marisela burgos is live to explain what this may mean and why you may be protected. marisela? >> reporter: the bottom line is that the towing company can't come to a parking lot similar to this one and tow any car they want without the business owner's written consent. >> all those in favor say aye? >> aye. >> show it pass unanimously. >> reporter: pinellas county commissioners are keeping a big step to keep the st and encourage people to not drink and drive. starting october 1 any business that sells alcohol must allow their patrons to park in their lot without fear of getting towed. >> the goal is to enhance public safety certainly again providing additional error to reduce the incentive for individuals to drive while intoxicated. >> reporter: the changes will be effective county wide. >> we don't want to give you the misperception that you are not safe there and you could get towed. needs to be obtained by a representative. >> reporter: if you are towed the new ordinance will give you the option of paying with a debit or credit card. and if you leave something in your car,

marisela burgos withhe action plan of how they are going from a d to an a. >> this is one of e with a bad grade. parents showed up tonight to listen to their new plan to improve this school's grade and they hope it'll work. no one in this cafeteria likes the letter d. >> i'm used to my kids going to a and b schools so it's a shocker. >> denison middle is one of five schools in county with a d grade. >> as a parent you want your >> p principal laid -- the principal laid out the game plan. the superintendent says the specific schools were almost cs. >> it's not good enough for any of us. that's why we're committed to doing the work. that's why year we're sharing -- why we're sharing the information. >> the state rejected an improvement plan for the five failing schools so t new one. teachers getting more work and more incentives. the superintendent says they can't do it alone and wants parents to know sxaktly what they're doing -- exactly what they're doing. >> we're moving forward and we need everybody to understand that we want what's best for our students here at this school. and for

thanks for joining us, abc action news reporter marisela burgos out there. marisela? >> reporter: this woman was underneath one of these two gazebos. according to friends that bike belongs to her as well as some of the belongings on the picnic table. her friends say that they are shocked about this. friday evening lightning lit up the sky. >> and i just saw a flash. and then a bam. >> reporter: he lives half a king jr. he had no clue that one of the lightning strikes hit his friend. she was under the gazebo when the bolt hit her. >> let alone a girl that i have known for a long time. >> reporter: daniel has known his friend for more than 20 years. her name hasn't been released. he says that she liked to spend time at this park. >> and she lived with her family nearby, but she comes over to the park and sits and hangs out and talks to people >> reporter: the national weather service says that when there is thunder, lightning follows it closely. there is nowhere outside that is considered safe during a storm. stay inside for about 30 minutes after you hear the last roar

reporting live marisela burgos abc action news. >>> marisela, thank you. in democracy 2016, florida is all set for the november election. tonight's primaries with no major problems. we have live team coverage tonight. ryan smith has a look at voter turnout. michael paluska has been with marco rubio all day long. rubio easily winning his primary in the last two hours as you can see there taking every single county in florida. talk about domination. all that red there is marco rubio. within the last couple of hours he was talking to his supporters. michael paluska is live with michael? >> reporter: everyone here is extremely excited. a landslide victory for senator marco rubio. we caught up to him after he spoke to this crowd of a couple hundred people here. we asked him whether or not he was 100% dedicated if he won the senate seat to serving the entire term. this is what he told us. >> can you commit to a full term, senator? >> absolutely. >> reporter: so rubio would not comment. his critics say that is because he plans to run for president again in 2020.

as abc action news reporter marisela burgos tells us many of them don't have insurance. >> reporter: a wall of sandbags is piled up in front of felicia cummings' home because part of her road is flooded. >> i have five kids, i'm a nurse. i work full time job but i don't have the money to replace my stuff if anything ever happened to it. >> reporter: she has renters insurance but no flood insurance. she worries every time it rains. >> you figure it's going to flood. it's going to flood and it's going to flood bad and you're going to have to take your kids bad it got last year. the water went into her bedroom. >> we didn't have much damage, a couple things were laying on the floor, a couple of boxes. >> reporter: linda christian with the insurance information institute says nationally only 14% of homeowners have flood insurance. many people trying to balance tight budgets pass on the extra protection not thinking about what is at risk. >> the fact is there's not a mortgage company forcing them to get flood insurance. they think it's optional. but good idea to seriously look at getting

