They chose their lack of a moral compass. It shows their lack of a sense of right and wrong. Yeah, seven deputy cadets are busted for cheating. The shameful act that cost them their jobs. It only encourages bad things to happen. Should gun owners be allowed to openly carry their weapons . The proposal and the push to shoot it down. Indeed, this is a promising technology. And a cuttingedge cure for Citrus Greening. How lasers could help save floridas orange crop. The 10 00 news starts now. Thanks for joining us, everybody. Up first tonight, a major shakeup at the Pinellas CountySheriffs Office. The sheriff says seven deputy recruits cheated during training. And now they and a training deputy accused of helping them are out of work. We go live to the Sheriffs Office tonight. Take us through what happened here . Reporter well, the sheriff says that this group of recruits got a copy of the written and oral examine ahead of time. And they almost got away with this. But during the testing, one of the trainers noticed that one of the recruits answers seemed so perfect that it seemed like they got the answers ahead. They need to be fired because they are unethical people. Reporter a heated county sheriff is not mincing words about the recruits he just kicked out of the department. They are not going to work for the Pinellas CountySheriffs Office. Reporter the sheriff says was up to its exam phase of train being. Potential deputies are tested on the basics of Law Enforcement and the agency policy. They are not hard tests. Reporter but one recruit, darrell cook, couldnt resist the easy way. He turned to a current pinellas deputy, eric fiddle, a friend and in a text message exchange, cook asked to, quote, get some of the study material. He said he would give him the actual exam. But he said please do not share or show them, i dont want to be in an i. A. , an internal affairs investigation. Terry says several recruits turned it down, but seven, including cook, accepted it. They and biddle are out of a job. Very hurt by it. Reporter the sheriff says this is the first time its ever happened. And he hopes this is the last. It shows a lack of moral compass. It shows their lack of ethics. They dont need to be working in Law Enforcement. Reporter we contacted biddle and cook and havent heard back. The sheriff also says the stateville to decide whether everyone involved will have to have their Law Enforcement certifications pulled or suspended. I know you will watch that for us. Thank you. How about is this opencarry proposal with heavy opposition in tampa. Bob buckhorn, eric ward and mark ober. They all say it would put the public and the police in danger. Evan axelbank at police headquarters. What did they say, evan . Reporter the police chief says it would make it almost impossible for his officers to make potentially to assess potentially dangerous situations. Now the proposal has already passed two house committees. And city Officials Say this could be a potentially deadly giveaway to the nra. November, 2015, the aftermath of a triple shooting, a 911 was carrying a rifle. But no officers were sent legal. Florida, which should be the west. Reporter mayor buckhorn and chief horn and ober says it would have similar moments of confusion. The average citizen is going around with an opencarry firearm, that officer has to make a splitsecond decision, if hes a bad guy or a good guy . Reporter backers insist it would protect those who accidentally expose a firearm in front of an officer. The chief and states attorney have never heard of a case like that. I would be interested to see how statewide, that is. We call that a red herring. Reporter the chief sponsor, matt gates points out that 45 states allow open carry would only apply to those already licensed to carry concealed. And any state that bans oche carry violates the second amendment. This bill enhances the rights of citizens and vindicates rights that have been granted, not by government, but by god. Reporter the antiopencarry tampa trio cited few statistics during their press conference, but argued that along with potential confusion during a police response, that it would block tampas other goals. I can tell you, i am walking down franklin street mall and there are a bunch of folks hanging out here like the o. K. Corral, thats not good for development. Reporter the next discussion could be thursday morning. Democrats expect the measure to pass. That is in the house, mark. The key will be, im told, in the senate, where a campus carry bill was recently voted down. So we will have to watch it there. We have an update on a double murder in manatee county. Wayne cummings has been charged in the deaths of carl tuxford and his girlfriend jordan finland. He has been in jail since last week when he was charged with two counsels of armed kidnapping in the case. According to an arrest report, deputies received information cummings. And deputies say cummings told his cousin that they were going to beat finland up and kill duxford. New at 10 00, a lakeland family was hit by burglars and thetches and took something absolutely irreplaceable. They took the family dog. A oneyearold yorkie. Three young men broke into the home, the 3200 block of pebble brook boulevard and stole electronics, food and the family dog. The family says they can replace the other things, but not the dog. Thats pretty rough, especially worse on the kids. Birth of the dog so they were really ark tached to it. These are the suspects, believed to be between 16 and 20 years old. They were in a dark nissan, which has been found. Not been located. If have you any information, call the polk county Sheriffs Office or crimestoppers. You could be eligible for a cash reward. A school bus and a car collided in pasco county this afternoon where trinity boulevard meets little road. You can see the car wedged underneath the front of the bus. 53 students were on the bus at the time. Thankfully, none of them badly hurt. They were all students at Seven Springs middle schedule. No word on the condition of the driver of the car or who was at fault. Well, a man was killed in a crash on the Courtney Campbell causeway in tampa. A man driving a pontiac lost control and crashed into a nissan this morning. Thats what you see. One of his passengers was thrown later found and taken into custody. Jonathan mendoza pena was killed. The driver of the nissan was not badly hurt. But alcohol is believed to be a factor. Florida state has settled a lawsuit by a woman who claimed that winsman sexually assaulted him as a quarterback in 2012. She said he raped her in his apartment, after they met in a bar. Winston denied this, saying it was consensual. Prosecutors did not press charges for lack of evidence. Hintsman filed a separate lawsuit, saying the school did not do anything. Today, fsu reached a 950,000 settlement. 