the car while she ran errands. is once she got back in the car, neglected to call 911 until she did more errands later in the day. the sheriff says that 62-year- old kathleen steel was unfit to be a mom. so he is blaming her for the violence that her own son did to his little sister. the little boy admitted to what he did. he even described what he did to investigators and a warning to you at ho, is a disturbing account from the sheriff. >> i took the baby and i slammed her like this. i slammed her down. and pushed her up into the ceiling. when he pushed her up into the ceiling, he was holding her and flipping her and this way and that way. and they would fall. so it was just really -- the way he was describing it is he was tossing the baby around like a rag doll. >> reporter: the sheriff called

ever seen in his whole career. perhaps most shocking of all the sheriff says that the mother did not appear to show any emotion or any remorse about her actions. and another disturbing thing she told investigators that she was planning to have through artificial insemination which is how she had the other children another child before this latest death. for now live in pinellas county, i'm adam weiner, abc action news. >> adam, thank you. breaking details about a police officer accused of raping a woman during a traffic spot. no red flags from his previous job. he worked for the police department from 2000-2003. he met or exceeded expectations during every evaluate. tampa police say while off duty york pulled over a woman for speeding back in february and sexually battered her around kennedy and west shore in west

did not arrest him until today. manatee county deputies arresting a woman for stealing thousands from children. detectives revealing late this afternoon, jennifer took about $19,000 from the ranch academy of volleyball excellence. she was just a volunteer for the academy. the theft happened between september of last year and april of this year. earlier at 5:00 and 5:30, we told you about two bay area communities being targeted by burglars we found out in st. petersburg the month of august is tied for first place for the highest number of home burglars. ashley yore is taking action for your safety tonight on what you can do to protect your home at a low cost. >> reporter: small changes can make a big difference when it comes to your home security. something as simple as seeing who is at your front door immediately can keep the bad guys away. burglars caught on camera

surveying what he wants to steal. st. pete police officer chip wells says more burglaries could happen in the month of august thanks to teens. >> now they have the time in between parents getting home and them getting out of school, which is when a lot of the crimes occur. >> reporter: criminals target your back door. >> most of our normal strike plates look like this. they have little screws like this in it. simply changing out those screws with something like this that is a lot longer so from kicking it in. >> reporter: for about 4 bucks at lowe's, get this upgraded door plate. >> it has the heavy screws on it. you are going to have to have a battering ram to get the door open. >> reporter: he suggests adding second locks to your windows. >> add a pin to it. it's simple. drill the holes in the corners. okay. the pin slips in. it goes all the way through here and into the frame there.

you can also use long screws in the door frame or a broom handle. and cameras can use motion sensors to help you keep an eye on it. >> with the camera outside and the door bell, we can see before it occurs. we can preempt any kind of criminal activity to our house. >> reporter: no matter where you live, law enforcement will come out and assess your security concerns and help fix them free of charge. now florida's mostaccurate weather team, abc action weather. >> still looking at strong storms. most of them around orlando and polk county. they will clip northeastern pasco county into hernando county. the bulk of the core metro area dry right now. this will start to fill in over the next several hours. still looking at the heaviest

northern polk and hardee county as well. by 7:00, 8:00 tonight, i would expect some of the showers and storms with the high temperatures near 90 to really get going. we will take a closer look at that, opinion point your wake- up forecast coming up in a couple minutes. >> thank you, denis. pasco county deputies on the hunt for two people behind a rare crime. the two people that you see right here, they're response for an armed carjacking at a busy store. eric waxr ctims did that may have saved their lives. >> reporter: detectives say the two people seen in it this surveillance video did not have a grand plan to commit this carjacking. witnesses say a man covered in tattoos and the woman with him seem to be under the influence when they walked across us-19 to this store in holiday. it was 2:30 in the morning. what you can't see is the man pulling a gun on the driver and

time later without stealing anything. investigators think they made it back to holiday where they tried to steal bikes before getting scared off. now they are hoping someone will recognize them from the surveillance video taken at the 7-eleven. >> we always ask for the public help because of the violence that was demonstrated and the fact that the public is at risk until we apprehend them. >> reporter: the sheriff's of are rare in pasco county. the victim did exactly the right thing, not just giving up the van but running away for help. >> the property can be replaced. lives cannot. >> reporter: if it ever happens to you, do the same. detectives say the carjackers are likely from the area, holiday or tarpon springs. as for the van, the owner got it back without a scratch. eric waxler, abc action news.

