captions by: caption colorado, llc (800) 775-7838 e- mail: comments@captioncolorado.com a 6-year-old beats his newborn sister to death. when the mother will face a judge. >> i he acts like he's in if a luge gentleman every time he pulls over a car. >> and new claims against an officer who accidently shot and killed a woman during a training exercise in punta gorda. the disturbing video from his past that's raising new questions. >> t.i.a. officials are allowing passengers new technology to skip the lines at the airport. >> we start with an extremely disturbing, heartbreaking case. today, a mother will face a

violently beat his newborn baby sister to death. >> it happened after 62-year- old kathleen steele locked her three children inside of a hot van for nearly 40 minutes. ashley yore is live in front of the jail where steele will appear later today. ashley? >> reporter: james, she will be making her first appearance on video later today. this is steele. she is facing an aggravated manslaughter charge. the details of what happened to her 13-day-old daughter are disturbing. the pinellas county sheriff says steele left her children all locked in a hot van without air conditioning for nearly 40 minutes while she was inside of a st. pete cell phone store. the infant started crying uncontrollably. investigators say 6-year-old frankie lost his temper and

ceiling of the van. >> the 6-year-old removed baby kathleen from the car seat and began flipping her multiple times back and forth. he said he was slamming the baby, slamming her, and kept slamming her. >> reporter: when steele got back, 6-year-old frankie told his mother the baby had been upset, but steele ignored him and ran another errand before heading back home. that's when she realized something was wrong with the baby. she called her neighbor, who is a nurse, instead of 911, but baby kathleen was already dead. the 6-year-old won't be charged because of his age, but he did demonstrate what had been done to baby kathleen on a doll. the 6-year-old and 3-year-old are both with child protective services. steele will be here making her first appearance at 1:30 this afternoon. of course, we're going to continue following this heartbreaking story for you on

reporting live, i'm ashley yore, abc action news. checking in with plenty of sunshine this morning as we take knew the afternoon and warm things up. beautiful blue skies out there right now and 76. st. pete is cooler of several spots with most of us now with the feels-like temperature into the mid-80s early this morning. we get back to 100 to 105. titan doppler radar, we scan the tampa bay area. looking at the visible satellite. we have we'll be able to see the puffy cumulus clouds and southeast to the north and west. that will be our storm motion again for today. so a little fire across 95 and will end up across our neck of the woods by the time we get to 4:00. we'll get going with heftier showers and storms by the time we get to 8:00. it may not see rainfall there. the weekend looks pretty good. we'll talk more about that and

hopefully, things are wrapping up. >> things are clearing up. we have a lot of congestion. we have a serious crash this morning. a person was struck on hillsborough avenue closed eastbound at air cargo road. seeing improvement there now that the lanes have reopened. now we have a new crash at hillsborough and web road. we are seeing delays there, but things seem to be clearing out nicely hopefully within the next 15 to 20 minutes. all of that will be the drive across the bridges is looking great less than ten minutes to get across the howard frankland. the only slow spot we're seeing is i-4 heading into tampa from 75 to 275. we're still at just 54 miles per hour. back to you. four minutes after 9:00 right now. we have new information into the newsroom. a look at a disturbing video showing the past incident involving the punta gorda police officer who accidentally

training demonstration this week. now we've learned this wasn't his first offense. it attorneys out, officer lee coel had multiple complaints of excessive force before he took the life of a 73-year-old woman. this video showing coel dragging an arrestee out of his patrol car by his ankles, then to the ground, pushing him against his car. it's one of the incidents that led to coel being forced to resign. later hired police department where just this week coel shot and killed 73-year-old mary knowlton, a police volunteer participating in a tactical exercise. somehow live ammunition instead of blanks were loaded into coel's gun. police are calling it a tragic accident. [unintelligible] >> reporter: her family now mourning as the shooting is investigating.

separate arrestees in two separate cases claimed he nearly caused them to pass out by trapping them in sweltering hot police cars then roughing each of them up. in one case, investigators would only find that coel was driving his car too fast with an arrestee inside. the other complaint based on this video, investigators would find coel violated the department's code of conduct. then there's this. video of coel sicking his dog on a man said to be drunk on bicycle. the punta gorda police said coel did nothing wrong, but they gave him more training. that man's attorney, though, saying this. >> if he is too aggressive for punta gorda with him acting like he's in fallujah every time he pulls over a car -- u.s. senator marco rubio is scheduled to speak at a conference with a lineup of mean anti-gay speakers.

