System meant to do that is failing them by not giving workers a reasonable workload. Were supposed to have 12 cases running at all times but sometimes. Reporter those former workers speaking us to us saying they were forced from increasing demands and the list. Being unmanageable. Impossible. You cannot complete your goals with working the way that it should work. Reporter those cases equate to children. And were told there arent enough people to protect them because turnover is so high. Workers that have been there a long time are feeling overwhelmed and leaving because its not getting any better. Reporter according to a dcf annual report the turnover rate from tampa to naples is the largest in the state. Two years ago it was 50 . Last year, 47 . Through the cracks, with cases in need of attention neglected. If you dont have enough people to support the system, it just cant work. Reporter one worker says she put in 15,000 worth of overtime last year just to get to all of her cases. The understood information comes from that im supposed to close my cases on my own time and not on paid time. And i refused to do that. Thats just not okay. Thats breaking the law. Reporter and those workers tell us that even though they chose to resign, theyre still worried about those children who will not be protected if those workers cant do their jobs properly. Within the past 30 minutes, dcf responded, sending us this statement saying in part that they will be receiving more money this year to hire more workers and they say that the safety of the children is their top priority. On our website. Sarah rosario, abc action news. Thank you, sarah. Tonight an accused tampa murderer is being spared from a possible death sentence. A judge banning prosecutors from seeking Capital Punishment for roughas because the Death Penalty law is not currently legal. The u. S. Supreme court ruled it unconstitutional last month. He is scheduled to go on trial in april for a 2012 murder at the University Oak wood apartments. He walked up to an officer who was stopped at a traffic light and confessed to the killing. As for floridas Death Penalty is a fix is in the works in tallahassee. A House Committee considering a revamped version of the law today. That one does not require a unanimous decision from a jury. That sets up a roadblock because two days ago a senate bill requiring a unanimous michael gunn was one of fourteen agers arrested. They were stealing from vehicles in a Downtown Parking garage. Police say the teens have admitted to stealing from 40 different vehicles across three garages this week. Police now getting the word out, asking any more victims to contact them right away. Ipods basically it was during the day. Skipping school and car hopping is the term, is what these people described to us as they were going around and checking door handles. In the meantime, ipods, money, car chargers and personal items are among the stolen items. Most of the cars burglarized were unlocked. Now the most Accurate Weather Team in florida, abc action weather. Good evening, everyone. Over the next couple of days, we will be chilly. But tomorrow morning is going to be your coldest morning not just of the next few days of the next week and we do have a freeze warning in effect for citrus and hernando. Temperatures expected to drop down to 31 and 30, in that ballpark between 4 00 a. M. And 6 00 a. M. The rest of the bay area with the exception of Pinellas County or Hillsborough County will have some frost. There certainly will be areas while you wont drop down to 32, you will have to do scraping tomorrow morning of your windshields, especially north of i4. Low to mid 40s by 9 00, 10 00. By tomorrow morning, low to mid 30s across the Northern Counties. Upper 30s to around 40 degrees closer to the downtown area under mostly clear skies. And then we have the valentines day weekend with another front on the way. We will pinpoint how that affects your weekend coming up in a couple minutes. See you shortly, denis. The race for the white house is on its way to tampa. Donald Trump Holding a rally friday at the usf sun dome. Serena is showing us how the the big event. Reporter and jamison, were right here in the parking lot of the sun dome. The main parking lot. But come friday, this entire parking lot is going to be closed. And only Ticket Holders will have access. But those Ticket Holders are being asked to get here hours earlier before the event even starts at 5 00. And they will also likely have to navigate through a sea of protesters. Among the first to secure a free ticket for the donald trump rally friday. Theres 10,000 student thats signed up immediately. Reporter the sophomore not a supporter. Surprised actually trump that would choose the sun dome. Its a multi cultural university. All of the awful things that he says about various groups. Reporter close to 6,000 of the more than 40,000 who attend usf are from other countries. Many incensed over his polarizing comments. If he says anything reporter amanda wont step inside the sun dome. Instead make her point from outside. What i have a problem with is the hate speech, the sexism, the islam phobia and the