It is a lot. Kimberly kuizon in port charlotte. The home is one of 36 damaged, 11 of them are unliveable. They are staying with his sister and her home is not easy to get around but a place to stay for now. We told you about a case that involves love, theft and millions in missing jewels. Now a millionaire businessman is taking his exfiancee to court as details are released. Gloria gomez has been all over this. What is the latest. Reporter the victim in the case learned he was robbed after he got a phone call that broke the case wide open. Scott mitchell and Mary Katherine hunt were supposed to live happily ever after. There was a theft of 2 million in jewelry. Reporter the love is gone and so is millions of dollars gold. What the complaint says is the items from mr. Mitchell. Todd foster represent mrs. Mitchell. He didnt know his valuables were missing until he got an unexpected phone call from his exgirlfriends father, michael hunt. He called him to tell mitchell that he had the jewels that they had been shipped to him by ups and he was offering to send them back to him. But he never did. Documents show that he recorded the phone call with his consent. The documents show that hunt admitted that his daughter had a criminal background for shoplifting and said her mother taught her how to shoplift. If you see in the complaint that mary and her mother shipped the items from florida to virginia. He is now suing mary hunt and her parents for 2 million but they deny all of it. The lawsuit is not mary hunts biggest worry. And could spend up to 30 years in prison. Not the kind of future the beautiful blonde was banking on. Should she not go to prison because she is cute and has blonde hair . I dont buy it. She should be treated like everyone else. Now foster believes the trial against hunt will start like i said this summer. She has pleaded not guilty. Well follow the case. Back to you. Thank you. They are dealing with a number of sex scandals on their hands. The Fire Rescue Department has now drama to deal with. And ronald gimshine is accused of stelling a five hour energy drink. That is worth 3. Earlier this week two firefighters were suspended for having sex on the job. The chief said today despite the headlines the department is still doing its job serving the i want to reassure that the Fire Department is performing Excellent Service to the community. None of the issues affected the level of service to the community. They affected unfortunately. They impacted the employees and a negatively impacted the department through the perception that some people may have. And the theft was an accident and that he forgot to pay for the item. He was given a notice to appear in court. The chief said punishment could include termination. Will they stay or will they go . The debate over red light cameras is raging from tallahassee to the local level even though courts have ruled the tickets are illegal. What should do you if you get one. And kelly cowen talked to an attorney who fought and won the case. Attorneys agree on what to do if you get one of these in the mail. Fight it, dont pay it, dont roll over and pay a citation. There are a lot of things going happens with the tickets. Legislation to ban the cameras is making its way through the house and the senate in tallahassee. The battle is waging in courts across the state. And Kelly Hastings fought it in orlando and won. The city is not supposed to delegate the power to a private entity. I thought maybe this is time to fight it. I thought about paying it and being done with it. The more i looked at it, this is wrong it should not happy. And american traffic lugess runs the cameras, they prescreen all the footage for violations. Then send the findings to the city which reviews the pictures and gives ats the green light to issue a citation. Hastings successfully argued that gives police power to a private company in violation of state law. Set that up way it is an improper delegation. Company and deciding not to it is a breeding ground for corruption. Attorneys we spoke with said if you want to contest the notice, dont appeal it immediately wait for the violation to turn into a uniform traffic citation. That way you will have the chance to contest the tickets legality in front of a true court judge. They say hiring an attorney versussed in the law is your best bet. As Attorney Fees will cost you less than the price of the ticket. Kelly cowen in tampa. We have a big word of caution here. If you let it go to the second stage that kelly mentioned the uniform traffic citation will increase to 277. Now at that point there is no going back. Paying it will put a conviction on the record not paying it can lead to a license suspension. You should only let it go to the want to fight it in court