public transit to school. but at jefferson high, these students not only ride a hart bus every day but they like it. >> you're guaranteed a ride home. that's why i like riding the bus. it will take me to a safe place. i don't have to worry about how to get to and from school. i can take the bus and it's available for me. >> reporter: for now they pay for each and every hart ride and the cost is adding up. starting march 1st, with a school id. >> they ride free. you don't have to wonder how your child is getting to or from the activity. >> reporter: the idea is that kids will be able to school activities without picked up. options for them. if they have a situation where they don't have a car or they need to get to a job. >> they can still join that team. it's not an excuse. >> reporter: these students are excited to use the free pass until the program ends in june.

board is looking to expand the free pass program into summer. so what if your student has id? bring them to the marion transit center and buy a youth id. it's $2.50 and lasts all the way up until they're 18th birthday. they can use that to ride the bus for free through the extent of this program. live in downtown tampa, lauren rozyla, abc action news. now the most accurate weather team in florida, abc action weather. >> how are you doing, what a beautiful day. second day in a row that we were in the low 80s. today we went mid 80s primarily east of i-75. a nice breeze. we topped out at 86 in crystal river and brooksville. now, satellite picture of course it will change.

every three or four days in an changes. the form of clouds. by tomorrow morning, there will be some rain out there. even a couple of thunderstorms. and those 80s will be taking a break for a while. we will talk about that and look ahead to the weekend coming up in a couple minutes. >> thank you, denis. new tonight a law requiring police officers to wear body cameras is getting an extra push from the family of a florida man shot and killed by a police officer in october. corey jones was shot and killed by former police officer newman r a.j. a after jones' car broke down along a highway exit ramp. the family members were at the state capital, urging lawmakers to take action. >> he was a law-abiding citizen in every way. and his family can tell you about corey jones better than i can articulate. birthday today.

birthday, they are fighting for his legacy. >> jones would have been 32 today. the family worked with community leaders and the city to pass funding for police body cameras there. a sebring man facing charges accused of breaking his son's leg with a golf club. jamie ortiz claims he was trying to protect himself from his son during an argument. the cops say the child was hit while he was on the ground. he is being treated at tampa general right now. ortiz is now charged with aggravated child abuse with a deadly weapon. in citrus county, alan thompson junior is headed to prison. last june agents found nor than 4500 still images and 84 video files depicting child porn on a device in his house. he faces a mandatory sentence of five years in prison but

a man accused of robbing a citgo gas station was arrested. he skipped town after robbing the gas station. he was charged with armed robbery. thompson is the man in the surveillance video and their investigation is ongoing. bill cosby was back in a pennsylvania courtroom for day two of his bid to get the sexual assault case against him thrown out. at issue is an unwritten promise of immunity that a previous district attorney says he gave cosby's dead lawyer a decade ago. he is accused of violating a temple employee in 2004. another candidate is out of the race for president and donald trump is demanding a recount from iowa, claiming that ted cruz stole votes. tracy gonzales has the latest. >> reporter: today donald trump once again on the attack. tweeting ted cruz didn't win iowa, he stole it. calling for a new election in

sent out this e-mail to supporters falsely suggesting that dr. ben carson was leaving the race. trump telling boston harold radio he plans to file an official complaint. >> it's total voter fraud when you think of it. that's why the polls were wrong. >> reporter: no pops from cruz during the campaign stops but tweeted bernie is contesting iowa results. make donald should go back to iowa and join the democratics. a reference to bernie sanders not conceding in iowa coming in .2% behind clinton. >> secretary clinton won here in 2008. so, you know, we are taking nothing for granted. >> reporter: as clinton says, she is pushing forward, despite the challenge she faces here. >> their argument is, look, you're behind here.