racism. Reporter she estimates 300 will follow her lead, judging by the help on making these signs. We want people to be informed about this is what these policies actually mean. Reporter supporter or not, security secretive and tight. Multi agencies assisting usf police. Safe to say if youre not on duty he will probably be there. Reporter trump is the first and so far only president ial contender to book here and throw in the time, rush hour. Urging, avoiding the area if possible. Usf borders some of the countys busiest roadways. For amanda, the more eyes on her message, the better. The more that stand up against this the more we can reporter i just checked the website a couple minutes ago. There are tickets available. I posted all of that information on our website at abcactionnews. Com. Tickets to that rally are Still Available as of a little while ago. They opened up a few more seats a few days ago. We put a link on abcactionnews. Com. There it will take you to the ticket page where you can register to get two tickets max for yourself. If you get tickets they will be emailed to you. They are free but parking will cost you 20 cash. Another state being added to the growing list of confirmed zika cases. This time alabama. But florida still leading the way with 16 cases. There are now a total of 66 confirmed cases in the u. S. The virus has been linked to a birth defect that causes babies to have abnormally small heads. It could stay in the persons system for about a week. Cdc does not believe that it affects future pregnancies. A new report says car locking systems are keeping drunk drivers away from your families but we could be doing more. Numbers from mothers against drunk driving says the systems have stopped 1. 7 Million People from driving drunk since 1999. Right now only 25 states require these devices for all dui offenders. Madd is using this information to push the rest of the nation to follow suit. When i first opened the door and i saw her holding it, i thought somebody hit her. Bruised and in tears. A little girl gets off her school bus with a big mark on her face. How it happened and what her mother says other parents need to look out for. And a beautiful sunset across the area. But you are going to want to bundle up tonight. Frost advisory for much of the area. I will have all of those right now the man convicted of assassinating Robert F Kennedy is staying behind bars. He was denied parole just minutes ago for the 15th time. Thats despite getting help from one of his victims. Paul testifying on behalf of his behalf. He was shot in the head during the attack. He tells our scripps affiliate in san diego that kennedy was killed by a second gunman who remains free to this day. He couldnt shoot Robert Kennedy and didnt. Do this. Kennedy neck bullet. Neck. It was the only whole bullet they could work with. It did not match. Kennedy was shot in the back and sir han was in front of him. A Citrus County teacher may soon be out of a job and facing criminal charges after hosting a party for students. She is accused of giving students alcohol, pot and sex tips. She denies the allegations but she has been suspended without pay. 40 students went to her home for an ugly sweater problem. Many students say she was well aware of the drinking and drug use. People are feeling that she is going to come back. But at the same time she is just suspended. We dont know what is going to happen. Her Attorney Says she is innocent and will fight this to the end. So far no criminal charges have been filed. A pasco county mother outraged tonight after her daughter came home from school with a bruised face. The injury caused by her head hitting a bus window. Tonight jacqueline is taking action to help her get answers reporter this is how fourth grader karina typically looks. But this is how she got off her school bus looking on monday afternoon. It was scary. Reporter her mother found her on her doorstep alone and in tears. I couldnt imagine what happened. Reporter the hanks live just a mile from the elementary school. During that short ride, karinas mom says that Surveillance Video shows that this bus driver came to the round about in this subdivision and jumped the curb, slamming her face first into a window. It was like, you know, did you not tell the bus driver. She said no but i was crying when i got off the bus. That to me was the second alarm. How do you not notice that somebody is eyeing exiting the bus. Reporter the mother called the schools principal who expressed concern. She was ultimately referred to the transportation department. She told abc action news that the transportation supervisor not immediately questioning or notifying the bus driver. When 24 hours passed, she called again, looking for answers. I was fuming. Reporter abc action news called the transportation supervisor but never heard back. The School District is looking into the matter. Oh, i was super worried. I wanted to make sure that everybody knew what was happening. I wanted to know that the community knew to double check their kids. Reporter karina didnt have to go to the hospital or miss any school. While the mom doesnt want the bus driver