from all of us, have a good night and a great weekend. breaking news. one man is dead after a shooting in town 'n county. and we're looking into what

breaking news in hillsborough county. deputies are working a deadly shooting in town 'n county. >> reporter: let me just move out of the way so you can see there are a ton of hillsborough deputies still out here tonight. this shooting happened several hours ago in this gated community. one person was killed. we were told that an altercation happened inside one of those apartments. deputies are interviewing the shooter. authorities say the person who was killed does not live inside this -- or inside that apartment.

do not believe at this point. detectives do have an idea about a motive but they do not want to release that at this time. you can see deputies still investigating. we were told they're going to hours. one person was killed, and they are talking to the shooter. politics is a blood sport. >> now to our other big story. a former county for largo county city commissioner is getting out of the race. >> he's claiming another candidate threatened him to get out of the race or else. >> abc action news reporter michael joins us now. >> reporter: this case has been going on a very long time. this is the complete investigative report. there's a lot of incriminating information in here concerning

but still this case was dropped. aaron darr says he never asked for the threatening e-mail to show up in his box, but it did. >> somebody needs to get in trouble and be held responsible. >> reporter: police arrested robert avery for felony extortion. avery even admitted, according to the report, that he sent the e-mail, but he says that he was, quote, out of his mind that night. >> i worry about the people of largo with that kind of dangerous behavior where somebody is able to do one thing behind closed doors one minute, but publicly come out and say that my computer was hacked. >> reporter: months later, aof his mother, and partner signed sworn statements that their router was hacked. following an exhaustive investigation the state decided not to file charges.

avery in 2014 when he pulled a gun to break up a fight. >> i had one hand on the phone and one hand on the gun. >> reporter: he direct all of his comments about this case to his attorney. he did say he was still rung for office, and darr thinks that's a mistake. >> he was wrong and he needs to admit that he was wrong. >> reporter: darr says he is talking with his attorney to figure out whether or not he can press any charges against the state attorney's office. we are live in largo tonight, abc action news. good evening, everybody. temperatures now cooling off into the upper 40s and low 50s across our northern counties, but what a day. we were in the mid-70s. visibility could be an issue bright and early tomorrow morning, maybe two to three miles across the interior counties, but once we hit 7:00,

to temperatures in the low 50s, partly cloudy skies. by later in the afternoon we're going go from the mid-50s to the mid-70s. anybody for 80 degrees? it's in the cards. i'll tell you about in a couple of minutes. right now investigators are trying to discover the cause of this boat fire at the bay pines boat ramp. look at that video. two men on board at the time, the owner telling us there was an explosion and then some flames. a lot of flames. that fire burning through dock line and the boat drifting out into the intercoastal, flames destroying the vessel but fortunately neither man was seriously hurt. tonight a middle schoolteacher is behind bars accused of pursuing a young student for sex. we're told the teacher texted nude photos of herself to a 14- year-old. the parents in that school say they feel hurt and betrayed. >> i have no words to say to

>> officials telling us the relationship began in may and ended a few days ago when the teen's mom called deputies. right now tampa police are looking for a dogknapper who took off with this german shepherd, then shoved him out on a very busy street. >> reporter: sean and donna are animal lovers sought shouldn't be a surprise to anyone why they bolted from their lunch spot to go across the street this morning toward a dog. >> i saw it first. i said, look what this guy is doing. he's kicking this dog out of his truck. >> reporter: the pickup truck was blue. >> he went from the driver's side to the passenger's side and got in with his butt and kicked the dog out.

didn't want the dog to get hit. i got the dog with a chicken sandwich and sat there, he sat there with me. ire mean, he was a good dog. >> reporter: detectives are looking into this trying to find the driver of the pickup truck. they say there's a chance this dog was stolen from a backyard. >> especially for something like that happening, it's absurd. it upsets me. >> the dog was very lovable. very lovable. and honestly, i hope tampa pd get this guy, because he deserves to be punished. right now a young teen is facing burglary charges. this video from a south tampa home, police telling aus 16- year-old and two other suspects were caught on camera breaking into a south tampa home. a security system notified the homeowner and she remotely set off the alarm. the teens got away with an

just in, florida hospital east in orlando paying $2 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it used leftover chemotherapy treatments on patients. the suit says workers ordered the wrong size vials of chemotherapy drugs and used the leftover medicine on the next patient. lawyers claiming once opened, the drugs can become a source is of infection. the suit says one patient may have died as a result of this florida hospital claiming tonight it has contacted all of the patients and denying that any patients were harmed. right now tampa police asking you to help them find this woman. take a look. disappearing on wednesday. she was last seen in the 3700 block of authority boulevard. you can go to our abc action news facebook page and share her photo with your friends. tonight a pasco county boy living with a serious health issue will go to sleep with a big smile on his face because

achieve another item on his bucket list. abc action news shows us the big surprise. >> reporter: by the look and sound of nine-year-old eric -- stay here are my blocks. >> reporter: he's just your normal little boy full of energy and life, something he has that most nine-year-olds don't is a bucket list. >> without this, i turn purple so the doctor says ear staying on this 24/7. >> reporter: eric suffers from congenital heart disease. anywhere he goes his oxygen tank is in toe. >> eric is on a laundry list of medications. he has had four open heart surgeries. >> reporter: to keep his spirits up they've been checking off his list with things like trips to disney world and more. thursday he got another