and you think that can you win. There you go. Good information to know. We have a Traffic Alert now a big traffic tie up at this hour on u. S. 19. And a 36foot motor home caught fire and the people inside got out safely but a cat was killed a second vehicle towed was damaged only one lane of traffic is getting by at this moment. Clearwater police and Code Enforcement swarmed the home of good. They were there to bail her out of a Code Enforcement issue. Four years ago she was the robbery. And Steve Nichols says the detective in the case came back to help her again. She was 89 years old when a con man touched up the paint on the car and demanded more cash than she offered. He grabbed the envelope and and i bled like a pig. Pushed her down. She hit her head. Police sergeant. He helped her through the prosecution of tommy mitchell. She met the codes enforcement officer. It needed to be painted. She good violation. At 93 how could she paint the house she moved into in 1951. Before. It did not come to that after the code and Police Officers put their Heads Together and gathered a swarm of volunteers. We have officers here and Code Enforcement here. Enough to do more than just paint. So we figured we would take it to the next level and clean up the property. She deserves it. They raked, they painted, they got rid of a lot of my clutter. Now she knows there are tommy mitchelled out there but there are good people. They are. I found that out today. Unbelievable. Were told she knows the graciousness of a thank you. She said i love you, i said you do. I said i love you. This. Steve nichols, fox 13 news. The work doned today comes with a warranty. They will make sure the house is in tiptop shape. And athletes, volunteers and families came together in New Port Richey the first day of the pasco county special olympics. It was the 40th anniversary of the games. They compete in track, field, soccer, tennis. Organizers say the games are the first stem in an exciting journey for all those taking part . It is an amazing day. The kids have been looking forward to the day. This is the first level. Area games which involves citrus and pasco. Then from there, what they ultimately want to do is get to the state games at the wide world of sports. And the games are continuing tomorrow at the Wesley Chapel stadium. Great to see them out there. And we volunteered as a family. The kids loved it. The exdisney employee fired and replaced by a Foreign Worker who he was forced to train. Coming up his push to change the abusing. After spending a year in space, scott kelly is getting ready to come home. What he is saying about the legacy of the program. First, a farewell message to chip carter. Chip congrats for 28 incredible years of covering sports in tampa bay. Time to sit back and enjoy covering them. In 1934, Steak N Shake decided another hamburger. A steakburger. So they used 100 percent beef. Quick seared to seal in the flavor. Youll only get from a steakburger. Steak n shake, excitement on the space coast as astronaut scott kelly prepares to head back to earth. Next week. Hes been at the scott kelly is preparing to head back to earth. He has been there for a year. We have more. And once they return from space will have to do a series landing on mars. I think and landing on. He will return home. And kelly is preparing to return from space, we have a rocket right here in the space coast getting ready to go up. Reporting. Some students are getting experience in protecting the environment. And tampa bay watches grasses in classes was working with the kids at learning gate school and they were planting asalt marsh. Their nursery. And all those grasses are important around here. Looking to the east thats the planet that will be signing over us. And a nice sunrise and cold air clouds coming in. Add it up and divide by 3 a good day. Breezy and cold and temperatures in the 60s. You can see the patch of clouds that outline by the way satellite interference but the patch of clouds going by early today has pretty much melted away and High Pressure dominates the forecast all the way through early next week looks good and if you liked the weekend, i know a lot of you did, it will be just as nice. The only issue is little chilly at night and on saturday it will be cool during the day. Overall the weekend looks good. Maybe not even a cloud in the sky. Both weekend days this is the water vapor imagery. Red is not an alert color on the water vapor. Red means the air is very dry and we will not rain again until maybe wednesday of next week brooksville is 59. You move into march and thinking about growing and planting the becomes nil in march. 