the strong front 245 came in on saturday and because of that, we have a freeze watch in effect, not tonight, tomorrow night. for citrus and hernan doe county with temperatures expecting to drop between 29 and 32 late tomorrow night right on through early wednesday morning. that's not to say tomorrow morning is not going to be cold, it will be very chilly. right now, we are in the mid-to upper 50s across the area. by tomorrow morning, we are expecting temperatures to drop into the upper 30s to lower 40s. this morning, we actually hit mid-30s across our northern counties, 45 in tampa and lakeland, it was a very cold start to your week. wednesday morning, even chillier, so your forecast through this evening, partly cloudy skies, waking up to low 40s downtown, upper 30s and into wednesday. an update on that coming up in a couple of minutes.

>> tonight, a woman trapped in her sarasota county home after a tornado ripped through speaks exclusively to abc news. >> this is what is left, her roof blown off, firefighters pulling her and another friend to safety. we continue our coverage with reporter sara row say row. she is telling us about the moments after the tornado hit. sara? >> reporter: guys it took firefighters two hours just to get to nancy devito. as you can see, the roof collapsed on top of her and another part of the house, happened. thankfully, she lived to talk about it. a total loss. >> god wasn't ready for me. >> reporter: nancy is counting her blessings after surviving a

she tried to run, but it was too late. >> it happened so fast. i didn't have time to really be afraid until it happened. and then i was scared. i thought i was going to die. >> reporter: the roof collapsing, trapping her inside, a pipe bursting feet away and she stuck face down in darkness. water rising, the tornado cutting off all electricity. >> i thought i'm going to drown that's where the fireman had to pull her through and over this defensek to get her out of the house. >> she made it out alive. thanks to a friend downstairs calling 9-1-1, all the while, nancy screaming -- >> finally, i heard someone call my name. >> that neighbor climbing to the roof, all he could grab was her foot, letting her no help was on the way.

helped to clean up. one group of strangers, christian disaster relief group. >> all of the men, women, wives. they were packing everything downstairs, sweeping >> reporter: they brought everything to storage and didn't ask for one thing in return. >> and then they were gone. like angels. >> reporter: now, nancy and her family want to say thanks. >> you helped us salvage so many things. we couldn't have done it without you. we are so grateful. >> reporter: as you can see, there is still a lot to clean up here today. apport from the cut on her face, nancy has a gash on her knee and she is extremely sore. so sore, she tells us she can hardly walk. thankfully, her dog charley inside of the house was able to

for now, family members are trying to salvage what they can. meanwhile, they are waiting to hear back from the insurance company. >> sara, thank you. >> >> so, what do you do if you are in a tornado, we all know about getting in a strong structure in the lowest floor, moving to interior bath and hallway and staying away from the windows. according to the red cross, if you are in a mobile home, you need to get out as quickly as possible. your car is actually safer than your mobile home. you should get in, buckle up, drive as fast as you can to a solid building. if you see debris flying around, pull over, park, get as low as you can, covering yourself with a blanket, if you have one or if there is a ditch below the road level, get there and lay down. >> mobile apps save lives. we have a lot of information on our website, right now, under

you can go to action news. com. >> >> we have been gathering storm photos, pictures, on our website as well, you can find us by searching abc action news. com. >> >> now video in, it appear as serial scammer is not slowing down. a third business is coming forward saying the same guy that tricked two restaurants tricked them over the weekend. >> reporter: another day, another bay area business being scammed by five finger trickery. >> we pulled it up on the video and it was clear as day. >> reporter: this customer walks in, grabs a water, heads to the counter and pays with a $50. >> if you watch his left land, that is when the bills go into

>> we taught them customer service is number one. so she wanted to apologize and make everything good. >> this place got hit by the same man. >> he is making some good money, when you think about it. it's only $20 that we know about from three locations. been short $20. >> they only made the surveillance video after this customer recognized the man and tip them off. >> these cases are under being retrained, from now on, they are being taught to slow

in worst case, shut down the register and count the drawer. >> we are following new information after a deputy shot and killed a 19-year-old in palm beach county. sheriff's office saying henry bennett pointed a gun at step deputy. the deputy feared for his life. the deputy is on paid leave. the sheriff's office and state attorney will look at dash cam video of that shooting. >> the same sheriff's office, investigated in 2013, when a deputy shot an unarmed black bicyclist, paralyzing him. that deputy returned to work four days later after the state attorney called the shooting justified. >> >> things got a little testy at the democratic debate last night. the real question, will it change voter's minds?

now, taking full advantage of numbers. hillary clinton and bernie sanders shared the stage again in the south carolina capital. this time, they did not attack each other, but repeated themes of their own campaigns. >> guns kill more young black men than the next nine leading this isn't just a public safety issue. it's a civil rights issue. >> what dr. king is we have got to combat racism, but we have to combat income and wealth inequality. >> sanders closed the gap with clinton in iowa and new hampshire, but clinton holds a 25 point lead in national polls. on the gop side, donald trump has commanding leads

in an abc action news update on a dog that helped to save his owner's life and wound up homeless, the four-legged animal has a new home. his owner had a heart attack. after our story air, a couple decided to adopt it >> we want to go into breaking news action air 1 live over an incident at venice airport. we are being toll a plane made a hard landing there. we are told no one was injured. we are working to get more information. we'll bring it to you as soon as we find out. >> >> paying more to save money on printing later. the one thing that would make this new printer worth the cost. >> >> then, is the hissing for lyme disease growing?

should be careful now more so than ever before. >> >> a controversial pastor with a message -- >> i have the freedom of religion and the freedom of speech. >> mlk breakfast in saint pete. the reason he said his message

