>> yes. >> wendy ryan reporting. abc action news reached out to director. >> and they sent this statement that reads in part -- >> our "dirty dining" reports will continue next week. this time wendy ryan is going to look into a 60-year-old tampa tradition famous for its cuban sandwiches. >> the owner explains why he's had so many complaints from the state and what he's doing to correct the 200 violations in the last year. >>> 5:51. coming up -- running for their lives. how authorities managed to get loose. >> we heard about attack after shark attack last year in states all along the east coast. new information shows shark attacks did in fact spike last year. this morning we're learning how many of those were right here >>> it's a bundle up day. wind gusts 30, 35 miles per hour, with temperature in the 50s. that combination is going to make it feel miserable today. we also have a lot of clouds rolling in. isolated showers at 20% coverage. i think we'll be ok though as far as that goes, but again windy and cold with hi

i'm jamison uhler. >> and i'm wendy ryan. thanks for joining us. a mom demanding in pinellas county after that 17-year-old choose history is well known to the school was able to take her 11-year-old son off campus without notice from anyone. >> tonight she is talking only concerns and her fear that it could happen again. lauren. >> reporter: the two boys attend pinellas secondary school. it's an alternative school for those who have broken the code of conduct. the mother says the 17-year-old worked to lure her son off of what she thought was a secure campus and over into the woods intending to assault him. >> you send your kids to school and you expect them to be safe. >> reporter: this mother who we are not identifying to protect her 11-year-old is angry and her son forever changed. >> esther identified. >> reporter: she says this 17- year-old was allowed to be in the same room as her 11-year- old at the school. she says the teenager lured her son out of school with the promise of mcdonalds and took him to the woods and attempted the unthinkable.

i'm jamison uhler. >> and i'm wendy ryan. you ma i have gotten the push

i'm jamison uhler. >> and i'm wendy ryan. thanks for joining us. that little boy walked safely in police headquarters moments ago. >> we want to get out to marisela burgos who is sorting out the details for us. >> reporter: i have an update from the police department within the next hour. that young boy and i believe his sister are going to be picked up by a relative. so we do know that they are we do have some video of that boy earlier this afternoon. he was at day care this entire time. so here is what happened. detectives say they got a call from his mother and also the mother's boyfriend, claiming that their car had been stolen and that that child was in the back seat. but the police chief told us that was all made up, that was a lie. that child was never in that back seat. in fact, that child was always safe at the day care. now, they did track down that ford fusion luckily because device. 19. the car was going the wrong way. it ended up crashing. but what we know so far is that the chief of police says that this stems from a drug deal. he say

. >> wendy ryan is here to tell us what else she uncovered. wendy. >> that's right. our i-team discovered when inspectors went back two weeks later, 40 pounds of chicken was being prepared in the same sink that dishes were being washed. taking action for your health. it's the latest restaurant to make my dirty dining list. >> have you ever been here before? >> no. this is the first time. >> reporter: jennifer anderson loves chinese food. >> the won ton soup we would >> reporter: but she is thinking twice about stepping into top china located on east hillsborough in tampa. after hearing inspectors shut down the restaurant for three days in january after seeing over 65 live roaches crawling all over the kitchen. near the cook's line, cooler, prep table, soda machine, storage rack and sink. >> there's no way that i would go in there hearing this. >> reporter: a follow-up inspection just two weeks later discovered more live roaches and dishes being washed in the same sink with raw chicken being prepared. a stop sale was immediately ordered with all 40 pounds of chicken t

how to get away with murder is at 10:00. wendy ryan on action news at 11:00. and tweet live with us using the hashtag tampatgit. >>> now the most accurate weather team in florida. abc action weather. >> it is tgit. good night to be in and watch tv. >> that it is. >> you have a fireplace, get it going. not as cold tomorrow morning as this morning. did you get any frost. >> it was frosty. >> all over the front lawn. >> it was out there. along the coast, not so much. tomorrow i don't think anybody has to worry about it. it will still be chilly. you will have to bundle up the kids and get the sweatshirts and the light jackets. even though the beach looks beautiful, you get the kids in the warm weather clothing and then they leave it at school or lay it around because it's 70 when they come home. that's the dilemma of living in florida, right? outside right now, skies are mostly clear. titan doppler radar is rain free with temperatures in the middle 60s. now, this morning we dropped down to the lower 30s. across most of the area tomorrow. tampa, sunny and 63 degree