63 in lakeland and 65 in sebring. And 61 in st. Pete. Dew points in the 40s. Winds are gusty. There is an advisory. Its not good boating weather even tomorrow a bit rough. Boating weather improves nicely over the weekend High Pressure builds in from the west. Those of you if you get the space x launch if it happens, the sky will be clear and good visibility here. And under mostly clear skies. 62 now the dew point is 43. There is the gusty northwest winds things are quieting down. The tornado reports, and we in Charlotte Harbor the Weather Service confirmed as an ef1 with 104 Miles Per Hour winds. And that tornado moved over open land. A lot of degree damage. Lots of roots and degrees down. Were thankful for that it took two lives. We have a wintry scene. Snow as far as north of north carolina. Snowing to beat the bands and West Virginia, western pa. New york state. This is all lake effect. 37 nashville. 50 atlanta and 50 in chicago. Look. Philadelphia. Heavy snow in West Virginia a chilly night. 40s inland. Near 50. And a nice winter day is coming up. Forecast for tonight. Simple and breezy early. Patchy clouds. A dry front goes by clouds early and sunshine breezy and chilly. We hit 61. The weekend is fantastic. Sunny and cool and 63. We warm up nicely not a great boating day. Northwest at 15 knots. 2 to 4 feet and the next tide is a low tide at 9 42 and 3 40 a. M. The 7day forecast is wednesday and there is some risk, a chance that the rain on wednesday could bring with it some heavy showers and thunder thursday well watch that in the days ahead. Up next a scare at a gas station. music playing i feel pretty west side story not every cake can be handcrafted in store by skilled decorators layered with fresh berries and frosted to perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake itll be remembered for linda a coast guard rescue took an unexpected turn. 3 the vessel capsized during a rescue mission in new york, it a rescue mission in new york and crews are working to they swam for shore and called for help. Officials brought in their helicopter to pull them out of the granded boat. It had been out to sea. Royal caribbean cruzs is they accuse the company of endangering lives by allowing the anthem of the seas to sail into a storm. They say that the company should have known what a storm with the Hurricane Force winds had been forecast before it set sail for a cruise to the bahamas. Now crazy video from indiana of an e cigarette exploding in a mans pocket. He was at the gas station when the battery burst into flames. It was caught by the security camera. An employee rushed to help helm. Another man took him to the hospital. He suffered severe burns. Thats squarery. There are three new guests huff, pippy and jane, they are north American River otters and starting tomorrow you can visit them. They were built with a underwater area. Otters are curious and visitors can interact with them through the glass and can you find them looking back. It has been fun getting them ready for the public. The best part of working with the animals is figuring out the personalities. Tough adapt the program to each individual animal. And thats the neat toast see the personality come out. It opens tomorrow. It is from 10 to 5. I never saw a shy otter. Theyre cute. A former employee who was fired in favor of cheaper labor and forced to train his replacement. His fight for change next. And the head of the f. B. I. He told lawmakers during questioning before a house committee. Congrats chip for 28 incredible years of covering sports in tampa bay, winning the super bowl. To lightning bringing home the stanley cup and rays making it to the series. Enjoy retirement you deserve it. This man used to work at disney but this man used to work at disney he lost his job to a Foreign Worker. Companies are abusing a program meant to bring in workers when there are not americans to do the job. Today he testified on captiol hill. Things were emotional at times. It did and the employee said what it was like to work at disney for ten years only to get an unexpected announcement one day back in 2014. I walked into a small Conference Room with two dozen highly represented it workers. The executive made an announcement. All of you will be losing your jobs in the next 90 days. Your jobs have been given over to a foreign workforce. Had to train their replacements. The workers came under a program called h 1 b a Government Program thats supposed to allow important worker visas for highly skilled jobs for companies that cannot find American Workers to fill them. Some companies are pushing for congress to create even more visas for the program. Critics like the disney employees say it is abused they are replacing the workers with cheaper labor. In the testimony he broke down as he talked about his family. Later that day i remember going to the local church pumpkin sale and telling the