He wrote back come to florida and study law he teaches. It also says when she came to live at his house he threatened to shoot people onsite saying the only way to leave his anybody back. Sovereign is supposed to be where you only listen to gods laws and it is supposed to be higher than your federal courts. Reporter she claims the reporter they are speaking with all 14 people who still live in the house of davis. In polk city, im carson chambers, abc action news. The busy travel season already taking a deadly turn. In brandon at least one person has died in a crash with all lanes now back open on the crash. Three others are seriously hurt and troopers say the driver of the suv crossed the center line. Both directions could be closed for several hours. This is on one of the busiest travel days of the year. It is right in the thick of all the traffic where we find ryan smith near westshore. How is it tell you that traffic is smooth sailing right now. Is we traveled right past downtown tampa with no trouble. Heading north we are approaching the hillsborough avenue exit. As you can see, it is running at normal speeds tonight. We are seeing a pretty big back up coming the other direction. Today travel experts warn it is but we saw some people using the urgency to get from point a to point b and help them earn a living. Hitting the road this thanksgiving brings another meeting for many tampa bay drivers. It be nice if i can make 200 today. Uber drivers putting chauffeuring people around. The airport this morning it chat anywhere between 60 and 80 minutes, which is a long time to wait. Reporter 28,000 travelers passing through today alone. That is 5000 more than a typical wednesday. Jody santiago counts on the extra cash. You basically work when you have time to work. Reporter matthew stern went to the drivers seat after losing his job three weeks ago. He is thankful for this opportunity and the stories along the way. People jump in. It is an experience. You can chit chat with them and drop them off. Reporter for those driving themselves to dollars for two dollars for gas is easing the pain. It is so it definitely saves a little bit. Reporter and back out here tonight on i275 north you can see we are approaching a bit of a backup here just past the avenue. The good news is it is still moving right along. For those traveling, the best day is first thing friday morning the day after thanksgiving. In tampa tonight this is ryan smith, abc action news. This is a live look at Denver International airport. The flight stats say there are very few delays. Airlines for america predicting 27 Million People will travel by air for the thanksgiving holiday. Here is a look now at the chicago ohare airport. People at security waiting to get to friends and family. It is one of the airports with the most delays because of the weather. And denis , that is how it could affect us in tampa. You just mentioned chicago. This is realtime information. Chicago is showing a moderate delay in minneapolis the same thing. Minneapolis is due to the snow but everywhere else is not too the same with no issues as weather will be beautiful. By tomorrow were hoping for green all of the way down, although i think there will be some rain in seattle and new york. I do not think it will be an issue for the parade. Most of it happens later on friday. Closer home we have no rain issues and we could use some. What a Beautiful Day with 80 degrees on thanksgiving day. We are tracking two cold fronts over the next several days. We will check back with you. Just into the newsroom the first lawsuit filed after the Deadly School bus crash in chattanooga, tennessee. The parents of an 8yearold passenger filed the suit against the bus driver Johnthony Walker and the germ Durham School services. Five children died in that accident and walker remains in jail on five charges. And map to democracy 2016. President elect donald trump may be in florida but he is still checking off more names on his cabinet which was tonight. He picked proschool choice advocate betsy devos to head nikki haley has accepted the selection of her to be the ambassador of the United Nations out of a sense of duty. We are still watching to see what ben carson might do in the trump administration. There are reports he has been offered the job of housing and urban development that has not yet accepted it. Here is who else mr. Trump has named so far. Reince priebus will be his chief of staff. Steve bannon is his chief strategist and retired Army Lieutenant general Michael Flynn will be the National Security advisor. We are tracking with Pinellas County detectives to see if anybody will be charged after the death of a twomonth old boy. The caretaker went to wake him up and called 911. He was pronounced detectives say there were no obvious injuries. We are getting our first look at a local woman accused of calling in a bomb threat. She called it into a New Port Richey Department Store as deputies investigated a shoplifting case. Deputies never found a bomb and they say she admitted to making two other threats last week at a publix store and a fabric store. They that he killed a couple. Austin harrouffs lawyer said there is no evidence he took bath salts or flakka before the attack. It is coming the same day with the full report in the harrouff case comingout. The test did find alcohol and marijuana in the system of harrouff. New video tonight from action air 1. A ship preparing to it is a replica of a schooner used in the war of 1812. Donate it passed by the bridge before it received a gun salute. It will be open this weekend for tours meant to teach people about american history. Still ahead, a st. Petersburg family counting their blessings before thanksgiving. The person this father credits with saving him and his baby from a burning home. Misbehaving movers in the simplest of you can take to protect your stuff before your next move. One more look at this braking house fire in town and country. Crest hill drive is where crews are battling the house fire. It looks like the flames are going away with more smoke and we will keep you posted once we fire and whether anyone was hurt. We will be right back. Stay with us. Y26m3y yy6y welcome back, everyone. I am here in our abc action news lobby with the angel tree program. These are little goalies and boise river need a girls and boys who really need a present on christmas morning. All you do is while you were out shopping this week and on black friday you get any of those gifts and bring them back here and we will take care of the rest on christmas morning. It is our way of saying thank you to you by registering to win 500 gift card to the gold and diamond store. , on by monday through friday and make a wish come true on christmas morning. Rtv station is very easy to find right across the street from Raymond James stadium. Our lobby is open weekdays and we will be closed tomorrow for thanksgiving day but we are open on black friday. If you live in a different part of town, you can find another angel tree near you. Just go to www. Abcactionnews. Com for other locations and remember all gifts need to be back here by friday, december 2. This st. Petersburg family has a lot to be thankful for. A