250,000 will go to hintsman and her attorneys will get the rest. This is a citrus leaf with funny markings on it. Looks like an alien. What made them could be the key we are talking, of course about citrus graining and a bacteria putting a major squeeze on the 11 billion florida citrus industry. They are hoping this is the longawaited silver bullet. Reporter yes. Its a new bacteriaside. But a bullet doesnt work without a gun. Just spraying the chemical on the tree wasnt very effective. Researchers needed a way to get the agent into the tree. Now they say they have one. Which is what brought senator bill nelson to lakeland today. We theoretically, on a growing tree, you would have an arm here, arm here and arm here. Like that. Reporter u. S. Senator bill nelson had to see it for himself. Indeed, this is a promising technology. Reporter the best weapon yet in the fight against an enemy that has cost the state of florida billions of dollars and thousands of jobs. Growers are sprugling to stay reporter Citrus Greening causes citrus trees to produce small, bitter fruit and usually kills the tree itself. It has wiped out more than 130,000 acres of citrus and cost the state 3. 6 billion in revenue. Thats going to kill our successful. We are going dob successful. Reporter the senators machinedeveloped by florida researchers that works with a laser. You can see the incisions here. Step 2, it sprays a bacteriaside getting the medicine directly into the trees veins, so to speak. Sick trees treated with this method in november have sprouted new, healthy growth. So two months ago, and you have this new kind of flush. New flush, yeah. Isnt that beautiful . Further testing is needed. But they believe this is the beginning of a cure. We are making headway and ultimately we are going to have a stable system, followed by replanting that will restore this industry. Reporter now heres the thing. Researchers couldnt give us an estimate on how long it might take to treat all the infected trees. Senator nelson is petitioning the president to fund the technology this. Years crop is forecast to be flor dids small nest 52 years. Thats too bad. The pintsized pirates were out in force this weekend, despite the chilly weather. 100,000 people showed up for this gasparilla childrens parade saturday. You may have seen our news on the floats there. This saturday githe is the adult parade. The parade of pirates will be along bayshore boulevard. Lot better. I saw on Pauls Facebook page that its all set up for this weekend. I hope so. Coming up, a massive belied blizzard brings a lot of people together. The city truly has come together. We have seen neighbors helping neighbors. How millions of americans are dealing with this weekends historic winter storm. Its still very difficult more me to communicate with my classmates and teachers. And a seventh grader from tampa is using technology to change lives. How he has turned his own personal struggle into a platform to help a lot of people. Thats coming up tonight at 10 30. Whats going on. Frost net bay area this morning. But the cold air is moving away. The warm air is must having in. With that, looks like some rain and some storms. A sign of warm air is high clouds, increasing late today. Big changes on the way. Minutes. Streeeeeam stream, stream, streeam streeeeeam stream, stream, stream when i want you in my arms when i want you and all your charms whenever i want you all i have to do is tonight, billions of people are still digging out from this weekends massive blizzard, leaving some major cities buried with more than 3 feet of snow. And it could be weeks before things are back to normal. And peter doocy tells us tonight, many of the roads are still impassable and people cant travel. Reporter almost two days after the heavy stuff stopped falling, almost 2 feet of snow sits in the middle of many now impassable streets. City residents cant go anywhere until plows finally show up. It takes me four days to get my part done. So i think by the time i finish, they will get the street plowed. Reporter what happens if there is an emergency on an untouched street . In arlington, virginia, the plan is to walk the nearest cleared a path. If that doesnt work, they will ask the National Guard for a lift. Something the Fire Department did this weekend. A lot of main drags are obstructed by snow plows taller than basketball hoops. They are picking tup, loading it up and hauling it away. No piles from washington, d. C. Are being dropped off at rfk stadium. And the mayor has a new warning for residents venturing out of the house. Its getting warmer during the day and freezing at night. So any wet surfaces can become icy. Reporter this storm is blamed for leaving 36 people dead in its path, including a u. S. Capitol Police Officer who had a heart attack shoveling snow and keeping passengers from 12,000 cancelled flights grounded. The roof of a Maryland Church collapsed. Beach erosion and floods caused extensive damage in new jersey. In new york, where a travel ban was in effect, the mayor still doesnt want people on the in fact, he doesnt want people to touch their cars, fearing they will make an even bigger mess. Leave the snow on it. Let Mother Nature help you. It will be