you're in your opponent's backyard. i just could not ever skip new hampshire. i cannot even imagine not being here. >> reporter: and the republican field is narrowing even more now with rand paula announcing he is suspending his campaign. marcie gonzales, abc news, new hampshire. >> marcie, thank you. today 22 former foster children receiving the gift of technology. >> hillsborough county awarded them brand-new laptops to help them go to school and find jobs. those that live in independent living are at-risk teens but they are not letting that slow them down. destiny is using the laptop to get her cosmetology license. >> when it comes to keeping up with school, furthering my career, doing that, being a mom, it's a tool that you need in life. >> well, many of these teens have never owned a computer before. they just graduated from a

help them find dream careers. next at 5:30, breast milk jewelry. you heard that right. coming up next, the special ingredient hidden at the bottom of this pearl that new moms are lining up for. three years, 400 headstones and one good cemetarian. this man gets the surprise of a lifetime. >> it's disgusting. a mother accused of the unthinkable. at 6:00, we are taking behind closed doors of a sex crime that has remained hidden for

i am careful with them and i do my research before i use them. any slip-up can lead to injury. >> reporter: consumer reports tests pressure washers and says they are sold with a wand tip that adjusts to different settings. depending on the job, choose a spray at various angles. this is 25 degrees. this is 15 degrees. and this is the most powerful, 0 degrees. >> we're particularly concerned about the 0 degree nozzle because it concentrates all of the power and pressure into a single pinpoint blast. >> reporter: it's typically a red nozzle. here is what the setting does to a heavy duty work boot. this is what it does to a carrot. consumer reports is not recommending any pressure washers that comes with nozzles or adjustable tips that produces sprays less than 15 degrees. >> we recommend that you get rid of the red nozzle.

to buy a pressure washer, consumer reports recommends this electric one from green works. no matter what type of spray nozzle you're using, you're spray goggles and protective shoes and never point it at a person or a pet. consumer reports is asking manufacturers to make them without the 0 degree setting. the manufacturer association says the instruction manuals and markings show how to use them safely and stands by the use of a 0 degree nozzle for tough jobs and reaching longer distances. to see other parties from consumer reports, go to abcactionnews.com. i'm taking action for you. >> well, a texas is using breast milk to create a keep sake for other mothers. she is not ready for her kids to grow up so she is freezing time. they're called breast milk pearls. he she takes real breast milk add preservatives and let's it

within a week it becomes a solid that you can mold into any shape that you want. there are designs like colors and even sparkles that you can put on there. a top coat resin hardens and protects the precious milk. >> each pearl is a different shade of cream to white. so you're getting what came from you. no two are alike. >> bridget first debuted her breast milk pearls in a facebook group for mothers. then the orders starting pouring. they also uses jewelry using the placenta. he considers it his true purpose in life. this got 18 million people on facebook to watch. he has restored 400 gravesites

>> ashley glass shines a light on the man who brightened the lives of so many others. >> reporter: he doesn't do it for the recognition. >> it's just very humbling. >> reporter: or the attention that he has gotten from all over the world. >> and this has become this phenomena. >> reporter: andrew devotes his one day off work to help veterans long gone, restoring their graves by hand. >> it's really more for the families and the conflicts that they may have been in. the strife that went through their minds while their loved ones were away, fighting on behalf of the united states. >> reporter: our news team so moved by andrew and his work that we chose him from a year's worth of stories on everyday heroes. >> you restore my hope in humanity. >> thank you. >> reporter: .

you is you have won the be more positive award. and there are a lot of people who are here today that want to congratulate you. >> wow. i can't speak. >> reporter: familiar faces here to celebrate andrew winning the be more positive award. his best friend of ten years. >> he's a tough guy. i don't want him to see me cry. >> reporter: his family, andrew's sons often helps him clean the headstones. >> i think it's amazing what he does fo these people. >> we love him and we're proud of him. >> reporter: new friends too from the small nonprofit black dagger military hunt club to bucs' wide receiver. friends in the bolts and the rays and a military man

maintenance commander at the air force base. >> when you hear about somebody taking the time to do what you do and actually give up their time, it's just amazing. >> thank you so much. everybody. thank you for being here. this is really great. and i am over the moon appreciative. but i'm still not going to change anything that i do. i'm still going to come here on sundays, really quietly with all of my supplies, and i'm going to look and i'm going to find the veterans that need the most attention and i'm going to take care of it. >> reporter: and what could be more positive than that? >> smile. >> reporter: in tampa, ashley glass, abc action news. >> and abc action news is proud to present the be more positive award to him tomorrow afternoon at the be more positive ceremony. visit ashley's facebook page for more photos and what andrew has to say about this honor.

