Live from the station taking action for you. This is abc action news. Now at 11 00, heroic actions when a young man spotted in the sewer filled pond that saved another mans life. More on that dramatic rescue in a live report. Plus, bracing for mother nature. The messy commute ahead as some areas get ready for relentless rain. Good evening and thank you so much for joining us, everyone, im serena. And im john sable. An elderly man saved by a teenager driving by. Explain the steps both the driver and the teenager took that led to a safe ending. Kara. Really so amazing how this all unfolded. Driving in a car here on highlands boulevard in the palm something that sounds like a loud splash and the teenagers in the backseat thought there was an alligator splashing around. As they came around the corner and got a little closer, they saw what had happened. You can see the tire marks right here. A car drove into this retention pond right here and one of the teens spotted. In fact, there was a driver, someone still inside of that vehicle. So without hesitation, the 17 yearold tells the mom to stop the car, he dives into water in an effort to save that driver. And just moments later, his friend recorded this snap chat video just after that teen, jordan, put the man on his back and pulled him to safety on shore. Another person that was passing by also stopped to help. She happenedded to be a hospice nurse and stayed by the victims side until police and paramedics arrived. Jordan was only able to talk to the man he saved for a few moments. Was able to get his first name, dave, and the fact that driver i had some adrenaline going. It was just i had to save this man. He was very emotional and crying and very thankful. I am, of course, grateful that i could do that for him. But i dont want any he doesnt need to thank me. Its a good thing. Im glad i could do that for him. Reporter paramedics think that elderly man may have had some type of medical episode that caused him to veer off the road and go into the the amazing thing is that after jordan pulled him on to shore, not only did he have a bump or scratch on him, the car started sinking and submerged seconds later. Its incredible he is alive. Thanks to really a teenage hero that stepped in to save the day. Reporting live here in palm harbor, abc action news. Thank you. Tonight, 13 people out of a home after a Fire Destroys four apartments. The Apartment Building is right stove left on in one unit is the cause behind all the damage. The fire started in that apartment and then spread next door. As crews start to put out the blaze, heavy water damage. Ems crews treated two people, they are expectedded to be okay. The red cross stepped in to help with temporary housing. A wrong way driver is fighting to live tonight after polk county deputies say he collided with a semi. Take a look at his car. The force so strong, it ejected him Randall Jackson was flown to Lakeland Regional Hospital where he is in critical condition. Now a look ahead at your workweek forecast, and something tells me by that radar, its going to be a little rainy commute. Its going to be a very rainy commute and its going to be rainy at midday and rainy on the commute home. Tomorrow is going to look a lot like tomorrow. Maybe more rain as we go into live titan doppler radar. Still have showers off to the north. Its going to be up around the big bend area, northern parts of Citrus County. Heres the last six hours as those storms move through the Southern Sector and heres a look at some of those rain fall totals. Doppler estimates over the past 24. Yeah, over 16 inches of rain, just out in the gulf. But, anywhere between, oh, 2 1 2 to 3 1 2 inches of rain along our coastal well, from citrus, Hernando Pasco county. Thats where were going to see those continued flood watches through tuesday morning. Tomorrow morning, it is going to be a wet one. 76 degrees as we have those a. M. Storms, midday storms and 82 by noontime and maybe a slim sun break, but more storms and showers on your way home. Ill let you know when we kexfect a break from all of this, hopefully soon. Minutes or so. All right, bill, well check back in with you then. Citrus county put out a flood watch. Remember, a flood watch means theres potential for flooding based on current forecasts. There have been some flooding in usual places on the west side of the county and in low lying spots. The county, see what else is going to be going on in that area if the rains should start to come down. In response to heavy rain, the city of tampa, and now Citrus County have opened sandbag operations. Citrus county will have two sandbag one in Crystal River. They will open tomorrow morning at 8 00. Sandbags will be provided, but are encouraged to bring your own shovel. We have all the locations posted on our website, abcactionnews. Com. With the weather coming soon, aaa warning drivers to be cautious driving through flooded streets. It can be very dangerous. If you see rising water, do not drive through it. If you find yourself in a flooded area and your car stalls, do not remain in your possible and seek higher ground. Flood waters can elevate very quickly, sweeping away the vehicle and its passengers. Happening tomorrow, a democratic president ial candidate, hillary clinton, will be in st. Pete. Shell be touring three daughters brewing company. Clinton is expected to outline her plans to make investments in good paying jobs in the u. S. Right now, clinton leads trump 50 to 42 percent in a head to head race according to a survey of registered voters. A driver loses control of his car leading them to shut down the road for hours. Sadly, the driver, 75yearold, thomas shay, died. Witnesses told officers they saw him driving erratically. That his car flipped after the crash. 