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that's very scary. nothing this bad has ever happened.

A COLLIER COUNTY NEIGHBORHOOD ON EDGE -

AS DEPUTIES HUNT FOR THREE PEOPLE, WHO KIDNAPPED A TEEN AT GUNPOINT FROM INSIDE HIS GATED COMMUNITY.

One of the officers went downstairs and sees a duffle bag flying out the back window.

EIGHT POUNDS OF POT FLYING OUT THE WINDOW.

TONIGHT, HOW A 9-1-1 HANGUP CALL LEAD POLICE TO A BIG DRUG BUST, AT A FORT MYERS APARTMENT COMPLEX.

THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN TAX BREAKS ARE AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE COWS ON YOUR PROPERTY.

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COLLIER KIDNAPPING-POP 2SHOT VO

DEVELOPING AT 6 -

A MANHUNT IS UNDERWAY RIGHT NOW AFTER A TEENAGER SAYS HE WAS KIDNAPPED AT GUNPOINT IN A GATED COLLIER COUNTY COMMUNITY.

HE SAYS HE WAS DRIVEN AROUND TOWN--

AND FORCED TO BUY GIFTS FOR THE ABDUCTORS.

18-YEAR-OLD KYLE YAR-KOSKY SAYS HE WENT INTO THE PEBBLE BROOKE LAKES COMMUNITY TO MEET A FRIEND ON MONDAY NIGHT AND WAS CONFRONTED BY TWO MEN WITH GUNS.

THEY FORCED HIM TO DRIVE HIM TO WALMART AND MADE HIM BUY THEM A PLAYSTATION.

THEN THEY LET HIM GO.

COLLIER KIDNAPPING-SOTSS

Jane/Neighbor: that's very scary. nothing this bad has ever happened.

Debbie Cleveland/Neighbor: we're supposed to be a gated community and evidently the gates aren't working.

ONE OF THE ALLEGED KIDNAPPERS, 18-YEAR-OLD DAVID DANIELS, IS UNDER ARREST.

MENDEZ TRIAL-TC MON VO

COURT IS RECESS TONIGHT. THE JUDGE SENT THE JURY HEARING TESTIMONY IN A HIGH PROFILE DOUBLE MURDER HOME FOR THE WEEKEND.

JUAN MENDEZ IS CHARGED WITH KILLING HIS WIFE AND MOTHER IN LAW. PROSECUTORS SAY HE STABBED BOTH WOMAN TO DEATH IN JULY OF 2006.

THE JURY HEARD FROM TWO STATE WITNESSES TODAY.

A CRIME SCENE TECHINICAN TALKED ABOUT THE EVIDENCE COLLECTED AT THE SCENE, AND A 1ST RESPONDER TALKED ABOUT THE LARGE AMOUNT OF BLOOD NEAR THE VICTIMS BODIES.

MENDEZ TRIAL-SOTVO

CYNTHIA ROSS: ASSISTANT STATE ATTORNEY

GARY BASS: DEFENSE ATTORNEY

FM POT BUST-POP VO SS

A 9-1-1 CALL ABOUT A FIGHT LEADS FORT MYERS POLICE TO A HUGE MARIJUANA BUST.

WHEN POLICE RESPONDED TO WESTCHASE APARTMENTS OVERNIGHT, THEY FOUND A WOMAN CLAIMING A MAN HAD HIT HER, AND FLED INTO ONE OF THE APARTMENTS.

BUT WHEN POLICE WENT TO THAT APARTMENT, THEY HEARD COMMOTION.

THAT'S WHEN AN OFFICER IN THE BACK OF THE BUILDING SAW DUFFLE BAGS FLYING OUT OF THE WINDOW.

INSIDE THE 3 DUFFLE BAGS WAS 8 POINT 8 POUNDS OF POT.

THESE THREE PEOPLE ARE NOW UNDER ARREST FOR POSSESSION AND INTENT TO SELL.

FM POT BUST-SOTVO

She kind of disappeared, and was gone. So, it could have been a set-up. It could have been an honest mistake.

Either way we got 3 people in jail, 2 guns, and quite a bit of marijuana off the streets.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING ARREST-TC MON, VO

NOW TO AN APPARENT SEX SLAVERY CASE OUT OF BONITA SPRINGS.

