on roads under the microscope. the two things that could make it safer for everyone and what it will take for changes to come about. a lakeland family leaving a five-year-old boy's death tonight, the one thing that could have kept the tragedy from happening in the first place. good evening everyone i'm laura harris pick >> and i'm jamison uhler, a truck hit the five-year-old last night. >> ryan smith live in to explain why the family feels this is a been prevented. >> reporter: and a credible tragedy in north lakeland, parents and many neighbors along saddlewood boulevard mourning the loss of this child, their sadness coupled with frustrations of safety concerns of speeding drivers here. you can see the speed limit sign posted on the street but they say drivers ignore it, i checked with the sheriff's

investigation, speeding was not a factor. on ashley perdomo -- saddlewood boulevard a family outside riding bikes turned deadly. >> he was a good boy.>> jenny crawford lost her youngest child last night, a gypsy pickup struck austin in front of a neighbors house, crawford ran outside trying to save her son. >> i ran so fast he was laying on the ground. in the driveway. he was in the driver. >> cpr and help from paramedics was not enough, austin pronounced dead at a nearby hospital, a speed limit sign of 30 miles per hour posted on saddlewood boulevard they go superfast. >> investigators do not believe speed was a factor in the case, austin's family hopes the tragedy will improve safety concerns many have on this

street. >> it has always worried me. >> jenny's fianci says neighbors have lobbied polk county to install a speed bump. traffic officials tell me they are investigating if changes need to be made. >> they need to put speed bumps in here. to sell these people down to pay attention to the children playing in the road. >> reporter: even though speeding was ruled out some are calling for a children at play sign to be posted it polk county has a policy against the warning signs, traffic official telling me they believe the warning signs provide parents with a false sense of safety. live from polk county, ryan smith abc action news. another accident in the bay area. tonight we take a closer look at the busy intersection where she died, brendaliss gonzalez live along hillsboro avenue.

they are not enough lights out there. >> reporter: or even crosswalks, and manager at the store where ashley worked says she normally goes to this crosswalk to take the bus on the bus stop just ahead of me, instead she chose a different route. to another bus stop more than 1000 feet away where there is no crosswalk, but a lot of people choose the route, a route that is extremely dangerous. inside this supermarket there is none of the usual music. >> we feel like we are really hurting as a family. >> they are also missing the teenager who would be behind the register. the 17-year-old ashley perdomo. >> we don't have heard today because it is painful for a spirit >> the driver that admits to hitting and killing ashley along hillsboro avenue walks

>> something hit me. that is the way it felt pick >> nikolaos konstantinou faces a felony charge. >> no words to express how someone feels at this point especially for the young lady.>> this is where he hit ashley the twin hillsboro avenue and blue springs drive, the nearest crosswalk 1700 feet away. >> this is a busy avenue. and they need signals for pedestrians, there are none, no security. >> the florida highway patrol reports 12 crashes at this intersection in the past six years, none deadly until this week. back at the supermarket they hope to see some kind of change. >> something always has to happen before the city does something.

while they don't have immediate plans to bring extra crosswalks to the area, they will take a close look at the accident report to consider whether or not they should bring changes. reporting live brendaliss gonzalez abc action news. new video into the newsroom of damage a tornado has left behind in oregon. within the last few minutes we learned a state of emergency has been declared in the small town of manzanita two hours northwest of portland. officials are saying the powerful winds knocked down at least 80 trees. here is incredible video you are about to see, the storm making his way toward the town of 600 people. we are checking on reports of injuries and also the red cross is opening up shelters to help anyone who needs a place to stay.

