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I feel like i cant depend on the people in the school to keep her safe. Reporter her daughter secretly videotaped in the bathroom by two classmates a few months back. Both students were later expelled, but now mom says the girls friends have harassed, targeted and taunted her daughter. I dont want her to be terrified. Reporter its the same terrifying feeling felt by renee and stacia lopez and their 12yearold daughter. I want to feel like its safe to send my daughter to school. Reporter the lopez family called 8 on your side last week after their emails and phone calls to School Officials went unanswered for two months. The school is not doing anything for me, how do you address claims like that . We completely sympathize with parents and we understand their child is their priority and their childs safety is our priority, too. Reporter at Johns Hopkins officials investigated 14 bullying complaints during the 2013 2014 school year. Only half were reported to law enforcement, but why . Thats because the school does what do you want done . I want them to follow the law, have zero tolerance for bullying, protect our children. Reporter and that first family who came to us for help, well, today they actually had a meeting with School Officials investigation. Paul, lets talk more about that zero tolerance policy that the district has. Does it really have any teeth . Reporter well, we talked about the two girls who were expel over that video they took ex mem over the video they took in the bathroom expelled over the video they took in the bathroom and they have a fulltime bullying specialist on hand not only for kid but to train the administers. Thank you administrators. Thank you, paul. A store clerk turns the table on two men attempting to rob him at gunpoint. News channel 8 obtained video up to cut rate liquors in tampa. If you have information on the gunmen, call tampa police. Police made two arrests in connection with a weekend shooting at a holiday inn express. They charged 16yearold Charles Jones with attempted murder and 18yearold Shawn Turner Mcgee with aggravated assault. Both were arrested at armwood high school. The shooting wounded two teen agers. Investigators believe a fight broke out when uninvited guests showed up at a birthday party. A shot rang out in a south tampa park when a 6yearold diaper bag. The shot didnt hit anybody, but the owner of the gun, the negligence charge. Crowded. The 6yearold fired the shot just a few feet away from several girls there as part of an organized group. I thought it was a gun and then all of us started freaking out and we didnt really know investigators say 37year old Ricardo Candelario Marquez placed the firearm in his girl friends diaper bag. Hes also accused of evidence tampering for trying to throw found out police were on the way. Now an 8 on your side investigation, construction fail. Water intrusion, mold and construction defects, our 8 on your side investigation into shoddy homebuilding has a new face tonight, Schooner Cove condominiums in south tampa. The Condo Association is battling with a builder giant dr horton. Our investigation found flaws that looked strikingly similar to those made by kb home. 8 on your side investigator Shannon Behnken shows us the problem. Reporter this is so similar its eerie. We were there last week when engineers tore apart the outside of 10 condo buildings and we saw the moldy wood they removed. Now we want to know what the americas best is going to do about it. A gorgeous condo community, but pop off the stucco and theres a moldy mess. Engineers opened the outside of 10 buildings at dr hortons Schooner Cove in south tampa. They found wood so rotten it crumpled like butter. Inside one condo is a containment wall to keep the moldy nasties away from the rest of the home and heres how it started. Dripping. Reporter home video shows water pouring in around living room windows. Just look at the water dripping down the wall. So you can see here where the water has been coming in and going down. Reporter the Condo Association is fighting. 8 on your side was right there with them when engineers checked to see how widespread this problem is. They found way more than just rotten wood. I believe some of the wood was cut, the distance apart, weep seals to keep the water going away from the building rather than into the building. Reporter the problems are throughout the complex. You see these everywhere . Were still working on the final report, but from what im hearing its the same thing, a recurring theme, code violations, structural issues, stucco deficiencies. Reporter this not only sounds familiar, it looks familiar, too much this is willowbrook in bradenton back in 2014 after 8 on your side discovered mold so bad that balconies were falling off. Our investigation resulted in multimillions in repairs and now Schooner Cove homeowners want the same thing. What do you want dr horton to do to make this right . We want them to fix all the problems, acknowledge that there is a problem and take care of it. The Condo Association is now waiting on engineering reports from last weeks exploratory work. The engineers are looking for building defects and code up to this kind of mold. So what kind of leverage do the homeowners have . Theyve gotten fairly far already . They have. They are really organized. They have an attorney. As we saw with kb, this can be a very long process and these folks are organized and ready to fight. Thank you. Stay on it. An 8 on your side warning, hes accused of scamming 13 elderly people across the bay area and there could be more. Dennis prairie faces grand theft and organized crime charges. Investigators believe he and his wife took money from victims to fix cracks in their driveways. Detectives say he would use a substance to coat the driveway, but it only lasted a few days. 1 woman gave perry hundreds of dollars of her Social Security money. You need to give me 400 for materials. So i said im not going to give him cash. I wrote him a check for 400. The next morning i get up and its all like spots like that, it wasnt covered even. Deputies are encouraging other bay area victims to come forward. A major move on the eve of the republican caucuses in nevada, ted cruz has fired his communications director. Cruz asked for rick tylers resignation after he distributed a video that falsely