weather team in florida. >> he doesn't do it for awards or recognition. he was reluctant to do the story in the first place. he did it and 18 million people saw the story. >> i love stories like that. >> and sometimes people come news. i'm always so depressed. that really is a nice story. you know what, the forecast is actually looking better too. earlier today, how can you complain about mid-80s? i get that. i know there are folks that say it's too early to be in 84, 85 degrees. we actually tied a record today. we tied a record high. that roller coaster ride continues. it's either 10 or 15 degrees above normal or 10 or 15 degrees below normal. what goes up usually comes back down. yeah, it's on the way. the cooler temperatures will be returning by tomorrow. especially right on through the next five or six days. but there it is. still in the lower 80s under sunny skies.

now, the winds have been pretty strong today. out of the south/southwest at 10 to 15. you get this kind out of the south and it means a storm is coming or a cold front. this go around it's a cold front. it arrives tomorrow and will bring us rain and colder air behind. it arrives late tomorrow and into the weekend. 78. mostly cloudy skies at the airport. dew point 65. there are the southerly winds i talked about. 11 miles per hour in tampa. record. we hit 84 today. the previous record was 84 back in 1990. st. pete, sunny and 79. winds gusting to 23 miles per hour. winds 16, gusting to 24 miles per hour. there is the satellite. there it is. there's your weather on now, fortunately for our area and after all of the el nino-

a chance from the severe weather chances. we will get this out of this. i think things once we see the rain arrive tomorrow, it will be showers. maybe a storm or two. but the severe threat as far as i'm concerned pretty much nonexistent. that's a good thing. getting a little bit of rain from time to time is never a bad thing, i guess. it would not be the good thing for the first day of the florida state fair. tomorrow is the first day of the florida state fair. it always rains on the first day. that's how it plays out this year. the morning commute, a few showers early on. lunchtime, maybe a storm. i don't think any area picks up more than maybe an inch of rain. it will linger from the morning right on through the afternoon hours. it really doesn't clear out until about 8:00 tomorrow night. back behind it, we clear out. and we cool off. with highs only in the 60s in the afternoon and lows friday morning back down into the 40s and low 50s.

what about my boots, sweaters? put them away? no. we have plenty of winter weather in store for us. in fact folks up north are getting snow. most of the area on the east coast with this particular storm -- by the way it's the same storm that spawned the tornadoes across mississippi and alabama. by the time it makes it hear, we're talking about rain. not strong storms. the gulf temperature is 60 degrees. the winds will be shifting to the northwest late tomorrow. i think friday kind of a gusty day. much colder. 20 degrees colder on friday than today. there is your sunrise and sunset. florida's most accurate 7-day. it will rain tomorrow. 80% likelihood. friday, it won't rain. sunny and cooler. look at the high. 63 for the high on friday. saturday night into sunday, another chance of rain. the severe chances down significantly from this time yesterday.

look at the highs next week. we stay in the 60s. next at 5:30, new details about a 13-year-old girl found dead. police say she met her attackers o not ai social media app. coming up, the one thing that parents need to know about the app that let's you become

>> we now know a 13-year-old kidnapped and killed may have met her attacker using a social media app. >> at least one of the two virginia tech students accused in the death planned it for weeks. the 13-year-old was last seen january 26th. police saying she was killed the next day. her body discovered about 80

police are saying the teen was active on social media with multiple instagram and kck accounts. they believe that's where she met her attacker that stabbed her to death. experts say some of these instant messaging apps can lead to threatening behavior. >> you can sign up as anybody you want to be. it becomes a private hunting preserve for some of the pedophiles. >> now, here is how kck works. download the app for free. add any name or photo and send messages, photos and videos and you don't even need texting services. the creators of kck are cooperating with the fbi investigation. now here is wendy ryan with a look at what is coming up at 6:00. >> an airline firing back at a mechanic that claims their planes are dangerous. and the unprecedented step to keep refugees out of florida.

>> one day, he punched me in the face three times. that was the day i cried. >> from victim to school leader. the program that helped this middle schooler turn his life around. >> i'm here in the delivery room in tampa general hospital where healthy babies are the goal. but the zika virus poses a threat to that. what doctors want to you know to stay safe coming up. >> we never expect anybody to do something like that. a church going mother and wife is on the ride side of the law, leaving parents questioning if their children

>> live from the station taking action for you. this is abc action news. >> i hope he gets help. >> now at 6:00, a teenager victimized. this isn't your typical inappropriate relationship. the twist that makes this case rare. first a public health emergency. the zika virus prompts warnings and concerns. the reason that experts say we don't need to hit the panic button yet. i'm jamison uhler. >> and i'm wendy ryan. you ma i have gotten the push