. this is abc action news. >>now at 4:30 president-elect donald trump holds his first in-person meeting with a foreign head of state. the meeting comes as his transition team floats several names for future cabinet positions. police release a photo of the driver extensive damage in ybor city. and police investigate a charter school teacher. good morning and thanks for joining us. i'm dan shaffer. >>and, good morning, i'm dia riley. president-elect donald trump met with japan's prime minister yesterday. >>retired lieutenant general michael flinn is now the frontrunner for national security advisor. flinn has ban

obama's foreign policy. >> reporter: from fauxes to friends, president-elect donald trump is making peace with former rival mitt romney. >>think of donald trump's personal qualities, the bullying, the greed, the showing off, the misogyny, the absurd 3rd grade theatrics. >> reporter: now an unexpected change. trump is romney for secretary of state. among other candidates, another former rival, the south carolina governor. >>during anxious times it can be tempting to fall the siren call of the angry jest voices.

voices. >> reporter: the frontrunner fort job as emerged. >>it's a great transition, and the president-elect is an open role, believe me. >> reporter: he has tweeted about working hard with farred keeping the plant in the u.s. rather than moving to mexico. at the center of the transition his son-in-law jarrod kushner. essex morgue whether he could serve as an unpaid advisor. janee norman, abc news. tampa police want you to see this video this morning. they're hoping to catch the driver behind a crash be in ybor city. surveillance video shows driver intentionally trying to hit someone early tuesday morning at a bar. the driver

amazingly, he only suffered minor injuries. police say it started with a fight outside the bad monkey bar after closing hours. police arrested two men involved, but they're still looking for the driver of the black nissan. a hillsborough county prior to wanted for battery is now on paid administrative leave for a bar brawl. he is a member of a motorcycle club, an organization law enforcement considers a criminal game. cameras walker throwing bunches in key west. police say the fight started after an argument last september. an orlando man is fighting for his life after a fight over a bar tip. right now authorities are still searching for the attacker. 59-year-old kevin dunn left a tip on the bar. moments later other customers say a man stole the money. he started fighting with the man outside. the man

polk county deputies are searching for this man. he drove off in a county truck. investigators recovered the truck but he's still on the run. last september a judge sentenced him to 300 days in jail for petty theft. a crime alert in brandon. police are looking for two men who stole cell phones. on tuesday the phones they're worth more than $2,000. if you know anything about what happened, call the hillsborough county sheriff's office. a 9-year-old boy is recovering after falling off a resort balcony near walt disney world yesterday. his family was packing their things to head back to michigan and left the boy unattended. a relative returned the room and found him on the ground outside. he was alert and conscious when taken to the hospital. a venice teacher under

authorities are not saying exactly why. the teacher works at island village montessori school. he's now on leave. the venice police department isn't releasing details about the case because it's an active investigation. gara shaffer's two children attend the school. >>it was just a letter that was suggested -- sent out by the administration telling everyone he was on administrative leave. >>action news tried to the school for more information but our calls have not been returned. in central florida two day-care workers and a mother are facing charges because a 4-year-old was left sleeping in a van. the child fell asleep in a van. when he woke up he got out and walked into the day-care. investigators say the mother was not supervising her children. a sarasota day-care center

in a hot van during a field trip. a sarasota mother says she got a letter that her daughter was being kicked out of the school because of a facebook post and for commenting and talking to abc action news. the day-care is under investigation for leaving a child in a hot van for two years during a field trip in october. parents say the day-care never notified them about what happened. >>what if it was a longer field trip and the child was in there more than two hours? there could have been serious consequences and it seem like they're looking at that side of t he was okay so the situation is okay, and it's not. >>the director of the preschool refused to comment. the department of children and families is investigating the day-care for abuse. pasco county school leaders are moving forward on a controversial rezoning plan. a committee of principals and parents approved a plan that would move the long leaf neighborhood and a few others into the river ridge school zone. parents say it is tearing

leaders insist it's necessary because of overcrowding. they're expected to vote on the plan january 17th. good morning from the weather center. the headlines for the next few days, what you need to know is bundle up sunday morning. still a cool start today but we'll warm up nicely by the afternoon, low 80s. we had 80s yesterday and we'll do that again today. sunday night impact the latter half of the weekend. upper 50s this morning. notice we're a little bit warmer than yesterday, but most of us staying on the milder side this morning. you'll still need a jacket, and it's a layers kind of day. we're at 81 and dropping to 72 by 7:00. more on the cool-down in a few minutes. we want to get a look at your commute right now. this is

out there, but it is still early. we'll have a full look at your morning commute coming up in just a moment. a fort myers gun dealer is honoring a good samaritan rescued a lee county did he want during an attack. a bystander shot and killed the man while attacking the deputy. the did he want is expected to recover. a christmas grinches has hit early stealing the joy right out of a sth display. surveillance cameras caught the thief taking a sign wednesday night in green acres. the sign costs $1,400. the store is covering a chocolate reward for whoever helps catch the thief. still much more ahead on abc action news this friday morning. how yelp is making sure you have all the information you need before eating out.