AUTHORITIES SAY JUAN DOMINGO IS CHARGED WITH HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

WE'RE TOLD DOMINGO RECENTLY RESCUED HIS YOUNG WIFE FROM SLAVERY ON FLORIDA'S EAST COAST - ONLY TO PROSTITUTE HER IN BONITA SPRINGS.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING ARREST-SOTVO

30:06 "it's pretty heartbreaking when you hear these stories and when some of these conditions."

AUTHORITIES LEARNED OF THE CASE AT HEALTH PARK HOSPITAL, AFTER SHE GIRL GAVE BIRTH TO HER SECOND CHILD.

PUBLIX ARREST-VO

CAPE CORAL POLICE USE A TASER ON A 76 YEAR OLD MAN AFTER THEY FIND HIM WITH A LOADED HANDGUN OUTSIDE A PUBLIX.

IT HAPPENED AT THE PLAZA ON HANCOCK BRIDGE PARKWAY.

AUTHORITIES SAY THE MAN SUFFERS FROM DIMENTIA AND HAD BEEN MISSING SINCE YESTERDAY.

POLICE FOUND HIM SITTING IN A MINIVAN WITH A LOADED HANDGUN IN HIS LAP.

WHEN POLICE ORDERED HIM OUT OF CAR, HE GOT OUT HOLDING THE GUN.

EVENTUALLY, POLICE TASED HIM.

HE WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE HOSPITAL WITH MINOR INJURIES.

SWINE FLU SUPPLY-TC MON VO

WE JUST GOT WORD THE LEE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT IN CANCELLING A SWINE FLU VACCINATION CLINIC SLATED FOR MONDAY.

THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT TELLS ABC-7 THERE SIMPLY IS NOT ENOUGH VACCINES TO HAVE A CLINIC.

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THE DEPARTMENT HAS CANCELLED A CLINIC BECAUSE OF NOT ENOUGH SUPPLY.

SWINE FLU SUPPLY-SOTVO

42:36 vaccine is starting to show up and so they really need to start thinking about getting a shot

DREAMER IS DEAD-SS

A 20-THOUSAND DOLLAR HORSE, MISSING FROM A LEE COUNTY PASTURE, HAS BEEN FOUND DEAD.

"DREAMER," THE GRAY MARE VANISHED FROM A FIELD NEAR ALICO ROAD EARLIER THIS WEEK.

THE HORSE WAS FOUND TODAY IN THE WOODS NEAR THE PASTURE.

911 TRAINING BILL-(2) SS

A NEW BILL WILL BE INTRODUCED NEXT WEEK IN TALLAHASSEE, THAT WOULD REQUIRE ALL 9-1-1 DISPATCHERS TO UNDERGO TRAINING EVERY TWO YEARS.

STATE REPRESENTATIVE KEN ROBERSON OF PORT CHARLOTTE IS THE BILL'S SPONSOR.

HE SAYS IT'S A DIRECT RESULT OF THE DEATH OF NORTH PORT'S DENISE AMBER LEE.

DISPATCHERS BOTCHED 9-1-1 CALLS FOLLOWING HER KIDNAPPING.

SHE WAS FOUND DEAD A FEW DAYS LATER.

WATER RESTRICTIONS-COPY

NEW WATER RESTRICTIONS WILL SOON BE IN PLACE FOR PARTS OF OUR AREA.

TODAY SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGERS APPROVED YEAR-ROUND RESTRICTIONS.

UNDER THE NEW RULES, HOMEOWNERS IN LEE, COLLIER, GLADES, AND HENDRY COUNTIES WILL ONLY BE ALLOWED TO IRRIGATE THEIR PROPERTIES THREE TIMES A WEEK.

AND IN CHARLOTTE COUNTY, TWICE A WEEK.

JIM HUMPHREY INTERVIEW-VOWIPE

AFTER 9 YEARS AS THE TOP ELECTED LEADER IN THE CITY OF FORT MYERS

MAYOR JIM HUMPHREY IS SAYING GOODBYE.

EMPLOYEES IN CITY HALL HONORED THE CITY'S TWO TERM MAYOR THIS AFTERNOON.

HUMPHREY CONSIDERS HIS GREATEST CONTRIBUTION TO BE THE 10 MILLION DOLLARS IN GIFTS HE SOLICITED FROM NEW DEVELOPMENTS.TO HELP PAY FOR SOME OF THE CITY'S

JIM HUMPHREY INTERVIEW-SOTVO

for every negative email correspondence I received, i received 95 appreciating what i do. So i say thank you, now i'm getting emotional

MACK IN TOWN-VOWIPE

CONGRESSMAN CONNIE MACK STOPPED IN NAPLES TODAY TO TALK ABOUT THE ECONOMY AND UNEMPLOYMENT.

