make him the first openly gay person to fill a cabinet level foreign policy post. he is also deciding whether or not to appoint mcdaniel to chair the committee. replacing the current chief of staff. he and stephen bannon are the most recent additions but this choice has come under fire as many consider banning a leader of the alt right movement someone who represents nationalists and racist views. >> before trump takes office obama says there is a lot to a compass. he is about to begin his final major trip overseas, a six-day visit to greece, germany and peru giving president obama the chance to reassure america's allies that trump supports the treaty organization nato. >> that is one of the most important functions i can serve

no weakening resolve when it comes to america's commitment to maintaining a strong and robust nato relationship. >> meanwhile trump and vladimir putin spoke by phone today about the future of us russian relations. one topic they discussed the need for combined efforts in the fight against terror and extremism. >> lawmakers have their work cut out for them as congress returns to work to try and pren shutting down. congress must agree on a spending bill to fund the government through next september before the funding runs out december 9 at midnight. thousands of people expressing frustration with the outcome of the election. you are looking at high school students in maryland walking out of class to protest trump winning the presidency. a similar scene in los angeles where students chanted while holding up american and mexican

they want to make sure all of their classmates can stay in the country to study.>> they could have killed people over this.>> here in the tampa bay area someone's political message has gone too far after they discovered a home intentionally set on fire. brendaliss gonzalez is live in hillsborough county where the message has many people worried in the area.>> i talked to the woman who lives next to blue mobile home, she says she and her husband noticed two men running out of the home before they realized the home was on fire but then she noticed a message written on this mobile home a message she has not only seen in this neighborhood, but around cities in the us.>> i don't think they realize how far they are crossing the line. >> deidra russell has seen this message written in her neighborhood before.

expletive written next to trump but this time, the messengers went to far. written next to the word trump with the words burn everything with an arrow. pointing to the home that someone set on fire. >> it is horrible and scary. >> political messages like this have been spotted around the us. more than 200 incidents of election related harassments since the election. >> you. >> two men spotted taking off from the home as the fire spread, he had seen them in the home just two days before.>> it could have been worse. if my husband went to bed and didn't come out right before bed, god only knows how bad it could have been. >> investigators think the people who set the home on fire ripped a similar message a few

>> russell was willing to stay here during the first few messages but now. >> we are thinking about moving. it has jumped up one level. the sign has attempted to be covered up, the home as well , the message on the home a few blocks away attempted to be covered up. nobody living inside of blue might -- mobile home something empty something they are thankful for. that could have made the fire even worse. reporting live brendaliss gonzalez abc action news. now, abc action weather. good afternoon, we hope you enjoyed your weekend the weather turned out to be nice saturday and sunday been back to work the clouds rolled in

thing we are so dry. unfortunately most of what you're seeing here isn't making it to the ground. a few sprinkles around that is about it with temperatures in the mid-60s. upper 60s, a cloudy and raw day the look of a winter day just not nearly as cold as a winter day. 12 are nice guys mostly cloudy i suspect by tomorrow morning we will see some clearing and then we will be tracking far this season. when it arrives in a couple of minutes. a security guard under arrest after a case of road rage takes a violent turn. sarina fazan shows us how the confrontation began and how it became violent. >> the victim tells us it was saturday evening he was coming from work when the car in front

happened next will stay with hose a forever. >> i am shaky. >> this off-duty security officer not only followed him half a mile to his home but pulled out his gun. >> literally from you to me. >> he had also left his job. >> he was trying to citizen arrest me. >> in the split second he i hit him i was scared for my life. >> than the confrontation turned according to the arrest report he fired several rounds many of the bullets hitting his truck. >> the first shot i started ducking and dodging. >> running across the street.>> banging on this door. so scared she did not want to show her face.

>> he ran to the side of the house trying to get into the apartment into the neighbor's house. >> she called 911 and deputies arrested the man the 23-year- old bonded out of jail. he refused to answer questions but he is facing multiple felonies which could not only cost him his job but also his freedom.>> are you sure you don't want to thankful he had a gun permit also. >> if i would have pulled mine out it could have been a lot worse. >> we did discover he just filed the lawsuit over a traffic incident with the public employee. sarina fazan abc action news. take a good look at this man who deputies really want to

old girl. they had a sexual relationship for almost one year. he will be driving a brown hyundai sonata. i have shared the information on my facebook page. we are checking to see if they are close to figuring out what caused this water main break that swallowed a car in the morning commute. here is video of the car which crews managed to pull out of th crews are making repairs tonight. coming up you will hear from the owner of the car he describes the moment he realized something was really wrong. we are following two deadly shootings beginning with latebreaking details out of fort myers. you are looking at i-75 where a passerby shot and killed a person fighting with a deputy this morning. the deputy had been working in

began physically fighting that is when a passerby saw the whole thing and shot the suspect three times. the deputy was not injured. closures could last late into the night. the hunt is on for the person who killed three people including an infant boy and his mom. officer say the violence broke out after an argument but they are not sure what it was about. investigators discovered the body of an 11-month-old baby boy, woman inside his car. a man inside the vehicle survived and a third woman took her suffer the hospital claiming she was shocked. investigators are not sure if the case is related. a night out takes a scary turn the mysterious injury the nfl player wound up with. the embarrassing way a criminal got caught red-handed.

