>> reporter: this intersection is aligned between the county and the city. according to the owner of that day care, that has made it difficult for all of his safety concerns to be addressed. >> first thoughts were was anybody injured, any kids inside. no kids were inside. >> reporter: a gut wrenching scene for parents and this business owner. an suv crashing exactly one minute after opening their doors. >> they opened at 6:30. it happened at 6:31. >> reporter: nobodies with hurt but it raises major concerns. it's not the first time that a car has barreled on to this property since richard and his family bought the business in 1999, there have been several crashes and close calls. >> this is the first time we've had a vehicle go into the vehicle but we've had vehicles hit the deck. >> reporter: according to county records, 41 crashes at this intersection in the past five and a half years. he says the county added these guardrails around his property

crashes like this one. now he says the problem is cars speeding down independence parkway. a road that is maintained by the city. >> the city would not put any strips or warning lights or anything because it said the city is not happening on the city side. >> reporter: the city lowered the speed limit but he opens more is done to prevent what could be a tragedy. >> i'm not the expert on what type to put there. that's up to them. but they do need some type of other warning system than lowering the speed. >> reporter: the good news is that code enforcement has taken a look at the property and they say it's structurally sound and children are still allowed to be inside. >> the county public works department is reviewing the crash to see if there needs to be any changes made there. our request to the city went unanswered there. now the most accurate weather team in florida. abc action weather. >> good afternoon, everybody.

clouds early on and then sunshine through the afternoon. look at the rain. the heavy-handed yeah staying off to the north. this area that we're tracking will be rolling in overnight and into tomorrow. at least for the time being, we are rain free and we should stay that way. with temperatures anywhere from the upper 60s to the lower 70s. we hit 72 today in tampa. a couple degrees above normal. about right for this time of the year for a change. not well above normal or below normal. we see a freeze trying to roll into the forecast area in about 10 or 11 days. until then, at least for tonight, partly cloudy skies. a couple of showers tomorrow morning. we clear out on saturday. then another round of rain for the second half of the weekend. we will pinpoint the timing for you in a couple minutes. >> thanks, dennis. the topic of many conversations today, especially

>> many people stunned and how it was revealed. >> reporter: the winds of change came through blowing through one buc place here once night. by this morning all that anyone could talk about was buccaneers football. >> i was really surprised at >> yeah. >> reporter: the phones were as they say ringing off the hook at the flag ship station of the buccaneers radio network as fans made their feelings known. they were changing direction again, firing their coach of >> this is ridiculous. i swear to you i'm not going to be a fan i'm going to be one of the people that strikes. i cannot believe this. >> i couldn't believe that, you know, they announced this at 10:00 at night after lovie did his end of the year press conference. >> reporter: indeed it came in

former bucs coach came in to talk to management about the future. he left the discussion to everyone else. >> not only locally but nationally. this is a big national story. tampa bay is in the spotlight although for the wrong reason. any time that you're in the spotlight it's a good thing. >> reporter: most of smith's defensive staff walked the plank today today. cutter is considered a candidate for the coaching job. they're going to be thorough. >> we need to make a change. the fans deserve a winner. this is the best solution for that. >> reporter: bucs players took to twitter saying they were shocked. and while most credit lovie smith with helping right a meandering franchise ship, fans' main concern is how this sudden move would effect everything. >> the time that we had with him it was a great time. we haven't been to the playoffs since 2007.

they gave him two years. >> reporter: the bucs are going to take their time and make the right decision as to who is going to guide the back nears back into battle at raymond james stadium. the long-suffering fans who have packed the place over many years of losing hope they're right. i'm bill logan, abc action news. >> we were live during the announcement and we streamed it live on our website. you can watch the entire press conference on abcactionnews.com. we also brought you the decision as breaking news last night on facebook when it happened. so many of you still upset, sounding off on our facebook page. many of those we cannot show you on the air. so many disappointed. others say they actually saw this coming. we want you to weigh in right now on the firing of lovie smith and who you think should be the next bucs coach.