warmer. There will be sunshine. Reporter just across the river from d. C. , not far from the pentagon, the owner of this car could knock all the snow off the roof and into the road and who would know . There is nearly a waisthigh snow drift running right down the middle of the street that nobody has even attempted to plow yet. In arlington, virginia, peter doocy, fox 13. Record like i watched your Facebook Page. You said record snowfall in central park. Yeah, its incredible. Their records go back to the 1800s. Thats the cool thing about social media, you follow the storms up and down the coast. It was crazy. Friday night and saturday night. The original forecast thats the thing in new york. The big one a couple of years ago, they were predicting a huge now all of a sudden, this one, not so much. And the models came in 2 feet. You know what happens then. Anyway, we are on the sidelines. We have some of the cold air from the storms over the weekend. How about this . Five fantastic photos to show you . Sunset from karen blackford, contrails coming in, late today. A sign that some increased moisture above us, as the weather pattern is on the move. This, we have had great optics in the sky, all due to high clouds. Sun dog. Look at this. Live, tarpin springs from andrew, good job. Love that. Mist on bayshore from josh. Two things, great sunset and the pirate ship on the left, anchored out in the bay. Zoom in and look at this. All lit up, looks great from steven watts. Heres a hint. Couple of weeks or so . Go to my Facebook Page and down load that. Seized down quite a bit today. Rough over the weekend. And the blues continue. Temperatures today only in the mid 60s. We start warming up dramatically. The cold high has shifted east of us. We are on the back side. That means tomorrow, the mercury gets into the 70s with occasional high clouds. Then we watch and wait for the arrival of this cold front thats going to move our way. Its a complicate the forecast. It is not clear cut. But the bottom line is, we are going to see a spell of showers and thundershowers wednesday morning, probably into thursday with at least a round or two of severe weather. Already, on the water vapor imagery. Here comes the subtropical jet, whipping in from the west and southwest. Knots. Thats a lot of wind for this time of year. Thats one of the mechanisms weather. Right now, it is cool but not cold. Have you 40s and 50s. The difference now compared to warmup. We are running many cases, 10, 15, 20 degrees warmer in ocala and the warming trend will continue tomorrow. 55 now. The dew point is creeping up. Skies are mostly clear. Near full moon overhead. I do think there will be areas of patchy fog late, especially inland. On the nature coast late tonight. Besides that, things are pretty quiet. High pressure off the carolina coast. Our winds turn to the south. Lots of melting snow today n. New england to the atlanta states. And more cold out in the west. Here we go. This is how things will play out. The highs moving away. Here comes the cold front. Then by wednesday, the front drapes itself over the state. We see bands of Energy Rolling along that front. Maybe some heavy rain early wednesday. Could be a break moves along the front. That goes by and then we turn cooler. Its amazing how we go from a completely dry winter air mass to literally a pure tropical air mass in just 48 hours. And that front goes by and then we turn cooler and dryer and i think, pretty nice for the week en. So tonight, patchy fog. Otherwise mostly moonlit. We are down to 50. High clouds around tomorrow, mild, low 70s. On wednesday, not so good. Showers and thundershowers, some could be strong. Rough, near 70. Then we may last into thursday with showers and thundershowers and we clear up. This early juncture. The weekend looks good. Temperatures in the 60 sdz. Nighttime lows about 45 to 50. Back to you. Thank you so much. Heats up for 3 prisoners on the run. They broke out of a in this line of work only the freshest ingredients make the cut its important to me to know every dish i serve is the best it can be. Especially for this food critic. Publix bakery scratch made bread we bake it in store every day with pride so you can serve it with some developing tonight, in california, the search is on right now for these three prisoners who broke out of a maximum security jail in santa ana. They cut through thick steel bars and dug through a maintenance tunnel. And the guards noticed they were missing about 9 00 on friday night. These are three very, very dangerous inmates that we are looking for. Reporter vietnamese gang members, charged with attempted murder and an alleged killer, both escaped with a man who was accused of kidnapping and cutting off the anatomy of a man he believed had money. Put fire to his body, he also poured bleach all over him and he dumplinged the victim in the desert and left him alone to die. Fortunately, he did not. Reporter after weeks of planning, they escaped on friday from this maximum security jail. It appears to be a very sophisticated operation where they were allowed to go through security assess points and had some tools that aloud them to do that. Reporter Police Believe the men used a hack saw to cult through this metal screen and halfinch steel bars to enter the ventilation system where they made their way to the roof, and used a rope made out of sheets, escaping undetected for 14 hours. We get these investigations going on, the investigation of the actual escape and then you have the investigation that is about apprehending the three inmates and thats really our priority. Reporter police are canvassing little saigon, looking for leads. We sincerely need input from the community to help us put these dangerous individuals back into custody. Reporter the only video they have is this, which shows nothing useful. A plan to add surveillance cameras at the jail was set to begin later this year. Police refuse to say what tools they recovered or how the inmates got them. 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