Transcripts For WFTS Action News Weekend Edition At 6AM 2016

WFTS Action News Weekend Edition At 6AM November 20, 2016

Sunday morning. Im lindsay logue. Im james tully. I snagged something. How about jock chat chip cookie dough cake. Ivan, did you get cake. I did not. Cookie dough between the layers of the cake. Thats how bad things got in my kitchen. This is something. You got co take over while ivan speaks. That is a nice shot of the courtney campbell. That is by ben t. Davis beach where i take off on the bike. I will not be doing that today. Cold for me. Temperatures widespread in the 50s. We have to widen out the shot to see what is going on. Temps in the 40s. Thats part of the story. The winds are gusty. This is the first front that brought us the gusty north clearwater had a gust earlier of 35 miles per hour. You get the idea here. Temperatures because of that will feel colder. Thats the windchill dropping into the lower 40s. 30s by the time we get to the next couple of hours, especially across the nature coast. This isnt the coldest morning. We will get colder through tomorrow as this chilly air mass continues to drain in from the southeast. Today we will recover a bit. It will take a while. It will never feel as warm as 67be it will be gusty throughout the day. Thats it. I dont think many of us will hit 70. We will get colder tonight. We will talk about that in a couple of minutes. Ivan, thanks. Developing right now, Pinellas Park police are investigating after a homeless man was found beaten to dote behind a dumpster death behind the dumpster at park place. Officers say two people were collecting cardboard when they came across the mans body. That the victim was attacked. They are working to determine how the victim was killed. Deputies in polk county are trying to figure out what happened in the moments before a man died. Here is what we know so far. Deputies say Gabriel Gamino was fighting with someone in his yard in lakeland. The suspect took off. He ran to a neighbors house for help. The neighbors reported a stabbing. When deputies arrid died. If you have any information that can solve the case, call the sheriffs office. Details from north port. Police are investigating a shooting of a teenager that was airlifted to the hospital with serious injuries. Detectives are still looking into it. They say its an isolated incident. A massive makeover continues in tampas Historic Hyde Park neighborhood. That means cone zones. I know you have seen them. Business owners feared a slump in sales this holiday because of it. Abc action News Reporter karen wisher has the story. Reporter construction was leading to concerns among Business Owners but they werent founded. Thousands of people packing into hyde park to celebrate the beginning of season. Reporter the sites and sounds merry christmas. Reporter of the holidays are filling the air in hyde park village. So much fun. Its fun to look at all the stores and stuff, shop around . Its the Holiday Season . Reporter music to the ears for hyde park Small Businesses. Months of construction, barricades around every corner and limited parking had them a little concern. I know the Management Team worked so hard to get the village looking as pretty as possible. They came through. Coffee to go is celebrating the second hilled season. The Stores Manager says business is Holiday Season. The Stores Manager says business is booming. Itching it will be a huge hit absolutely. I think it will be a huge hit this Holiday Season. Reporter the stores are a around the barricades and are excited to see what the finished product will be. Before it was here, we thought we have to go to downtown st. Pete. With this coming to fruition, it makes tampa a contender. Reporter shop owners hope the trend continues with more packed streets for Small Business saturday one week from today and leading through christmas. Reporting in tampa, kara demanding charges against a teachers aide. They say the aide held down then slapped their autistic son in the face last month. Broward County School district says the teachers aide is still under investigation. The medical examiner is speaking out about heroin overdoses calling the problem an epidemic. Dr. Russ say vega wants to russell vega wants to raise awareness. Home with parents educating their children about the dangers of drugs. Im here to work with them, to just provide a little more awareness in the community of what is going on. There is attend necessary in the community and society to not want a feeling in the community and society to not want to to keep it under the rug the way to deal with the last year there were 160 deaths in our area from heroin overdoses. This is very much a working weekend for president elect donald trump. He is keeping up a brisk pace as he tries to fill top positions in his administration. He welcomed a stream of visitors including a president ial nominee as what amounted to job interviews at one of his properties in new jersey. Elizabeth hur po his private golf course in new jersey with mike pence teeing up possible cabinet picks. The most prominent name, mitt romney reportedly a contender for secretary of state. No sign of the bashes they traded brabs they traded during the campaign. After a 90minute meeting, no sign of a done deal either. We had a far reaching world where there are interests in the United States of real significance. I look forward to the coming administration. Another visitor, retired marine corps general james mattis considered a prospect for defense secretary. We have seen tremendous talent. People that as i say who will make America Great again. At his first public appearance in days, the president elect seemed in high spirits even making the press. Hot chocolate . Hot chocolate. We will take care of it. First time in my life i have. Trump has more interviews sunday. You will hear things tomorrow. Meanwhile, protestors were back in the streets. In washington, d. C. Police took this man down and handcuffed him and another man suffered a demonstrated against the president elect. Elizabeth hur, abc action news new york. Donald trump is