we have some heavy weather rolling through the area tonight. coming up on abc action news next at 11. taking action for you, this is abc action news . a theme park has deep meaning for this family. the special surprise after the loss of parents. >> police and what they say led to the shooting and the different accounts from witnesses. that we are tracking a fast- moving storm heading this way. when will it get? and is some possibility of a tornado.>> we begin with that severe weather heading to the bay area.

well, obviously, this could be the calm before the storm. >> we have had some pretty severe storms moved through on friday morning. right now, we have showers making their way on shore from sarasota on up to the interior parts of the state. let's zoom in. from sarasota all the way over into what shall a -- into the green swamp area. we are seeing some showers come down now. i have seen a few raindrops and south tampa but it looks like the bigger stuff for the tampa metro area is still on the way, probably about 12 to 34 1 o'clock. we have 69 degrees in tampa. clearwater and st. petersburg, 67. cloudy skies headwinds coming out of the southeast.

midnight here 66 degrees. the rains come down big time and we see them draining out by about 8 o'clock dropping down to about 62. will not move much as far as the mercury goes. it will be very cool into martin luther king day, as more on that forecast coming up in a few minutes. abc action news update tonight. overwhelming outrage continues to pour in for a family coping with tragedy. a couple was killed in a car crash on halloween. therefore surviving children are living with family in sarasota. cara joins us now with the show of support for the family and what made it all possible. >> the kids are so resilience considering they lost both of their parents just a few months ago.

they are getting from all over the world. the latest act of kindness, a surprise trip to busch gardens.>> posing for a family photo, you would never know the heartache this family has endured. more of these children, without parents have three halloween night car crash. they are being raised by their aunt and grandmother. >> caretaking it okay. i don't really think it has had them yet he caused it hasn't been very long. >> saturday, a chance to relax and be kids while also celebrating birthdays. busch gardens treating all four kids, their friends and family to a free day at the park. >> i'm glad that they did come. >> the kids and family got to take in all of the sides and enjoy rides because they are animal lovers, their favorite part of the day is taking out all of the wildlife.

giraffes, zebras, lions, hyenas, hippos, so many animals. is amazing. their faces helps wipe away some of the hurts and takes been through. >> i think they can enjoy it and we got here early. so we have a long day and a lot to do. >> the entire family is so many in the community of endemic new, happy memories together. >> a gofundme page to pay for howard kids is still very million dollars. story on abc action news.com. developing tonight, a florida man is dead after a deputy shot him today after a traffic stop in palm beach county.

the deputy stopped his car just before noon. they say bennett got out of the car and pulled a gun on the deputy. eyewitnesses claim that it was shot several times in the back as he ran away. authorities are reviewing the dash cam video of the shooting. to a disturbing case out of manatee county tonight. deputies have arrested a man they say abused four different girls over the past three years. they charged the 32-year-old with six counts of molestation and detectives showed up at his home in bradenton to investigate the alleged abuse. they say santos abused to 10- year-olds, a nine-year-old and even a five-year-old. all who lived with him. deputies are asking anyone with information to call the manatee county sheriff's office. friends and family celebrate the life of a veteran today.

by a suspected drunk driver inspirational message on facebook. is abc -- this abc action news reporter shows us. >> reporter: we needed. this is our healing. >> reporter: several groups made the ride to honor one of their own. >> everybody here is here for honor matt. >> or jeff as they call him. >> nearly 300 riders honored the 31-year-old on saturday morning. >> this is our process today, to take this ride. and we think that jeff is up there and when we read these -- when we start the spikes, he's going to hear it. >> and afternoon celebration of life was planned. >> an incredible picture of

for a while. >> he says his life and story will be remembered. >> matthew's life is continuing throughout our city, state. >> the posts you wrote hours before he died when viral. his last line reading "i really don't want -- know where i will end up tonight but i do know it be. hours later, he was hit by an alleged drunk driver. >> and is almost like he knew the end was coming. he knew he was at the end. >> his friends say there was positive out of this tragedy. >> literally millions of people have heard about christ because of him.>> a man who met so many things to so many people. >> a combat veteran, christian, motorcycle guy. he was literally about spreading god's word. >>'s burial is monday at the sarasota national cemetery.

