Safe. Phyllis is most frustrated that pass near her home, there is 414 going by. That also goes to her school. Reporter after we contacted pinellas schools, phyllis says Transportation Leaders finally started calling her back. Its almost been a year and a half. Reporter now she has a Transportation Leaders and are hoping the route will be changed. Working with them to find a safe way for her to get to her bus location. Reporter and we did reach out again to Pinellas County schools and they told us that they have deemed the bus route to be safe. But they also say that changing her stop could be difficult because it serves a lot of kids and they have to take into account the needs of everyone. But they are continuing to talk to phyllis and her family to live in clearwater tonight, lauren rozyla, abc action news. Now the most Accurate Weather Team in florida, abc action weather. How are you doing, we timed it out perfectly, didnt we. Friday. Titan Doppler Radar rain free for the first time in three along with the clearing skies come cool temperatures. If you look at this, it isnt much colder than it was this time yesterday. Obviously a totally different feel to the air as we have sunny skies and a nice northwest winds. Temperatures on average up to 2 to 5 degrees cooler. We were only in the 60s yesterday. So even with all of the rain, we still were about the same as we were today. Topped out actually at 65 degrees today in tampa. The morning low of 49. Most folks in the low to mid 60s. Throughout the evening, skies will be partly cloudy to clear. A pleasant night. Temperatures in the 40s to low 50s. And then gasparilla weekend is here. We will tell you what the temperatures will be coming up. A man shot and paralyzed by a deputy is suing the sheriffs department. He testified before a federal judge today. The unarmed man says his arms were up when deputy adams shot him in 2013. The deputy says that stevens reached for his waistband and thrusted his left hand forward while holding a dark object. The investigation shows that stephens only had a cell phone on him. The shooting violated his civil rights and he is seeking over 5 million in damages. A Chicago Police officer accused of murdering a teenager was back in court today. Jason van dyke has pleaded not guilty in the shooting death of mcdonalds. Dash cam shows him veering away from officers when he shot the 17yearold 16 times. The video sparked numerous protests and calls for the amanda knoxs ex boyfriend is seeking 560,000 in compensation under an italian law for unjust detention. He will likely get the compensation. The two were convicted in 2009 after the death of her roommate. Both were sentenced to lengthy jail terms. They spent nearly four years in italian prison. In october 2011 an Appeals Court reversed the convictions. Two years later they were retried and acquittals turned over. The free were freed once and for all. The Entrepreneur Collaborative Center is marking its first anniversary. Thats right. Rodney dunigan explains how their assistance which is offered for free is also helping efforts to put folks back to work here in tampa. Time, business for torres has really taken off. When we opened the store, we only had four employees. Now we have 12. So in one year, weve been able to triple our capital workforce. Reporter torres is the owner of blind tiger cafe which also houses a clothing company. He credits his Business Growth to the support hes gotten from the Hillsborough CountyEntrepreneur Collaborative Center. You have to talk to people. The people who have done it before, thinking about it, the people that have done it and it failed so you can learn from mistakes. Reporter it is a one stop shop for local entrepreneurs. They have provided Technical Resources and training and mentoring to area entrepreneurs. Small businesses are the back bone of our economy here. We recognize that. Reporter tony owner of scrap on the spot and the recycling company is another success story. He points to the trickle effect we grow, we create jobs. And then those jobs can create more jobs. And its good for everybody. Reporter both companies are in the middle of expansion. Their focus now, growing their businesses and supporting the next line of tampa area job creators. Rodney dunigan, abc action news. And for more information on the center and how you can take advantage of the free resources go to abcactionnews. Com and click on the story. President obama proposing a new rule that will require companies to report pay data report. It would apply to companies with more than 100 employees. This wont solve every problem. We still have got to get more women and girls in the high paying fields like science and technology, engineering and math. We still have to make sure that back in the workplace simply for starting a family. The administration said the rule would help aid investigations on employers that are short changing workers based on gender, race and ethnicity. A teen is wanted for an armed Home Invasion and deputies say he is considered dangerous. Deputies have