taking on a popular musical. He went to twitter to take aim at hamilton actors calling on them to apologize to his running mate mike pence. He tweeted that the cast harassed his Vice President. He said the actors were rude to pence and they should issue an apology. Here is what the stage at the end of the show. They hoped the show would inspire pence to uphold American Values. The cast member aaron burr later replied to trumps tweet saying what happened at the theater was a conversation, not harassment. We are just Getting Started on action news weekend edition. Still ahead, a steep rise in deadly car crashes in florida. What is behind the numbers. You havent been outside, brace yourself. Its the coldest air of the season. We will get colde tonight. Z26jvz zy6z y26jvy yy6y. Welcome back. After years of Highway Safety improvements, traffic fatalities in america are suddenly on the rise. Many are pointing to smartphones for this drastic spike. Adam winer shows us how a local case is becoming a National Example of this growing danger. This chilling video posted to snapchat shows how fast a killing five people including himself. While fhp says speeding was clearly a factor in the october crash, the use of a smartphone before a deadly accident may be part of a larger trend. The influx of electronics in a vehicle, whether it be the vehicle or what drivers bring in, we are having more problems. Reporter the first half of 2016 the deadliest florida is on pace to be deadly year this year than the past. Traffic alerts, all alerts coming in. The phones stay active. They are designed to keep your attention. If the driver keeps their attention on the phone and not the road, thats why we have problems. Some say we need tougher laws. Florida is one of nine states across the country where a Law Enforcement officer cant pull you over for texting while 30 fee. The most recent law was written in 2013 before this snap chat filter used before the crash was created. Is the application the cause of that . No. He made a decision, poor judgement and cost himself dearly. Reporter he points out legislation cant be expected to keep up with technology. In tampa, adam winer, ab when you got floridas most accurate forecast, it doesnt get any better, or does it . The best Weather Satellite ever built is in space. It launched last night from cape canaveral. Its a 1 billiondollar satellite that will provide sharper images of hurricanes, tornadoes and weather systems seen from space. Dont take it from us. Ivan are you super excited about this or what . Pictures and they will be sharp and we will get them every 30 seconds as opposed to 30 minutes. I think it will save lives. The lead time we give for tornado warnings will be impacted. The way we forecast hurricanes and get folks out of the way. This is huge. Four satellites will go up in orbit. All said and done, it will give us 20 years of spectacular weather forecasting. Lets take you outside and sh looking at clear skies. If i just showed you that, you wouldnt know what was happening unless you watched closely, the camera moving a bit. Gusty north winds have taken over. Coldest air mass of the season. We are talking about it. Its here. Temperatures in the lower 50s. Mid40s. The windchill technically doesnt get calculated unless these are the gusts, 15 to 25. That will continue through the early part of the day. The winds will subside by late today. That will set the stage for a cold night tonight. Temperatures feel like 42 in brooksville. Like wise up to crystal river. Look at gainesville, 35. Freeze watches are up for parts of northern florida. You can see the temperatures have taken a dive with overnight lows in the upper 20s to lower 0s. There is the front. Itil a band of clouds that you cant even see. But up to the north is where the moisture is. Thats where we are talking about snow. This is the same system that brought the snow to denver and headed to minnesota with the blizzard. There it is bringing snowfall to new england. It will be rather chilly. Temperatures will fall big time for them as well. We will recover a bit. This is the coldest high we have seen this season. Spring. As we head through tonight, we will take a tour of the neighborhoods and be able to see when pinellas drops to 50 and 40s, you know its cold becauseed water temperature keeps you milder. And it will because as we get further to the north and away from the coast, look at these numbers. This is not windchill. This is the actually temperature in the morning. Not much of a wind. Mid to upper30s. Elsewhere temps in the mid40s. If you are watching from chilly start. Across the coast, temps around 50. Each and every afternoon we will warm it up. This will be a short arrival of the cold air. A couple of days and we will get through it and then get warm once again. If you like the cool air, you have to go north for that. Upper 60s for us. Boating, forget it. If you are doing small craft, you are staying in with temps, if you are brave enough, in the low 70s. Airport at 69 in the city. But as i showed you colder elsewhere. Then the climb. We begin in earnest. Tuesday 75. There is the turkey. Why is it going so fast. It has the helmet on, upper 70s, nice day for thanksgiving. Again, we will get rid of the cool air through the end of the week and early next a little less this year than last year. According to the American Farm bureau, it will cost you under 50 bucks to serve dinner for ten people including the turkey, sides and dessert. What costs less this year . Turkeys for one. Pull pin pie mix and milk. If you are driving this thanksgiving, gas is expected to be cheaper that is lanier. Gas buddy says a recent drop in oil prices and the end of the i have an elf and i am mrs. Claus. So the children bring dear santa letters to my mailbox. A woman known for putting her neighbors ahead of her own needs needs help. How you can help mrs. Claus a woman known as mrs. Claus be busy wrapping gifts for people she doesnt know. Instead she is staying with a neighbor because a fire destroyed her home. Despite this they are trying to save the holidays. Watch. Reporter yolanda