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he didn't breathe on his own for very long- just too much damage from the lightning

REMEMBERING JESSE WATLINGTON.

TONIGHT, THE FAMILY OF THE 11-YEAR-OLD KILLED BY LIGHTNING IS GETTING SUPPORT FROM AROUND THE COUNTY, INCLUDING SOMEONE CLOSE TO AN N-F-L QUARTERBACK.

FORT MYERS POLICE ARE INVESITGATING THE 20TH HOMICIDE OF 2012.

WE HAVE THE LATEST ON THE SEARCH FOR ANSWERS ABOUT A BODY FOUND AT A PIER.

CRACKING DOWN ON TEXTING AND DRIVING.

WHAT LEE COUNTY OFFICERS ARE DOING TO HELP TEENS GET THE MESSAGE.

HL 1) WATLINGTON FOLO-SOTVO-WIPE

HL 2) 20TH HOMICIDE-VOTOPS-WIPE

HL 3) TEXTING AND DRIVING-VOTOPS

STORMWARN 7 OPEN-CLIP

FIRST WEATHER-WXWALL

Remember the cold front I talked about all weekend? Well it's still holding steady to our north, and it's pushing a long fetch moisture into southwest Florida.

That'll keep thunderstorms in the forecast for the rest of Monday, but after today. Dry weather will come! Briefly. Don't get your hopes up. Of course there's a price you pay when the rain leaves, too, the temperatures will warm up.

So here's how it all works out.

We'll see some afternoon storms ride up US Hwy 41 and I-75 this afternoon impacting our homeward bound commute. Be sure to keep the headlights on, the windshiled wipers working, and stay below the speed limit when encountering these storms.

I expect them to clear out after 8 PM.

Tomorrow, the front I mentioned will fade away. That's when the changes occur because drier air from our north will begin spilling down.

This dry air does three things for us:

1. Sunny skies

2. Rain free weather

3. Hotter temperatures

Thankfully the humidity levels will be lower so it won't feel as oppressive outside! Highs will range up 3 to 5 degrees above the norm.

On the flip side dry air likes to cool down during the overnight hours, so we'll see overnight temperatures in the upper 60s and low 70s.

This will last until Saturday. Clouds begin to increase that day and we will see just isolated storms. Those storms will become more scattered on Sunday.

Tropical weather? Eh, there's some. The National Hurricane Center continues to investigate and area of low pressure pushing over the Bahamas. They're giving it a 10% of developing into something over the next 48 hours.

WATLINGTON FOLO-VO-WIPE

TODAY, HUNDREDS WERE MOURNING THE LOSS OF AN 11 YEAR-OLD STRUCK AND KILLED BY LIGHTNING.

CLASSMATES OF JESSE WATLINGTON WORE PURPLE TO SOUTHWEST FLORIDA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY TODAY.

THE 6TH GRADER WAS STRUCK THERE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

PURPLE WAS JESSE'S FAVORITE COLOR.

HE DIED YESTERDAY IN A TAMPA HOSPITAL AFTER HIS FAMILY TOOK HIM OFF LIFE SUPPORT.

HIS BODY HAD SUFFERED TOO MUCH DAMAGE FROM WEDNESDAY'S LIGHTNING STRIKE.

THE BOLT HIT JESSE IN THE HEART WHILE HE WAS RUNNING OUT ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD WITH HIS FRIENDS FOR PRACTICE, AND DOCTORS TOLD HIS PARENTS HE HAD NO BRAIN ACTIVITY.

WATLINGTON FOLO-SOT-WIPE

TEBOW FOR JESSE-MITTOTOPS-DISS

SUPPORT IS COMING FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTY TODAY.

N-F-L QUARTERBACK TIM TEBOW'S LARGEST FACEBOOK FAN CLUB PAGE EVEN POSTED,

CALLING ON TEBOW'S FANS TO PRAY FOR JESSE'S FAMILY.

JESSE WATLINGTON SERVICES-SSTOPS

JESSE'S MEMORIAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD THIS THURSDAY

AFTERNOON AT MCGREGOR BAPTIST CHURCH AT ONE O'CLOCK.

THERE WILL BE A PUBLIC VIEWING AT THE CHURCH FROM STARTING

LIGHTNING AWARENESS-OC

IN THE WAKE OF JESSE'S DEATH --

PARENTS IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA SAY THEY PLAN TO BE MORE PROACTIVE.SOME ARE TALKING TO THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT THE DANGER OF LIGHTNING.

LIGHTNING AWARENESS-(2)SOT-OC

5419 "it's really scary. i'm guilty of allowing her to play outside even when the storm seems far away."

