Care in pinellas park. This stems from some sort of drug deal. Theyre sorting through the pieces of information, trying to figure out what happened here. But we know the mother of that child will face charges for making a false report as well as her boyfriend. And the driver of that car that ended up crashing will also face charges. And as i mentioned, the chief says this is just bogus. Were still trying to get the details together. But it other than that, i cant give any exexplanation for the ridiculous behavior by some of the people involved in the case. Reporter the chief mentioned there will be several charges and they are piecing through all of this. The driver that took the car, the chief mentioned that car was never really true three stolen but the car ended up crashing. Serena is live at the location. Reporter thank you. Im about 10 miles away from you. Let me give you a picture where i am. Where on us19. And just about 15 minutes ago, that ford fusion driven by that man was towed away from the scene. But if you walk with me over here, you can see where that car slammed into the pole. It actually slammed into the sign. Hopefully we can go to video of that car that we took and you can see that it is pretty damaged. You can also see a car seat in that car. We do know that the man, though, according to according to Clearwater Police was not seriously injured. Once again, the car was towed from here. It was towed from a towing company but under the directive of the sheriffs office. Not even Clearwater Police. We are monitoring this story and will keep you updated on anything that we learn. Weather team in florida, abc action weather. Thanks, serena. It was a wild weather today. Despite of the fact that we had severe thunderstorm warnings and tornado warnings and tornado watches, no reports of any damage in our entire viewing area. Now, we certainly had some interesting weather though as the storms raced through our Northern Counties throughout the morning hours. In fact what was interesting was the tornado watch dropped at about 10 00 in the northering and then all of a sudden we had new funnels, new tornadoes form across the southern viewing section in sarasota a back behind it, temperatures in the upper 60s to mid 70s. By the way the damage was minor that were seeing. Now the rains are just about over. The warm temperatures are over too. Were looking at a near freeze later on in the week. Ill tell you which morning coming up in a couple of minutes. The tornadoes causing damage in pensacola. Governor rick scott visited the area where there was damage to homes and apartments. Shelters are open for those with nowhere to go. Trees and power lines were also knocked down during the storms. Many people are still without power tonight. Three people were killed across florida, georgia and alabama. Right now, st. Petersburg city leaders making to make the city safer. This after a violent end to 2015. Eight young men gunned down in the streets of south st. Pete in just two months. Kera mashek is live with what a change. Reporter a new partnership between city hall and the police department. They hope this might be the ticket to helping atrisk youth in the city. Families who live in the thick of it where all of the recent violence has happened is now is still not enough. Courtney davis is a proud mom of a 7yearold boy. He is well behaved and gets good grades. Living in south st. Pete, she worries about his safety every day and what he sees in his neighborhood. Not too long ago, days after days after days kids getting shot. Reporter all of that violence and young lives lost is exactly why reverend kenny irving is read tee to get to work. He stouterred his new role as the city of st. Petes intervention director to stop the constant cycle of violence. This didnt just happen. Were looking at a lot of neglect and a lot of misdirection. And its going to take time. Reporter the key, building relationships and partnerships across the city, with schools, do good. Irving says there are some things that can be done right away to help, like creating a whos are true ant or drop out so they can get connected to a mentor before they wind up in bigger trouble. And the grand vision, creating pathways to help every young person find success. You have to create opportunities, internships, and apprenticeships so young people who dont go to College Still know there are alternatives for them to be able to make the all Mighty Dollar but do it in a way that is upright and honorable. Reporter mom Courtney Davis is still skeptical. To be honest, actions speak louder than words. I have to see it to believe it. Reporter and irving says he has confidence that people will believe. He just started on the job. He is convinced it will help young people turn away from the potential life of crime. Kera mashek, abc action news. Tonight, this woman right here behind bars tonight. Police believe that star trouble is her name. She killed her boyfriend and left him in the home they shared together. Abc action News Reporter ryan raiche is live now with why she is not charged with his murder just yet. Ryan. Reporter yeah. Right now that woman is locked up on charges of lying to police and accessory. If she did not kill her long time boyfriend, she certainly didnt do herself any favors. She is involved with murder. Reporter sheriff judd telling reporters all they need to do in the Death Investigation is connect the dots. They believe it will lead them to his long time girlfriend star trouble. Our Homicide Team hasnt had an unsolved homicide in over seven