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When its 86 degrees out, it feels like 95 and it gets hot quick. Reporter Surveillance Video caught the father and grandmother walking into the store. They brought one other kid with them in the cart but for whatever reason left the 3year old all alone in the car. Whether its hot, cold, anything, you shouldnt leave them. Reporter luckily another shopper noticed the innocent child strapped in her seat and called for help. Police officers arrived and quickly busted a window and pulled the scared g the child was hot, sweaty, the hair matted to the face. The face red. And as soon as a sergeant pulled her out, she laid her head on his shoulder. Reporter the child is well and staying with other family. The father and grandmother are fighting charges of child neglect. Police are not buying their watching the video evidence. I understand that people are forgetful. But this appears to be a case of not forgetfulness but poor judgment. If you look close leer at the video, anna adams looks back at the car several times as she walks away, pondering what to do. How do they remember one child and not the other. You just cant do it. Youre taking a chance with their life and the rest of your life too. Reporter dcf is now investigating. Ryan raiche, abc action news. Weather team in florida, abc action weather. Good afternoon, everybody. Still looking at heavy rain east of i75. Pretty much over polk county and kissimmee and down to hardee and desoto. It is coming this way. It will get heavier and more widespread through the evening hours. The more heat, the more energy for the storms to develop. Clear out later on tonight. We will talk about that coming up. Thanks, denis. Good news for students heading back to the overcrowded schools in wesley chapel. A brandnew Elementary School opens on monday. Lauren rozyla shows us what will be different about this school in order to keep the class size under control. Reporter the growth could not be more clear. There are already new homes going up in this empty lot across now the district has to make a plan to cope. Were so excited. Reporter she is relieved her daughter is out of the overcrowded school. Just the congestion was too overwhelming. Reporter each of her four kids will now attend the wire grass elementary. Even second graders can see how much more room there is. Its big. Reporter this will help transitioning from one space to another. Reporter the principal says it will open with 500 kids but can hold 8 hundreds. They know more students is coming. Wire grass is closed to school chose. We anticipate with the growth we will grow past capacity. Reporter new neighborhoods are going up right around the school, bringing in hundreds of families in the next few years. For now this mom is just relieved that in a real classroom, not a portable. It gives the kids more space, which is what they need. Reporter in the meantime the classrooms are ready and waiting for when more kids enroll. The school is expecting so much more growth that they have reserved this entire area for portable classrooms. Lauren rozyla, abc action news. And of Course School kicks students. They still need more teachers. There are 150 openings. Today School Officials are asking for patience as teachers and parents find the routine. Also you want to give yourself extra time in the morning if you are taking your child to school. Over 500 school buses will be in route to take 50,000 kids to class. Just one more day for you to help us to make the school year brighter and better for kids in need. Abc action news teaming up with hud Sons Furniture to double the donations the donations that you make. Drop off donated School Supplies at any hudSons Furniture store. The drive ends tomorrow. Kids wont be allowed to bring mosquito repellent to class. The superintendent says kids should put the repellent on at them home because other students could be allergic. Schools where 25 people have contracted zika virus. One school allows students to wear pants and long sleeved shirts that dont match the School Uniforms to better protect themselves. Estheror eyeing a retirement community, cutting screens to break into homes. Some folks were actually sleeping in bed. Others were awake watching tv. Clifton french tonight showing us how this burglar got in and what you need to know guys like this out. Boy, that scares the hell out of me. What if i had woken up. Reporter you can still hear the fear in this 67yearolds voice. She asked us to protect her identity but hopes her story can protect others. Its been five months since Anthony Williams broke into her home. She was asleep while he took jewelry boxes feet away from where she was lying. Is still on edge. I was in bed, sound asleep. He came into my bedroom. Reporter williams was stealthy. He slit this screen so he could open the door from the inside. When he got in, he set this door stop so he could get out of the house quickly and so the screen door wouldnt slam shut. It was a nice night. Her screen door was locked. Her slider was cracked. She says he pushed the slider open, walked into her bedroom, grabbed the boxes and took to another room so he wouldnt wake her. And rifled through them. Reporter then williams broke into her neighbors home by cutting the screen as well. Just down the road a week earlier, williamsis