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HL1) GAS PRICES-(2)SOTVO-WIPE

3:26:48:00 putting nozzle on pump

3:33:16:00 "I think it's ridiculous."

RELENTLESS AND UNFORGIVING!

GAS PRICES HAVE SOARED EVERY DAY FOR A MONTH!

NOW AT 11,

WHEN THEY'LL REACH FOUR-DOLLARS-A-GALLON --

HL2) STOLEN AK47-SOTVO-WIPE

18:18:00 "you're not safe in your own home"

AND HE SAYS HIS HOUSE IN LEHIGH ACRES IS *LESS* SAFE TONIGHT --

BECAUSE SOMEONE STOLE HIS GUNS!

NEW SINCE 7 --

HL3) MANATEE PICS-SSTOPS

AND THIS IS NOT A TOY!

THE PICTURE'S EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT TONIGHT!

HOW A FLORIDA MAN ENDED UP *ARRESTED* FOR THIS PICTURE --

NEWS OPEN-CLIP

GAS PRICES-TCMON

OUR BIG STORY AT 11 -- BRACE YOURSELF!

GAS PRICES-PKG

3:31:21:00 "It seems as though they're going up every day, every day."

SHE'S RIGHT -- GAS PRICES HAVE GONE UP EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR THE PAST 32 DAYS!

RIGHT NOW --

THE NATIONAL AVERAGE HAS SOARED TO 3-73 A GALLON.

IT'S A DIME MORE IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA.

TRIPLE-A HAS US AT 3-84 A GALLON!

3:26:48:00 'nats putting nozzle back on pump'

DID YOU KNOW AMERICANS ARE NOW SPENDING A WHOPPING FOUR PERCENT OF THEIR BUDGET ON GAS?

THAT'S THE HIGHEST NUMBER IN THREE DECADES.

3:33:16:00 "I think it's ridiculous."

3:31:59:00 "honestly, I just say "REALLY?"

3:37:16:00 "they got you right where they want you. Go up, go down a bit, come up steadily, and reach that crescendo if you will."

AND EXPERTS PINPOINT THAT CRESCENDO AT ABOUT FOUR DOLLARS A GALLON THIS SPRING.

THOSE PRICES ARE COMING.

AND THIS PRICE HIKE IS EARLY.

IT'S COMMON FOR GAS PRICES TO JUMP IN SPRING AS COMPANIES SWITCH TO A SUMMER BLEND.

GAS PRICES-TCMON

BUT IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A SILVER LINING --

WE'RE NOT CALIFORNIA.

STOLEN AK47-WX ID-VO-WIPE

NEW AT 11 --

A HANDGUN AND AN AK--47. ON THE STREETS TONIGHT.ILLEGALLY.

ALL STOLEN FROM THE CLOSET OF A LEHIGH ACRES HOUSE.

THE MAN WHO LEGALLY OWNED THEM REPORTED THEM STOLEN.

HE SAYS HIS FATHER GAVE THE AK TO HIM AS A GIFT.

HE DIDN'T LOCK THEM UP.BUT KEPT THEM HIDDEN IN THAT CLOSET.

ACCORDING TO DEPUTIES ON FRIDAY THIEVES BROKE INTO HIS HOUSE ON FIFTH STREET WEST.

STOLEN AK47-SOTVO

LEO KLEINMANN, VICTIM: the AK47 was a gift from my dad he just got back into town and said hey this is yours take good care of it.20:04-08 he said I told you this would happen you needed to get a safe

LEO KLEINMAN TELLS ABC7 HE WOULDN'T PRESS CHARGES IF THE BURGLARS BROUGHT THE GUNS BACK.

FHP TROOPER CRASH FOLO-VO-WIPE

ALL *THREE* MEMBERS OF A SOUTHWEST FLORIDA FAMILY ARE AT THE HOSPITAL TONIGHT --

RECOVERING FROM A CRASH A FLORIDA STATE TROOPER CAUSED.