imagine losing your home because of phony paperwork. it is happening around the country. a rising problem but there's a way to protect yourself. scammers are filing fraudulent quitclaim deeds. one woman lost her family home and living on the streets for weeks. now the pasco county office offers an alert system that will let you know when any official record in your name is filed. >> one of our employees recently got married and received an alert and she thought what is going on. she looked and it was her marriage license that was recorded. it was legitimate. >> the fraud alert system is free and available in many bay area counties by going to the clerk of courts website. also in pasco county a woman is accused of trying to run over a officer during a chase. lisa myers was starting to dose off while driving along highway 19 this afternoon. when they tried to stop her, she took off. later almost hitting a new port richey police officer who had

hitting a police cruiser and then hitting a different police car. after ending up on the lawn of the police department. she is in jail tonight and detectives are checking if she was using drugs or alcohol at the time. the white house is reacting to the battle to repeal obamacare. it is on its way to the president's desk. they want to defund planned parenthood. white house promising to veto that bill. republicans say they're sending a message while democrats call it political theater. now ted cruz is the republican front runner in iowa. and he is firing back about his berth place. rival donald trump questioning whether cruz is eligible to be president because he was born in canada. he says he should get a federal

american citizen and says it's unnecessary. >> the legal matter is straightforward. the child of a u.s. citizen born abroad is a natural born citizen. >> trump also got attention when he used the birther issue against president obama, challenging him to prove that he wasn't born in kenya. it's a reunion a year and a half in the making. a teen gets his birthday wish. >> jake peterson shows us the tearful family reunion and the effort behind this surprise. >> reporter: stephen loves competitive sports. he loves sports so much that he came to the u.s. a year and a half ago with the hopes of playing high school basketball. and eventually earning a college scholarship. >> i wanted to have a college degree and be a full person. i didn't want to be half a person. >> reporter: but the georgia school that promised basketball dreams turned out to be fake. an investigation is underway.

in polk county with lori donnelly's family. >> he is doing great. he was inducted into the national honor society. >> reporter: after christmas she noticed he was in a funk so the plan went into place to bring his family to the u.s. >> it's a mom thing. i felt guilty because she was missing out on everything. >> reporter: wednesday night, laura brings stephen with her to the airport but doesn't tell him why. then all of a sudden, he sees his family. >> i was trying to figure out if i'm that hallucinating or what was going on. it was so impossible for me. >> i was so happy. i couldn't -- i couldn't express my feelings. >> how do you feel, mom? >> wonderful. >> wonderful. >> in ten days, mom and brother will make the 22-hour trip back home. >> this morning when i woke up,

it was a dream or not. >> reporter: a long hug with mom proves that this is a dream come true. >> i see them now so i guess they brought a little bit to me. >> reporter: reporting in polk county, jake peterson, abc action news. >> stephen will graduate this year and plans to attend college here in the u.s. laura. a homeless man is dead after deputies say he was hit by a car this morning in tampa. investigators are telling us that jodi carol was on a concrete median along fletcher avenue. he suddenly stepped out in front of a jeep. the driver couldn't stop before hitting him. carol had just turned 50 years old two days ago. a man offered to sell a laptop to two people but then robbed them at gun point. they contacted the victims about buying the computer. they paid $230. while testing the computer, bryant pulled a gun on them and took the cash and the laptop.

led police to him and now he is in jail. powerball fever is heating up tonight. now with the biggest jackpot in lottery history. nobody won the jackpot drawing so the prize is rolling over to an estimated $700 million. it may grow even more than that before saturday night's drawing. you have until 10:00 on saturday night to get your ticket. abc action news will send you an alert with the winning numbers on saturday night. just download our free mobile app. while there were no jackpot winners last night, including a $1 million ticket. more and more iphone and smart phone owners pay their bills with apple pay. the one thing that you need to do before ditching your real wallet. a traffic stop turns into a sweet moment to remember. what a trooper did when he learned that a driver was losing his daughter to cancer.

benefits office was slow and sloppy in processing veterans claims materials. what went wrong and what is

# ask >> convenience is tempting but not everyone knows what they're signing up for when they use technology to pay the tab. >> on the 23rd, right before christmas. >> reporter: more retailers are encouraging customers to use mobile payments like apple pay instead of credit cards with the strip. >> you hover the phone over this small square here and it reads it instantly. >> reporter: your fingerprint authorizes the purchase. just like the new chip enabled cards your information is encrypted. it makes it harder to steal. there is a catch. one cyber security expert tells us before you put your card information on your cell phone, you really should read the terms of service.

>> reporter: for instance one bank requires apple watch users to agree to legal terms that include this phrase. we are not responsible if a security breach occurs that affects any information stored in any wallet. security consultant kim says that that's a change from how it used to work. >> you're not going to see big scale breaches like target in 2016 and 2017 with the new technologies being rolled out. because of that the shift of liability is shifting to the consumer. they believe if the data gets breached it came from the consumer, not from the retailer. >> reporter: and it's technology that is not going away. watch this man use his smart watch to pay for a train ticket. but don't lose that watch or you might be on the hook for fraudulent purchases. >> so we reached out to apple and they tell us once the watch is removed from your wrist, it actually requires a password. because the information is encrypted, it is more secure than manually entering your

a man is pulled over by a trooper. that wasn't the worst part of his day. he had just learned that his child is dying from cancer. what happened next surprised everybody. rodney gibson was driving through indiana earlier this week after learning that his daughter's breast cancer is not agoing away. he was so upset that he didn't realize he was speeding. that's when the trooper stopped him. after learning his story he decided not to give him a ticket but what he needed, his prayers. >> i took my hand off and knelt there on the side of the truck and took his hand and said a prayer for him and his family that he would have the lord's peace during this difficult time. >> gibson was so touched that he started crying. he even called the trooper's post to share appreciation. a bare area animal shelter putting a spin on a tv show to help homeless cats. launching game of homes.

