polk county sheriff judd will release now edaily about this case tomming up this morning at 10. we'll stream that live on our free abc action news mobile app. >> more breaking newsen folding

u.s. coast guard said that two marine helicopters collided off the hawaii coast. the choppers went down right before midnight. six people on board each helicopter. no word on what caused the collision or if any survivors were found. we want to keep you up to date on the weather alert that shea has been tracking all morning long. you see it on the radar. >> this line is long. so it is extending from citrus county to the south. and you see how this extends more to the southwest as you get closer to sarasota. so it is going to take a little longer before it moves onshore. but it is moving into citrus county right now. so in the next half hour, it will move across pinnelas and hillsborough. and we're looking at rainfall that is coming down at a rate of an inch to an inch per half

an hour into carolwood and west chase area. and it will pool on our bridges. this is a big line that is offshore that is going to move across the area. we'll get anywhere of an inch and a half to two inches of an hour. the gusty winds have been up to 30 miles an hour. this line could bring the winds coming down. that is a sign of weakening. but it is a strong line of storms. so we'll that through the next couple hours. and what are you seeing?

tim is is on our live drive this mobile. so you may consider using kennedy as an alternate to some of the backups that we're seeing on 275 northbound due to the lane shifts. this is what is looks like on the howard frankland. and the cars stacking up there and 30 minutes across the howard frankland. and we're still watching this crash on i40 westbound before you get to i-75. they have opened a couple of lanes up here. so the cars are getting through. but take a look at this on the map. it is taking two hours to get from lakeland to tampa. and other alternate 279. we want to get back to the breaking news. everyone in florida needs to see this photo. this boy is from sanford.

he is missing. he could be in serious dang. he was last seen wednesday afternoon wearing a long sleep gray and black shirt and green wet pants and black shoes. a missing child alert is active for him right now. we know some of you loved one in central florida could keep an eye out for this little boy. take a second. please share his photo and help get the word out that he's missing and hopefully bring him home. the police are looking for missing. he walked away, he had no shirt on and basketball style shorts with a white stripe. immediately.

the fire broke out. nobody was hurt. this is the third time that house has caught fire in the last year. and the last time happened was just last week. we're following breaking developments on the tampa bay buccanneers and the search for a new head coach. over 30 minutes ago they officially promoted offensive coordinator dirk koetter. he replaces lovie smith who was just let go last week. >> he is the buc's 11th head coach. they will have a 2:00 news conference. and dirk koetter's kids spoiled the good news his father tweeted, happy for you pops and his daughter said that the first time that a family meeting did not equal a move. deputies in polk county need your help. they're trying to track down two more suspects in a lakeland

triple murder and they are offering $10,000 for information that leads to an arrest. they arrested two gang members for the execution style shootings. they are facing charges for the murders. the sheriff said that joseph orchestrated the hit on the victims after they did not pay back a drug debt. and he sent the man to the magnolia street home and when they did not pay up, they were killed. and a fourth victim was shot in the face and survived. a $10,000 reward is on the table for information when two more people that may have been involved. tampa police are trying to solve a bizarre mystery this morning. they're trying to figure out who would break into a cemetery and steal four corpses. it is on north 26th street and opened this family's tomb. they are some of the ybor's prominent and founding families.

his grandmother's skull and his great grandfather's and aunt's remains are missing. they want the remains returned, no questions asked. in manatee county, the police are looking for information after a home evasion. a suspect followed a woman into her home and her husband confronted the man and thinged turned violence. the suspect followed the woman inside the house once she took out the trash. demanded money. and her husband heard the compression and fought the outside. >> her husband defended her and the next thing i know she was running just a short distance from her driveway into the street and help, help, help. >> the authorities said that the suspect ran away and they believe that he got into a car. and that is a photo of the second suspect who the deputies

think drove the get-away car. the neighbors saw the second suspect in the neighborhood before the home evasion. if you have any information, contact the sheriff's office. an update on a similar attack in largo. the police are still searching for one victim. the victim does not want to be identified but in october, two men broke in and pushed her down and stole her purse and medications. they arrested 26-year-old travis tretter on monday. but they are still looking for this man. the victim told us that she fought back. >> i kicked him in the [bleep]. i know who it was, who through me down on the ground in my own living room. >> she said this is not the first time that he broke into her home. if you know where he is, call the police. we're learning when the memorial service will be held

victims in the bay area. linda -- was the long time director of a domestic violence center in st. petersburg. she died wednesday and surrounded by her family. linda was a domestic violence survivor herself and went on to become a key player in programs that served 6,000 people last year. and now we're talking about the weather this morning. and it is nasty out there. yes. and the heaviest rain is about to move into the tampa bay area in the next half hour. so it is has been hit or miss so far. but the big line of rain and gusty winds will be moving east and downtown tampa, st. petersburg and ruskin, all of you will be affected by the line of heavy rain and gusty