a breaking news update tonight. all southbound lanes are now back open. after being closed by a rollover crash. we told you earlier about that crash near bruce b downs. a traffic alert. starting tomorrow night, you can expect delays on the sunshine skyway bridge. here's a live look at i-275 on the bridge where crews will be closing one lane in each direction. those closures start sunday night at 7:30 and will be in place monday morning at 6:30. the united states announcing and surprising prisoner swap today setting free five americans being held in iraq. in return, the us will free or drop charges against seven iranians. this comes as sanctions are lifted and iran gets access to $100 billion of frozen assets.

the deal. five americans, homeward bound after a controversial agreement to exchange prisoners with iran. and within hours, the international inspector certifying that iran had kept its part of the nucleaear deal brokered by the united states and years of weste economic embargo. >> in return for the steps that iran has taken, the united states and the eu will immediately left nuclear related sanctions. >> john kerry insisted this was not a quick broker role -- quid pro quo. he claimed the nuclear diplomacy east the way for the prisoner swap. the freed americans include jason renzi in, convicted of espionage by a secret iranian court. one in prison since july and all spent time in the notorious

subjected to beatings, solitary confinement and psychological abuse. released including matthew who in exchange for the release of the americans, the us dropped charges of seven iranians. but the agreement does not include the former fbi agent, robert levinson, who disappeared during a 2007 visit in iran his fate is unknown. abc news, new york. >> at least 20 people killed during the siege in west africa. among those victims, an american missionary going to volunteer at an orphanage. the attackers had been killed overnight and the gunman stormed the hotel and cafi popular with western tourists. security forces were able to free about 126 people from that

on new tonight, two people were arrested in virginia on terror related charges. the department of justice says he was taken into custody at the richmond international airport. authorities say he was heading to syria. the us citizen is charged with trying to provide resources to a terror group. a second person born in the sudan is accused of driving him to the airport. democracy 2016, attacks continue to fly between donald trump and ted cruz on the heels of the year. trump is ripping into his fellow candidate riding "ted cruz was born in canada and was a canadian citizen until 15 months ago ear" bosses have just been filed with more to follow. i told you so. trump is reacting nervously to

comments of so-called new york values. >> if you're offended at my pointing out how much the failed policies of hillary clinton and promo and bill de blasio bill -- bill de blasio has hurt new yorkers, which one of those policies are you agreeing with? withholding the plan and says he will release an outline days. clinton and sanders and martin o'malley will of a for the four- time tomorrow night. abc action news is teaming up with politicized to check the statements on air and online. still ahead tonight, a couple gets the upper hand during a home invasion. the unusual weapon they use to defend themselves and the other kron the intruder is accused of. a touching moment into a bride and her service dog going viral. very important job this dog had

new video tonight. when a man came crashing to their home, to fend him off. he said he heard a noise and before midnight. a struggle broke out and he says his wife came to help tossing him a pen. the 21-year-old suspect had just attacked the mother in a parked car outside of a church and beat an elderly man who tried to help. the two managed to fight them off before police showed up tick take a look at this file photo actually capturing the bond issuing a bride and her service dog. valerie has had her medical alert dog for about two years. the trained animal helps calm her during attacks and migraines and her wedding day was no different. she was there doing her job and even walking down the aisle

plays such a big part of her life. same without her. doesn't feel a and -- because of her, i have been allowed to live my life to the fullest been able to do. >> valerie even has her own first -- of the service dog team. >> members had a chance to win big today during a free festival going on right now. a freedom parade kicked off this afternoon from the mlk sports complex, part of the doctor martin luther king jr. cultural arts festival. also, a drum line competition. high school and medical -- and middle school students battle it out for cash prizes. the annual up -- the annual fest

gospel starting at 4 pm. picking up the pieces today after a tornado touched down. people caught in the path of the storm say the sky turned black and they heard what sounded like a train. this before that 18 mile wide twister on friday. the national weather service tells us nef -- and ef-1 tornado was on the ground for 20 minutes. >> it was almost like a roar. i could not distinguish it. >> thankfully, it appears no one was hurt. the cleanup is expected to last for days. >> now, the most accurate weather team in florida. abc, action whether. >> bill, you have been tracking potentially severe weather overnight. >> we do have lines of storms poised over our doorstep. out and about early this evening, everyone is asking when it is going to hit. it looks like right about 1

