For myself and it comes in little brown packages, very exciting. No, ill be sending folks cards again. Ill tell you what, its hard to predict what people want unless you get a nice card or letter from the kids, but of course then you have to mail that to santa claus. There you go. Hope you had a great thanksgiving. Here we are in the 60s, my godness, mid and upper 50s goodness mid and upper 50s, drier and cooler air things fantastic for saturday and sunday, thats going to be gone. Were going to replace cool temps and low humidity with just the opposite here. Weve got a big warmup coming up, well be talking about it tomorrow into wednesday as we soar into the mid80s. We turn cooler and drier as back and forth continues with these fronts with temperatures about 81. Just a 10 rain chance and behind the front well talk more about that in just a few minutes. Good morning everybody, a lot of you heading back to work pretty good. We do have a crash to tell you about in ruskin. All southbound lanes are blocked. U. S. 41 right at fox place. So youre going to want to use old u. S. 41 or depending on where youre coming from and where youre going, head to i 75. I75 looking great right now in both directions south of tampa. And a live look i75 at fowler also looking good again, no crashes or breakdowns on the interstates. Keep it right here and follow me on twitter at tampa bay we hope youre not tired of shopping yet, obviously dan is not. He never could be. Got my fingers ready. Cyber monday officially underway, and for one of the Fastest Growing online retailers, this is a really crucial day. Abc action news james tully is live at the Amazon Fulfillment Center in ruskin, already a busy morning for them. Reporter dan, let me tell you, if santa had a workshop in Something Like this. Behind me inside his Fulfillment Center youre seeing some Conveyor Belts going, not just some, excuse me, theres 14 miles of Conveyor Belt here, and they run 24 7. The Economic Impact of this facility that opened in 2014 is huge. They employ more than 3500 people and tell us theyre employing thousands more just for the holidays. Amazon is a game changer, and today is one of their biggest days. Last year they did 54 items sold on cyber monday, and forbes ranks them the eighth best retailer in the country based on sales. Thats without any stores. Theyre doing this all online. Of course youre going to have some deals today. Behind me their best deals is going to be with some of their products. You see the fire stick here, theres the kindle fire, other tablets and things like that. On our website abcactionnews. Com, weve highlighted some special deals we think are going to mean a lot to you, everything from electronics, of course. So check that out when you get a chance. When we come back were going to talk to a spokesperson from amazon to get more details on these deals. Theres 75,000 of them ask they change every minute on the website. Good luck today folks. Live in ruskin, james tully abc action news. I hope we got a good deal on my present. It seems like Holiday Shoppers are being a little more careful about their spending money this year, the National Retail federation more than 150 Million People shopped in stores and online on black friday weekend. Thats 3 million shoppers more than last year. Each consumer spent an average of 10 less than in 2015. The Retail Federation says more discounts are probably the reason for the drop. 5 04. New this morning, scary moments outside the u. S. Embassy in the philippines. Police in manila say they diffused a bomb yards away from called police after finding a cell phone attached to a bottle like cylinder with wires connecting the cylinder to the phone. Police there are investigating the incident. A tampa familys home is in ruins after a suspected drunk driver hit it for the second time this year. Police say friday night 52year old danica zagara plowed into the house on oregon avenue near lake magdalene. Luckily the family wasnt home but theyre now theyre homeless again. They just moved back into that house a few weeks ago after being homeless for seven months. In march a different drunk driver smashed into the same house hurting one family member. Try to think of the positive, other than the negatives and thank god nobody was hurt, but im not looking forward to being homeless for another six or seven months or however long it takes to find housing. Rose lee and her kids say going to consider speed bumps or railing to stop another accident just like this one. For the second time in two months, tow Truck Drivers are planning a Memorial Drive finish one of their own. Another driver killed yesterday. In both instances drivers who killed them are accused of driving under the influence. The driver in this case Leandro Perez was drunk when he hit and killed the incident yesterday morning on i275 near fowler. What is this coming to, why is this happening. How dare you people do this when you drink and you drive. How dare you. Hand leaves behind a girlfriend and a daughter. Tow Truck Drivers want you to keep in mind the move over law. If you see flashing lights, you need to move over one lane or drop your speed to 20 Miles Per Hour below the posted speed limit. Police have arrested a 27 yearold man in connection to a dumpster. This man corey dean Palmer Watkins is now behind bars. Police say hes