roads, we got the heavy rain out there moving into the area afternoon, we clear up. this will move through rather quickly and most of it by noon and then we start clearing out and we have another round of storms as we head into the weekend. i'll have more of that coming up in florida's most accurate 7- day. people in flint, michigan reeling because of a led contamination and they got more disturbing news on wednesday. what the governor just announced that is making a bad situation worse. >> he was not breathing and his body was numb. >> a wave he have serious side effects sickening students. we find out what caused the headaches and trouble breathing and numbness and sending kids

david bowie released a new album called black star. he died after battling cancer for 18 months. he was 69 years old. tens of thousands of people are still without drinking water in flint, michigan. that will allow them to receive federal aid. and it was contaminated with too much led when the city switched the source of the water supply to the flint river to save money. local officials declared a public health emergency in october. and the number of cases of legionnaires' disease has spiced in the two years since the switch. but not all the people were exposed to the water. and legislation to overhaul detroit's troubled school district but it comes more than

governor first proposed the and it will launch the new oversee the to appointees elected in november. but they do not how how this pay off the operating debt for the old school district. it has been under state students in california are dealing with a different issue right now and several kids are still recovering after the air in the class made them sick. some had to be rushed to the hospital after futures spread through the school. >> the students say that they got headaches and had trouble breathing after breathing in strong fumes. the fire officials found the fumes from a rubber sealant. >> i was dizzy and numb. i had acid reflux a couple times.

>> my stomach was hurting and i felt drowsy. and at first i could not walk. after i got to the field, my legs were shaking too much. >> parents are upset that the school did not do the maintenance work on the air- conditioner over christmas break. the students are expected to make a full recovery. and now to the weather alert. are we in the thick of this right now? >> we're starting to see the strongest line of rain and storms moving onshore. we saw that patchy heavy rain and we saw problems on the roads this morning as a result of what little bit we've seen. and now take a look at that strong red line extending from citrus on southwest. that is well offshore from sarasota county. but ahead of that line, we're seeing heavy downpours here in sarasota county. so to is all going to get really wet and windy in the next hour or two and then we'll start to see some relief,

but right now in our northern counties, extending into straight citrus, we have a line of heavy rain. i'm seeing gusts up to 30 miles an hour. but we may see higher wind speeds and this is moving onshore there's enough spin that we could end up with a waterspout or a little tornado. honeymoon island is going to see the brief downpours. and i-75 just around the apex downpours. you see the lightning strikes zephyrhills. the line will carry more of that and across i-4, around polk city and lakeland, heavy rain. and once the line starts to

give it about a half hour and it will move to the east. and light ening up. but you will not -- lightening up. you will not be rain-free. we'll still have a chance through rain about noon and still the potential for strong severe storms and then afternoon we'll really start to clear out, especially closer to the coastline. so we'll clear from west to east as that storm system continues to press east. and keep in mind, if you are going leave the house and you don't have an alert device own your phone, you may want to download storm shield and you'll get the alertses right away. and we'll -- alerts right away. once the storms and the rain starts to clear out around noon, you'll start to notice that the winds will come down through the afternoon. you'll see some sunshine breaking through. and the nice weather continues through saturday. and sunday, we have another quick moving frontal system as it comes through, we'll have another round of storms and a

round of storms and most of them will occur before noon again where we could see an isolated severe storm. so keep a close eye on that. and the dynamics are not coming together quite as well for the slight risk for severe storms. and the bottom line is we'll keep a close eye on it and it will clear up in the afternoon and cool down. talk about a cooldown. we're going to reach the highs possibly as low as the upper 50s. don't put the boots and sweater as way yet. winter can kicking into gear. how would you like a few extra hundred dollars in your pocket this new year? picked up. and we'll show you what you need to do to find out so you don't waste your money. >> reporter: most of us spent money.