4658 "We send our kids off to school and expect to pick them up, you don't think these things can happen. It's a reminder of how fragile life can be."

20TH HOMICIDE-VO

20 HOMICIDES IN FORT MYERS -- JUST THIS YEAR.

AND TONIGHT TWO-THIRDS REMAIN UNSOLVED.

HERE'S THE LATEST ON NUMBERS 20 --

SOMEONE FOUND THE BODY OF A MAN ON THE TARPON STREET PIER YESTERDAY.

OFFICERS SAY THEY KNOW WHO THE VICTIM IS AND THEY THINK THEY KNOW WHO KILLED HIM.

FM CURFEW-HLF RVL

STARTING TONIGHT -- FORT MYERS POLICE ARE ENFORCING A CURFEW FOR ANYONE YOUNGER THAN 18.

TONIGHT AND ON ANY WEEK NIGHT TEENS MUST BE INDOORS BY NINE.

ON WEEKENDS AND HOLIDAYS -- IT'S A LITTLE LATER AT 11 P-M.

IF CAUGHT OUT --

MEDSTAR FOLO-VO-WIPE

AS SOON AS MEDSTAR SHUT DOWN IN LEE COUNTY, QUESTIONS STARTED FLYING.

NEW TODAY -- ABC7 SOME ANSWERS -- AND A REPORT FROM THE LEE COUNTY ATTORNEY SUGGESTING COUNTY MANAGER KAREN HAWES WAS WITHIN HER AUTHORITY TO GROUND THE EMERGENCY HELICOPTER PROGRAM.

ACCORDING TO ATTORNEY MICHAEL HUNT.THE LEE COUNTY CHARTER ALLOWS HAWES TO TAKE CERTAIN ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION -- THAT INCLUDES TEMPORARILY SUSPENDING A DIVISION OR PROGRAM.

MEDSTAR FOLO-SOTVO

1:19 no i don't i believe in very strongly in chain of command. i believe very strongly in the charter for lee county. we have governance over four positions. the port authority director the hearing examiner the county manager the county attorney beyond that there is supervisory control 37

MENINGITIS UPDATE-VO-WIPE

EIGHT DEAD. 105 PEOPLE SICK.SEVERAL OF THEM IN FLORIDA.

AND THAT DEADLY MENINGITIS OUTBREAK CAME FROM MEDICINE MEANT TO HEAL.

STATEWIDE CLINICS USE PRODUCTS FROM THE NEW ENGLAND COMPOUNDING CENTER.WHERE THOSE TAINTED INJECTIONS FOR BACK PAIN CAME FROM.

MENINGITIS UPDATE-SOTVO

"We here at Health Park as well as throughout Lee Memorial Health System have had other products from this compounding center and those have all been pulled, quarantined and not to be used in patients.

MARCO CRASH AND RUN-VO

MARCO ISLAND POLICE SAY A DRIVER ROLLED OVER AN S-U-V, AND THEN RAN AWAY LEAVING HIS PASSENGER DEAD.

THE CRASH HAPPENED EARLY THIS MORNING ALONG JAMAICA ROAD.

YOU CAN SEE THE JEEP ROLLED OVER.

INVESTIGATORS SAY A PASSENGER, 20 YEAR OLD SHAYNE MURRAY FROM MARCO ISLAND, DIED IN THE CRASH.

BUT OFFICERS SAY THE DRIVER, 22 YEAR OLD ANDREW ROUBICEK LEFT.

THEY FOUND HIM AT HIS HOUSE.

DETECTIVES SAY HE CONFESSED TO DRIVING THE JEEP AND LEAVING THE SCENE.

LEE COUNTY WOMAN ROBBED-VO-WIPE

A NORTH FORT MYERS WOMAN AND HER DISABLED MOTHER CAME FACE TO FACE WITH THREE MASKED MEN.

THE 90-YEAR OLD AMPUTEE SAYS SHE WAS HOME -- IN BED -- WHEN THEY BARGED IN DEMANDING CASH.

THE VICTIM'S DAUGHTER WENT INTO THE BEDROOM AND GRABBED AN ENVELOPE FULL OF CASH.

LEE COUNTY WOMAN ROBBED-SOT-SS

-"Putting the pieces of the puzzle together we were basically able to match the description of a car belonging to one of the suspects that was affiliated with the victim's grandson and able to arrest these individuals."

DEPUTIES ARRESTED JESSE RACO AND BENJAMIN PRESLEY.

THEY'RE CHARGED WITH HOME INVASION ROBBERY WITH A WEAPON.

