this to her brother. >> it hurts. it hurts so bad. i just don't know what to do. >> reporter: jessica washington was visibly shaken wednesday, devastated at the thought of what happened to her brother david. >> that's a sad thing to wake up to and listen to. >> reporter: she stood by as investigators investigated the vicious triple murder along the -- in lakeland. the three in the home shot to death. a fourth man felix campos was found alive. he had been shot in the face. the local sheriff described it as a slaughter. family and friends of the victims in disbelief. >> i need to call her. i didn't call her. >> reporter: we were told that one of the young women was a mother of two. >> to kill another human being for nothing. it's sad. it's always sad. that was senseless.

you kill a mother with two kids. >> reporter: washington also tells us she was at the home last night, just hours before this apparently happened. shaken by the thought of what could have happened to her or her children. >> i can't believe it. >> my kids could have been hurt. my kids come here all the time. i just -- i don't know what to say. >> reporter: and now the investigation goes on to the hunt for the killer or possibly killers in this case. investigators tell us that they will be eventually speaking with that fourth person shot inside of this home once he recovers. and also speaking with people in the neighborhood hoping to gather information that could possibly lead to the arrest of a suspect. reporting live in lakeland, rodney abc action news. >> a doctor and his lawyer wife

the couple made a first appearance in court today. they turned themselves in this morning. investigators say back in december, the child ran to a neighbor's house with her hands and feet zip tied. she said her parents locked her in a play house in the home. the couple's attorney claims they were trying to protect her from herself. but neighbors who called 911 were troubled by what they saw. >> i hear the door bell ring. her hands and feel are zip tied and her wrists are all bruised. she is tied up and freaking out. >> investigators don't before that they have had prior dealings with dcf. police looking for two armed robbers caught on surveillance video. it was at the citgo gas station. two masked men walk in, point a gun at the clerk and then leave.

case, call crime stoppers. you could be eligible for a cash reward. how are you doing, everybody. titan doppler radar showing rain across the area. pinellas county up to northern pinellas and west chase, trinity area and pasco county and down south across areas of manatee and sarasota county, primarily back to the east and polk county some of the heavier showers. now, the rains continue to move in from the east. overall over the next few hours while we will see cloudy skies we won't see as much rain after 8:00, 9:00. waking up to dry conditions this week into the weekend. i think that changes as we get a one-two punch. the first area arrives on friday afternoon. the second area arrives by saturday night. that could be heavier. we will pinpoint all of the details in a couple of minutes.

washington. congress just sending legislation to repeal the affordable care act to president obama's desk. there have been dozens of failed attempts to do this in the past. this would defund planned parenthood as well. president obama is expected to veto the legislation. but gop leaders are scheduling an override sewed. a kissimmee police officer will stay on the job tonight after accidentally killing his k-9 officer and trying to lie about it. the officer was charged or changing patrol cars and forgot to bring the dog with him. the dog was left in the unair conditioned care for three hours. the officer told his superiors that he was in an air conditioned vehicle. he later admitted to exactly what happened. he was suspended for 160 hours and removed from the k-9 patrol. a new campaign is underway tonight to keep guns from

it's called don't lie for the other guy. the message from the shooting sports foundation and the bureau of alcohol, firearms and explosives is aimed at so- called straw buyers. that's when you buy a gun for someone else who legally can't. anyone convicted of straw buying could face ten years in prison. a high speed ferry is one step closer to taking off in tampa bay. officials agreed to earmark $350,000 for the project. the city of st. pete has already done the same thing. if approved a six-month pilot project would launch in october and run through april of 2017. the but the city of tampa and city leaders have to approve the idea first. still to come, neighborhood outranged. a convicted sexual predator living near a place where children play. why a judge says there is nothing that the law can do

growing tonight. still looking at clouds out there from the main sail. clouds and even showers. the heaviest rain is on the other coast. we will let you know how it's shaping up for the weekend in

>> at this hour, u.s. officials saying it's highly unlikely that north korea actually pulled off a successful test of a hydrogen bomb. they said it's the right to defend itself from, quote, evil war mongers like the united states. still officials are launching so-called nuclear sniffing planes just to be safe and experts are doubtful. >> they're bragging and puffing themselves up. they don't actually have the capability to obliterate the korean peninsula. the bad news is they're trying. >> with north korea heavily sanctioned the security council

in response but vow to take further significant measures. to an outraged neighborhood in central florida. a judge agreed to let a convicted sexual predator continue living near where children play. the judge saying the sexual predator is not violating his probation by living too close to a bus stop. he bought his home in october, two months after his plea deal for molesting a 10-year-old girl. >> pro base admitted that they did a 20-minute drive-by. they didn't even know our community dock area for our children existed. they didn't even factor that in. >> meanwhile residents want to see the ordinance readsed. tonight a police officer pleading not guilty to the

air rifle. the 37-year-old faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted in the fatal 2013 shooting of germane mcbean. mcbean was killed while carrying a real looking air rifle across his shoulder at the apartment complex. mcbean probably did not hear commands to drop the rifle because he was listening to music with his headphones on. a grand jury dieting a texas state trooper for perjury in connection with the san bra blan case. she is the woman who died in a texas jail three days after being arrested on a traffic stop. the death was ruled as a suicide. the officer has been on desk due desince that -- desk duty since the death. a convicted certificatal killer is living his final hours. executed tomorrow night at 6:00.

