thank you for saving my brother. >> a clerk shoots an armed prosecuting attorney why the clerk didn't have any other choice. >> thanks for joining us. that sorry in just a moment. first, we have a weather alert for our northern counties. dennis phillips has more on that. >> we still have that freeze warning in effect. temperatures are tanking across our northern county. the freeze warning remains in effect from 2 a.m. until 8 a.m.

somewhere around 30, 31, 32. even if you don't freeze, it will be very, very cold. please remember to bring in the pet. temperatures right now, 36 degrees both in brooks sri and in the mid-40s. low 50s closer to the coast. almost 20 degrees colder right now than it was this time yesterday. tomorrow morning, we're looking for lows around 31, 32 in our northern counties. once we get rid of come, we'll be tracking the threat of severe weather later in the week. that's coming up in a couple of o minutes. taking action for you right now, cold weather shelterers are open in several locations in pasco county. more information is on our home page, bcactionnews.com. more on a shooting that turned the tables on a suspected thief as a clerk fires on an arm robber. >> now we learn by why clerk

getting hurt. >> cameron husband the story. >> reporter: jameson, wendy, when this all happened, we spoke to the manager of this store. we were told that the clerk opened fire. he's at home safe tonight after opening fire. he's a home with his pregnant wife, thankful to be alive. store is is back open just hours after a gruesome scene. >> you don't bring a night to a gun fight. >> had it right belocate counter. he was quite prepared for this. >> reporter: but being prepared and acting are 2 different thing. however been that's exactly what store clerk botassum saffi did at this home convenience store on pond. >> i kept advising him not to work here. >> reporter: myir saffi is his brother and happy he's alive. >> his wife is pregnant with twins.

world with no father. >> reporter: saffi wasted no tile grabbing a pistol and firing a shot in the suspect's head. onlookers had no hesitation to praise the clerk. >> you don't need to deal with this garbage where people are coming in and want to take your life. >> reporter: the store has a history of violence with 3 shootings in the last 2 years. but today, customers feel there was some justice. >> i say god gave us one for the good guys. >> reporter: we can tell you police have taken a look at the surveillance video from that store and spoken to the lone witness who was also a customer if the store at the time of the shooting to confirm clerk's story. we haven't confirmed that police have corroborated the witness' story with the clerk. the suspect is still in critical condition -- at a local hot.

alert for you, drivers getting off the bridge and encountering a major detour. let's take a look here. here's what's happening now traffic coming northbound off the bridge must take a detour onto howard avenue and then head to cyprus and get back onto i-275. the detour ends at 5:30 tomorrow morning. we're not off the hook after that. look at this. this is what we're headed for. there will be a new traffic pattern on i-275 north between loy wiz exit and hines exit mr.. jameson? >> wendy, thank you. now to a byline man and his service dog attacked by 3 pit bulls. he says if a god samaritan didn't jump in and help, his dog would be dead. mike poluska has more tonight. your this attack happened in front of an lamentry school.

student were out. tonight web spoke to the dogs' owners. >> reporter: richard draper is legally blind. his 4-year-old lab-up helps him maneuver. >> she's my eyes. there's no doubt about it. >> reporter: these are healed scars urn her neck from last week's attack tease pictures >> i saw a flash of white pounce on her. one was on my foot, one was on her neck. the other was circling us like a pack of wolves. >> reporter: the god say necessary tan had called 911 for help. >> the dog has blood on its neck. there were 3 op it. >> reporter: the owner admitted to us that the dog was in her front yard without a leash. when we asked for an interview, she got defense pif. >> reporter: you don't feel bad about a dog getting its throat

>> the dog has 4 little holes in his neck. >> reporter: i have pictures of it. >> i don't care. i'm not talking to nobody. >> reporter: the responding officer wouldn't let him leave the scene until the report was finished. >> this dog is my eyes. my eyes were laying on the ground bleeding, coughing up blood. it was ridiculous. i wonder if the police dog was shot in the line of duty, would the police wait an hour and a half to fill out the paperwork before they got their dog to the vet? >> reporter: draper's main concern isn't that the dog's wounds will heal, it's that emotionally, she won't be able to recover and continue to be his service dog. new at 11, a high-tech solution to a growing florida problem. trappers using drones to track down coyotes. pets have been disappearing in that area. trappers are telling us they can cover more territory from the air. if they don't see any animals,

