without cheating, but it shows and this is the problem, it shows their lack of a moral christmas. >> reporter: originally, there was a class of 16 deputy recruits. as you know, seven of the recruits were canned. the sheriff said the main recruit that was handing out this test material was trying to hand it out to all of them and some of the recruits said "no way i'm not going to get involved with this." >> the recruits were making $41,000 to $55,000. >> >> frantic parents picking up their children after their school bus was involved in an accident t happened at 3:30 this of the noon. students from seven springs middle school were onboard. eric is live at the scene, us? >> where, the good news we are

we saw some bumps an bruises and a couple of students going onto an ambulance to get checked out. we are told that none of the students were trantas ported to hospitals by ambulance. parents were able to take their kids to a hospital to get checked out if they wanted to. they just cleared the cryonite, school bus and car involved intersection of trinity and little road, starting to clear up. traffic is backed up for a good distance. take a look at the video we shot moments after this crash, you can see the major impact between the school bus an the two door silver sports car involved in the crash. withins believe the silver karan a red light, leading to the crash. florida highway patrol investigating students in tears. i saw parents running up to them relieved to fine out their climb was okay and we talked to

after she got off this bus. >> i banged my knee on the seat in front of me. i started to freak out and i felt really dizzy and when i looked up, i noticed that the hood of the bus was up and i noticed we were in a car crash i was worried that the lady in the car was hurt or maybe even killed. i just feel people need to start to drive safer on the roads, cow kill someone. >> reporter: what did you see as far as your friends and other kids on the bus? >> a few people in the front, some of my friends were hurt. one of my friends went to the hospital. i'm scared something bad is going to happen. i really hope she is okay. >> i saw you go up to the woman that hit you guys. what did you say to her? >> i said i'm sorry this had to happen and i'm so glad she's okay and that she's not severely injured. >> how about that?

comfort the woman involved in this school bus accident? again, traffic beginning to flow on trinity and little road good news. no students seriously hurt. >> eric, thank you. >> >> a mother's intuition leads her to her son's murder scene. now, he is pleading for those responsible to turn themselves in. jacqueline joining us. >> i understand you just listened to the heartbreaking 9- >> >> reporter: we did, recently released 9-1-1 call coming from this house you see behind me, it is heavily redacted. you can clearly hear this

>> the child glenda perkins brought into the world is now at her feet, gunned down, murdered. this mother's heartbreakest in her call to 9-1-1. >> this just happened? >> i don't know i don't know, i don't know -- >> reporter: mother and son were so close, they lived right across the street from one another in plant city. perkins last saw her son friday friday night. she noticed his front door was open sunday. something told her to see if everything was okay. it wasn't >> i went in there and it was a mother's worst nightmare. >> reporter: plant city police could not find any evidence that someone forced themselves into the home. his mother can't think of anyone who would want to hurt

he was always a people's person us a been a people's person. >> reporter: and now as police hunt for her son's killer, she's relying on family and friends for comft. >> my heart is broken. >> reporter: in the past 90 minutes, we saw homicide detectives back out here knocking on doors, wanting to see if people heard or saw anything. right now, they are not sure when brown was killed. they are hoping that an autopsy will narrow the window and lead them possibly to a suspect. >> >> jacqueline, thank you. >> >> today florida state university agreeing to pay the woman who said she was raped by jamis winston -- $250,000 and her attorney $700 thousand.

single plaintiff in this kind of case. she claims that the school violated federal law by refusing to investigate. fsu will commit to a five-year plan for sexual assault awareness and training programs. "i-team" investigator, derrick will have more 80 million people digging out from the blizzard of 2016. >> record breaking snow paralyzed major cities, washington, d.c , philadelphia and new york city. it's blamed for more than 30 deaths, including heart attacks from shoveling snow and a mother and one-year-old son in their car while stuck in the snow. washington, d.c , schools and federal government were closed as crews struggled to clear the roads. >> we are working very hard to get dc government open tomorrow. >> washington, d.c airport back up and running, but under limited services. there are still more than 1400

nation, even some right here in tampa. good afternoon. after a chilly start to your monday, we started to warm up. very nice afternoon. temperatures near 70 degrees with a lot of sunshine. these were the lows this morning. dropping down to 29 in brooksville. the airport is cold as it has been at 36 degrees. lakeland at 34. overnight, skies remain partly cloudy, not nearly as cold, but we have serious rainfall ready to roll on in. we'll time it out for you minutes. >> >> covering polk county, a lakewood family is begging for information to help find their stolen puppy. deputies believe three young men snatched this dog during a

