jamal dunay joins us live petersburg. this has been an ongoing nightmare for this woman.>> reporter: it has. the woman only had tears in her eyes when she was showing me where her dog slipped underneath this fence, never coming out. now, all she hears her his screams. >> he was just a puppy. i know he shouldn't have got out of his collar, but he did. if we had good fencing or no gators, my dog would still be here.>> reporter: she can pull back the tears. her jack russell terrier, bolt, got caught in the jaws of a gator while chasing a rabbit. he slipped right through this fence where the gator was waiting in the embankment. >> you can't imagine what it is like >> reporter: the water is feet away from the trail. the only thing in between is this fence which is poorly constructed with huge openings underneath. she hopes the county will look at the fence. >> this whole fencing isn't safe enough to keep these gators away from us, our pets and our children. >> reporter: the county says the gators already preserved. is their na

live for us, thanks. >>> today, st. petersburg police come to find a way to help with the city's homeless population. they attended the meeting to see what solutions they have come up with. >> reporter: bob has called the streets of this st. pete home for the last 24 years. >> once you get so far the totem pole, you know, financially and you burn all your bridges, brother it is tough to get back up to an even keel, it really is. >> reporter: all he wants is a job. he is one of countless people the group celebrate outreach wants to help. they held a community forum on saturday. they are a partnership of st. pete area's faith based congregation and individuals. >> just regular people that are committed to this with a passion. >> reporter: their mission to and the community. >> that's huge and a huge task, but we're in it one day at a time. >> reporter: also in it for the long run, officer rich who has been with st. pete pd, helping them by taking to the streets, finding them badges, getting them to detox. but one of the major obstacles, spice. >> it is a two-prong approach if you want to help that i've

jamel lanee joins us live from bay front health in saint petersburg. we heard that shawn hankens had a broken back. how is he doing tonight? >> reporter: well, he remains here in critical condition at the hospital. we are told that shawn doesn't even know that caroline gone. >> unbelievable. a beautiful soul. >> reporter: karin still can't believe music teacher and friend caroline sine is gone. the two met when boyfriend shawn invited her out to watch him play in his band. karin's husband is also in the group. >> shawn introduced her to us at a venue and we fell in love with her. >> reporter: she said the two were inseparable. caroline practiced with them

jamel lanee joins us live from bay front health in saint petersburg. we heard that shawn hankens had a broken back. how is he doing tonight? >> reporter: well, he remains here in critical condition at the hospital. we are told that shawn doesn't even know that caroline gone. >> unbelievable. a beautiful soul. >> reporter: karin still can't believe music teacher and friend caroline sine is gone. the two met when boyfriend shawn invited her out to watch him play in his band. karin's husband is also in the group. >> shawn introduced her to us at a venue and we fell in love with her. >> reporter: she said the two were inseparable. caroline practiced with them >> she was just spot son. >> reporter: karin remembers getting a frantic call from shawn's mother early sunday morning. >> they were going on a date and coming back. >> reporter: bryce mccloud was impaired when he hit them. >> he remained at the scene. from what i understand, he was cooperative at least up to a point. >> reporter: both were badly hurt. caroline succumbed to her injuries monday. but no

found shot in a car on ninth avenue north and 37th street outside of the >>laura: ken is live for us in st. petersburg with an update now. good morning, ken. >>reporter: good morning. you have a fatality, a shooting in one place, 25-year-old guy as you just explained who ends up dead at the hospital and two more guys shot over here at the parking lot. are they related? st. pete police are not saying they are or are not. why were these two guys shot? let me tell you what police have released so far. 11:00 last night you have the two guys sitting in the car over there. they are shot in the car. investigators here the entire night, we're talking about five or six hours looking for information, trying to figure out exactly what happened. biggest thing is why were they shot? was it a drug deal gone bad? they have not said that's the case. or a scarier thing to think about is, was that just a random shooting? that means the shooter is on the again, all speculation but things that you have to look at when you have this kind of a situation with very little information being released. i can tell you that st. p

matthew chance live for us in st. petersburg, thank you. >>> breaking news. a global computer outage. delta says the outage has delayed all departing flights, but flights en route are operating normally. delta is advising travelers to check the status of flights while the airline works to fix the problem. >>> in mexico, the death toll is rising from the remnants of tropical storm earl. 40 people have been killed following landslides in eastern mexico. forecasters expect more heavy rain which could produce more flash floods. >>> a state of emergency in macedonia hit by torrential rain and flooding. at least 21 people have been killed. the government is being criticized for a slow response to the crisis. some areas of the country are getting more than three times as much rainfall in a day as they usually get in a month. more rain is in the forecast. >>> in the southeastern u.s., heavy rainfall and possible flooding in the forecast as well. meteorologist pedram javaheri joins us now with the latest. pedram, good morning. >> alison and ryan, good morning. the wea