kids i could not buy any because of my job being turned over to a Foreign Worker. And marco rubio supports legislation to create the visas and bill nelson filed a bill with a cosponsor to amend the from abusing it. Interesting story. Thank you. There is a new development this evening in the battle between apple and the f. B. I. And they are asking a magistrate to vacate the order to help the agency hack into the locked iphone that was assigned to a shooter by the county. In the court filing the f. B. I. Is seeking powers that could lead to more hacking requests. The director insisting it would apply to the phone used by the attacker. The San Bernardino litigation is not about us trying to send a message or establish a precedent t is about trying to be competent investigating something thats an active investigation. This is apples First Official response since the judge ordered the company to provide software as part of that investigation into the shootings. You know tornadoes went through parts of florida but in summer it is about hurricanes. We have been lucky. A long, long time. And mike bennett shows us what makes the hurricanes so dangerous. It has been more than ten years since florida saw a hit from a hurricane and 100 years since tampa bay has seen one. We are one of the most vulnerable areas in the country. Our season startss june 1 and continues right through november 30th. But storms can still form out of the season. Storms are measured by the winds which can range from 74 Miles Per Hour to greater than 155 Miles Per Hour. But wind is not the only significant effect of hurricanes. They can cause storm surge. Coastal flooding. Severe weather and inland flooding by the leaf rain. Winds are the strongest along the coast where it pushes creating storm surge. A hurricane can produce a wall which can easily flood many of the coastal communities. 90 of all deaths are from surge or rain fall flooding. This is why evacuations ahead of the storm are so important. Dont wait to evacuate. Know what the zone you live in and where you will go. Keep a list of numbers and create a disaster supply kit with supplies like batteries, food, water and clothing among others. Further inland they can have an tornadoes. But the biggest impact is from inland flooding. The downpours can produce several inches of rain in a short time. They may rise and the threat may exist well beyond the duration of the storm. As we know flooding can occur during the summer rainy season. The majority of flooding thats happened and drive through the feet of water to lift your car. If you cannot see the road beneath the water dont drive through it, turn around. Dont drown. Remember it may be a good idea to purchase the flood insurance, its not covered under homeowners policies. Warnings for hurricanes give time to act. Flood warnings do not. But having a plan and preparing for both the same way will help you and your family in case either strikes. Mike bennett, fox 13 news. We dont want to walk through that. I hope were lucky again. Fitness trackers all the rage. A way to keep track and get moving. It holds me accountable sitting at a desk to get up and get moving. To not stay seated. Habits from the work place with snap beans and strawberry parfait. From dinner to dessert its easy to serve scrumptious florida meals. Visit freshfromflorida. Com for tasty recipes. Delicious is always served and clams, served over rice its simple to create a seafood delight. Visit freshfromflorida. Com for more scrumptious recipes. Delicious is always served fresh from florida. They track steps, heart rate, even sleep. Wearable and they track steps and heart rate. Wristbands and clips are flooding the market. They are popular. Dr. Jo shows how they are creating a connection even when theyre offline. Christmas morning under the paper a lot of people discovered one of these. , i got the fit bit flex. In all shapes and sizes are hot items. I got the fitbit from my mother. Stephanie and holly benton are coworkers who hit the pavement during their breaks. Exercise. Track. It holds me accountable for being at work to get up and get moving to not stay seated. I like to check it. If i dont have the steps i will get them in by the end of the day or set a goal that is reasonable. And lisa is a runner and up graded to the surge. This works like a watch. Can you see your steps, your heart rate, how many miles that you are doing and calories. It helps her modify work outs in real time. I want to do a ten minute mile so im looking to see what my pace is f it is at 11 i will speed myself up. Speed, steps, calorie counting and sleep monitoring. These collectors stimulate people to reach goals and create the competition at work and at you communicate, my husband has one, my dad has one. Researchers