accused of breaking the back door of thomas lees home where he stole a purse. Thomas wife was watching tv. He was in the back room on the computer. You have to worry about everything now. Before we didnt worry about a thing. I dont feel safe leaving anymore. I keep them closed and locked at all times now. Reporter tonight, the lesson, lock everything, even when youre home. In palm harbor, clifton french, abc action news. Drivers not securing their loads on the road. Aaa shows 200,000 crashes and 500 deaths caused by road debris in the last four years. You see there the first car stopped to avoid the mattress in the road. But plowed straight into it. Aaa is calling for drivers to properly secure their loads to prevent these dangerous accidents because of debris. That is scary. Tonight we are learning of a bizarre twist in the wimbledon tournament last month. A british player may have been poisoned to stop her from competing. Gabrielle abecame sick with a bacterial infection. Tournament. She may have been deliberately poisoned. She pulled out because of a virus, ending her hopes of a grand slam title. Golf in rio tees off for the first time in the olympics since 1904. The top players wont be there because of zika fears. Some critics will tell you its more of a money concern. One of the favorites for the gold, sergio gear see and bubba watson of the united states, they are in rio. Meanwhile u. S. Gymnast simone biles is competing tonight. The defending olympic all american cam charge upon Gabby Douglas will be on the side lines. Speaking of the olympics, we will look at the medal count so far. Good news for the usa. We are in the lead. Russia has got 15. And Great Britain rounding out ashley. Snapchat removing a filter for photo some say promotes racist asian stereotypes. It could place slanted eyes and yellow skin on a users face. It sparked outrage from thousands of users describing it as racist. The filter wont be used. The filters are meant to be playful and never to offend. Excessive. Reporter a giant retailer facing multiple lawsuits over robo bullying. Why the company may be breaking the law. Two people caught on video moments before carjacking a van. New at 6 00, the surprising way it happened and what investigators say the victim taking action for you tonight. Debt collectors relying on robo dialers to contact as many female as possible. Now it appears at least one big late on their credit card payments. Jackie callaway found five lawsuits recently filed in florida that claim that the calls are illegal. Reporter Patricia Douglas cell phone chimed morning, noon and night. Five, six times a day. Sometimes eight. Hello. Were showing there is a past due on your kohls account. Reporter the calls, nearly 600 in six months coo i a single source, kohls. Im with Kohls Department store. How are you. It was total insanity. Reporter when the store failed to stop, patricia slapped the store with a lawsuit. They dialed the cell phone 578 times. They use a blaster to make some of the calls. Robo dialer, called the suit, kohls hounded this customer over late payments on a 174 credit card bill. They are the new robo bully on the block. Reporter howards Consumer Protection firm filed five cases against kohls. They involve 2600 phone calls. Each accuses the chain of robo dialing the cell phones illegally. It is against federal law to use a robo dialer to call a cell phone unless the person on that cell phone specifically gave you that telephone number. Reporter patricia says she never gave kohls her cell phone number. Were you surprised the lengths that kohls was going to to get less than 200. I felt it was very excessive and it was frustrating. Reporter this customer explained to kohls she fell behind on her payments after getting sick in january and missing work. Everybody has been calling very, very, very annoying. Reporter i have reached out to the corporate offices half a dozen times via email and phone calls to try to get them to answer questions about the five robo dialing lawsuits. They have yet to respond. The law states if you ask a robocaller to stop calling your cell, they must so or you could be titled from 100 cal. Im jackie callaway, taking action for you. And we know that you want answers about the issues facing all of us here in the tampa bay area as part of our continuing commitment to take action for you, we have set up a way for you to let us know what youre wondering about. Go on to abcactionnews. Com, look for the story on kohls robocalls under the taking action tab and let us know what you want us to answer for you. Now the most Accurate Weather Team in florida, abc and i have a good question for Denis Phillips right now. I have been reading about swedish fish oreos on your Facebook Page. Facebook has been ablaze today with the perseid meteor showers and swedish fish oreos. I have not tried them. I will show you a picture in a second. We have been talking a lot about the perseid meteor showers. That goes on later on tonight. It has couple days. The best time to see them, between 2 00 a. M. And 5 00 p. M. You can see why there may be issues, the clouds. This is on my fan page. Im telling you, people are all over this. I didnt like the thought of it. I dont know. Something about it. Feel free to stop by and we will give you updates on the meteor shower and the local weather as well. We