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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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responsible for 87 power outages . you can see there are plenty of lightning -- is plenty of lightning. futurecast shows they will linger through the evening and heavy at times and possibility of severe thunderstorm although now the biggest concern is heavy downpours and very frequent lightning. hour by hour the storms continue into the middle evening and tomorrow morning we wake up drive and will let you know how long it lasts until the next storms arrived. >> funeral service and in a few hours ago for this 10-year-old boy who was killed at a kansas waterpark. philip schwab died from a neck injury when going down the waterslide and his father is a state representative a kansas asking for prayer for his family . waterpark is now back open. the right itself will stay
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struct a six-year-old girl shot yesterday recovering after having a bullet removed from her head. she was alert and talking after being shot yesterday for family members say she was outside playing with water balloons which were shot. >> she was trying to enjoy life and have fun. this generation that doesn't value life. >> as of tonight no one is in custody but it's been a very violent year for young children and chicago. three kids under the age of 12 have been killed. at a south florida ,75 man arrested for a murder that happened in 1977. he is seen here arrested in north carolina for the murder of deborah clark. he became a suspect after learning the two were romantically involved and filed an insurance claim under her name. it's detectives were able to
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estate between facing charges after he knowingly -- he did not tell a woman he had a disease or a relationship. the woman found the documents he was infected. stop this might look like a typical shoplifter but police say this woman is using her child to distract the store employee why stealing close -- while still in close. the adult have a child walk up and distract her. police say this isn't that unusual. >> on most occasions were not worried about the money the work in a house they live in. >> police say the shoplifters can be charged with misconduct.
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finding a thief. they say this woman was trying to steal close from a belt -- belk. she managed to get away with the truck and a green chrysler pacifica. several counties have decriminalized pot and not a penny study says more people are smoking the drug. the people says one in eight people that smoke marijuana in the last three years over small amounts of marijuana in one area live to see another day. lakeland commissioner considering small amounts of marijuana being decriminalized. is a controversial subject. >> i think it would be a nightmare logistically. >> i think it should be on a county level is not states.
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against the idea of lessening the penalties for pot possession. from tampa to manatee construction and road closures happening across the bay area. the areas you might want to avoid. we have some construction happening this weekend. some spots to avoid in tampa sligh avenue the intersection closed starting tonight's not reopening until noon tomorrow. alternates are habana a to b down to rome to make your way around. also some emergency road repairs happening on the bay to bay boulevard work is expected to last through next week. happening right here near concordia. this is south of the expressway. 1 to 2 lanes in each direction. make sure you leave yourself extra time is headed that way.
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the construction happening at 275 and i-four at times closing the interstate completely forgot about the scheduled for this weekend but some overnight roadwork on the sunshine skyway on the southbound lane, 1 to 2 lanes to take it away. for more updates follow me on twitter@tampa bay traffic. if you fly internationally you will want to download this new app called mobile passports and helps you skip the line. helps you put in the declaration information and right now this is only available at 16 us airports including international. this is a collectors dream. a chance to bid on jewelry and claims and pricey baseball cards . if we do today of the unclaimed property auction that will happen tomorrow at the tampa marriott. all the stuff
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someone else's unclaimed property that the state that the hands-on. they were trying to find the owners but after a certain amount of time state law says they can put it up for auction. we talked to a man at their who is looking for rare coins. >> when you bid you think you might see something there so you sometimes overpriced and sometimes you find treasure. >> if you don't like to this is the states websites call florida treasure hunt.org and you can seeu have unclaimed money. we had the links for the website on our website abcactionnews.com . 50 pregnant women are being tested for the zika virus but no word if any of the results came back positive. governor rick scott smith with community leaders this morning think about 500 people have also been tested and local
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there is hope for a vaccine.>> well hope would be within one year to 18 months that we might be able to have a vaccine. it depends on having the resources and supporting that developments . >> governor scott is offering school districts free bug repellent. to this to be loaded and areas but there's a catch the camel can only displayed after a case of trenton is confirmed. less than one month will be tuesday will close down 95 restaurants.
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tampa bay area and the company would not confirm that they told us they are closing restaurants where business has been slow to see if the the city green people here that is mporally close tod officials are out there trying to get t trinity back to normal blue-collar dome olympians have been ing hashtag fish the swamp. in artificial [ indiscernible - static ] the creators of virginia we met andrea the 46-year-old getting emotional as this is put into the ocean. suspect she is an exact replica
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is happening right now. take a look at an outage map all across tampa bay coming across our to 11,000 people without power. mostly in orlando lakes. it will take hours to repair the we will monitor this braking situation. we will let you know outage is get significantly better or worse. dozens of police officers off the job tonight in alabama. the big disputes that could put the community in danger. donald trump blessing of questions about his strategy.
