his attention to a tampa restaurant. the one dish and the one appliance that brought emeril to our area. good morning, i'm deiah riley. >> and i'm dan shaffer. we'll start off with a check on the forecast. ivan cabrera is back. >> in fact, we're looking at more of what we saw yesterday, just not as widespread. we're talking about the low clouds and fog. zephyrhills down to 3. that's okay. it's foggy but it' pasco and western hernando where we have lower visibility. that's the trouble area this morning as far as the roads are concerned. a lot of clouds around and that's kept our temperatures from falling all that much. low to mid-60s w. that head start, we'll jump about 10 degrees. that would be about it. a lot of cloud cover, some sprinkles on to the north not amounting to much. that will be the case today. look at the cloud cover. you see the extent of it on the northern side well up into georgia. it's going to take the entire

have plenty of clouds around with temperatures out of the 60s and into the mid-70s. about 71 by your sunset. a big cooldown heading into tonight. we'll drop into the 40s and 50s across much of the area. we'll talk about that in just a few minutes. >> all right, so you may need those heaters in the car tomorrow. right now the drive looking great out there. we don't have any crashes on the interstates to tell you about. we are taking a look outside, good morning brandon, this is area. i-75 around state road 60 or brandon boulevard. those taillights you see there are heading south. no issues there. if you're in the north heading south towards tampa maybe from pasco county, your drive is all in the green, the veterans 275 and 75 all clear this morning. back to you. >> thanks, 5:31. breaking news this monday morning, a house fire breaks out of hillsborough county. a nearby home was vandalized with donald trump's name, and an arrow pointing to that house

into the neighborhood says she fears these kinds of acts will not stop. this morning the bay area is grieving the loss of a well- known attorney. she died during a diving trip over the weekend. deputies are now trying to figure out what happened. abc action news anchor, james tully is live near johns pass. her husband is also in the hospital right now. >> reporter: that's right, and we've set up at johns pass this morning because this is very close to where paramedics picked up both her having some kind of medical emergency on their boat saturday afternoon. i'll show you a picture of blaise gamba. she was just 37 years old, and her husband william actually flagged down another boater when she apparently lost consciousness after diving. william also passed out after getting help. blaise died yesterday morning. william is still recovering. deputies aren't saying exactly what kind of diving accident

area. we spoke to a colleague of hers last night obviously shocked at this news. >> all of us at the firm will miss blaise. we wish blaise's family the best in what we know is a very difficult time, , and we're obviously all hoping and praying for her husband's recovery. >> so the latest here is pinellas county deputies diving accident. they do know they were both in wet suits when they were found and there was a lot of diving equipment on their boat. live this morning in madeira beach, james tully abc action news. 5:33 now, breaking overnight out of jacksonville, three people are dead including an infant after a shooting at a food mart parking lot. one man, two women and that baby were sitting in a car when they were shot. one of the women died in the

all but the man died from their injuries. investigators say the shooting could be related to an earlier dispute between the two women. >> in jacksonville it's a sad day for everybody who lives in this area and a sad day for everybody investigating this terrible crime. >> investigators are hoping to find and interview any possible witnesses. we have an update on a man first thought to have died in high speed crash followingn speedway in clear water. pinellas park police tell us that man shot himself. he was speeding and crashed into mangroves. he had a gunshot wound to the heeds. it's a story that made international headlines, identical twin sisters living and working together maui, one is charged with the other's murder. charges were initially dropped

investigators are accusing her once again of murdering her twin sister. they believe she intentionally drove her suv off a cliff killing her sister anastasia. duval's attorneys say it was an accident. >> allison did not intend to harm the person she was closest to in this world. >> investigators say they found evidenced car accelerated just before the crash. witnesses describe seeing a struggle behind the wheel duval was arrested in new york. she is being held on $3 million bail and awaiting extra on your credit card this holiday season. many credit cards are the store branded cards are charging higher interest rates than ever before. the average rate of all store branded cards at 23.84%. that compares to an average about 15.22% for regular credit cards. shoppers plan to spend an average of $935 this holiday season. that's the second highest level

the global effort to teach you how to spot a scam and keep you from being a victim. for international fraud awareness week, the pinellas county sheriff's office is hosting five workshops where detectives will discuss the most common scams in the area. the first event is this morning at 112th street north in seminole. you can click on events at pscoweb.com. the organizers of a free choice but to turn hundreds away. several people ended up being seen over the weekend after waiting hours in line at manatee county's remote area medical clinic. that clinic's coorganizer dr. richard conrad says the need for free care is so strong they ran out of appointment slots. >> we turned away over 300 people mainly because we didn't