are noticing they collect data to study medical conditions from memory to chronic diseases like parkinsons and ms. The bands have an impact on the mind and body. I think when i come in im not my mind is clear so im able to do more, focus better. Im more energetic and enthusiastic, once im able to get out and remove myself from work kind of come back in and recharge and start over. It is nice. Now the average price is about 50 to 250. If you think about getting one it is best to do the homework. They may play a role in health care, researchers are figuring out how to capture and look at the huge amount of information being generated by users across the globe and maintain privacy in the process. Studies have started in small conditions like ms. Thats great information on there. Thank you. How many between sports and the studio. Thousands. Some at a full clip. Baseball changing the way that players can slide into base. The story behind it. And a game that didnt count thats next time to check what is trending. They have a hot dog contest and eat as zillion hot dogs. I get sick watching that. I dont think he has anything on this woman. Check her out. And 3, 2, 1. Go. There she goes. It is kate ovens. She is a little bitty thing. This is england. Thats a 28ounce hamburger plus the fries they call chips and the shake. How long do you think it took her . Well speed this up . How long do you think . 9 minutes she ate it all the whole thing everything. I dont know that. Thats all i can think is being out with a date with this girl the first time. Guys check out this girl i met. These cool. It is on youtube if you want to look her up. How does she stay so liability. When she getting up in age its not that way, i love this, this little puppy. And making it go faster, this is a great at cute emergency. That is a great on twitter. They have the cutest pictures thats where i got this, it looked like a bull dog. You know when i get. How can you find it on that. This could be, along for the you know what im talking about. This is trending. The best of intentions. This is chips day, keep it positive. If you think about walking the wrong way this is a tip, dont. Dont. And slide down. And you take out everyone on the way, trust me. Didnt you know he is hurting and pretending not to at this point. He has a rash, right. I dont know. And thats all i can say, why. That was like serious. I know. It is like you know there is a down esska later. You didnt have to do it that way, the preferred mode of transportation. I know. Thats good. It is cool were bach in the 80s and the 90s. And the high rises. 62 degrees and a different day than yesterday and storms and were locked. It will be a trend and 64 degrees. And above average. It will be blue. Into red on monday it is simple for us. Were in the east side of the high. Breezy and cool up and down the peninsula. Temperatures are good 62 in tacoma in sarasota and the way to marathon and key west in the 60s. Miami and the air mass is colder now than at 5 00 on wednesday afternoon. Some places running 15 degrees cooler like in marathon. 7 in tampa and 12 cooler in orlando. The winds are up in speed. Not good boating weather. Rough out over the gulf. And good action. Were 62 a 43 dew point and a wind at 15. Satellite and lard over our state is quiet. Cold air clouds east of us. High pressure is back over the plains. The old weather 101 thing is when youre on the east side of the high, thats the cool side. A ways to go. This will drift our way and the or tomorrow, it may bring with it clouds, the models are hinting at that. Once that goes by the high builds in to guarantee us a sunny weekend. It is snowing to beat the band and the blue is snow. 34 in chicago. Theyre cleaning up from that bad weather. There was damage from tornadoes. A wild couple of days starting with the Severe Weather on tuesday. Matchy clouds late patchy clouds. Down to 49. Tomorrow any more clouds give way to sunshine. Breezy and nice in the low 60s. Saturday should be a nice day. Sunny and cool. 63 for a high. Good to be outside. Were locked in. A channels of showers and chip. There is no doubt that Jameis Winston finished the season with record setting numbers. He got the chance to spend the best in the game at the pro bowl. He was determined to be in better shape and how Russell Wilson worked in practice. He had that kind of drive after his melt town against carolina. That tightened up the game. He should be stronger. I think that the great thing about Jameis Winston is that he always wants to get better. So, you know i think it was fortunate he went out to the pro bowl and spent time with the top players. That motivated him to get Better Believe it with quarter play. Experience is the best. He has a better idea what to expect