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THE DRIVER HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS RONGRIC DONNEL FRANCIS 3819 24TH STREET SW, LEHIGH ACRES. HE HAS BEEN CHARGED AS FOLLOWS:

• AGGRAVATED ASSAULT ON LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER - 2 COUNTS

• GRAND THEFT AUTO

• FELONY FLEEING AND ELUDING

• RESISTING AN OFFICER WITHOUT VIOLENCE

• LEAVING THE SCENE OF A CRASH WITH PROPERTY DAMAGE

• DRIVING WHILE LICENSE SUSPENDED - 3RD OR SUBSEQUENT OFFENSE

• AGGRAVATED FLEEING AND ELUDING WITH INJURY OR DAMAGE

AN INMATE PHOTO AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WILL BE AVAILABLE AFTER PROCESSING BY VISITING THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE WEBSITE AT WWW.SHERIFFLEEFL.ORG AND CLICKING ON THE ARREST SEARCH BUTTON ON THE HOME PAGE.

THE INVESTIGATION HAS REVEALED THAT TWO SEPARATE PATROL CARS WERE INVOLVED IN THE TWO CRASHES WITH CIVILIAN VEHICLES.

NEW FL UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS-SSTOPS

GOING BACKWARDS.

NEW NUMBERS TONIGHT SHOW FLORIDA'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE ROSE LAST MONTH.

COUNTY BY COUNTY-SSTOPS

COUNTY-BY-COUNTY THE NUMBERS ARE UP -- ONE IN TEN PEOPLE ARE OUT OF WORK IN LEE AND COLLIER.

JOBS IN SWFL-2 SHOT; TURN PETER

WE KNOW THE PAST FEW YEARS HAVE BEEN ROUGH.

BUT A NEW REPORT IS OUT TODAY FORECASTING THE FUTURE.

TODAY GOVERNOR SCOTT TOUTED NEW JOBS COMING TO THE STATE.

HE TALKED ABOUT A REAL ESTATE COMPANY THAT'LL ADD AS MANY AS 300 NEW REAL ESTATE APPRAISAL AND DATA PROCESSING JOBS DURING THE NEXT THREE YEARS.

JOBS IN SWFL-TRX CTR

THIS IS THE SUMMER SLOW SEASON.

INDUSTRIES LIKE HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM SCALE BACK THEIR NUMBERS.

SO MANY VARIABLES AT PLAY.

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JOBS IN SWFL-TFX CTR

HEATHER MENTIONED GOVERNOR SCOTT.

CANDIDATE SCOTT PROMISED 700-THOUSAND NEW JOBS.

AS HE TOUTS THE STATE'S IMPROVING ECONOMY. HIS FELLOW REPUBLICAN MITT ROMNEY IS TRYING TO CONVINCE FLORIDIANS THAT THE ECONOMY UNDER PRESIDENT ISN'T IMPROVING.

PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS-VOWIPE

LESS THAN THREE MONTHS

TO GO UNTIL ELECTION DAY AND THE BATTLE IS HEATED.

PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS-SOTVO

I did go back and look at my taxes and over the past 10 years I

never paid less than 13 percent. I think the most recent year is 13.6 or

something like that.

RNC POLICE PREPS-VO

THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER.

AND TODAY PEOPLE IN TAMPA GOT A SNEAK PEEK AT WHAT THE EXTRA SECURITY WILL LOOK LIKE.

OFFICERS WILL BE WEARING KHAKI UNIFORMS AND SOME WILL BE RIDING BRAND NEW BICYCLES.

AND THE SWAT VEHICLES THEY MIGHT SEE DURING THE CONVENTION.

MOVIE THEATER THREATS-OC

JUST SHY OF A MONTH AFTER THE KILLING SPREE AT AN AURORA COLORADO MOVIE THEATER -- POLICE HAVE BEEN CALLED IN TO THEATERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY AFTER AN OVERNIGHT THREAT OF MORE VIOLENCE.

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HEIGHTENED TENSIONS. AND SECURITY TODAY AT A STRING OF MOVIE THEATERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. AFTER A THREATENING PHONE MESSAGE WAS LEFT ON AN ANSWERING MACHINE AT THE CARMIKE CINEMAS HEADQUARTERS IN GEORGIA OVERNIGHT.

"The caller said that there were bombs placed throughout the theaters all over the United States.