accused marco rubio of saying something negative about the bible. As for nevada, donald trump has a big lead over cruz and marco tomorrows caucuses. With jeb bush bowing out, cruz and rubio both hope to win over his supporters, if not an endorsement from bush himself. Thought we fool like a lot of the feel like a lot of the people that were on jebs team are people were going to welcome. Rubios team has secured commitments from at least four major bush donors while other backers of the former Florida Governor are taking a wait and see approach. No bond, thats what a judge decided for the uber killing spree in kalamazoo, michigan, over the weekend. Prosecutors say it appears all six victims were targeted randomly. They believe dalton picked up uber passengers between the attacks. Authorities are still trying to figure out a motive for the shootings. Dramatic moments caught on camera as a car burst into flames after a crash in tennessee. With the help of several Good Samaritans and a k9 officer the driver was pulled out in time. Everything inside the car was charred except for this, a bible intact among the flames. Medics took the driver to a hospital in stable condition. A horrific crime in south florida serving as a warning for anyone using craigslist. Were talking about a woman severely beaten by a roommate she met online. Jen holloway in the Tampa News Center with details, just awful. Its terrible. Family members of 23yearold danielle joins said the girl found her roommate on craigslist and all of this just her in a coma tonight. That roommate is this man, 35 yearold byron mitchell. He lived with danielle for only a week before the horrific assault. Tonight mitchell is charged with attempted murder. In fact, he is the one who made the 911 call for help. The victims family is hoping that the attack that all started online will make a difference in someone elses life. Maybe that it can help the next person that they might think twice about letting a stranger into their home before checking references or doing a criminal background check. Doctors do believe that she has serious brain damage but still family and friends are staying positive. Theyre also raising money and awareness. They are hopeful that one day shell be smiling again. Hard to believe Something Like that could happen so quickly, too. Jen holloway, thank you. New tonight scandal in clearwater. Coming up what this firefighter and medic are accused of doing that has them plus amazon really wants you to go prime, how their shipping changes could impact your wallet. Temperatures in the upper 70s officially at 78 degrees. It was a nice warm day. Were seeing a good bit of southerly flow bringing some moisture back, so rain chances are increasing, that and much cooler weather ahead all coming new tonight sex on the job, a lieutenant with the Clearwater Fire Department suspended along with a medic that hes accused of sleeping with. It got so steamy fellow firefighters say it was like living with a married couple. Melanie michael joins us now live from firehouse 49 in clearwater. I would say this is awkward, but its more serious than that. Two members of the fire department, one hot affair at station 49 and the details in these documents. Their attraction to each other was as hot as the fires they feet according to fellow first responders. Fire medic tiffany sebolt and her boss lieutenant william frye had an affair so steamy everyone around them could feel the heat. An in depth investigation found that the two engaged in a sexual relationship where fellow staffers claim the pair acted like they were married and that there was a tenseness between them. Documents show the firefighters got up close and personal on and off duty including a secret rendezvous at the Treasure Island ocean club during a family sick day taken by tiffany sebolt which she denied. She was also asked why her personal vehicle was parked in 12 12 a. M. And she refused to answer. Then there were shirtless now the two are suspended. The lieutenant is suspended 30 days, the medic suspended for 15 and both have now been transferred and they work at different firehouses. Melanie michael live in clearwater, thank you. The showdown between apple and the u. S. Government over a terrorists iphone shows no sign of ending. Today apple ceo tim cook said the government should withdraw its demand that apple help the fbi hack an iphone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. The director of the fbi posted a message on sunday saying apple owes cooperation to the victims of the shooting. Apple maintains that creating a backdoor to the enchiropractorred phone would set a dangerous encrypted phone would set a dangerous precedent. Free shipping just got a little harder to come by for amazons nonprime shoppers. Amazon just raised the minimum amount. So now youll have to shell out previous minimum of 35. And starbucks changing its rewards program, now instead of just getting 1 star per visit no matter how much you buy, youll get points based on how much money you spend. That should involve the problem of people wanting multiple items rung up separately to earn more points. For those that got a good glimpse of moon tonight, it was a nice rare full moon here in february. Don got this one from tampa bay, lots of clouds today, but folks got a few nice shot, called the snow moon coming from the month of february. It has lots of other names, hunters moon, very atypical for a full moon to occur, every 19 years or so for the snow moon. 64 degrees tomorrow morning, some cloud around, certainly weve seen a few showers throughout the evening hours, light stuff primarily. From south to north, a moisture summer around the area. In the afternoon looking at 77 degrees, warm temps once again, 78 our high today and we really brought back the moisture. The humidity, probably felt that in the atmosphere. 66 degrees at midnight. Temperatures will stay mild largely because the humidity has come back. When the humidity is higher, the overnight low temperatures are not as warm. Rain chances are there, 10 , small chance but there as youve seen on the radar. Ill show you. 75 degrees at 1 p. M. , upper 70s tomorrow, but changes with a cold front, storms and cool air. 67 degrees, temple terrace. 