young women in the is the 80s including terry lynn matthews. barring any last appeals he will be the 92nd person put to death in florida since 1976. the last eddie davis who was killed in july of 2014 for the 1994 kidnapping, rape and murder of 11-year-old kimberly ann waters of lakeland. family members are expected to speak after his death tomorrow night. time is running out to get your ticket for the powerball drawing. the jackpot up to 500 million bucks. the cash payout of the winning numbers, $306 million. officials telling us today that they are selling about # thousand tick -- 9,000 tickets per minute. if no one wins it will make the drawing $675 million on

largest lottery prize in history. the deadline to get your ticket is 10:00 tonight. download our free mobile app. we will send a push alert once the winning numbers are drawn. if you are the big winner, what should you do? experts say first and foremost, sign the back of your ticket. that way no one can take it from you and claim that they bought it. financial planners recommend waiting at least six months before spending any of your winnings. who can do that? come on. don't quit your job just yet. hire financial planners to help you make decisions about your future. >> now, what about when there's 20 people in a pool? >> right. >> does everybody sign it. >> i guess so. >> like we have here at work. >> right. >> dennis went out and got our tickets last night. >> you shamed me last night. >> i did. we're all in it. we're excited. we're going to win. >> if we win, we will have to thank you with 50 bucks. >> we're not going to quit our job either.

>> they do? >> that's what the experts say. what do i know. >> might spend some time at the beach. with good reason. right now the beach is cloudy and some rain out there. and there it is. you see the showers around western manatee county from sarasota up to bradenton. heavy showers in polk county and highlands county. nothing severe out of this. later this weekend, we could be talking about stronger thunderstorms ahead of the same storm that is affecting the west coast of the u.s. right now. that is a classic el nino setup. and one that we will be seeing a lot of through march and into april. 60s across much of the area and upper 50s across the northern counties. from tampa, mostly cloudy skies. 62 degrees. although it's raining in saint pete and clearwater. also 62 with north/northeast winds at 10 miles per hour.

we hit 67. normally we're at 70. this time last year we were at 74. begin, normal is 7 -- again, normal is 70. that's why when we were in the 80s around christmas it was incredible. we didn't break a record today. we were actually a bit below normal thanks to the clouds and the scattered showers that developed right on cue over on the east coast. we talked about that last night. figured the moisture would cut across the state. it did that. tomorrow we see some of the moisture cutting off while we wake up with clouds and fog. i think maybe even some patchy dense fog. other than that, we see it burn off by 9:30, 10:00. then the rest of the day is nice. sunnier than today. warmer than today. mid 70s. so back up a little above normal. friday, that's when we begin to see the change. while clouds build in the morning, our first chance of rains will be o rolling in right around late afternoon and early evening. now, this point don't think it will be severe.

of a broken line more than anything. not a big deal. we will watch it. it's the second area, the one that comes in saturday night that has our attention just a little bit more. we will touch on in -- touch on that in a second. mid 70s for the rest of the viewing area. so there is what is going on out west. as i said, we will track this storm across the deep south and when that trailing cold front comes into our area by saturday night, that brings us the chance for some heavier, possibly severe thunderstorms. we will be watching that one closely over the next couple of days. not until saturday night. there's the 7-day. maybe a shower east of us on thursday. friday, that late afternoon stuff. and then the weekend, late saturday into sunday morning, that's when the rains arrive. they're gone by sunday afternoon. and next week, sunny and

folks, when your goaltender and top scorer are named to the all-star team, especially your goaltender, you would think that the team was well positioned for the playoffs. but we're talking about ben bishop and steven and the lightning here. and they are currently two points behind boston for the final playoff spot. but the bruins have two games in hand. for bishop, forget the record. his save percentage certainly worthy. stammer has 17 goals. this all-star is doing noing to take the sting out of the way that this lightning team is struggling at this point. >> we play to our strengths. we are a good team. when we don't, we execute, we can't make a pass. you're a below average team. i don't care who you're playing. we came up with desperation. and we have to find a way to do that. >> we have to get out of this

it seems that every team around us goes on some sort of run and we haven't been able to go on that run whyet. >> to further the frustration, ryan callahan and jt brown were injured last night. brown took a puck here to the forearm. he came back to play. but i'm not sure of his status until tomorrow. both are two high energy players out there. hate to see the guys out. some say the future success of the men's basketball lie in the players who have yet to hit the court. but this team needs to have more consistency to go along with junior chris per. and starting tonight against central florida would be great. he can't do it alone. >> i think just getting everybody to play good at the same time, we have a problem with a couple guys being on one night and another couple key guys not on at the same time. we just have to all find the

time and we will have more success i think. meanwhile the sean peyton watch is over. he is returning as head coach next year. listen to this, since 2006 under peyton the team went 87- 57, five playoff appearances and one super boeing. the buccaneers 58-102. no playoff appearances under four different head coaches. enough said. mike piazza has been voted into baseball's hall of fame.

>> and there's one last look at our forecast this evening. a lot of clouds and showers until 7:00, 8:00.

with temperatures 50s and 60s. we have the chance of showers late saturday night and early sunday. >> if you missed anything, we have the top stories on abcactionnews.com. >> we will see you back here at 11:00.