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that conclusion is leading to alex's like this which just happened three days ago. we are holding those in charge accountable and getting results for you. we are approaching the intersection right now and i can tell you the first thing i see is confusion. >> we first told you friday the intersection was an accident waiting to happen. and three days after our story aired >> a lot of damage to the cars. buckley nobody was seriously hurt. but it did happen. >> reporter: he works at the nearby campus. >> it is just not good. >> reporter: he sees a close call her every day. >> you can see some of the things going on and people not
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intersection is just to get busy to be just a two way shop. >> we need help. >> reporter: we brought your concerns to downtown tampa. they told us it is just drivers getting use to the stop. >> are there any plans to turn this into a four-way stop eventually? >> we will be mostly at the intersection. >> reporter: we showed bob campbell captured. he ordered county workers to put up these signs warning drivers. >> we brought this to your attention and you took action. >> reporter: for the folks who drive through every day it is meant a serious accident waiting to happen. more stop signs are needed. until then, the clock is ticking. >> reporter: one hour before we
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texting me this picture with another accident on the side of the road of the intersection. after seeing our report the county admits it may need a traffic light. they also say they have to do a traffic study first. that is supposed to happen after the holidays. drivers are hoping more accidents like this to not happen between now and then. kevin gates filing a motion for a new trial. he is days in jail. he is taking a 19-year-old fan turned a lakeland concert and they call it a consistent with the overwhelming evidence. police on the hunt for a man who tried to ram one of their own officers. detectives asking for you to look for julian barrett. officers tried to pull him over on friday but they say he
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officer. if you know where he is, call crimestoppers right away. deputies putting a stop to a crime ring that has been stealing dozens of cars. they bested 14 people and most of them under age. they have stolen 46 vehicles and all of them were left unmarked. 42 had keys in them. deputies have covered 41. now the most accurate weather team in florida. abc action weather. >> good evening, everybody. 32 degrees in northern counties and the cold air begin to take a break. by thanksgiving we are back in the lower 80s with a better chance of rain returning next week. by tomorrow morning skies will be clear and temperatures chilly but not as cold as the last couple of mornings with most
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a pretty nice start to your wednesday. hour by hour partly cloudy right through the overnight but we are checking two fronts over the next seven days. new tonight the trump foundation and missing it broke the law. the organization admitting to self-dealing in irs documents. it is a nonprofit leaders use the money of a charity to help themselvesor those documents did not show how the trump foundation violated or who they gave the money to. the new york attorney general office is investigating. the president elect trying to ease fears about a potential conflict of interest. in theory i could run my business perfectly and then run the country perfectly.
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unprecedented clash between his responsibility as president and his business holdings. and analysis found he owned or has a position in a 500 different companies. that includes 150 that i've done business in 25 foreign countries including turkey and saudi arabia. the first man to ever shoot a sanibel police officer is being held. jon hay making his appearance today. he drop pass a traffic stop over the weekend and shot jerry ciccone in the shoulder. he was later involved in another shootout. the officer is now at home recovering. if jon hay makes bond, he will have to surrender all of his weapons. pasco county deputies taking down men prepared for a fight. they were transported to a home
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k9 units stop them and steve was wearing a ballistic vest with a handgun. st. petersburg has a sewage problem dumping raw sewage into the bay over the past year. one city councilmember tells adam winer homeowners might be causing the problem. >> reporter: when heavy rains all on st. pete, the sewers overflow. >> it was not something that i thought of but now with the recent storms it is something that has become a big issue. >> reporter: they might unknowingly be part of the problem. half of the overflow problems come from the pipes connecting homes to the main lines. 10,000 st. pete homes need new
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older homes. >> when they see that they have the pipes that run from the toilet to the street and they are collapsing, it is better to address it well while there is a sewer system. >> reporter: councilmember carl would like this to be fixed. he proposes a four step plan. it would give them a payment plan with no interest in they would be tax-deductible from income taxes. he also would like the city to bid on the project to drive down the cost. >> we are literally talking hundreds of millions of dollars. >> reporter: the other problem is what to do with the homeowners who will still not fix the pipes. one option is finding them.
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really what the options were. >> reporter: the city council is expected to vote in early 2017. adam winer, abc action news. a train conductor admitting to falling asleep before derailing last week. telling investigators he does off before hitting another train. four people were in the trains, but no one was seriously hurt. they are investigating the cause and will not release any more infoat some of the biggest shopping days are almost here and many of you will be doing it from your computer. 65% of you will be doing your shopping this black friday. research company say that is more than those shopping on cyber monday. as you shop online, 23 million people had packages stolen right off of their doorstep just last year. a safe delivery option is
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amazon tells us they put 40 of them in since the summer. to use them we have to order an item from the website and choose shipping to a locker and only you will have the code. a dozen bay area families will have a happy thanksgiving this year thanks to the pinellas park part of parchment. firefighters hitting publix today. delivering the food today so families can enjoy the holiday. the need for help is much bigger than just these families. >> a lot of people that sign up for this we only have so much funds that go out so these families are repeat customers. >> the fire department has been doing their food purchase for
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the disables -- the disabled. >> we want to talk about all of these lawsuits you are filing. why not? >> in a special investigation see what happened when katie lagrone tracked down florida's most prolific plaintiff and why one lawmaker is now talking about changing the rules. tonight at 11:00. security screeners are seeing record numbers of deadly weapons and guns. it is a growing problem for them and you when it comes to waiting in lines. jarrod holbrook shows us the shocking things they are finding and what the tsa is now doing about it. >> reporter: all of these weapons were spotted a security checkpoints.
