Dealing with a lawsuit and the city of st. Pete trying to stay open. But it could close at any time. That will low the lives of kids into chaos. Think about it this way, what if it was one of your kids living here. Reporter Pinellas School board member flowers says the kids are already facing the toughest of challenges. Poverty, hungry and more. Its hard to study when you have two adults and four kids size beds. Reporter the school board is putting parents through job referral programs and finding them transitional housing that they can afford. Its putting many pieces of the puzzle together. We dont want to move a family and next week they cant afford to pay for where they are. Reporter Board Members are hoping this will keep the schools in school keep the students in school for now. They can focus on being a thats what they need to do. Reporter parents like theresa say this is what is needed. A lot of kids stay here. And im sure that would help them a lot. Reporter its still unclear when the doors will close. But the hope is that these families will be prepared when they do. And school leadsers are working with the Housing Department and other various nonprofits to make sure that the families are ready and prepared if and when the doors do close. Lauren rozyla, abc action news. Lauren, thank you. Now to a crisis in pasco county with rent prices going up, Affordable Housing is even tougher to find. Abc action News Reporter eric waxler is showing us how its impacting those in need. If i had a place of my own, i would move everybody in. Reporter james knows what its like to be homeless. He was on the streets of pasco county for three years. Now he is living in a Shelter Community Resource Center in hudson. Out in the streets it was getting bad. And i feel sorry for these people who are homeless. They have nowhere to go. Reporter some are homeless because of addiction and mental illness. Some just cant afford rising rent costs. Today commissioners passed the extremely low Income Housing program. They will spend 2 and a half Million Dollars in grants to buy or fix up 20 homes a year for the next five years. Some will be foreclosures or ones that the county already owns. The homes will cost about 20,000 a unit and will be decent places to live for those median income. They say thats the hardest group to help hows. We raise our own chickens. Reporter the pastor runs the center and has seen seven people who frequented here die in the last two months. Sometimes its difficult to find that. Some of them never come around. With a chance and love, people alive. Reporter the county will look for nonprofits willing to own and manage the homes. The cost will depend what program theyre in and their ability to pay. Eric waxler, abc action news. Now to a traffic alert. One lane on bruce b. Downs remains closed as officials try to figure out what caused this depression and how to repair it. It begins at campus hill drive. The depression is five feet across and ten feet deep. Its filled but theyre trying to figure out how to fix it for good. It will remain a traffic nightmare for those in the area. We have a difficult time getting out without taking our lives in our own hands. We have accidents all the time. I hope they fix it quickly or they could have lives on their hands. Its not clear when the lane will reopen but you may want to find a different route until then. Now the most Accurate Weather Team in florida, abc as we have been mentioning through the newscast, theres a brush fire in eastern pasco county between san antonio and dade city. It appears that the smoke plume is getting calmer right now. As we just showed you minutes ago over the site, 30 acres but it did not appear to be fully involved at that point. It appears to be winding down. Thats a good thing. The winds are an issue but we could use a little bit of rain. Over the next several days, its one of those tough things. As floridians, we could use rain from time to time. But if youre visiting for spring break or spring training, youre loving what youre seeing which is a lot of sunshine. You will see clear skies tonight and tomorrow. Forecast. It will happen this weekend. Whether its a washout, we will minutes. Thank you, denis. New at 5 30, a Highlands County man accused of killing says he was standing his ground. Phillip markland is charged in or is changing his plea. He says he shot his uncle in 2014 because his uncle shot him first. Thomas markland was on the phone with 911 when phillip shot him 25 times. Now, according to his attorneys if the stand your Ground Defense is rejected, he will use the insanity defense. No trial date has been set yet. Also right now, crews are searching for the wreckage of Malaysian Air flight 3 0 in the indian ocean. Two years ago it veered off course on its way to china before vanishing with 239 people on board. No victims were ever found and investigators dont know what went wrong. The only be debris washed up on island last year. Voters in four states are headed to the polls today. Early on results are showing donald trump is leading in all there may be no stopping trump. Former nyc mayor Michael Bloomberg says he is not running. Mitt romney recording a message saying dont vote for donald trump. Donald trump is also