from dental work to eye care were all offered for free. many people waited in line overnight to make sure they got treatment. how about staying out of clinics altogether. if your family has a history of heart disease you can escape it. new research shows three things to keep yourself healthy. a new study found that not smoking, exercising moderately and eating fruits and grains can drastically lower the risk of heart disease, even for people with a high genetic risk. researchers say even people steps lowered their risk. going from a terribly unhealthy lifestyle to a moderately healthy one produced the most dramatic results. here is arguably one of the most well-known she was in the world. >> we're talking about emeril lagasse. he decided to feature it on his

while ava serves authentic italian dishes. the exposure is not only good for ava but also for the bay area because while emeril is a native of new orleans he's also a floridian. he owns a home in north florida. >> it's a big deal because you know what, it's a big deal what's happening in florida. it's not only just it's about agriculture. >> ava isn't the only bay area restaurant lagasse went to. it's all going to be featured on the cooking channel in just a few months. we have a little fog out there this morning, a look at the super moon, hopefully you got a peek at it. temperatures in the mid and upper 60s. we've been doling with the clouds up above and the clouds

1 and a quarter mile visibility in brooksville. zephyrhills doing better than that and the fog not as widespread as yesterday morning. we'll jump to the mid-70s by later on today. we'll do that with a mostly cloudy sky throughout the day and then the front comes in, clears us out, lower humidity certainly for tonight and much cooler temperatures, especially by tomorrow morning. we'll talk about that in just a couple of minutes in my forecast. 5:39 right now, still to come, hate speech vandalism, members of one church are responding after becoming the most recent victims. >> you can't come back here. >> bye. >> a mother accused of kicking her 8-year-old son out of the house because of a political disagreement, what the boy did and what happened after someone

welcome back, 5:43. major overcrowding problems. >> some schools are set to be rezoned and students will be sent to schools out of their home area. rodney dunigan is live right now at river ridge high school, he's looking deeper into this issue this morning. there's a meeting planned for tonight but this idea is not sitting well with parents. >> reporter: well, especially for those families that are

simply saying that a final decision has not been made. >> first we need to keep in mind there haven't been any decisions made yet. i think there are a lot of assumptions being made at this point in time. there are some people who think they'll be rezoned and they're actually not. i think we need to keep an open mind at this point in the process. >> the committee looking into overcrowding issues has come up with four possible rezoning schools. the district says mitchell high school and seven springs middle school are extremely overcrowded while other schools are near under capacity. however, parents stressed to us it's simply not rig they moved into their specific communities for a reason, for many it was the schools. >> so that changes everything. that changes the opportunity for after school activities before school activities. it changes how early my wife or i would have to get them up in

school, how late they might get picked up. it changes everything. >> reporter: just to give you an example of the issues at hand. the district says mitchell high school is 118% capacity, so the district says something has to be done. that meeting here starts at 6:00 tonight. at that point parents will have their opportunity to basically give their say on exactly what's going on here. the district says they plan to have a final plan by february 1st. reporting live from pasco county, rodney dunigan abc action news. 5:45. this morning we're seeing more video and images of that deadly -- the damage from a deadly 7.78 magnitude earthquake that left behind on new zealand's south island. take a look at some of the video left behind. two people died after that earthquake triggered a tsunami. the strength of the quake cracking roads and damaging buildings. it created waves 8 feet above

witnesses say this one was much longer and much more intense than usual. >> good morning from the weather center, tracking some fog out there this morning, hernando, pasco county getting in on that. visibility is full and back to many in most of our area. this is good for the morning commute. there are areas, especially if you're traveling from south to north out of the opposite direction, keep in mind you'll run into that. temps mild with cloud cover up above as well in the mid-60s. we had a couple of sprinkles early this morning passing through. you see the cloud cover, more where that came from along the gulf. what's triggering this is a boundary front. we're dealing with plenty of cloud cover for today, we're not going to see much in the way of sunshine, just one day we'll fix that for tonight and the rest of the week. the not going to have to worry about umbrellas. again, just not as clear as

76 for the daytime high with temperatures about average for this time of year, a little further south and east. we'll have a few more breaks down south, closer to the front we're locked in with the cloud cover. morning lows behind the front as it clears us out tonight, we'll be in in the upper 40s in many areas here, and then lower 50s further south, and the closer you get to the water, milder but still cold, upper 50s to around 60s. keep that in tomorrow with temperatures by the afternoon recovering nicely, we go from upper 40s to almost upper 70s. a good 30-degree jump. we can do that this time of the year with that dry air. that will be with us the rest of the week with temps in the mid and upper 70s. overnight lows every night not as cold. becoming milder by the end of the week. we're still watching this crash right at siesta drive and south gate circle right here.

closed. you're going to have to avoid that area if you're heading out the door right now. you can maybe use bee ridge right here, shade or u.s. 41 to work your way around that. we'll keep our eye on it. taking a look outside, we are looking great right here, i-275 right through downtown tampa. we are wide open just 5 minutes to get from downtown down to the howard franklin bridge. and your drive on the veterans we're still in the green, 17 minutes from 54 to 275. we had some construction overnight around eisenhower and the that's expected to clear by 6 a.m. back to you. thanks. it is 5:48 right now. families in an alabama community aren't trying to keep their feud with one neighbor a secret. he's a registered sex offender and even though he is complying with the law, his neighbors say that's not enough. they're taking matters into their own hands by putting up a billboard. his neighbors say they have no plans of taking that billboard down until he moves.