WE CHECKED --

AND CHRIS AND CRYSTAL MCCLURE ARE IN FAIR CONDITION.

THEIR 1-YEAR-OLD-SON CHRISTOPHER ESCAPED THIS CRASH WITH JUST MINOR INJURIES.

F-H-P SAYS TROOPER GUSTAVO REYES WAS DRIVING BEHIND THE FAMILY ON I-75 FRIDAY NIGHT.

HIS PATROL CAR CLIPPED THE BACK OF THEIR JEEP, CAUSING IT TO ROLL OVER.

SADLY,

FAMILY FRIENDS TELL US CRYSTAL MCCLURE'S WAS PREGNANT.

FHP TROOPER CRASH FOLO-SOTVO

Travis Brown/ I wouldn't wish it upon anybody I know with all my mind and all my heart he didn't deserve it of anybody

TONIGHT --

F-H-P CONTINUES TO INVESTIGATE THE CRASH.

YOU'RE LOOKING AT FILE VIDEO FROM A STORY WE DID WITH TROOPER REYES.

HE'S TAKING PERSONAL LEAVE.

BUT HE'S NOT SUSPENDED.

MCCREADY LATEST-WX ID VO-WIPE

NEW SINCE SEVEN --

MINDY MCCREADY'S EX-BOYFRIEND SAYS HE'S NOT SURPRISED SHE TOOK HER OWN LIFE --

AND SAYS SOMEONE MADE A "BIG MISTAKE" RELEASING HER FROM A SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT CENTER.

BILLY MCKNIGHT SAYS THE COUNTRY SINGER THREATENED TO KILL HERSELF AFTER LOSING CUSTODY OF HER SON ZANDER EARLIER THIS MONTH.

YESTERDAY AUTHORITIES FOUND THE SINGER'S BODY ON THE SAME PORCH WHERE LAST MONTH THEY FOUND THE FATHER OF HER YOUNGEST SON DEAD OF A SELF-INFLICTED GUNSHOT WOUND.

MCCREADY LATEST-SOTVO-WIPE

This to me is the most distressing part of the story, she is a lovely woman, we have lost her and it didn't have to go down like that.

DOCTOR DREW TREATED MCCREADY WHEN SHE WAS ON V-H-1'S CELEBRITY RE-HAB.

COURT PAPERS SAY "MCKNIGHT IS CONCERNED ABOUT MCCREADY'S PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE" AND "HAS GRAVE CONCERNS FOR THE WELFARE AND SAFETY" OF THEIR 6-YEAR-OLD SON.

CELEBRITY REHAB-NATVOTOPS

.but i have made some mistakes

STILL AHEAD IN TONIGHT'S A-B-C SEVEN EXTRA -- MCCREADY'S DEATH IS NOT THE FIRST TO BE LINKED TO DOCTOR DREW'S CELEBRITY REHAB.

FOUR OTHER STARS ALSO DIED.

LANZA LATEST-VO

NEW AT 11 --

A NEW REPORT TONIGHT FROM C-B-S NEWS ABOUT THE SANDY HOOK SCHOOL SHOOTING --

SAYS THE GUNMAN WANTED TO KILL MORE PEOPLE THAN THE SHOOTER IN THE NORWAY MASSACRE.

THAT NORWAY SHOOTER KILLED 77 AT A SUMMER CAMP.

THE SANDY HOOK GUNMAN KILLED 27 PEOPLE, INCLUDING 20 SCHOOL CHILDREN.

ALSO NEW AT 11 --

POLICE THINK THE CONNECTICUT SHOOTER MAY HAVE BEEN COPYING A VIDEO GAME.

CAPTIVA FIRE-VO-WIPE

TONIGHT ABC7 BRINGS YOU NEW INFORMATION ABOUT THREE DIFFERENT FIRES IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA.

FIRST -- FIRE OFFICIALS ARE INVESTIGATING WHY LANDLINE 9-1-1 CALLS MADE BY NEIGHBORS DID NOT GO THROUGH AFTER THE EXPLOSION THAT STARTED A FIRE ON UPPER CAPTIVA JUST YESTERDAY.

