Transcripts For WFTS Action News Weekend Edition At 7AM 2016

Transcripts For WFTS Action News Weekend Edition At 7AM 20160305

I posted one of those throwback pictures on thursday. I think it was an easter picture that i had taken when i was four or five years old. A beautiful site this morning as we are looking out from our tampa location. Its already a brightening sky. The sun came up just a few moments ago. But last night, it was a beautiful start for the weekend at the florida strawberry festival. Nbc action news on the social media platform, tweeting us out. A beautiful shot from the midway and it is of course, strawberry festival time. Take a look at the radar and satellite composite your its going to be a great day. A few clouds streaming in from the west. We have had a cold front so its going to be very pleasant out on the midway today. Temperatures are starting off in the crisp. It will feel cooler than this time yesterday. 48 in spring hill. And auburndale. 51 and ruskin. 52 in ellington. 53 in tampa and sarasota. The warm spot, siesta key at 55. Platte city, free kids day today. 10 00, the midway activities start. Cheap trick is going to round out the evening with a performance at 7 30. Heres the way your day is going to look. A nice one. Temperatures pushing up into the mid70s. Even warmer tomorrow. We will take a look at that with your action Weather Forecast 7day version in about 12 minutes or so. Hunt is on in sarasota for a man who deputies say is looking up womens skirts. See it here in this video. We are told its all happening inside a local store. Take a look at this surveillance video. This is the man deputies are looking for. This is inside a store called bonbon vintage. The act. She confronts him. So if you recognize this man, you are asked to call the Sarasota County Sheriffs Office. Deputies need your help to find a suspected bank robber. These pictures are from the bbt bank on indian rocks road in belleair bluffs. Deputies say this guy walked in friday morning and gave the weapon. If you recognize him, give the panellas county Sheriffs Office a call. Possible drug abuse and its all caught on video. We do want to warn you that the footage is hard to watch. A tip led officers to question one man who tells them he was doing something called a protection sport. Focusing on obedience, agility and fight work. Detectives believe what they saw on this video is extreme. Although they add the dog is extremely helping. Attorneys will decide on possible animal cruelty charges we are erring on the side of caution to make sure we are looking at all aspects. Detectives say the man in that state. Avenue. Business owner said she allowed him to use her guard. Staff did not want us what happened or the owner wouldve been stopped a student who claims he was trying to break up a fight ends up being are sprayed and in handcuffs thursday at richard al sanders school. Two of the pictures of the kids arrested there. A female student was getting assaulted during lunch so he and his friend jumped into tried to stop it. He admits he threw punches but he believes it was necessary for the School Resource officer to he believes it was not necessary to break up the fight with pepper spray. I dont think its right. Me off but not missed but not sprayed. District officials confirmed the fight happened but are refusing to comment at this time. The race to the white house. Donald trump will make a Campaign Stop in Central Florida today. Organizers at the University Say they initially planned for the event to start at noon that are now pushing it back to 2 oclock. That is because of an overlapping event on ucf campus. People say they expect the crowd of about 20,000 people. Seven primary contests are scattered across five states this weekend. For the republicans kentucky in maine caucus today along the democratic side of things, its all about the caucus in nebraska. Louisiana, voters from both sides head to the polls in a closed primary. The action all ends tomorrow with the Democratic Caucus in maine and a primary vote in puerto rico for the republicans. Your time now a traffic alert. If youre traveling from tampa to make you do not want to get off at the [ indiscernible ] exit. Roadwork there. Get off at Branch Forbes road and take that to 574 mlk and follow it up to the strawberry festival. You should also know that bill mentioned earlier, kids are getting in free today at the strawberry festival. Go there and check it out and get in for free. Heads up if youre traveling on the veterans expressway. The southbound exit is closed at gun highway for construction until midnight tonight. Covering pascoe county, several undocumented immigrants are being forced out of Government Housing in dade city. Some are accused of using fraudulent Social Security cards to pass for us citizens. Officials say they have discovered more than 20 cases. Friday to leave the cypress farms apartments. Were talking 60 kids that have to find a different way to go to school. So its not and these are all american kids. We cannot have people participating in programs that are not qualified to participate in them. We cant. The Sheriffs Office says they are investigating but have not affected anyone yet. Spacex successfully put a satellite into orbit but failed to land the rocket at sea. It was the fifth launch attempt. Delays due to problems. Unfortunately, they attempted to land the booster rocket on a drone ship and it failed, once again. The booster is said to have come back to earth too fast but the next light has a good chance of success. Ahead this morning, a florida diver sucked into a cooling system of a nuclear he got sucked in like a wet noodle. Just gone. The divers friends and family are witness to everything. Up next, here how the man survived in the measure Florida Power and light says it takes to keep this from ever happening here. It took about five minutes to revive me. A man with Cerebral Palsy is not letting his disability get in the way of his career. Why driving for uber is not his only incredible undertaking. If you have any incredible undertakings on for today, get