and two businesses have been destroyed. there is a lot of wild weather out west.>> there is, these are the remnants of a super typhoon that has moved across the pacific now combined with an area of low pressure, we have seen these areas moving into the pacific northwest a lot this time of year but rarely do they bring with them hurricane force winds and potentially flooding rains along with that tornado that was reported. and potential for heavy snow in the higher elevations. this weekend, that is nasty weather if you plan on traveling to the northwest over the next couple of days, definitely wanted to check ahead with a carrier because it may not be safe to fly into those airports, certainly you want to be aware. otherwise in tampa bay things are looking fabulous tonight,

northeast flow again, so you remember we have a few sprinkles working their way into our area not doing a very good job, for the remainder of tonight maybe you encounter a brief sprinkle, otherwise we have partly to mostly cloudy skies over the next couple of hours, clear skies overnight as temperatures fall into the 70s. the seven-day forecast coming up in a minute. breaking news from the campaign trail, two more women coming forward claiming donald trump made unwanted sexual advances toward them. >> one of them a former apprentice contestant who said trump grabbed and kissed her at a hotel. the second this woman told the washington post trump put his hand up her skirt. the post reached out to a trump spokeswoman who called to this a phony accusation. trump echoing the sentiment today.>> i am being viciously

it is a phony deal. i have no idea who these women are, i had no idea. i have an idea. >> meanwhile mike pence says the campaign is working on coming up with evidence to disprove this and other claims against trump, trump's wife demanding people magazine retracted story where former writer claimed trump assaulted her. resident obama spending the day campaigning for clinton, saying how shocking is over trump's claims that he is for the working class. >> there is no record he has supported minimum wage or collective bargaining or invested in poor communities. and then suddenly he will be the champion of working people? come on.

>> clinton spending the day campaigning out west rallying crowds in seattle after taping an appearance on ellen degeneres. samsung note 7 phones are officially banned from airplanes effective new tomorrow. the department of transportation and faa issued an emergency order to ban the phones. customers were being issued fire suppression bags when they got on board planes, agency says the passenger safety comes before inconvenience, samsung is sending companies fire safe packaging to ship the phones back. americans traveling to cuba will soon be able to bring home some of the most famous products legally bringing back cuban cigars. restrictions on the products will be allowed as relations have been normalized. however you cannot purchase the

shipped internationally. coming up at 5:30 we go to look at how this change will affect business owners here. new details about a man found shot to death inside of a car in st. petersburg, the victim identified as johnny brown, the car with his body inside was found parked outside the distant place apartments after the shooting happened around 4:00 this money. investigators attractive figure out what brown was doing he lived five miles away. shining a light on a case of sexual harassment on a florida college campus. the accusations a best welfare made against her own coach and the reason she feels it is important to tell her story. in need of care but unable to afford it, the new place in tampa bay where you can get help no matter how much money

welcome back, a florida college best ballplayer accused her coach of sexual harassment has now filed a lawsuit. katie lagrone breaking the story tonight, she tells us why the former player is coming forward now. florida for florida international team captain to civil court accusing him of battery and the university of ignoring her claims. earlier this year she made headlines when accused hurd then head coach of sexual harassment. it started with questions about her love life. ending with sexual texts and physical contact. >> destiny hopes that she will help in preventing future

sexually exploited, sexually assaulted by coaches. not only at fiu, but also every academic university in the nation. >> we discover the federal department of education has nine active investigations into how seven florida colleges or universities handled student claims of sexual assault. fiu is not one of the schools. destiny was kicked off the team, she used another student's debit card for her own purchases. the coach was eventually fired for giving her money to settle a school account. katie lagrone taking action for you. detectives are determined to find the person who made the bomb threat forcing legoland to evacuate yesterday. the entire park and hotel were evacuated after a note was found. a spokesperson tells abc action

will find who did it, the park resumed normal operations today. the general manager talked at an event this money. >> when we evacuated this park in incredible time and no injuries, there was a false report. >> legoland celebrated its fifth day today and made another major announcement giving reporters a sneak peek at their newest attraction. we will let kids fine-tune their to the test on in exciting ride. is this fake or painfully real? surveillance from an electronics store shows a customer inspecting some tvs then, when he stands up they end up toppling over. he then backs into another gerber tvs, they tumble over, it reportedly caused more than $6000 worth of damage.

