looking good for our gasparilla activities. >> action news this morning starts next. >> live from the station taking action for you, thisis abc 15 news >> the the incident that sent the hillsboro deputy to the hospital. >> the facing charges. the crimes that eddiegonzales is accused of. >> back on the ballot, voters will vet a chance to vote on medical marijuana and this time one mom hopes it passes. >> i am deiah, good morning. >> we are told the fire destroyed the home. >> fire was certain after the flames was out, he was

no word of hiscondition. >> a man rarely left the house lives there. they arrested three more people connected of the armed the men turned themselves in near the refuge. deputies arrested eight people on tuesday night, they are working around clock to understood ref fu end refuge. i want to check with shay, it is not raining out there but misty >> it is murky out there. we have most of our roads are going to be fine around northern hillsboro county and on north. if you get around the bridges today,right along the beaches, right around tampa bay, that's

some of that fog. otherwise, we are going to see rain off and on through the day with near, steady temperatures. kind of a blah day today and better conditions ahead coming up. traffic right now on i-275 in the sky way, this is north fishing pier, we'll check the roads again in 15 minutes except for the dense fog advisory near the big bridges at long beach. a suspect wounded a georgia state trooper after a pursuit is dead. israel rodriguez died late last night at a hope. rodriguez was speeding when the trooper pulled him over. rodriguez got out of histruck and began shooting, hitting field twice. thetrooper is expected to be okay.

of stealing a cancer pay she want's credit card. >> gonzales used that card to buy stuff at five stores >> gonzales became a big when anthony claim gonzales kidnap her daughter caylee. turns out that anthony had made up that story. surveillance video of the crash shows bill adams in a black truck turned in front of a car in and flipped his truck. paramedics rushed to get out of the hospital. there is no reason to believe thatadam was armed. they took him to the hospital andsay it is not near jobs to check for guns.

that's the search,that's not something that we are trained to do or expect our personnel to do. >> fire firefighters say patting people could be a liability. their protocol is get officers check forguns if they see anything suspicious. medical marijuana is back on the ballot. >> it failed two years ago. >> one bay area mom tells us medical marijuana is an issue much larger than politics. >> michael palooza explains, it could safe her son's life. outside the home. shedid not want to disturb her son because he's having a bad day of seizure. she's optimistic that they'll win again now that it is on the ballot again.

s this video of her son >> when he says to me, mom, it does not make me feel good and i don't want to take it. >> pedro says his will power is not enough. >> at the age of eight, brandon has little quality of life. we follow pedro's story for almost two years. >> she says his seizures stop with marijuana cannabis >> a totally different child. he was able tofunction normally. he went seizure free. >> on prescribed medicine, brandon had upwards of eight seizures a day. with medical marijuana backon the ballot, pedro is energy energyize as ever to help her son. >> we'll do everything in our power to make sure it passes this time around.

available to our son. >> michael palooza. abc 13 news. officials found the 16, 000 hover boards in this raid. >> it was unauthorized. >> these do not meet safe standards. the charger will continue to descend a charge into the battery and possibly causing a fire. >> they will ultimately be destroyed. this morning, a former

with violating--jesse terrell repeated--material was fired from the sheriff's office and four other deputies seen in the video resigned. material is facing a maximum of ten yearsin prison. animal rights group are hailing its progress. >> the county is hoping that it mills. not everybody agree with this >> after years of research, the sarasota county commissioners approved an ordinance that prohibits the sales of puppies and kittens at retail establishments. >> at this point, it does not dissting distinguish where they are coming from. >> the ordinance helps protect against puppy mills.

demonstrates as a community, we can come together. >> dallas says she's still against the ordinancefor a number of reasons specifically the number language that was discussed and its limitations. >> zoners have amended the >> part of that meant to be given additional safe guards. >> [ indiscernible audio ] >> you are going to have big issues on this. >> well, that's prohibiting the sales of puppy mills. >> it takes two years for it to comply with the department.