i think if an officer sees you that's one thing but it's like setting you up there. >> reporter: marisela burgos, abc action news. school. here's i-275 near state road 60. no issues to report. checking the roads again in 15 minutes. >>> here's shay ryan with florida's most accurate 7-day forecast. >> 81 degrees now in tampa and clearwater. st. pete 79. we have mostly clear skies and winds fairly light at about 5 to 15 miles per hour across clearwater and st. pete. so a little closer to the beaches, we've got a bit more wind but around tampa calm winds. so pretty comfortable. that is the bottom line if you're waking morning and about to go for a walk or jog the weather is in your favor. it's warm and dry, temperatures like i said are definitely on the mild side if not on the warm side already. but we are nice and dry. we'll be topping out today at 92, a regular round of showers and storms. no big surprises. back to you. >>> funeral services will be held this morning for the firefighter known for fighting to change medical coverage for all firefighters. pete huffman died of cancer fire depa

marisela burgos, abc action news. >>> it's 4:49. in sports -- david ortiz's base running proves key in the red sox win over the rays. and tom korun shows us why bucs fans booed a player during practice. >> reporter: good morning. there are some nights that chris archer just doesn't have it and then like last night. that he pitched well enough to win but didn't get help from the line-up. just like blake snell a night ago, archer won that inning only this wasn't entirely his fault. giving up the rbi single to ortiz scoring the first run of the game here in the third inning. but, this run coming up, not archer's to earn. betz gets the nice bounce over first base, ortiz no threat to throw to third, relay by soussa jr. to ortiz ends up coming home. that is the winning run. red sox beat the rays final 2- 1. >>> buccaneer kicker aguayo got an earful from ticket holders at tuesday's practice. browns players in for joint workouts this week must have been amused to see the fans being him after he miss -- booing him consecutive kicks. after he

two, three times a year. >> that was marisela burgos reporting. there are several locations in pasco county where you can get sandbags. three are in new port richey, another in hudson. sand and shovel. >>> we have an update on a 16- year-old boy shot last night in eastern hillsborough county. deputies now say it was a possible drug deal gone bad. the teen was shot in the face, happened in a home on progress boulevard west of falkenburg road. deputies say the teen was conscious but is not cooperating with the investigation. so far no arrests in this case. >>> three young girls are recovering after falling about 45 feet from the basket of a ferris wheel in tennessee. county fair last night. witnesses say the car that the girls were in got stuck as the wheel turned and dumped them out. the girls bounced off the wheel's metal frame, eventually hit the ground. authorities are not saying how badly they are injured but we're hearing they are alert and talking to the hospital staff. there are reports they are in good condition now. all of the rides at the

for those answers let's sent over to denis phillips. >> thanks, marisela. you look at some rain that's ready to roll in, there's already some light rain going typical day, not a big deal. the issue is there's no place for this water to go. it isn't just pasco county. it's also hernando county and citrus county. there's your morning commute. the rain already begins to come in. it isn't just along the coast. that makes into it the metro area. 7:00, 8:00, you're talking decent rain, some heavy rains, and look how long this extends. all the way through the early afternoon ho two, three, maybe even four inches of rain along the immediate coastline, and that's why flood watches remaine effect for those northern counties. hour by hour the rains will move in over the next couple of hours and break off for awhile. but first thing tomorrow morning they ramp up heavy at times. but there is light at the end of the tough. i'll let you know when this rain is going to wind down in a couple of minutes. >>> now to breaking news. a frantic 911 call, and seconds all new tonig

reporting live, marisela burgos, abc action news. you can call it the bark heard around citrus county. coming up, how the e relentless barking of this chihuahua may >> new at 5:30, heroin overdoses continue to hit record numbers in manatee and sarasota county. a lot of users wind up in jail and don't get help so they get out and use again and end up back in jail. >> reporter: gino is writing a new story as a recovery coach at center stone in bradenton. >> what they don't realize is they help me as much as i help them. >> reporter: that's because he is a recovering addict. after three times through rehab, he finally got clean. he has been sober for 26 years now. and he loves seeing others defeat their addictions. >> it's painful. but when you get a success story, you hang on to it with both hands. >> reporter: sarasota county is right now it's battling an epidemic of heroin abuse. >> we know that we can't arrest our way out of a social issue like this. >> reporter: with the armor correctional health and drug court will give some jail