>> in a special i team report, we are looking back 40-years. >> sharing stories never before told from the crackdown that would change the city's image. accounts. >> they were getting blown up off. one of the things that was going on was the situation -- >> reporter: decades, a numbers racket fueled a mob empire in tampa. >>

from the crime ring were used to pay off cops, prosecutors and judges. >> certain things were happening in the courts and you were hearing people talk "i had this guy and he got off." >> reporter: underworld figures tried to gain favor with politicians. jan was -- >> i was taken into a back room and in the back room were these two men who were looking at tomatoes. >> reporter: one of the men, santo trafficant-e flat immediately. >> i became suspect from that day on of everything. >> reporter: newly elected mayor whose parents ran a store faced the same pressure. >> i knew some of the things that were going on. >> reporter: as part of the mayor's crackdown, he put tampa

he began to pry information to the u.s. attorney's office, including young prosecutor chris hoyer. >> we had a special prosecutor that was going to start to testify. >> reporter: even brought a case against a crooked police supervisor. >> he knew he had bad cops, corruption in his department. >> reporter: that's when he got fired over bogus police brutality charges. on the morning -- a hit man shot and killed him inside of his seminole heights home. >> you knew when it happened it was one of those times where different. >> reporter: hoyer said he and the fbi avoided using the fbi killer. fbi and fdle agents followed up on hundreds of leads and questions dozens of potential witnesses that came up short until the state trooper al gear caught a break shortly after

he was taking the suspect to jail when the man began to drop hints. >> he started to talk about and finally, he goes "the city guy, cloud" >> the trigger man that put the feds on the trail of the people running the tampa underworld. but -- >> we don't know that's not going on right now. i believe there is organized crime in hillsboro county, right now. >> cloud's name was not officially added to the tampa falling memorial until 1993, 18 years after his death. supporters say that was payback because he helped to put a fellow officer behind bars. taking action for your money, we know you want to print the great holiday photos, but it gets so expensive, right? >> yes, it does.

we are putting it to the test >> reporter: at $400 -- is it worth getting your hands dirty for? average amount of printing that people do in a month according to a "consumer reports" survey, 23 pages of text, nine pages of graphics and nine photos. at the end of two years, the total cost of the printer and ink is $400 for the epson for the eek cotank, but $225 for this hp office jet proso, cotank. >> if you do a lot of printing,

>> things look different after five years. total cost -- $448, hp office jet pro$588 -- -- if you don't print a lot, it makes better sense to buy the printer that is cheaper. >> the hp is fast at printing quality, the canon is a very good option for photos. abc action news. >> after the crazy weather, it's really cold out, now. what a difference a day makes >> next two months, this is what we should expect, temperatures going from warm to cold quickly. unsettled stretch and right on through march, we should expect more of the same, today, sunny and cold as we said and a

late tomorrow across our northern counties. titan doppler radar is quiet, the freeze watch for citrus and hernan doe. not tomorrow morning, wednesday morning. tampa, right now, partly sunny and 57 degrees. look at the humidity. 25%. the dew point down to 231, the second time in a week we have seen the very cold air come in and you throw in northwest winds at 16-miles an hour and all of a sudden, it feels like it's in the 40s. 62 today, 45 this morning. normals, 70, 51, records are 84 and 29. saint pete, sunny and 58, gusty winds as well out of the north, northwest. sarasota, sunny skies and 59 degrees. >> >> let's go through temperatures over the next few days. that will be the big weather story. it will be sunny, nothing to worry about this terms of rain.

mid-to upper 40s along the beach, mid-40s as you go away from the water and then by tomorrow afternoon, only warming up into the mid-to upper 50s. the winds will come down a little bit in the day, but still even with the sunshine for us. highs in the upper 50s that's pretty cold, by wednesday morning, this will be the coldest morning of the week, low to mid-30s across the northern counties, upper 30s to low 40s, no threat of a freeze anywhere near the coast and probably not away from downtown tampa u it will be mostly north. then why start to warm up. we have really nothing to worry about in terms of rain until the end of the week. future cast shows more of the same, clear, chilly, winds will

afternoon, especially starting wednesday to get on thursday will be beautiful with highs back in the lower 70s by later on in the week. storm system coming in thursday night, friday, right now, we don't think we are looking at severe weather, but it will be something we have to keep our eyes on. look at these temperatures, right now, one degree in minneapolis. six in chicago. after they started the day, 25 below. so there is that blast of cold air that's why we are going to see our freeze up north but clearly, the bulk of the cold air stays well to the north of florida. for the boaters, northeast winds. ers -- tuesday, sunny and cool, 58, later on in the week, back in the 60s, rain chances return thursday night into friday with highs in the low 70s. weekend, we clear out again and

>> still to come, a new driver's actions may have saved his life and his mother's at the same time.

a teen's quick thinking kicks if when his mother suffers a medical emergency. jacob was runninger rands with his mom when she had a seizure and was unconscious. her son takeuchiion, guiding the van onto the curb. weeks after he got his driver's license. >> >> a new report suggesteds we

lyme disease than previously thought. researchers analyzed ticks around the country and found the species carrying the disease is more widespread than thought. since 1998. they say it's a reminder to wear protective clothing and >> >> a tornado damages a neighborhood leaving homeowners vulnerable. important documents you need to have ready and the crucial call you need to make first. >> to say it's sin in accordances to the bible i lead read. >> coming up, a controversial speaker who some say he goes

now at 6:00, devastating storms, tonight, the cleanup as families count their blessings to still be alive. good evening, thanks for

for many in sarasota and