connected to the murder of will hodges. Officers found hodges body over a week ago in a dumpster at the shops at park place on u. S. 19. Investigators found watkins fingerprints at the crime scene. Hes now charged with Second Degree murder. The push for a recount in the president ial election is moving forward this morning. Officials in wisconsin say they plan to meet today to talk about a possible time line for a recount Green Party Candidate jill stein has raised 6 million for the process, and Hillary Clintons campaign has formally joined the effort. President elect donald trump narrowly won wisconsin, but state Officials Say it will be tough to finish a recount by the federal deadline. Thats december 12th. President elect trump has left florida and is back in new york this morning after his thanksgiving weekend. Hell be meeting with several potential cabinet members. Twitter. Mr. Trump tweeting that millions of people voted illegally. He tweeted yesterday that he won the popular vote, if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally. He did not say where he got the information that so many voted illegally. Mr. Trump also tweeted it would have been easy for him to win the popular vote, easier for him to win the popular vote than the electoral college. He says he would have campaigned in only three or four states in vote. As of now Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. With flags at halfstaff this morning, some cubans are mourning the death of fidel castro, the leader who dominated the communist country for decades. Memorials will occur throughout cuba with a public mass tomorrow night. In miami the Cuban Community continued celebrating castros death yesterday. Many demanded cuban leaders including fidels brother raul human rights. No u. S. Officials say they plan to attend castros funeral and senator ted cruz whose father fled cuba decades ago hopes no one will. I hope we dont see barack obama and joe biden and Hillary Clinton democrats lining up to a murdererrous tyrant and thug. President elect trump says his administration will do all Journey Towards prosperity and human liberty. S can trees death is expected to spark more interest among americans to cuba. If you want to go to cuba, you need to fall into one of 12 categories approved by the u. S. Government. You have to be visiting relatives, doing Educational Research or traveling to compete as an athlete. At least four u. S. Airlines already fly to cuba with five more joining them in the coming anyone who wanted more ways to get from st. Pete to tampa. The ferry will operate seven days a week beginning at st. Petes vinoys center. Today you can buy a commuter value pass for the ferry. It offers a pack of 20 tickets thats a 50 discount off the regular 10 oneway ticket price. Value tickets can be used anytime during the next six months. All right, were waking up with temps in the 50s and 60s right now. When i come back, well be talking about this forecast that will be changing here. Were going to turn warmer and more humid in the next few days. And also coming up, more questions this morning about crashed in chattanooga, what he was doing thats considered dangerous for bus drivers. And shoppers out in full force this weekend, wait until you see the chaos inside the middle of one california mall. Welcome back, 5 14. New this morning. A louisiana man accused of going on a violent rampage in he fatally shot a woman, ran over two bystanders and crashed into an ambulance. Chief of detectives for the Sheriffs Office says a 48year old man fired at deputies late last night when they demanded he show his hands. They shot the man who then ran into some woods. He was captured moments later, died on the way to the hospital. Officers say it all started when that man shot a woman and threw her out of a car. Then he shot another person and ran over those bystanders. Also new this morning, a 21 yearold man homicide charges after the Fatal Shooting of a 16yearold junior firefighter. Police say the shooting happened inside a pennsylvania fire station. They say the teen was shot in the face. The fire company is saying on its Facebook Page that an annual parade and other Holiday Events were canceled due to an emergency. So far police havent figured out why the shooting happened. Newly released documents via a Tennessee School district involved in a Deadly School bus crash. Those documents show School Officials knew Johnthony Walker had a second job weeks prior to the accident and was still allowed to drove. The ntsb revealing walker worked at an Amazon Fulfillment Center in addition to driving the school bus. According to the School Transportation policy its dangers for bus drivers to have a second job. The Chattanooga Community said goodbye this weekend to another of the victims of that bus crash, zania harris. She was the sweetest you ever wanted to come in contact with. Questions also being raised about walkers driving. Records released by the School District include two written statements by students complaining he drove too fast and he was doing sharp turns. Six children were killed in last weeks bus crash. This morning the u. S. Army corps of engineers says it does not plan to forcibly remove access oil pipeline. The corp. Told trail leaders friday that will be closed to the public on december 5th for safety reasons. Those