. >> reporter: marisela burgos, abc action news. >>> good morning on a thursday. it's warm and muggy. you would expect late august, as you head inland, 77. that's 77 in plant city. yesterday we had hot temperatures although not as hot as before when we reached some areas over 100 degrees. tilen doppler -- titan doppler quieting down. i still think it's dry for lunch unless you take a late lunch so that by 2:00, 3:00, you'll begin to see showers commute, storms developing with highs in the low 90s. >>> looking live at the howard frankland bridge. no issues to report in either direction. we get updates on the roads in about 15 minutes. >>> we get a new perspective of a heroin addiction from the eyes of a foster mom caring for one of the tiniest victims. born addicted and had to detox for 11 days. it's becoming a common problem. the foster care system is in dire need to care for babies who were born addicted or whose parents overdosed and died. it's putting a big strain on the system. >> the state is so induced with so many children that they don't provide what they

. >> reporter: marisela burgos, abc action news. >>> forecasters warning of a potential storm brewing in the caribbean, shoppers in south florida are stocking up on essentials. tropical weather could be moving toward the bahamas this weekend and toward florida early next week. people of water and flashlights early rather than waiting to see where the potential storm goes. >>> bill has florida's most accurate forecast. >> you know what? we still have a difficult time pinpointing where the center of this is, dan. it's going to make it hard to really forecast. we do have -- i know this looks like a review of the olympics. we've got the euros versus usa. it's not. models. if you've been following denis over the past several days, you know that he loves this euro model and the u.s. model is different. the euro model takes it a little farther north and up along the coast, this gfs model continues to bring it down through the cuban coastline and then further out into the middle of the gulf of mexico. so still not a lot of consensus on this because the storm is so very ill defined. now, we ha

tonight we have more from marisela burgos. >> reporter: the director of emergency services says that most of the people that filed claims did not have flood insurance. that's why they are pushing people to get it. so if something like this happens in front of your home that you'll at least feel better knowing it's protected. a wall of sandbags is piled up in front of felicia cummings home because a part of her road kids, i'm a nurse. i work full-time jobs, but i don't have money to replace it. >> she doesn't have flood insurance, but worries that every time it rains. >> and you would figure that it will flood and that it is going to flood back. >> she remembers how bad it got last year. the water went into the bedroom. >> we didn't have much damage. a couple of boxes on the floor. >> says that nationally only 14% of homeowners have flood insurance. many people are trying to balance tight budgets to pass on that extra protection not thinking about what is at risk. >> they think that it is optional, but in florida it's a really good idea to seriously to protect yourself from flood dama

reporting live, marisela lobos serving up ice cream and sundays with toppings that could make you sick. >>> taking action for you while you are on track for being taken care of when you retire. one way your boss can actually help. >>> heartbreaking video from overseas showing the disturbing way that isis is using kids to >>> caught on camera. a 15-year-old boy. this was showing the dramatic capture here. isis fighters kidnapped him and put the suicide vest on him. i rocky authorities -- i rocky authorities said it was an ikea -- it was a mosque. >> a 13-year-old boy blew up people at a wedding there. they believe isis in the attack and may have detonated that bomb on that children -- on that child remotely. this wedding was for a member of a political party opposed to isis. >>> tomorrow, president obama will head to baton rouge to check up on the flooding victims. 3000 -- 33,000 people still living in shelters. more than 60,000 people living >>> nine-year-old louisiana boy is trading in his birthday cake for pieces. he decided to pass out pizzas on his birthday yesterday. devastated by

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. >> reporter: marisela burgos, the now tampa bay. >>> there is a warrior run for feel free to show up. you don't have to register in advance. part of the money will go to s his mom gave up his teaching job to take care of thother mon another student who was hurt in an tv accident earlier this year. >>> what might make us live long. talk better and live longer. >>> and you don't have to look very far to get those clues. >>> before we go, how about this, a fire an evacuation. check out the pictures there. it's at a highrise near london's shepherd bush station. we are getting reports that the fire is under control and no one was seriously injured. thankfully. >> the explosion happened in one of the meter rooms in the basement and leaking natural gas immediately fueled the fire in the apartments directly above and next to it. >> at this point in time in the investigation, there is no indication occurred. there was no ignition device recovered in the location of the blast seat or the blast location and there is no indication of unauthorized access to the meter room prior to the explosion.