MACK SPOKE TO THE WOMEN'S REPUBLIC CLUB OF NAPLES FEDERATED, AT THE NAPLES COUNTRY CLUB

MACK IN TOWN-SOTVO

i don't think people buy it especially when you see unemployment rise. We should've looked to alternatives like tax breaks to try to spur the economy instead of spending billions on the things Americans don't want or need.

OBAMA ASIA-VO

PRESIDENT OBAMA ARRIVED IN TOKYO TODAY.

JAPAN IS THE FIRST STOP ON THE PRESIDENT'S FOUR COUNTRY TOUR OF ASIA.

HE'LL ALSO VISIT CHINA, SINGAPORE AND SOUTH KOREA.

ADJI PEOPLE ON NEWSTANDS-SS

MILLIONS AROUND THE WORLD WILL SEE THE FACE OF A MISSING COLLIER COUNTY BOY STARTING TODAY.

HERE'S A LOOK AT THE COVER OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE.

THE EDITORS ARE FOCUSING ON MISSING CHILDREN IN THE LATEST ISSUE.

SIX-YEAR OLD ADJI DESIR. FROM IMMOKALEE. IS FEATURED IN THE "VANISHED EDITION" WHICH HITS NEWS STANDS TODAY.

TEASE ONE-ONCAM

ABC SEVEN IS LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE SUSPECTED FORT HOOD SHOOTER.

HIS ATTORNEY SAYS HE'S PARALYZED.

FORT MYERS CRACKS DOWN ON DEVELOPERS WHO MILK THE SYSTEM.

WHY SOME PEOPLE SAY PUTTING COWS ON A PIECE OF PROPERTY IS ROBBING TAXPAYERS.

MORE THAN 15 YEARS IN THE MAKING, THE NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDENS IS SET TO OPEN.

TONIGHT, ABC SEVEN GIVES YOU A SNEAK PEEK.

HASAN PARALYZED-VO

A BOMBSHELL RELEASED TODAY FROM THE DEFENSE LAWYER OF THE FORT HOOD SHOOTING SUSPECT.

MAJOR NIDAL HASAN'S ATTORNEY SAYS DOCTORS HAVE TOLD HASAN , HE WILL LIKELY BE PARALYZED FROM THE WAIST DOWN.

A CIVILIAN POLICE OFFICER SHOT AND INJURED HASAN AFTER HE OPENED FIRE AT THE MILITARY FACILITY KILLING 13 PEOPLE AND HURTING 29 MORE.

RUNAWAY BALLOON PLEA-VO

TODAY THE PARENTS ACCUSED IN THE SO CALLED RUNAWAY BALLOON HOAX PLEAD GUILTY IN COLORADO.

RICHARD HEENE ADMITTED TO FALSELY INFLUENCING A PUBLIC SERVANT. THAT IS A FELONY. HE FACES UP TO 90 DAYS IN JAIL

HIS WIFE ALSO ENTERED A GUILTY PLEA GUILTY TO KNOWINGLY FILING A FALSE REPORT--THAT IS A MISDEMEANOR. SHE FACES UP TO 60 DAYS IN JAIL.

LAST MONTH THE COUPLE TOLD AUTHORITIES THEIR SON HAD FLOATED AWAY ABOARD A GIANT HELIUM BALLOON.

AFTER THE HEARING, THE JUDGE ASKED RICHARD HEENE IF HE HAD ANYTHING TO SAY TO THE PEOPLE WHO HELPED LOOK FOR HIS SON.

HE HAD NO RESPONSE.

FAA NORTHWEST FLIGHT-VOWIPE

THE FAA IS TIGHTENING ITS PROCEDURES AFTER A NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT LOST RADIO CONTACT. AND FLEW FAR PAST ITS DESTINATION LAST MONTH.

FOR SEVENTY-SEVEN MINUTES-

MINNEAPOLIS-BOUND NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 188 WAS OUT OF RADIO CONTACT.

FAA NORTHWEST FLIGHT-SOTVO

"It was 69 minutes. We should have raised it to the DEN - the Domestic Events Network - between five and ten minutes after no radio contact."

