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of the van. you can literally see water piping from underneath this home where the depression is exposing some of the piping. we are told residents within 100 feet have been recommended to evacuate. they do not know when it will stop moving. it is a big concern for this home. emergency services is calling this the biggest sinkhole they have ever seen in this area we will keep alo talk to some neighbors about their concerns. that is the latest from here at hudson we will bring you more on here and on life and the facebook page and abcactionnews.com. now to the horrifying crime. neighbors are in disbelief over the violent actions of a little boy who lived it on the street. >> he accused by his accused of
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the motherkathleen steele, 62, appearing in court. we were there at the judge announced they don't think setting bond with enough. why is that? >>reporter: this judge made it clear that if his mom left her three kids in a hot car locked in there for out he doesn't want her anywhere near her kids eves make bail. >> i find probable cause aggravated manslaughter. >>reporter: even if she is able to post bail she is barred from interacting with anyone under the age of 18 to the tighter the second 30 described her as a pretty good lady. >> is a terrible tragedy. >>reporter: the details for the doorstep of kathleen steele, 62, home and the homes of her shots neighbors. >> is unbelievable. i do not have things like that
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out bad that quick. i don't know what was going through his mind. >>reporter: since her husband died several years ago he hasn't seen the family. >> i think they were real close to each other. she liked to yell at the kids and that's all i heard the >>reporter: she was a financial advisor bankruptcy case shows made over $140,000 the last few years and a home with over $900,000 but they say it was clear she was struggling. >> i don't know what it's like being alone and raising those kids. it's unbelievable. she's having a hard time frame >>reporter: the sheriff's office said she activity motionless with her baby died on monday. the attorney disputes that
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>> i found her to be devastated by this. >>reporter: spoke to the school today and they say the boy who allegedlis little sister earlier this week was in school all this week until the school system found out about the situation on thursday and that's when they finallyulled him out of class and escorted him to family members with the bleep -- police. they say he will not be returning elementary anymore. we are following up on too ampa bay in pinellas county working to find out the name of a pedestrian killed in treasure island for the person died after a car hit them at bayshore drive. in hillsborough county the person hurts in the school bus accident will be okay.
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driver of the car had to be cut out and is in stable condition. the ntsb is working to get black box recorders from this jetblue flight were bad turbulence hurt more than 20 people last night. pictures of them showing the aftermath from the flight. things got so bad on the plane it had to be diverted to south dakota. >> they were flying way up in the air the laptops to up they were stuck flying. >> we just dropped like that and if you people were injured. >> 22 passengers and crew members had to be rushed to the hospital and another plane rocked the passengers to sacramento earlier this morning. a race for the white house and call for action by trump key leaders from the campaign
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experts say the private meeting will determine the trajectory in florida. carson chambers explains why we might see and hear more from trump campaign in tampa bay. >> panic is setting in. >>reporter: an emergency meeting today in orlando between donald trump's advisers and key leaders of the rnc. >> republicans are panicking because he isn't doing well. >>reporter: a new poll trump and hillary clinton in a dead heat in the battleground state of florida with clinton at 46 and trump 45%. she says trump is that a major decision right now. >> if trump wants to win florida they have to have these field offices and people that are ready to call up people that voted and say please get to the polls.
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it is in the cigar factory which you would never know because it's not a sign. >> it is hard to orchestrates effective get out to vote organizations and grassroot efforts. somebody from washington or new york doing it has -- has to be someone who knows florida. >>reporter: lo frida grounded might not be the only meeting topic. >> p >>reporter: with statements like these raising isis.>> although the second amendment people maybe there is. >>reporter: he toning down -- toning down his rhetoric may be on the menu. second the democratic say -- site clinton is releasing her tax forms from last year. what
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dodging storms out there. everything developing along the southeast is moving off to the northwest. there is the rain and thunderstorms the from newport up today and staff of hudson so uin citrus county and anywhere from lakeland right on top of them a decent thunderstorm and lightning moving to the northwest and down south fro western sarasota. making it down into sarasota in about 40 minutes the looking at futurecast more showers and storms that won't last as long as last night. there is your hour by hour forecast, thunderstorms and leaving waking up to sunshine and storms tomorrow what do they arrive? will let you know in a few > to zika virus the
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cases in south florida. local the -- mosquitoespread brings the cases in our state at th 28th. the meantime there are desperate measures to salvage a possible vaccines. health oicls diverted $81 million away from other government programs to avoid doing research on trial for two vaccines otherwise money for vaccine research would have run out by the end of this month but the head of health and human services says it will not have prepared as we told you lawmakers went on their seven- week recess without making any kind of decision. reason maryland looking into claims that people smelled natural gas weeks before a deadly explosion. error abc station reports someone called 911 well before this enormous fire and sulfur springs that killed at least two people. rescuers are still searching
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more people are visiting florida than ever before. that means more money and jobs in our state. in the first six months 57 million tourists came to florida. we set another record with one 2 million floridians working in the tourism industry and 50,000 more jobs than last year. the future you may have in your ride t children targeted in a crime and the people that save time and the woman accused of trying to snatch them away. the app that could keep children safe during an
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y22pny yy6y the last week in a freedom for students who go back to school this coming monday. >> tonight we are getting an up close look at a safety plan that's meant to protect your kids in the classroom. the emergency plan is now at a teacher's fingertips. >>reporter: at every pasco school and every classroom along with books and computers you will find this color flip charts the hope is it is never