and show game of thrones. cat adoption fees have been reduce today $5 for the entire year. now the most accurate weather team in florida, abc action weather. >> we're hearing about cold weather coming our way. people are looking to the weekend and the plans they're making now. >> i don't think the cold will be anything drastic next week. maybe the following week. we have rain coming in tonight and tomorrow. and we have more rain on saturday and sunday morning. you look out to the west and that is the direction it's coming from. graduate shot there. a lot of clouds. at least for the time being, we remain rain free. it will look a lot different tonight and tomorrow morning when shea is tracking showers around the area. nothing severe. just showers. i think we see more of the same later tomorrow and later saturday and even early on

now pretty much where they should be this time of the year for a change. we've either been 15 degrees above normal or 10 degrees below normal. dew points are still comfortable in the 50 toss low 60s. but they too will be rising as we have juicier air rolling in. that will give us a better chance of showers starting later on tonight. 66 and mostly cloudy at the airport. the dew point is 60. and we hit 72 today in tampa. that's actually about right. normal 70. the morning low is 56. that's about 5 degrees above normal. last year this time we were at 67. the record is 83. st. pete, skies are sunny and 65. comfortable. and the winds not nearly as strong as they have been the last few days. light west/southwest at 5 miles per hour. sarasota 65 with a dew point of 59. pretty nice deiah cross most of the area. even with the cloud cover early on. burned off in the afternoon.

sunny skies. but you can see how that cloud cover streams in from the gulf. oh, yeah. that's a sign of things to come. we see showers. for that matter if you look at futurecast this evening, we even have a chance of rain rolling in after midnight through tomorrow morning. while i don't think the morning commute will necessarily be terrible, it's not going to be all that sunny either as we have a good deal of cloud cover and maybe another round of showers rolling in by later on friday morning. so in a sense kind of a one-two punch with another round sunday. so friday morning, there are the showers. a few more in the afternoon. even again in the evening. while i'm not ready to call them widespread by any stretch of the imagination, we see more clouds than sun on friday. even on saturday. speaking of saturday, if you outdoors this weekend, either early saturday or late sunday. those are the two timetables. sandwiched in between, you've got some rain rolling in.

about a severe threat. most of the energy which is so common for our area stays off to our north. at least with this particular front. for the boaters, winds primarily out of the southeast at 10 to 15 knots. temperatures in the lower 70s. there are your upcoming tides. sunset at 5:51. all right let's check out florida's most accurate 7-day forecast. 40% chance of rain on friday. i think it starts first thing in the morning across the area. you see the rain saturday? that's later on in the day. sunday's rain could very well be before sunrise. so the second half of sunday looks good. but once that front comes through, it's a cold front and we cool off. 63 the forecast high on monday. i think tuesday morning the coldest morning that we will see oust the next 7 days. and if we could make it a 20- day forecast, i think the following week pretty good chance of a freeze across part of the area. all right, thank you,

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>> fright now a chick-fil-a restaurant is doing something all moms can get behind. >> the lakeland location launching a new service that makes eating out with young kids easier. it's called mom's valet. pay in the drive-through first. park the car. when you get inside your table is ready with the food and high chairs if needed. many of us are focusing on eating healthier quite now. not everybody has time to cook or are good at it.

are popping up all over tampa bay, letting someone else do the cooking for you. like fit life food that's offered personalized meal plans. tonight at 11:00 we will hear from a dietician on how to pick the right one for you. the one question that you should ask before choosing a plan. here is wendy ryan with a look at what is coming up at 6:00. >> preventing poisoning. a boy brain damaged by a box termite treatment. the changes to make sure that someone you love does not experience that same horrible fate. >> a speaker controversy. >> homosexual is not the only sin. >> coming up at 6:00, the big honors that city leaders say this man does not deserve and the tension it is causing. inspectors find 42,000 packages of disorganized materials from the v.a. benefits office.

what is being done about it. >> he is very fortunate. it could have been worse. pictures that you have to see to believe. a boy found on a b busy highway. the quick action that stopped his joy ride before it turned

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