IT WASN'T UNTIL 15 MINUTES LATER THAT SOMEONE GOT THROUGH ON A CELL PHONE AND CREWS WERE DISPATCHED.

NOT ONLY THAT, BUT THE ISLAND ONLY HAS THREE FULL-TIME FIREFIGHTERS,.

SAN CARLOS PARK FIRE-VOTOPS-WIPE

EIGHT SUSPICIOUS FIRES HAVE SPARKED IN SAN CARLOS PARK THE LAST TWO WEEKS!

BUT THE MOST RECENT ONE WAS DIFFERENT.

SATURDAY, LEE COUNTY DEPUTIES SAY SOMEONE SMASHED THE WINDOWS A HOUSE, DOUSED IT WITH ACCELERANT, AND SET IT ON FIRE.

NO ONE WAS HURT.

BUT NEIGHBOR'S TELL A-B-C 7 --

A TEEN HAD BEEN LIVING THERE AFTER HIS GRANDMOTHER DIED LAST MONTH.

DEPUTIES ARE TALKING TO *OTHER PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALSO STAYED AT THE HOUSE.

CAPE HOUSE FIRE-VOTOPS

AND AN EARLY MORNING FIRE DESTROYED A VACANT HOME IN CAPE CORAL.

IT HAPPENED OFF SOUTHWEST 19TH TERRACE AND ACADEMY BOULEVARD.

FIREFIGHTERS TELL US ONE THING REALLY MADE IT TOUGH FOR THEM TO STAMP IT OUT.

THESE HURRICANE SHUTTERS.

MANATEE PICS-TCMON-(3)SS

FACEBOOK PICTURES OF HIS DAUGHTERS AND A MANATEE --

HAVE ONE FLORIDA MAN UNDER ARREST TONIGHT.

TAKE A LOOK!

STATE WILDLIFE OFFICIALS SAY YOU'RE SEEING A MAN AND HIS DAUGHTERS HARASS A MANATEE.

THAT'S AGAINST THE LAW.

THIS ONE SHOWS RYAN WATERMAN FROM SAINT LUCIE COUNTY HOLDING A MANATEE CALF PARTIALLY OUT OF THE WATER.

AND THIS ONE, EVEN SHOWS A CHILD ON TOP OF THE MANATEE.

AUTHORITIES SAY THIS HAPPENED LAST MONTH.

IT'S ILLEGAL TO "MOLEST, HARASS, OR DISTURB" A FLORIDA MANATEE.

OFFICIALS ALSO SAY IT LOOKS LIKE THIS MANATEE WAS SUFFERING FROM COLD-STRESS SYNDROME.

CITIZENS RAISES-VO-WIPE

LAST YEAR CITIZENS HOME INSURANCE PREMIUMS INCREASED BY NEARLY 11 PERCENT --

TONIGHT AT 11 -- MORE NEWS.

THE COMPANY'S TOP EXECUTIVES ARE GETTING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN RAISES.

LAST YEAR THE COMPANY TOLD STATE LAWMAKERS THEY NEEDED MORE REVENUE BECAUSE THEY WOULDN'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO COVER CLAIMS IF THE STATE WERE IT BY A STORM.

BUT -- ON TOP OF SPENDING MILLIONS ON LUXURY TRIPS - HOTEL STAYS - AND DINNERS --

THE COMPANY'S C-F-O IS GETTING A 31-THOUSAND DOLLAR PAY HIKE.

CITIZENS RAISES-SOTVO

3:45 shame on you. 4:10 why do you get to spend what you want when you want how you want and have no accountability 14

NEXT AT 11 OPEN-CLIP

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

FIVE CELEBRITIES WHO WENT ON DOCTOR DREW'S REHAB SHOW --

HAVE NOW DIED.

MINDY MCCREADY'S NUMBER FIVE.

NEW AT 11 --

DOCTOR DREW'S RESPONSE TO THE SINGER TAKING HER OWN LIFE.

