news channel 8's chip osowski spoke to people who described them as a wonderful couple and wonderful neighbors. >> reporter: paramedics rushed injuries early sunday morning. blaise gamba was an attorney. neighbors tell us her hust is a nurse. -- her husband is a nurse. these are pictures from facebook. they lived right across the street and just learned about the accident today. >> they just -- the most amazing couple. just -- full of life. full of energy. just loved everybody. helped -- i was here by myicism first flood and he helped me lift everything up. she waded through the flooded streets to help me with my dog. i mean, just, just an amazing couple. >> amazing. they just are -- they were great neighbors. couldn't ask for better people. they were always outside and investigators tell us william was performing cpr on the way in but he too lost consciousness. deputies aren't releasing much information about what happened but the fact that both were wearing wet suits and there was suba gear leads them to believe the accident involved diving. >> i heard it on the news at 6:00 a.m. t

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 the keys in it. they run up real fast, take it when they can. >> reporte

chip osowski joins us from the area. the really a lemming fish alarming part us-the child's age is this happened in broad daylight. a very troubling case. the shooting happened around 12:30 pm this afternoon at the roadless park housing complex on central avenue south of whi diligently at this hour looking for the gunman. police believe eduardo avila was the target. he watched as police gathered evidence outside the apartment where his 21-month-old daughter aliyah was hit by a stray bullet. >> the father of the toddler was outside, was approached by some other men, who were behaving in a threatening manner. he went into the house, several shots were fired. we counted 15 or more shots fired. some were shot through the doubt young girl. >> reporter: shortly after the shooting, you'll want to and don arrived, they are lee's relatives. >> children don't have anything to do with this. >> they really don't. now we have to rush hour child to the hospital because people don't know how to put guns down. >> reporter: the child's m

chapman faces charges of trafficking in oxycodone and four counts of in clearwater, i am chip osowski, news channel 8. >> thank you. >>> anti-trump protests are breaking out across the country. today demonstrators gathered in sarasota chanting "love trump's hate.." >> [ crowd chanting ]. >> dozens of people held signs and talked about why they do not like the president-elect donald trump. the march started at ve jerry springer showed up. a trump supporter decided to show compassion by giving out water to the demonstrationers. we spoke to her and another woman who said she fears for her children now that trump is president. >> it's important my kids know that this country stands for love and not hate. >> at some point we need unify. trump is our president. if this is how it's going to be for the next four years, he is never going to be successful. he is the pilot of our plane. if the pilot goes down, our authorities made sure it was safe for demonstrators to walk around. >>> protesters also marched through the streets of chicago. this is for the fourth day in a row. 1,000 people walked

chip osowski living tonight. thank you. >>> tonight pinellas county deputies are investigating an accident that seriously injured two divers. this happened five miles off of madeira beach. 37-year-old william gamba and his wife lost consciousness on their boat. they were taken to palms of pasadena hospital to be treated for life-threatening injuries. deputies believe it was a diving accident because they ongoing tonight. >>> a doctor that investigators say turned into a drug deal ser free on bond tonight. deputies tell us they put the cuffs on dr. alfred chapman and charged him with practicing medicine without a license. deputies told us he wrote prescriptions for more than 6,000 tablets of oxycodone and other controlled substances. one of chapman's neighbors didn't realize the scheme had been going on for a while. >> we knew h course. i mean, we knew he was, i think, a pain doctor or something, but we didn't know anything else. >> detectives tell us five patients chapman prescribed medication to were fraudulent.

