good morning, thank you for starting your morning with us. >> a major blast of the winter weather. a big story, here in florida and across the nation. all of the ingredients have come together for a historic blizzard. with high winds, dangerous flooding and possible whiteout conditions and thunder snows. the federal government is closing offices in washington, d.c at noon, today. >> airlines are not taking any chances. already more than 2500 flights are canceled facial wide. today. the storm impacting flights to tampa international as well, 54 flights into and out of the

abc 5:00 nun news reporter, adam -- at tia, we'll go to him live mean while, some live pictures from little rock, arkansas where the western part of this storm is dumping snow. we want to check in with shea to find out what friends and family can expect. >> is >> right now, a few isolated coastline. we see a batch of thunderstorms that are moving through. i do think the majority of our northern counties will get the bulk of the heavier rain. not to say tampa bay won't, but we'll be more impacted by storms later this morning. bottom line, grab the umbrellas, make sure you are alert. hefty storms rolling through with a threat of severe storms

by 4:00, we are clearing out with a few showers and breezy conditions. i'll have the seven-day forecast coming up in just a mow men. dan? >> coming up on 4:42 no problems here. >> >> breaking overnight. a car hit a man on u.s. 301. florida highway troopers say the pan was not in a cross walk or wearing reflective clothing when a car slammed into him. he has been taken to the hospital. we are told no charges as of now. >> >> crews say fires severely damaged a home on 9th street. the family of five were not home. authorities are not ruling out

investigators believe a gaither high school grad was abducted walking to her car. a man was seen on surveillance video parking that car, but >> this afternoon, the bay area will come together to remember a woman who spent decades helping domestic violence survivors. for 26 years she did this and she died this month. she provided shelter, daycare for domestic violence victims. paying respect says at a celebration of life happening at the palladium theater in saint pete. >> >> a botox bandit, that received injections and slipped out of the office without paying. >> how detectives finally closed this case. >> 15, 20 minutes went by -- she left.

do anything to look good these days. case in point, nicole brown. the saint pete woman is accused of having a botox procedure and walking out without paying. >> carried herself well when she was here. >> when she went to pay, she said "i my credit card in the car." >> the botox bandit was gone, leaving a $1,000 bill. similarities, raising eyebrows to a crime that happened at this doctor's office a few months ago. that day, a woman fitting brown's description had $900 worth of work done and then wrote a bad check. police were able to figure out who she was through paperwork she filled out. just in time, too. >> she made an apointment yesterday at another local surgeon's office. >> but detectives put a wrinkle in her plan, channeling her

>> some shocking video we want to show you this morning. a two-year-old boy is seen on a deputy's dash cam running down a busy highway in oregon. if you watch closely, you can see the toddler running down the middle of the busy road until a deputy finally stops him and picks him up. officials say the toddler's family was fiercely looking for him. the sheriff's office released the video to show drivers why it's so important to keep your eyes on the road and not to become distracked by your cell phone or radio. >> >> sad fews from tennessee, hikers found the body of a two- year-old boy missing for a week. noah chamberlain's body was found in woods near his home hundreds of volunteers searched for him every day. officials say he was found a mile and a half from where he was last seen. >>

suspended after an argument with an uber driver that turned violent. viral. >> call 9-1-1, oh, yeah. >> reporter: a witness said he started to record after the uber driver begged him to call 9-1-1. the video shows this woman slapped the driver and kneed him in the groin. the doctor then got to the uber car to demand he drive her. when he refuses, she starts to trash the car. police have not charged the doctor with any crime, but jackson health system said they are investigating her. could face discipline,

>> an update to a story we broke last month. police tell us they have arrested a man they have on camera stealing a woman's purse at a church. facing grand theft charges, broward county deputies say he took the woman's purse off a bench while she was praying. >> >> former oklahoma city police officer beginning his 263 year prison sentence. yesterday, a judge sentenced him to spending the rest of his life behind bars for raping and sexually victimizing eight women. he targeted women in a low- income neighborhood, believing

come binnation that the state could have used, difficult knitly oversight on the part of the state as far as i'm concerned. >> tax collector's office said with the tag. now, he is refusing to drive his car out of his garage >> duke energy begins a major project to get more of their power from renewable sources groundbreaking ceremony for a solar facility. when completed this summer, 22,000 panels will cover the size of 17 football fields. we do have a weather alert, we have some rainshowers moving in, right now and we'll have a few showers and thunderstorms for the morning commute, but it will be mid-day that we get the bulk of the real heavy stuff

we'll have a few showers, now, when the heavy stuff moves risk for severe storms, i'll up coming up, kids at risk. still ahead, the shocking number of drivers that illegally pass school buses every day, putting your children in danger. >> >> lightning come up with a big win over the blackhawks last night, we'll show you how it all went down, coming up in

18 minutes until 5:00, the piano man will be in tampa. billy joel is playing emily arena at 8:00 tonight. we did some checking and looked on ticket master's website. it appears only receltickests are available for the concert. if you still want to go, you pay have to pay extra to go there. >> >> north korea arresting a student -- appears to have entered country as a student, apparently, planning to

we want to check in with shea for a weather alert. >> >> take a look, right now at our temperatures. this is the best part of the day. the temperatures are nice and mild out there. no concerns at the moment as you are heading out the door, other tan a few scattered showers that are across hillsboro county. we are going to have a quick round of showers and a few isolated storms that roll in here early and we'll have a heavier line starting to make its way around the coastline at 10:00 this morning. you can see on future cast, a main line of showers and thunderstorms associated with the cold front start to reach the coast at 10:00 and then at

across the majority of tampa bay, extending north. it will continue to press across polk county between 1:00 and 2:00 and start to decrease in intensity and move east. as that happens, by 4:00, we are looking dry. you may even see some peaks of sunshine out there. there will be a chance forever a few showers throughout the evening and even toplined this front. we have a very strong air flow by the gulf of mexico. it will not necessarily be a beautiful night to be out and about. let's look at the severe weather threats. we will have a chance for primarily damaging winds, the biggest concern with heavy pockets of rain. we could get some isolated street flooding and there is a risk for a brief tornado. the temperatures are nice and mild, headed out the door

tomorrow behind this front, we will be breezy, temperatures very cool. 35-miles per hour. sunday, less wind, but still chilly and plenty of sunshine out there. continued improvement into early next week that's florida's most accurate florida. you can find me on facebook and twitter. >> look at the morning commute, no trouble out there. pretty quiet. it will pick up as we go through the morning. janelle is watching the traffic cameras and she'll have a live look at 5:00. >> >> closely watching this depression that opened up in a yard if spring hill. the hole is not threatening any home or any roads. >> we are taking action "for your health." healthy fitness routines at gyms don't have to cost you

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here's your morning sports. >> >> reporter: good morning, everybody, give the livening some credit, they extended their winning streak to seven in a row at emily arena. redirect, 1-1 after one and in the second. lightning convert on the power play. this time, it's -- nikita he walked it in, fires it up past cory and from there, the lightning totally clamped down on the hawks. chicago's 12 game winning streak is over. next stop, south florida to play the panthers on saturday and it could be for the division lead. >> >> rays have agreed to a one- year deal with steve pierce. lakeland faytive expected to

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has gone viral. >> all because of the "star wars" actor that the cat looks like. cory the cat has a new home. cory was put up for adoption last friday, posting this picture on facebook. and it didn't take long for people to think cory looked bike the actor, adam renn. a woman that lives 50-miles away fell in love with cory and -- >> i was waiting for the side by side. >> a little bit. it's the expression. >> coming up next, wahlberg brothers are coming to florida. when the new wahlberg's restaurant will be opening.

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