wendy ryan shows us what she recovered. >> in taking action for your health and safety tonight, i found some very concerning results in recent inspection reports for chipotle. it's a special dirty dining section. >> i had the double steak burrito, extra cheese, extra sour cream. >> how was it. >> reporter: frank is a big fan of chipotle and he is not alone. >> i've been hearing things about chipotle but i love chipotle. >> reporter: still after 362 people got sick, eating at chipotles around the country, we wanted to know if our bay area restaurants are safe. in a special dirty dining investigation our i-team looked through inspection reports for 35 chipotles in the area. and here is what we uncovered. in january, inspectors walked into chipotle on cortez road west in bradenton and saw a live wild bird flying around the restaurant with open food contamination. according to the inspection report, the manager says he was aware of the wild bird and it's a regular nuisance. but he wasn't aware that the front door was held open in. next day, the live bird was still there. chipotle was issued

. >>> wendy ryan's latest "dirty dining" reporting on brocato's sandwich shop. state inspectors wrote them up for more than 200 violations in less than a year. inspectors even issued a stop sale on 30 pounds of food because that food was improperly cooled and at dangerous temperatures. michael bro cato's family has owned the restaurant since 1948 and allowed wendy ryan into the kitchen. mike at says they are working with state regulators and says they have nothing to hide. >> wanted to talk to you about the recent inspection reports. you had quite a list of administrative complaints and follow-up inspections. stop sales, temperature issues. >> can you come back here please for me if you don't mind? >> reporter: absolutely. >> brocato's has also repeat violations for a kitchen area. he says they are working on enclosing that area and it takes time and money so he's been missing deadlines. >> you can read the entire statement on our web site now, at abcactionnews.com/dining. coming up next week, we're going to take to you a local restaurant that has been shut down

. >> i'm wendy ryan. >> we have winners in both parties. john caseic came in second. ted cruz came in third and jeb bush came in 4th really cross the cruise. >> i'll be the greatest jobs president that god every created. remember that. don't believe those tony phony numbers. >> on it democratic side bernie sanders came in number one place. >> i preserve notice to the political and economical establishment of the country that the american people are not continue to accept a undeceiving american doe dormancy. >>> a family pet attacked at a boarding facility. the owner of the doggie daycare is operating illitely. -- illegally. we were in front of the home where the dog was attacked. >>reporter: this is in a residential community. this is the neighborhood. the home is just behind me. code enforcement issues is the fact that it's a residential community. they will be out here tomorrow and tell the owner to stop operating. this pet owner said it's too late to save their dogs life but they >> she had a chuck of meat ripped out of her abdomen. >>reporter: they told her her sm

. >> i am wendie ryan. thank you for joining us. >> new developments in a story october. years old student and now he told us he fathers her child. >> michael with the latest out there. have been working on this case for several months. dna evidence finally makes it clear. >> they are running charges of unlawful sexual activities against the minor. >> the robert celeste is booked in jail with a minorminor. >> they knew he had sex with a 16 years old girl. >> that's a key piece evidence in the case they have been waiting for. >> i am with abc action news, are you able to comment on the new information coming out? >> okay, thank you. >> celeste would not comment of the dna results showing he's the child's father. >> investigators say they were involved back in 2014 when he high school >> he resigned as a teacher two months before he was arrested last year. >> reporter: celeste is due in court on march 7th at 8:30 p.m.. >>> thank you, michael, breaking news tonight from new york. two new york police officers--

i'm wendy ryan. >> i'm jamison yuler. the teenagers had more than an hour and a half head start despite deputies being tonight, why it took so long