VOTE 2012 OPEN-CLIP

POLITICS TODAY-VO-WIPE

TRYING TO BUILD ON HIS DEBATE MOMENTUM, MITT ROMNEY WENT ON THE ATTACK IN VIRGINA TODAY.

ROMNEY TALKED ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY.

TRYING TO FIX WHAT SOME, EVEN REPUBLICANS, CONSIDERED FOREIGN POLICY MISSTEPS --

OBAMA TODAY-VOTOPS-OC

MEANWHILE, PRESIDENT OBAMA CONTINUES HIS CALIFORNIA FUNDRAISING SWING.

THE PRESIDENT HAD A NON-CAMPAIGN RELATED EVENT EARLY IN THE DAY -- APPEARING AT THE DEDICATION OF A MEMORIAL TO CEASAR CHAVEZ..

RECENT POLLS SHOW A TIGHT RACE.

VOTE REGISTRATION DEADLINE-CGTOPS

YOU NOW HAVE LESS THAN 24 HOURS TO REGISTER TO VOTE.

HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO DO.

FILL OUT A REGISRATION APPLICATON AND TURN IT IN AT THE SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS OFFICE.

LEE ABSENTEE BALLOTS-HLF RVL

VOTERS IN LEE COUNTY WHO REQUESTED ABSENTEE BALLOTS

SHOULD BE RECEIVING THEM IN THE MAIL THIS WEEK.

THE LAST DAY TO REQUEST AN ABSENTEE BALLOT IS OCTOBER 31ST.

GOVERNOR SCOTT FGCU-VO-WIPE

TODAY, FLORIDA GOVERNOR'S VISITED F-G-C-U FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE TAKING OFFICE.

RICK SCOTT MET PRIVATELY WITH SEVERAL CAMPUS LEADERS.

LAWMAKERS CUT 300-MILLION FROM FLORIDA UNIVERSITIES LAST YEAR.

F-G-C-U IS SEEING 3-MILLION FEWER DOLLARS FROM THE STATE.

THE GOVERNOR HAS SAID HE DOES NOT PLAN TO CUT EDUCATION FUNDING FOR K THROUGH 12.

GOVERNOR SCOTT FGCU-(2)SOTVO

"The real issue is going to be, our general revenues are growing, how fast is Medicaid going to grow."

"I just hope he sees this is probably the most efficient University in the state university system with the amount of money we're getting funded every year."

WEEKEND LIBRARY HOURS HAVE BEEN CUT TO SAVE MONEY.

F-G-C-U'S STUDENT GOVERNMENT PLANS TO PICK UP THE COST IN ORDER TO RESTORE HOURS.

NEXT AT 7 OPEN-CLIP

TEASE ONE-----------

OFF THE PITCH AND INTO A STORE.

HOW ONE BELGIAN SOCCER PLAYER ENDED UP CRASHING HIS CAR AND WHY THE SITUATION IS A FAMILIAR ONE FOR HIM.

ONE OF HOLLYWOOD'S LONGEST LASTING COUPLES SEPARATES.

A LOOK BACK AT THE UNION OF DANNY DEVITO AND RHEA PERLMAN.

TZ1 A) SOCCER PLAYER CAR CRASH-VOTOPS-WIPE

TZ1 B) DANNY DEVITO DEVORCE-VOTOPS

SOCCER PLAYER CAR CRASH-VOTOPS

A BELGIAN PROFESSIONAL SOCCER PLAYER IS IN HOT WATER AFTER CRASHING HIS CAR INTO A STORE.

SURVEILLANCE VIDEO SHOWS THE PLAYER RAMMING HIS PORSCHE THROUGH THE GLASS DOORS OF A GAS STATION CONVENIENCE STORE.

ONE MAN WAS INJURED.

THE DRIVER REPORTEDLY STEPPED DOWN ON THE GAS PEDAL INSTEAD OF THE BRAKE BY ACCIDENT.

HE FACES A LENGTHY DRIVING BAN, AND HIS DRIVER'S LICENSE HAS BEEN SUSPENDED PENDING AN INVESTIGATION.

INDONESIA VOLCANO-VO

WE HAVE NEW VIDEO TONIGHT OF A VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN INDONESIA.

THIS IS THE VOLCANO'S BIGGEST ERUPTION SO FAR.

RESIDENTS ARE BEING URGED TO STAY HOME AS ASH FILLED THE SKY.

THIS MOUNTAIN HAS ERUPTED 41 TIMES SINCE SEPTEMBER FIRST.

