this happened in gulfport where the thieves have been traveling the streets looky for easy targets. chip osowski is live in clearwater tonight at the pinellas county jail. chip, i hear of these thieves. >> reporter: absolutely, keith. police in gulfport believe it's part of that same group you mentioned that has been trolling the streets, the same group responsible for that thanksgiving dakar theft and kidnapping. >> -- day car theft and kidnapping. >> i heard my son's stroller fall off the side of the car, so i knew something was going on. he's only 18 months old, so he couldn't be out here. >> reporter: sean rodriguez car seat for the blink of an eye. i started screaming my baby is in there, my baby is in there! >> reporter: the young man only made it a few feet before crashing the car. he took off on foot. thankfully his son chase was not hurt. the police chief robert vincent tells me these young men are trolling the streets of gulfport looking for opportunities. >> just within the past few days we've had these cases wherun or two wherever they see a car unlocked or running with

. >> reporter: gulfport police haven't charged him with anything, adding more fuel to the fire. so what really happened? i tracked down the the dog. >> i love my dog. >> reporter: joe bradford had his put bull rock since it was little. he says he is not the man being portrayed on social media. he was trying to get rock in the water to clean him. >> i dump him in like that. the first time he came back and swum to me. this time i forgot the chain was too heavy and end up i am looking at him like, damn, he is drowning. running, did the best i could, the fastest i can to save him. when i got him, i did cpr and i pretoriaed into his nose and his -- i breathed into his nose and mouth and he didn't come back. >> reporter: do you feel like this was a big mistake? >> of course it was a mistake. >> reporter: joe opened up to me because he said he wanted people know he has nothing to hide and truly loved his dog. >> i am a human. everyone makes mistakes. and i didn't -- i dogs. i am like no michael vick going to fight dogs and none of that. >> reporter: he says his sincerity is why police

the derby is from one to five saturday, at boca ciega high school in gulfport. it was a race to rescue our nation's high-flying symbol... from a very low orlando. ?two bald eagles were actually spotted by the drain... with their ?talons locked together. one of them was ?inside and the other was up above. at first, people thought one eagle was trying to ?save the other. but as fox's kirstin delgado explains, it may have been the complete ?opposite: edit:show the 3 stills from ocso in pkg two birds. one in a storm drain, the other standing over it. experts say they probably fell out of the sky.edit: holly raw18:24:49 "this time a year we see large numbers of bald eagles fighting, and in territory fights there are injuries"edit: 17:24:52 chopper.01 dian f audubon center for birds of prey.edit: holly raw18:25:24 "oh they're hardy, they've proved that"edit: bird flies away 17:53:46 chopper.1a one bird flew off when rescuers moved in. f-w-c was able to get the bird into a net while it was still in the drain.edit: holly raw18:28:34 "i reached down there and i grabbed t

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. >>> students at gulfport high school setting aside their own needs good evening i'm james tully, >> and i'm laura harris, we look at why they decided to skip their own thanksgiving. >> a busy morning at golf high school 28 turkeys and a few dozen students faculty volunteers, determined to make thanksgiving memorable for those who have nowhere else to go. >> i understand the struggle of some people not being able to afford the food. >> this 10th grader is giving up her holiday plans to do it for them. >> we raised enough money to purchase 28 birds. >> students graded served and entertained the families that showed up.

. >>> students at gulfport high school setting aside their own needs good evening i'm james tully, >> and i'm laura harris, we look at why they decided to skip their own thanksgiving. >> a busy morning at golf high school 28 turkeys and a few dozen students faculty volunteers, determined to make thanksgiving memorable for those who have nowhere else to go. >> i understand the struggle of some people not being able to afford the food. >> this 10th grader is giving up her holiday plans to do it for them. >> we raised enough money to purchase 28 birds. >> students graded served and entertained the families that showed up. the cafeteria walls. >> helping people is the right thing to do. >> this family couldn't agree more. >> everybody needs help. >> she is blown away by the caring and maturity of children so young. >> i am grateful for everybody. >> what is not eaten more go to waste tomorrow it will find its way to the salvation army in the bellies of many more in the. in pasco county cameron polom and abc action news. >>> we are following breaking news out of louisville, within the last

. >> reporter: gulfport police haven't charged him with anything, adding more fuel to the fire. so what really happened? i tracked down the the dog. >> i love my dog. >> reporter: joe bradford had his put bull rock since it was little. he says he is not the man being portrayed on social media. he was trying to get rock in the water to clean him. >> i dump him in like that. the first time he came back and swum to me. this time i forgot the chain was too heavy and end up i am looking at him like, damn, he is drowning.