sounding off after being compared to hitler by mexicos president. Im not happy about that. I dont want that comparison. We have to be strong and vigilant. Meanwhile candidates are already preparing for next week when florida and ohio and north ballots. Speaking of elections, take a look at the meme that our web team put together. It already has 2,000 shares. Hillary, cruz, trump, who do you want to vote for . Many going with pine straw on our facebook page. More than 2500 shares on our facebook page. Have a little fun with your friends. Just search abc action news. Also happening right now, i want you to take a look at this. The driver of this van crashing through alligator pack and ship monday on the sebring parkway. Diana walker snapped this picture around 4 30. Police say the driver accidentally pushed the accelerate instead of the break. Three passengers were inside. Thankfully no one was hurt. New details about an overnight train derailment. What investigators are saying about what sent the train off the tracks. Plus, clearing your name. Straight ahead, the first thing that you need to do if someone we saw water coming into the bottom of the train. Officials tell abc news its a miracle that everyone survived. Those that were not injured had to walk two miles on a road before being shuttled to safety. European and turkish leaders are joining forces to ease the biggest refugee crisis in europe since world war ii. More than 130,000 refugees pouring into greece this year alone. Leaders in turkey are trying to reduce the influx. Outlines of a plan that they hope will curb illegal human smuggling. More fallout for maria sharapova. Nike suspended their contract with she failed the drug test in the Australian Open in january. They didnt know that the Antidoping Agency banned the drug this year. Doctors are asking ac dc frontman eric johnson to stop touring immediately. According to the bands website, he could completely lose his hearing. The group will postpone some of the upcoming u. S. Tour dates. It will make up the show with a guest vocalist. He has been with the band since 1980. The danger of texting while walking is going up. Increased deaths over the last year. Number of pedestrians kills in traffic accidents is up 10 from the year before. Now, throughout the past five years, nearly 20 increase. One possible cause, more distracted people walking while on their phones. Something we have all likely done at one time or another. Its the number two nation. In 2015, nearly half a million theft report. Tonight Jackie Callaway is showing us why victims say it can be devastating and the first steps to take if you suspect someone hacked your identity. Laura, experts estimate it takes about 300 hours to dig your way out of Identity Theft and reclaim your good name and credit. For one tampa woman, the nightmare has been going on for a decade. For years, Esther Taylor endured the calls and letters from debt collectors. This is her signature. Is that your signature . No. Reporter esther claims an security number and took out loans totaling 100,000. Thats what she put as me. My name. Signature. But its not me. Reporter she tried filing a Police Report but was not sure where else to turn. I did cry. I lost sleep. Just anxious. I wake up at night. Reporter hillsborough Consumer Protection chief eric ellison says victims have to act fast to repair the damage. They need to file a Police Report and a complaint with the federal trade commission so they can get an Identity Theft affidavit. Reporter it proves to creditors, its not something trying to escape a bad debt. Then contact the credit bureaus. Theres three of them. Put a fraud alert out on their credit reports. Reporter a fraud alert notifies you any time that someone uses your information to apply for a new loan or credit card. My main concern is how am i going to get my credit fixed. Reporter Esther Taylor learned the hard way. A pound of cure. It is critical to limit the amount of personal information in your wallet. Safeguard your papers at home. And shred every unnecessary document. You can trust no one. Shred all your documents. Do whatever it takes to hide your identity. Reporter okay. So whether its Identity Theft, debt collector calls or a landlordtenant dispute, we have experts coming in friday morning. They will answer all of your questions between 9 00 a. M. And 10a. We have a link for you if you or someone you know has been a victim of identity. Its posted on my facebook page. Its towards the top. Theres a link everything that you need to know and do if youve been the victim of Identity Theft. Now the most Accurate Weather Team in florida, abc action weather. States that would like to steal our weather blueprint at this point. We have great weather. There is a totally clips tonight. You cant see it in the u. S. Next year in the u. S. There will be a total solar eclipse. This is a one in a lifetime thing. We get lunar eclipses all the time. Its not this coming august, next august. Until then, theres this. The beach looks beautiful. No doubt. Look whats going on in texas. Nasty weather with tornado watches, severe storm warnings and a ton of rain. What is left of this will be coming this way by saturday. Late saturday, into sunday. Its too early to