the event is fueling bigotry. meanwhile, with one from the one orlando fund is weeks away to going to victims' families, we're learning about survivors denied help from a state program. >> it's frustrating to deal with that and try to figure out what bills to pay and what bills can wait. so that's where i'm probably at right now. >> reporter: craig johnson is one of hundreds trying to get back to normalcy after being wounded or witnessing it. now he's turning to the united assistance center in orlando to get help. holding another meeting on the zika virus. they will talk to community leaders about concerns regarding the outbreak. it starts in 45 mines in palm beach county. we'll bring you any updates you can use from the meeting coming

florida is shrinking. authorities cleared a second part of the winwood neighborhood in miami-dade county. the number of locally transmitted cases now stands at 25. right now, gainsville police are looking to two people involved in a road rage incident that was caught on camera. >> we'll take a close look. the black pickup truck followed the victim into a gas station parking lot. then things really got interesting. one of the women pulled out a gun and pointed it driver. police have not identified that woman. also take a look at this incident. this one is from los angeles. the driver of that dark colored honda firing at a family with a child inside the suv. this happened after that suv got windshield wiper fluid on the car. luckily, nobody was hurt. the la county sheriff's department is still looking for that driver. firefighters on the west coast will get help from florida very soon. the florida fire service is

fight wildfires that are still raging there. one of those wildfires has burned about 5,000 acres in california. 40 people are heading to colorado to help out. some of them are leaving today from tampa. others left yesterday from brooksville. airlines are now offering more international flights through tampa, and with the added traffic, you might see longer customs lines. local officials want you to know that there is an easy way you can avoid those lines. three bay officially unveil the mobile transport control. it is a smartphone or tablet app that allows you to skip custom lines by answering a few questions on an app. it is available for both u.s. and canadian citizens. this morning, team usa is leading the way in rio. they have an eight medal lead and a five gold medal lead. last night was a huge night in gymnastics and in the pool.

you can thank these two american gymnasts for, like i said, adding to that gold medal lead. simone biles might be the greatest gymnast we've ever seen. it marks the fourth straight time an american woman has won the all around. also last night, michael phelps did his part winning the 200 meter individual medley for the fourth straight olympic games. the win gave phelps his 13th individual gold a 2,000-year-old record for the most individual wins in olympic competition. >> a lot of you are weighing in on our latest dirty dining report on ferg's sports bar. one of the most popular sports bar in the bay area, known as the official gathering spot for tampa bay rays fans. it is shut up and shut out for business. it was closed yesterday after

and there were more than 40 live roaches, too many roach droppings to count, 60 rodent dropping as long with ant, flies, and maggots. the state is demanding ferg stop using salt and pepper shakers after finding rodent droppings inside of the grinder unit. we did speak to eddie peters who sent us a statement that reads in part "the health department found some issues that we're immediately addressing and we'll correct. we're doing everything necessary to not only those but to prevent them in the future. we'll continue to be a high standards restaurantp. >> go to abcactionnews.com/dining. still ahead, persistence pays off for one dog. how far did this guy go to find a loving home? >> do you have the app to hear severe weather? the all new outlook that we're getting from this year's

it's quarter after now. jerry sandusky will take the stand to say he was wrongly convicted of abusing young boys. he is expected to testify in a pennsylvania courthouse today. during that hearing, he aims to overturn his 45-count conviction. the 72-year-old sandusky did not testify at his trial in 2012. his lawyer says he expects the testimony to be continue august 22nd and august 23rd. sandusky is currently serving a 30 to 60-year jail sentence. this morning, we're following the latest developments surrounding another accident at an amusement park. this week, there have been three accidents at the amusement parks. yesterday, a 3-year-old boy fell from a wooden coaster in pennsylvania. the child was reportedly conscious and talking before being taken by helicopter to a hospital. the park hasn't provided many

of course, on sunday, 10-year- old caleb schwab was killed while riding the world's tallest water slide. the kansas city park is back open but the water slide is still closed. then on monday, four children fell from a ferris wheel in tennessee. there is no federal agcy a massive construction crane broke windows at the world trade center. no injuries were reported and no one was inside of the building, which was still under construction. they say it quite simply happened was the crane lowered it to the ground when a gust of wind sent a ball into the crane crashing into the window. it cracked the tempered glass window, but no glass fell.