chip osowski joins us live. is unusual how this investigation started in the first place . >> reporter: very unusual. how often do you hear a case like this? the tarpon springs police department began its investigation after they little league president turned himself in. exactly the opposite of how it normally happens as you can see. as situation is upsetting to many here. upsetting to parents like micah porter. >> we love our concession stand. we like to eat there and spend money there. i was myself wondering a few days ago how do they keep track of a lot of this stuff?>> reporter: little league pledges posted for everyone to see. apparently, john ferrara missed the part about respecting the law. afternoon. you are charged with scheme and fraud of more than $5000 bond. you want a public defender?>> reporter: he appeared before a judge on sunday saying he wanted to hire an attorney. police tell us the treasurer thought something was fishy with finances and threatened to do some of her own investigation. >> he w

reporting live in ybor city, chip osowski, news channel 8. trying to figure out what caused a motorcyclist to lose control in a crash that cost him his life. joel schubert collided with a burial -- a barrier wall just before midnight, tossing him into the northbound lanes where a car driven by an off-duty pinellis deputy hit him. schubert's coworkers received news of his death this morning. >> that's going to be hard. a lot of hugs and tears but we are a family at work. he was part of our member. >> representatives from the sheriff's office said the deputy is shaken up and may take time off to cope. >>> we now know investigators believe the report of a robbery at usf was alive. campus police arrested 19-year- old fatou gueye, saying she admitted she made up the story she lied but is now claiming that she and for other students received threatening letters in their dorm rooms on election day. >>> a former librarian at a bay area elementary school is suing the city of tarpon springs saying she was seriously injured when a toilet exploded in 201

chip osowski joins us live from the station on 4th street. you spoke with taylor and her attorney today. >> reporter: that's right. initially the attorney thought the only video that existed came from the camera you see behind me at this mobil gas he and audio exists this case is even more egregious. >> get on the ground now! >> reporter: the video released by the sheriff's office appears to show the only one fighting was deputy wayne wagner. >> i'm not in a fight officer. he slams me up into the vehicle and then he spins me around a little bit and slams me to the ground. >> taylor with physical and emotional injuries, now every time she sees a law enforcement officer she fears what will happen. >> i would be honest -- i died inside. i pulled over to the closest stop and -- tried to get myself together and -- hopefully there is a closest stop so i pull into it. >> reporter: the dash cam video also has audio that captured taylor's boyfriend at the time pleading for the deputy to stop. hey, get off of her! >> reporter: the audio reveals as much

chip osowski joins from that scene sunoco off of nebraska avenue. >>reporter: you're exactly right. this is exactly where authorities found walker's body lying in the street here right in front of the sunoco at columbus and nebraska. paramedics rushed him to the hospital where doctors unfortunately first arrived on scene they were investigating an aggravated assault but 56-year- old gregory walker's injuries were serious. so serious that assault investigation quickly turned to homicide. but who killed walker and why. >> we're investigating it and we are optimistic as we do in all cases like this we try to interview as many people as we can ree we try to look to view whatever we can do to collect information. it was not random. >>reporter: where walker died say present a mcneill knew the victim well. >> this is not what you call a good area. but anything goals if it happened up in nebraska it happened during club hours or whatever. i have no idea can't really say all i know it shouldn't have happened to him. >>reporter: others who live in that complex are still in shock. >> he was a

news channel 8's chip osowski is live for us tonight. what's one of the biggest want to make sure barring mechanical or human issues that their vote is counted. i spoke with a couple many plant city who told me they have a problem trusting those who are running things. >> i can't trust people like this. i mean again they may be honest people, but how do you know? i mean how do you know your vote's going to count? time in just want to see my vote go through the machine. >> reporter: i spoke with a precinct. she said everything was going fine. they went to stick her ballot in that machine and it immediately kicked it out. one of the workers took the ballot, put it in a lock box. she came back at 7:00 after the polls closed and watch her ballot and several others be counted by that very same machine. she told me after that experience she felt like she was even a bigger part of the controversial amendment are in. >> coming up we'll give you a closer look at the solar energy vote that had a lot of people >>> our your vote count coverage tells

