for joining us. i'm walter allen((vanessa)) and i'm vanessa ruffess... jen epstein will join us next hour. we're continuing to follow breaking news in tampa... where crews are battling a massive fire at a rec center. (vanessa - take cg3) the winston park recreation center on destin drive in the clair- mel area, caught fire a little more than an hour ago. the flames were so huge at one point, our shayla reaves could see them a mile away on the selmon expressway. ((vanessa shayla is at the scene right now... shayla, firefighters just held

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thanks, shayla. (dave some fog early, with variable clouds and a quick shower possible today. high temps in the upper 70s. tonight will feature a few clouds and turning much drier. lows near 60. mostly sunny skies return for friday, with drier air and somewhat cooler temps. highs will be in the mid 70s.

(wally when the sun comes up, a major cleanup will commence across the southeast... a day after 13 tornadoes damaged homes, toppled trees and killed five people in louisiana, mississippi, tennessee and georgia. this is video from the atlanta, georgia area... where three tornadoes touched down... as you can see, the storm did a lot of damage in that area.

raging flames in tennessee... but the danger is far from over. now, the area is dealing with possible mudslides... many residents have already left the gatlinburg area, because of the wildfires... more than 700 structures in the city have been damaged or destroyed. and at least seven people have died. (wally) now, the area's most famous resident... is reaching out to help. country super-star, dolly parton... has set-up a fund, through her "dollywood foundation." she will donate one-thousand dollars a month for up to six months to "all of those families who lost their homes in the fires." dolly grew-up in the pigeon forge area, and is hurting for her neighbors. you can donate to the cause too, on dolly's website. (vanessa) it's been eight years since he was sentenced for manslaughter... and today, trevor dooley could go free. (vanessa on wednesday, a judge granted bond for dooley. it's set at 100-thousand dollars. dooley hasn't posted it yet. dooley is appealing his manslaughter conviction in the shooting death of "david james." he killed him on a basketball court in hillsborough county,

judge agreed with dooley's lawyers, that he could go free while awaiting trial. (vanessa/ we now know what caused a deadly house fire in odessa. someone left candles burning. the fire broke out monday at a mobile home in the silver dollar golf and trap club. a disabled man living there was trapped... and never made it out. his wife ran across the street to try to get help... but there wasn't much anyone could do. "james mongan" died at the scene. fire investigators say the candles were burning. there were smoke alarms, but apparently they didn't go off. the wife suffered smoke inhalation, but recovered. (wally) shades of 2000... a presidential recount begins today... but this time, not in florida. and no "hanging chads" either. this time, it's in wisconsin... and they're looking for signs of hacking or some other fraud. donald trump beat hillary clinton by less than one percentage point, in the dairy state. and most analysts don't expect that result to

factory workers in indiana are really happy with president-elect donald trump. they say he saved their jobs... and he's going to the hoosier state today, to announce the plan. but there are some questions about his exact role in the deal... fox's jackie ibanez reports. jones says: "i think the man deserves a whole lot of credit for stepping up and saving these jobs." president-elect donald trump delivers on his campaign promise to keep jobs at a carrier air conditioning plant in indiana... instead of trump doubling down on his promise to help save american jobs for american workers and american companies." however... democrats are questioning the terms of the deal... as carrier is expected to get tax breaks from the state of indiana... vice president-elect mike pence's home state... where he is still the governor.goolsbee says: "he was going to threaten them to get them to keep the jobs here. what happened here was not a negotiation, they paid them to stay there." the white house welcomed the news of keeping jobs in the united states... but says trump has a long way to go to match the obama administration's job creation numbers.earnest says: "the early indications are that this is good news and obviously we'd welcome that good news. i know that the president-elect has indicated that he deserves credit for that announcement." this comes as mister trump plans to travel to ohio and indiana today as he kicks off his victory tour. conway says: "just as the president-elect and vice president-elect they

and announce that 1,000 jobs will remain the usa. it's exactly what he ran on." (on-cam tag) meantime ... the president-elect's cabinet continues to take shape ... with trump reportedly narrowing his choices for secretary of state down to four candidates. in new york, jackie ibanez, fox news. (vanessa) president-elect donald trump and vice president-elect mike pence will be on fox's hannity tonight. they will be interviewed by sean hannity at a rally in cincinnati. (wally) this morning in st. petersburg: a scary

with st. pete police to hold an active-shooter exercise on campus. police, campus security and fire personnel will also gather for the drill... to make sure the school is prepared... in case such an attack takes place. the drill starts at 9-30 this morning. and starting today in downtown st. pete: it's gonna be a lot harder to find a parking spot... for your ?boat. that's because ?hundreds of them will be filling up the waterways... for the annual "st. petersburg power and sailboat show." it's the largest boat show on the gulf coast. it's all happening at the albert whitted park yacht basin. there will also be a 40 thousand square foot tent on land... housing seminars, marine gear, and kids activities. it starts at ten a-m. tickets are 16 dollars for adults... 15 and under get in free. the oldest home in all of hillsborough, pinellas, and pasco counties is for sale. the bungalow on east eighth

