and, south florida police officer, alfredo vargas, the right man in the right place when a resident complained of an alligator blocking his front door. the action was caught on his body-cam. before he became a cop. vargas learned to wrestle and restrain al gray tors. that's what he did. first making -- noises. to soothe the alligator. >> he doesn't look soothed. >> looks calm there. then putting his jacket. on it. over its head. >> okay. >> then. >> that's we have to just click. >> we put a jacket. we are good. >> yeah. just have to. >> we should try it. >> go alligator wrangling. >> you first. >> you want to do that? >> all right. >> well we all know that mike skal fe michael phelps didn't race a shark side by side. apparently people are still upset about this. elps, may have made those lks, a little bift angrier on facebook live. he said, i had fun racing a shark. and seeing the animals up close and personal. he got snippy when fans kept harping on the fact that you didn't actually get in the water next to the great white, michael. >> you know some body who wants to get in the water and race

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alfredo vargas didn't want to wait for animal control when he found a gator at someone's door. body camera rolling, he took care of the problem himself. >> vargas first made clicking noises to soothe the alligator. doesn't look calm there and put his jacket over its head later and wild and it turns out that before he became a cop, he had taken lessons in handling alligators. >> apparently he even knows how to wrestle them. >> oh, okay. >> if the whole cop thing doesn't work out. >> based on the graphic we might need to handle that one back there. >> that's a big guy. >> that is huge. >>> next up what some in chicago are calling a cubs inspired baby boom. >> you may recall last year's world series when the cubs ended their long championship drought by beating the indians. well, in fact, wednesday marked exactly 38 weeks since the cubs clinched the series. well, now hospitals in the windy city are reporting a serious spike in births. >> some newborns and their parents even have had pictures taken with the world series trophy. it seems while the cubs were celebrating plenty of the

this is the body cam footage taken by 0fficer alfredo vargas. let's listen to how calmly he did this. he wrestled with the alligator for a while. eventually managed to put him into a bag and put him on the back of his patrol car and drove him to a canal. if a trapper had been called to deal with this he would have shocked the alligator straightaway, so shocked the alligator straightaway, so there is a bright side to this. i know you're thinking, rather him than me, that's what we're all thinking. he took the alligator to a canal where he let him go and did not say simulator. service did not say, see you later. that's get a weather update, nick miller has the latest on the other side of the newsroom. follow that! you've done all the jokes, so get straight on with it. there are some really hefty downpour to content with over the next few hours, some heavyin with over the next few hours, some heavy in the london area for the test match at the oval, there's been a bit of sunshine but this showers may not be too far away. southern and eastern parts o

that's officer alfredo vargas taking matters into his own hands after a report the alligator was at someone'sront door. he worked solo because it was going to take another 30 minutes for a trapper to arrive. help eventually showed up, but vargas took the lead. jumping on the gator, wrangling and then relocating it. vargas is good friends with a local rescue team, so he picked up some tips from them, reggie. >> i would rather just watch it and not be involved in. thank you. >>> time to ask finney. pedro from hayward has a question about rental maintenance. he spoke to us in santana row. michael finney has his answer. >> sometimes i feel our landlords are taking advantage of us in terms of getting maintenance done or getting things done like a simple light bulb. how would you help me in terms of getting things done. what kind of remedies would you recommend? >> hey, pedro. this is a landlord's market. and even if it wasn't, they're allowed to be lousy at their jobs. by law, they must keep your rental unit safe. but they don't have to keep it beautiful. check in with the tenants union and seek t

this is 0fficer alfredo vargas responding to a call out of a reptile outside a resident‘s front door.him than me! year. we can think of all of the puns, but you‘ve got any, send them to me on twitter. we might look at those pictures later. let‘s have a look at the weather first. another day for dodging the downpours, a rash of showers moving from west to east. some of us have had sunshine today, eastern scotland has fared quite well but showers moving in here as well and you could catch a shower wherever you are. could be heavy or thundery, maybe a bit of hailfor a could be heavy or thundery, maybe a bit of hail for a time. could be heavy or thundery, maybe a bit of hailfor a time. 0utside could be heavy or thundery, maybe a bit of hailfor a time. outside of the showers, it‘s fairly pleasant in the showers, it‘s fairly pleasant in the sunshine. you can see by the temperatures, nothing special for the time of year and only a few places getting above 20 celsius. you be part of the far south—east, isle of wight, coastal areas. through this evening the showers will fade but continuing ove

this is officer alfredo vargas responding to a call out of a reptile outside a resident‘s front door.had to deal with an unusual suspect, which is why his police chief thinks he deserves the new title. eventually they manage to get it into a patrol car. it is terrifying! they drove to a canal and released the alligator, hopefully not... hopefully not going to be seeing it again. a police officer going way beyond the call of duty, there to arrest... an alligator. a less dangerous job is the weather. i suppose you have to climb stairs to get to the newsroom though? you can see some of the complaints we get. today is one of the better days. a little bit of sunshine today but there have been heavy showers, you may have got caught in some of those. there are a few of those around us forget this evening. a rash of showers across the uk, you may hear a rumble of thunder, and sam hail. they will fade across southern and eastern parts of the uk. through the night, they continue in northern ireland, western scotla nd in northern ireland, western scotland and north west england with a gusty wind