So probably every singled theater in the United States that is owned by this company is being searched right now."

SEARCH TEAMS. SOME WITH DOGS. LOCKED-DOWN. THEN LOOKED THROUGH THEATERS IN SEVERAL STATES INCLUDING: GEORGIA. KENTUCKY. ILLINOIS. NORTH CAROLINA AND PENNSYLVANIA.

TO THIS POINT NO EXPLOSIVES HAVE BEEN FOUND.

AND POLICE HAVE NOT TALKED ABOUT ANY POSSIBLE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE THREATS AND AN ARREST MADE LAST NIGHT WHEN 23-YEAR-OLD JOSHUA VARDEMAN TRIED TO CARRY A LOADED 9MM PISTOL INTO A CARMIKE CINEMA IN COLUMBUS, GEORGIA - THE CITY WHERE THE THEATER CHAIN IS BASED.

MORE AMMUNITION WAS FOUND INSIDE VARDEMAN'S CAR.

THIS EVENING THE INVESTIGATION AND THE SEARCHES CONTINUE.

SILO ACCIDENT-VO

RESCUE WORKERS ARE TRYING TO REACH A MAN WHO FELL 140 FEET THROUGH THE ROOF OF A CEMENT SILO IN MIAMI THIS MORNING.

RESCUERS SAY THERE IS NO COMMUNICATION OR SIGN OF LIFE FROM THE WORKER WHO FELL.

WEST NILE VIRUS-VOWIPE

THE FIGHT AGAINST WEST NILE IS FORCING CITIES TO TAKE DRASTIC MEASURES.

FACING ONE OF THE LARGEST OUTBREAKS OF THE DISEASE IN YEARS, OFFICIALS

ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE MOVING THE BATTLE GROUND TO THE SKY.

IN DALLAS -- WHERE THE MAYOR DECLARED A STATE OF EMERGENCY THIS WEEK, PLANES ARE NOW CARRYING PESTICIDE TO TRY AND KILL MOSQUITOES.

WEST NILE VIRUS-SOTVO

What are you telling them? Well, I tell them if they can and they're really sensitive to leave town.

BUTT WITH

When you are dealing with someone's life, that should come first and foremost

WITH NEARLY 700 CASES OF HUMAN INFECTION ACROSS THE COUNTRY, 200 OF

WESTERN WILDFIRES-VOWIPE

FIRE CREWS ARE

MAKING PROGRESS IN THOSE WESTERN WILDFIRES, DESPITE THE EXTREME

CONDITIONS.

A "FIRE WEATHER WATCH" HAS BEEN ISSUED IN WASHINGTON, WHERE THE TAYLOR

BRIDGE FIRE HAS BURNED AT LEAST 70 HOMES.

IN FEATHERVILLE, IDAHO, FAMILIES ARE PACKING UP WITH BELONGINGS

WESTERN WILDFIRES-SOTVO

SOT - Debbie Savage, Idaho Falls Resident / "I'm pretty attached to this

place so it means a lot so it's going to be hard." 6

FIREFIGHTERS IN THE NORTHWEST WILL GET A BREAK FROM THE HEAT THIS WEEKEND.

BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THUNDERSTORMS MAY MOVE IN, BRINGING THE THREAT

PALM BEACH BREAKING SCRIPT

NEW DETAILS ON BREAKING NEWS WE'VE BEEN FOLLOWING SINCE 4 --

AN ACCIDENT ON PALM BEACH BOULEVARD THAT HAS THE ROAD SHUT DOWN FROM HOUSE TO TERRY STREET.

FMPD TELLS US 5 CARS WERE INVOLVED IN CRASH.

THEY'RE UNSURE WHAT HAPPENED - WE DO KNOW THERE WERE

TWO TRAUMA ALERTS AT THE SCENE, THE VICTIMS TAKEN TO LEE MEMORIAL.

TEASE ONE-2SHOT

SO MUCH FOR FREE SPEECH.

A FEMALE RUSSIAN PUNK BAND HAS TO SPEND TIME IN JAIL AFTER SPEAKING OUT AGAINST THE COUNTRY'S MOST POWERFUL MAN.

THIS GOES BEYOND THE MUSICIANS, AND THE COUNTRY.

THE COURT'S DECISION DOESN'T SIT WELL WITH A LOT OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD, INCLUDING THE U-S GOVERNMENT.