persona que se ganÓ un premio quÉ se siente cuando te ganas un premio adamari lo sabe, hablamos con mariselao bastante especial esta noche. >>> celebraciÓn, y celebracion los dos. >>> de verdad que sÍ me gustan mucho ellos. >>> a mÍ tambiÉn porque son sencillos, y siempre tienen buena energÍa te saludan muy bien. >>> no se querÍan perder nada la presentaciÓn de chino y nacho mis hijos me decÍan, y por quÉ si los tienes en vivo el show. >>> es que lo disfrutando. >>> y ganÓ pre premios de los cielos, y el equipo estaban emociÓn ademÁs aunque recibieron un solo trofeo para todos tambiÉn tenÍan un plan para compartirlo como angÉlica. >>> vamos a ver. >>> buenas noches otra vez. >>> cÓmo van a hacer con el premio? >>> ahorita lo vamos a tirar al piso y los pedazos los repartimos. >>> hay que quitÁrselo a luis un poquito. >>> dame una a y una m. >>> donde se van ahora? >>> a un dÓnde? >>> al departamento de fernanda. >>> no sabÍa que tenia dept en miami pero okey, pero bueno que ahÍ. >>> pues luego nos dan la direcciÓn porque no sabe cuÁl es. >>> va. >>> tenemos que hacer con el nuestro. >>> me g

paris ( ♪ mÚsica ♪ ) ( ♪ mÚsica ♪ ) ( ♪ mÚsica ♪ ) ( ♪ mÚsica ♪ ) >> esa fue marilyn la hija de mariselando haciendo. >>> que mÚsculos estÁn trabajando. >> ahÍ trabajamos el abdomen y toda la zona media. >>> eso si no quiero trabajar mucho. >>> bueno, estamos mÁs facil. >>> una mÁs facil que estamos haciendo la rutina. >>> eso mero ahÍ si puedes, pero vamos a pedir que alterna por n cardio. >>> si lo aceptas te ganas el diseÑo. >> venga. >>> 1-2-3 eso, tranquila rashel si lo van hacer en casa supervisados oiga, en casa siempre supervisar que entrenar en pareja hay que agarrar a la alumna para que no pierda el detalle. >>> rashel tiene algo fuerte y duro. ya arriba el cambio. >>> espÉrate. >>> primero el cardio, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 estalle, estalle, cuÁl es el que siguiente mi querido alex. >>> venga. ya estallo da vamos a dar una patada normal. no lo tienes que patear mucho. ten cuidado. ya estÁs viendo. #. por favor. >> tÓmalo. >>> con todo gusto. >>> con que frecuencia tenemos que hacer estos ejercicios inicialmente con 2 pasos a la familia. 1-2-3. vamos, dale, sube. >>> miren nada mÁs.

hoy cumpleaÑos mi sobrina, y quiero enviar un mensaje a marisela y maribel. un beso para ustedes!, que hace su debut en los estados unidos, especÍficamente en la florida, la pelÍcula espaÑola, "the bride". esta cinta, nominada a 12 premios colla, cuenta la historia del triÁngulo amoroso entre dos hombres y una mujer. y en mÁs noticias de cine, muchas felicidades a nuestro productor luis camilo, quien anoche presentÓ un screening privado de su proyecto "size doesn't matter".luis camilo aprovechÓ para presentar un adelanto de su nuevo proyecto, "una vida sin retorno". y nuestro amigo joey montana estÁ hoy de estreno, y nos envÍa este mensaje. joey montana: "despierta amÉrica", hoy es el estreno de mi sencillo "hola". espero que les guste! alan: yo me voy satisfecho con la abuelita stefan. maity: hermosa, la queremos muchÍsimo! les mandamos un beso. y hoy viernes estamos de festejo, porque nuestro querido luis camilo estrenÓ ayer su corto, y lo hizo en nueva york. incluso nuestros amigos de "people en espaÑol" compartieron esta foto en redes sociales. no podemos estar fÍsicamente, pe