pinpoint the exact timing. My gut tells me its going to be later sunday. Or rather later saturday into sunday. Sort of pinpoint the timing as we get closer to the weekend. At the very least at least tomorrow or thursday. Everything is quiet except for the brush fire in eastern pasco county. Tomorrow morning everyone will be waking up in the low to mid 60s. Humidity at 39 . Very nice day. A little breezy out there. The winds coming in out of the southeast between 9 and 15 Miles Per Hour. And thats really the entire area. 81 was the afternoon high today. Thats where we were this time last year. The record though nowhere near the record. That was 88. We wont be anywhere near that in tampa. But by thursday that will be a common number town in polk county. Sarasota at 79 right now. Partly cloudy. And the humidity is a southeast winds. This time of year, it does a couple of things. Increases cloud cover in polk county. Eventually increases our humidity and temperatures. Which is one of the main reasons why each day were expecting temperatures to be just a little warmer. As a ridge of High Pressure sort of anchors itself over the state of florida. And in doing so, we wake up with pleasant conditions. Mostly sunny skies. Temperatures in the low to mid 60s. A little bit of cloud cover over on the east coast. If youre off this week or visiting us for spring training or spring break, you picked a good week. I mean, theres rarely ever a bad week in florida in march and april. This will be an exceptional week with temperatures well into the 80s. That continues right into the weekend. Now, saturday and sunday, as i said, still a little dicey. But at least until then and this would include through friday as well, the weather looks good. Now, in terms of rainfall, notice the european model as i said really holds that rain off the gsf which is the u. S. Model brings it in on saturday. Im inclined to think that its somewhere in between when it will play out. Which means most of saturday will be okay. Then i think rain later saturday into the first half of sunday. Its only tuesday. Our weather can change in four hours. Obviously much less than four days. We will keep our eyes on it. Mid 80s the forecast high for wednesday. Even along the coast you will be in the lower 80s. For the boaters winds primely out of the southeast. There is your sunrise and sunset. Hour by hour forecast right through tomorrow morning. Partly cloudy to clear with temperatures in the mid 60s. Tomorrow. 84 on thursday. Very warm day on thursday. Still a nice one on friday. Then rain chances return late saturday and into sunday. This is not a washout of a weekend. But there will be some showers around. Next at 5 30, a teachesh kicked off campus accused of its not the first time. Why parents say the district tonight a teacher in for her job after students job. Parents claim the district left out one important detail here. One of her kindergarten students reported the incident. When the assistant principal went to the class, she was hall. An alcoholic beverage was found in the classroom. Scared. It makes me scared knowing that my kids could leave one day and they wouldnt notice. The teach her a prior alcohol offense in 2011 at another school. The district told parents that she was gone but never told them that she was drinking at school. She is appealing the decision. Here is wendy ryan with a look at what is coming up at 6 00. Thanks, jamison. Hulk hogan grilled on the stand. What he did and said after the sex tape was leaked. The ones that embarrassed him. Out of gas and hit on the side of the road. Why friends of david ryan say the man who hit him had to be distracted. A teacher sex scandal rocking Highlands County. Now the School District is under investigation too. Tonight the sheriffs strong words for administrators and the changes underway at 6 00. Medicare fraud, a multi billion dollar industry, especially right here in florida. Im adam weiner. How seniors here in sun city are learning to protect live from the station taking action for you. This is abc action news. Now at 6 00, a stranded driver struck down. He was helping a friend. Now he is fighting to survive. What the other driver is accused of doing instead of paying attention. Im jamison uhler. And im wendy ryan. A man is on life support. A distracted driver hit him while they were pushing a stranded car off the road. Reporter this is the busy narrow high where the victims ran out of gas. They thought they were doing everything right, pulling over as far as they could, pushing the car to the nearest driveway apparently that wasnt enough. Within a second my whole world changed. Reporter she called david ryan her uncle. Tonight ryan is on life support and finley keeps playing it over in her head. His eyes definitely were not on the road. Reporter their car ran out of gas. With the flashers activated, she started pushing from the back and ryan pushed with one hand on the wheel. I finally got out it was and i jumped to the side and i was screaming move, david. I turned my back and heard a big crash. Reporter the 29yearold lakeland man who dreamed of being a ufc fighter was no match for a honda civic going 50 Miles Per Hour right at him
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