thick, but it is will eventually be replaced. an update now on a story we brought you as breaking news yesterday. authorities are trying to figure out the cause of a deadly explosion and fire in maryland. people smelled natural gas just before a blast. the fire killed two people, injured 30 including two firefighters. some people are still missing, but police don't know how many. officials have yet to determine or identify any of the victims. a 9-year-old boy in central ohio was being struck by lightning. the boy's amish family lived in a remote area. his mother told him to go open the barn doors when he was struck. his mother called 911 and gave him cpr. a young girl was outside with him at the time of the accident and was also hurt but survived. august is one of the deadliest months for lightning strikes in florida. turning to another weather

>> we have the forecast here with in data. we'll talk about that to see if we have any changes. keep in mind, what we get on the average season 12 named storms. out of those, six become hurricanes. the rain lasted a couple of years. i'm not a huge fan. if you look at it here, we're either going to have an average season so take your pick as we basically, a chance of getting an above average by 35%. so 85% chance that we'll have a formal season or above average season. we've already had five named storms. as you know, two have become hurricanes. that is alex outside of the season and then the latest, earl. we were hit by colin with heavy rainfall. no sign of fiona as i see it right now.

good. the american model is beginning to develop something with some of the waves that come off africa and there after. so keep checking back. titan doppler radar quiet across our neck of the woods. b we take you briefly to new orleans and louisiana. this is anywhere from 20 to 24 12 inches of rainfall is going to be under way. they have flash flood emergencies we'll share pictures with you in the next few days here. futurecast with the southeast flow. nothing organized. the low that sparked last weekend, that is the one that's impacting louisiana. that's long gone. at this point, it's just our afternoon showers and storms. with the southeast flow that will favor activity between 4:00 and 8:00.

our way, and then kind of mess us up with our evening plans for a friday, right? that'll be the case tomorrow as well. so at least you can plan your day that way with plenty of sun early. then afternoon to late day storms with high temps. 9 0 to 95 is the norm. not bad at all with coveragech 40 to 50% into next week. >> family is sharing pictures on facebook. let's look at the new baby. the baby is already on exhibit with his mom. they used to be called pygmy chimpanzees. this one is the eightth born at the zoo and the jacksonville zoo is only seven in the u.s. with the animal. if you ever questioned that dogs are man's best friend or anyone's best friend, listen

>> olivia says she first met the stray on a trip to buenos aires. the flight attendant stopped to feed and play with the dog. then he was outside waiting for her outside of the hotel the next morning. >> he ended up waiting for six months even though she would leave and not return for months at a time. after the last return home, she decided to bring him home with her to germany. >> wow. good morning, everybody. positively tampa bay. if you are underemployed or trying to save yourself, this is for you. the details are coming up. following breaking news. we just learned that a school bus has been involved in an accident. we don't have a lot of details right now. all we know so far is it happened near taylor roadp in

were students on board. action air one is on the way. we'll take you live out to the scene as soon as we get there and established.

welcome back. 9:24. you may think vinyl records are a thing of the past. vhs tapes are gone so vinyl has

still release music onto vinyl. >> you may have seen walter hamilton's work on the tv series "empire." here is a look at his work in his own words. ? [music] ? >> what i do is mix tape on canvas. i'm deejaying and scratching records, mixing records, breaking records. i'm literally deejaying, only it's on music. my name is walter logan hamilton, and i do vinyl record art. for me, a lot of this is i may have to introduce what i've done deejaying, you know, expressed through art, but these images have always been around. i think i'm just influenced by them. now, the pieces aren't planned, and it's really like jazz, improvisation. so one piece will lead you to

piece. ir'll tell you afro lady just has the hair and maybe an album cover. maybe it will take two days but [unintelligible] same thing with jill scott. it took about two months. nothing is planned so i'll break up a record, and that record may only give me seven pieces that i'll use. i mean, there's hundreds, sometimes thousands of pieces on some of these pieces of art work that i've created. then anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of months. note ? i'd say malcolm x is the most popular by far because of his identity. for a lot of people, you know, malcolm x is like manhood. my biggest is 12 pieces. not enough shine goes to the folks that actually feed me

the people dictate so much. >> that art work is incredible. i am always amazed when people are so creative like that. >> i will take cassette tapes and chop them up. no, i'm not. [ laughter ] >> let's not and say we did. >> thank you, deiah.