publicity stunt. >> i don't know. >> it is hard to tell, it looks pretty real. >> i'm going against the grain i think it looks real. >> i want to know with the tvs follower that easily? most of the time they're pretty sturdy. >> you would think so. >> you would hope. i don't know. clearwater camera this is 100% accurate, totally real, live camera a live look at clearwater hyatt, it looks beautiful, a great place to park yourself for this evening or through the weekend, we will have pretty low chances for rain overall, not to say it is near zero, but overall the low chances for rain over the weekend, look what we have got now the rain coming across the

barely making its way maybe a drizzle or light sprinkle that is as much as we will see tonight, likely tomorrow as well a slightly higher chance for a brief shower tomorrow than what we had today but it is in the afternoon to early evening, we have a lot of good dry hours with a nice amount of sunshine in the day bringing temperatures above average to the mid and upper 80s, 86 in tampa, clearwater 84, saint pete 32. northeasterly winds, at 5 to 10 miles per hour, making it pleasant overall. here it is the same trend barely had to do anything to update the maps because this pattern has been so consistent over recent days, a few speckles, light breeze mild and muggy and then tomorrow we will be waking up to clear skies you can see overnight, we are

70s by early tomorrow morning, no rain icon showing up, that is how low the chances for rain are, if you're planning for early-morning golf tomorrow it will be beautiful for that, on the muggy side but with northeast winds at 5 to 10 miles per hour. by 4:00 there may be a stray shower but it will be very light not looking at high chances for thunderstorms that the weekend but maybe an isolated storm on sunday, next week we have a nice stretch of beautiful weather, highs with a lot of sunshine monday and tuesday in the mid to upper 80s, through the weekend we are looking at a few showers primarily sunday with an isolated storm, these will start a little earlier in the morning, then what the saturday rain chances are, those are afternoon showers but sunday anything from late morning to early afternoon you could see a shower or an isolated storm, into next week higher chances

because of the next stronger front pushing through, we are crossing our fingers to see lower humidity behind that. that is the seven-day forecast, back to you guys. trying to protect animals but barely having an impact at all. the brand-new video that proves how bad the problem is and when changes may go into affect. a successful surgery stunning people all over the to separate these brothers. radioactive coming up as 6:00 private wells around the sinkhole are not safe to drink. tonight, the learning lesson

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between two roommates is what triggered the police call, a man shot at the officers when they entered the apartment, other officers then shot and killed the man. officials say there were likely other issues contributed to the tension buildup tween the roommates. new developments in a story captivating people on social media, 13-month-old conjoined twins are finally separated. it took 16 hours to pa the twins. they shared 1.5 centimeters of brain tissue, they underwent three other surgeries before this final one. >> it has been 13 hours since they operated. you can see they are on separate tables. >> after five more hours of individual surgery, they went

be in surgery for several more hours to reconstruct his skull, both are recovering and i see you. the courtroom showdown caught on camera, extreme measures a judge took to bring order to the court and the reason he did nothing wrong. a serial kidnapper caption on video still free. the one extremely distinctive clue authorities hope will lead them to this ma children. closed captioning brought

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finding themselves in that position. tonight there is some relief. good evening everyone i'm paul lagrone, and i'm laura harris. we are shown you better ways to save money while keeping your family healthy, jake peters shows us a new clinic that will treat you regardless of money. >> patrick does not go to the doctor much his last checkup was , he is one of the millions of uninsured floridians, now he is free. >> i haven't taken meds in a while but i am getting into a job where i will need to pick >> he is seeing a doctor at the newly founded universal clinic in sarasota. >> it is booked solid much greater than we anticipated. >> the director has a health insurance background and she saw the need in the bay area pick >> people assume the clinic is set up for the poorest of the

enlisted eight local doctors to provide checkups and urgent care. >> they can help with more than the common cold their specialists that can check you out. >> we had a patient coming she was really asthmatic she was treated for the asthma. >> people are getting the tlc they deserve after going without. >> one of thre doctor is because it is expensive. anytime you see healthcare being delivered to the public for free that is a good thing. >> eight doctors are helping but more plan to join. >> where hopeful it will be an incredible service. >> jake peterson, abc action news. the clinic is open tomorrow afternoon, we had a schedule on our website at abcactionnews.com getting a