talk about everything on our Facebook Page as we all do. You. Look outside, the one thing that a lot of folks are seeing is a return to normal. We had the four to five days of cloudy dreary conditions. And then all of a sudden yesterday its like Mother Nature flipped a switch and were back in it, meaning high heat, high humidity and a chance of storms. If you live anywhere from polk city to the northwest, they are just getting their act together. They will be ramping up over the next few hours. They southwest of avon park, heading towards arcadia. We have all of this heating out there. We have the sea breezes going on. Right along lakeland, the corridor, down to desoto, this will be filling in. As they approach the coastline, it will likely be sunset or after so they will be weakening. But the clouds will stick around. Thats an issue for star gazers 2 00 in the morning. A lot of improvements as you get closer to sunrise. Temperatures from the upper 80s to low 90s. The feels like near 100. Thats about right for this time of year. Sarasota topped out at 94 degrees. As we said, tampa right now partly sunny and 91. That dew point, 74. Its a typical august day. Its about right if you look at it. 91 normal is 90 over 76. Record is 96. We only have a sixdegree swing to what our record highs are for the same date. St. Pete, 85 and mostly sunny. The sea breeze has dried things out at st. Pete. Still cooking in sarasota, sunny and 90. The east to west flow, when we get that that means lots of sunshine and heat. Day, early evening. Were in it today. We will be in it tonight and the foreseeable future. That means to plan with no worries at all anything worry wise in the morning to the mid afternoon hours. By the evening hours, then things crank up a little bit. You notice as we see more showers, more thunderstorms from lakeland down to bartow. Then they begin to taper off by midnight. See that . But the clouds are lingering until 2 00 in the morning. If you are going outside to you will have a better opportunity to see them around 3 00, 4 00 in the morning as opposed to midnight. It will be plenty dark enough. By friday evening, more of the same. Late day, Early Morning storms. That continues saturday and sunday as well. As i mentioned, there is a look at the forecast overnight hour by hour. Partly cloudy skies. The best time between 2 00 a. M. And dawn. And you can see up to 200 you can look up in the sky and you will see them if there are not clouds out there. Here is the 7day forecast. 91 on friday. 92 on saturday. Pretty much the next 7 days, typical Florida Weather for the summertime. 60 chance for showers tomorrow. Down to 40 by the weekend. Thank you, denis. Ahead at 5 30, the unconventional way in burglar broke into a gas station and the first thing that he allegedly stole. Its not too late to your kids a free checkup. The retailer offer free health take a good look why the your screen right now. Do you know this man . This burglary suspect came through the ceiling in get into the citgo. He must have been thirsty because he took a pepsi from the cooler and drank it. Thats not all. Cash and cigarettes too. If you have information, call police. School is already in full swing. Sams club is offering Free Health Screenings this weekend. Saturday 11 00 to 4 00 in the afternoon. Screenings are free for members blood sugar checked out. Both students and parents can get these checkups. Here is wendy ryan with a look at what is coming up at 6 00. With the zika virus growing, the locally transmitted cases, the travel related ones in the bay area and the good news in the fight against the virus here in florida. Plus these top stories. Reporter spend pennies for your protection. The thing that you can do today to keep burglars out of your home. On th caught on video before a carjacking. Where investigators think they are hiding. Weapons in schools, an everyday occurrence in tampa. Why students are bringing them, abc action news starts right now with breaking news. Breaking news in pinellas counties. Deputies releasing details on the death of a two week old baby and the arrest yearold mom. Adam weiner joins us live with the shocking details. Reporter it turns out that a 6yearold boy is actually responsible for killing his own 13dayold little infant sister earlier this week. And that it happened while the three kids that this woman has were in a car, left in a parking lot for over 30 minutes. The Pinellas County sheriff just explained to us they are charging this kids mother for the car while she ran errands. Is once she got back in the car, neglected to call 911 until she did more errands later in the day. The sheriff says that 62year old kathleen steel was unfit to be a mom. So he is blaming her for the violence that her own son did to his little sister. The little boy admitted to what he did. He even described what he did to investigators and a warning to you at ho, is a disturbing account from the sheriff. I took the baby and i slammed her like this. I slammed her down. And pushed her up into the ceiling. When he pushed her up into the ceiling, he was holding her and flipping her and this way and that way. And they would fall. So it was just really the way he was describing it is he was tossing the baby around like a rag doll. Reporter the sheriff called

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