now at 9:30, a horrible crime committed by a 6-year-old boy. how that child killed his newborn sister and why the mother is the one facing charges this morning. >> a tampa police officer under arrest accused of raping a woman during a traffic stop. we looked into his records and

straight ahead. >> also, the health of the future generation is not looking good right now. >> good morning and thank you for joining us. i'm deiah riley. >> i'm james tully sitting in for dan shaffer. >> at the weather center, we have a lot of sunshine and looking good for the weekend. let's break it down for you here. a lot of sunshine. we'll ha again as they did yesterday. what else? well, we've got the storms through the weekend. no surprise there. if you are planning ahead saturday and sunday, and who isn't, right? we'll have abundant sunday for the early afternoon. then 4:00, 5:00 we'll see the storms popping today and through the weekend as withle. look at the numbers now. the feels-like temp is approaching 90 degrees. certainly getting into triple digits later this afternoon. titan topler radar is quiet

evening hours once again with more thunderstorms. we'll have the extended seven- day forecast in a few minutes. we're also following breaking news right now in thonotosassa. a school bus accident. we don't know if any kids are involved. we don't know anything yet, just that it happened in thonotosassa. there is a car that was involved that hit the bus head on. the driver is injured. we've got a crew setting up right now. as soon as they get in place, we'll take you there live. me a heart wreaking, disturbing story that we're following. a pinellas county mother is set to face a judge after her 6- year-old son killed his newborn sister. >> investigators say kathleen steele left her three children inside of a locked van while she went into a st. pete cell phone store. investigators added that there was no air conditioning on in the van and windows were up.

for almost 40 minutes. the 6-year-old said the baby began crying uncontrollably so he slammed her around as well as hitting her in the face. >> the 6-year-old removed baby kathleen from the car seat and began flipping her multiple times back and forth. he said he slammed the baby. he kept slamming her. >> the deputy did not charge the 6-year-old due to his age, but he and his younger brother are in the custody of child protective s leaving the children in the van while she ran errands. >> kathleen steele is no stranger to the media. in 2009, she and her husband were part of a tv series of women who fought their way through difficult circumstances to have children. after 12 years of trying, steele and her husband conceived the boy who is accused of the crime.

kathleen's nervous. >> phillip steele died of cancer in 2011. the two youngest children were born using steele's frozen sperm. an officer resigned last week violating department policy for conduct on social media posts. those posts were about a man trying to organize a protest in the after-math of police- related shootings. department for fired for similar posts. new information about a tampa police officer who is accused of raping a woman during a traffic stop. our i-team uncovering more red flags from his previous job. he worked for the pinellas police department from 2000 to 2003. we found no complaints. he met or exceeded expectations. while offduty, york pulled over a woman and sexually battered

march but did not arrest him until today. new this morning, for the first time, we're hearing from the husband of a woman killed in the punta gorda police department training operation. a man watched an officer shoot his wife of 55 years when she volunteered for the role playing scenario. >> when we tried to save her life, i was just in shock. i didn't >> he was also participating in that training activity. the officer who pulled the trigger, lee coel, is now on leave. he was forced to reline from the miramar police department after complaints of excessive force. the family has already forgiven him despite their grief saying mary would never want them to have hate in their heart. >> people make big mistakes and they shouldn't have to live with it for the rest of their life.

of that accidental shooting in punta gorda. this shows officer coel just seconds before he shot and killed the mother of two. that woman there is knowlton who is about to participate in the role playing scenario. the police department cannot explain why his gun was loaded with real bullets instead of blanks. and hillary clinton is releasing he early as today. vice presidential nominee tim kaine will release his as well. clinton has hammered donald trump over his refusal to release his tax document. >> he refuses to do what every other presidential candidate in decades has done and release his tax returns. [ applause ] >> meanwhile, donald trump says he's weighing whether he wants

he says he'll hear from cuban- americans and allow cubans who reach u.s. soil to stay in the country. >> last night, we counted five protesters being evicted from the event. he did stay on topic but didn't defend himself at all despite the more recent controversial statements he's made. he did have a new position that the pr >> barack obama, number one is incompetent. and number two remember this, number two, he is the founder in a true sense. >> both trump and hillary clinton have said florida is a must-win state. candidates under a very tight race in florida. clinton has a slight edge. what do you as a kid can affect your heart later in

future generation of americans. more than nine out of ten have poor diets and more than half of kids don't get more than 15 minutes of trysts physical activity. even more reason to get checkups for your kids, sam's club is offering free health screenings this weekend saturday from 11:00 to 4:00 for both members and nonmembers. you can get vision, hear tunes and parents can all get the checkups. we take you back now to the breaking news in thonotosassa. the crews are on the scene of the accident involving a school bus. >> let's get you out there live. corey dierdorff is just arriving. let's see if we can get more. what are you hearing about the crash right now, corey? >> reporter: good morning, james and deiah. right now, we have very

