when i have a student in my school that says everybody does think to me. >> middle school kids out of control texting nude photos. now at 11:00 a sexting epidemic. >> it is news parent hope they would never hear. 20 middle schools sending nude photos and videos. >> tonight he is at lake placid middle school as parents are getting this horrible news.

the dangers of sexting. the principal saying the issues with this is because of cellphones and using video and pictures. video and pictures he said students need to know can change lives. this is a meeting lake placid middle school principal never wanted to hold but he had to. >> when i have a student that says everybody does it -- that is a concerning thing to me. >> the sheriff's office started their investigation earlier this month with one cellphone. that number has now jumped to 20. >> it turned into a video that was passed among other students and shared with other students and -- social media was used to bully that student. >> for some parents the presentation was eye opening. >> us parents have to talk to our kids even more and see what they are doing. >> it was disturbing and i was hurt. >> we talked about it.

she is more sad about it than -- she feels sorry for the girl go away. >> he said parents have an obligation to police their children. >> i think if we don't start educating parents and kids, we will have kids that will eventually get tried and eventually. twitters. i try to keep them off of that sglun -- >> [ indiscernible ] back to you. >> we are taking action for parents tonight. the national society for the prevention of cruelty to children says explain the risk of sexting to your child. it is dangerous and illegal. reassure your child you will be supportive and understanding to and to talk to you if they feel

you should also contact police if they received a nude photo. just into the newsroom a young tampa girl fight -- fighting for her life. she just landed in miami and transported to jacks memorial hospital after a boulder crushed her while on a post grad fellowship trip to columbia. a gofundme page has been set up if you would like to help. just go to our website and mind that story. on a personal note i know skylar and her loving family. a man facing charges after a 6-year-old fires a gun in a crowded park. officers say ricardo marquez left the pistol unattended in his girlfriend's diaper bag

the child found and it fired one shot. fortunately no one was hurt. good evening. we have clouds and we have rain across portions of the area. this is light stuff, no thunderstorms. never the less, throughout the next several hours we will continue to see showers move across part of pinellas county, hillsborough, lakeland and just east of lakeland. there is some moderate rain right now that extends down across our southern counties. by wake up time tomorrow pretty confident this will be long gone. the humidity will increase. the temperatures stay high and then even though tomorrow morning will be sunny we have some storms in the forecast and possibly some severe ones later on in the period. we will talk about that coming up in a couple of minutes. well students at polytechnic university wrapping up their first ever student run protest.

rally fog -- rallying for that bill. they said if students did carry they could save lives. right now guns are banned. lawmakers tried to lift the ban just last year but the bill stalled in the senate. >> we are trying to inform and advocate the voice of the students who are left defenseless. >> florida poly says they would rather focus on public safety. the school has 36 emergency call buttons around the campus. police there say their response time on average just about 2:00. a hillsborough county family lost everything in a house fire. now they are fighting to save two badly burned pets. how are those animals doing tonight? >> those two cats are doing okay.

it will be hard to see so we want to warn you about that. some of the items inside the home were melted. take for example, it was so bad you can't even see the numbers. >> sally visits lexy and andy as much as she can. >> i am not going nowhere. >> they have been here since tuesday. their faces were severely burned and they have some internal injuries. >> [ indiscernible ] >> 11-year-old called 911. smoke. firefighters rescued as many animals as possible. four cats did not survive. >> just knowing that my babies, to go through. >> sally left the house that morning. her husband wasn't home either. >> welcome to my home.

accident and the fire started at an electrical box. >> i wish i was here honestly. i think i would have been able to save lot of this. >> she doesn't care about the material things. her family is helping her and her husband through this. she said she don't know how they will pay to rebuild 38 years >> [ indiscernible ] >> her heart is at the hospital long recovery. >> i can't live with the idea babies. >> the family hopes to demolish their home this weekend. as far as those cats go, their recovery will be a long one. it could take weeks or longer before they get better. if you would like more information about the cats and the family go to our website abcactionnews.com. back to you.

aaron andrews are in nashville right now. andrews is suing marriott for $75 million claiming negligence. back in 2008 he rigged hotel peepholes and filmed her change clothes. he plead guilty to a federal stocking charge. well hoverboards are one of the most popular forms of transportation right now and your kids may have one. >> tonight they have a warning for you all. none of them are safe. >> while the images of the hoverboards started like this, they quickly shifted to these. according to a letter from the consumer product safety commission, fires from the popular christmas gift have caused over $2 million in property damage in the last

to deem all of. they unsafe. >> we stand behind ours. >> he owns hyper wheel. he received notice of the new safety standards today. >> the word voluntary is used a lot in the letter. it is not forcing anyone to stop selling or to do a recall. >> what it is doing is warning retailers if their products are not found within the new safety guidelines they will have to be turned over. with more voluntary recalls sure to follow. the letter goes ton say all boards should be certified safe by under writers laboratory before they are old. although this time may be fear full for some companies, he is confident in his. he thinks the new safety standards will only strengthen the industry

i think it will get a lot better. >> back to you. new developments in that chopper crash in hawaii coming up. an update on the survivors pulled from the sinking aircraft plus body cameras can catch an officer stepping out of bounds or they can back him on a controversial decision. ahead the i-team showing us how they are working in one agency and why so many local departments still don't want them. and an uber driver charged with murdering six people. tonight passengers describing

an update now to that helicopter crash last week in hawaii. the 16-year-old injured this

five people were on board. they are now investigating what caused that plane to crash. a michigan uber driver charged with multiple count ofrs murder made his first court appearance to day. he is not saying why he did it. one of his uber passengers speak >> [ indiscernible ] he kind of just said no. >> two people remain hospitalized from from the shootings including a 14-year-old girl. police body worn cameras continues to be a hot topic across the country. are they reliable?