frankly, that may be why >>> chip osowski reporting for us. thank you very much. >>> vastly different responses from the president and president elect, barack obama extending quote a hand of friendship to cuba to avoiding any mention of castro's human rights, instead with the focus two years ago to normalize relations with the island nation. >>> initially president elect trump tweeted fidel dead and he was a brutal dictator with firing squads and suffer. >>> tweeting out that president obama issued a pathetic statement on death of dictator fidel castro with no mention of who he killed and imprisoned we'll bring you updates online please stay with wfla.com for the latest. another person critically injured after a shooting at a mall in broward county, police confirming that a jewelry store owner shot one of his employees and turned the gun on himself the owner died at the scene the employee tonight is in critical condition. >> friends and family pay their final respects to the last of the original airman he died of 101. he was a master sergeant

chip osowski live in ybor city. >>> investigators are still piecing together a bizarre and brutal death on i to 75. a man crashed his motorcycle and was launched onto the other side of the highway. an off-duty officer ended up running him over. jamel lanee' joins us live from pinellis county where we are learning more about the motorcyclist. >> reporter: it is set all the way around. we learned that a guy who loved riding his motorcycle died just doing that. >> it's going to be hard. a lot of hugs, a lot of tears. we are a family at work and he was part of our family. it's just like losing your family.>> reporter: jason and his staff learned about their rk riding his bike on i-275 when he crashed just before midnight.>> you start the morning with facebook and texting and all that. got the news this morning. >> reporter: schubert was a cook at the roadhouse for nearly 6 months. >> he had three kids, and worked to support them. he always gave everybody a it's a terrible loss. >> reporter: troopers say he lost control approaching downtown tampa. >> what we can say is that the vehicle depar

she is recovering from non-life- threatening injuries and chip osowski joins us from the rolling park housing complex were officers spent the afternoon at the try to piece it all together. >> reporter: police are telling us that this was not a random act of that a group of gunmen would open fire in this housing complex in broad daylight, well as you might imagine, that is a major cause for concern. police believe eduardo avila was the intended target. he watched as police gathered evidence outside the apartment, where his 21-month-old daughter aliyah was hit by a stray bullet. >> the father -- the father of the toddler was approached by some other men while he was shots were fired. we were counting 15 or more shots. summer shot through the door. one ricocheted and hit the young girl. >> is it world war iii? what is it? what is it coming to in the daylight now that people are now beginning to come out and shoot innocent kids? >> reporter: a concerned resident and neighbor, like many, is tired of seeing the cop cars and crimen >> we just had a community meeting yesterday. crime and safe

chip osowski joins us in trinity with the details i love this story chip. >>reporter: dispatcher rebecca difficult medeiros met jerry cal son and his wife linda on the first time on friday. >> winded up breaking 6 ribs actually. >> that's what cpr does. >> they told us if we hadn't done that he wouldn't be here. >> that's right. and it's the best six ribs you've ever break. >>reporter: october 8th the call came? !. >> he was talking and laughing now he's going into responding please hurry. >> he's unresponsive. >> he's having like laich a seizure, something. >>reporter: demedeiros like all communication specialsists take calls on people's worst days it's their job to stay cool and that's exactly what she did. linda karlsson believes jerry is here today because of rebecca. >> if it wasn't for her he >> tonight senator bill bill nelson is calling on the u.s. attorney general to look spoon alleged practice of selling your drivers record information. but as rod carter reports the department of motor vehicles says the senator has it all wrong. >>reporter: when p

she is recovering from non-life- threatening injuries and chip osowski joins us from the rolling park housing complex were officers spent the afternoon at the try to piece it all together. >> reporter: police are telling us that this was not a random act of that a group of gunmen would open fire in this housing complex in broad daylight, well as you might imagine, that is a major cause for concern. police believe eduardo avila was the intended target. he watched as police gathered evidence outside the apartment, where his 21-month-old daughter aliyah was hit by a stray bullet. >> the father -- the father of the toddler was approached by some other men while he was

