First at 9 00 we begin with breaking news. A targetedarson attack against the deputy and the family. We do know no one was hurt in the attack and a person is in custody. Abc action news will be in that conference. Well bring you updates on air and on our app. Watch your kids closely and be on the look out. A man tried to kidnap her 12 years old daughter not too far from her home rodney is joining us live near the intersection where the mom says this all happened. Good morning rodney. Reporter this morning is getting the word out about all of this through social media. They describe this neighborhood as quiet and safe and many of them are worried about the safetity of their own kids. Neighborhood. The parents here understandably are on edge concerned after Hearing Police are investigating of a report of a possible attempting kidnapping of a 12 years old girl. I see my kids play out here all the time. The motherwho made the report is shaken and did not want to reveal her identity. This happened last thursday around 6 00 he grabbed my daughter and proceeded to pull her that way. Tiebl get away. Cell phone and called 911 for help. Detectives receive a report of a drunk man in the area approaching kids but no evidence he was trying to harm them until police could get a little bit of clarity in this case, parents plan to keep a watch h out because thats kind of scary. Reporter and again at this point, investigators here in bradenton are looking into these claims. Anyone withinformation should call them immediately. For now reporting live in bradenton this morning. Abc action news. Deputies are questioning a man shot and killed another man on valentines day. Hillsboro deputies arrested 28 years old ismael ortiz. He shot rafael and leonard dennis. The men bought marijuana and xanax from him. Dennis survived but salley did not. A careless driving causing a five car pile up that sent two people to the hospital including an under cover pinellas driver. Hurt in this crash are expected to be okay. Lets check in with ivan with our forecast out there. Oh, it is so nice out there. And cannot wait to getout. A lot of sunshine and upper 60s and 70 degrees. Afternoon. At this point, lowto mid50s. We are doing much better now and well get in the 70s later on this afternoon. 67 with a lot of sunshine by lunch and low 70s as we head into the 4 00 hour. No fogthis morning and no issues as far as weather is concerned and making a cameo appearance is Lindsay Logue. I am back. The only thing we are watching right nowin st. Pete. This is downtown 275 and jefferson. The majority of therush hour is over. There was a crash previous on northbound lanes at 38 avenue north. We can take a lookright now. Average speed, you are getting backup there. Drive time southbound, you are still going to be a little bit slow. 275 southbound from the apex. 21 minutes but that is only when you pass bush. No crashes on the major right now. Updates ontwitter, i got it all morning long. Update now, we are trying suspects on the run after a shoot ng sarasota. Policeare trying to figure out a motive behind this double shooting. Leg. Both areexpected to be okay. The crime scene is on north spring avenue. It is notclear in any gunshots were fired there as well. A woman seeking treatment the hospital parking lot. Back in december, Barbara Dawson refused to leave the emergency room. After complains she was short of breath. When she would not leave, the hospital called the police and handcuffed her in the parking lot. Dawson died ashort time later of blood clot in her lungs. We got troubling news right now. New informationabout floridas i c ka vie zika virus emergency. This time itraises the total number of travel related cases here in florida to 22. Half of the states cases are in two florida county in miami dade and broward and three other cases are right here in hillsboro county. New details of what was not the ship sank in october while sailing through hurricane joaquin. The ship owns owner says the company sent a safety alert out from hurricane danny. The safety alert danny was sent outbecause it was a first hurricane of the season. Breaking over night, president obama is headed to havana. The white house is expected to announce todaythat he will become the first sitting u. S. President to visit cuba in 88 years. The news is not sitting well with the two republican candidates. Senator ted cruz and mark rubio believes it s not the right time to visit cuba. I want the relationship to change but it has to be reciprocal. Now, they have access to millions and billions of did not have access to this. This was far shadow for a long time i think it is a real mistake. President should bepushing for r a free cuba. During the event, texas senator cruz said