'nats of explosion from friday'

PLUS --

THAT RUSSIAN METEORITE HAS LAUNCHED A MODERN-DAY GOLD RUSH!

FIND OUT WHY PEOPLE ARE *SO* DESPARATE FOR A PIECE OF THE ROCK!

TZ1 A CELEBRITY REHAB-VOTOPS-WIPE

TZ1 B METEOR STRIKE-NATVO

STORMWARN 7 JP WX OPEN-CLIP

WEATHER-PWC

CELEBRITY REHAB-VOTOPS-WIPE

MINDY MCCREADY BECAME THE FIFTH MEMBER OF A TRAGIC CLUB --

CELEBRITIES THAT WENT ON DOCTOR DREW'S REHAB SHOW.

AND LATER DIED.

THE OTHER FOUR --

AND WHAT DOCTOR DREW'S SAYING TONIGHT.

THAT, PLUS, WHY THIS WOMAN WALKED OUT OF A MASSAGE PARLOR IN TEARS!

WOMAN REFUSED MASSAGE-VOTOPS

EXTRA AT 11 OPEN-CLIP

CELEBRITY REHAB-TCMON

FIVE SEASON'S -- FIVE DEATHS.

COUNTRY SINGER MINDY MCCREADY IS THE FIFTH TROUBLED STAR TO APPEAR ON V-H-ONE'S "CELEBRITY REHAB --" AND DIE IN THE PAST TWO YEARS.

CELEBRITY REHAB-PKG

People were not stepping up, from getting her the care she needed. Low and behold we have a death. This is a deadly process and it has to be given the priority and the intensity of services that we do to other illnesses.

DOCTOR DREW ON C-N-N TALKING ABOUT THE NEED FOR REHAB,.

BUT SEVERAL OF THE STARS ON HIS OWN REALITY T-V SHOW DID NOT HANG ON TO THE MESSAGE.

MCCREADY'S SEASON THREE CAST MEMBER JOEY KOVAR WAS KICKED OFF OF M-T-V'S THE REAL WORLD BECAUSE OF HIS BATTLE WITH DRUGS.

LAST AUGUST -- HE WAS FOUND DEAD IN HIS HOME OF AN APPARENT DRUG OVERDOSE.

ROCK BAND ALICE IN CHAINS BASS PLAYER MIKE STAR WAS ALSO ON THAT SEASON.

HE SURVIVED THE BAND'S DARKEST YEARS - INCLUDING THE LEAD SINGER'S SUICIDE - BUT HE ALSO OVERDOSED.

HE WENT THROUGH 30 STINTS IN REHAB.

RODNEY KING WAS AWARDED MILLIONS AFTER THE HIGH-PROFILE BEATING HE SUFFERED AT THE HANDS OF THE L-A-P-D.

BUT LAST YEAR HE WAS FOUND DEAD AT THE BOTTOM OF HIS POOL.

TEST FOUND SEVERAL DRUGS IN HIS SYSTEM.

AND ACTOR JEFF CONAWAY MADE BACK-TO-BACK APPEARANCES ON CELEBRITY REHAB.

HE WAS 60 WHEN HE DIED IN MAY OF '11.

CELEBRITY REHAB-ONCAM

DOCTOR DREW PINSKY'S PUBLICIST DID NOT RESPOND TO REQUESTS FOR COMMENTS ON THESE OTHER DEATHS TONIGHT --

LIGHTS IN THE SKY-VO-FFDOT-WIPE

JUST DAYS AFTER A METEOR SCREAMED ACROSS THE SKIES OVER RUSSIA --

SOME SKY-WATCHERS IN SOUTH FLORIDA HAD A CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THEIR OWN.

TAKE A LOOK AT THIS!

PICTURES ARE COMING IN TONIGHT --

FROM WEST PALM TO MIAMI TO ALLIGATOR ALLEY.

THEY SHOW A FIREBALL IN THE SKY!

CALLS FLOODED THE COAST GUARD LAST NIGHT.