who choose to stay will do so at their own risk and that they could face charges. Hope you had a Great Holiday weekend. Here we continue with Cool Temperatures compared to where were still checking in in themid50s. Upper 50s cross portions of hearty, desoto, polk county as well and milder along the coast with temperatures in the mid 70s. In general were running milder anywhere from 5 to as high as 10 degrees over where we were this time. The reason for that is going to be important. Southeast wind will bring us a lot of clouds today. A couple of isolated showers, it will continue to bring us into the cooler and dry air we experience this weekend until friday. Weve got a ways to go. This front is going to be a slow mover and stall out north and west of us. Not going to bring us this kind of rainfall and Severe Weather theyre experiencing in texas. As it stalls were going to continue to tap into that southeast wind, and that will allow for temperatures to go on up and humidity as well. That combination is going to feel like late or early fall with dew points climbing from the 50s, whichs the muggy stage here, i think earnestly by tomorrow. High temps still low 80s. By wednesday, low to mid80s will be widespread. Well have showers coming in on thursday. Thats the front and then behind it that weekend, friday into saturday, sunday with highs in the mid70s. Good morning everybody. Were still following this crash down in the ruskin area, southbound u. S. 41 completely blocked right at fox place. You can try to use old u. S. 41, but depending on where youre coming from and where youre going, you might want to head to i75. I75 through that area looking great in both directions actually up to speed there. And your drive on i75 a little bit closer to i4 looking great as well. This is where the two kind of intersect there, no crashes or breakdowns, and your drive on 275 south from pasco all the way down through hillsborough county, just 13 minutes to get from the apex to i4. Dan. Take a look at this video getting nationwide attention right now. Shoppers at a crowded Northern California mall start throwing punches, ending in an all out brawl. The video shows at least six men on the night of thanksgiving. You can see them repeatedly kicking and punching each other, eventually wrestling on the floor. Local police say no one called 911 during the fight, and there were no reports of injuries. A mall spokesperson says mall security quickly broke up this this video has been viewed more than a million times since it hit the web. Still ahead, i like telling you about this one. Go ahead and pour that glass of wine for dinner tonight. It could keep your risk for one major Health Condition down. There is a fine line. Were going to explain coming up. You know, this is just disgusting. One of the most esteemed one Veterans Mission to find its rightful owner. First sales without crowds, excited about that, of course its cyber monday and online retailers are rolling out the deep discounts. Kendis gibson and Adrienne Bankert have more on those deals. In todays tech bytes, cyber monday, deep discounts online including target taking 15 off almost everything on top of its sale. Amazon is offering deals on mart, its already sold out. And heres a tip to save you even more money. Leave items in your virtual shopping cart on a retailers website. Some merchants will email additional discounts to you including jp penny and bed, bath and beyond. One estimate puts the cost of lost productivity at almost half a billion dollars. And get this, 49 of employees in one survey said they would be shopping today theyd be doing it at least some Online Shopping during a meeting. Nice. Dont get caught. Those are your tech bytes. Z26p3z zy6z 5 25 now, a couple glasses of wine a day could actually be good for you health, but any more than that coul studies published in bmc medicine. The review found that people who had one or two alcoholic drinks a day reduced their risk of a stroke by 8 , but people who had more to drink had an increased risk of stroke. The risk for those who had more than four drinks a day jumped by 14 . Outrage in texas after a symbol of combat injury, courage, and bravery is found now an army veteran is on the hunt to find who this purple heart belongs to. Gary kennedy received a call about that purple heart and other medals that were found, and now he is trying to figure out who jim c. Carter is, the world war ii veteran who served in the army and has his name engraved on all those medals. You only receive one purple heart for each time you were shot. If you did get shot that means you were in harms way and that means you were shot the medals or why. Kennedy has reached out to several organizations and families to track down the rightful owners. Coming up, police track down a man accused of stealing hundreds of dollars worth of items from a local target, the reason why he could be in trouble for more than just shoplifting. The search is on for two people who shot up one of the countrys most popular tourist destinations. What we know about the deadly shooting on bourbon street in live from the station taking action for you, this is abc action news. Dangerous job, im erik waxler. Another tow truck driver is killed while trying to help a motorist. Were hearing the simple
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