hes not worried about Donald Trumps threat to sue him over a Controversial Campaign ad. Hes welcome to file whatever lawsuit he likes. Thatlawsuit would not succeed. If he want as file a lawsuit, he can file it and lose. Trump and kasich and jeb bush will participate in a town hall tonight in south carolina. On the democratic side, Bernie Sanders are working to appeal to minority voters. The former secretary of state took the stage with the mother of sandra bland. Dead in a texas texas jail cell. This morning, Supreme Court justicecongressional republicans are threatening to block any nominees. Oweconnor called such of this is unnecessary and the president should get on the legal job at hand. Some legal animal cyst we are putting the spotlight on a New Port Richey man right now. Hes working to create a Brighter Future forbay area students and he does it by repairing Old Computers and he gives it away. Greg has repaired and donated nearly 1000 computers. Yesterday, he donated one of the computers to joshua at ridge wood high. Can i talk to you, are you actually, i want to tell you something, i am greg, thats your new computer what do you think of that . He makes it possible thanks to a crew of bikers. Eachstudents who get a computer is selected after filling out an Application Online and they have to be recommended by their school we all know this. Florida beaches are ranked the best in the country. Claer water beach is ranked number one. Scenery and spotting dolphins and st. Pete beach is ranked number four. The best time of the year any of these beaches is any time of oh oh, from social media to the schoolyard. This violentfight goes viral this morning. Why facebook is refusingto remove this video. Whole foods is switching up its vibe to appeal to the new millenials. Temperatures in the upper 50s. Low 70s. I am tracking more showers and thunderstorms. We have new event this morning of the boston bomber, a motion was fired asking the appeal that most of the attorneys defended tsarnaev. Tsarnaev was sentenced to that killed three people and injured 300 others. Hes beingheld in colorado. A federal grand jury is indicting bundy along with his son and others on 16 charges related on the armed and standoff. The 69 years old rancher was arrested a week ago. His son and him are in jail. They were demandingpublic land to be turned over to locals. Conspiracy to impeach or injury a federal officer. Nine months later, an ex convict is indicted for starting this fire killing their housekeeper inside the wint wint was arrested last may. He will head to court tomorrow. Violent erupted at a pizza place. You can see it didnot take long for the owner to fight back. They tried totake back what was there. They did everything they could do to stop the thieves. The dramatic scene that played out earlier this week. The owners daughter says a woman near by called 911 when she saw those men changing clothes in her yard. Officials suspect this are the same three men that came in and shot at customers back at december. Noarrests have been made sfarp. Far you see this fight of a girl beating up a boy. 14 million times. It happened at sonomo Valley School last week. Schooladministrator asked facebook remove the video but facebook refused saying the video is not violating media standards. All new this morning, a recall affecting anyone with a toyota rav4. The flaw should cause Rear Seat Belts to fail. Thats a big concern because thats wheregenerally your kids sit. Ralph 4, theyre between 2005 and 2014. Toyota will fix the issue at no costs to you. New this morning. Start selling the sedan with a pothole protect system. The shock stiffens up when sensor detects potholes and keeps the wheel elevated instead of dropping into the hole. The new model goes on sail this summer. Sale this summer. Whole foods is making some changes to appeal younger crowds. They are considering adding tattoo parlors. They could add other shops into the store. Never 365 stores will have a different variety of shops inside. Thats kind of cool. Tattoo parlor . Oh, pick up an orange and get a tattoo . Well, the cashier will be distracted. Theyll be out the tattoo parlor. The prices at some point and the rest of us go hop shopping there. We are cool and not as cool as we can be this time of the year. Where are the clouds at this point . The position of high is always important of these High Pressure system. This one will migrate east. Thats going to be important fort lupton us. The winds willbegin to shift. More out of the easternly componenthere. I dont think it will be enough for showers but certainly enough for clouds. Unlike today, crystal blueskies and tomorrow, partly cloudy skies heading into the week. Right along the coast here. Well have to