. >> and ill'm wendy ryan. >> a special victim's unit now investigate the middle >> the sheriff says the selfies people were taking about sexting here are pretty common but says in this instance it rose to another level and that's why they're investigating. >> we're talking aging between 12 and 14 involved. >> reporter: susan benton says one of their student resource officers was given a phone with naked student pictures on it. >> we have nine telephones from different students being evaluateed. >> reporter: if the images were not disturbing enough, benton says they came across a video after a middle schooler per fominaing a sex act on themself. >> particularly the nudity and the nature of stop pictures and this video. >> the video could lead investigators toward felony charges of child porn and sexual exploitation of a minor. benton says she cannot stress enough of how important it is for the parents to take an active role in the students' lives. parents need to check the phones on a regular base si. are the school pince pal will hold an emergency meeting with pair resnik next monda

i'm wendy ryan. >> i'm laura harris. transportation troubles putting a strain on a lot of parents tonight. >> so what's causing all the headache and how are parents getting around it? with today tell me they are waiting more than 20 minutes with their children just to catch the bus. then they say there's no call, no show, leaving them with no option but to get in their car and drive. dropping her daughter off is a morning routine for pam. lately it's been delayed. >> it's been a week and a half now, like seven days that we have had to worry about, where's the bus. >> reporter: she says the bus it's standard procedure for the school district to call when the bus is at least 15 minutes late but some aren't getting a phone call. >> today was the third call we got for a late bus. call. >> the most basic function of the school district is to provide safe and reliable transportation for our children to school. >> reporter: now parents are the district says it's not

i'm wendy ryan. >> i'm ashley glass. a dangerous combination at a tampa park, a child and loaded gun. >> carson chambers is live with more tonight. >> reporter: the owner of the gun was his mom's boyfriend and was not even here at the time. he was out on the pier when the gun went off. >> then there was an ambulance with the little child only stretcher. >> reporter: a 6-year-old boy who made a dangerous discovery in his mom's diaper bag. police say the boy pulled the trigger in a busy park packed with families picnicking and playing. >> it scares me. with my grandchildren. >> reporter: the handgun left unattended by 27-year-old ricardo marquez. >> ridiculous. that should never happen. >> reporter: they say he stashed the loaded revolver in his girlfriend's diaper bag and her 6-year-old got hold of it. >> looked like a family party, so i don't know what happened. >> reporter: marquez went before a judge this morning facing two felony charges, negligence and tampering with evidence. officers say he tried to toss the gun in

i'm wendy ryan. >> and i'm jamison uhler. this isn't the first time that police looked into accusations against robert celeste. jarrod holbrook joins us live from the school where he spent most of his teaching career. jarrod. >> reporter: that's right, jamison. it is here where he was once the victim's teacher. it has taken pinellas county school districts nearly two disciplinary file. you may be shocked what we found. parents here sure are. inside the former teacher's disciplinary file, the i-team investigation. in fact it's the third. in 2005, robert celeste was relationship with a student. police say the results were unfounded. there are also sexual misconduct allegations investigated by police in 2014. the student told police they weren't true. but they did state he had a reputation amongst students and was even nicknamed coast celeste- coach celeste-me. police say they have dna evidence that identifies celeste as the father of the baby. parents were never notified during the investigation or after the arrest. they are no

coming up next at 5:00 -- wendy ryan investigates. >> a scary moment on camera. a leopard goes on the prowl on >>> as the threat of the zika virus hits a level 1 emergency at the cdc president obama is asking for almost $2 billion to try to control it. >> this man turns himself in three days after authorities say he assaulted a little girl

. >> and i'm wendy ryan. two children two fell through the cracks and lost their lives. former workers tell us it's going to happen again. >> dcf office covering our area

i'm wendy ryan. >> and i'm jamison uhler. the governor ordering more mosquito spraying in residential areas. two cases confirmed in hillsborough county. both got it outside of the state and brought it back. nine total cases in florida. so far no one has gotten bite enand gotten the virus from a mosquito in the u.s. with no vaccine or medicine, mosquito key. >> you knee long sleeved shirts, long pants and put some repellent on like cedar oil. up. so right now usf is studying the cry russ and one pharmaceutical company is working on a vaccine. >>> dozens of victims of home weeks are picking up stolen items at the sheriff's office. electronics, julie and so much more was recovered. what they found and the happy reunion for some residents out there. ryan. >> reporter: yes, some very happy and relieved victims. many of them left the sheriff's office just a few moments ago with watches, expensive jewelry, stuff they never thought they would see again. all of this came from at least 30 home burglaries in the area. take a look at som