might be the nicest person you would ever meet. Thank you for calling. Reporter her phone wont storm ringing. Everyone is calling to check in on her after what happened this past weekend. Neighborhood. Somehow the house caught on fire. We believe it was a christmas tree. This is mrs. Claus straight from the north pole. Reporter yolanda, better known as mrs. Claus in her brandon neighborhood. I have an eventually and i am elf and i am mrs. Claus so the children in the neighborhood bring the letters to toys for kids and the holiday decorations go up in september. This is a message for all the parents out there everybody comes here, family, friends, neighbors, its hard to not have that stability. Reporter ask any neighbor and they will tell you about the legacy of mrs. Claus or the fact she opens her entire home for hundreds of people even strangers on thanksgiving. I cant tell you how many to mcdonalds and purchased hundreds of cheeseburgers and hamburgers and passed them out to people on the street. Reporter even though she lost everything, the only thing she is thinking about is the kids. We hope that we can salvage christmas, at least for the children in the neighborhood. I always check the list twice. After the massive insurance claims, mrs. Claus wont be moving but will find a way rebuild right here. Merry christmas. The message at the end she is more concerned about salvaging christmas for children than salvaging her own home. That is telling. Thats how people like her think. Still to come, new federal laws that impact your paycheck. Over time is changing. Up next, we will breakdown how welcome back. Pinellas park police are investigating after a homeless man was found beaten to death behind a dumpster. Officers say two people were collecting cardboard around the dumpsters when they came across a mans body off highway 19. Investigators say it appears that the victim was attacked. They are looking for a possible suspect. Donald trump is taking on a popular broadway musical. He is taking to twitter to take aim at hamilton actors calling on them to apologize to his running mate mike harassed his vitt president elect during a Vice President elect during the show. The most advanced satellite ever built is in space. It launched last night at cape canaveral. It will provide sharper pictures of hurricanes, tornadoes and other systems. The original launch was delayed by hurricane matthew. Its up there. A possible game changer. Lead time will be increased. Not just pretty pictures but scan the atmosphere and three dimensions. A lot can go on. Can it do anything about this . For a billion dollars, you Better Believe it. We can forecast better but we cant get rid of the cold air. How about i was at the shopping the other day, at the grocery store. Thats how you know we turned the corner. Firewood for sale. You the sky is crystal blue. We will be sunny. Despite full sunshine, we are only temperatures are going to struggle to get out of the 50s. I dont think by lunchtime we will start to go north of 63. That is how cold the air mass is. Temperatures in the mid40s to the north. You step outside and the winds will get you, 5 to 15, gusting 25 to 30 miles per hour, especially closer to the coast. Keep that in mind windchill then the winds subside later on today with temperatures feeling like they are in the 60s but that would be about it as far as the daytime high, 67 is all we will manage. As soon as we get sunset with the dry air mass, the temperatures are going to dive. We will take a tumble, 58. The winds will relax. That will set the stage for the coldest temperatures in the 30s tonight. Who gets colder as we head through the overnight in a couple all right, ivan, i cant wait. Caught on camera, take a look at this. A woman being violent attacked by a man in a Miami Gardens restaurant. He offered her money to have sex with him. He punched her after she ignored him. Police are searching for the suspect. Chicago police are looking for the gunman that shot and killed an illinois congressmans grandson. Police say representative dandy davis grandson got in an Officials Say he was shot in the head. A new federal overtime law affecting many goes into effect december 1st. Full time employees that make less than 47,500 a year are he will available for overtime. It will be updated ever three years. It is expected to rise to 51,000 by january 2020. If you are flying this week or you have family or friends visiting, Pay Attention to what is happening in chicago. Hundreds of workers we are talking baggage handlers, cabin cleaners, wheelchair a attendants and the janitors. Ohare is one of the big yeast airports and a strike would cripple travel for tens of thousands of people. Millions are preparing to hit the roads for thanksgiving. To help the tampa area residents make the most of their holiday hours, it can be sunday before thanksgiving. Also think about that, that is today. The worst day to start your trip is the day before, that would be wednesday. The best time to hit the roads is early in the morning. Dont drive in the middle of the afternoon because thats when the roads will be most crowded. For your return trip, learn the day after thanksgiving. Waiting until the weekend is assure way to guarantee you will sit in traffic somewhere for hours. Metropolitan ministries serving free thanksgiving meals to bay area families. They expect to serve 18,000 families between thanksgiving and christmas. So many needs that come along the Holiday Season that may impact your budget. You may lose hours at workings a child gets sick and you have to stay home. When you are paycheck to paycheck, not a lot of safety net. This program is a great safety net for families that are in need. You can sign up for food or lend a hand and donate. For all the details, head to time for our annual friendly reminder. If you are deep frying your turkey, broward rescue gave this tutorial on how not to do it. I will guess that was a frozen turkey. That is usually what caused flames like that. Friers should be set up 10 feet from your house or

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