THE PILOT AND COPILOT TOLD THE FAA THEY WERE LOOKING AT THE AIRLINE'S NEW SCHEDULING POLICY ON LAPTOPS, IN VIOLATION OF COMPANY RULES.

TEASE TWO-ONCAM

SOON, WE WILL AL BE HEARING A FAMILIAR SOUND.

BELL RINGING

THE SALVATION ARMY KETTLE CAMPAIGN KICKS OFF TODAY.

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AGRICULTURE EXEMPTION-VOWIPE

TONIGHT FORT MYERS CODE ENFORCEMENT HAS THEIR EYE ON A LOOPHOLE THAT'S ALLOWING A MILLION DOLLARS IN TAX REVENUE TO LEAVE THE CITY.

THEY SAY SOME LAND DEVELOPERS ARE MILKING THE SYSTEM.

THERE ARE CURRENTLY 86 PARCELS OF LAND THAT GET AN AGRICULTURE EXEMPTION.

ON AVERAGE IT'S A *97-PERCENT TAX BREAK.

AGRICULTURE EXEMPTION-SOTVO

Now you're allowing these land owners to just sit on property for next to nothing and it doesn't promote development and therefore it doesn't promote job growth.

ONCE THE FENCE IS UP AND CATTLE ARE ON PROPERTY. THE LEE COUNTY PROPERTY APPRAISER'S OFFICE SAYS THERE'S LITTLE THEY CAN DO TO DENY THE AG EXEMPTION.

NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN RENOVATION-VOWIPE

IT'S A GARDENER'S PARADISE.

THOUSANDS OF PLANTS -- SPANNING 170 ACRES.

AND TODAY --- HUNDREDS GOT A SNEAK PEEK OF THE *NEW NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN.

THE ATTRACTION HAS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING.

PLANS STARTED BACK IN 1993.

THE LAND WAS PURCHASED IN 2000.

NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN RENOVATION-SOTVO

"a year ago this was a maleluca forest, well a year and a half ago, now it's a cluster of incredible gardens provided by some of the great garden designers in the world."

THE GARDEN OPENS TO THE PUBLIC TOMORROW AT 11 A-M.

ADULTS PAY 9.95 --- TICKETS FOR KIDS 4 to 14 ARE 4.95.

LEE HOUSING NUMBERS-COPY

NEW NUMBERS OUT TODAY SHOW MORE THAN 13 HUNDRED SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES WERE SOLD IN LEE COUNTY ALONE, LAST MONTH.

THAT BRINGS THIS YEAR'S TOTAL TO MORE THAN 14 THOUSAND-- WHICH IS 60 PERCENT HIGHER THAN ALL OF LAST YEAR.

REALTORS SAY THE "FIRST-TIME HOMEBUYERS TAX CREDIT PROGRAM" HELPED SALES.

IT OFFERS AN 8 THOUSAND DOLLAR TAX CREDIT.

LEE RED KETTLE KICKOFF-NATVOTOPS

NATS of bell ringing

A FAMILIAR SOUND AROUND THE HOLIDAYS.

THE SALVATION ARMY OFFICIALLY STARTED IT'S RED-KETTLE CAMPAIGN THIS MORNING NEAR "DILLARDS" INSIDE THE EDISON MALL IN FORT MYERS.

THE EVENT ALSO FEATURED SPECIAL GUESTS AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCES.

LEE RED KETTLE KICKOFF-SOTVO

"Over 50% of the people that have come into the Salvation Army this year, are coming for the first time. That means they've lost their job in the past year, so people helping us this year is as important as it's ever been."

LAST YEAR THE SALVATION ARMY DELIVERED MORE THAN 40-THOUSAND GIFTS TO CHILDREN AND SERVED 47-HUNDRED FAMILIES.

LEADERS TELL US THEY EXPECT THE SAME THIS YEAR.

FL DASH CAM TASER-OC SOTVO

A DASH CAM CAPTURES AN ARREST THAT GOES TERRIBLY WRONG NEAR TAMPA.

LISTEN TO THESE POLICE OFFICERS' CALLS AS A NEIGHBORHOOD FIGHT ERUPTS AS THEY TRY TO ARREST A DRUG SUSPECT.

"lake wales. we need more units out here. we need more units out here. please send assistance. please."

"lake wales 35. we need more units."

"lake wales 35. we need assistance."