surgery. the team is in buffalo. we'll have the highlights coming up

. 4:42 now. a maryland teacher is off the job after losing it on her students. while trying to regain control

in front of her students. administrators fired her after watching a video made by a student. on camera a shocking scene at a chicago elementary school. in the video you can father had a classroom supervisor encouraging two students to fight. the boys are friends and say they dent want to fight. >>we were in the classroom. the teacher forced us to fight. >> reporter: forced you to fight? >>yes. she said if we didn't fight we was going to up. >> reporter: by who? by her? >>yes. that's not something you teaching them at home but at school they're condoning. >>one of the boys had a panic attack and had to go to a hospital. the school says the teacher is no longer supervising after-after activities. you can earn some gifts while doing your christmas. so many airlines offer bonus

several airlines are offering 500 points and up to 3,000 bonus miles depending on how much you spend on gifts online. the bonus miles are for purchases by november 20th, so you might want to do that this weekend. yelp users are getting a closer look at their favorite restaurants with help from a new feature that allows you to click on a link accessing health inspection records. some owne are worried people will assume even small violations are major problems and drive customers away. >>i use yell am on a weekly basis. >> reporter: katelyn conley says the new feature is a good fit. >>i think it would be good for tourists to determine where the healthiest place to eat. >>the new feature was launched early this month. this holiday season

children with autism. they are testing the idea with no music or store announcements and dim lights. >>i can just hear the sounds of crying and screaming kids instead. it's going to be even cheaper to ride the cross-bay ferry. passengers have the option for a value pass. you can buy a pack of 20 tickets for $100. the 7-day-a week service next week and the first three days of thanksgiving weekend will be free. they will also start serving wine, beer, and cocktails this weekend. you'll get a daybreak this year on the cost of thanksgiving dinner. this year's meal will cost less than $50 for a family of 10. that's the lowest price in 6 years. we're now getting a look at disney world's new lights and

drones ?[music]? >>that's rate cool. it is really night -- that's pretty cool. 300 drones moved into the air over the water at disney springs entertainment complex. disney has not released a date for when the holiday show will start. take a look at this man. he just set a world record for bungee dunk. >>the man plunged 230 feet to give the phrase high tea a whole new meeting. he dunked a picture of into tea. he's holding the bis cut in his hand and back up. he said -- biscuit in his hand. he said lining it

of the job. can you imagine that? >>i hope it was 4:00. that is the hospital tea time. -- i hope that is the appropriate tea time. we're looking at the mid to upper 40s and then it's not, right, cool but not as chilly with temperatures in the upper 50s and st. pete in the yesterday, milder tomorrow and then we have this to look forward to as we look west. this is the coldest air mass we've seen so far this season in this part of the country. temperatures in the 20s, plenty of teens and even some single digits. this is a big-time snow event. they've got snow in denver and up wards of a foot plus of snow are coming and we're going to get a

but the cold air. by the time we wake up sunday morning the front will be south of us and we're going to get very chilly. there is the moisture with it, not much, just like everything else the moisture going up north so just a band of clouds saturday night. and then sunday morning we'll wake up with temperatures in the range of low to mid 40s, upper 40s around 50 along the coast sunday morning. very cold start and we numbers and that will be our daytime high temperatures sunday. monday i won't show you because it's scarier so just brace yourself, 30s back in the forecast. high temperatures today if you like the warm weather, a very nice couple of days. and then there it is, cool air begins to move in and chilly sunday morning with temperatures in the 40s and

warm-up, by the time we get into thanksgiving, near 80 by thursday. i want to get a look at part of your morning commute. this is 301 at boyatte road it's pretty quiet but it's still early. we'll have a full look coming in 10 minutes. the panthers beat saints in thursday night football and the bucs are taking on the kansas city sunday. >>and good morning, everybody. i think buffalo found out last night that even without steven stamkos the bolts are still a premier league in the nhl. the lightning took the lead and never gave it up. and then later in the first a scary moment when ben bishop took a

unfortunately fortunately it lodged inside his jersey. the bolts scored two more times in the 2nd period. and then kucheroff put a killer goal in the net with 18 seconds left in the period and the lightning go to 3 and 0 on this road trip, the final 4-1 in buffalo. as until sometime in late march, early april. he underwent surgery yesterday in colorado to repair his right knee, so we're talking three to four months, surgery to end of rehab. at usf flowers is getting some love. he is one of the semi-finalists for the player of the year award.

players like cook of fsu, j.t. barrett of ohio state, jackson of louisville, among others. and that's your morning sports update. enjoy your day. 10 till 5, an arizona police officer caught on cell phone video punching a woman in the case. the officer turned off his body camera right before he did it. the discipline he's now facing. extra police officers will they'll be citing and rewarding pedestrians in the area.

. 6 minutes till 56789 look at this video. a polar be dog are new besties. the boon shot the video says the bear woke up and when he got near the dog he started petting him. good morning america will be waking up in the bay area. you may have seen this 3rd grade class dressed in pink serenading their teacher who just returned from treatment for breast

rowlett academy around 830 this morning. the search is on for an inmate who escaped in polk county. >>where he was last seen and how authorities say he got away. looking at this video of a crash in ybor city. police hope it leads to the driver. how much damage the driver caused. parents say they're being punished for talking about a sarasota day-care accused of leaving a child in a hot van. the latest on the investigation

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here's ivan now with a look at the forecast. >>we're cool out there, but we're doing better than the last couple of mornings. generally in the upper 50s to around 60. you compare that to this time yesterday and we're running anywhere from not much to about 4 to 7 degrees warmer with a northeast wind helping us out. we'll continue with ld we'll drop into the 70s, another nice day tomorrow but a big change coming up for the weekend with a temperature drop. we'll talk more in a few minutes. good morning, we are starting off with a crash on the howard franklin bridge in the northbound lanes. it looks like the right lane is blocked but cars seem to be getting by just fine. you can see it a little bit better here. you can see a couple of cars on the side of the road.