a local firefighter caught sexting with an underage girl. >> who busted the conversation

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a firefighter facing charges. >> what deputies say he did with the 17-year-old girl. good evening and thank you so much for joining us. >> tonight we're getting new details too racy for television. >> involving a young girl and sarasota firefighter that allegedly wanted nude photos. >> >. abc action news is live in sarasota with the latest. >> reporter: this is the probable cause affidavit with a ton of e-rated material. -- x-rated material. we asked the fire department for a comment, but they only sent us this statement. earlier this month he was arrested for committing the crime of sexual performance by a child after enticing a 17- year-old to send him numerous

>> it's horrible, just absolutely horrible, and it just goes to show you don't know what your neighbors are doing. >> reporter: she lives down the vet from the fire department. he even made multiple attempts for her to visit him at fire station number 6 while on duty. >> if you're more interested in texting and sexting and not taking care of people's homes it would be horrible. >> reporter: key would not answer the door for comment, and according to the warrant, the last text message was sent january 16th after he asked her for a full body nude. a few weeks later the victim's mother give police the cell phone and found eight nude pictures of her daughter sent to key. >> taken advantage. and there's people that worship people in uniforms or supposedly the hero, you know, that might be glamorous to a 16-

yeah, that's sad. that's sad. >> reporter: that firefighter is on paid administrative leave. tonight the department did say the allegations, they're taking them very seriously and it's a violation of firefighter ethics and standard in the community. >> thank you. now to breaking news out of polk county, sheriffs deputies just telling us a kidnapped child is safe with his family in mulberry. a woman ran inside a pharmacy this afternoon and left a two- year-old inside her car. when she returned the car and toddler were gone. the sheriff says the abandoned vehicle was found and the child urn harmed a -- unharmed a short time later. and police say a 53-year- old took a shootout officer -- shoot at office y then returned fire. the dent in the shield is from

they were responded to a domestic call involving his long time girlfriend. his girlfriend tells us he was drunk and jealous about a neighbor. he was threatening her and at one point grabbed her neck. she says she climbed out of a bedroom window to safety. >> just grabbed my neck, i said please, please, i could hurt you, he really, really angry. >> he had a criminal recordation back to the 90s including animal cruelty, assault, violence, and duis. no officers were hurt. tonight a massive search is over, deputies recovered a 24- year-old's body in a lake and don't suspect foul play, but friends are still asking plenty of questions about how he died. >> >. i'm told the people on

the -- ramp to get the boat into the water and picked him him. >> reporter: divers found a body early this morning and people that knew him are confident it's their friend. a search for a man that went into the water wednesday night ended with tragic news this morning. authorities say no one on board the pontoon knew how to swim. >> may god keep him in heaven. >> reporter: this friend says divers found his body. his roommate. >> i'm sad because we were roommates for four years. i'm surprised because i don't understand what happened. >> reporter: he spoke with him at 12:30 yesterday and called him back after 7:00 p.m. because he was going to get a ride from him. his friend never picked up. minutes later he got the news. his friend was at the lake, but never came back up. >> i was really in shock because he's a young guy, a healthy guy.

early 20s from mexico, described as a hard worker who spent many hours at the country village flea market. >> people loved him. he was a lovely guy, and, you know, i don't know what happened but everybody miss him. >> reporter: hillsborough county sheriffs deputies haven't released the name of the man who's body they found or the cause of death. good evening we're tracking rain across the northern county, citrus and up from gainesville and marion county, over the last couple of days moisture and rain, but more than that is fog, and i believe visessibilities have been an issue in the morning, but not

delays as much first thing friday morning. patchy areas maybe, but then the rains begin to roll in. tomorrow, somewhat. saturday even more so. partly cloudy skies overnight. another warm one, and then by early next week we cool down big time. i'll have the details coming up in minutes. thank you so much, dennis. tomorrow hillsborough county is paying tribute to a deputy. he deliberately crashed into a wrong way driver to save a woman's life. tonight his family only talking to abc action news. he comes from a law enforcement family. his father serving 30 years with the massachusetts state police. when he got the call he say, he knew it wasn't good news. the father says tomorrow's service westbound a remembrance of everything his son did in 30 years of life. >> it will become a celebration of his life, and it was