father and his baby escaping a burning home today. The data tells abc action News Reporter adam winer who he is thinking for saving the life of here. Reporter mark kaigler was asleep this morning along with his baby girl when the back of his girlfriends for the third avenue north house caught fire. I was in that room right there. Reporter kaigler believes he and the baby would have died if not for his neighbor. I think the lord the lady next door knocked on the door. We probably would have burned up. Reporter the family was not out of danger just yet. I grabbed a bucket and put cold water on it. Reporter that is one kaigler when kaigler took off. The Fire Department was pulling up and i was getting out of there. Reporter thankfully there was no explosion in the house because that same neighbor called 911 so quickly. I think the lord thank the lord for her being there. Reporter an issue like this that is electric probably sparked the fire. After this close call the family will not be hardpressed to find something to be thankful for. Adam winer, abc action news. President barack obama has spared a turkey from typical fate. He pardoned a turkey for the last time before he leaves office. The eternity turkey named tot and a back up named tater. That is a big old turkey. Isnt Virginia Tech the hoagies . That makes sense turkeys would go there. We are going to have a warm better than cold and snowy. How can you complain about this . That is why many folks are visiting us this week. You missed our cold snap. If you are not here earlier, we had temperatures in the 20s and the 30s. Humidity is going up, and it will continue until we get a little dry air by sunday. When the weak front through it will not bring us rain but a second one comes tuesday or wednesday bringing the rain chances back up. For the time being no rain to speak as as we enjoy this beautiful stretch of whether with temperatures right now mid to upper 70s. What is crazy about this is the morning lows were in the low 60s. You can see just how much things have changed over the to 57 in tampa and even low 50s in Crystal River with 40s in brooksville. Tomorrow morning if you are cooking are watching the parade , temperatures will be mild and sunny. Some mid50s and citrus hernando and down through pasco county. You will be in the upper 50s in desoto as well. It is beautiful right now with lots upper 70s. We have more of the east wind bringing moisture and also the culprit for increasing the humidity as well. It is also the reason the coldest temperatures have taken a break so we are looking at highs about 80 and you can see clearly the easterly flow bringing in weiser. Moisture. It will not bring any rain with a sprinkle on the evening when some folks are already shopping getting ready for black friday skies will be partly cloudy and a very nice evening. But i mentioned this yesterday. They will be some fog friday morning. Polk county and citrus hernando will see some fog. It should burn off by 10 00 and the reason we have the warm air is the time of the year if you are taking your boat out the extra careful because there could be low visibility on friday and saturday. The forecasted high at the beach maybe you would like to enjoy your thanksgiving a little early the weather will be beautiful with a little more humid through friday. The next one goals and by saturday giving us dryer air storm. It will roll into Central America some time later on thanksgiving. For the voters boaters the water temperature is 66 and sunrise and sunset forecasted right through thanksgiving with high temperatures 80 degrees both thursday and friday. Saturday may be a little cooler with a look at floridas most accurate sevenday forecast even the clouds they expect snow acquainted all until the middle of next week. Then we get a decent chance by next tuesday for a stronger front to roland. You have probably noticed someone waiting in lines like these for black friday. We will show you the savings you can get on everyday items and you dont need to camp out. Plus, suspended and throat Office Football team. The reason this teenager that right now you are getting a first look in utah producing thousands of pills per hour. You can see agents in hazmat suits loaded up drugs and cash. The operations bend of multiple homes and at one there was 100,000 pills disguised as oxycodone we told you about fentanyl before. Last year they had more deaths related to conventional than any other in florida. A teenager is changing high schools afters old school suspended him for a National Anthem protest on veterans day. He refused to stand as it played at a school assembly. He says he did it after hearing some of his classmates make comments he found troubling i wish they would be willing to listen and have some compassion. Reporter he said he school suspended him and put him on a disciplinary contract. The school said it did this because his protest was disrespectful. He says he has the utmost respect for veterans and even shook hands with several after the assembly. Employees arrested for stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry. Straight ahead and warning for anyone hiring any moving company. Plus, another live check on the road. It looks like it is bumperto bumper and i4 west. Slow going heading back out to ryan smith for an update on how traffic is moving as people had in and out of town for thanksgiving. Pack your patience next at 5 30. Download the new abc action news app for your mobile phone your favorite app store. Closed captioning is brought to you by lakeland toyota. Hey is this enough . A little more. Grandma there you go. Theres no more room. Oh look whos here i know i had one more. Hmmm. More. Hows it looking . 20 more minutes. Yes. Lets enjoy. We need more rolls there was a little girl, and she became friends with every animal she met. Its getting late, grandma should go. One more . In the end, all we really need more of, is each other. Live from the station taking action for you. This is abc action news. Breaking news with action air 1 over the scene of this fire terry turner a town country home tonight. It is at crest hill drive near west hanna avenue. This home out. The fire appeared to jump to another structure in the backyard. We will have a an update soon. At least one person is dead in this crash the day before thanksgiving on alternate 19 and palm harbor. Three others seriously hurt. Jeepers say the driver of the suv crossed the center line and old 19 could be closed for street with more than 49 people expected to drive on the road this thanksgiving. This polk city man accused of holding that woman hostage on his property. Police say ronnie davis threatened to kill her if she left and tonight davis actually belongs to a group called an extremist terror organization. Good evening everyone. Tonight movers accused of stealing jewelry from a family. Clifton french tells us this is more common than you would think. Reporter the owner of this franchise would not go on camera, but we uncovered many complaints of damaged items and stolen belongings. It is a beautiful home in odessa surrounded by a wall and security gate. According deputies employees of
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