tampa city hall... but was moved in 19-14. the 4-bedroom, 2-bathroom home is selling for 45- thousand-dollars. but if you want to own the 2-thousand square-foot piece of history... prepare to be interrogated. the co-owners want to make sure the buyer plans to restore the home... not knock it down. which they say will cost about 150-thousand dollars. (wally) new this morning: a controversial change... that's sure to divide major league baseball fans. (take vo) starting with the 2017 season, game will no longer determine which team gets home-field advantage in the world series. instead, that will be determined by the pennant winner who has the better regular season record. the change is part of the league's tentative new collective bargaining agreement. also part of the agreement, players going on the disabled list will be reduced from 15 days

((vanessa)) they needed lots of bed sheets, and lots of guts. ((walter)) the daring escape and manhunt in california... and why police are so relieved this morning. ((walter and... can i get a hand? the big school experiment... that comes with

? think of your fellow man. ? ? lend him a helping hand. ? ? put a little love in your heart. ? ? take a good look around... ? ? ...and if you're lookin' down, ? ? put a little love in your heart. ? ?put a little love in your heart.? ? in your heart. ? (avo) the subaru share the love event is happening now

(walter - right now, smoke continues to pour from a rec center in tampa. the winston park recreation center caught fire a couple of hours ago... this is a live look at the scene on destin drive in the clair-mel area. right now, it's not know what caused the fire... we do know that the center was set to undergo a two-point-five million dollar renovation. shayla reaves remains at the scene... she'll have another live update in about 15 minutes. (vanessa developing this morning: a police officer in washington state... gunned down in the line of duty. officials say: the officer was shot several times, while responding to a domestic

may be responsible, is still barricaded in the home with a gun. the neighborhood was locked down overnight, while officers tried to end the tense situation. no one else has been hurt. (wally in north carolina: protests in charlotte remained calm overnight... after a prosecutor decided ?not to charge a police officer... in the deadly shooting of a black man, september 20th. the officer, brentley vinson, is also african-american... and authorities say: he shot keith scott because scott had a gun, and refused to drop it. but scott's he had a gun... even though one was found at the scene. (wally out of fuel... and out of time. investigators say: that's what happened to a charter plane that slammed into a mountain in colombia monday night, with a brazilian soccer team onboard. the pilot told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel, and begged for permission to land. someone in the tower told him to wait, because another plane, with mechanical problems, had priority. but he pleaded with controllers... saying: they'd suffered "complete electrical

too late. police captured a fourth escaped inmate... after a more than 7-hour standoff in california. rogelio chavez and 3 other prisoners escaped from a county jail last week. officials say they cut through bars on a second-story window... then rappelled to the ground on a bedsheet rope. two of the men were taken into custody right outside the jail... but chavez and laron campbell escaped. campbell was captured at his sister's house on tuesday. both he and chavez pending charges... they're now facing new charges as well. a group of students in arizona broke a guiness world record... for the longest high-five chain. nearly 35- hundred students lined up for the big challenge yesterday. the kids... between third and eighth grade... took 67 minutes to high five each other. the previous record was set in taiwan last year... with just over 27-hundred people high fiving.

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((walter)) it's been neglected for years... (vanessa) but now, finally, some much over-due love. (jen the bay area makeover... that's heads... and the tragedy, that's funding this triumph.

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((wally it's a part of the bay that has been long abused. now money from the "b-p, deepwater horizon settlement" will go to fix it. but can they un-do ?decades of pollution.? (wally) we're talking about mckay bay, just east of the port. (vanessa) as fox-13's lloyd sowers shows us, the area got no respect for decades, but now that's changing. a photo from 1926 of what would become tampa's 22nd street causeway. the br that's next door to the port. the bay that some know because tampa takes its trash here. to the the waste to energy plant.. but ed sherwood sees it differently. 15:58:03 "we certainly view this area as an urban oasis, you know this is a jewel to the city of tampa" the bay estuary program and other agencies are set to spend around a million dollars on mckay bay, part of that is federal money from the b-p deepwater horizon spill.." the efforts to restore this part of the bay actually started in the late 1980's, but there's been so many hits to the enviroment been a long road back." years ago, it was a hidden fishing the bay . now a 1938, look at the water the swirls of seagrasses ..now 1968, look at the water no seagrasses, the shoreline industrialized.. but some of it's been cleaned up. 16:39 " a great example of that is the ikea store was a brownsfield redevelompent area. " the massive ikea store adjcent to the bay was built on so-called brownfields. a former industrial area cleaned-up. employees have adopted mckay bay.5:15 "so this for us things like we really feel like tjat we've given back

before and after of tidal creeks that have been created to try and turn back time. but there's more to do. 20:46 "these restoration efforts will provide generational impact to this comuiity , to port employees, to new clients that will come into the port." hoping to breath new life into a bay once written off as