. >> wendy ryan joins us with why the state is coming down on a tampa staple. >> taking action for your health and your safety tonight. the i-team uncovered repeat food violations and i spoke to the owner to find out why. it's tonight's dirty dining report. >> it's good. >> yeah. definitely good. >> reporter: truck drivers rod baker and craig dawson has been eating at the sandwich shop in tampa for 40 years. >> they really know how to fix the cuban. >> why do you like them? >> i guess because they have real crab meat inside. >> reporter: state inspectors had a different opinion, writing up 226 violations in less than a year. your recent inspection reports. you had quite a list of administrative complaints and follow-up inspections, stop sales, temperature issues. >> can you come back here, please. >> absolutely. >> reporter: michael's family has owned the restaurant since 1948. he says he is hands on, running the place 24/7. >> you've had a lot of temperature issues. these are all of the inspections. >> and we have corrected all of them. >> reporter: the temperature violations so severe

here's wendy ryan. >>> take a look here. we are live at usf sun dome. it's been a busy day out there. at five we showed you the trump supporters. also, the serious dangers of artificial turf. what's now being done to make sure your children are not exposed to cancer causing agents. plus these top stories. >>> the personal information of hundreds of people found inside of one vehicle, how the people inside were acting that tipped off that trooper. >> the leader of the polk county school district has resigned. coming up at six, the meeting that's going on right now to >>> live, from the station taking action for you. this is abc action news. >>> a wrong way driver. >> there's an accident at the ashley exit. >> ending two lives. >> mangled wreckage, blocking a major exit for hours. >> we're not inside, and the man is not moving. >> now at six, the victims and the reason this tragedy could have been worse. >>> but first, the most controversial name in politics is preparing to take the stage in tampa. taking a live look right now outside the usf sun dome. pr

this is wendy ryan's latest. >> reporter: have you ever been here before? >> note. >> jennifer aniston loves the suit. >> she is thinking twice about stepping into tom china on east hillsboro in tampa. after hearing inspector shut days after seeing over 65 live roaches crawling all over the kitchen. near the coastline, color, prep table, storage rack and think. >> there is no way i would go in there now. >> our i-team uncovering a follow-up inspection two weeks later discovered more live roaches and dishes being washed in the same sink with raw chicken being prepared. a stop sale was ordered with all 40 pounds of chicken thrown out. >> manager. >> i and the food manager. >> daily wang said he was there when the state closed their doors. >> did you see the roaches? >> yeah. i am in the restaurant. >> you saw them. >> they cleaned the kitchen thoroughly and we opened when problems existed before january with 127 violations were not in the last 10 months including no certified food safety manager on duty. not marked with a date with noodles. eggrolls at danger

wendy ryan is here to give us a little more information. >> reporter: this is coming from the journal of pediatrics, researchers are finding that the shot of middle school kids receive protects 69% of them right away. are protected. so it wears off. you may not realize this but it is not just kids who need the shot. the cdc recommends people between the ages of 19-65 need to get the booster shot as well. we are talking babysitters, parents, anyone who is around kids. >> doctors are saying it is kind of like the common cold but then the coughing gets worse, it can last for months in some people. that is of the scary part. the big concern is if you get it and you are arounda baby it can be fatal. it is really scary because we had a a case like that in tallahassee. >> it did happen here in florida. there were actually 26 kids, two staff members and 11 family members who all got whooping cough. were supposed to. it proves it only takes a few kids to pass this along. so it is important to get the booster shot. >>> also today many americans wasting about $1500 worth of food a year. how one

good evening, i'm wendy ryan. >> in fort lauderdale, the hunt is on for a carjacker who stole a car with a child inside. this is a live look at the scene in broward county. he jumped into a woman's car and took off. police are talking to the mother right now trying to get more details. police have not said what kind of car it is. >>> right now allegations of

i'm wendy ryan. >> i'm ashley glass. a dangerous combination at a tampa park, a child and loaded gun. >> carson chambers is live with more tonight. >> reporter: the owner of the gun was his mom's boyfriend and was not even here at the time. he was out on the pier when the gun went off. >> then there was an ambulance with the little child only stretcher. >> reporter: a 6-year-old boy who made a dangerous discovery in his mom's diaper bag. police say the boy pulled the trigger in a busy park packed with families picnicking and playing. >> it scares me.