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>> reporter: according to the federal security director some items are obvious but some are hard to spot like this lipstick that is really a knife. these flashlights are showing up more and more. >> it is actually a tracking device. >> reporter: then there are the ridiculous things like this rocket launcher. >> he claims he thought he couldn't put in his chapter bag. >> reporter: last year the tsa set a national record. at tampa international screeners say the numbers are up. in 2015 there were 42 guns spotted. so far there have been 65 this year. that is a 55% increase in the
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are loaded. deadly weapons are also up 25%. >> it troubles me. i cannot imagine he would forget a gun in your bag. >> reporter: why are the numbers going up? >> i can only tell you when they come they always say i forgot it was in the bag. >> reporter: tsa is using bomb protecting dogs. screeners will rack up over time places you typically see like checkpoints in areas like this. the command center where resources are managed for three local airports. >> we have a standing bridge call so if there's an incident of significance in the country or the world everyone can hear it at the same time. >> reporter: if cut with a firearm you could face up to
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and typing any questionable items you have an is will tell you whether it is acceptable. i am jarrod holbrook taking action for you. a new radio showing terrifying moments in the air. airport employees reporting the plane trying to land here. you can see a shifting heavily in the wind. it even comes down before the pilot corrects and officials confirmed there were no injuries in the incident. >> i have been in a plane like that when you can feel the wind. that is pretty scary. >> a lot of folks traveling tomorrow. i don't think we will have to much to worry about tomorrow. maybe by sunday there could be some windy spots but otherwise tranquil weather.
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picked a good time to come because our weather will be absolutely beautiful. i do think tomorrow we will start to see a little moisture coming in from the east coast. we have a couple of fronts on saturday in the middle of next week trying to bump up the rain chances just a bit with temperatures now low 60s for crystal river and bartow 67. a high today degrees in sarasota in the low 70s in st. pete and clearwater because of the golf temperature down to 64 degrees. we will have to start worrying about fog in the next few days. if you are thinking about taking a boat out into the weekend, that is something to keep in the back of your mind with upper 60s and low 70s
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river. now the clear skies and the afternoon sun warms things up beautifully. the winds will go northeast tomorrow and it will bring in some clouds. we have seen this over and over again. you get an easterly wind and then maybe even a shower in polk county. it is those showers that last five minutes. the overwhelming majority will 10% chance of a couple showers but no matter how you play this if you have family coming in or if you are on vacation now, the weather will be really beautiful with low 80s and so much for the cold air. even on wednesday we are back into the low 80s. back to palm harbor heading into citrus and hernando county
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dade city with zephyrhills and all about that 80 degree mark. polk county upper 70s and back to the beach with venice and siesta key. all in all things are looking very nice for most of the weekend with a front coming in on saturday. maybe a better chance of showers towards the middle of next week. most accurate seven-day forecast with thanksgiving day looking beautiful. temperatures topping out at 81 degrees and an isolated shower on saturday possible with a better chance by the middle of next week. some fog develops on thanksgiving continuing into the weekend. >> federal regulators making an unusual move allowing general motors to delay recalling
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the design of the takata airbag is unique and actually safer than the ones in other vehicles. takata airbags are known to inflate and spray shrapnel. they have been linked to 11 deaths and 16 worldwide. gm has until next august to make its case. still ahead, the bucs will be down thanks to a four game suspension.
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performance enhancing drugs. his suspension begins this weekend. what is so impressive about the florida state robbery is more times than not it has national implications. regardless of who wins this on saturday right here the head coach has it right. florida needs fsu and fsu needs florida. here is why. >> the state of florida is dynamic. you are usually getting a national title across the country. that is always going to be. we play well. those games are important because of the nature of the programs and the programs are very well received across the country. >> there are plenty of us who watched uss earl the trailer as
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we have seen some good years and some bad years, but we have never seen a 10 year. >> it is one of those things where you can take the records out and doesn't matter. and then ucf is a good football team. the coach has done a good job with this team considering what they went through last year. pretty incredible. >> we have continuing coverage of stores on our website at www.abcactionnews.com . >> have a good night.
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y26m3y yy6y tonight, breaking news. after the deadly storm, the new and major system set to hit tonight. chicago, detroit, several cities in the bulls eye. then, moving east, affecting millions traveling this thanksgiving. just learned about the driver in that deadly school bus crash. the children who survived revealing to us what happened on that bus moments before the crash. the police officer ambushed. now, the arrest, and the new moment today. what the suspect says when asked, did he kill the officer? you'll hear it. president-elect donald trump's about-face. >> lock her up! lock her up! >> after chants of "lock her
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