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is too late. >> sarah rosario explains why officers are trying to build trusts in the community where many are afraid to report a crime. sarah. >> reporter: deputies tell me they are facing several hurdles here. first, people are notreporting crime. second, this is a tight knit multi racial community and people here are scared of retaliation and some are scared of worse, deportation. two murders in two weeks. the 26years old killed days after new year's. >> several crimes in the area where officers say the majority of the suspects in this high crime areas are teens. >> we are talking of kids at 12 to 16 or 17 years old. >> look at our kids today. >> the community is well aware
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scared of retaliations. >> deputies telling us these kids are in local gangs committing crimes for adults. they're behind anarmed burglary targeting owners with guns. >> they know okay, i will be out of pocket for 21 days and i will be back right at it. >> talking to the parents. they need to talk to thehead person. >> neighbors claiming parents for poorly raising the children. deputies say kids with no respect withparents have even less respect for officers which is why they're trying to educate children at a younger age and encourage people to report anonymously. >> host community events to change the perception of law enforcement. >> you feel that the people don't trust the cops around here >> yes, because some of them are crooked. >> deputies are teaming with police and the fbi to build
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works. >> i hope that one day these kids will realize that the weather they go down is the bad road and they'll make the choice to better themselves. >> reporter: deputies say they'll work to spend more time in this community, getting to know people here. they tell me they'll be increasing patrols tocalm some fears around here. another thing they'llbe looking at is new technology like shot spotters. that's something very expensive and likely will not happen very soon. >> reporting live in the city, sarah rosario. abcaction news. action weather, abc. >> hey how are you doing everybody? >> made it into the week as we saw some rain. kindof a tough pattern to know how to dress when you go outside because you start out in the day and it maybe in the 50s and today we are up 50
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>> this evening skies partly >> it will stay warm and yet the way and a lot colder weather rolling in next week. >> warming back in the upper 70s tomorrow before the rain arrives. >> when will it arrive? we'll pinpoint it for you coming up? facing charges for her role of the death of eric garner. >> this is the video that sparked outrage when it went around. he died after an officer put him in a choke hole right there during the arrest in stat ton island. >> according to pd, she was now on modified duty. according to police's reports,
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that garner's condition is not serious. we know a baltimore police officer does not need to testify in a trial against another officer charged in freddie gray's death. >> william porter will not take the stand at least for now and caesar goodson junior's trial. there isamong six officers charged in the death of gray. >> porters' trial ended last month in a mistrial and his retrial is scheduled for june. ethan couch is complaining of the condition in her jail cell. >> his response is a jail and it is not a resort. >> tanya, the woman whose teenage season was able to avoid jail time claiming of his wealthy parents covered him in
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>> she's now in jail helping his son going toprobation as she fled with him. anxious moments at the united airline flights forced an emergency landing in chicago. >> a passenger screaming and attacking the flight attendant last night and much of it caught on camera. >> abc marcy gonzales. >> police questioning this woman after an in flight outburst last night that forced pilots making an emergency landing. united express with 69 passengers and four crew members on board took off from new york to the airport just after 7 p.m. headed for chicago. >> the 30 minutes into the flight, the passenger reported asking if she could off the plane. >> when the flight attendant said no, passengers claim the woman lost control. >> the girl went crazy and attacked her and ripped her
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>> at one point, the woman yelled she was bipolar. witnesses say she started attacking another woman and that's when three other passengers stepped in. >> grabbed her and pulled her down to the ground and subdue her by tieing her up and some guy used his necktie to tie her wrists and ankles. the woman wastaken off the plane and into custody. the flightcontinued onto >> abc news, marcy gonzales, new york. turning now to democracy 2016 as donald trump is trying to move on after a wild night in vermont. the gop front runner was met with loud protesters last night screaming during his speech. he wasmaking campaign stop in his liberal home state of senator bernie sanders.
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hypothetical election, 51-48. >> these are guys of money and accidentally, half of the time, they impregnant a young white girl before they leave. today, he held a news conference sayinghe's not perfect and blame the media. christierivals demanding he renounced the governor. >> officers are ready to put it facility. the city's street escape scape that can be manipulated. polk stage college expects as many as 200 cadets graduate from the program every year and many getting jobs right here in the community. >> if our officials in our county did not hire our graduates and help us train them then our program would not
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to have. >> the college spent more than four years building the facility right next to the sheriff's office donated by the county. college officials say thereis nothing like it in the state of florida. we knowthe name of the newest millionaire in the bay area. >> $1 million powerball tick was sold to someone. 42 years old robert gonzales came over to claim his prize. the jackpot is still up for grabs at $800 million. >> you can download the mobile app and we'll send you alerts with those winning numbers on saturday night. >> well, if the powerball is not your thing, how about this? a coin collector is paid for this dime for $2 million. the 1894 barber is one of the rarest of the world. fewer than ten of these dimes
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san francisco made about 2. 5 millio s of them. almost all the dimes were melted down and only 19 went into circulation and the buyer is choosing to remain anonymous. >> i went to wake him and i found him under his dresser. >> the reason one family is blaming ikea in the death of a toddler. >> later, the clean diet, coming up we'll show you eating healthy without ever a making it in the kitchen. >> a local shop owner busted for selling stolen cell phones. why tampa bay police say it could be a tip of the iceberg
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we got breaking news into the news room right now. you are looking at life areal pictures of the los angeles airport, one of the terminals being evacuated right now for what abc 7 in la is calling a
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we'll continue tofollow this development story and bring you the latest as soon as we get it. now on the dangers of fallen furniture. ikeais is facing a case after a toddler is killed by fallen furniture. >> >> it is their hidden dangers in count less american homes. >> furniture tipping and falling on children in two wrongful death lawsuits, one filed days ago and another in may of last year, the family of cam ben el is el is. the dresser to be top heavy and front heavy, nothing ikea denies.