reporting live in tampa, i'm chip osowski, newschannel 8. >>> we now know more about the crash that killed a woman and injured a deputy. lewis admitted he knew he was involved in the hit and run before he was arrested. jessica anchadeye has received some closure but also has questions about why lewis didn't stop. >> even if it was just a trash can, stop and see! okay? it was human lives. >> reporter: jessica's funeral is tomorrow. deputy adam penel has a expected to be in the hospital for a long time. >>> a teenager was arrested with a loaded gun this afternoon at bloomingdale high school. eagle hd flew over the school after the arrest. school resource deputies discovered the game clock 43 in a book al-baghdadi. they arrest -- the glock in a bookbag. this rape accusation was all all all a lie. >> reporter: stories like this can hurt the credibility of actual victims. last september, white claimed she was assaulted by a man in a white car. a sketch was even made of the suspect. but after a nearly year-long investigation, it turns out it was all a lie. she admitted to authorities she had con

chip osowski is joining us live from that bar and i understand one person is injured and police are still looking for the driver. >> reporter: as you can see open. you can see where the car went through right there. a spokesman says the video the pee dee released today raises questions. get the driver intentionally drive into the crowd or was he simply trying to get out? the video captured by a nearby surveillance camera shows the fight breakout. punches are exchanged. you see the front end of a black sedan on the left side of your screen. take a close look at the tires. it appears the man behind the wheel is trying to leav appears he got hung up on the curb. he was turning the tires and we believe the engine was gunning. i don't know if he had it in neutral or dry put it would appear he was trying to get up over the curb.>> reporter: those who were there described the malay. >> it was chaotic. it happened really fast. >> reporter: the car then barrels into the crowd. most were able to escape to safety but michael silhol a

. >> chip osowski reporting live in saint pete, thank you very well with popstar katy perry. nearly 10,000 people were there to watch the performance. tomorrow, she will head to cleveland to rally with basketball player lebron james. earlier today, she was in south florida. >> you are a hardy bunch standing out here in the rain. i don't think i need to tell you. >> reporter: the outdoor rally did not go as planned courtesy of mother nature. she got soaked in broward county after she began speaking so cut down her comments to seven minutes including thinking jay-z an night. it is not an accident that the candidates are spending a lot of time in florida, the sunshine stapling a pivotal role in the election. reasonable numbers show how tight this race is, you can see it on your screen. the latest nbc news wall street journal poll shows clinton with 45% and trump with 44% among likely voters statewide. if you would like to vote early, after that you will have to wait until election day. today, kirks began preparing for tuesday, they dropped by the hillsboro county relations to pi

chip osowski reporting live for us in bartow. chip, thank you. >>> right now, citrus county deputies are searching for robbers who held up two internet cafes at gun point. three suspects wearing hoodies, masks and gloves entered two cafes. they robbed patrons at flamingo internet cafe and extreme internet cafe right next door. 9 shots were fired between a suspect and an armed employee. looking for clues so anyone with information is urged to call the citrus county sheriff's office. >>> an investigation is going on right now into a deputy- involved shooting in pinellas county. this happened near 64th street north when deputies responded to a call there. this is video from the scene. we're told a 49-year-old was ramming his home and wife's car with his truck. deputies say he charged at them with a knife and they shot and killed him. officials report that he had a history of the shooting. >>> a replica of the famed vietnam wall was dedicated during a ceremony. the memorial honors the nearly 58,000 servicemen and women who died durin

. >> that is chip osowski reporting. the university sent out an e- mail to students, not specifically addressing the recent cases, but urged students to get along after a very lively presidential election. you can check out that entire e- mail message on wfla.com. >>> we have more breaking news tonight. singer/song writer leonard cohen has died. collins, james taylor, and willie nelson and for the movie shrek. he set out on a world tour where he performed 387 shows. cohen was 82 years old. >>> and tonight we are getting our first look at the dramatic police body camera video on the night of the pulse nightclub shooting. that video shows just how dangerous the scene was as deputies arrived and then rushed to make entry into the club to help get the victims out. this is the latest released to the public. >>> two political adversaries are now mending their relationship. president barack obama and president elect donald trump. they met face to face for the first time ever today. the two talked in the oval office for more tha