-- money that is yours. one woman wanted to know about how to go about for unclaimed funds. she's checking for unclaimed funds in her name and finding some. >> this is the last one that i requested. >> he found my husband's name and my best friend's name. >> reporter: when she tries to get them, that is when the trouble starts. >> simple to fill out the pam paperwork and submit it. gotten anything back. >> reporter: and now how do you get the money into your bank account? >> they want a copy of your social security card. and that is concerning. >> reporter: you were not ready to do that? >> not especially. >> reporter: but requiring to collect your missing funds, you have to do what is more.

if you find anything, expect to find questions like proof that you live or lived at the place requested. as long as the state is making the request, you're safe. >>. make sure that you dealing with the state trying to find unclaimed fund. we don't want you to waste your money. it is friday and it is time for our pet of the week. this is nine-month-old tobias. he's a handful. but you say that he loves to give kisses. >> he was trying give me kisses. now. but he wants to be a lap dog, right? but he is high energy.

small children. if he would jump on a small child like this he would knock them down. >> reporter: he is so sweet. make sure is okay to have a dog this is a hound pit mix. you need to make sure that you own your children and no small children. he wants to play tug-of-war. >> he needs a high energy family. >> he needs a big yard. >> he's going to make you play. he has a sponsor so his adoption fee is only $75. >> we'll let you play with him. if you want to adopt tobias, the number son the -- number is on the screen.

the temperatures mild with the highs in the low 70s. i'll show you a better beach day ahead coming up in the 7- day forecast. we're all laughing at tobias. whoever said that diamond was a girl's best friend did not have a dog like tobias. >> or like this one, a woman's service day helped her owner. and the owner was even wearing a wearing tutu. was raising and distract her and calm her down. >> the dog stayed by the bride's side for the entire

let their guests bring their dog to the wedding. new details of the murder of a beloved softball coach. good morning. we have your possibly tampa bay. charitys from across west central florida are nominated and you can be there to see who wins. the details are coming up on

it is a messy morning in the bay area. we see heavy thunderstorms moving into the area at this moment.

it all morning long and the heaviest of it is on top of us now. yes. you see the big red line from citrus to the southwest. and we're going to get heavy downpours associated with the line and gustier winds. and the good news it has been weakening some as far as the thunderstorm activity. but the heavy downpours moving across 19 and pinnelas county starting to get a little break around the 275 corridor. but, again, this is all moving to the east. so once we start to see the pockets of rain coming down at about an inch and a half to almost five inches per hour. this could create some issues on the roads. and we had plenty of them. and the good news is where you see the green back here. that is the end of it. so noon, we'll start to see this tapering off and moving out of the area. i'll have more on that and

we're following breaking news right now. in less than an hour, we'll hear from polk county sheriff grady judd on a five month >> august 11th, someone shot and killed a husband and beloved softball coach right outside his home in alfred. and we're live at the polk county sheriff's office. what do you anticipate here? are they going announce an arrest? >> reporter: the sheriff judd said they made an arrest in the murder case of the of the man. and we expect to hear details. he'll be here at 10:00 a.m. at the polk county sheriff's office and the chief and his widow tina. and we expect to hear the suspect's name and see his photo for the first time. the murder was in august t

he was going to his car to work and someone pulled a gun and shot him multiple time. he died in his driveway there was a reward of $20,000. he was married to the love of his life for 23 years a long with the details, we expect to hear a motive. was this an attempted break-in. did the suspect and the victim know each other? those are questions that i'll be asking the sheriff this morning. and he'll be here at 10:00 for the announcement. we'll drive stream it on our website. watch it as it happens on abcactionnews.com. a missing boy from sanford has been found and he is safe. this missing child alert was sent out. many of you have been help in

he was found safe in a wooded area. a man arrested for killing a florida woman in italy said that he was there and had a fight with her but he never intended to kill her. when he left, she was alive. olson suffered two skull fractures and then strangled. they believe that he punched the back of her head when she told him to leave. did he not strangle her. he said after she fell, he picked her up by her neck and put her on her bed. a canadian man was arrested while pulling a sled while pulling a shred of 190 pounds of prescription drugs across the boarder. they had a street value of $1.6 million.

night that back street boy nick carter was arrested outside of hog's sa lone in ceo west. he is facing -- key west. he is facing battery charges. he said that he did not do anything wrong and after walking out of jail yesterday, he said it again. listen. >> i'm just a guy trying to enjoy some vacation time in key west. >> reporter: do you have any regrets about what happened? >> the truth will come out. >> reporter: the sheriff said that and a friend of his showed up drunk and were asked to leave and got violent. the first debate of the year is over for the gop candidates in south carolina. the heated moments are not getting by without a fact check. donald trump, we fact checked his statement about syrian

being allowed to enter the u.s. and one of his controversial comments was the proposed ban on muslims into the u.s. he said that allowing migrants to be a great trojan force. >> when i look at the migration and the line, where are the women? they look like very few women and very few children. strong, powerful men, young. >> his claims about europe did not hold up with our experts. they rated this one as completely false. they say that data in no way sports trump's statement. he said that the majority of the refugees entering europe are women and children and boys and girls under thage of 17. 1million migrants arriving by sea, half are women and children.