watchthat. There you see the computer model picking up on a few sprinkles there. Well be watching it closely in daytona. I dont think it is going to be a big problem for them but they could have a few sprinkle as we head into later on this weekend. The other thing that thiskind low 70s tomid70s to eventually upper 70s by the time we get to the later part of the week, friday and saturday and sunday. Sunny skies today and 72 and clear mild and dry. By the way, motor forecast looking okay. Yesterdaywas better and the winds are at northeast to 15. Thats providing us the moderate chop coastal. We can handle that. 59 degrees. That it is water temperatures right now and there behind low tides. Wehave been talking about i naming Clear Water Beach the number one beach. Water temperatures still a little bit cooler out there in the low 60s. Maybe just lay out andenjoy the sunshine full blast today. 74 on friday andsaturday. 75 and look at the over niepth, temperatures night. Sunday and monday, i think well have areas here reaching well watch it close to the potential of stronger thunderstorms of tuesday and wednesday. Once that front clears out. Yeah, we are back in cooler temperatures certainly into the 60s. Enjoy the nice stretch of mild times coming up. At one point, it was critical. He was on a support system. An employee got more than a batter syrup in the system. What he drank and nearly killed him. WhereOfficials Say it came from. Plus, do you hate doing dirty dishes . Now, you can have your spoon and eat it too. Well explain thisproduct. Volunteers are getting ready to take an official count of how many people are homeless. Why do they expect and why do they count . It was so strong that put that man in Critical Condition and at one point on life support. It tookofficials six week to arrest this woman. They fired her and shes facing drug charge and her victim is still in the hospital. Well, on a lighter note, you heard of waffle cone and cones and bowls. One company is offering the idea of eating your silverware as well. It is an oven that makes ed i believe spoons and you edible spoons. You place it in there and make it for about three minutes and when you remove them, through the magic of tv, you will get a warm, crispy spoon. Company suggestsusing it to eat yogurt or soup or salad or soft ice cream you can eat anything with it. It has not been in store yet website ediblespoons maker. Com. This year, of a bigger piece of that action. They aredebuting a new product. The Company Release carrot cake flavor kisses just in time for spring. Spices and vanilla are added to the flavoring to give you that icing flavor. It will be available at walmart and it is about 3 a bag. Coming up at 9 30. A surprise of a lifetime. What happen during thisspecial ride along. Coming up, reports of a few diy project that you can handle the teenager charged practicing medicine without med icine saying he did not do anything wrong. How Officials Say the firearm wound occupy up on campus. The teen practiced medicine without a license. Theteenager calling himself doctor love seen and treating patients for weeks before anyone caught on it maybe a lie. Hes denying that he did anything wrong. Abc actionnews anchor Lindsay Logue is here with the interview. Hes asking for privacy. Deiah, those two things among other thing. In the end if you listento him, he does not say much at all, he dodges questions and makes excuses. Watch what happened when the reporter got tough. Are you a fraud, everything you say to me is invasive. I dont appreciate your tone and how you portrait this interview. Are you in big trouble. It seems like you spoken to a lawyer preparing you to not only to talk to the media but the media as well. I am going to have to cut this interview short. I amgoing to have to cut this interview short. And just like that he walked out. That was not theonly time love robertson dodged questions. He admits he called himself a doctor, he got his phd. An elaborate website and treatments including electro therapy. If you listen tohim, hes soft spoken and confident but like i said, hes dodging these questions and repeating these questions. This is the first time hes arrested. Last january, he was caught roaming the hall of the hospital wearing a white coat claiming hes shadowing a doctor. Last october, he was givering a seize order of being accused of operating a fake clinic when it all blows over if he manages to evade the seven felony charges, he plans to go to medical school and get his degree when everything is over. It isinteresting to see how all this plays out though. Here is your forecast with ivan. Upper 60s. Low 70s, we are not going to stay sunny through the entire sevenday forecast. Well have the next frontcoming in