two warrants fear rooks. He is fiveeight and weighs about 120 pounds. Officials say if you come into contact with him, please call 911. Staying in Highlands County now, allen glover is accused of shiring shots at a vehicle during an argument over a cigar and a woman. A baby was inside the car he is accused of shooting at. Luckily people inside the car leaned over to protect it. A sick manatee is in the care of the florida fish and wildlife mission. The young manatee was trying to find warmth next to the river oaks Water Treatment plant. Biologists say the manatee got sick from the cold and was stuck in an area where it couldnt find food. These manatee rescue efforts are fairly common during the winter in florida. Once the water temperature drops below 68 degrees, manatees can get illnesses. Sometimes animals linger at other sites. For one day its okay but this manatee has been here for over a week and we see signs of illness. Rescue Team Including members of the clearwater aquarium and the zoo netted the manatee this morning. It will be cared for until its ready to be released into a safer, warmer environment. An Alabama Family is taking disney to court after a snake bit a boy at the animal the park for the death of the boys grandmother. A whistleblower calls out wrong doing at the v. A. Coming up, what she witnessed and what they are allegedly doing to get back at her. Wires so high that i was ankle deep. Reporter we will tell what you could have kept it from tonight a whistleblower is calling out wrong doing at bay pines v. A. Hospital. Instead of taking action against the reported wrong doing, she faced retaliation. I would go four to six hours a day sitting at my desk surfing the internet. Reporter her typical workday at the v. A. Hospital involved very little work. Everybody seemed to are perfectly nine with me doing nothing. Reporter she was not used to being board when she started during 15 years in the army she worked as a medical technician. Recommended from another v. A. Assigned to collect cells for biopsies to detect cancer. Any v. A. Position is what we call the willie wonka golden ticket. Reporter she wanted to save other veterans lives but the coworker assigned to train her had other ideas. Protective. Reporter in the v. A. System a coworker has to sign off on work skills before new employees are allowed to perform tasks alone. These range from using computers to preparing specimens. The coworker took a year to sign off on the competencies and never signed off on one of her main tasks. I wanted to make sure that my supervisor chief understood if you think this other technologist is training me, i spoke to them facetoface. Reporter while she couldnt collect specimens the other technologist racked up lots of overtime. My coworker was getting 200 to 900 every papered in overtime alone. While youre surfing the net. While im surfing the net. Reporter the coworkers timecard showed she arrived early and stayed late, claiming 236 hours of overtime in ten months at a cost to taxpayers it was blatantly obviously she was milking the overtime. Official complaint and the v. A. Investigated. The supervisor wrote the hours were justified and told investigators when she started complaining she is board i assured her there was no downtime. This is a memorandum. Reporter she says after she reported her concerns about the two prior reviews characterize she was fully successful but she be mentally and physically evaluated and transferred. I had worked in the library. Hi worked in the department of prosthetics. They put me in the department of education. Reporter investigators found evidence of an abusive Work Environment the case was eventually settled. The v. A. Doesnt comment on pending lawsuits or personnel issue but stream line efficiency. She resigned as part of the but wants the public to know the v. A. Its not the whole v. A. Theres just a few key players that are ruining it. Reporter adam walser, taking action for you. The fbi says 90k9 units will be on duty checking for police have been training for a solid month for any possible incident. The fbi set up a joint Operation Center to monitor threats. Bomb technicians will also be on duty. 12 additional bomb squads will also be standing by. One of the two popemobiles that shuttled the pope around chicago is going on the auction block. One will be auctioned off and the other will go on display at the auto show tomorrow. It will benefit select ministries and missions of the archdiocese of philadelphia. Tonight apple is recalling millions of power adaptors because they could cause an electrical shock. They were designed to be used in continental europe, new zealand, korea and brazil. While the plugs in question were shipped between 2003 and 2015 with macs and other apple devices. Apple will exchange the faulty an Alabama Family is blaming disney for the death of their grandfather. A snake dropped from a tree and bit a little boy. The grandmother had a heart attack at a hotel. The family claims that disney is responsible for that heart attack. Disney of course