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a senior at arkansas state was leading a group of foreign exchange students on a trip to the cave with a suddenly realize their group was lost and had to come up with a plan yelling for help every 10 minutes or the leader of the expedition says that small routine helps get the rescuer's attention. >> we got into survival mode and we got ourselves hunted down and decided to wait it out. >> all three were treated for mild hypothermia area -- hypothermia. in alabama officers are calling out sick. visit the city has to do a better job of keeping them safe. the entire day shift on thursday called out sick. the police chief not happy and police there is no political reason for the move.
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, there's nothing to it then the play -- the pay. we have five people running for mayor and others. there is actually no evidence of a political candidate requesting the officers calling in sick. officials and police tonight -- will meet next week. donald trump's message to the republican party. he faces mounting pressure from his party and the fact they may stop supporting him. pennsylvania shaping up to be a must win state for donald trump. if we win pennsylvania we will win. >>reporter: they show he is trailing clinton by 10 points there. trump keeping up his attack. >> i know what to do with hillary does it.
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purchase no clue what were talking about >>reporter: it attaches to the trump and the republican party today support from the rnc share -- chair. >> don't believe the garbage you read. donald trump, the republican party, all of you. we will put him in the white house and save this country together. >>reporter: last night off questions about his strategy. >> that the people that want to vote will get up and out and vote for trump. >>reporter: linton releasing her tax returns and the running mate to the same, 10 years worth. the democrats are pressuring trump to do the same expect i will release them when it's complete.>> they gave over 1 million away to charity and
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salvation. the clintons tax rate was 43.2% predicted $3.6 million in federal taxes alone. what a difference a year make great income dropped nearly $15 million last year due to the fact that hillary clinton stopped giving its we just want she started campaigning. this 95-year-old grandmother is $30,000 lottery winnings. she said she can't wait to purchase a new cell phone purchases preferably one we can see the pictures. the drama of 12 says she will share the winnings with her family. -- the grandmother of 12 says she will share the winnings with her family. i have the same problem.
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>> looking outside we are tracking some strong storms across the area. a great shot of the pictures and florida. almost exactly the same from yesterday. try forecasting that. we continue to know that there will be storms out there over the last hour there were some power outages towards land o lakes. i think that will be taken care of quickly because the storms are winding down and this is over the courtney campbell causeway and it was a producing area along the suncoast things are now quickly winding down the not so much the case and desoto county and sarasota, this is all moving
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an eye on for the evening it will hang together moving towards the central hillsboro county and eventually into pinellas county. they see moving to the northwest , have to watch out for the storms of the next few hours. power outage forecast something we don't often show but it reminds you even though we are not talking about a tropical storm there is the possibility of isolated power outages this is the forecast for saturday with more storms in the picture for temperatures topped off in the upper 80s and low 90s and 79 and kathleen thanks to the storms that you just had 92 tampa and sarasota. tampa thunderstorm and 85 and the wind is out of the west southwest at 7 miles an hour. so far today a few degrees
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and so we set. 83 and the winds are calm and sarasota not right now palestra sunny and now it is raining. this shows how quickly things change. southeast winter brings everything back towards our coast. here is a good part of the pattern it makes it easier to plan your day. once you the evening hours there will be lots of storms but the are hereby the night and wake up to sunny skies. you have nothing to worry about in terms of rain saturday, sunday and monday and all of next week before 2:00 pm. once it hit three or 3:30 pm the moisture returns. a little less moisture over the next few days the visit of rain at 6% i'm going down to 40% tomorrow. they will be after the same time but later in the day and not as widespread. if you look at the long-range anytime we look at rainfall
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means we are in a little drier weather than typically we see which is traditionally the rainiest month of the year. this is the new forecast and this means there is a 50% likelihood they will have normal hurricane development 50% normal city percent near-normal. we have a ways to go before we are through the season. the seven-day forecast will have storms and late day early evening storms. into your plans now before 2:00 pm. after 4 pm the storms rolling. coming up, thousands of
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take a look at this time the owner of this corvette says an employee he fired keita keyed the side of his corvette. he works at an auto body store. the employee was caught in the act and arst >> if you are like a lot of people you may want to show your support for various causes her love for animals but -- with a bumper sticker that is illegal in florida and miami man finding that out the hard way. he was ticketed with a wounded warrior project place.>> he said he can't read the plate?
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illegal to obstruct any feature on the license plate. lesser officers handed out 681 tickets with license plates covers. >> a look at what's coming up. rodent magnets and roaches in a popular bay area restaurants and the explanation we are getting. the zika health crisis getting worse with t federal health emergency. the stream of clock -- rise been linked to three men and the only thing that scare them
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across the southern counties. this is living northwest and it will weaken a bit but the bottom line is anytime we get thunderstorms whether or not you see severe warnings it doesn't matter what a lot of lightning and heavy rain that makes driving tricky it the forecast this evening it will build 30 will be dodging strong storms from this point on until 10 or 11:00 pm and then will weekend. wake up to sunny skies but we'll go through the same thing tomorrow and the next day and possibly a change in the timing and coverage. i will have new numbers for you in a few minutes. if dallas county the surveillance video captured three men ransacking a home. police want to find that before they strike again. ryan smith shows us the other
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