with showers and thunderstorms, lil let you i will let you know when it gets in. He was wearing black hoodie and took off in a gold saturn with damage to the front of the passengers bumper. Detectives believe hes linked to another robber. Crime stoppers is offering 5000 leading to his information. Thomas made National News for weeks lag year authorities found evidence that she abused her children including 11 years old jaynia. Her body was found in tomlive. Thomas is charged with first degreemurder. The Security Camera shows the gun falling out of a parents pocket as he dropped off a child t. Another parent found that gun and gave it to the cousttodian. Right now millions of apple customers are on edge. How court order will affect security and privacy. Protests gathered in San Francisco yesterday to voice their opposition that apple helped the fbi hacking in the iphones of one of the San Bernardino shooters. Fbiagents have obtained legal permission to receive data from the couple. The phone without risking losing all of the critical information. The fbi is notasking apple to reveal the pass code but to disable the wipe out feature allowing government agents to democratic code. A Gainesville Police officer took his girlfriend out for lunch and he wound up calling for backup. The videois going viral. The officers name is officer hickey. He sees a fence full of graffiti so he pulls over and call for backup. He asked his girlfriend ashley to stepout the car. The murrel reads, ashley, will you marry me. Thats when the officer pops the question. Wait until you see what her question is. Shes going to write it right there on that murrel. She said yes. We are taking action for you. Spring is right aroundthe corner and that may have you pondering some household projects you need tackle. The question is, can you do it for yourself or you need to a few common jobs that anyone can take care on their own. You need to think about three things, do you have the time and resources and the proper tools to do the project right . Chances are you can handle all three of this. A mold issue, you can tackle it with water and a detergent solution. The key to tackling that project ismaking sure you find the source of the moisture otherwise, it is going to come right back. Another project, that could save your life, cleaning a clogged dryer vent. It is a fire hazard. Use your vakvacuum or a host brush to clean out the debris a. Fresh coat of paint will introduce up any broom and do it right. Start your wall in the middle near the top and roll it straight up and down. Theyll tell you todo the w. You will see that on Home Improvement shows,too. I dont know anybody in our business that does the w. Use the highest quality paint that you can avoid and dont skip on materials invest on high quality brushes and rollers and thatll make the paint go on smoother. When cleaning up mold, wear protective gears or gloves gloves. If you hire a pro, follow up with the inspection to verify that mold has been removed. You will find moreinformation on our website on abcactionnews. Com. I hope nobody gets close to him. A driver turns his truck into a Lethal Weapon on a kentucky highway. What officials found stashed take a look at this. 19 minutes until 10 00. A texas truck driver ran people off. Deputies say hehad an abused puppy in the cab of the semi. Dannygonzales was holding logs of woods on friday morning. Heran cars off interstate 65 and caused at least two incidents and ran over street signs. He was arrestedafter he drove off the roads and got stuck in mud. Inside the cab, they found the pub pi puppy with her tail other injuries. Shes recovering from her injuries we are having to check all that out. Oh, two dogs are recovering this morning after getting trapped in a house fire in minnesota. A neighbor calledfirefighters yesterday after noticing the house that the dogs were in us going off in flames. Officials pull thedogs out, one of the the dogs were unconscious of smoking inhalations. Both dogs expected to make a full recovery. The causeof that fire is under i vestigation. A claer water has this Morning Police gave a Good Samaritan award to dennis johnson. He was at the abby cemetery when month. During the awards ceremony, johnson said he was glad he could help. You see somebody that needs help, you help them. Thats all it takes. Taylor did suffer hyperthermia after spending the night at the cemetery. He wastreating at the hospital. The National Park is a popular vacation destination. More people visited National Park sites in 2015 than ever before. Parks across the country hosted a recordbreaking of 307 million visits. The most positive spot is the rocky mountains. Grandcanyon held five million. In august the National Parks service