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but when an emergency comes, teacher should know exactly what to do. >> at the shares office and rescue has to come in and respond to an emergency been no it will be enacted the same way. >> the plan put together by the shares office and school district covers everything from tornadoes bomb threats lockdowns and more. >> if one of these emergencies happenta members on the way to g and having step-by-step instructions and emergency numbers accessible but it's also on their phone. officials want to keep most of the procedures private to the wrong people don't know how a crisis will be handled. and river ridge high school principal is using a smartphone teachers have reminded 101 available so in a crisis alerts can be sent out to everyone. >> they will get a text message
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shirt with a black backpack and suspicious activity. >>reporter: the communication will be a big help for the school resource officer that can only cover so much ground. >> the campus of falling a college campus. it's a never ending effort to maure our campuses are safe and secure for the students. >>reporter: for the students the work starts monday that staff members have been getting ready all summer. whatever the school year may bring. ready. be special back-tschool stion on our website at abcactionnews.com and on our app we have everything you need to get ready for the first day from school supply list to lunch menus. the last day you can double your school supply donations. just drop off donated school supplies at any loon fuiture store by e of
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closed at about 9:00 pm. we are learning 100 million volkswagen cars around the world are vulnerable to hackers. all they need is a cheap radio. they can break into a car's keyless system. volkswagen has not said which models are affected the researchers say they were able to breach some jettisoned golfs . >> tonig video as reminder of how dangerous distracted driving can be. this video shows a distracted driver leaving -- weaving across the road and driving slowly. when deputies pulled the car over they learned the driver was playing pokimon go. and are forecasters updating the predictions saying
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there is a good chance we can see 12 to 17 named storms and so far we have had five. out of those 5 to 8 are expected to be hurricanes with two out of those 5 to 8 are expected to be hurricanes with 2 to 4 major storms. >> that always makes me nervous layup the number plate >> i am -- >> the video we saw. >> the next few weeks will be quiet. they count on it from the last weekend in august for things to ramp >> we will see but everything is quiet and nothing to worry about. we have bigger concerns this afternoon thunderstorms. more people are injured or killed in the state of florida from storms than in a hurricane , let's hope it stays that way as you look up here everything is quiet. the thunderstorms are just popping up all over the place though.
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small across the bay. and the bigger area down over areas hardy. let's zoom in right here. over the courtney campbell coming up right now of howard franklin moving no zoomin more west of carol what from lake fern over towards keystone and odessa. this continues to move rightto h ke next several hours things will wind down but this is a pattern that we usually see this time of year and it's not going anywhere which means you can count on sunny skies and took three or 4:00 pm whatever you have outside your golden and a means more sunshine and warmer temperatures and backup in the lower 90s across most of the
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family picture tells us all you need to know with the mornings dry conditions. tomorrow sunday and most of next week great until 2:00 pm and when the clock hit 2:30 pm the storm's pop up and everything moves northwest. i don't see any changes to the wind. we are surrounded by water . the easterly flow will stick around for quite a while meaning at about m of the heavy storms from 4 pm until 9 pm. if you were to florida you already know that and don't need me to tell you that. i tomorrow morning clouds around sunshine but around 7 o'clock we're good to go. sunny and le 90s by later on in the rain until four 5 pm and some more moisture to work with starting tomorrow and
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even less likely to get rain right up to the weekend then today or yesterday. sunday same thing. were sunshine and warmer temperatures. the two go hand in hand low to mid 90s across the entire area and that is until the storms of bubble up by 4:00 pm. the tropics as he said everything is quie traditionally in a couple of weeks in for the boaters southeast winds up 83 the uv index but -- as high as it gets. upcoming types the sunrise 7:00 a.m. sunset 8:10 pm. thunderstorms until 10:00 pm and then partly cloudy and you are still able to see meteors ter t won't be
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a through the day with temperatures in the lower 90s. looking at the ford& the forecast typical summer weather. not a lot of change. not just through the weekend but right through the end of next week. coming up breaking details about a man made famous by netflix whose case provoked outrage. houston one of the my profile that to make sure you are aware of this breaking news from hudson a depression at least 25 feet wide opening up underneath a duplex. we know the homeowners are out of town right now. our camera is live at the scene
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are stationed in milwaukee reported one of the murder suspects in making a murderer to be released within the next three months. the federal judge overturning the conviction. he and his uncle were convicted of killing a woman in 2005 and netflix series casting doubt on some of the claims like this one circulating online release.>> california woman just arrested for trying to abduct two small children. their moms were not far away and raced to rescue them in the nick of time. the surveillance video a little hard to see the watch closely they went to police say this is lisa arnold getting out of a car on wednesday and trying to pull a 14-month-old baby from a stroller in the middle of a
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later police say arnold try to grab a another kid this time a three-year-old. his mom also protected him and in each case police say arnold was a kid and told him they were cute. more cases of zika in florida have governor scott trying to protect kids at school and why one district isn't complying. start taking matters into your own hands, the new state law that protects
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>> as we reach the hottest of the summer it is good to know. >>reporter: the tragedies and mrs. keep happening kids getting left behind in hot cars. earlier this week police say a dad and grandma left behind a three-year-old mother shopped at walmart for 40 minutes. someone call the police who busted out the back window save a child. a state law gives the good samaritan the power to break the window. every minute counts if you find a doctor child lock is not a hot car. temperatures rise as much as 30 degrees.. if they feel the child her dog's life is in danger this will help them.>> they say the good samaritan law is intended to protect people. you can't be slapped with a
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there are rules like you must check to make sure all the doors are locked and call 911 first and stay with a child or adult until help arrives. >> from the perspective of the citizens they don't know how long the child or adult has been in the vehicle and that's the conservative ventures because there is a law protecting them doesn't mean people didn't act before. you may remember this case and the hillsborough mall where strangers but it dogs in a locked car and they busted the window to help. >> >>reporter: some peace of mind to take matters into your own hands. we have some strong storms out there and as we talk about what's continues to build the northern part of the play up towards the safety harbor area
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