64 seminole, 65 in Clearwater Beach now, 66 in sun city center, also sarasota, 67 degrees in north port, 64 in brooksville, frostburg 67, good array of cloud and showers across the south port today. These are not intense thunderstorms, but tomorrow it could be just the opposite as an area of low pressure rapidly north carolina, virginia. So its an area of low pressure, the first one not as strong, cold front here, too. Fronts are natural areas for low pressure areas to develop. Showers continue to move from south to north across the area as we kind of zoom in with the local doppler radar. You can see showers moving across the southern part of desoto on and off throughout the night. They will continue until after areas. Polk city, lakeland, some here. Rain. Farther south you can see manatee and pinellas county, wraps around palm harbor, maybe a few light showers moving north. Nothing serious, a few little showers moving around. Tuesday morning partly cloudy skies, light shower still possible primarily east of i75 for the rain tomorrow. Its really the approaching rain chances. The timing on this about 7 05. Computer model. Adjust accordingly and know this will likely occurring during the morning commute. So plan for that. The showers eventually race through the area. By the afternoon or early evening most of this is clear of the area. Then we work in a stronger northwesterly breeze. Then well start a really cool trend that will last into and through the weekend. Thursday breezy northwest winds, cooler air arriving for us and as you see in the forecast here from the storm prediction center, a light risk of Severe Weather and a marginal risk for southern areas. High temps tomorrow still mild, upper 70s it looks like for most locations. Plan for that, a day very similar but probably a few more clouds and a slight rain chance. Wednesday morning again before the noon hour primarily for the potentially strong thunderstorms and well watch them for the severe potential as well. Wednesday morning. Behind that it turns cool, stays cool, almost kind of get get in the upper 70s, sort of forget about the fact you can actually get chilly again. See the lows there 50 degrees, upper 40s. This guy was planting flowers this weekend like its all springtime. Actually i did it today. I had a ton of geraniums. I said its so nice, lets do some potting soil, mix it up, help them break some roots. It felt like spring was in the air. Theyll probably be okay. I think theyll make it. Theyre hardy plants. Coming up next in sports march madness is almost here and the Miami Hurricane are making some noise. The rays have had their share of hometown players. Dan lucas tells us why this one decided it was time to come home. Plus heres what you see tomorrow at 6 a. M. Reporter you may call it the big still in, but this guy wont know the difference. Debunking some spay and neuter myths on world spay day. The 8s on news channel 8 heres whats trending on www. Wfla. Com. Its another reason to have an extra cup of joe in the morning or any time really. Turns out drinking more coffee could help keep your liver healthy. A new Study Suggests coffee can reduce the liver damage caused by too much food and alcohol. Researchers found an extra 2 cups a day, keith cate, lowered the cirrhosis risk by 44 . Boy, this is going to look very weird if youre a rays fan. David ortiz, a big hug for david price . This is why rays fans love to remember over and over, these two going at it. Its a love fest in ft. Myers. Come on not a golf cart together. All right. In their history the rays have had a number of hometown players on the roster, each one enjoying playing before friends and family every night. This season there is not one, but two local baseball products, pitcher ryan webb joins steve pearce on a long journey back home. Less than a week ago pitcher ryan webb was looking for a job. A free agent reliever known for luring hitters into ground ball outs. Webb had a few options, but the rays had something a few other clubs did not. Reporter youre here with your hometown team. Obviously im really excited to be here staying at homeworking out where i grew and have the opportunity to sign with the team i grew up watching, couldnt be more excited for this spring. Reporter as a senior webb twice, but nothing beat watching his favorite team. What were you like as a baseball fan . We tried to go as much as we could, to be able to go to the games with my dad. We went to the trop. Reporter webb will come in handiworking the middle innings of games and could evolve into the rays setup. Its not just the hometown cooking that draws webb to his hometown team. This is his eighth Major League Season and he wants to play for a winner. Obviously the staff has been brilliant with the young guys that they have. I know them from being around the area for a little bit, so its nice to finally be on this side. Hes got a track record. We know really what hes going to bring to us and were excited about it. Its a dimension we didnt really have last year in the up about, a ground ball type pitcher bullpen, a ground ball type pitcher. College basketball, miami tonight. This was third ranked virginia. That was Sheldon Mcclellan beating the buzzer at halftime. How about this. Canes win, 6461. Thats the third time i can recall in the past three weeks ive seen the fsu pit had the same kind of shots of dont look now, but miami is possibly pushing for a no. 1 seed in the ncaa tournament. Theyve got some big games coming up. Its almost that time. Get your brackets. Were back with your winning lottery numbers. I do everything on the internet. 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Doesnt stop us, though. We do chat between the commercial breaks. In the morning how does it look, steve . Got a few showers will continue to move south to north. Rain is possible tomorrow, too, but hopefully this particular round of stuff will be cleared up by the morning commute. Cant rule it out. Its tomorrow night into wednesday morning, in fact, wednesday morning for the commute im concerned more with a round of shower and thunderstorms moving in. Tuesday night, wednesday watch. Especially witness morning after midnight to around 7 00, 8 00 in the morning. Get the weather max app. Free to download. Thanks for joining us. Jimmy fallon is coming up. Our next newscast at 4 a. M. Have a great night [ cheers and applause ] steve from studio 6b in Rockefeller Center in the heart of new york city, its the

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