have been rising around the country, we've heard several incidents of racist speech. an episcopal church in maryland vandalized by pro-trump messages. members arrived with the words trump nation whites only are written on the back of the banner and around the building. >> we believe that the majority of americans want a nation of peace and of unity across spectrum of our glorious people, and we do not want our friends of color and our immigrants and other people who feel vulnerable to imagine that this is who we are as a nation. >> members of the congregation replaced the pro-trump phrases with these hopeful words, love wins. church services continued after they finished making the

the duval school district is investigating after someone put up colored and whites only signs over those drinking fountains in a school in ocean way. someone pulled a nearly identical troubling stunt in gurney illinois putting these signs on a bathroom. roughly 200 students staged a sit-in protest after the signs were found. the school is now investigating. a texas mother is accused of sharing video of herself throwing her 8-year-old son out of the house after he voted for donald trump in a mock election at his school. >> the fort bend county sheriff's office is investigating after that video went viral. we have to warn you, it is upsetting. >> here's your suitcase, bye. >> get your suitcase. >> no >> get your suitcase and get out. [ crying ] >> bye. >> no >> in the video the boy says he voted for trump because he sees

the mother claims it was all a joke. detectives say the boy appears to be in good health. the tampa bay bucs are in the hunt for a playoff spot. the victory their first at home this season. the bucs defense came up big against the chicago bears causing four turnovers including this interception returned for a touchdown. the capper on the 36-10 win a 1 yard touchdown run by running back doug martin who missed the previous six games hamstring injury. >> happy to be back, and you know, it's frustrating but you know, i'm back and i'm ready to go. it's been a while since we've had a home winning game. glad we could win this for our fans. >> the next game is on the road against the afc west division leading kansas city chiefs. coming up, a cyber security blog is reporting a massive website hack. >> 400 million people could be

victims reluctant to report the problem. >> and the burger that isn't a burger, how mcdonald's is putting chocolate in the mix. why you probably won't be able

it is 5:54. good morning, foggy for some of us but doing okay as far as the visibility for most of the

cloudy today with clouds up above. that will keep us in the low to middle 70s by the afternoon. we're not going to rain, but we are going to stay rather cool, cold tonight with 40s and 50s, and we'll talk about that in your extended seven-day forecast coming up in the next hour. thanks ivan. 6 minutes until 6 right now. do you want to live in the white house, it could be yours for less than $5 million. >> not the one in washington. that one's probably a little more expensive than that. this is a replica of the white house. it's for sale a former texas governor built this house in 1927. at that time it cost a million dollars to build. probably cost a lot more than that to build today. >> rumor has it -- and it could be folklore that he handed the architect albert fin a $20 bill and said i want my house to look like this. >> the house is 20,000 square feet, has 15 bathrooms. the owners tried to sell it for 5 1/2 million dollars earlier this year. there were no take.

auction next month. mcdonald's always tinkering with its menu and now it's launched the nutella burger. >> i don't know about this one. >> it does not have any meat on it. instead it has a thick later of the hazelnut spread between two buns. the burger is served in its own signature box like a big mac or quarter pounder. there's no word if it will go on sale in the u.s. one of the most popular designer brands will be disappearing kenneth coal is closing all 63 of its outlet stores around the country that includes ellenton and two in orlando. the brand isn't permanently going away. you can buy it through its website and other stores. one security blog is reporting hackers have stolen information from more than 400 million accounts on its website offering adult services. the data access from adult

decades. even people who deleted their accounts could now be affected. the blog says it was able to see passwords for more than 100 million users. hate filled political speech and a suspicious fire. the reason people in this hillsborough county community think they may be in danger. >> plus donald trump's first interview since the election. will he change his use of twitter. his surprising thoughts on same- sex marriage, new

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the political reference and now the search for the person responsible. >> plus, a tampa bay buccaneers player causing stir joining protests against donald trump. his defense for sitting out the national anthem. thanks for waking up with abc action news on this early monday, i'm dan shaffer. >> good morning, i'm deiah riley. we want to help you get out the door with a look at traffic and weather together. >> yes, good morning, 6:00 on the nose here and we're looking foggy in some areas here. well continue to especially across portions of pasco. look at the eastern hillsborough getting in on that as well. right along the coast we're doing okay. visibility-wise it's not an issue. it's the clouds up above that will continue throughout the entire day. today will not be like the days to come here. we have one day where it's going to be little murky out there. 60s already, a mild start with that cape of clouds on top of us, and then by the afternoon we'll begin to see this front