TZ1 A) RUSSIAN BAND CONVICTED-VOTOPS

TZ1 B) ANTIBIOTICS AND CHILDHOOD OBESITY-VOTOPS

TZ1 C) WEATHER TEASE-STC

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RUSSIA SEEMS TO BE GOING BACKWARDS.

TODAY A COURT CONVICTED A FEMALE PUNK BAND, AFTER THEY PERFORMED A SONG THE GOVERNMENT DIDN'T LIKE.

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It was Vladimir Putin versus the Punk Rockers This performance by the band ,

"Pussy Riot," pitting three young women against Russia's most powerful man.

Their crime: playing an anti-Putin song in a Moscow cathedral. Their

sentence, handed down today: two years in prison guilty of "hooliganism

driven by religious hatred"

Inside the courtroom as the verdict was read NATS the women smirked and

rolled their eyes. But outside NATS outrage.

PROTESTER SOT: "we knew it before but this is a case when the first time we,

we have political persecution."

The trial also sparked protests around the world, marked by the band's

signature knit caps and support from music icons like Paul McCartney, Sting,

and Madonna.

MADONNA SOT: "they have done something courageous, I think they have paid

the price for this act, and I pray for their freedom"

So what did they do that was considered so bad?

In February they jumped onto the altar of Moscow's sacred Christ the Savior

Cathedral to perform what they called a "punk prayer" begging for divine

intervention to rid Russia of Putin.

Many saw the case as a test of the Kremlin's tolerance for free speech and

dissent after a winter of unprecedented protests.

Critics called it a show trial, an echo of the Stalin era, or most recently,

the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, then Russia's richest man when he was

charged in 2003 with fraud shortly after challenging Putin in public.

The White House today said the punishment didn't fit the crime.

SOT: "we have serious concerns about the way these young women have been

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KIRIT RADIA REPORTING.

THOSE WOMEN WERE DEFIANT UNTIL THE END.

TEASE TWO-ON CAM

THE OWNERS OF A CHARLOTTE COUNTY RESTAURANT AND A PUBLIX WANT TO KNOW WHO STOLE THEIR *USED COOKING OIL.

DEPUTIES MAY HAVE THE CULPRITS.

EARLY THIS MORNING, DEPUTIES PULLED OVER A VAN *LEAKING A DARK LIQUID.

NBC 2'S CHARLIE KEEGAN SPOKE WITH DETECTIVES TODAY, AS THEY TRY TO CONNECT THE DOTS.

PLUS: THE UNUSUAL STORY ABOUT A HUSBAND AND WIFE *BOTH DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER, AFTER 55 YEARS OF MARRIAGE.

TZ2 A) STOLEN COOKING OIL ARREST-VOTOPS

TZ2 B) COUPLE WITH BREAST CANCER-VOTOPS

ROBERT WX OPEN-CLIP

FIRST ALERT FORECAST-WXWALL

THIS WEATHERCAST HAS BEEN PREPARED BY THE NBC2 WEATHER STAFF.

IT IS NOT A VERBATIM OF WHAT IS BEING SAID, BUT IS THE FORECAST FOR OUR AREA.

MIX OF SUN AND CLOUDS THIS WEEKEND

Do you have plans Saturday and Sunday? If you do, you picked a decent weekend for it.

The sun will be in full force both days, however, there will be plenty of clouds to dot the sky. Thus, we are calling this weekend a mix of sun and clouds.

First Alert Live Doppler Radar will also print an active picture at times. Isolated storms will billow during the afternoon along the sea breeze. Not everyone will see rain drops, but if you do you'll sure know it.

Thankfully these downpours won't ruin your plans. Just be sure to have the umbrella or rain gear in hand. Afterall it's August in southwest Florida, and this is the typical "August scenario!"

Monday through the rest of next week we'll see isolated to scattered storms around 3:00 PM.

Highs will range from 91 to 93 degrees.

When it comes to the tropics, we're watching a few areas.

First, storms are helping intensify an impulse in the southewest Gulf. It has a high liklihood of developing into a depression, but it will have no effect on southwest Florida.

Next, Tropical Storm Gordon continues to barrel across the open Atlantic. It, too, will be no harm to the U.S. It's heading for the other land mass on the other side of the pond. That is, Europe.