54th avenue between palm and 4th street northwest shut down. No other passengers were in the vehicle. And over in tampa, sadly, another driver crashes into a tree and that driver also dies. The crash happened last night on fouler avenue. Control of the car while on the curve, the i75 entrance ramp, the name of that driver has not been released. a Crystal RiverShopping Plaza is heavily damaged. I mean, just take a look at these pictures after a fire yesterday. Citrus county firefighters are still looking into the cause. They also closed down part of u. S. 19. While they put out the blaze. No word on injuries or the amount of damage to the plaza. We have new information tonight, disney is building a stone wall around the lake where an alligator yearold, lane grave, into the water. The toddler died. Crews have reportedly been working on the wall for several weeks. Its going up along the beaches and the 7 seas lagoon where several resorts are located. Disney put up ropes. The child died from drowning and traumatic injuries. The family decided not to file a lawsuit against did disney. You may have heard of a the side of the road there. Six have been found since june and today, another incident involving a cat, a woman crossing the bay looked out of her car window and saw a small black and white ball of fur flying towards her. When she stopped to help it, she ran into the wheel, refusing to get out. Arrived to take the wheel off to save the kitten who still seems to be in good health. I thought about calling it miracle. Because its a miracle its alive after just many cars go by. I cant imagine how it survived. Police are trying to determine how the cats were found on the bridge and how they got there. Most of the time, the cats they found were dead. Listen to this, Cooper City Bank robber is going back to jail tonight. The person that turns him in, his mom. Thats according to the sun sental. Investigators say Robert Watson held up a Sun Trust Bank last month. The fbi says watson has been the past. One in 1987, one in 96, and the other in 2003. A witness identified watson and his car. The fbi next searched the Motor Vehicle data base for his car and found him. A kansas city water park is now closed after a tenyearold boy died there. Authorities did not immediately release the boys identity, but a local lawmaker and his wife sent out a statement saying it was their own son who passed away. Police are still investigating what exactly went wrong. But say it the boy died riding what is labeled as the worlds tallest water slide. The slide is 170foot drop. Riders can reach speeds of more than 60 miles an hour. The park will be closed tomorrow. Still ahead on abc action news at 11 00. A pintsized good samaritan. Youll see the big reason behind why a sevenyearold boy in utah is being hailed a hero. And tampa comic con wraps up what celebrities made an several pasco kids are ready to start the new school year. Its really a great effort by the paternal order of police at Pasco Sheriffs Office lodge 29. They raised enough money not only to take 100 kids shopping, but each child had a budget of 300. I have three children and this is really helpful. It helps us out the partnered with the School District to help find the kids in most need. A sevenyearold is being called a hero tonight. Cesar saved a twoyearold who fell into a Swimming Pool on thursday with no one nearby to help. A run to the lobby to save the boy. Emt soon arrived and thanks to cesar, the twoyearold is expected to make a full recovery. The excitement at tampa bay comic con has come to an end. Showed off their talents. The weekends festivities was star studded. Norman from the hit show, the walking dead, stopped by as well as Jenna Coleman from dr. Who. This was the events sixth year at the Tampa Convention center. Now, the most Accurate Weather Team in florida. Abc action weather. Got to love that Storm Trooper in lightning gear. Pretty solid stuff. Supporting the home team, sure. I like they had to dodge a lot of rain drops today. They did. Fortunately for comic con, most of that is inside. So, they werent out in the elements and could enjoy themselves. Getting there . It will be rough tomorrow. I had a lot of people checking in on facebook. When is this going to stop . Cant you do something about the rain . Nope, sure cant, but i can let you know about how to deal with it better, because were going to be looking at this same scenario going through the relatively dry bridges down across portions of tampa bay, but we are seeing still some showers around as we go through the latter parts of this evening. Taking a look at our weather headlines, its going to be a messy morning through the morning commute. The rains are going to be rolling all day and those flood watches remain in effect. Officially at the airport,. 