and most of it is going to be kind of through by the time most folks get up in the morning. let's go ahead and take a look at the specifics for you. rivergate tower cam shows mostly clear right now but there are some clouds out there. and for the to the south, as we showed you, we do have some of those showers making their way on shore near but for right now, in tampa, we are not seeing any appreciable precipitation. but it is coming. it is going to be with us from about 1 o'clock through about 7 o'clock in the morning. storms rolling through overnight. the most dangerous time for the storms to make their presence known because that is when those tornadoes could be most problematic. but it looks as though this is going to be a very fast-moving storm. you should not have more than a 5 to 10% chance of tornadoes but we will be up watching it work and we will watch those

cooler on monday. here is the way things are looking with those clouds and showers moving through to the south of the bay area. temperatures at 61 four sarasota. 65 in st. petersburg. tampa has 69. 66 in lakeland. 61 in haines city. the winds are all over the place. we are seeing some out of the south, out of the southwest, some out of the east but as this front comes through, we will watch things turn from the south to southwest and we will get to northerly breezes letting the cold weather in. 28 in kansas city. 29 in st. louis as that front starts to make its way toward us. still a warm front as it works through the golf but you can see that spin around the area of low pressure and that is going to drive the storms through the area over the next several hours. taking a look at our futurecast, this is the way we think things are going. by 4:30, that will be the brunt

you can see some of those red and orange and yellow areas on the radar. that is where we will have the heaviest weather and the front will move through and that warmer weather will move through. a special high resolution rapid model. we are starting to see some of the heavier rain down through dallas county. and it will move across into hillsboro county. we will see a big swath of rain by 2 o'clock in the morning and we will start to see a bit of a break by 4 o'clock or so. by the time the sun comes up, things will be clearing out and we will begin to see that infection of cooler and drier air into the region and things will clear out. here's how we look at florida's most accurate digital day planner. we will start off with temperatures right around 68 degrees and we are going to watch those temperatures dropped like a rock. by 2 o'clock in the afternoon, 63 degrees.

gale warning's are up and those wins coming in later on out of the north at about 20 to 25 kn. sees will average 10 to 14 feet and it will be choppy. high tide coming at 2: 17. we will be up all night bring you the very latest and tweeting it out on our social media. mlk day looks to be cooler. temperatures into the middle of the week will start off in the 30s. definitely corey whether i had . coming up -- cooler weather ahead. the bolts will have a tough test tomorrow. one former bucs coach has landed a new job.

thanks for stopping by. don't look now but the tampa bay lightning have put together their best structure of when -- win sense last season. thanks to the dramatic overtime. the bolts find themselves in third place in the division.

place. more on the panthers in a moment. surprise you. he has shown a lot of potential enough playing time bouncing back in the minor leagues over 's current four-game winning streak, he has been red-hot netting three goals and five assists. >> i just found the land and should shot the puck. i just picked up the rebound. >> we thought it was time and starting in the fourth line a little bit and working his way up and we are seeing the fruits of his labor. but he has stuck with it and he has ma a choice to be an nhl hockey player. and you really pull for guys like that. >> back to the panthers, a huge

oil can against the lightning took the surprising the nhl. no one thought they would be first-place. the puck drops tomorrow at five. not wasting any time making changes to the coaching staff. announcing mike smith as the new defensive coordinator. the former coordinator would not return after being let go last week. fraser quickly landed a gig in baltimore today as the new secondary coach. as for cutter hiring mike smith, it reunites him with his former boss in atlanta. cutter was offensive coordinator with the falcons and also coached in jacksonville. this is a big higher for the defense that has struggled mightily over the past -- past five seasons. >> not only as a defensive coordinator, as a teacher, a head coach and a man. he is the right kind of guy

i could not be happier.>> the chiefs and the patriots 3rd quarter, tom brady during what time does best. finding ron for the touchdown. kansas city scored a late touchdown. 115 left. wenning 27-20 in advance of its fifth straight afc title. nfc divisional playoff going right now. cardinals and packers. it is late here the cardinals slowly hanging onto the lead of this game. searching for its first road win, six in the first. in the quarter, and knocks down the trouble. bowls down three but the second half, tigers pulled away. off the turnover, we have liftoff. get out of the way. shacked hammers it home with two hands. 71-56. next stop, oxford mississippi. the rebels posting the gators.

gators going to be old miss tonight. stay tuned.

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