>> hey, buddy, i'm chris. it's a pleasure to meet you. >> reporter: the sheriff showed up bringing with him members of the canine unit. of course after hearing of eric's love for police cars, they stepped it up a notch on that as well. >> you can sit in the back. >> reporter: eric now needs a heart and lung transplant but doctors say his chances of surviving the surgery aren't good. >> should we not get that miracle, it's going to give us something to hold on to, getting us through those rough times down the road, looking at all the amazing things we were able to do. it's going viral, and polk county isn't proud of this website. coming up, what's posting all of these school fights on line and what happens to the kids caught breaking the rules. solid waste employees caught loafing on the job. hear what managers have to zane

>> and too much wind in the windy city. dangerous conditions on the streets of chicago. why firefighters were forced to

welcome back. an instagram account full of schoolyard fights prompting an investigation right now in haynes city. police are trying to track down the kids brawling on this site called boone middle school fights. arrests are expected. the district telling us students who fight will be disciplined according to the student code of conduct. tampa's residential garbage rates have skyrocketed over the past five years after the city council approved millions of dollars in rate increases to keep one rising costs. but as i-team investigator adam

money is going to employees just sitting around on the job. >> reporter: on a quiet ybor city street beside a "no parking" sign our camera caught truck 1277 parked with its engine running. it was in the same spot 93 minutes that day. >> plenty of garbage around that he could be picking up. >> reporter: on another afternoon truck 1277 was in the same spot for 2 hours 25 minutes before it headed back to the yard. the employees in the truck make about $20 an hour. >> and to be honest with you, i was very disappointed. >> reporter: mark is director of solid waste department. he oversees 200 employees would collect garbage and recycling from 79,000 homes and businesses. >> the initial premise of garbage collection was built upon hard work, back breaking work. >> reporter: but new technologies have made the job quicker and easier, with bigger

trips to the landfill. >> are there others out there? >> i believe there are, and let me just go ahead and say now that we have discovered some of that behavior probably maybe a year ago or so as we became more efficient. >> reporter: but even though every truck is equipped with gps tracking managers didn't know this crew was sitting around until we asked for the records. we followed solid waste trucks for weeks and found them burning up fuel you paid for. sometimes employees stopped for meals or snacks. other times they hung out with colleagues, but rarely did we see trucks picking up garbage during the afternoon. that doesn't sit well with customers. >> you're getting paid to do your job. >> do you have a job? >> not at the moment, i don't. >> yes, absolutely. >> you need to put your time

>> reporter: since 2012, commercial rates are up 76%. >> so they're getting all they can get. >> reporter: tampa has by far the highest rates at nearly $35 a month. that's more than twice what customers in bradenton pay at less than $17 a month. some of the price you're paying is going to overtime. 10 employees have wracked up at least $100,000 in o.t. pay over a decade. one driver claimed $200,000. but you wouldn't guess that based on the dozens of trucks that head back to the yard hours before the shift ends. >> a driver may have to come back to the office or to our yard to attend a meeting. >> do you have too many people? >> i think that needs to be determined. i think we have to get out and do an evaluation. >> reporter: as for as the men in truck 1277, one resigned, the other was terminated. >> if these guys only had six dumpsters to take care of, would they be telling the truth? >> they could be.

>> well, then, that fair to fire them if they don't have enough work to do? >> if they don't have enough work to do, again that is something that we have already instilled in our employees to report back to our yard, speak with your supervisor, see what other work is out there that needs to be done. >> reporter: will we see anybody sitting under a tree for two hours this time next year? >> i don't think you will. i can promise you that. >> reporter: i'm i-team investigator adam walser taking action for you. a city council meeting disrupted after these two started throwing punches. the fire chief ended up getting between the two men. no serious injuries. people in chicago recovering from a wind emergency. take a look at this incredible video. a woman nearly blown down the street in front of a tv news crew. a meteorologist from one

rescue. he and several other guys walking her to a waiting cab, blowing debris downtown construction sites and forcing firefighters to evacuate several office buildings. emergency crews responding to more than 200 wind related calls. wind in chicago. >> and if you've been in the city, you know that wind is fierce. >> but the windy city didn't get its name because of actual wind. it got its name from overzealous politicians back in the 1800s. the things you learn. of course, everybody says get to the seven-day, dennis. >> the weekend. >> here's a look outside, looking good after a little fog. temperatures warmed up beautifully, mid 70s. that's why everybody up north is looking down in florida saying i wish i was there. even though our temperatures are going to drop into the upper 40s and low 50s we are still in the mid to upper 50s

