your personal info safe. live from the station taking action for you. this is abc action news. >> a large tornado ripping through western alabama. >> the twister moves towards mcmullen alabama. a small community west of tuscaloosa. >> called a large tornado. >> we're getting these pictures from aliceville. another town in the path of the storm. >> first responders saying that tornado caused heavy damage to homes and businesses and several houses are destroyed. through the debris looking for trapped. we are also hearing the tornado seriously damaged a federal prison outside of aliceville. so far no word from police on injuries. chief meteorologist dennis phillips tracking the storm and he has the latest. >> this is a situation where pretty much the entire state of alabama and most of mississippi still under a tornado watch and you can see just how much energy. i mean this line expand from west of new orleans to east of memphis, tennessee. a massive line of storms just another example of an el nino situation that can easily get out of hand with severe weather. what is left is coming this way and it arrives on thursday. before then we have warm temperatures and we have visibility issues this morning. plenty with all of that fog. tomorrow morning we will have foggy conditions, not as widespread though as we had today. so overnight, partly cloudy skies but we will continue to track the rough storms pause that front arrives on thursday and i think a stronger one comes in saturday night to more on that coming up. >> see you shortly. tonight we are just getting this video showing identity theft suspect spending a victim's money. polk county detectives hope that someone recognizes this man. marisela burgos is live in winter haven with the latest. marisella. >> detectives think this guy is a progoing on shopping sprees and they are concerned that he will use the people's information to do fraud tax returns. >> these two men claim to be the same person. >> my name is navarro. >> only one is the real christian navarro. christian lives in polk county and has two credit cards. who is this guy? what is his real name? >> he has been shopping as christian buying items. >> $923.83 of cheapie panties and thong panties and hip longer panties and lingerie. >> the real christian says the under his name. >> a walmart, master card, target and macy's. >> he organized everything in a deputies. >> someone else is creating credit accounts with all of my personal information is a me feel vulnerable. happened to. >> he is making a living stealing off of people's identity so that is why we want to get him off of the streets. >> since mid december this man has posed as several people using phony credit cards and spending ten thousand dollars. >> he wants to spend the money as quickly as possible and take them or return them as cash or take that property he has got and sell it. >> christian caught it early. the best customer. >> detectives want to stop him before he pretends he is you. >> detectives say that one way you can protect yourself is by shredding your financial documents. if you know who this mysterious shopper is, you need to call authorities. marisela burgos, abc action news. thank you. now to an update. a daycare worker arrested after slamming a young boy on the car. kim reed was on probation in a welfare fraud case in orange county. and police telling us that the daycare remains closed. the owner there announcing she will give up her license. taking action for your held. we are learning about a new risk for the zika virus. doctors in texas now telling us it can be transmitted during sex. and we are just learning about new travel related cases in florida. there are now nine total and dade and two in hillsborough and two in lee county and one in santa rosa. michael paloosa has more. >> a main concern this is a thousands of people leave out of the port of tampa to take nice cruises to mexico and the caribbean and places where the zika virus is proliferating. we are told by a doctor that one in five people that come back here and come back to tampa won't know that they have the zika virus because there is no symptoms. >> showing no symptoms and infected person would obviously ever know that they are a host for a hungry mosquito. >> this doctor says if you don't have symptoms you would never request a blood test to traveling to an infected area. that creates a big problem for people planning to be pregnant. >> as far as counseling my patients, is it more important that someone becomes infected during the time of their pregnancy. past the first trimester, can you say you are free. >> this mosquito bites during the day and pregnant women should wear insect repellent that is safe to use during pregnancy according to doctors. the link and risk to women has skyrocketed to a global concern after babies in el salvador and french polynesian says that people contracted the virus. >> what can we do to help prevent transmission to these fetusness. >> and the world health organization saying tonight that they anticipate that three to four million americans will by the end of the year. live in tampa, michael paloosa. abc news. >> the centers for disease control is working for a vaccine. they are launching a research and development effort. the u.s. government announce on a possible vaccine. but researchers tell us that the process could take more than a decade. tonight two bay area men facing serious charges accused of courting under age teens online and hoping them to run away from home and persuading them to have sex. mason davis picked up a 15-year- old from her home helping her run away to have sex. this happened five times and unrelated case. 21-year-old jesse liramy, jr. is facing similar charges. away to have sex with him. on one occasion liramy, jr. picked up the juvenile to have sex and brought her back to school so she could take the bus home