with an infrared camera and search for heat signatures. a sad end to the hunt for a missing floridaed to plerp jacksonville authorities saying they've found the body of 21- year-old lonsey barton. the child had been missing for nearly 6 months. their chief suspect led them to the body. the toddler's mother pleaded guilty to child neglect last week. tonight, this new video showing the vicious firefight of mexican marines taking down mexico drug lord el chapo's drug house. and oscar winner sean penn not apologizing for his interview with the druglord for a mexican -- for rolling stone magazine. in new york, police still

in a brutal gang prop doctor, gang rape. officer says the gang con front a man and his daughter in a brooklyn park, pulling a gun and forcing the man to leave. police say they gang raped his daughter while her frantic father tried to summon help. a sarasota couple sitting in gable charged with beating and starving their children. police say kimberly haygood and avery jones did not feed their children. one boy weighed 22 pounds and looked like a skeleton. he has no hair and can't walk mips sister weighed only 26 pounds. >> it's a lot of our fall that we never said anything. i think from now on, we smowmed. >> reporter: with all due respect then, why didn't you call authorities? >> industry no idea. aisle stupid, not trying to get in nobody's business. >> all of the children are being treated at all children's hospital in st. petersburg. an orlando area man facing

advantage of an unlock atm, stealing more than $88,000. it started when an air order car operator loaded it on new year's day. the problem, he accidentally left iten unlocked. investigators say 28-year-old eric provost noticed that misfaipg at first, he left with only the cash he took out of his account. but investigators say he came back a short time later and filled containers full of cash. parents talking ab some big changes to a test that could determine whether your child get intuits right college. students will begin taking a revamped s.a.t. starting in march. that new test has fewer multiple choice questions, an optionals say, and no penalty for wrong answers. students a don't need to memorize long,ically kateed words. and testing experts now say the a.c.t. and s.a.t. will be so similar, your

be prepared for both. >> whichever one gives you the best score, just submit that and don't evened a omit to colleges that you took the other one. >> the college board is providing free online and mobile practice tests and resources. we have the links to all of those on our website. still ahead, an aspiering model with a secret life. straight ahead, how police finally unraveled the mystery. >> get back in the car. >> plus, an ex-cop caught on camera hear my why prosecutors say he's not sorry for terrorizing this man. >> and knives, guns, and mace all taken from fans going into amilee arena. how these weapons are tied to

welcome back. an aspiring mod well a big secret breaking down today in court. 24-year-old abie k me p is now behind bars. she's charged robbing jewelry stores in 5 states, win colluding right here in florida, stealing up to $4 million in jewelry. friends contacted police when they saw her wearing jewelry she could not afford. k smerks now facing at least 24 years in prison if she's convicted. get back in the car. get back in the car now! i'm not going to tell you again! bet get back in the car! >> the maryland police officer in this video now serving his 5 year prison sentence. officer jencheski santiago put his gun to the man's head and then shoved it his mouth. officers say he wasn't remorseful. playing a jailhouse phone call

they should be saying sorry to me. we're waiting for an autopsy report after a florida woman was found dead in it wily. 34-year-old ashley olson's body was found dead in her apartment in florence. authorities say her neck was bruised and scratched. olson is from summer haven, florida. we have a special dirty dining to tell you about tonight. we're uncovering a popular wendy's restaurant temporarily had to close its doors. tonight, we're discovering wendy's on east 10th street had tome prayerly shut down after up through the floor drains at kitchen. the state also finding live roaches on the floor in the dry storage room. i called manager kathy vonn and

neither got back to me. security at amilee arena telling us since the paris take, they're seeing more guns brought to enters. jared holbrook showed us sop of the surprising thing people tried to get past security. >> reporter: what are we looking at here? >> we're looking at a collection of items we discovered in our search. >> reporter: all of this is from the past year. >> we're averaging about 20 knives per game. >> reporter: mary millen has been working at amilee arena for 16 years. she says reinterrorist attacks have more peep bringing guns, which are not allowed, even for off had duty law enforcement. >> reporter: since paris, you've been seeing an increase? >> absolutely. >> reporter: when the circus was at amilee, more than a dozen guns were spotted. an additional 12 guns were

lightning games since september. >> since paris, people krrnd for their safety. you're seeing more and more of the population looking for ways to protect themselves personally. >> reporter: since september, security confiscated more than 500 knives. >> we're seeing a plethora of knives. knives in every shape, capacity. >> reporter: including clandestine knives like this, you. >> it fits in your wallet like a credit card. >> reporter: but when the plastic is folded, it becomes a knife. screeners have also gotten more than 200 containers of pepper spray. >> we're seeing what he call tin cats or brass news. >> reporter: since the pare attack, mary beefed up security building. more bags are being searched at entrance metal detecters. >> reporter: so everybody goes through a check point here?

