. >> a month earlier, joe meisner and the inmates were asked to train four fillies on an acceleratededule, 30 days instead of the usual 120 days. >> you have to pet her like she's your girlfriend, not like you're smacking her around, buddy. >> meisner feels that they beat the odds by having two of the fillies ready to go. >> you have to take in mind these guys have not had the opportunity of years and years of working with wild horses. so we have a school of hard knox where they're having me tell them no, get in this position. and they have to figure it out for results to happen. i'm extremely pleased with the progress these guys are showing. >> but the day brings one of the most challenging lessons for the inmates. >> today what we're going to do, we brought our horse trailer in. we'll teach them how to load and offload in the trailer a little bit. we'll be doing time with that. and then we'll load up those two fillies, get them ready to be shipped off and be adopted tomorrow hopefully. saturday they'll find a new home. >> which two are going today? >> la nina and dot. >> dot. sorry

dick meisner bridge. phoebe jonchuck's mom hired an attorney and plans on suing dcf. dcf is accused of not following up on two critical phone calls. one warning them that phoebe's father was delusional and phoebe was in danger. dcf made changes after her death but michelle kerr, her mother says it's not enough. >> how many times are you going to do wrong until it's resolved? this isn't the first time. how many times is it going to take? >> a judge ruled phoebe's father, john jonchuck incompetent to stand trial. he's in a state mental hospital he's due back in court next month. >>> covering pasco county -- parents are using social media to warn the community about a sex offender living near an elementary school. despite a new ordinance he's not breaking laws, that

. 3 last january 8th, police says phoebe's father, john jonchuck junior, drove phoebe to the dick meisner bridge, leading to the sunshine skyway. then, an officer witnessed him carrying the girl from the car and *throwing her 62-feet down into the dark tampa bay. the girl... who was afraid of water... later drowned. and a judge later found her father mentally incompetent to stand trial. jonchuck actually had *custody of the girl, despite his *long history of mental illness. state officials missed *several warning signs in this cas... and the death sparked several changes at d-c-f. the agency now responds quicker to certain cases... and now has *hundreds of new investigators. 3 and later today, a local man is preparing to honor phoebe's memory in a special way. he's going to *run for three days straight. 3 phoebe's story. the former army ranger wanted to do something to turn a horrific event into something good. after he happened to meet phoebe's grandmother at a store near his home, he was inspired to start a charity run. he'll start at the shriner's hospital headquarters in tampa and tre

. >>> an update on the 5-year-old killed a year again ago when her father threw her off the dick meisner bridge. phoebe jonchuck's mom hired an attorney and plans on suing dcf. dcf is accused of not following up on two critical phone calls. one warning them that phoebe's father was delusional and phoebe was in danger. dcf made changes after her death but michelle kerr, her mother says it's not enough. >> how many times are you going to do wrong until it's resolved? this isn't the first time. how many times is it going to take? >> a judge ruled phoebe's father, john jonchuck incompetent to stand trial. he's in a state mental hospital he's due back in court next month. >>> covering pasco county -- parents are using social media to warn the community about a sex offender living near an elementary school. despite a new ordinance he's not breaking laws, that ordinance says sex offenders can't live within 25 feet of where children congregate. but since he was convicted before 2010 and in a different state, the laws don't apply to him. but neighbors are warning each other. >> i already showed m

it's been a near since phoebe was thrown off the dick meisner bridge. dcf admitted fault for not following up on two critical phone calls, one from a lawyer warning the father john jonchuck jr. was delusional and phoebe was in danger. dcf made changes after phoebe's death but kerr says rts, it's not enough. >> how many times are going to -- are we going to keep doing wrong until it's resolved? it's not the first time they managed this. how many times is it going to take? >> the judges ruled phoebe's he's in a hospital undergoing counseling. due back in court late february. >>> new information on the cases of two deafen children making national news -- two different children making national news. the first one disappeared over the summer last year in jacksonville. his mother entered a guilty plea to child neglect and another charge. lana barton now faces up to six years in prison. she could be called to testify against her boyfriend who was also arrested after the child disappeared. he's set to go on trial next week and charged with lying to police. >>>