tonight we are taking a closer look. >> body worn cameras can also protect law enforcement. this incident was from july. investigators say the suspect is aiming a rifle at deputies. we count at least 21 times deputies demand the suspect lower his weapon. he raises the rifle and then this. after about six shots the man is still warned to drop his gun. then two more shots. the suspect lived, you can clearly see he had a rifle. the body cam video helped justify the shooting in a matter of moments. the pasco county sheriff's office is the old agency to outfit all of their patrol

>> what has the biggest benefit been for you? >> it has made us a better organizization. it has protected our deputies and citizens. >> the program hasn't been perfect. we went digging through hundreds of e-mails. here is what we found. in the past year they had nearly 200 maintenance requests submitted after mechanical issues. there were also 200 failure to record issues. out of those 110 incidents were because deputies for got to record. in some of those cases document reveal use of force was used. >> it is a very small percentage. however we do look at it. it is important to us. that is a why we -- is why we changed policies because of that.

privacy issue and cost is too high. >> attorney michael maddox argues the cost of lawsuits can be far more expensive than cost of body cameras. >> litigation could cost tens of thousands of dollars. >> st. pete police are experimenting with using body cameras. a similar study with orlando pd showed positive results. >> the officers that wore them had significantly less use of force and significantly less number of complaints. >> he expects tampa pd's results to be about the same. >> at the end of the study almost all of them said they would like the cameras. they wanted to keep their cameras. >> two usf studies involving two police departments, one local sheriff's office using them all found use of force and citizens complaints have gone down while using them.

cultural change. adamantly against it. within a matter of weeks or months they came back and said they would never work without this. >> they are spending nearly $2 million to have body worn cameras for five years. he said it is worth it. back to you. well a man australia taking this video at a car wash. so far more than three million people have watched it. it appears to be the inside of her car. [ laughter ] the man who posted it tells the local paper he thought the woman could learn the hard way. >> learn what? >> she cleaning the seats, the car door, [ laughter ] what is happening here?

then soap gets off the water -- car. >> maybe she had a long night. car before. [ laughter ] >> all these are ridiculous [ laughter ] >> she could have opened her door tonight and there would have been some raining coming through too. there were several folks who have had rain. most of it has been pretty light but still there are some showers across part of the area from around clearwater up towards chase, carrollwood, east of lakeland, haines city and all the way down bartow as well. offshore, bradenton area. this will all be gone by tomorrow morning. you will wake up to partly sunny skies dees y -- by tomorrow morning early

however there is plenty more where that came from. even some sea fog tomorrow. we have a lot of things going on. mid 60s across the entire area. the winds are coming in off the gulf. today we hit 78 over 58. today same thing last year. 73 is the normal high. 55 is the normal low. we were a little bit above normal. that is a warm front. as warm fronts move north, couple things happen behind it. it gets warmer and a little more humid. tomorrow morning and right on the through the day you will notice more humidity. watch what happens, by tomorrow morning that warm front lifts northward and we are left with partly sunny skies. not a bad start to your day. by tomorrow morning mid to late morning a few more showers going develop across our interior counties.

a few more showers, no thunderstorms tomorrow. wednesday, that is another story entirely. when it comes through you will notice it early morning wednesday along our northern central count. tomorrow will be a nasty severe weather outbreak for part of the northern gulf coast. this is really the tail end of -- or whatever is left of it. there is still a chance of some strong storms. it is something we will be tracking. we will give you all you need to know because i do think wednesday morning could get a little nasty. at the very least it will be rainy. a lot of folks will pick up close to an inch of rain before this is all said and done.

we have one more high day and then everything will come crashing. severe weather is likely across the northern gulf coast tomorrow. for us by the time it gets here there is a slight chance. seriously, for us a much better chance of rain and a few storms rather than some severe weather. southerly winds for the boaters at 5-10 knots. light chop out at the bay. maybe a few showers interior tomorrow afternoon. wednesday from sunrise until up. a few could be severe. look at the temperature, they crash on friday. >> well the bolts get a little help frommen a an unlike lie -- from an unlikely team tonight. we have the story coming up

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keeps them behind in third place. [ indiscernible ] our tie with 70 points and that is a nice spot to be in. we will see what the lighten can go do at home tomorrow night against arizona. the bolts are catching them on the back end of back to back nights. orngs -- okay this is going to be couple out a few women. he has a girlfriend. the question would be no if you asked me if i could entryin -- introduce you to him. >> he is still recovering from tommy john surgery but has already begun throwing. with or without cob the race starting rotation has the potential of becoming the best

>> it is hard to make prediction right now. the guys that we have in camp right now are -- elite. for sure. hands down. >> archer is right. the starting rotation is elite and could be very dominant this year. >> as long as we are healthy everyone will be okay. >> now he is back to 100%. the same can be said for matt moore. he progressed well late last season after returning from tommy john's surgery. >> i am feeling great. >> jacob also returns. the fifth spot in the rotation will likely go to ramirez barring a break out spring by top prospect blake. >> at some point -- if he is not

we don't want to get too ahead of ourselves with putting any stamps on what he has to be doing. >> the first full squad work out isn't till friday. back to you. >> all right. they have been a staple in the top 25 all season long. bit with that but he still have their chances. on the men's side he was of the week. this kid is a player.

there is some rain out there right now. i don't think there will be tomorrow morning. the storms roll in on wednesday morning. >> all right. we have continuing coverage of all of our stop stories including the weather at abcactionnews.com.

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