DANNY DEVITO DEVORCE-VO

A BIT OF HOLLYWOOD NEWS TODAY.AS A LONGTIME UNION HEADS TO SPLITSVILLE.

A REP CONFIRMS -- AFTER 30 YEARS TOGETHER. DANNY DEVITO AND RHEA PERLMAN ARE SEPARATING.

THE COUPLE MARRIED IN 1982 AFTER MEETING AT A BROADWAY PLAY THAT DEVITO STARRED IN.

TOGETHER, THE TWO FOUNDED JERSEY FILMS, A PRODUCTION COMPANY THAT MADE MOVIES INCLUDING. PULP FICTION AND GARDEN STATE.

NEXT AT 7 OPEN-CLIP

TEASE TWO------------

A GOLF CART TURNED INTO A WEAPON.

WHAT LEAD A PORT CHARLOTTE MAN TO RUN DOWN HIS NEIGHBOR.

POLICE JOIN WITH SCHOOLS TO SEND A MESSAGE.

TZ2 A) GOLF CART BATTERY-VOTOPS-WIPE

TZ2 B) TEXTING AND DRIVING-VOTOPS

WEATHER-CLIP

WEATHER-PWC

Remember the cold front I talked about all weekend? Well it's still holding steady to our north, and it's pushing a long fetch moisture into southwest Florida.

That'll keep thunderstorms in the forecast for the rest of Monday, but after today. Dry weather will come! Briefly. Don't get your hopes up. Of course there's a price you pay when the rain leaves, too, the temperatures will warm up.

So here's how it all works out.

We'll see some afternoon storms ride up US Hwy 41 and I-75 this afternoon impacting our homeward bound commute. Be sure to keep the headlights on, the windshiled wipers working, and stay below the speed limit when encountering these storms.

I expect them to clear out after 8 PM.

Tomorrow, the front I mentioned will fade away. That's when the changes occur because drier air from our north will begin spilling down.

This dry air does three things for us:

1. Sunny skies

2. Rain free weather

3. Hotter temperatures

Thankfully the humidity levels will be lower so it won't feel as oppressive outside! Highs will range up 3 to 5 degrees above the norm.

On the flip side dry air likes to cool down during the overnight hours, so we'll see overnight temperatures in the upper 60s and low 70s.

This will last until Saturday. Clouds begin to increase that day and we will see just isolated storms. Those storms will become more scattered on Sunday.

Tropical weather? Eh, there's some. The National Hurricane Center continues to investigate and area of low pressure pushing over the Bahamas. They're giving it a 10% of developing into something over the next 48 hours.

GOLF CART BATTERY-VO-WIPE

DEPUTIES IN CHARLOTTE COUNTY SAY AN ARGUMENT BETWEEN NEIGHBORS CAME TO A BOILING POINT WHEN ONE MAN RAN OVER THE OTHER WITH A GOLF CART.

ARREST RECORDS SAY CARL MARTIN AND MARK GADOMSKI WERE YELLING IN THE STREET.

THEN, MARTIN CAME DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD IN A GOLF CART THREATENING TO RUN OVER GADOMSKI.

THIKING MARTIN WAS BLUFFING, GADOMSKI STOOD HIS GROUND.

DEPUTIES SAY MARTIN WASN'T BLUFFING.

GOLF CART BATTERY-SOT-SS

"two witnesses came forward, neighbors out there, and corroborated the victim's story exactly, the wording, the threat to do it and it was carried out."

MARTIN IS OUT OF JAIL.

HE TOLD ABC7 THE VICTIM STEPPED IN FRONT OF HIM AND HE COULDN'T AVOID RUNNING INTO HIM.

TEXTING AND DRIVING-VO-WIPE

RESEARCH SHOWS TEXTING WHILE DRIVING IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MORE THAN A MILLION CRASHES A YEAR.

BUT IT'S *NOT ILLEGAL IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA.

A NATIONAL CAMPAIGN BY AT&T IS AIMING TO PREVENT THIS AMONG TEENS BY TEACHING THEM THE DANGERS.

THAT CAMPAIGN IS CALLED 'TEXTING AND DRIVING. IT CAN WAIT.'

ORAGNIZERS STOPPED AT FORT MYERS HIGH TODAY WITH A DRIVING SIMULATOR.

TEXTING AND DRIVING-(2)SOT-OC

It's pretty realistic because your actually using the peddle and the brakes and the steering wheel like you normally would.

It's important to try and build habits while they're still fresh and say, permitted, as opposed to getting them when they're hardened seasoned drivers.

STATE TROOPERS SAY DRIVERS WHO WERE USING THEIR CELLPHONE AND CRASHED *CAN BE TICKETED FOR CARELESS DRIVING.