i'm wendy ryan. >> and i'm jamison uhler. right now she is on unpaid leave from the school district. first right now denis has the details on serious freezing overnight. >> jamison, you will be tomorrow morning. not something that we usually floridians.

i'm wendy ryan. >> and i'm jamison uhler. >> a passenger on the flight says he heard a loud bang and you're looking at live pictures overhead. the passengers have been sitting in the terminal for the past two hours. we are on our way to the airport as we speak. and we will bring you an update as soon as we have more information. >>> let's go back to the top story now. police say assistant fire chief in clearwater, ronald jim shine shop lifted a 5-hour energy drink worth $3. it may not be the first time. >> abc action news reporter eric waxler is live with what the fire chief is saying about it tonight. eric. >> reporter: that assistant chief's salary is $85,000 a year. we're told that he is on a planned vacation right now. but when he returns to this fire house, he could be out of a job all because of this tiny little bottle. ron jim shine was just honored with a public safety award from the rotary club. now he is facing charges for shoplifting from this 7-eleven down the street from the fire

. >> and i'm wendy ryan. thanks for joining us. tying up traffic in pinellas county. >> it's a traffic alert near belcher road. this is a live picture. a deputy was involved in an accident there. it looks like one lane of traffic is now getting by. this could tie up traffic for quite a while during the ongoing investigation. we still have not gotten any word on the condition of the deputy or the other driver involved. we will continue to give you updates throughout the evening. >>> back to our top story right now. the owner of a gun found on the ground outside of an elementary school has been located. a parent dropping off their child at rock crusher elementary school in citrus county was the first to see it before anyone was hurt. a school employee actually picked it up thinking it was a toy and fired it. abc action reporter lauren rozyla joins us live outside of the school with details how the gun even got there. lauren. >> reporter: and we just learned the name of the parent

. >> and i'm wendy ryan. thanks for joining us. that 13-year-old stole a van from a day care. >> take a look. he then stole that van and tried to rob this store. but he was interrupted by the store's owner. he then crashed the van in the progress village area. he then stole a bicycle from a home there and was arrested at that time. ashley yore has the lessons learned. >> reporter: the day care now a scene of a crime. >> we have to fall in sight of the young man. there are vans sitting there and no one watching them. >> reporter: hillsborough deputies say this is where a 13- year-old slipped through an unlocked window and swiped the keys to this van, one of three owned by the nonprofit champions for children that runs the dimples play land child care on 12th avenue south. >> it was such a small window. i'm not sure that we took seriously the fact that a grown person could slip through it. now we know it wasn't a grown person. >> reporter: a few minutes' drive away, cell tech recorded this surveillance video. you can see the teen try

abc action news anchor wendy ryan is here with what two top military leaders are calling informer. >> leaders are saying every american, man or woman, who is physically fit should register for the draft. they are encouraging congress to look into this right now. only men between the ages of 18 congress would have to change this law to include women. but having a draft again may not be very likely. there hasn't been one in more than 40 years. really since vietnam. congress has to authorize it and then the president has to sign off on it. right now there appears to be enough volunteers too. >>> who is to blame for the flint water crisis? lawmakers hold an explosive hearing. find out who wasn't there. >>> house hunting can be stressful for anyone. but now there is an app for that. the app helping you find a place based on your own lifestyle. >> here are the talks going on right now in the presidential campaign. he is pleading for tolerance for the millions of american muslims living here as they contribute to our country as well as police officers, firefighters and so on. >> you couldn't

. >> and i'm wendy ryan. thanks for joining us. first we want to start with breaking news in polk county. a man targeting young girls now charged with sextortion. >> we are live at the polk county sheriff's office with who police just arrested. marisela. >> reporter: this started on monday after the father of an 11-year-old girl contacted harassing his daughter on social media. we have a picture of the suspect. he is 25. authorities say on the app kck he called himself daddy. polk county sheriffs deputies say he threatened the young girl with posting her address online, that he would hurt her, set her house on fire and ask people to rape her if she did not give him nude pictures and videos, plus turn around and give him names and addresses of other girls. according to authorities, this investigation led them to another victim who daddy, ak a bales, targeted. we will have more at 6:00 on this story. marisela burgos, abc action news. >>> breaking news from new jersey. firefighters are battling this large fire at an industrial park. y