and he says he is not to blame. >> do you deserve to be a sex offender because i had sex with a 15-year-old girl that lied to me and wanted to have sex? do you guys think i should be a sex offender for the rest of my life? >> despite insisting that he is the victim, this is not the first time liramy, jr. has found himself in this position. in fact, when this happened, he was out on bond for a similar crime involving a different underage girl he met online. a detroit area police officer facing 13 months in jail for beating a driver during a traffic stop. take a look. the attack captured a dashcam video. former officer melendez stopped floyd dent after a year ago where his car rolled through a stop sign. the officer pulling dent from the head 16 times. the police department will now pay dent 1.4 million dollars. >> the former district attorney that chose not to prosecute bill cosby a year ago took the stand as a key witness for the defense. former district attorney bruce castro confirmed a deal was made, oral agreement saying that cosby would not be charged if he testified in a civil suit. the current d.a. maintains because it was not in writing it is not binding. lawyer gloria allray calls the arguments nonsense. >> i find it ironic that mr. cosby would seek to exclude evidence that he in fact gave qualludes to women. the qualludes to women. >> an outpouring of support for a veteran ethan kennedy's trained dog was killed. it was part of the army veteran deal with the ptsd after two tours in afghanistan. tonight kennedy says he is still struggling with xenia's loss. >> >> do you see the food and the water bowl and everything and when i went to bed the first night, i went to say xenia bedtime and i realized she is not here. >> kennedy survived this ambush attack captured on video back in 2009. his family has set up a go fund me page to help pay for a new dog. we have our new information on our web site on abcactionnews.com. what passengers are forced to do when a blast punches a hole in the aircraft. >> your favorite color was blue. time. the clue she reveals about how a killer lured her daughter. and later a $30 device that your car. owners can protect themselves. welcome back new video showing passengers inside a commercial jetliner just seconds after a minor explosion in somalia. you see a hole-in-one side of the airplane as it is slightly smaller than one of its doors. you see it there. a british newspaper claiming that it happened five minutes in the flight as the plane reached 14,000 feet. a daily male reporter claiming an elderly man on fire and sucked out of the hole blown in the air bus a321. the somalia government saying the pilot made an emergency landing. mentioning that elderly man saying two passengers were injured. investigators are hinted an explosive hand grenade is responsible. we will follow the reports and keep you updated on abc action news. the mother of a 13-year-old virginia girl murdered speak to go to media about her daughter nicole lowell. investigators say that nicole was stabbed to death and called the evidence preliminary. her mother says she had a love for dancing and music and pandas and nicole had an online murder. nicole did battle health battles. talked about her daughter. >> nicole was very lovable person. nicole touched many people throughout her short life. facing charges in her david. dave eisenhower is charged with killing nicole and meggen keepers accused of being an assess re. >> you may be vulnerable to thieves. $30 a device may allow criminals access to your car. police outside of buffalo saying they have had several reports of locked cars being broken into with no signs of forced entry. crooks are taking special computer boards connecting them to cell phones and then using the device to steal the codes from your wireless key fob. car makers saying they are aware of the problem and working on a fix. in the meantime police telling drivers to park in well-lit areas and to take valuables with them. right now some middle school parents are angry over a controversial proposal. the distinct telling reporters they may distribute free condoms to middle school students in kids as young as 6th grade. school level but some not happy. when the condoms are combined with seconds education it is to reduce the number of pregnancies and sexually- transmitted diseases. officials are betting on beer to turn around a blighted area. turning a building into a brewery. cameron shows us the project site in land of lakes. >> it may not look like much now but you have to start somewhere. >> we will do a beer garden. >> for mark and joe and peter that somewhere was in their directing your attention where a hobby ... >> opening day should be march. that is what we are shooting for. >> has the county tapping them as the first step of many towards revitalizing the route along u.s. 41. >> we are hope that with us doing this, you know the rest will kind of follow. >> the bar will go from right here. >> the officials say they are not only pleased with the trio's choice of location but a choice they hope more business owners will make as well. >> they not only want to drive for tampa for that stuff. a lot of people have kids and families and easier for them to come down the street. >> a theory that both ... >> we will start off with five different types of beer. >> and the county. >> the brew house needs work. >> and the county is counting on. now, the most accurate weather team in florida. abc action weather. >> great weather today but the lead story, the tornadoes now in alabama. >> severe weather. el nino it is one of those things and we will deal with that in florida. at least another couple of months. typically the end of month early april. it is the reason that we that we continue to talk about weather apps and storm shields. just a great app. it allows me to send your personalized messages. on when i believe