((vanessa)) through it all, mckay bay was never forgotten by the ?birds. ((wally)) it has a nature trail with some of the best bird-watching in the area. ((walter and speaking of wildlife... it's hard to believe this guy is smiling after his terrifying animal encounter. what happened

it's 5:--, on december 1st. i'm walter allen.((vanessa)) and i'm vanessa ruffes. smoke continues to pour from a local rec center... destroyed in an early morning fire. fox 13's shayla reaves is live outside the winston park recreation center in clair-mel... shayla, it's still too dangerous for

thanks, shayla. and now lets get another check on the forecast from dave. no closed captioning is available for traffic.

the time now is 5:??. let's get you up to the minute on today's top stories: eight years after he was sentenced for manslaughter... a hillsborough county man may go free, today. "trevor dooley" shot and killed a young father named "david james" on a basketball court, six year ago. dooley says: he was defending himself. now, he's awaiting a new trial... and on wednesday, a judge granted dooley bond. it's set at 100-thousand

((walter in manatee, a substitute teacher is off the job... after being charged with molesting three girls. detectives say "brad bellingar" knew the girls outside of school.. and he's been abusing them for ?years. reps with the manatee school district say: bellingar has worked there since 20-11, as a substitute teacher. the district released a statement to the bradenton herald, saying: bellingar was removed immediately from his position, wednesday... after they learned of his arrest. ((walter looking for a job? then head to the gulf view square ml holding a job fair, from noon till four p-m. there are full and part-time positions available... and not just at the mall, but at companies like: amazon, budget rental car and walgreens, too. employers will do on-the-spot interviews, so dress to impress. police arrested a florida man after he admitted to throwing his own dog into oncoming traffic... in order

told police someone shot hig dog with an arrow... so he decided to throw the 30-pound dog into traffic on an ocala road to kill it. officials say the dog was run over by 2 cars... then took off into the woods. miraculously... the dog-- now named "buck"... didn't suffer any broken bones. it didn't have any arrow wounds either. "buck" is staying with a police officer for now. people aroundhe against h-i-v for world aids day. since the virus was discovered in 19-84... more than 35 million people have died. it's one of the most destructive pandemics in history. world aids day was the first ever global health day-- held for the first time in 19-88. tomorrow... the florida department of health is holding free h-i-v and s-t-d testing. anyone can visit their location on east kennedy boulevard in tampa from 7 a-m to 3-30 p-m. (walter kanye west... is out of the hospital, and

he spent nine days at u-c-l-a medical center... suffering "extreme exhaustion." but besides being overworked, there's word he'd been really paranoid, and seriously stressed... it reportedly all started when his wife kim kardashian was robbed in paris. sources say: he'd been having nightmares about it for months... and his fears for her safety took a toll on their marriage. but according to "us weekly," she spent lots of time at his bedside in hospital... and is relieved he's getting the help he needs. (vanessa and then there's this guy... he's smiling and laughing, despite his ordeal. authorities say: a great white shark bit the 65- year-old surfer off the coast of australia a few hours ago. the man was able to swim back to shore to get help, despite injuries to his hand

((jen)) fresh off the loss to florida state, there's a big rumor swirling in the swamp.((walter)) just ahead: we'll go straight to the coach... to set the situation straight. ((walter and... "christmastime... is here." if you've ever dreamed of being part of the peanuts gang... here's your chance. snoopy... charlie brown... linus ?and his blanket... are just a one tank away. jen epstein takes us there, after

right now, smoke continues to pour from a rec center i caught fire a couple of hours ago... this is a live look at the scene on destin drive in the clair-mel area. we do know that the center was undergoing a two-point-five million dollar renovation. ??what we dont know: what caused the fire... shayla reaves remains at the scene...

(vanessa) alright, it's december first. let's start the christmas fun! (wally) and jen... leave it to her... she's found the ?coolest idea around. does this involve penguins? (jen) well, no... but it does feature a whole lot of ?ice! it's christmas at gaylord palms in orlando... and this year style. one look... and you're bound to say "good grief!" it's christmas at gaylord palmsaand i'm pretty sure they got some help from the north pole..because this orlando resort looks more like a winter wonderland. christmas is such an amazing time of the year it has imagination, it has giving, it has heart.niko put his whole heart into this projectaand with a little help from his four year old daughter kennedy..he created this year's theme: a charley brown christmas. my mother watches it and my daughter watches it so they're really excited to see it on ice.sure, ice is the big attractiona&but it's not the only thing to see at gaylord palms. so i asked my new friend kennedy, who's been here a time or two, to show me the ropesa and take me to snoopy! going to