SCIENTISTS ARE CALLING IT A SPORADIC METEOR -- SOMETHING COMMONLY SEEN OUT AT SEA.

THE FIREBALL DIDN'T HURT ANYONE OR CAUSE ANY DAMAGE.

THIS IS A LOOK AT ALL OF THE REPORTED SIGHTINGS OF THIS FIREBALL.

YOU CAN REPORT A SIGHTING, OR TRACK WHERE OTHER PEOPLE MADE ONE --

METEOR STRIKES-NATVOTOPS-WIPE

nats explosion

THIS CASE IN RUSSIA AND A CLOSE CALL WITH A HALF-FOOTBALL SIZED SPACE ROCK LAST WEEK HAVE MANY WONDERING WHAT ELSE IS OUT THERE.

RUSSIAN LEADERS ARE CALLING FOR SOLUTIONS TO STOP THESE SPACE INVADERS.

SEVERAL PROJECTS ARE IN THE WORKS TO DETECT NEAR-EARTH-OBJECTS.

ONE WOULD DO IT WITH A SERIES OF TELESCOPES.

RUSSIA GOLD RUSH-VOTOPS

AND *IN* RUSSIA TONIGHT --

IT'S A MODERN-DAY GOLD RUSH.

PEOPLE ARE HUNTING ANY PIECE THEY CAN FIND OF LAST WEEK'S METEORITE.

SO FAR --

CREWS HAVE ONLY FOUND SMALL PIECES AROUND A FROZEN LAKE.

BIGGER ONES COULD BE UNDER WATER.

BUT HERE'S WHY EVERYONE WANTS ONE!

PIECES COULD BE WORTH UP TO 22-HUNDRED DOLLARS A GRAM.

THAT'S 40 TIMES THE CURRENT PRICE FOR GOLD.

ALSO NEW AT 11 --

OFFICIALS NOW ESTIMATE THE DAMAGE FROM THIS METEORITE AT ONE-BILLION RUBLES.

WOMAN REFUSED MASSAGE-VO

A COLORADO WOMAN SAYS SHE WAS HUMILIATED AFTER SHE WALKED INTO A MASSAGE CLINIC TO CELEBRATE HER WEIGHT LOSS -- AND WALKED OUT IN TEARS.

LAURA SMITH LOST 50 POUNDS TRAINING FOR A HALF-MARATHON.

SHE'S SIX-FOOT THREE AND NOW WEIGHS ABOUT 250 POUNDS.

SHE WAS HURTING AFTER THE RACE SO SHE WENT IN TO GET A MASSAGE.

THE MASSEUSE TOLD HER SO WAS TOO FAT FOR THE MASSAGE TABLE.

SMITH WAS DEVASTATED.

THE OWNER SAYS THEY WORRIED THE MASSAGE TABLE WOULD COLLAPSE UNDER HER WEIGHT.

COMING UP NEXT OPEN-CLIP

NEWS TEASE DOLPHIN POD-VOTOPS

A BOAT-LOAD OF PEOPLE ON A DOLPHIN TOUR --

REALLY GOT THEIR MONEY'S WORTH WHEN THEY SHOT THIS VIDEO!

TEASE TWO-POP

THE FGCU WOMEN. ARE PIPING HOT. LOOKING FOR THE 16TH STRAIGHT WIN TONIGHT.

TZ2 A-VO

NIGHTLINE TEASE-BLK-SOT

SPORTS OPEN-CLIP

FGCU WOMEN-VOTOPS

LET'S GO STREAKING. FGCU WOMEN. LOOKING TO WIN THEIR 33RD STRAIGHT CONFERENCE WIN. TAKING ON NORTHERN KETUCKY.

FIRST HALF. DY-TEE SHAH DUNSON. HITS THE 3. EAGLES UP 4 AND JUST GETTING WARMED UP.

LATER IN THE FIRST. JAMIE GLUESING FROM DISTANCE. SHE HAD 11. FGCU UP 10 AT HALF.