will celebrate its centennial celebration. Front door. Look at this, it is an invasion of tumble weeds. Swamping homeowners to use a blower if they want to walk out the door. One resident says she spent eight hourscleaning up the next only to have a new match of tumble weeds cover up her door the next day. Maybe a bad idea. That would be a terrible idea. Thats one way to do it. Lets check in on ourweather forecast here and well talk about this daytona situation. I think well be all right. There will besome sprinkles that well have to track closely. Look atthat shot tlchlt shot there. Crystal blue skies. Here is forecast as we take you into daytona 500. Bit more about why the cloud cover will be increasing. Rightalong the coast is not for us. Upper 50s right now. Temperatures this morning in the 40s and i feelt. The wind protectedfrom the fog along from the dryer air that moved in on top of us here. You can call it a breezy day, area of High Pressure now and strong winds at that. Look at thatexpansive chang change. Thatll bring us eventually easterly flow and a more persistent one. Watch what happens of our future cast. There you see, last spring there with that east flow right along the coast. It includes sunday as well. I dont think theyll have any issues with any significant rainfall there. Upper 60s to low 70s for today. We are typical for thistime of the year. This is where we should be at 72. Thats where we are going to be if you are doing any boating today. The winds have increase a little bit. Thats a moderate chop out as oppose to light chops. Tomorrow, again, 74 and then saturday through the weekend, well have more sunshine than clouds. It willnot be cloud free clouds free. Well keep it around near 80s for monday. Thatsnice, tuesday and wednesday is nice. Well, thats the next front forecast wednesday, well get closer to that Community Leaders are short on volunteers of transfer why the census is so important to thetampa bay area . Volunteers will canvas the area during a 24 hour period. Take a look, the 4 p. M. To 9 p. M. Shift is the time slot where the remaining volunteer spots are available. Volunteers are needed in the downtown area and 5 a. M. To 10 a. M. Shift in west tampa are also in need of volunteers. Joining us with more information is an net antoinette from the initiative. Thank you for coming in. The need for volunteers. Explain to our viewers of what you are doing and why is this is important to the process . It is important to the process of ending homelessness in hillsboro county. We need volunteers. We have about 350 volunteers. We are looking for about 400 to 500volunteers to help us canvas the whole hillsboro county area to make sure that everyone is counted. Funding inhomelessness depends on how many people that we count in the community and not only we count them here but every Community Across the country have to do a Homeless Count how does that count work on thursday morning and next thursday, do they go out with papers and describe that to our viewer sns s . Next thursday well have a everyone will get a thfr shirt and a bag to carry and toy and toiletry items to carry out. All the information go to a hub and well collect the data and start entry on the data. Well get feedback. So for student who is are in high school or college, would this count or Community Service hour . Absolutely, well write a thank you letter and send it with the students. The document to certify the volunteer hours occurred. In the past, constituents of yuns students of University Tampa participated. The whole Baseball Team . Yes, the whole Baseball Team helping us one day with fully furnished department and the Baseball Team. To help, there are still time. Any organizations from any universities will be gladly. If you are waiting by the phone. Let me give you theinformation if you would like to volunteer. There arestill Slots Available to help them with this official Homeless Count. The number to call is 81323361 15 or you can email them at infoat thhi. Org. Thank you for watching temperatures in upper 60s and with warm upcoming up and more so this weekend. Temperatures to the mid and upper 70s. Now if you will excuse me, i have a bottle of that to get. Ivan, thinking of drinking some wine today. Today is national drinkingwine day. It is celebrated everyday in the u. S. Onfebruary 18th. The wine played an Important Role in history. Drinking wine and moderation can reduce heart diana Heart Disease and bad cholesterol. You are a big person. Yeah, she is. Big personality. Well continue our top stories now on abcacti abcactionnews. Com. Today on fablife. Well give you the royal treatment. One of our favorite housewives countess luann. 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