former governor jeb bush brought uphillry clinton. >> here's the problem, if she gets elected, she's under investigation by the fbi right now. >> team stamps this one the half-truth. it revolves around the private e-mail server while secretary of state. and they looked at the security setup and the thumb drive that has come i didn't of clinton's work e-mails. but most of the investigations are still secret and clinton herself is not the target of the inquiry. did is unclear if the fbi probe is just a political inquiry or if it einvolved into a true investigation. we'll be watching when the democratic condates will return

the gop gave debates happen and week nights and the democratic debates on the weekends. the florida winner has six months to claim the prize and the california within near one year. >> and the lottery has already started paying the three stores that sold the winning tickets. the owner of the 7-eleven in california got $1 million and the publix in melbourne got a hundred thousand dollars. and now a look at our live drive cam. the roads are wet out there. and we're monitoring a weather alert all morning long. they are making their waycross the bay area now. shay ryan is on top of it.

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the elowe eh ebola outbreak had ended. and a corporation tested positive. 11,000 people died in the recent ebola outbreak. and we're getting more information before iran took ten navy sailors into custody this week. it seems as though a navigation nal mistake cause the two u.s. navy boats to accidentally tray into iranian waters t is unclear if the mistake because the boat's equipment or you'll man error. they were returned to the fleet less than a day after they were detained. the boston s.w.a.t. team have been reunited with their unspecial mascot. s.w.a.t. cat returned to the home base yesterday. the female stray started producing around 2013 looking for belly rubs and free meals and then she disappeared. they feared that the worst had

cat and they even posted a bulletin. they are so happy that she was sea -- safe all lock. we have a weather alert. yes. we have seen quite a bit of rain and quite a bit of problems on the roads. but the heaviest rain is just starting to move into pinellas county right now. you can see that heavy band just working its way around honeymoon island and palm harbor and tarpon strings and it is about to exit citrus county and i-75. and the 75 corridor will be inundated with very heavy rain here over the next 30 to 45 minutes, especially north of the apex. so let's go county to county here. you can see the heavy rain

and you'll start to see the rain lightening up in the next ten minutes. palm harbor, you're getting socked in. this heavy line will last about 30 minutes and then once it starts to lightening up, we'll get the hit-and-miss showers. so we'll cross i-75 here and south of pebble creek and temple terrace and we're seeing pockets of heavy rain. but the line is still yet to come. so you're getting the leading edge ever hit and miss rain and the same goes for polk county. but you'll get the heavy rain moving through as well. we have heavy pockets of rain and that extends into the north court area and southern sarasota county and you have more on the way. but you'll get a little break in between. so this is an area of low pressure and a weak cold front

and area of trevor a business of a disturb prominens is rolling through. -- disturbance is rolling through. and we're getting continued heavy pockets of rain. but the heaviest rain is just starting to move through and we had plenty of gusty winds up to 30 miles an hour. and there's still a risk for damaging winds associated with this. and still a slight risk for a brief tornado. so, again, let's keep a close eye on this for the next couple till sunday. system that will roll on through and rain chances will start to pick up midnight, saturday night into sunday morning and that will continue into early in the morning. bill logan is here now and forecast and he'll be on it over the week for you as well. storms sunday morning.

and in the afternoon, we'll be clearing out and drying out. and you'll see a big cooldown behind the next system. so that is the big difference between the system today and what we'll see on sunday. as we continue through the week, a high of 59 on tuesday. i am not likeing that at all. -- liking that at all. and dennis will be in tonight with updates as well. the models will help us fine tune what will happen over the still ahead this morning, only a few dozen charitys from the tampa bay area have received the good news that her on a short list of a coveted award. and next on positively tampa bay we'll look at why they are going to our version of academy

we're staying on top of breaking news in polk county. an arrest has been made in the murder case of a beloved softball coach. sheriff judd is holding a news conference in a few minutes and we're on the scene and we're streaming this live on our website and our free abc action news mobile app. you can see the heavy rain, right now. it is going to continue to move east and we'll start to see some clearing up in pinnelas county around the next hour or so. and again, we'll still continue to have chances for some isolated severe weather as we continue through the next hour. as i mom, my mom do what

their supposed to do to make sure they do their allowance. and this six-year-old boy wanted to get an advance on his allowance is going viral. >> he wanted the money to get a toy and he denied bit the bank of dead. if you wish to appeal this decision, our dispute manager macon convenience may consider changing the decision. >> dad is so strict. >> that is so funny. that little boy is going to grow up to a lawyer or something. >> fantastic. stay tuned. look at those clouds. stay with shay ryan on facebook