petersburg. she's touting her plans for job creation. joining us live is our reporter from inside. there hillary clinton today. >> keith, good evening. there was indeed and you talk about that rain many of the supporters had to spend hours waiting in the rain but that didn't re-- prevent them from packing in here. she talked about her jobs creation plan and took aim at donald trump. >> in the first hundred days i clean energy, technology and invasion, jobs in -- innovation jobs in infrastructure. >> sup pofrter -- subpoena porters spent hour -- supporters spent hours in the rain to hear this. >> i think she is going to open up new jobs. >> earlier clinton stopped at three daughter's brewery. then in front of attacking trump's past with small businesses. >> it's outray jous to me that -- outrageous to me that somebody who claims to be successful has done it by stiffing hard working americans. >> she wants to remain optimistic. >> he's not only putting our national security at risk, now he's putting our economy at rising. >> secretary clinton took a he has instructed his staff to not

petersburg this morning. right on fourth street. and beautiful sunken gardens. been here more than 100 years. oldest living museum in st. petersburg. and sara is here to tell us a great place to get married. and in fact, this is the what do you call this wedding lawn. this is wedding lawn. out ear you can have ceremony or you can do tented reception. we've doing wedding in wedding lawn since 1930s. that's crazy. and recently great grandson of the sunken gardens original founders got married here as well. >> so that was a cool piece of history for us. that's great. kind of comes full circle there. what beautiful setting. and it's really funny as we look around to me it's just almost take your breath away. some about the height of the trees, and just feeling like you're in a jungle a little bit. as beautiful as this is, you remind people this is kind of, ugly season. it is. comparatively. so i say that during fall and spring we're so vibrant and full of color and usually when our wedding ares people get the experience of not having to wedding at least during afternoons this time of year you're making some improvements around the place. and getting it all spruce

thank you for joining us on this early monday morning. 79 degrees in tampa. 81 muggy degrees in st. petersburg. here's a live look at i-275 near 22nd a live look at more traffic and weather coming up in a few seconds. >>> right now authorities are searching for two men after a plane crashed in new orleans. >> it was found in lake pontchartain yesterday. it went down a thousand feet from the runway during a training exercise. >> one woman on board, they are not releasing her condition but plan to release more >>> a deadly bus crash involving flood relief workers in louisiana. >> the group was heading to baton rouge when it crashed into a fire truck and three other vehicles. a 21-year-old mississippi man and firefighter died. a second firefighter is in critical condition, 35 people in the hospital including at least three children. >> investigators say that bus driver, 37-year-old dennis rodriguez doesn't have a commercial driver's license and is an illegal immigrant from honduras. he will face two counts of negligent homicide. >>> it's a monday. we had a wet afternoon and evening. more of the same today with

petersburg. >> abc action news reporter lindsay logue joins us live from st. pete. this is certainly a good reminder of why we see if you see flooded roads, turn around, don't try to drive through them. >> reporter: absolutely. things are only get to get worse from here. the weather in st. pete still very bad. ivan moments ago talked about the band on top of us. look at this, now the last lightning strike, 8.1 miles from where we're sitting now. too dangerous for us to be even outside. that's why we're in the live trucks removed the cars from the flooded water at the exit ramp at 54th avenue south. and 275. this is where drivers just drove right into a flooded area, not knowing how deep it was. look at the video we recorded from our fdot camera earlier. just about an hour ago several drivers out here got stuck while the rest of them got stranded, backed up on to the exit ramp. as you can imagine nowhere to go from there and impossible for them to reverse interstate. and that caused huge backups as you can imagine on 275 you will morning. fdot did put emergency commu

carson chambers is live at that school in seat u st. petersburg. what can you tell us? >> reporter: tonight, we are learning care line is on life support. her boyfriend in very bad shape, critical condition. his back is broken in three places. sexton actually taught here -- her hands. she is a music teacher, described as full of life with a beautiful spirit. she was driving and her boyfriend in the passenger seat when a drunk driver ran a red light and hit them. e h ppened park boulevard, early sunday at 9:00 am. a judge raised the 36-year- old's bond to $50,000 in court, today. things on family nights, does amazing things with the kids in the classroom, so right now, it's out of our hands and we are going to hope for the best. >> reporter: a prosecutor called mccloud a threat to the public. if he doesbond out, he will at hour, he is still being let. held in jail. live in carson chambers. thank you, carson. >> >> pascual school back in class. bay onett middle school reopened after being closed down, let's head over to polk county, now, they are 1,102,000 kids in the cla