says its not because the snake was not venomous and an ambulance was never called. In fact, the boy was treated with a bandaid. A Manatee County man is accused of punching his girlfriend and dousing her clothes with urine. They were arguing and she threatened to call the cops. Thats when she punched her twice. He is charged with battery and due in court march 1st. Now the most Accurate Weather Team in florida, abc great shot there. What you are looking at right there is indicative i think of what the weekend is going to hold for us. There will be clouds at times. There will be sun at times. But we just dont expect any chance of any rain until sometime later on next week. Each day it will get a little warmer and titan Doppler Radar will remain quiet at least until the early part of next week. More than likely wednesday into thursday. Temperatures have already cooled to the upper 50s across Citrus County and hernando county. Low 60s across most of the area. This is what in terms of temperatures compared to yesterday it started to get a little cooler, especially with that northwest wind. And the forecast for later on from the upper 50s to low 60s, i would not be surprised if we wake up in the upper 40s to low 50s. So we are not looking for a freeze. We have had a lot of folks on facebook saying do i need to cover the plants. You dont. It will only drop down to the 40s across the northern 40s to low 50s closer to the beach. So no worries about a frost. It will be chilly but not all that bad. Temperatures only a few degrees below normal. Then the warmup arrives by next week. And you are going to notice it. Its going to be great. Dew points still at 39 right now. With a temperature of 61 degrees. And mostly cloudy skies at the airport. We topped out today at 65. The morning low actually for a brief period of time dropped down to 48. Normals are 71 and 52. Records are 83 and 29. So it does freeze here from time to time. Not any time soon though. St. Pete sunny and 62. Sarasota also a good deal of sunshine and 60 degrees with west northwest winds at 8 miles per hour. Satellite picture, the one thing that we will be tracking from the overnight right on see. You know, if you get an overcast condition and its a little breezy on the water, it and not to mention temperatures in the upper 60s tomorrow. But it still compared to the last couple of days, it will be very nice as it will this evening under mostly clear skies. Yet kind of cool. You will need a jacket and the sweatshirt. And even tomorrow morning with a few clouds out there, it will be in the 40s to low 50s. Not unusually cold. As you head on out, if youre going downtown for gasparilla, look at the afternoon hours. Mostly sunny skies. Just some clouds at times. Not a huge deal. No rain expected. A few more clouds roll in sunday morning and especially on sunday afternoon. I have to show you something here. If you look at the National Picture n is a great shot. Look at the moisture plume. It extends from south florida across the gulf and into the pacific. The sub tropical jet. It streams moisture from the Pacifica Cross the gulf into our area. And i do believe that will lift a little more to the north. In doing that, thats where the clouds will come from late tonight and into tomorrow. Not the clouds that give us thats veil the sunshine and give us the milky look. Look at neck week. Thats more like it. 77 on monday. 80 on tuesday. And then a chance of a few showers by the middle of the week. Action news at 5 30 tonight a texas racetrack quarantines their horses to try to stop an outbreak of her pees. The virus is spreading rapidly at the horse track. Racetrack Officials Say that every time a new case is confirmed, the clock resets on a 14day waiting period for the track. The way this virus is passed from horse to horse is through their nasal secretions. What comes out of a horses nose. If it blows the nose hard, they can travel in the air. We were just wondering about that. Humans can carry the virus but not catch it. Officials at the racetrack hope to resume racing on february 12th. Look at what is coming up at 6 00. These top stories. Justice. How this woman was charged three months after they say she ran down the 5yearold girl with her car. Katie was petrified. How a botched repair job might have been prevented. Reporter carson chambers in tampa where the gasparilla invasion is imminent. What police want to you leave live from the station taking action for you. This is abc action news. Now at 6 00, finally charged. The reason it took nearly three months to arrest a woman for running over a little girl. But first a bombshell arrest. A Pinellas County deputy charged with attempted manslaughter. The details coming to light after he shot a man in handcuffs. Im jamison uhler. Wendy ryan is off tonight. A Pinellas Deputy fired in disgrace. Shocking evidence coming out against a man whose job was to keep people safe. Clifton french is live with the excuse that he gave for shooting an unarmed man who had his arms cuffed behind his back. Reporter the sheriff showed