we always have no matter what the event is, we always semple. >> reporter: there are more eyes scanning crowds. security are monitoring delivery, vendors, vehicle, and even the media more closely. larry is constantly making adjustments behind the scenes. >> we want tone joy our family es and joy living in this great community. >> i'm investigators jared holbrook, taking action for you. our northern counties will get a free oampt, right?

not hard freeze, but bring the pets in. if you look outside, skies are clear. temperatures flirting with 32. that freeze warning does remain in effect from 2 a.m. until 8 a.m. 4 or 5 a.m. usually the coldest, even as late as 6 a.m. some of the new models will be etch cold e than that. 36 in brooksville. but look at everybody else, in the mid to upper 40s. 48 and clear in clearwater and st. pete.

at this time of the year. if you get winds veering even a little bit mr. due north and that air travels over the gulf, the temperatures will warm. if we get any cloud cover, the temperatures will warm. by the morning, 9 a.m., looking for temperatures in the 40 those 50s. this is a good o 8 to 10 degrees below normal. wednesday morning, it will be another cold one. most of the area, pretty much the same thing on wednesday morning. even in the afternoon, we only warm town the mid-60s. by thursday and friday, we start to see some changes. that is classic el glean stuff when you see a drastic change and potential for some heavy

as we said for the time being, all's quiet. we have no clowd cover. we have a northerly drain, and all of that together is why temperatures are dropping so low right now. it looks like we stay relatively cloud-free on wednesday. wednesday a afternoon through wednesday night, it will be -- it will begin to warm. another storm system. on saturday, there were tornadoes. an ef2 hit cape coral around fort maiers, do dogg significant damage. where it tractions is huge for us. right now, we're at least look at the possibility for strong

behind it, weely clear out, which means the week should be good. bottom line, cold weather tonight, cold weather tomorrow night. by the time they go the northeast tomorrow, that should limit the amount of cold air in our region later tomorrow night. there were your tides, your sunrise and sunset. about 7 degrees below normal, but it will be beautiful. there's a look at fll's -- at florida's most accurate 7-day forecast. the rest of the week looks clear, cool, and much colder. alabama and clemson are battling for ledge football's championship title.

and too close to call between clemson and alabama. this went went to halftime tied at 14. jake cokier to o.j. howard. 21-14 alabama. but clemson kept coming back and i mean coming back. 10 unanswered partnershipped -- 10 unanswered point, capped by this 1 yard td run. clemson leading it, 24-21, under 13 minute minutes to develop. i dowel duty we'll get and flouncement from the buccaneers about a new coach until wednesday or thur at the earliest. they're in houston for the latest meetings. it is possible that buccaneers' gm jayson light could make play for nick saban, but i'm more

for the outcome of the patriots and chiefs game on saturday. it's possible he could be targeting his old friend, josh mcdaniels. mcdaniels has turned o down all interviews as the patriots get ready for kc. the bolts in action against colorado. they're starting to show signs they might be ready to make a run. they've won 2 in a row but are 1 point back of the devil and bruins. this winning streak has got to grow. >> we got a little statement in our group. just a consistent effort in our guys. it's getting to the point where we've been a little fragile and at times not being able to come back. you can see the confidence growing in our room.

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still a freeze warning in effect from 2 a.m. to 8 a.m. waking up tuesday to sunny skies. it will be come starting off in the 40s downtown. 40s in our northern counties. we warm up to about 60. still well below normal and another possible freeze tomorrow night. >> we'll keep an yin that one. >> continuing coverage on our top stories on abcactionnews.com -- >> we'll keep an eye on that one. >> continuing coverage on our top stories on abcactionnews.com.