more teacher, spefbly specifically, math, science and special education teachers. if you go, you could leave with more than just a job, you are eligible to win door prizes including an ipad mini. this morning, volunteers will be counting the number of homeless. the count is important for a number of reasons. >> the number of homeless counties will determine how much federal funding the county will hope for next year. we do have a dense fog advisory in place for coastal areas this morning from manatee county on north. that does include downtown, ellis county and extending up to the coastal areas into citrus county. this is in place until 8:00 this morningand expect reduce

wehave wet roads out there. i will show you what rurrain chances will be for the rest of the day coming up in florida's most ak raid seven-day forecast. most accurate seven-day forecast. >> scared in the air. passengers started feel ing feeling fainting on the flight. >> we'll have that story,

4:43. >> that decision gives dozens of st. pete families--one father is still worried where they are going to live >> right now i am not in a financial situation to get a place that's why i am staying here. >> a recent bankrupt filed by the owner that threatened to put many others on the street. >> a lot of families are out here and a lot of people are trying to better themselves. >> the city and surrounding neighbors fought for year to close the motel.

prostitutions and the hotel wracked up more than 500, 00 fine. >> if and when the motel is sold, families have nowhere to go won't be forgo ten. >> we took a look at our inventory of debt. >> they should have plenty of room for the families and nearly 100 children currently living atmosly. >> officials i am st. pete. abc action news. in democracy 2016 today, candidate donald trump maintains that he will skip tonight's gop debate in iowa. >> senator ted cruz mocked

rally. >> mr. trump considers megan kelley is very, very scary. >> you know, donald is a fragile soul. she might ask a mean question and who knows what could happen, i mean his hair can stand on up. >> abc haks action abc action news. >> bernie sanders' campaign says they're willing to go along with hillary clinton for another presidential debate. >> the campaign wants does not want any debates to be held on friday or saturday or holiday weekends. our meteorologist shay is here with the weather >> as we head out the door this morning, you are likely to encounter some wet roads and

if you are in our southern counties youwill see this rain that's filing across the state. watch out for flooding there and along the coastline keeping an eye out for some fog. i will have moreon that in just a moment. take a look at how overdone the future cast is. the models having adifficult time right predicting when we'll see the heaviest rain moving in across tampa bay and further to the north. what i can tell you is our southerncounties are going to see the most widespread rain. around noon today, we'll have a chance for rain and this continues until 4:00. by 8:00 at night, we are starting the see the tail end of this rain. itstarts tapering off and becoming much more isolated over night and the skies is clearing out over night. 4:30 tomorrow morning. we are going to be withclear skies and temperatures start to

from our southern counties onto south florida. if you are going to betraveling in any of these areas shaded in green, it is a threat for this afternoon and evening but the flooding threat is actually there all day. damagingwinds and isolated tornados for r the afternoon and evening. the risk are very minimal but it is a great reminder to have storm shield on your mobile device that you will be alerted as you move about town. temperatures today, off in the mid-60s. near citytemperatures and like i said, we clear out over night. by tomorrow, plenty of sunshine andtemperatures will be in the cool side in the afternoon with a high of 64. the warm up kicks inon saturday afternoon and it goes up from there until our next cold front approaches on wednesday. >> that's florida's most accurate seven-day forecast. deiah, back to you. thanks shay.

janelle is watching our traveng area and travel area and should minutes now. a florida highway patrol trooper is dragged by a car. two troopers stopping a driver in orangecounty. at first the driver cooperates and he runs right back to his car and takes off. the trooper onthe right hand side is dragged a short distance but luckily he was not hurt. >> deputies arrested the drive and charged him with assaulting the driver and fleeing. an under arrest could steal the trooper's sufr with the police dog decide.

placed in the front with the seat belt still on. >> he got out of his truck and drove home. the doeg dog was not hurt. the tampa bay lightning got a week off and got rested and getting healthy. >> good morning everybody, it took quite a night. they got the two-points and the win last night over toronto. >> here it is f . that 1-0 lead.

the big game is coming up next wednesday. >> college hoops last night, u.s. sf women rolling on houston. >> usf then under the second game in a row, 73-60 over to what is this that's your morning sports update. >> coming up at 5:00, the vote that could help the city removing the led from its contaminated water system. >> we are five weeks away from

all right, out the door this morning, you will encounter wet roads and dense fog in and around tampa bay all across pinellas county to the north. we have a flood watch in effect for dough sew and desoto and highland county >> more rain ton way and saturated rain on the ground could lead to some flooding. >> coming up in the seven-day forecast, i will have more. 4:54 now.

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