i'm wendy ryan. >> and i'm jamison uhler. that mother just recanted the story after she originally told clearwater police that the 3- of a stolen car, setting off a frantic search. that car was stolen from a home on boland avenue and crashed on us-19. the driver of the car is in custody right now. abc action news reporter is live now with the story. >> reporter: of course this was extremely frightening for the detectives because they received the call at 1:30. when they heard from the mother and the boyfriend that there was a toddler in the supposed stolen car, they immediately sent out detectives to try to find this ford fusion. luckily there was a gps tracking device in the car. so that's how they were able to track down that car, following it on us-19 going the wrong way before it crashed. and as you mentioned, detectives did take that person into custody. the chief told me that this beginning. that the child was never in that car.

i'm wendy ryan. >> here's a live look at the line outside the sun dome from action air 1. the doors opened about 30 minutes ago, but trump supporters started lining up well before 10:00 a.m. >> we have team coverage of tonight estral i will. carson chambers is outside the sun dome, talking to supporters and protesters waiting in line for hours. >> let's start with michael, live right now. >> reporter: i read a sign from someone that said god gave us trump. there are a lot of people low pressure. trump set to speak on the stage -- a lot of people here. >> trump set to speak on the stage behind me. he'll probably talk about how he will be able to create jobs better than any candidate, build a wall to keep people from coming in illegally on the tonight people saying trump is their man. he is the candidate they want how many people we expect here. the usf sun dome holds more than 10,000 people, and that doesn't include all of the people that will be down here on the ground level. as you mentioned, they had been lining up here since ten in the morning, and again in two hours, t

. >> ryan zimmerman talking for the first time about allegations he used performance-enhancing drugs. >> jason pugh was there while zimmerman addressed reporters, jason? >> wendy and jim, when you think about some of the more recognizable and influential athletes in our area at this time, ryan zimmerman's name has to be near the top of that list. that's why so many people were shocked when his name was associated with performance-enhancing drugs. well today here in vieira, florida, he came out and strongly denied >> it's one of those things where you don't have an answer, you don't know why or how this happened. and then you turn from like being shocked to being angry. >> for the last 11 years, ryan zimmerman has been one of the biggest names in the nationals organization. this past off-season after being linked to performance-enhancing drugs by the al jazeera network, the first baseman is now trying to clear his name. >> i've never done any of that, i've never even thought of doing any of that. it's -- but yeah, it's -- a tough spot. you know you, you do everything the right way. you know, you work. you think something like this will never happen. and then fo

wendy sherman. we agree on implementation day in january speaker paul ryan noted quote, the president himself has acknowledgedre than $100 billion in total, to finance terrorists, end of quote. this is exactly why a bipartisan majority of the house voting to reject the nuclear deal. sanctions should be only lifted when iran ceases its litany of illicit activities and ends its support for terrorism. until that day comes, we should not be complicit in fueling a regime that has a long history of hostility towards the united states and its allies. i'm particularly grateful for the bipartisan conduct of this committee. with chairman royce of california and ranking member engel of new york. with their thoughtful opposition to the iran deal, i believe iran promotes attacks on american families with its pledge of death to america and death to israel, as proven by the intercontinental ballistic missile development as cited by chairman royce and congressman deutch. secretary kerry, from your responses to chairman royce's questions, what i heard you say was the administration wants to let the iran sanctions act expire.

wendy sherman. we agree on implementation day in january speaker paul ryan noted himself the president of iran has acknowledged iran is likely to use this cash infus n infusion, more than $100 billion in total to finance terrorists, end of quote. the house voted to reject the nuclear deal. sanctions should be only lifted when iran ceases its litany of illicit activities and ends its support for terrorism. until that day comes, we should not be complicit in fueling a regime that has a long history of hostility towards the united states and its allies. i'm particularly grateful for the bipartisan conduct of this committee. with chairman royce of california and ranking member engel of new york. i believe iran promotes a tax on american families with its pledge of death to america and death to israel. as proven by the intercontinental ballistic development cited by royce. secretary kerry, from your response to chairman royce's questions, what i heard you say is the administration wants to let the sanctions act expire. the administration, extending it through the international emergency economic powers act is simpl