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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 ....
reporter: hey jen. this is heartbreaking news because so many students, thousands of them will have to start over including a disabled veteran we spent time with today. he had tears in his eyes but hope in his heart when he came here to hcc for help. ronnie wishi is looking for answers but first, he has a few questions for itt tech. how could you? how dare you? let s make right done wrong. reporter: ronnie was proud to serve his country. now he is trying to survive his education. just . it s busted dreams. i left a good job to go back to school to higher myself. it is all about higher education, you know, trying to do better. i teach my kids that. reporter: as a disabled veteran, this tampa bay native and father of seven was crushed to hear most likely his credits transfer, hillsborough community college is trying to help students like ronnie come up with options. even if some of them don t become an hcc student, at least we can provide them options and expl ....
let go app to set up victims and rob them, even kills one. candace mccowan talked to one of the victims who is very shaken up. reporter: corey piece is a father of two overcome thinking about the risk he took trying to sell his ipad. we could have been a lot less fortunate. reporter: he found a buyer who met him at this walgreens when the buyer snatched it. i said are you kidding me? reporter: a second seller who also was robbed in broad daylight, this time, at gunpoint. that seller was pistol whipped. but, sunday, during a third transaction, the buyer escalated. police say he snatched another cell phone, then shot and killed jeffrey morrow as he ran away. we knew we had to operate quickly. we didn t know when he would strike again. reporter: detectives tracked down 25-year-old victor mann. in polk county, candace mccowan, newschannel8. tonight, the man who forced a shoot-out with a drug task force just a little over 24 hours ago is dead. polk sheriff gr ....
we start with breaking news here. a woman arrested for trying to hire someone else to kill someone she knew. let s go live to clifton french. clifton, you re getting brand- new information on this from the manatee county sheriff s office. what do you know? reporter: yeah. paul, right now information extremely limited. all we know, this is a woman who was trying to hire somebody to kill her ex-husband. now, her ex-husband lives in sarasota. that is the limited information that we woman as she was leaving the sheriff s office here, being charged with this with this crime and being taken to to the manatee county jail. here is the deal: this woman s ex-husband has no idea about this plot yet. so detectives have asked us to hold on to video. they haven t released any information to us about who this woman is either. until they can tell her ex- to tasoon as we get word that h s been notied, they will give us more we re also going to ow you that video. we hope that tithi ....
along ridge road. the water pump sits idle. i contacted two county commissioners listed on the sign this morning and upon returning today, we found a public works employee on sight making sure that the pump was on and working. i asked pasco county officials why the pump was left off while neighborhoods remained underwater. they pointed to the widening project. in an e-mail sent late this afternoon, a county attorn an ongoing dispute with the contractor for that project which it is in the process of resolving. it turns out the county delayed flipping the search to research if pumping flood water into this retention pond would impact the ridge road project site and who is responsible, the county or contractor for potential damages. the pump is online now but bass lake neighbors are hoping that the county can come up with a long-term fix. find out the solution to the problem. reporter: now, a lot of residents in bass lake wondering why one of the stand alone water pumps ....