>> the service is tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. at saint timothy catholic church. a stunt at a florida high school goes horribly wrong, and tonight a performer is hospitalized with serious burns. a student catching it all on his camera phone, an explosion during a pep rally. a fire breather catching fire in front of horrified students. extinguisher, eight student there is were treated for breathing problems. a zephyrhills family barely made it out of their home alive exploded. a heat source got too close and it caught fire. now they're living in tents in the backyard as they work to raise money for repairs. they say they're taking it day by day. >> we try to be good people, and we know it will come back to us and we will survive

>> she's urging other families to check their tanks, make sure it's proper covered and not near heat. now to a developing story, sea world announcing they will no longer breed orcas, and the park says they plan to phase out thee yachtly cal killer -- theater killer whale shows. tonight the humane society is now praising sea world saying they're headed in the right direction. and this woman found a four foot long boa constrict to, six sarasota officers managed to get it into a pillow case, and tonight it's at animal control. new at 11:00, the white

president obama mailing a letter to a woman in cuba. the white house releasing the picture to announce the us postal service is restoring service to cuba. he told a 72-year-old woman he's looking forward to visiting havana next week. and coming up at 11:00, donald trump hacked. the sensitive personal information that's now posted online. plus vacations ruined. their cash gone. how a woman got away with selling cruises to nowhere. and a wedding dress blown away in a storm. who found it and what's being

tonight donald trump is reaching out to the federal government calling on the feds to track down and arrest a group of hackers. earlier today the group anonymous posted trump's social

number and other sensitive private information online, declaring war on the republican front runner, releasing a video tonight accusing trump of promoting a hateful agenda. >> donald trump an enemy of the constitution and the natural rights it enshrines. his rallies are filled with hatred, racism and violence. >> the group is calling on supporters to take the information and investigate trump's background, telling supporters to be careful, reminding them they're responsible for whatever they do. just into the news room, the fbi just announcing a stabbing spree on a california campus was inspired by isis. last november an 18-year-old stabbed four people at the university of california before police killed him. all four of the people survived. investigators now saying the teen drew inspiration from terrorist propaganda and became a radical.

contact with the actual terrorist group. and dramatic video, a woman in denver praised for her quick action. this camera caught the moment with a young mother brought the purchase to the register, the clerk sees the woman about to clams. she reached out and grabs the baby just in time. the mom is rushed to the hospital having a seizure. the mom and baby are both doing okay tonight. tonight a pinellas county travel agent is facing serious charges. they say she took money for discount vacations, but customers actually got nothing in return. >> >. she was just as sweet as she could be and said she could get us on board credit and a phone call from mickey mouse for my youngest grand son on board. >> reporter: it was supposed to be the disney cruise sherry was

made by this woman, janet bender, detectives say was a complete lie. >> out $5,700, so, and we're not rich people, you know, we saved for this, and it was a bucket list item. >> reporter: for months phillips was led to believe she purchased a cruise from bender from cruise one, but when the day came around weekend bender was -- bender was nowhere to be found. >> these are all the invoices. >> reporter: bender not only too the money but created fake documents to throw victims off the scent. >> we bragged to our friends and everything, and now i feel embarrassed. >> reporter: pamela had known bender for 20 years and booked cruises are her before, so when she took her for $3,700 as well she was shocked to say the least. >> we finally kept calling her and saying we need the vouchers.