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a federal judge has ordered a man to be released from prison. this man cannot have contact with his family. an emergency motion will be filed to block the release he was accused of several crimes relating to a man's death the conviction was rolled it could be overturned. the state is appealing the ruling. a woman accused of murdering her twin sister was arrested after she was indicted in her death of her sister anastasia. she intentionally drove the suv off of a 200 foot cliff in hawaii, her twin sister died. they were fighting right before the incident. >> she was angry arguing with the person yanking on her head and then she was in a rage.

charges because there wasn't enough evidence but the new indictment comes after investigators found evidence the car may have accelerated before the crash. alexandria is in jail waiting extradition. we hope to find details into the death of bob crane one of hollywood's against unsolved mysteries. he died in arizona in 1978 found murdered in his apartment. a reporter is now investigating this case, police released could use dna testing methods tonight the results will be revealed live in front of a panel including the son of crane and attorneys from the case. a former pro football player recovering from a bizarre injury. he was in the uprising bar this weekend, when he suddenly fell, x-rays revealed a bb pellet lodged in his head.

canal. the sheriff's office is investigating how it happened. employees never saw any fights or heard anyone shoot a gun. he was a star receiver at the university of kentucky. if you can come to your tv, take a look at the bizarre way that a crime spree came to an end in washington state. police in the city say they were chasing amend this weekend when his tire went flat, when he tries to make a his sleeve gets caught in the car causing him to fall down and getting hit by the car. he is okay but needless to say police got the guy. the famous strawberry festival in march the released list includes big names like rascal flatts little big town willie nelson and patty labelle.

leave a comment. >> i don't know what is tempting the lineup for the strawberries. the weather was a little gloomy today. >> if you were inside it looks like winter.>> it wasn't that cold but it looked like a midwestern winter day. >> very gloomy a couple of showers looking at some ra the circles there is the gloom as floridians when it is chilly we mean 60s to the 70s, but for us compared to the last several months that is chilly, there have been showers across the area and there are a handful of folks that are seeing some measurable rain, right now some of that was over the howard franklin into safety harbor and the baltimore area palm harbor

spreckels and disperses for the next few hours, in fact even into the overnight hours, right now maybe heavier showers popping up near brooksville toward bushnell. most of this is very light rain same finger around the skyway from the beach over to bradenton. temperatures for us are very chilly, mid-60s in brooksville, tomorrow morning waking up to temperatures mostly in the 50s and 60s, the dew points will be dropping because the front coming through that means drier air and more sunshine, these are the wake-up temperatures. 59 downtown, low to mid 60s closer to the coast from largo bartow 62, kathleen 59. it gets a lot cooler than that

air for thanksgiving week, we have got you covered, 70 and cloudy at the airport in tampa yet clearwater and saint pete sunny. 6090 st. petersburg, a look at the satellite, a very dreary day, a lot of clouds overcast and with the overcast there have been light showers may be enough to wet the ground, most folks not even that much, behind in tomorrow, the rest of the week looks to be sunny, pleasant temperatures they be a little bit below normal for a change. a look at futurecast, mostly cottage in it, tomorrow morning some lingering clouds first thing in the morning, partly sunny, but by the afternoon clouds will push south and then comes high-pressure giving us sunny skies the rest of the

it will be a dry front, it will usher in much cooler weather by next week, later sunday monday and into tuesday, probably not for things giving. forecast highs tuesday in the mid-70s across the area, we should be 78 or 79 for afternoon highs, this is below normal, we will stay in the same ballpark for most of the week between 75 and 78 degrees. long-range forecast a big colder air there is next monday, the coldest air well to the north, there is a freeze maybe some snow across the northeast monday and tuesday, if you're going home next week for things giving, visiting family or friends early in the week, you may run into an issue, by thinks giving day things will settle down and we will be back to normal. you won't believe this but we

this could develop over the next five days, even if it did, it would move off to the northeast possibly impacting cuba or haiti i doubt it turns into much. for the boaters the winds at 5 to 10 knots, golf temperatures 71 degrees. hour by hour a lot of clouds overnight, waking up to temperatures mostly in the upper 50s to the low 60s, a look at our 76 tuesday, 78 wednesday, about normal for the rest of the week and then look at sunday highs in the low 70s, monday, highs are in the 60s and we will see some 30s in the northern counties tuesday morning. a controversial symbol turning up at a protest, the person wielding this flag and by some say the display is more than

the orlando city commission dealing plans to purchase the pulse nightclub, they have pushed back the deal, the city plans to purchase the nightclub for more than $2 million the orlando mayor says they need more time to plan the memorial. 911 calls from the night have been released, many calls between firsre >> you guys are staged behind einstein, the victims can't be moved i need you to come over to pulse, if you come on foot stay close to the dunkin' donuts . >> the plans have been delayed until at least december 5. omar mateen accused of shooting and killing 49 people in june. election season wrapped up but some democrats are turning their attention to 2018

encouraging lawyer john morgan to run for governor. morgan was a major backer of the medical marijuana amendment that voters just past last week, one man who worked on the pro- committee said morgan greeted the idea of running for governor with laughter but did not say no. >> these images have a michigan police officer off the job and under investigation. an 18 year veteran cop suspended for flying the confederate flag at a love trumps hate rally. they want officers to understand a live in a glass house and need to be good role models for the community. still to come, protests against donald trump make it to the buccaneers football field. mike evans making a bold

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y262ry yy6y live from the station abc action news. top stories right now we are checking in with the citrus county utility company to find out what caused this water main break causing truman boulevard to open up and swallow a car during the commute. the man driving the car was able to escape not hurt at all. the water main is operated by rolling hoax community utility.

are saying they talked about everything from threats to challenges facing both countries. they look forward to a strong and enduring relationship. is never fun to go to your car and find a parking ticket. >> as kera mashek tells us paying off the find jake -- might make you feel the. >> a $25 parking ticket doesn't say happy ho help make the holiday season brighter for someone else. by taking part in the new tampa food program. >> a unique way for the community to say let's help out. >> this is one of the neighbors, hard times means getting groceries from a food bank is a necessity. >> it means a lot otherwise we wouldn't have anything.