he told me about this guy named randy meisner who could play really high and also sing bass. >> he askedid geffen and see if he would give us a recording contract. >> in the '70s asylum record was considered the l.a. countdown, jackson brown. >> david geffen is our patron, you know. >> it's a very artist oriented company. whatever we want to do, we support them. if we believe in them, we'll stick with them whether they make it or not. >> jackson was our conduit to david geffen. he was the first one to get signed by geffen's new asylum record label. >> we all walk in geffen's officer and basically said, here we are. >> bernie leadon boldly says to geffen, well, do you want us or not? >> they were dieing to sign with me. i think they were very ambitious, particularly glenn. glenn wanted to have a hit band. i loved the way don sang. we all had hopes for it. >> all of a sudden we were signed to geffen's new label. >> they sent us back to the drawing board. they said you need to write some songs. you're not really ready to record yet. >> so they packed us off to aspen, colorado. could have be

are late yesterday from alex estrella finishing his three day run, in jonchuck, thrown off the dick meisner to her death by her own father. he said she liked to help other children so he hopes the run will encourage people to donate to shriners hospital for children. we have a link on abcactionnews.com, search under "news links." >>> still ahead -- making good after months of scandal. the new edition that volkswagen hopes will make things right for thousands of drivers. >> plus, remarkable recovery. >>> this week a fix could be coming for hundreds of thousands of cars impacted in the volkswagen cheating scandal. according to the german newspaper a catalystic converter has been made to repair most of the u.s. vehicles involved. the vogues wagon ceo will talk -- the volkswagen ceo will meet to talk about that and other possible solutions. volkswagen admitted to installing software on 11 million cars, that make the engines look cleaner than they actually are. >>> a second week of protests in oregon. the group's leader, ammon bundy says they will leave when federal land to locals. over the week

heard from the mother michelle kerr, it's been a year since phoebe jonchuck was thrown off the dick meisner bridge and drowned in tampa bay. after phoebe's death dcf admitted fault for not following up on two critical phone calls. >> one from an attorney warning the child's father john jonchuck jr. was delusional and that phoebe was in danger. a dcf did make changes after phoebe's death but michelle kerr says that is not enough. >> how many times are we going to keep doing wrong until it's resolved? isn't the first time -- this isn't the first time they admitted to it. >> a judge ruled phoebe's father john jonchuck incompetent to stand trial. he's still at a state mental he's due back in court next month. >>> this morning florida's public schools now have new test scores and grading standards to follow. yesterday the state board of education approved new scores for what students should earn in reading and math. the board also approved a new formula that uses test scores to assign letter grades to schools. some argue the new formula makes it too easy for schools to earn a top grade. >>> stil

so i would like to thank my predecessor, randy meisner for being there. >> i'm glad that randy and bernieg an incredible body of work that has propelled us through 20-some odd years of life. thank you, guys. >> when a kid first picks up a guitar or drumstick, it's not really to be famous. it's because that kid wants to fit in somewhere and wants to be accepted and he wants to be understood even. and so -- i like to think of this award as something that is acknowledging us, not for being famous, but for doing the work. and i appreciate all the work that all these guys behind me have done. i want to thank irving without whom we wouldn't be here today. >> yay! >> as i said before, he may be satan but he's our satan. >> we're in a dog eat dog business. show me anybody that's going to be responsible for managing an artist's career that's made too many friends. and i'm going to show you somebody that sold out their artist and did a crappy job. so i was quite proud of henley's reference of what he said. it was more or less a validation for me of a job well done. a lot of my job was trying to kee

our strength -- [applause] meisner unity and compassion. we take care of each other. they will also how policies that are fair that won't pick and choose winners and losers. that is the basis of the tax program. >> on a follow-up on grizzly bears. >> grizzly bears. >> one thing we have accomplished in this society is dramatically reduce death by grizzly bears. [laughter] [applause] >> we are winning the war. a big macro point we are talking about, the poverty trap distance and devising people. if you look at the marginal tax rates the highest tax rate payers not aaron rodgers and one buffet. it is the single mom with two kids earning 20 to $30,000 who wants to go to work losing the $0.80 on the dollar she makes that next up. we have to figure out how to use it, reduces barriers that even if we do that there's a human component to this. even if we get on the economics and the numbers in the math figured out as a human component. >> , great schools in junior high i learned this. learned a lot. we're talking about drug addiction. there are amazing stories out there. go t