outside and enjoy it. The sun is up. I have your complete action weather details coming up right your time right now is 7 07. A lawsuit by a man claiming he was sucked into the intake pipe and a st. Lucie power plant. We have more from this victim contemplating taking his own life, not knowing if he would survive. Reporter he started with one passion. My whole life, scuba diving. Reporter for the years, he has added four more on july 12, he was enjoying all of them. Boating and scuba diving with family and friends off the coast of hutchinson island. The buoy marks three massive constructions. So large that their silhouettes can be seen from high above. Robert blake and richardson tied their boat to the buoy and dove in to check it out while their families stay behind. Florida power and light says since the plant was billed, the buoy has always read stay back 100 feet but no indication of danger until it was too late. I swam right up to this big structure. It looks like a building on water. All of a sudden, i felt a little bit of current and i thought, this aint right. This aint right. Reporter what were you feeling at that time when you saw him get pulled then. I thought i saw my friend i. Reporter he thought he was joking. I remember holding him and crying and praying out loud. Did you think he was gone . Yes. Its out it felt like i got sucked into a waterfall. Tumbling around and around. And im trying to get a hold of my lights and look around. Reporter the pipe is 16 feet across and about a quarter of a mile long. It sucks 500,000 gallons of water a minute to grow the plants to go the plant and the reactors. I knew something was drawing all of this water and what to think about were these four movies. This big turbine coming and i am coming for it. Its going to chopping up and kill me. And i contemplated, should i pulled the regulator out of my mouth and i . Die . Start thinking about my family. Without me. Of above, brittany is thinking as well. The power plant and then the turbine. Journey is about to end one way or the other. All of a sudden, a light. Daylight. Fish everywhere. Crystalclear water and the sun is shining. And i thought, is this heaven . Reporter he was still on earth as he pulled himself out of the reservoir. And i said help and he came over and said how did you get in here . And i said, i came through the pipe. And he said, what reporter chris called his wife and that this message. I got sucked through a pot. I am okay. Okay. Something tell me to pick up him here and it was him. She picks up the phone and i just said, im alive. I couldnt believe it. I got chills about three or four times watching that. That is an amazing story and well told. Congratulations for him. Three and half to a fourminute ride. I cannot imagine going through Something Like that. Speaking of divers. Some noaa divers have discovered something pretty cool. Off the coast of hawaii. How about this little guy. He looks like casper the friendly ghost. Just sitting on a rock. More than 14,000 feet below the earths surface. This is an octopus. And that is realtime pictures. Just one row of suckers when there are usually two of them so they are trying to figure out exactly what this is all about but my goodness, the stuff you discover when you are away down in the water it looks fake almost. Actually by the water in downtown tampa, the riverwalk. The scene of what is going to be a really neat art festival for today. This is going to be the gasparilla festival of the arts and you can already see beautiful conditions with palms. The university of tampa back in the background. I just got chills looking at that. We live in a beautiful place. The sun rose today just after 7 oclock and it was a brisk start. We will be warming up nicely by later on today and i dont see any rain to speak of over the next seven days. Conditions in tampa, 53 degrees. Winds from the north, northeast at about three. 50 in clearwater. Calm winds there and we are looking at 58 degrees in st. Petersburg with wins coming out of the northeast at 12 miles an hour around the state, definitely quarter off to the north. This is where that cold front has moved through. Some of the cooler air has definitely settled in around gainesville. 40 in tallahassee. 44 in pensacola. 43 in jacksonville and chilly across the southeast. 37 in kansas city. 47 in the panhandle. Into the 30s for the color line as for the carolinas. Arming him at 35 degrees as High Pressure clears the skies out. Its going to warm into the upper 60s to low 70s in many areas across the south but today. As a matter of fact, take a look at the futurecast. Green blobs. Hardly a cloud around. On the golf course, things are looking good. We will take those mid50s temperatures and pushed them up to about 71 by noontime. And top out at 74 degrees. Those of sunshine for st. Petersburg. 70 degrees. Winds out of the northwest. A high of 74 with a few clouds around. Will take a look at your boating weather. 66 degrees is the temperatures off of clearwater beach. Is the temperature of clearwater beach. Your low tide just before 5 oclock. The sun will set just after 6 30. Heres a look at floridas most accurate seven day forecast and that is a thing of duty. Temperatures warming into the 80s. A lot of folks heading here on spring break. All of the details, all of the time on your abc action news app. A san diego uber drivers is inspiring his passengers with his motivation and work ethic despite having a disability. He admits writers are caught off guard when they come into the backseat of his car. He was born with Cerebral Palsy and drives in part to provide for his family. He and his wife just adopted three girls but he also is a motivational speaker. It takes about five minutes to revive them. His wife says he loves people so this job is a perfect fit. I can see that. Good story. The governor has promised more jobs for florida but the hype is not living up to its promise. The iteam goes beyond numbers and find out where we gained, where we are losing and welcome back. 7 23. Since Governor Scott took office, he has made bringing more jobs to