MIAMI HURRICANES-POP

MIAMI HURRICANES-VIDBX RVL-WIPE

AND MIAMI KEEPS CLIMBING THE POLLS. NOW RANKED 2ND IN THE NATION. WHICH IS THE HIGHEST IN SCHOOL HISTORY

MIAMI HURRICANES-SOTTOPS-WIPE

NICHOLS CUP-SOTTOPS

NICHOLS CUP-POP

NICHOLS CUP-VOTOPS-WIPE

ALL BECAUSE OF THIS MAN RIGHT HERE. FORMER PGA GREAT BOBBY NICHOLS. THROWING HIS ANNUAL NICHOLS CUP CHARITY EVENT.

THE STARS ON HAND INCLUDED. BASEBALL HALL OF FAMER JOHNNY BENCH AND GOLF LEGEND. FUZZY ZOELLER.

ALL MONEY RAISED GOES TO HELP ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN.

NICHOLS CUP-SOTTOPS-WIPE

LONG DRIVE-VOTOPS-WIPE

MEANWHILE. 2011 LONG DRIVE WORLD CHAMPION CARL WOLTER WAS ON HAND.

THE MAN. WAS HITTING A PUTTER 250 YARDS. NOT SURE HOW I FEEL ABOUT THAT.

9 HOLES IN ONE-VOTOPS

STICKING WITH GOLF. CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO FROM THE CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY GOLF TEAM.

9 GUYS IN A ROW. PUTTING AT THE SAME TIME.

TAMPA BAY RAYS-POP

TAMPA BAY RAYS-VOTOPS-WIPE

MADDON NOT SHYING AWAY FROM HIGH EXPECTATIONS THIS SEASON.

MAYBE BECAUSE. MADDON KNOWS HE HAS. THE MINOR LEAGUE PLAYER OF THE YEAR WAITING IN THE WINGS.

WIL MYERS. MYERS WAS TRADED TO THE RAYS IN THE OFFSEASON FROM KANSAS CITY.

TAMPA BAY RAYS-SOTTOPS-WIPE

BUCS BOWERS `-VOTOPS

LET'S STAY IN TAMPA.

BUCCANEERS DEFENSIVE END DA'QUAN BOWERS WAS ARRESTED FOR TRYING TO CARRY A LOADED HAND GUN ONTO A PLANE AT LAGUARDIA AIRPORT IN NEW YORK.

TOSS TO BREAK-POP

MEGA DOLPHIN POD-VOTOPS

TAKE A LOOK AT THIS --

AMAZING VIDEO OF A DOLPHIN MEGA POD OFF THE COAST OF SAN DIEGO.

EXPERTS THINK THAT'S ABOUT 100-THOUSAND DOLPHINS ALL SWIMMING IN ONE AREA.

DOLPHONS NORMALLY TRAVEL IN GROUPS OF 200 OR LESS.

OSCAR ROAD TRIP-VO-SS

EVER WONDER WHAT YOU WOULD SAY IN YOUR ACCEPTANCE

SPEECH IF YOU WON AN OSCAR?

I'VE ALWAYS BEEN A FAN OF "YOU TOLERATE ME. YOU REALLY TOLERATE ME!"

WE'LL SEE SOME MORE SPEECHES SUNDAY.

BUT FIRST,

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER--

THE COVETED GOLDEN STATUE IS TRAVELING ACROSS THE COUNTRY

GIVING MOVIE FANS THAT OPPORTUNITY TO PREPARE THEIR SPEECHES.

TWO COMEDIANS ARE

STOPPING IN TOWNS ALONG THE WAY TO TAKE PICTURES

OF OSCAR ON HIS JOURNEY.

THE THREE-WEEK ADVENTURE WILL END IN HOLLYWOOD --

JUST IN TIME FOR OSCAR SUNDAY.

CATCH IT ALL RIGHT HERE ON ABC-7 STARTING THIS

KIMMEL TEASE-OC-SOT

NO OSCAR NOMINEES ON JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE TONIGHT --

CLOSE 11PM-3SHOT