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as child to the hospital every 24 minutes and every two week, one is killed. >> i went to wake him up from his nap and i found him under his dresser. >> ikea announced 27 million dressers were unsafe and unsecur d. >> we put this ikea dresser together ourselves, you can see these are the brackets that they say you must use to anchor it to the walls. if you don't doit, this is what could happen. >> ikea won't comment on the pending litigation but they are committed to product's safety and educating customers of the need of proper security. >> the first thing they need to do is design in safety. >> the two families is hoping to keep furniture building as modern and inexpensive and also becoming deadly.
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now to the ultimate labor of love. a 54 years old woman gives birth to her own granddaughter. allto help her daughter struggled for years to have a baby >> after years with infertility, she was desperate to become a mother, that's when she said her mom stepped in at the age of 54 as as surrogate. >> it is the new year's and many of us deciding to eat healthy >> sometimes it take as little too long to cook a little meal from scratch >> i just got a cup cake in the news room. >> tonight, abc aks action news showing how you can show somebody else to do the cooking at your house. >> made from scratch meals and you don't have to step foot in
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>> in tampa, abc action news. everybody is read did for the weekend and $800 million. >> i was about to say, if you hit the jackpot, none of this is going to matter. >> scratching you off the list. >> a lot of clouds out there and the clouds brought us rain early on and now it is dry across most of the area. >> maybe an a little sprinkles popping up. otherwise, things this evening should be okay and as i said there is that one little area down no extreme southern pinellas that give you a quick sprinkles. . tomorrow, not so municipal, we'll see some changes arriving. thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon orevening. ta tampa bay is 73 and mostly sunny. after the rain this morning, we warmed up beautifully. we talk about that yesterday.
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start up to 80 degrees today. at tampa bay, we went with 76 andics degrees above normal. again, nowhere near the record low of 28. just throwing it out there, a week from monday, that's ten days out, i do think we are going to see a freeze across part of the area. >> probably, citrus hernando or maybe pasco county. that's the way i am thinking right now. 74 rightnow and mostly cloudy. it is beautiful in sarasota right now at 73. sunny skies and the wins coming off the gulf at 70 miles per hour. there was rainand heavy rains across the southern county. it waspretty much an all night rain across most of our northern and central counties and that's now left. something we'll talk about so often over the next couple of months is how quickly the
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50s up in the panhandles so there are some cool temperatures out there. the big weather changes at least short terms will be this front. there is an outside chance of a couple of strong thunderstorms. you cannot blow it off entirely but it is nothing that i am worried about. it maybe one strong storms as it comesthrough. tomorrow night between around that's the way we time it out right now. behind the front, things will do two things, they'll clear thing. kind ofbreezy and not all that cool, the cooler air comes in behind it by monday and then for the rest of the next week outside of next friday, we are only going to see highs in the 60 and there is is why.
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filtering out in the north. >> long range model is hinging at the next batch of cold air and we'll make it down all the way to the gulf coast. >> if you are looking at cool temperatures, ten days out, is what we'll see. >> southerly winds for the boaters. if you aretaking the boat out tomorrow, make it early. you donot want to be caught with the storms later in the afternoon. >> it will be bumpy on the bay and inland waters and coming up tides, sun rise and sunset. mostly cloudyand showers and storms primarily late in the afternoon and evening. >> there is a look at our most accurate seven-day forecast. >> 30% before sun rise on sunday. sunday looks goodafter that. look at the high on monday. low 60sand low in the 30s and 40s on tuesday and highs in the 60s up until next friday.
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breaking news for you right now of lax airport. officials evacuating the area after they called a bomb
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and everything is all clear. jackpot tablgs in in some casino locations is now removed. a five year deal allowing blackjacktable expires. an ad claiming being white is the key to success. >> being white you will win. >> it is an addtizement that many found insulting. today, the company that makes the product pulled the video despite the outrage product. >> now here is win any ryan with a whitney ryan with a look at what's happening at 6:00. >> the new form that can make i easier for your kids to get their hands on drugs. >> a super effort that saves the entire family's lives.
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live, this pastor says his ministry is endangered of disappearing. >> this shop could be the beginning of a stolen cell phone ring. straight ahead, where they save $45,000 worth of cell phones were stolen from. >> elephants are being phased out at the circuit and coming up why animal activists are not
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