years. She is testing us. But its not a very hard test. Reporter clark was found dead with a gunshot wound to home that he shares with trouble and the three kids. Investigators believe had someone killed him thursday night. She avoided the home all weekend. She even brought her brother by the house to show him the body and asked for help to move the body. When the brother asked why didnt you call the police or the ambulance, she said they would ask too many requesters. Reporter her brother didnt want anything to do with it. When the 19yearold returned home with their siblings, they made the grim kiss discovery. Star allowed that 19year old girl to come in and find who she calls her daddy dead. Reporter neighbors tell abc action news that they stayed mostly to themselves but they have heard them argue. As far as gunshots, even the nextdoor neighbor says they never heard a thing. This case wrapped up. Both the suspect and victim in this case have criminal the brother who saw the body we are told that he is cooperating and will not face any charges. Live in winter haven tonight, ryan raiche, abc action news. Four more cases of the zika virus are being confirmed in florida, bringing the total to 32 now. Three of the cases involve pregnant women. The department of health says they have two labs for antibody testing. One in tampa. The cdc and other Health Organizations addressed the committee on the progress for vaccines and diagnostic tests. Newly unsealed documents seem to back up apples claim that fbis demand to unlock the cell phone of one of the San Bernardino attackers is not limited to just one phone. The fbi is demanding help to open nine other phones. Technique could be used on any number of devices putting privacy in jeopardy. The government says apples refusal could be putting lives at risk. This test drive is something that we do. Its a normal thing. But this test drive was anything but normal. Coming up, the deadly turn that now has car salesmen across the country thinking twice about something that they do every day. Plus this arrested for embezzling tens of thousands of dollars from this Animal Shelter in bradenton. How the manager was able to get away with the crime for 7 officials in california confirming a potential car buyer was under the influence when he crashed and killed a salesman during a test drive. Warren smale who worked at carmax was taking the customer on a test drive when the customer smashed the car into a tree. The 28yearold was behind the wheel of a chevy corvette. He was under the influence of crashed the car. Coworkers gathered at the scene to honor a man more like a father to them. He was amazing. An amazing person. He was like a father to all of us. The driver is charged with vehicular manslaughterrer and driving under the influence of drugs. Carmax leased a statement saying their prayers go out to the family and they are working closely with investigators. The manager of the bishop Animal Shelter is accused of embezzlement. She embezzled over 65,000 over a 7year period. Clifton french tells us how she managed to get away with it for so long. Reporter a staple at the bishop Animal Shelter in bradenton, gayle juda, an employee for 15 years, now the former kennel manager is facing some serious charges for embezzling 66,000. Office, judas scheme was simple. She would simply omit donations and adoptions. For instance, if there were ten adoptions, she would only report eight. The remaining money would simply go in her pocket. We tracked it since 2008. Reporter thats Manatee Sheriffs Office spokesperson dave bristow. She was able to get away it for years because she was the only person who dealt with the books and she only took a small amount. She said she was having financial problems and she needed extra money. Reporter the shelter that was closed today discovered a small discrepancy last year and fired the longtime employee. Thinking it was an isolated incident at first, the staff took a closer look at the books, noticing adoptions and money didnt add up. Tonight, its unclear what steps the shelter is taking to make sure that Something Like this doesnt happen again. In bradenton, clifton french, abc action news. Weather team in florida, abc action weather. Its like the wild weather day out there. Hope. Ly it will calm down a little bit. As many warnings and watches we had, no reports of damage across our area. Honestly it could have been a lot worse, even with all that was going on. Now, the beach is getting a little choppy out there and the winds will continue to pick up out of the northwest. That will bring in colder air. And there is a look at rainfall totals. This is the good news out of it. Its actually, believe it or not, been dry over the last couple of weeks. A lot of folks picked up between one to two inches of rain. That extends all the way up, down along i4. So you dont have to put water in your pool because there was plenty of water across the i4 corridor. Look at pasco county, no measurable rain. You get no rain in pasco. Measurable rain. And then bulls eye from i4 over to the beach. And then Manatee County as well. About an inch and a half of rain in central Manatee County with temperatures right now primarily in the mid70s across most of the area. Theres the cooler air rolling into the Northern Counties. Tomorrow morning, it will be a lot different. Under partly cloudy skies. Temperatures anywhere from the upper 40s in the Northern Counties to low to mid 50s across the rest of the viewing area. Outside right now, tampa and st. Pete as well as clearwater checking in