delivered, like phillips tickets, were fake. we reached out to cruise one for comment, and didn't receive a response, but we learned bender has since been let go, but neither victim is expected to get their money back, and even worse detectives don't believe they're the last ones to come forward. in pinellas park, abc action news. and now to an incredible story out of iowa. a wedding dress in a box debris. police believe the tornado that hit rapid city illinois blew the dress in a box across the mississippi river into iowa. now officers are trying to find the woman who owns it. >> we would like to make sure it gets back to the owner and the if it made that kind of travel across the river and state in the box, then it's probably meant to get back to who it belongs to. >> a newspaper delivery driver

route. do you think that's a sign of a [ laughter ] >> if the wedding dress survives that. >> and it doesn't look like it wrong with it. >> and tornadoes up there are winds 150 to 200 miles per be. absolutely. let's check out the skies across the area, partly cloudy sky, you know, we did see a few showers, citrus county. talked about this at 6:00, and most of the rain staying just off to the north, and right now there's still a pretty decent area of showers and stronger thunderstorm, there's a little box of the warning just west of panama city, and we have one line, another line, the actual front that's going to bring us some cooler weather isn't going to arrive until early on sunday but out ahead of it are pieces

chance of showers. i think the best rain chance though will probably stack up on saturday afternoon into saturday evening. temperatures right now anywhere from the upper 60s to the mid- 70s although still low to mid 60s tampa, the sea breeze making things comfortable especially when inland areas were ten degrees above normal. low # 0s right now -- 70s right now under partly cloudy skies. the high temperature today in tampa, as i said we were ending up primarily in the lower 80s, now down to 73. the dewpoint is the number we're showing a lot lately. when you see the dewpoint close to 70 in our area it almost always means june, july, or august. summer season. but we have seen so much moisture come in and so much

reasons we've had so much fog, and also why we're seeing temperatures averaging ten above normal. tomorrow morning we get the air moving around a little bit, and keeping fog from settling down in many areas, so i think we'll have patchy fog, but no wide- spread dense fog i don't think, but we will have to watch the chance of a few showers, and the way tomorrow playing out i still think we see quite a bit of sunshine mixed with clouds and a couple of isolated showers. not many. anything that does develop, probably later in the afternoon or evening. not much, but notice, overnight tonight tomorrow into saturday morning, that's when things begin to change. the next piece of energy, and in my mind it's the strongest, so saturday afternoon and saturday night that's when our rain chances will be about 60, maybe even 70 percent, but by saturday evening the rain is

might start off cloudy, the rest of the day is pretty nice i think. so second half of sunday will be the best part of weekend weather-wise. in fact right through 7:00 a.m. saturday not a big deal, but all of the sudden through sunday morning rain chances, totals about half an inch, nothing too high, but because it could pop almost any time, take into consideration at least the chance of a few showers at any point late tomorrow into saturday, so keep the umbrella handy. not changing the temperatures though. still in the upper 70s to mid- 80s across most of area. here's the hour by hour forecast, the rain chances remain slim through the morning. warm up again leading to the seven-day with rain chances at about 60 percent by saturday, 50 percent first thing sunday, and clear and colder by early next week.

florida, pittsburgh, and detroit all winning tonight, so the boltings needed to -- bolts kneed to put -- needed to

board, but it didn't happen. they're in dallas, stamkos in front, it's 3-2 bolts into the third, and midway through, the stars scoring twice within a two-minute span. dallas holds on to win this one, the final 4-3. all right, ncaa tournament tonight. miami with a win over buffalo, but florida gulf coast exits with a loss to north carolina, and we thought we had a bracket buster right out of the gate. duke and unc wilmington. blue devils move on. today.

yale making their first appearance since 1962. usf says don't be fooled by colorado state's 11 seed in the tournament. their opponent ranked 22nd right behind usf in the polls. the rams are 31 and 1, only loss to penn, and the only reason they're seeded so low is they played on the one bcs team, colorado, and they beat them. >> >. you don't win 31 games just because, you know, they have very, very good basketball player, and do things well. they don't foul or turn it over and they defendant you. they're a lot better than an 11 seed. and logan forsythe is back

last week. he gives the rays a 1-0 lead, then longoria left the game after suffering a shin contusion. the rays end upbeating philadelphia today 6-1. and nascar back in florida. mcmillan is now tenth in point, and his race team is home right here in tampa. >> >. all the customers attending the race this weekend, it's an exciting time, and this is my super bowl. this is the rate you want to go well at. in the past we've struggled, but we're on a good role right now, and we hope to continue that and go into the race and

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