you can see this is a school bus involved with a head-on collision with this bus that you can see the driver's side front fender rail and this car over here. the driver of that car had to be cut from that vehicle and was taken to tampa general hospital as a trauma alert. we are told right now, they are in stable condition. pruitt road right now has traffic definitely blocked off. they are letting one lane by. a tow truck is about to get this out and sweepingeb we're dealing with hillsborough county sheriff's and fire offices. the good news this morning, the bus driver did not seem to be injured so there were no children on the bus as per hillsborough fire and rescue. it looks like there were no injuries to any children on the bus. we'll get you more information and bring it to you online and

corey, can you tell me where the bus was headed? >> reporter: i have not. we're waiting for a call back from the hillsborough county schools. the transportation department is out here looking into whether they will take the bus driver to the hospital as a precautionary measure. right now, she is not complaining of any injuries, but they are going to be talking with her further to see if she wants to go to the hospital to get checked out. the good news is, deiah, they say no children were on the about us when the accident happened morning. >> thanks, corey. the driver of the car that collided with the school bus had to be cut out of the vehicle. that person taken to the hospital as a trauma alert. again, as corey said, no kids on the bus. the bus driver is also okay. >> the bus driver we're looking at right there seems okay. no kids on the bus. so all right. coming up --

now one set of twin sisters in pennsylvania is passing that

that twins tend to share everything. >> one set of twin moms shared a delivery date. they gave birth just hours apart. alexandra hogan has the story. >> everybody keeps asking if we planned it. i'm like, no. >> reporter: it's a girl. make that two. natalie smith held her twin sisters' exciting secret for a week before finding out she herself was also pregnant. >> i was in >> i can't wait for them to finally meet each other. >> reporter: the smith twins of reading found out their due dates were only one day appar. >> you have the -- one day apart. >> i was like, do you have the symptoms? >> reporter: growing up, the twins shared everything, clothes to school sports to birthdays. they never image bed that within day they would share this day, giving birth just hours apart in neighboring

getting induced and then had the baby the day i was getting induced, i wanted to cry. >> reporter: just one wall separated the sisters at reading hospital as they each welcomed their own healthy baby to the world. ava then lanani six hours later. things got emotional as the twins met their babies for the very first time. >> how long is >> 19 inches. >> she's 18 inches. >> reporter: shocked and amazing is what they used to describe the 24 hours the family will never forget. >> they have reason to celebrate birthdays together like how we celebrated our birthdays. >> aw. could you imagine if twins gave birth to twins. that would be too much, huh? [ laughter ] >> ill are only stuck with me for 15 minutes -- look, you are only stuck with me for 15

in. >> you have been looking at me and you finally found it. >> how do you pronounce that again? >> perseid. >> this is the beach. it would have been a nice place to see it, right? nasa to the rescue. west virginia, hello, there it is. top left hand corner. look at that sky, though. that is fantastic. even without the heaters, right? when was the last time you saw a sky like that city in let's check at the temperatures upper 70s to 80 degrees. we'll begin to see the clouds building a similar setup to what we had yesterday with the southeast flow. we'll have sunny skies. there will even be the early afternoon. the clouds build by then. the showers and storms should old off until 4:00 through the evening hours. keep that in mind if you have outdoor plans. this will hold this pattern not just today but through the weekend itself. there it comes by 3:00.

commute and heading into our, well, our activities as we step outside tonight. 89 new port richey, spring hill. a lot of upper 80s, lower 90s. we'll get your heat index to make it feel about 100 to 105. at this point, we're just used to it. it's august here is what we call it. weekend planner, 92 for both days. this is the kind of setup where you can plan ahead with no showers and storms early. we'll have plenty of sunshine and then the afternoon storms will be with us. boating conditions looked good heading into the weekend save for the weekend storms. chances of rain, 40 to 50% through early next week. abc action news is taking action with a brand new campaign to help you find a career path that's best for you. >> the details coming up on

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tgif, good friday morning. i'm carley boyette. >> and i'm natalie taylor. we are kicking o from the kitchen with pearl restaurant in passover county. >> pearl in the grove is located just north of tampa in charming dade city. eric mccue is the executive chef. good morning, gentlemen. >> glad to be here. >> it's going to be fun. >> what i love about your restaurants is that you really are, your big emphasis is local, local, local, is it not.