moving forward will nibble him to get better. Tough agree with that. The last time they won a title they had to play bishop kenny that was in 2013. They won that game by 5 00. It comes full circle. Taking on and again in the semifinals. The blue wave and full force is the center and lee green hits the jumper. And Christian Carlisle runs it in transition and in two of the game high 28. Leads at the half. And furious come back. Flemming with 3. Down by 5. Snyder makes his own three. Tigers lose a heartbreaker 5554 is the final in the semis. The bracket. In the red. Taking it in the middle. And kissimmee leads this early. Watch the nice hustle play by the zephyrhills bulldogs. And the put back and the foul and too tough. Back down to the 3. Kissimmee and advances, they beat zephyrhills 7052. The start for the rays season is tomorrow. Thats when they hit the field. They will not get in the drills before the games crank up. It is next wednesday. Now baseball introduced a new rule today. Those rolling block slides are no longer allowed. Remember chase uttly. League will make a bona fied attempt. Aiming at the other player and dont touch the bag. I never liked that. They will not be allowed. You like the new rule. If second base was here and blow them out. Now tough go for the bag. Good. You got it. Next Chrissy Tiegen takin some people dont like to share their wifi, but at bright house networks, login to one of our hotspots and get your code for free wifi at over 50,000 bright house wifi hotspots. If youre going to say better pizza. You better deliver. Our new papas quality love your pizza, or get another one, absolutely free. Pget any large pizza up to pfor just 9. 99. Online only. 3 stocks posted a solid gain on the strength of oil stocks posted a gain on the strength of oil prices. It soared and climbed 39 points and the s p was up 21 points. Mom to be Chrissy Tiegen is taking the heat after a revelation,. They picked the sex of the baby during the treatment. We have more on this. And yes, the words caused a firestorm of backlash today and now she is fighting back. I feel good. I dont want to read too much or no too much overplanning you will be surprised. We are going to let it happen. But they were not surprised they were having a girl. Now they are steving an epic amount of backlash for telling people that they picked the it is a slippery slope to design a baby. Thats what people are afraid of. They will pick blonde babies with blue eyes. Joys view was echoed by chrissies twitter followers she responded. I picked the embryo with a taste for bacon and size 7 feet so she can always find shoes. Every doctor knows the sex it is not a grand secret. We cannot determine the gender unless we perform an extra step which is called pgs. It is not something that we know routinely and the involvement it is now down to about 300dollars per embryo to find out that makeup. We will have more on this story tonight. Linda and cynthia back to you. This rejust not at famous, things blow up quickly. Can you watch more on the insider at 7 30 here on fox 13. Kids and adults look forward to this. A big water slide. Coming to tampa. Take a look slide the city is a temporary water slide that toured and now promoters say it will be on north boulevard on the 14th. If you register can you spend two hours doing that. Speeding through three blocks. You have to be 46 and tall though and put information on it on fox 13 news and seen on tv. Now i have seen it i dont know. I dont like. The big line. Ill take the kids. There you go. And the 6 00 news is next. Here are mark and kelly. And cause earthquakes as well. Well tell you about the efforts to bring fracking to florida. An ice breaking ship and a very tight spot. Stuck after breaking away from the moorings. See where it found up. A boy given no chance to live today is a true miracle. There he is. It is tonight on the 6 00 news. 3 3 3 3 3 7 01 i3 floridas Death Penalty is in limbo. And one floridas Death Penalty is in limbo. Twisters tore through a neighborhood trying to pick up the pieces. It will be a reality check for a lot of people. It is a day in the life of a Police Officer through his body camera. Good evening and welcome im kelly ring. The man were gruesome they want him put to death. And explaining why the killer will not get the punishment he deserves. Timing is everything when he decided to plead guilty to the charges to avoid the Death Penalty and had the prosecutor scrambling. Ted involved greed, betrayal and murder. This was james foster speaking out after his son was arrested for the murder of his best friend and roommate. Never been violent. Never. Im not buying the fact he did that to his best friend. The scene was violent. Investigators say that foster used a hatchet to kill josh dees