anxiously.. for my turn. i love snoopy. hi snoopy we danced... we laughed... and we hugged! kennedy was a little skeptical about the oversized dogaso we headed back to alpine villagea& and into gingerbread land we're gonna make a gingerbread cookie together.., high fivewe were definitely ready for something sweet! hi princess.. am i a princess too.. 2 cookies in here.. decoarate however you like.. you ready?a ton of icing and a few sprinkles later... it was time to taste our magical creation! (sot) gopr4506.mp4 00:00:30;28 take a bite it's not a winter wonderland without some snow...so we bundled up for our next adventure... indoor snow tubing! i was definitely doing that again! ?real snowballs... in flid ready 1,2,3 and throw it! kennedy had enough of the cold...so we said our goodbyes. then i got ready for the main attraction... and the big freeze... this year we have charley brown's christmas hand carved in 2 million pounds of ice. so it's absolutely breathtaking going through there.boy was he right. the whole peanuts gang was waiting inside! spread arms out in front of ice and boy was it cold! my parka, earmuffs and scarf didn't lessen chill...but the nine degree temps didn't stop the fun either! there was only one way to end this magically perfect ice cold day...with a cup of hot cocoa... of course.

(jen "ice!" at gaylord palms runs through january first. tickets start at 28-99 for adults, and 14-99 for kids... and there are season passes, too. for

(jen it's now 5:??. time to check the forecast with dave. it is 5:??: time now to find out what's happening on the roads - with our "skyfox on time traffic".

final stretch of the regular season... a big road game for the bucs this week in san diego... and a few big names not practicing today... mike evans, gerald mccoy and chris conte... of that group only conte is likely to miss sunday's game... mccoy says he'll play through the foot injury... and mike evans, well he missed today because... he's a proud new papa... congrats to mike and wife, ashli, on a brand new baby girl.evans is co jameis are benefiting from, is the great pass protection... the o-line kept winston from getting sacked against seattle, and they're one of the teams. but the protection isn't just a credit to the big guys up front... dirk koetter says the tight ends and runningbacks are also giving winston more time in the pocket.the coaching rumors are swirling... a recent report in the usa today said jim mcelwain may be interested in leaving florida for the recently opened oregon head coaching job... mcelwain is from montana... coached early on in his career at eastern washington... well, he addressed the rumors today. it helps when you have top-flight talent... and the bulls certainly do in quarterback quinton flowers... who today, was named the american athletic conference's offensive player of the year... the junior broke several records... he's the only player in school history to tally 1,000 rushing and 2,000 passing yards in a season... a program-record 10 bulls earned all-conference honorsthat's a look at sports... let's send it back

((wally)) they're scared... and stranded... but don't worry... help is on the way. the big animal rescue... going on this morning... when we come back. ((wally and... we're just two months from the florida state fair. and this year's menu... is more decadent, and ?creative, than ever! ahead: the crazy new tempting concoctions... you can't miss at the midway.

pped with parmesan cream sauce and stuffed with delicious melted mozzarella. ? dramatic italian aria ? it's the most dramatic meatball you've ever eaten. for a limited time only.

"i'm the only one who'll walk across the fire for you." --wally and... the hit parade continues in the bay area. first dolly, then barbra... now melissa etheridge. she's performing a special holiday show in st. pete tonight, at the mahaffey theater. tickets start at 50-dollars... and the show starts at 7-30. (vanessa and... forget sugar plums... how about

funnel cakes, dancing in your head. you won't have to dream for long. the florida state fair is just two months away... and tickets, go on sale today. this year there's a new sweets exhibit... a tasty journey that's all about candy... including a jelly bean taste test challenge... sign me up. for more adventurous types... there's the ?steak sundae... and oreo funnel cakes! ((vanessa)) there's much more to come on good day. ((walter)) let's turn it over to russell and jen- to

still ahead this morning on good day .. the latest on a big recreation center fire in the clair-mel area. fox 13's shayla reaves is there, as families learn of the devasation for the first time. it's that time of year .. porch pirates are on the prowl. colonel chad chronister joins us to talk about how to protect your important packages. and .. smile for the camera .. a kansas police department finds something very unexpected on thier trail cameras.. that and more,

developing this morning . >>jennifer: developing this morning, a community devastated, wondering what they'll do next as a local rec center goes up in flames. >>russell: it was one of the most memorable moments from the show "cops." a murder for hire fakeout. now t it was all an act and she wants out of jail. >>jennifer: today we're learning more about president elect donald trump's deal to keep hundreds of jobs from moving overseas. >>dave: i do have widespread inland fog this morning visibility is down below two miles. it's scattered, kind of just drifting around so i need to you