THIS VIDEO CAME FROM A POLICE OFFICER'S DASH CAM IN A TAMPA SUBURB.

OFFICERS WERE TRYING TO ARREST A MAN FOR DRUG POSSESSION WHEN HE STARTED TO RESIST.

VIDEO SHOWS ONE OFFICER USING HIS TASER ON THE SUSPECT.

WITNESSES BECAME ANGRY AND VOCAL, SAYING THE POLICE WERE TOO AGGRESSIVE.

FL SEX 911 ARREST-SS

POLICE IN TAMPA SAY A MAN WAS ARRESTED FOR REPEATEDLY CALLING 9-1-1 LOOKING FOR SEX.

POLICE ARRESTED THIS MAN-- AFTER HE TOLD INVESTIGATORS 9-1-1 WAS THE ONLY NUMBER HE COULD CALL, BECAUSE HE HAD RUN OUT OF CELL PHONE MINUTES.

POLICE SAY THE MAN ASKED IF HE COULD COME TO THE DISPATCHER'S HOUSE.

THE DISPATCHER HUNG UP, THEN THE MAN CALLED BACK FOUR MORE TIMES.

TEASE THREE

AN AMAZING DISCOVERY ON THE MOON.

SCIENTISTS SAY THEY FOUND EVIDENCE OF WATER.

JOE NAMATH FL DOGS-VO WIPE

ONE OF JOE NAMATH'S DOGS HAS BEEN DECLARED DANGEROUS.

THE FOOTBALL HALL-OF-FAMER WAS AT AN ANIMAL CONTROL HEARING IN PALM BEACH

COUNTY.

AUTHORITIES SAY HIS SIX-YEAR-OLD YELLOW LABRADOR, LEO, HAD BITTEN THREE PEOPLE OVER A THREE-YEAR SPAN AT NAMATH'S HOME IN TEQUESTA, 90 MILES NORTH OF MIAMI.

JOE NAMATH FL DOGS-SOTVO

"I get fired up, my dogs infer that fired up."

NOW A SPECIAL MAGISTRATE HAS RULED, THE DOG MUST BE MUZZLED AND LEASHED WHEN IT IS IN THE YARD.

THE DOG MUST ALSO BE CAGED WHEN GUESTS COME OVER, AND CAN NO LONGER BE TAKEN TO

WATER ON THE MOON-VOWIPE

NASA SCIENTISTS SAY THEY'VE FOUND SIGNIFICANT WATER ON THE MOON.

LAST MONTH NASA INTENTIONALLY CRASHED ITS LCROSS SPACECRAFT INTO THE MOON LOOKING FOR WATER.

WATER ON THE MOON-SOTVO

S/Anthony Colaprete/NASA researcher:08

"Well now I can say today that in that in the 20 to 30 meter crater LCROSS made we found maybe about a dozen of these two gallon buckets worth of water."

NASA SAYS HAVING SIGNIFICANT WATER ON THE MOON WOULD MAKE IT EASIER FOR ASTRONAUTS TO SET UP A BASE CAMP ON THE MOON.

NASA COUNTDOWN-COPY

TODAY, NASA BEGAN THE COUNTDOWN FOR MONDAY'S LAUNCH OF THE SPACE SHUTTLE ATLANTIS.

ASTRONAUTS WILL BRING SUPPLIES TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.

THE MISSION IS EXPECTED TO LAST 11-DAYS.

FLORIDA ICE SHOW-VOTOPS

AN AREA HOTEL IN FLORIDA HAS TRANSFORMED INTO A LITERAL WINTER WONDERLAND.

THIS WEEKEND THE GAYLORD PALMS HOTEL IN ORLANDO WILL UNVEIL ITS ANNUAL HOLIDAY ICE SHOW.

NOW IN ITS SEVENTH YEAR, THE CHRISTMAS ATTRACTION FEATURES VARIOUS HAND-CARVED ICE SCULPTURES INCLUDING AN ARCTIC FOREST, A LIFE-SIZE CAROUSEL, AND A NATIVITY SCENE.

TONIGHT AT 7 O'CLOCK-BNC

BIG CHANGES ARE BEING PROPOSED FOR SOUTHWEST FLORIDA'S BIGGEST CITY.

REPORTERS FOR THE 7 OCLOCK NEWS ON 7 ARE FINDING OUT ABOUT A NEW PLAN TO SAVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. BUT IT COULD COME AT AN EVEN BIGGER COST-

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