to be fired but she wants to remind her to be more careful and alert. And here is some dramatic video coming out of turkey. The Turkish Coast guard releasing video of a rescue of a migrant. The man clinging to safety. The tip of his boat sticking 409 people have died just this year trying to cross the mediterranean sea. Now the most Accurate Weather Team in florida. Abc action weather. Time to prepare for cold weather tonight and tomorrow morning. Yeah. Bring in the pets and set the alarm a few minutes later. Cover the plants, right. Exactly. Especially citrus and hernando. Check it out. A beautiful shot. Cloud cover out in the distance. Another beautiful sunset. Even nicer from the inside everybody else, a frost advisory. While the temperature doesnt drop to 32, there may be frost of i75 and north of i4. Generally eastern pasco and sumter and northern polk and that area. It does not include pinellas or downtown tampa west. Temperatures now in the lower 50s. They will quickly drop once the sun goes down. The winds have still been an issue of late. We have been dealing with windchills for the last couple of days. They will be calm tomorrow morning. Once they do, it sets us up for a frigid start for our standards. And then we begin to warm up for a couple of days until another chain with another front on saturday. Partly cloudy at the airport. Clearwater and st. Pete clear. Winds are still gusty. Overnight. Calm. Thats when we will start to see the temperatures ra he willly bottom out between 3 00 and 6 00 a. M. They will probably drop 5 to 6 degrees in the stretch. With clear skies we shouldnt have to worry about clouds especially with the wind coming in out of the north. There is the drier air rolling in. Things are settling up for what we call a radiational cool. Pretty much prime ingredients for florida to get the possibility of a freeze. Mostly clear. Right through tomorrow morning. Lack of cloud cover and a lack of wind and cold air from the north settling together to give us the freeze across the elsewhere. Later on in the day, we will begin to see warmup. Back into the 60s. Upper 60s by friday afternoon. Youre not going to notice any cloud cover. While the mornings will be chilly, the afternoons will be very nice as we get up around that 70degree mark. Remember, thats still below normal. We should be about 73, 74 this time of year. Temperatures for highs on thursday anywhere from the low to mid 60s across the metro. Mid to upper 60s in a few spots away from the beach. Is in the mid to upper 60s. Friday morning, not as cold. Not a heat wave but we will see mid 40s and you wont have to worry about frost or freeze on friday morning. It will be mid 50s closer to the beach. Bottom line, this weekend, things will be warming up nicely for valentines day briefly until a cold front first thing in the morning. Thats a far cry from the 10 to 14 we had yesterday. There are your tides. Your sunrise and sunset. 61 the afternoon high downtown in tampa. Sunny and definitely cool. 10 degrees below normal. Theres a look at the 7day. A front comes in saturday. It will be dry. No rain with it. A little cooler for valentines day. The next real chance for rain holds off until monday or tuesday of next week. Hello, folks. I dont know what it is about the lightning and the month of february. Reminded me of last season and the seasons before. The bolts went 471 in 12 games leading up to the deadline in 2014. This month theyre 22. And i think it all stems from trade deadline distractions. Players wondering if theyre staying or going. Now to note nine games remain before the deadline. The rays hope to be in the same position in october. The question is how do they get faces fit in . Here is john sabol. Time. The sound of baseball and the smell of fresh cut grass is less than two weeks away. But for ten rays, they got a head start with a workout at the trop this morning. Im the new guy coming in here. Build some kind of a relationship with them. What i have to do from now until the end is what i will do. Im getting ready for camp. Its like showing up for the first day of school. You know most of your classmates but theres a couple new guys. Reporter one of the tasks that the second year manager kevin cash will have to figure out during spring training, how to manage the overcrowded outfield. Its no secret. We like to play the matchups and we lengths like to keep it as versatile as possible. Maybe with the right left, right, left. And the acquisitions will allow us to do that easier. Reporter a trade still could occur during the spring to free up a spot in the outfield rotation. Either way pierce or dickerson might find themselves coming off the bench or starting. I think hopefully i get that opportunity. Ive had to learn how to play the positions in order to crack the lineup. For me, this is something that reporter reporting at the trop, john sabol, abc action sports. Were back in a minute and valentines day weekend, chilly but at least warming back up close to 70. On monday, back to work, the freeze warning in the Northern Counties in the morning. We will see you at 11 00. We have coverage of the top stories on abcactionnews. Com