looking to keep that going tonight in gulfport. there is landers and ready for this one. a safety powered offense hard to stop in the first half. landers makes a touchdown grab his sixth of the season. state wins 46-37. >> lakewood visits northeast and the vikings pulled off a heck of an upset. johnson runs it in for 6 in the second quarter and northeast winds and overall 25-22 and 7-2 on the season. >> a new internet craze going around called #manikin challenge and this is the steelers locker room and they do this to prickett -- to perfection. they are absolutely killing it. it's going around everywhere. >> that was good. >> we will take a picture. we will be right back. amendment 1 is endorsed by florida's firefighters... because it does solar the right way. and unsafe solar installations. y25r2y yy6y y25r2y yy6y why are out-of-state billionaires attacking amendment 1? because amendment 1... stops. their. subsidies. with amendment 1, you don't pay this is mike's office. if he doesn't show up, he doesn't get paid. too often marco rubio didn't show up to get things done,

petersburg and gulfport to dump millions of gallons of sewage into boca ciega bay. (walter - and backlash this morning facing one of the wide receiver "mike evans" stayed seated instead of standing during the national anthem. this comes on a day that the team was saluting those in the military. ((jen fox-13's shayla reaves joins us live from raymond james stadium. shayla - evans says he's not a thanks, shayla. starting today in pinellas county: it's anti-fraud awareness week. the county is holding several forums today through friday to the sheriffs office hosts the events... with free tips for reducing your fraud risk. they even let you shred your paperwork for free. today's event is at the seminole gardens peacock center in seminole. it runs nine to noon. ((jen)) for the first time.. in a very looong time... the bucs won at home!((walter)) coming up - what many people are calling the bucs' play of the season! ((walter and: the best time to buy clothes and toys for the holidays.. is ?not black friday.. we'll tell you when coming up after dave's forecast. carrabba's

. >> look at this scene in gulfport in atlantic city.ser to philadelphia, this is the look at is schuylkill at belmont, take my word for it, it looks like mirrored red and white lights out there. we're going to see more rain tonight and the chance for thunderstorms. >> our first alert weather team has the forecast for your neighborhood. >> what we're looking at currently are the low clouds in some areas of dense fog, that's one thing we're still dealing with, especially when you're in coatesville, zero mile visibility, the rest of the lehigh valley not bad at all, we still have the clouds around with more on the way. philadelphia is up to 3 miles, northeast philly up to 2. ricetown is 1. atlantic city is a quarter-miles

. >> look at this scene in gulfport in atlantic city. closer to philadelphia, this is the look at is schuylkill at belmont, take my word for it, it looks like mirrored red and white lights out there. we're going to see more rain tonight and the chance for thunderstorms. >> our first alert weather team has the forecast for your neighborhood. >> what we're looking at currently are the low clouds in some areas of dense fog, that's one thing we're still dealing with, especially when you're in coatesville, zero mile visibility, the rest of the lehigh valley not bad at all, we still have the clouds around with more on the way. philadelphia is up to 3 miles, northeast philly up to 2. ricetown is 1. atlantic city is a quarter-miles visibility. so we still do have some patchy dense fog. the entire area seeing the low clouds, but we have more rain moving in now. so we did have a bit of a break moving in and now we have light raining into berks and lehigh value county. an even wider view shows you more rain farther south through the gulf coast stat

that is northeast of gulfport. the two biggest accidents of the morning may require you to take a detour especially this one in pasco county. this is hudson and this is blocking all westbound lanes of county line road at grand club drive east of us 19. the detour if you are traveling, take a road north called cobblestone drive and head on springhill drive. than if you have to get onto us if you go onto the map you can see exactly what i'm talking about. this map doesn't show the smaller roads. in sarasota county i'm on top of this accident on us 41. there are some lanes blocked in the southbound direction at proctor road but you can still get by here. i'm not seeing a delay so i want to take a detour here. it would be i-75 and that would be your best bet if you are traveling far along us 41. polk county, things are quiet. if you have problems on the roads, send me an email. i am your road will help you with safety issues. email me, road warrior and i will help you with safety issues. email me, roadwarrior@wtsp.com.

gulfport, stop by shoppaloozea. vendors are setting up shop on beach d head to smallb smallbusinesssaturday.com for a map of all the businesses participating. >>> put on your green and gold. of two florida's biggest rival is facing off today in two hours. usf is going for a record ten wins. a win over the rival, the whole thing is more than dragging rights. the trophy is on the line and the bulls are con tending for the conference title. the win can team will take on they meet against next year. the bulls have a 4-2 lead in their all-time series against the knights. kickoff at raymond james stadium. >>> come up in about 15 min minutes, political editor craig patrick will join us with more on the perspective of what that means for fidel castro's death and u.s. relations. >>> and how do you pick the right christmas tree? for some, it is all about the color. for others, the bigger the better, but a little bit nor i bout it coming >>> and we are right in the middle of our holiday weekend, and we are really looking at a

somebody called authorities after seeing body near one boat docks marine max boat dealer sip ship on gulfport boulevard. detectives are on scene we have have an update on magnitude earthquake late last night. thank 68 there are no reports of severe injuries. but some of their historic buildings maybe unsafe at this hour. you can see here, the corner of one building fell in. investigators on the scene. town officials will be going through them today to determine whether or not they are safe. and while the quake was centered near curbing it was felt in texas, kansas and missouri. >>> and now to this horrific story out of south carolina. we first told you over weekend more disturbing details. 30-year-old woman was found chained in a shipping container. over the weekend the body of her boyfriend was also found on the property. and now overnight, another body has been discovered. kelly wright has more. >> the judge denies a to alleged serial killer as investigators find another body on his property in spartan berg county, south carolina. trying to get that person removed from here. and do a positi