with a lot of cloud cover with temperatures in the upper 60s. The winds will starting to pick up out of the northwest. Yesterday they brought in warmer air. Thats out of the south. Tomorrow and tonight for that matter, out of the north northwest. That will really allow the temperatures to drop down. Really a crazy day. We had the tornado watch in for the Northern Counties. That was dropped. Everything looked okay. Then around lunchtime, the southern end decided to get a little more spunky and zesty. Them. But still the warnings were issued, making it an unnerving afternoon for folks across the southern counties. Thats now gone. The tornado threat has moved up north. We will touch on that in the next half hour. As you see, looking at our area, strong northwest winds even though they bring in cooler air, its the same thing that we talk about over the winter. Cooler air over warmer waters. Well, we have the same thing going on. And that creates what we call strike stratocue clouds. You go into polk county, areas the water and you will see more sunshine. Friday morning, winds shift out of a more northerly direction. That means the air brings in colder conditions. Friday night, saturday morning, we will be looking at the chance of a near freeze across our Northern Counties. Forecast highs, these are your high temperatures on thursday. We were at 80 yesterday. Tomorrow, we will be lucky to hit 60. A lot of folks in our Northern Counties, citrus, hernando, upper 50s high temperature. Then you throw in a brisk northwest wind and it will feel like its in the 40s and we will be talking windchills. So from 80 degrees yesterday to windchills two days later, that is florida in the wintertime. Upper 60s in Highlands County. Friday morning, it will be even colder. These are your wakeup temperatures on friday. Low 40s Northern Counties. Mid40s along the rest of the area. Saturday morning, even colder than this. But i do think we see temperatures in the mid 30s across our Northern Counties on saturday morning. Were in a stretch for about three or four days where it will be chilly, temperatures 10 degrees below normal. Northwest winds for the boaters tomorrow, they will be gusty at 20 knots. Choppy out on the bay. Water temperature climbing up to 63 now. Theres your tides, sunrise and sunset. The real weather is over. Now were in for a lot of sunshine. Tomorrow, more clouds than sun early on, especially along the beach. Maybe a sprinkle near the coast. Thats it. Otherwise look at the temperatures. Highs in the 60s. Then on saturday, the weekend should be beautiful. Just kind of cool. Sunny skies both days. Highs on saturday, 63. Then back in the upper 70s. The roller coaster ride continues by the middle of next week. Thank you, denis. Coming up, a long strange trip. Where this cat was discovered. Were going to tell you and her taking action for your health tonight. What class does your kid like best, recess or math . Tonight were learning that combining those two classes could actually get the best results. Researchers in the netherlands tested two strategies in second and third graders. Half sat in their chairs. The other half had physical affect test with mental challenges. Jumping around during lessons made a difference in just two years. Physical activities caused better grades in math and spelling. Tonight this felines owner is thankful for micro Chip Technology and the kindness of a stranger. After posting pictures of the decided to bring her to the local shelter. Nadia had a micro chip and the family was traced thousands of miles away in wisconsin. Pretty shocking and amazing to see how far she had come. If she could tell us stories. We looked for her for days. It was the worst christmas ever. The cats owner says she got out on christmas day. They have no idea how she hitched a ride all the what i to florida. Tonight theyre just thankful to have her back. Next at 5 30, a group of bay area parents are fired up after a student paints a frightening picture of an attack at school. Why he says it was all just a bad dream. Were talking about between 11 and 14 years old. And theyre not ready for it. Safe sex in middle school . Straight ahead, angry parents work to block teachers from students at risk for dropping out get handson training. The steps that teachers are making to make sure they are learning a real skill and abc action news starts right now with breaking news. Live from action air 1, right now Clearwater Police family. They are waiting right now in that white suv you see there on the center of your screen. Earlier the mother told investigators her car had been inside. The woman later admitting to detectives she made the entire story up. Right now, Police Telling us mother. Keep an eye on that and im laura harris. Denis phillips is here tracking weather. Calls today. Tornado warnings all over the place. Immediate area. But there were tornadoes off to the north. In fact, serious tornadoes up in the panhandle. Then we had our watches locally. Interestingly enough, the watches expired at 10 00. Then all of a sudden come noon, 12 30, warnings come up in sarasota, desoto and charlotte county. Injuries. Now the rains are just about not entirely. There are still a few showers across Highlands County and desoto and thats about it. What you will notice tomorrow morning will be the temperatures. From 80 degrees yesterday. Right now were in the mid60s up north and the mid70s down south. Everybody will be waking up to temperatures in the 40s and 50s as skies begin to clear
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