and it's only going to go up. folks are going to be flirting with 80 degrees. skies are clear in tam parks clearwater, and st. pete. winds out of the east 10 to 15 miles per hour. so the next few days the only thing you're going to have to worry about saddle bit of cloud cover from the east. that is something we'll be tracking, as we often do. 64 in tampa. there they are, east winds 59 miles per hour. not all that strong. that's huge. if it were maybe 15, 20-mile- per-hour winds, then all of a sudden we'd have to talk about shower. that's not going to be the case. but if you are going over to the east coast this weekend, especially for daytona, tomorrow, maybe a few more clouds. you can even see right there as that cloud cover coming in from the east. what's going to happen is by late tomorrow into sunday the winds veer out of the southeast. you say, well, come on, what's the difference, right? east-southeast, it's huge for

an easterly wind, that moisture comes in from the atlantic. you get a southeasterlily wind, it cuts off the flow and you don't see a chance for showers on the east coast. oh by the way, with all this dry air, kind of hard to rain anyway. bottom line, this weekend's forecast is probably going to be the nicest so far this year. upper 70s to around 80, especially on sunday. if you are lucky enough to have a lock weekend, things could wednesday. clouds try to come across. sunny. there will be a few clouds mixed in at times. not going to bring us any rain. sunday, exact same thing. that sunshine stays on through the afternoon and into the early evening. now, here's the european model. i show you this because it tees most accurate model on earth. rainfall totals tuesday into wednesday, not a huge deals. maybe a quarter of an inch. rain.

wednesday, then a little cooler behind it the next go round thursday into friday. here we go. mid to upper 70s. look along the beach. you see that green? that's 60s. the reason it's so cool is because the water temperature is 60 degrees in clearwater. so that's where it's chilly. chilly relatively speaking. look at the rest of the area. mid to upper 70s right on through the weekend. there's a look at florida's forecast. 76 on sunday. by the time we roll into monday, where it's 7 degrees, that morning low is going to increase rather dramatically by then. tuesday, wednesday, into thursday, that's where we begin to see some changes. that front comes in, area of low pressure is going to develop. at this point not all that sold that it is going to be a big deal butt certainly brings us the possibility of a couple of showers. same thing on wednesday. thursday and friday we start to cool off again. there you see it. saturday and sunday, make your plans now. whatever you've got planned

beautiful. the beach a little cooler, or a lot cooler in the upper 60s, but highs staying right there through the weekend. >> thank you dennis. who will win this weekend's daytona 500?

hello, folks. only one more practice session to go before the cars get locked and loaded for sunday's running of the daytona 500. you look for consistency throughout the week, and we've seen plenty of it from the hendrix and joe gibbs team. the only driver to find any bad luck among that group, this guy. jimmie johnson. he got caught up in a last lap crash yesterday sew went to a backup car today. his lap times about 5 miles per hour slower than his primary car the day before. plus, he will start the 500 in the back of the pack. dale earnhardt is humming, though. on the gibbs team, kyle busch, matt kenseth, denny hamlin, one of those will make a run on sunday.

i've got to go with junior. he's got the car and the momentum on his side. kenseth for two reasons. he's got the car and he has success on this speedway. kevin harvick should give the stuart-haas team a top five finish. as for my long shot, ryan blaney. he has been buzzing around the speedway. oh, we've seen it every year. a highly recruited area basketball player leaving home, and even the state of florida to play college ball. what's the reason behind it all? we went over to tampa catholic to find out. the crusaders have not only one but two highly recruited players. one this year, one next year. one headed to the big 12, a conference that plans to expand by two teams this year. >> reporter: the bay area has certainly produced some top-

tampa prep's did you wan duwan durham is headed to utah. >> recently got back from a visit to duke in north carolina. those are two really good schools. fsu, syracuse, maryland are ranked in the top ten. >> reporter: but why aren't kids of this caliber staying close to home? >> the basketball guys, when you think of duke, you don't think of duke football, but you think of basketball. kansas. do you think of kansas football or kansas basketball? >> reporter: thomas was recruited hard by usf. however, he ultimately chose to sign with oklahoma state. >> going away was the best situation for me. >> reporter: kevin knox grew up watching florida state, postally because his parents played sports there. but he says that won't impact his decision.

i have no favorites, no school that i really like the most. >> reporter: but is the potential of playing at north carolina, duke, or kansas too sweet to pass up to stay home? that seems to be the ongoing dilemma for some bay area kids. reporting in tampa, john sable, abc action sports. >> boy did the lightning get some help tonight from the new york islanders. the islanders held on for a 1-0 victory. that keeps new jersey out and the bolts in the top eight in the playoff picture. that's nice the bolts got a little meeting with pittsburgh tomorrow, 12:30. they've got to win that one, too. have a great weekend, everybody.

>> look at this weekend's forecast. come coorntion it be any better? 75 on saturday, 76 sunday, low humidity. if you are going over to daytona for the 500, that looks good, too. sunny, 73 degrees. so just a perfect weekend. hope you get a chance to get out and enjoy. >> and this is why we live in tampa. continuing coverage at abcactionnews.com. >> have a great night and a

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