or anyone in our weather team believes that there will be severe weather brewing. i believe it exists late saturday and early on sunday. again that is available for apple and android platforms. outside, things have quieted down after a nasty start to the day in terms of visibility. we had the fog and then a beautiful afternoon. a couple of showers did pop up in eastern polk county and long gone but the warm temperatures are here for another 36 hours or so. upper 60s to low 70s right now and we are only going to drop in the low to mid 60s and with that moisture out there, there will be some fog but not nearly as widespread as it was this morning. tampa clear and 73. one of the reasons i don't think we see quite as much fog as the wind will pick up. you typically need calm winds for this type of fog to develop and with southeast winds at five miles per hour we are not seeing calm conditions. nor do i think we will. conditions that we need for the thick fog making visibility down near zero. hit 82 today in tampa. 11 degrees above the normal high. 11 degrees above the normal low. we dropped down to 64 this morning. clear and 68 insane pete. east southeast winds at 8 miles per hour and in sarasotata skies are clear and winds closer to ten. southeast wind that we had out there also brought in the moisture and one or two showers afternoon. most of the area dry. very pleasant evening and again visibility while there will be some patchy fog it won't and huge deal. temperatures in the 80s and a few clouds. early on thursday, the first day of the florida state fair it will rain. and here is how i time it out. there will be showers and maybe a couple thunderstorms with this. it is the same front that brought the severe weather tonight to the deep south. the time it makes it here, i don't see the energy for severe weather. but we still will have decent rain. maybe a couple of storms and that lingers to the afternoon hours. as you see a watch out a lot of crowds and a good chance of rain. friday looks better by friday morning it clears out noticeably and we have a very nice day but a much cooler day. we will be in the low 80s and middle 80s on wednesday. dade city 85 and brooksville 84 and mid-80s across the interior, east of 75 you will be 83, 84 on wednesday and on friday, you will see highs in the 60s as we cool off. that cold air behind the frost. there it is. severe weather out ahead of it. once it clears on friday, we looks okay through most of the day. and then low pressure in the golf increases the rain chances and a severe threat saturday night into first things sunday morning. for the boaters southeast winds at 10 to 15 knots. gulf temperature and 60s in clear water and there will be sea fog offshore but not as dense locally as it was this morning. there are the upcoming tide and the sunrise and sunset. the seven-day forecast rain 20% tomorrow night and thursday a lot of the clouds and occasional rain. rain chances 70% and friday looks good and saturday and sunday, the rain is saturday night into sunday morning. early saturday looks good and late sunday looks good and clearing and colder early next week. well the eastern conference playoff race. in, next in sports. hello folks a super quiet superbowl. ryan murphy was involved but not arrested in a prostitution sting in san jose. broncos send him home. outside of that, no outlandish quotes although the media has done its best to get juicy bulletin board material. gary kubiak was handling softball questions until the team being an underdog question and given no chance of winning on saturday. gary kubiak walked off the podium after answering but made his point before leaving. >> i think as a coach at this game if i have to go mention to my team about every article written each day i don't think i will go there. there is smart players for a long time. and i would just say this. we have been in this situation before throughout the course of the season. we have great respect for their football team and what they are capable of doing and we have confidence in our football team. we will stay focused on ourselves and stay in the moment and get ready to play. we are looking forward to it. >> kudos to carolina when asked the question about black quarterbacks in the superbowl, he shut it down saying to a reporter who took a confrontational tone, it is not an issue anymore. it is an issue for you. there is surprise that the browns saying they had enough of johnny manziel. they will release manziel. the timing we are not sure of but most arrows point to mark snide. they say he has been an embarrassment to the team and himself and he has no support group to set him straight. this is pretty close to superbowl week for the tampa bay lightning. they have a couple of games coming up this week that are really nothing short of most victories. first of all tomorrow night the red wings and the penguins on friday night. the teams are right there with and back to trying to build another winning streak and hopefully take advantage of these games at home through the middle of february. there is still room for improvement and we realize that and that's when the games get tighter and tougher as he clench a playoff spot. we got to be ready for it. >> you can see for yourself what these games mean. the bolts and red wings in a tie and boston city in the first spot with 58 spots and pittsburgh has won with the devils. back-to-back wins would be huge before the folks head out of town for a two game roadie to montreal. now you got to hand it to the usf women's basketball team. they have endured injuries. alisha jacobs and holding firm in the top 25 in the country and that is impressive. closed captioning brought save more on i-4. abc action news brought to you by bio spine institute. we have our stories on abcactionnews.com. have a good night and we

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