>> reporter: this one-year-old puppy is probably missing his warm cozy home. his big brother distraught like his loving owners. rick edwards is talking about the events that transpired friday while he and his family were away from home, they got a call from their neighbors saying that the front door was wide open. they returned to find thousands of dollars in electronics, missing along with this priceless possession. toby, the family pup. surveillance cameras appear to show three young men driving a nissan. >> i believe the dog was stolen >> reporter: taking it pretty hard, but his three kids taking it harder. deputies were able to track down some of the electronics,

meantime, the family is taking no chances. they just had a security system installed. they are not mad at anyone, they just want their puppy back. hillsboro county deputies say a suspected drunk driver hit one of their cruisers while they were investigating a different one. todd slammed into a cruiser near north village drive saturday night. and kept on driving. deputies followed the driver

registered at .18. now, charged with dui and property damage. >> >> alcohol believed to be a factor in an overnight crash a suspected drunk driver hit another car around 3:00 this morning. causing both to slam into a guardrail. one massachusetts >> jerry: suffered injuries. right now, police have not released any names of those involved. >> >> now at 5:00 help for diseased citrus crops. the high-tech device that could save florida oranges. >> >> right now is the time for parents to decide where their kids go to school. >> as a parent, what is best for your child? >> school choice week starts today, we'll breakdown the option your student has an the questions you must ask before

time is running out for parents to decide where their parents will go to school next year. florida school choice week kicks off. >> laura is breaking down the choices open to your family. plus, the one question you must

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administrator recommend first starting out a school district's website to website and then visit it. >> >> reporter: in pascual county, abc action news. >> applications for many elementary and magnet school programs in most counties are due by january 31st. we posted the deadline for the school choice in your area. >> >> protests outside of a detroit courthouse after teachers sickouts have been forcing districts to close their schools. a judge denying a request by detroit public schools preventing teachers from participating in organized sickouts teachers are upset over pay, class sizes and

two students were forced to close today. another hearing set for next month. >> >> researchers from the university of florida are developing technology, they met with u.s. senator bill nelson in lakeland to show how it works. scientists used lasers to inject into the leaves of infected citrus trees. there was a $6.8 million grant to fund this project. it is predicted this year's orange harvest will be the lowest in 60 years. >> reduction of fruit in florida has plummeted in the last few years and we have got to reverse it. >> the research team is now

>> you guys walked out and saw the frost all over the grass. >> i just noticed a chill, still. >> it did warm up. >> in the sun, a lot of people showing pictures of scraping their windsheilds. you don't have to worry about that, tomorrow, it turned out to be a great afternoon. 70 degrees. sunny skies and tonight, mostly clear tomorrow, not a half bad day although i think we'll start to see clouds roll in. titan doppler radar is rain free, but by late tomorrow it's going to rain and rather heavily. temperatures in the upper 60s. tampa to clear water. sane pete. we are in the mid-60s. it's sunny, pretty nice with the winds coming out of the east and south east.

temperatures above normal. how about that? then again, the rollercoaster continues. there is a look at the satellite picture, clear skies, beautiful day outside of the chill in the air for a lot of folks, starting to read on social media "uncle" -- bound to be warmer than the stuff going up in the north. one of the main reasons temperatures are warming up. throughout the day. we'll go partly sunny. i think we'll see more clouds than sun. it stays dry. at least through tomorrow, into tomorrow night, i think it stays dry. by wednesday morning. that's when we begin to see some rain rolling in.

there is a slight chance lower than that, but they may say eventually, a few isolated areas and severe weather. in my opinion, severe weather will not be our biggest concern. what will be is very heavy rain that rolls in. pin pointing the exact location, timing, still a little too early to tell, i'm leaning toward mid-morning, through later in the afternoon. you see this area in the middle? i would discount that. likely roll in from i4 south. the actual front comes in thursday, giving us almost a one two punch. look at these rainfall totals, pretty much from i4 south a solid area of two to three inches of rain. there will be some serious rain

can't write off the chances up north, but i think the heavier areas will be south of i4 there is a track of severe weather we will be all over it giving you action news. com and right here. temperatures warming up. there is the first phase, air. more moisture to work with and then all of a sudden, we are looking at showers and heavy rain rolling in, by wednesday. rain we don't have any rain in the forecast tomorrow, but boy do we wednesday and thursday. heaviest rain and here's the good news, after a chilly weekend for the kids. i think the grownups will be enjoying it. upper 60s. >>

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>> now alt 5:30, we are learning more about a deadly fire at a senior independent living facility in lakeland started that blaze. >> fires say despite the >> >> reporter: absolutely, good news out of all of this, you look at a high-rise building and think about it going up in flame. really only two units badly damaged. little or no damage. 41 residents, several staff members all able to make it out okay when this happened. fire crews said there are a lot of lessons to be learned here sandy allen is 75 and