shrinking. the department of health clearing another block of the area. the news could not come soon enough. the state diagnosed another three nontravel related cases of the virus. that brings the total number of mosquito caud ions to 25. the cdc saying nearly all of the infects happened in a 500- foot area. 21 new travel related cases today including two in hernando county. >> is cutting through florida tonight. you are looking live at silver spurs arena in kissimmee where donald trump will be speaking in the next hour. we have a crew monitoring what trump will say to the crowd. he started today calling hillary clinton and president obama the founders of isis during a speech in miami beach. two topics heating up the campaign trail, donald trump's remarks that some say suggest

clinton. a pair of claims we are breaking down tonight. >> if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. although the second amendment people, maybe there is. i don't know. >> reporter: the clinton camp immediately condemning the statement. we looked into trump's wh saying it's hard to rate it with the truth-o-meter. >> trump's words are nebulous enough that you can't pin down what he means. >> reporter: second amendment people have amazing spirit and are tremendously unified, which gives them political power. >> he left enough room for interpretation that there is a did he agree of uncertainty whether he meant that. >> reporter: hillary clinton talking about immigration reform this week, saying

trust fund. >> people who go to work, help support this economy, pay $12 billion a year into social security. >> reporter: that figure cited by clinton from the social security administration. other studies cite a smaller number. >> we found another estimate that put the specific worker contributions a bit lower at $7 billion. >> reporter: rating the claim as half true. >> and clinton's camp trying use donald trump's words to her advantage. >> wendy. a final good-bye for a beloved local radio host going on right now in st. petersburg. it is a live look inside the theater where family and friends are holding a celebration of life service for mckay. we have seen hundreds of people come through to pay their respects.

still to come, a frightening case of road rage caught on camera. 285 local schools report seeing at least one weapon. one campus had 18 in two years. where it's happening and what schools are doing to keep kids safe. coming up. skies are clouding up a we have showers rolling in. big meteor shower tonight. i will tell you if the clouds

>> tonight people in ebor city are calling for an increased police presence according to a survey conducted. crime stats in the area are going down but some people and business owners are worried about the homeless population.

the tables. they are mentally ill a lot of times. >> the problem is the police are not always here. >> new security measures include increased lighting and a homeless liaison officer. once students go back to school, books are not the only thing in their backpacks. if the trend continues, many will be and other weapons. surprising places where kids are showing up armed on campus. >> we are currently still under a lockdown. >> reporter: hillsborough high school on lockdown while police investigate whether a bullet shattered a window. >> we want to make sure there is not another shooter on

the head. new tampa, a student uses a steak knife to stab a classmate multiple times. state department of education data shows that 788 weapons were recovered from bay area schools during a two-year period. that's an average of 2.2 weapons per day and a total of 285 schools reported having at least one weapon. if you look at the map, all the red dots represent schools that had at least nine weapons confiscated. if you look at hillsborough high, it had a total of 18. at this pinellas county public housing learning resource center, kids know more than they should about weapons in schools. >> they talk about it a lot. >> what do they say. >> it's dangerous. >> do they see fights and weapons. >> yes. >> how does that make you feel?

>> reporter: dominique goes to bel-air elementary school where police responded three years to a false report of an active shooter. the report turned out to be a prank call from a student at the school but bel-air had six real weapon incidents, more than any other local elementary school. sugs middle school reported a gun and eight other weapons. >>cool have a lot of gangs in manatee county. that could be an issue as well. >> would bring a gun to school. >> bullying. >> reporter: students tell police they often brought weapons to school to defend themselves or frighten away attackers. >> we don't want any report of weapons brought on to the campus. one is too many. >> reporter: in pinellas county, school resource officers are on high alert, identifying troubled kids before they bring weapons to school. >> we computer control what a

to . staff is well trained what to do if they suspect a student has a weapon. >> reporter: portable metal detectors helped cut the number downo half. but parents say they won't be taking any chances and are making sure that their kids know exactly what to do if someone brings a weapon to school. >> we told them to run away. it's sad that we have that talk with 8-year-olds. >> reporter: i'm adam walser, taking action for you. now the most accurate weather team in florida, abc action weather. >> we're talking about meteor showers out there tonight. but we have a few showers that blmak the view. >> it will until midnight or 1:00. if you wake up maybe 4:00 a.m., 5:00 a.m., you will see spectacular meteors. up to 200 an hour. it depends if the cloud cover leaves.

