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as a mother, you hear these day care horror stories and pray it doesn t happen to your children. the fact of the matter is the employee who was supposed to be watching these children wasn t doing her job at the time. reporter: deputies say 23- year-old casey burke failed to properly care for the children. the arrest report says the kids were napping while burke should have been watching. instead, she talked to colleagues and ate lunch. at one point, she heard crying neglect which is a felony. we went to the day care looking for answers. but they didn t want to talk. i m not going to talk about it. reporter: 8 on your side went digging into records and found since december, the day care was cited twice for improperly supervising children. the department of children and families is steping in saying in a statement what happened to this child is absolutely unacceptable. we are conducting a child care attorney. burke no longer works at this facility. we are told the ....
candace mccowan joins us live. candace, there is actually a term for this. right? reporter: yeah josh, jen, good evening. it is called forgotten baby syndrome. you know how you are driving home from work and you automatically make a left turn. that is how these deadly mistakes can happen. dr. hammond calls it a tragedy. she says leaving a child in a hot car is any parent s wors just on auto pilot. we may get home and say i forgot to go to the store and those sorts of things. that is what is happening with parents that are leaving their children in cars. reporter: it is called forgotten baby syndrome. it is used as an argument in court for why parents shouldn t be convicted. it is the defense troy whittaker could use. lawson in the car for eight hours where he died. whittaker questions surrounds the fact he wouldn t take a blood test. he sometimes smokes marijuana. though he denied smoking it the day lawson died. is there any long term damage that can lead to forge ....
letting my dog out earlier, paramedics were parked in front of my house right here. and, i wanted them to know i didn t make a call. they told me to go back inside and lie down. they wouldn t tell me anything. reporter: as a deputy and a sergeant went inside the home, they found a man having what appeared to be a mental break down. they tried to came him down according to the sheriff to no avail. both members of the hernando county sheriff s office have gone through crisis intervention training but in this case, the team had to use lethal force and shoot the man who later died. you know, they had this training and obviously, in this case, it wasn t success. as hard as you try, you can t be successful every time when you are dealing with humans in crisis. reporter: and as a routine in situations like this, both the deputy and the sergeant are on paid administrative leave. fdle has traveled to hernando investigating tonight and the hernando county sheriff s office. ....
the fsu wellness center on monday. blisters on hands, and some students had blisters on their feet. and we normally see this in day care centers. reporter: after tuesday brought new cases, the university canceled fraternity and sorority rush events that night. i don t know if they expected it to be gone that night. but activity has resumed. reporter: most students we talked to were aware of the virus and what to do. that s all i know. and they said to wash your hands? just, use hand sanitizer. you can wipe it right away. reporter: the best advise is to clean, clean, clean with a bleach solution. there were no new cases wednesday, but thursday did bring another case. it is nothing that is life threatening. reporter: the university has asked that the outbreak could be in any way related to a hurricane hermine was hitting the capitol. even if sewage wasn t the culprit, hurricane hermine probably was. we think the hurricane and no electricity led to th ....
state officials want to know what led to 248 million gallons of sewage discharged into tampa bay this year alone. how did it get this bad, and what s done to permanently fix it and bhaets done right now? officials from pinellas county, clearwater and largo spoke about their own issues, but the main spotlight is on st. petersburg which had three large discharge events since last august. they wanted to know why the wastewater treatment closed and why a to 14 whistleblower report predicting massive overflows with to closure was ignored. they said they didn t have knowledge of the reports. he s seeking independent counsel to get to the bottom of it. upgrades are in progress but could take two toe three years. he s doing what he can in the meantime to prevent history from repeating itself. we will do everything we can to minimize the opportunity. to bring that capacity up. we can t get that work done overnight. so we have already started the work to on that construction. ....