use donald trump's words to her advantage. >> wendy. >>> a final good-bye for a beloved local radio host going on right now in st. petersburg. it is a live look inside the theater where family and friends are holding a celebration of life service for mckay. we have seen hundreds of people come through to pay their respects. >>> still to come, a frightening case of road rage caught on camera. >>> 285 local schools report seeing at least one weapon. one campus had 18 in two years. where it's happening and what schools are doing to keep kids safe. coming up. >>> skies are clouding up a we have showers rolling in. big meteor shower tonight. i will tell you if the clouds >> tonight people in ebor city are calling for an increased police presence according to a survey conducted. crime stats in the area are going down but some people and business owners are worried about the homeless population. the tables. they are mentally ill a lot of times. >> the problem is the police are not always here. >> new security measures include increased lighting and a homeless liaison officer. >>> once students go back to school, books are not the only thing in

petersburg track star that ran in the same race as usain bolt. >>> a background check battle. the state of florida is increasing background checks for daycare providers. bupf?v joins us live from tampa outside the department of children and families these extra background checks are a good thing but they're causing a major back log and the kids are caught in the middle. >> tina gill has one of the most important jobs in the world, she takes care of your kids. >> we knew this was colling and we were -- come xg we were warned. >> as a mother of two she knows how important it is to have so she was thrilled to hear that laws require additional background checks. >> it's a great thing because we know if a person's been involved in a child abuse case in another state and not necessarily charge where had a crime. >> children artiny citizens we want to be sure they have the best start. >> childcare providers go through a series of local, state, and federal background checks now add two more lay years. a national child abuse and sex o fernd registry. sounds like a great idea until all those providers apply at once. >> we don't have any power to fix this. the only people who have t

use that money to make the largest investment millions of jobs. >> hey, everybody, i am charley belcher. downtown. beautiful oasis. sunken gardens, st. petersburg, oldest living museum. this place came to be in 1903. started in 1903 when the george turner and family bought the property. became one of florida's roadside attractions in 1935. that is the roadside attractions credited for bringing tourism and population to property, they knew there was a sinkhole? >> yes. typically we do our gardening in sand and shale. we have black muck excellent for gardening, it is 10 feet, possibly deeper. >> that is the part of sunken gardens. flamingos came in 50s? >> you have a new flam boy yans of new flamingos. very difficult to buy flamingos. >> depending on what time year you come, you are going to get a different experience. >> lots of or kids. north lawn has a large section native plants and butterfly garden. master plan calls for us to features. we are redoing that. always something going on, really. >> construction going on, coy ponds renovated. should be ready in a few weeks. great place to get married. book now. sarah said first opening mid june. alive and well

us live with what the school is doing to help students. >> reporter: good morning. grief counselors will likely be available here in s t. petersburg. many staff members shocked by the untimely death of this beloved teacher. caroline sign was fellow music teacher sean hankins from hillsborough county when their car was hit by a suspected drunk driver. an administer at the jail tells me the charges will likely be upgraded later today to dui manslaughter. mccloud remains in jail. the passenger is in the hospital with serious injuries. ryan hughes, news channel 8. >> thank you. victim to hackers. hacker you'd malware to access private information at the hotel and other hotels in the bayer. this affects hyatt, marriott and starwood hotels and affects all kinds of transactions including customers that just bought food or went to the spa. >>> there are two new cases of local riveria transmitted zika virus in miami-dade county. one case is from the area known as the hot spot. contracted outside the area but still in miami-dade. in the meantime, officials in texas report a resident there who recently visited miami tested positive for the vi

petersburg on the eve of the napoleonic invasion and she comes back to america in the early days of the republic and lived in england and i wondered what kind of oddities you used in order to make that biography feel like a novel and whether that was a conscious decision and why? >> guest: i usually try to do storytelling straight through with being true to getting across one of the ideas that framed historical context and i definitely kept in mind not to speculate sometimes about how she's feeling area she told me she's really unusual in that she talked so much about her feelings area for a figure of that time, a lot of the people we tend to have biographies about work writing about their popularity so they were not talking about feelings in the same way. we all have feelings but maybe not to go through but anyway, i do think that she was not always the best interpreter of her feelings that they were there on the page and you could put them in context so she gave me so much of material to work with area but at the same time i wanted this to be a great story because her life was a great story and i always just wanted this to unfold as it happened and so much of

use. many men aren't aware their health insurance may cover cialis. contact your health plan for the latest information. liz: breaking news, hillary clinton is speaking live in st. petersburgat a lot of states are doing to invest in clean energy. you know you have got a state like iowa, that gets a third of its electricity now from wind. and, you've got states. [applause] you have states like new jersey and massachusetts that are really investing in solar energy. [cheering] and thin you've got florida. and you have a governor who actually put out an edict -- [booing] i mean, that this is hard to believe, a governor who put out an edict directing state employees never to say or write the words, climate change. [booing] that sounds absurd which of course it is. but it is also missing a great economic opportunity. florida could be the center of solar energy in the entire country! [cheering] and when you have a lot of rainfall, you have noon-day flooding and sun is out in miami, you have wells in central florida, being ruined because seawater is rising. you have got a lot of challenges that are going to keep getting worse unless we work together to address them. and that is ex