beach. you can see as you look out to the west, all is great. it's a beautiful day at the beach. we're in for a stretch of amazing beach weather. if you're planning to go any time this weekend or the middle of next week, you're good to go. the only thing you have to worry is between 8:00 and 11:00 at night, not in the morning. there are the storms in polk county, claremont, back over to leesburg and up to kissimmee. eventually moving into eastern hernando and pasco county. if next 15 to 20 minutes, you will see it. temperatures in the upper 80s to low 90s. out ahead of the rain, low 80 82 in bartow. 89 at the airport in tampa. clearwater 89. st. pete comfortable with sunny skies, checking in in the middle 80s. there's the satellite. we're locked in with the east to southeast rainfall. the mornings are sunny and warm. the afternns are sunny. most of the rains don't pop up

come to the coast. most of the time the heaviest rain is east of i-75. tonight, same thing. the heavier rains we have seen from polk county and north. but as this moves west, it will start to weaken. so by 10:00, 11:00, maybe even midnight, lingering showers. most of the area dries out. but the clouds will be around. so don't even think about looking for meteors before midnight. not to mention the moon doesn't set until 1:00 once the moon goes down, around 1:00, 1:15, more darkness in the sky. from around 3:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m., it should be good meteor viewing. as i said, you may not want to stay up late. you may want to get up early. you should plenty of darkness and see plenty of meteors. tomorrow, we're back into that summer pattern that a lot of us appreciate, especially if you

it will be hot. but the storms don't move through until 6:00, 7:00, 8:00 and continue until 10:00 much that's youd saturday and ay too. whatever you planned this weekend, the first half the day, you don't have anything to worry about with rain. then 7:00, 8:00, a better chance of late-day storms. light chop out on the bay. water temperature, 83 degrees. cooler than month. high tide 9:15. temperatures look to be warm overnight. then the storms diminish after midnight tonight. look at florida's most accurate 7-day forecast. 50 to 60% coverage tomorrow. 40 to 50% on saturday. then we look nice by the early part of next week. this is typical summer weather and it's sticking around thugh e end of next week.

in gainesville. surveillance camera capturing a woman wavi a handgun. you can see a guy wrestle the gun away from her. police arrested the driver of the black truck but they are trying to identify the two women in the video. still ahead, the bucs begin the preseason tonight in philly. john sabol will let us know who is not playing against the eagles coming up next in

>> thanks for stopping by. football returns in 30 minutes. the unofficial kickoff of the preseason after the hall of fame game last weekend when the wrong paint was used on the field. i'm told that the right paint

dirk koetter says that he is a little banged up. charles will not play tonight. expect doug martin and mike james to receive the carries in the back field. they are thrilled to finally face a new team on the opposite side of the ball that is not named the cs defense. >> it's time to go against another te. we're tired of hitting each other. it's good to get out there and face some our offense and defense against another team. good competition. i'm excited what we're going to do. >> preseason tonight. but it's dirk koetter's first game as a head coach in the nfl. this is practice for him, especially at evaluating the entire team, not just the offense like he has done for the most time as a coordinator in his career. >> all the free agents we haven't seen and the young

we're most excited about. michael phelps' total medal count is 21 and counting. margalis also won a medal last night. jordan swam today but he did not qualify in the 50 or 100 freestyle this afternoon. awesome journey one of five of the saint lucia athletes in the games. >> have a great night. we will see you back here at

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tonight, as we come on the air, the deadly explosion. and right now, the search for the missing. a massive fireball rocking that apartment building, and this evening, search teams remain on the scene. the investigation now, into what caused this. also breaking tonight, the new roller coaster accident, this time, lifted to the hospital. now three accidents at parks in just the last week. the moment of misfire. the wife and retired librarian shot and killed in a safety exercise, and new tonight here, the moments before it happened. the officer raising a gun, not realizing it was loaded. tonight, authorities want your help after two cases of road rage. the woman, waving her gun, and the other case, a driver firing