderly people, and police believe there are more victims. dennis is facing charges. police believe he took money from victims to fix cracks in driveways. one woman gave him hundreds of dollars out of her social security money. >> so he says okay, you need to give me $400 for materials, so i said okay i'm not going to give him cash.

the next morning i get up and it's all spots like that. it wasn't covered even. >> and there may be other victims out there, at least that's what deputies believer, all across the tampa bay area. if you think there's too much traffic on gandy boulevard, what about driving above it? >> it's part of a plan transit fish officials are considering to -- officials are considering to connect two major roadways. so how much will it cost? and he's paid thousands of dollars a year to do a job he's not qualified to do, and now taxpayers are helping to pick up the slack. temperatures have really jumped back. 78 for a high today, and the southwest flow added moisture back to the atmosphere, but there are changes. storms and much cooler weather. we're not done with wintertime yet. that forecast is coming up. that and more coming up.

a big step forward in a project decades in the making. transit officials voted to pay for design plans to eggs tends the se -- extend the selman expressway to gandy boulevard.

bridge. this project is expected to cost about $192 million. they're very unlikely allies. uber drivers, cab drivers and bus, but they're teaming up to make transportation for accessible. it's called direct connect, and it's aimed at fixing a common transportation problems, gooding access to a -- getting access to a bus stop. >> that's what this partnership is all about, being a part of the community, and increasing access to transportation for the people of pinellas park. >> to use the service just interest a code into the uber app. right now the pilot program is only for pinellas park, but if it's a success it could expand.

near a $100,000 a year for a job he's not qualified to do. >> a building administrator's license lapse, and now it's

now an update on our 8 on your side investigation, license lapses. >> >. a building stair not licensed to do his job -- administrator not licensed to

out another company is hired to do it for him, and the taxpayers are paying for it. >> the new firm costs $78,000 to hire, and that's on top of the sol ricky blake the building industry -- salary the already receiving. mark spent to day trying to track him down. >> he spent the day dodging us with the bless offing his boss, the -- blessing of his boss, the city manager and help from his employees. >> reporter: this is tarpin springs city hall, where people come to do business every die, but on this -- day, but on this day the development service office is locked down. the state has been investigating the town building official for a month now because his license to serve as a building administrator expired last october. city commissioners were blind sided by that news. >> we didn't really know exactly where we stood with

>> reporter: he got his $95,000 a year job with the sole requirement of obtaining a permanent license. now the city has to pay outside consultants to do his job at the rate of $140 an hour. what do you tell taxpayers when they see this story about your town building official that doesn't have the legal credentials to do his job and he's paid $90,000 a year? >> well, my explanation is nothing has not been done in the time period. >> reporter: so what's he doing if he's not the town building official? >> you'll have to ask him. >> reporter: we'll love to, but he's playing hide and seek. >> well, he's a busy guy. >> reporter: yeah, busy avoiding us. >> he's not here right no . here. building. >> i was unaware. >> reporter: we tried everything.

would you come to the window. we're confused why a staff member would say he's not there. we watched him walk into city hall about an hour ago, and we're pretty sure he's not in a meeting. he only has two this week, and the first one isn't until wednesday. all we could get out of his boss was three simple words. >> it's not over. >> it's not over by any strength. he facessizations. meanwhile, we're told he streamlined the billing her better building permit process and doing building inspections himself. we watched him arrive and then vanished after that. we couldn't find him. >> i have to ask a little when you knock on a window. but the point is, the man is there, he doesn't have the right license, and we don't why not?

a slyness there, but the city commissioner did say there's a personal thing going on with him and she understands that. unfortunately the public might not. she did insist he's studying very hard for the final exams to get the license he has to have by law. >> seems like somebody should be held accountable there. >> we're trying. >> thank you mark. i mentioned that 78-degree high, that actually came with sun sunshine, but right now actually quite a few clouds. south wind of 12 miles per hour. decent amount too if he lake club and -- at the lake club. this is south of the bay. the southern part of manatee county. southwest minuted at 10 miles per hour, so pretty decent clouds from the west. also torrent a full moon, if you can see it. hopefully you can. it's called a snow moon from february being the snowiest month in the united states.

moon in the month of february, it's a short month. morning. sun rise, a few clouds, and also clearer skies there. at 9:00 p.m. 68, 64 at 7:00 a.m. with a few showers possible, this evening. 77 tomorrow, a warm one. like today. 73 current temperature at tampa international. dewpoint in the 60, making some recovery thanks to a southwest breeze, same story downtown in st. petersburg. 72. this area of low pressure, first rounds causing some showers, mostly rain, not much in the way of lightning cross across the south from the carolinas, almost to texas. for us it's been a pretty good stream of clouds from west to east, that and combine this with a weak disturbance moving from south to north off the coast of florida and lifting to the new york city, that may move a -- north, and that may

some folks in avan park, cbs -- avon park, sebring, may pick up a few showers, but we're just saying you can't rule out the possibility of a passing light shower, especially southern areas. forecast, partly cloudy skies, maybe that stray shower, you just saw them on radar. for tuesday morning partly cloudy skies, light shower possible, we'll lever about a 20 percent -- lever about a 20 percent chance, favoring inland spots, but plenty of clouds with us, and mix in a little sunshine throughout the day. the changes come wednesday. another area of low pressure out of the west, and moves just to the north. it's going to move quickly, so wednesday morning we're talking possibly even for the commute time 6,, 7:00, 8:00 in the morning. the thought the front pushing through, the afternoon is clear, and then start a cooling trend to carry the rest of the week, so definitely not done with the cooler air as you'll see in the seven-day.

winds usher in the cooler air. 76 wednesday, thursday start to drop to 66, and rain chances wednesday mostly before noon, the first half of the day, and into the rest of the week, temperatures stay in the 60s, all the way through the weekend, so we had 60s a couple of weeks ago, and we're going back to the trend for the short term action the rest of the week kind of chilly. >> and our apologies to the others not getting as much money these last two months. >> they're working for me. it's been great. sport social security coming your -- sports is coming

rays out fielder steven soza jr. could be the first casualty of spring training. he injured himself diving for a ball, he says it's not serious, but we know how that goes, and all rays pitchers and catchers are accounted for, and each one has had a bull pen session. last spring smiley and cobb experienced trouble, cobb had tommy john surgery, but the manager is thrilled with how the pitchers handled the off season this time. >> last year we had a couple guys in big league camp for the first time, and you know, had opportunities to get to the big leagues, so they probably took some information from last year and utilized it the off season, but for the most part they've come in throwing multiple bull pen, the arms and legs are already underway of being in shape.

lightning woke up this morning in second place in the atlantic division. last week we all panicked after they dropped out of a playoff spot, but three consecutive wins changed that. they're home tomorrow night. now today is the 57th anniversary of this. lee petty, the 42 car in the middle there winning the inaugural daytona 500. it took three days to determine the winner, but thanks to modern day technology we got see the amazing image of denny hamlin winning in the closest daytona 500 ever. it was an incredible finishing. and this was stunning, one of the great runs in college sports came to an end, the tennessee womens basketball team fell out of ap top 25 for

565 consecutive weeks, unfortunately this was inevitable, they've fallen steadily as the season progressed. they're 16 and 11, but dropping steadily. you know, that's the distance, from me to stacie schaible. >> and you tweeted that. >> i was calling that. >> big denny fan. he's a heck of a racer. all right, we'll be back at 7:00, nbc nightly news is next. >> and we'll see you back here

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