JETBLUE PARK SAVINGS-VO

LEE COUNTY JUST LEARNED IT WILL SAVE 100-THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR IN MAINTENANCE COSTS AT JETBLUE PARK.

THAT ADDS UP TO ABOUT THREE-MILLION DOLLARS OVER THE 30-YEAR LEASE AGREEMENT WITH THE RED SOX.

FEATURES LIKE THE WHITE ROOFING AND TINTED WINDOWS, AS WELL AS LOW-FLOW FACUETS AND TOILETS ARE ALL ENERGY-SAVING MEASURES THAT HELPED JETBLUE PARK EARN LEED CERTIFICATION AND SAVE THAT MONEY.

COLUMBUS DAY AND OCTOBER PET ADOPTION SPECIALS-VO

COLUMBUS DAY DOESN'T MEAN A DAY OFF SCHOOL ANYMORE,

BUT THERE'S STILL A REASON TO CELEBRATE.

IN HONOR OF THE DAY, ADOPTION FEES AT LEE COUNTY DOMESTIC ANIMAL SERVICES ARE BEING REDUCED TO -- 14 DOLLARS AND 92 CENTS..

THE REDUCED RATE STILL INCLUDES THE SAME SPAY/NEUTER, VACCINATION, AND OTHER TREATMENTS NORMALLY INCLUDED.

DWTS-NATVO

DANCING WITH THE STARS IS BACK TONIGHT, AND THE PERFORMANCES MAY LOOK FAMILIAR.

pause for dwts nats:03

THE ALLSTARS WILL BRING BACK ROUTINES FROM THE PAST AND TRY TO EXECUTE THEM TO PERFECTION.

IT'S A TWO HOUR EPISODE TONIGHT, LEADING UP TO A DOUBLE ELIMINATION TOMORROW NIGHT.

TOSS TO BRAD-POP EST

TEASE THREE-POP

FORMER RED SOX MANAGER TERRY FRANCONA BACK IN THE BIG LEAGUES. GATORS AND SEMINOLES SWITCHING PLACES IN THE POLLS. HEAR FROM BOTH.

TZ3 A-VO

TONIGHT AT 11 OPEN-CLIP

11PM TZ1) DOG IN ENGINE-VOTOPS-WIPE

ALL NEW TONIGHT AT 11,

THIS DOG SURVIVED A 100 MILE DRIVE UNDER THE HOOD OF A CAR --

11PM TZ2) SKYDIVER PREVIEW-VOTOPS

AND A MAN PREPARES TO FLY FASTER THAN ANYONE EVER HAS *WITHOUT A PLANE!

HOW THIS DEATH-DEFYING STUNT COULD HELP SAVE ASTRONAUTS' LIVES.

SPORTS OPEN-CLIP

FRANCONA-SOTTOPS

FRANCONA-POP

FRANCONA-SOTTOPS

FSU LOSS-POP

FSU LOSS-VOTOPS-WIPE

WITH THE LOSS. THE NOLES. NOT ONLY TUMBLED TO 12TH IN THE LATEST RANKINGS BUT. THEIR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP HOPES TOOK A SERIOUS HIT.

FSU LOSS-SOTTOPS-WIPE

FLORIDA GATORS-VOTOPS-WIPE

WHILE THE SEMINOLES ARE FEELING THE PAIN. THE GATORS. ARE RIDING HIGH

NOW RANKED 4TH IN THE NATION AFTER BEATING LSU AT HOME.

SO THE GATORS AND SOUTH CAROLINA ARE BOTH UNDEFEATED IN THE SEC EAST. AND WILL MEET IN A COUPLE WEEKS.

FLORIDA GATORS-SOTTOPS-WIPE

HS POLL-VOTOPS-WIPE

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL POLL IS OUT.

NAPLES KEEPS RISING. THIS WEEK THE GOLDEN EAGLES ARE RANKED 4TH IN THE STATE IN 6A.

SOUTH FORT MYERS KEEPS WINNING. BUT THEY KEEP FALLING FOR SOME REASON. NOW RANKED. 14TH

NASCAR-VOTOPS-WIPE

IT CASE YOU MISSED IT ON SUNDAY. THIS WAS THE SCENE AT TALLADEGA.

TOTAL CHOAS ON THE FINAL LAP. 24 CARS PART OF THAT WRECK..

IT'S A WRECK THAT HAS SOME DRIVERS CALLING FOR CHANGES IN THE RESTRICTER PLATE DRIVING.

NASCAR-SOTTOPS

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