COUPLE WITH BREAST CANCER-ON CAM

A HUSBAND AND WIFE MARRIED MORE THAN A HALF CENTURY - BOTH DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER.

COUPLE WITH BREAST CANCER-PKG

COLONEL BILL AND BETTIE DAKNIS ARE AS LIVELY AS THEY COME.

"We met in high school."

FRIENDS FIRST AND THEN COMPANIONS THE ALEXANDRIA COUPLE HAS RAISED FOUR SONS AND HAVE A BROOD OF GRANDKIDS.

"I told you I had a lot of honeymoons!"

AND A BROOD OF GRANDKIDS.

AFTER 55 YEARS OF MARRIAGE, AN UNEXPECTED "FIRST" FOR THEM -- BOTH WERE DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER.

"And I immediately went to my family doctor."

FIRST BETTY, IN 2008, AND AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT, THIS PAST JUNE, SO DID BILL.

AFTER CHEMO AND A LUMPECTOMY, BETTIE IS CANCER-FREE.

"I came out of it whole."

BILL IS UNDERGOING CHEMO NOW AND HAS ALREADY HAD A MASTECTOMY.

"She never told me it was contagious. I'm a little ticked off at her about that!"

AFTER THE SHOCK WORE OFF, SUPPORT WAS INSTANTANEOUS.

"Every time I went for chemo or radiation or whatever they were doing, he would be with me. And I'm doing the same for him."

BILL QUICKLY TOOK TO EMAILING HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS, PARTICULARLY MEN.

"and told them, 'don't ignore the lumps'."

COUPLE WITH BREAST CANCER-TAG

ERIKA GONZALEZ REPORTING.

ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE, MEN OF ANY AGE CAN DEVELOP BREAST CANCER, BUT IT'S TYPICALLY FOUND AMONG THOSE AROUND 60-70 YEARS OF AGE.

TOSS TO LINDSAY-OC - BOXES

ANTI-BIOTICS ARE TRIED AND TRUE MEDICINE TO FIGHT INFECTIONS.

BUT SOME DOCTORS THINK THEY COULD BE LINKED TO CHILDHOOD OBESITY.

ANTIBIOTICS AND CHILDHOOD OBESITY LINKED-CAM99-RTR

ANTIBIOTICS AND CHILDHOOD OBESITY LINKED-VO

ACCORDING TO THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY -- MOST KIDS GET REPEATED EAR INFECTIONS-- 80 TO 90-PERCENT OF THEM TODDLERS UP TO AGE THREE -- AND A ROUND OF ANTIBIOTICS IS THE MOST POPULAR REMEDY.

BUT DOCTOR JOHN MORTON -- WHO'S THE HEAD OF BARIATRIC SURGERY AT AT STANFORD… SAYS THAT MAY BE RISKY.

ANTIBIOTICS AND CHILDHOOD OBESITY LINKED-SOT

ANTIBIOTICS AND CHILDHOOD OBESITY LINKED-CAM99-RTR

OF COURSE -- THIS DOESN'T MEAN YOU SHOULD STOP TREATING YOUR KIDS WITH ANTIBIOTICS -- FAR FROM IT.

LOTS OF DOCTORS WILL TELL YOU THE GOOD THEY CAN DO FOR YOUR KIDS FAR OUTWEIGHS ANY *POSSIBLE BAD -- ESPECIALLY ONE THAT HASN'T BEEN PROVEN.

IF YOU ARE CONCERNED, OPEN UP A DIALOGUE WITH YOUR CHILD'S PEDIATRITIAN SO YOU CAN COME TO THE BEST TREATMENT DECISION.

TEASE THREE-2SHOT

DEPUTIES MADE AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY AT A TRAFFIC STOP IN CHARLOTTE COUNTY.

IT WASN'T BEER, DRUGS OR WEAPONS.

INSTEAD IT WAS SOMETHING MANY OF US - THROW IN THE TRASH.

NBC 2'S CHARLIE KEEGAN FOUND OUT WHY IT'S SUCH A BIG DEAL.

AND ALL NEW AT SIX--

SELLING CITIZENSHIP --

TZ3 A) STOLEN COOKING OIL ARREST-VOTOPS

AHEAD AT 6-BANNER

A) selling citizenship-VO

PALM BEACH CRASH-2 SSTOPS

AN UPDATE ON A BAD CRASH IN FORT MYERS.