the said his top priority. In the recent months, job growth has been higher here than any other larger state. By the numbers he is giving me not tell the whole story. Jarrod holbrook and adam going on in our job market. Reporter Governor Scott regularly aims to have added more than 1 million jobs to the Sunshine State and that number continues to grow. At the iteam has uncovered that some sectors of the economy have actually lost jobs. How much to you like your job . A lot. 100 reporter she has been looking for work for months. She and others are seeking jobs that pay slightly more than minimum wage. When the governor talks about 1 million jobs, he is talking in private industry. This is the number last june and has grown since then. At the number of government jobs that have been lost during that time, 140,000 in local, state and federal government bringing the statewide total much closer to that number. Reporter the state has budgeted nearly 400 million in incentives over the last five jobs to bring jobs to the state. Less than 10 of that money has actually been spent. I dont think we ever actually got an answer to the question of how many jobs were created last year. We were not qualified to work for those jobs. Just people qualified have come into florida instead of jobs that people really need. Reporter what kinds of jobs are being added . Holbrook fix up our story. Reporter the iteam ranked growth. What we have found is the strong. A problem is finding the right people to fill them. People are hiring faster. Reporter he works for high arching. He says its an exciting time tampa. To see what kinds of jobs are growing in florida, we ducked into the records of the Us Department of labor. Service industry jobs grew the most. Growing from 2015, more than 26,000 jobs were added to florida. Trade and Utility Commission came in second. Business ranked third. Federal and government grew the least. Daniel james scott is with the Tampa Bay Technology forum, and have a sink group to protect jobs. He says for a higherpaying skilled job, hiring is a challenge. We are not seeing as much challenge for open jobs right now. Reporter some of the higher level jobs are going to people outside of the temple market. We are putting a full list of what types of jobs are available in florida as well as how much they are paying on our website and we will break down all of the gains and losses on abcactionnews. Com. Coming up, the four biggest differences setting this years live from the station taking action for you, this is abc action news. Welcome back to abc action news this morning. Your time right now is just about 7 30. Heres what we are watching pennell as part police are investigating possible dog abuse. Take a look at this video. And all caught on camera. This man tells officers he was training the dog for a special training to protect the dog. Its a protected dog sport at the doghouse llc. Detectives think this looks extreme so the state attorney is also investigating in the owner has said that she let the man borrow her yard and she says that she and her staff would never have allowed this the republican front runner, donald trump, will be in orlando today but so will protesters. His Campaign Says some 20,000 supporters are expected at the university of Central Florida. He will be speaking there at 2 pm just across the street. Demonstrators are also expected. Police tell us they are working with all sides to make sure spacex put a satellite in order good in orbit. The fifth launch attempt. The attempt to land that rocket on a drone ship sailed again. Tweeting out that the booster just came back to earth to best at the next light has a good chance of success. Now, if they could just landed, we would be set. I posted the pictures years ago and the positive comments encouraged me to figure out how i could try this again. Were having nice weather here. Especially when you do the comparison contrast to what is going on up north. They are dealing with more winter weather. Another blast triggering a 10 people in the hospital and drone video capturing stranded motorists after authorities shut down the interstate. Also causing thin ice around the region. Firefighters had to race out to the lake to rescue a dog who wondered out and fell in. Thankfully, theyve got them okay and folks are not okay with that nasty stuff. We have a great event on the way today here in tampa. This is a live look at curtis in part. The tents are buttoned up but it 9 00, everything is a go for the gasparilla festival of the arts. You can see folks down there with a little bit of a chill on. By later on this afternoon, you can track those layers and be in shorts and tshirts. And its going to be a fantastic day. We did have a cold front that moved through yesterday. It has dropped down to the south now. We have a few clouds but Just Sunshine later on. Its starting to warm up right now. 52 degrees in tampa and sarasota. 50 in hudson. Still 40s and spring hill. We are looking at 52 for clearwater. 51 in valrico. Heres a look at floridas most accurate day planner plenty of sunshine today and warming up quickly. Up to 74 by noontime. It will get one tomorrow and really warm into the work week. I will show you that with the seven day forecast coming up in about 12 minutes or so. New information about a nice found at the site of o. J. Simpsons former home. Investigators telling abc news that the blade is not the murder weapon used in the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman took was allegedly covered by a construction worker at the property. Possibly, around the same time a retired police officer, george mccauls Attorney Says he immediately called police and was told there was nothing he could do because of double jeopardy. So he has held onto it ever since. His attorney adds there were no obvious signs of blood on that night. Focusing on the bay area monday. Hulk hogan versus gawker trial. The jury seated friday. His real name is terry belay a and he is suing for invasion of privacy. A videotape of hogan having sex with his

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