PALM BEACH BOULEVARD IS STILL SHUT DOWN FROM HOME PLACE TO TERRY STREET.

HERE'S A PICTURE FROM THE SCENE.

FORT MYERS POLICE TELL US FIVE CARS WERE INVOLVED IN THE WRECK.

WHITNEY HOUSTON MOVIE-SOTVO

WHITNEY HOUSTON DIED SIX MONTHS AGO -- BUT TONIGHT SHE'S STARRING ON THE BIG SCREEN.

THE MOVIE "SPARKLE" HITS THEATERS TODAY.

THE 48 YEAR-OLD HOUSTON WRAPPED UP PRODUCTION ON THE FILM SHE HELPED PRODUCE JUST THREE MONTHS BEFORE SHE DIED IN FEBRUARY.

"SPARKLE" IS A REMAKE OF THE 1976 FILM OF THE SAME NAME.

WHITNEY HOUSTON MOVIE-SOTVO

"From "The Bodyguard" to "Waiting to Exhale," Whitney has always had this core audience of African American women, and this is one way for those fans to pay their respects to her."

STOLEN COOKING OIL ARREST-2SHOT

NOW TO AN INTERESTING AND ILLEGAL DISCOVERY DURING A TRAFFIC STOP IN CHARLOTTE COUNTY THIS MORNING.

MIGHT BE THE FIRST EVER COOKING OIL HEIST.

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"This is the container" Tom Daniele/ Old Monty's Restaurant and Pizzeria

JUST BEHIND OLD MONTY'S RESTAURANT AND PIZZERIA…

"and we have locks" tom daniele/ old monty's restaurant and pizzeria

SITS A ONE HUNDRED GALLON PLASTIC CONTAINER - IT HOLDS THE COOKING OIL USED TO FRY UP CALAMARI AND CHICKEN WINGS.

"we have a company, Griffin Industries, that comes and takes it whenever we call them and it gets recycled and we get so much back per gallon." Tom Daniele/ Old Monty's Restaurant and Pizzeria

Manager TOM DANIELE SAYS HE NORMALLY GETS ABOUT 50 BUCKS A MONTH FROM SELLING HIS OIL.

"it does add up over time" Tom Daniele/ Old Monty's Restaurant and Pizzeria

BUT PUNTA GORDA POLICE SAY GABRIEL TORRES AND DAVID GARCIA WERE TRYING TO CASH IN ON THE DEAL.

ARREST RECORDS SHOW CHARLOTTE COUNTY DEPUTIES PULLED THEM OVER IN THIS VAN.

AFTER SEEING A BROWN LIQUID LEAKING OUT OF THE BACK - IT WAS COOKING OIL.

"It is shocking at first" Tom Daniele/ Old Monty's Restaurant and Pizzeria

IT WASN'T OIL FROM DANIEL'S RESTAURANT - INSTEAD, PUNTA GORDA POLICE SAY THE OIL WAS STOLEN FROM A RESTAURANT IN THE SAME STRIP MALL AND A PUBLIX ACROSS THE WAY.

"what about other things they might think of to take or break in to get something inside the place, that's a little concerning" Tom Daniele/ Old Monty's Restaurant and Pizzeria

POLICE SAY THE DUO IS SUSPECTED IN SIMILAR CASES IN LEE COUNTY - THREE LOCATIONS ON PALM BEACH BOULEVARD WERE HIT THURSDAY.

TONIGHT TORRES IS IN JAIL, ACCUSED OF ILLEGALLY TRANSPORTING FUEL.

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NEITHER GARCIA NOR TORRES WERE ARRESTED FOR THEFT.

SELL THE 6PM-2SHOT

NEXT AT SIX -- NEW DETAILS ON THE SUSPECT JUST NAMED AFTER THAT PURSUIT AND CRASH ALONG BUSY DANIELS PARKWAY THIS MORNING. NBC2 IS LIVE WITH THE BREAKING DETAILS.

DOLPHINS GAME TONIGHT-SSTOPS

TONIGHT YOU CAN CATCH THE DOLPHINS' SECOND PRESEASON GAME ON NBC 2.

MIAMI IS PLAYING CAM NEWTON AND THE PANTHERS UP IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA.

THE BROADCAST STARTS AT EIGHT O CLOCK.