4 of an inch of rain today as we hit a high of 82. Cooler than norm low was 76. You can see we havent moved the thermometer much with regard to the fact that weve got a lot of gray skies. A lot of rain coming down, and you can see that still spinning just off to our west as those rains came through. 78 in sarasota right now. 73 in lakeland. And bartow, 75 degrees in brooksville. And 78 in clear water and st. 79 at mcdill. I want to slow things down for you and give you a look at the future cast. Even by 2 00 in the morning, just a couple hours from now, well see rains rolling in through citrus, hernando and into pasco county. By 5 00, were going to start the commute, roads are going to be wet, youll want to check in with ivan and janelle. By 9 00, its going to be right over the metro area and continuing through the noon hour, right through 5 00, your commute home is going to be a mess. We may e 9 00, 10 00 tomorrow night, but then were going to wind those storms right back up again for the commute on tuesday morning. And, right through noontime. And into the evening commute as well. As that persistent area of low pressure just sits right off our coast and spins that moisture our way. We backed off some of these storm totals, or at least the projections from our european forecast model. Looks like through wednesday, neighborhoods and approaching 6 by the end of the workweek. But still, it is going to be a messy, messy week ahead. Heres a look at your forecast for the remainder of tonight into tomorrow. Were going to see temperatures only going from 79 degrees, 78 to start you off, only up to 82. Not the best day for boating. It wasnt today. It wont be tomorrow, were not going to clear this out until probably wednesday to thursday. The rain is still around with winds coming in out of the southwest. That our way. The sun is up a couple minutes before 7 00. But i tell you what, i doubt well see much of the sun at all tomorrow. Ill put 100 chance of rain in tuesday. Well back it off to 80 by tuesday and wednesday. And then well start to get back to normal. Hopefully, by next weekend. It is going to be a rough, wet week, folks. Be careful out there as you the links and on the diamond. Minnesotas miguel cant be happy hes leaving. Well explain, next in sports. Z22szz zy6z now, the abc action news sunday sports desk driven by your southern chevy dealers. Find new roads. The rays are happy twins third baseman is leaving town. He went off on rays pitching this weekend. 6 for 13. Three home runs and five rbi. Two homers and four rbi came this afternoon. Talk about a stat stuffer and a fancy baseball owners dream. Rays up 10 in the 3rd, guess what . Not anymore. Busts out to deep left center. We go to the 9th, its now 53 twins. He does it again. This ball gets out in a hurry. Second of the game, no doubter. Twins go on to win 63. Tampa bay now heads north of the border to face the blue jays beginning tomorrow night. 17 years ago, former ray became the first player in hit. Fast forward 17 years later to this afternoon in denver. Future hall of famer and marlins is ichiro, became the 30th member of the 3,000 hit club joining bonds and others in typical ichiro fashion, the 3,000th hit came with hustle, a triple off the right field wall. Hes the Second Player ever to have his 3,000th come from a triple. The Second Player in history to hi joining pete rose. Well love him or hate him. Alex rodriguez will go down as the greatest to ever play baseball. At 41 years old, he has seen enough. In a press conference, fridays game against the rays will be his last in pinstripes. The yankees told arod a few days ago, they would release him. He wanted to play one final him. He will be released after, but he will be remaining with the club through the 2017 season with the yankees. New york will be basically paying arod to go away. They still own the remainder of his salary this year and next year. Arod never said he was retiring, but also said it was too early to play again, so if this is the end, four home runs away from 700. A record he would this is a tough day. I love this game. And i love this team. And today, im saying goodbye to both. 700 or any type of those milestones. I would have had an unbelievable fun time going after him. Those are not the cards i was dealt. I am at peace with the organizations decision. Arod fourth best in the all time list, after hitting 33 homers last year, he was on pace to break babe ruths mark, but suspended for the entire 2014 season due to his biogenesis scandal. Shoot a 59 in the 2010 classic. But i never thought i would see a 58 on the pga tour. Theres one guy to shoot a 58 on tour. It final round saw furick card a 58. The first to ever score a 58 on tour. Previously, one of the six players to shoot a 59 and almost had a 57 today, but he actually missed the birdie put. He is now the only player with multiple subs, 60 rounds in pga tour history. How about that . How about this. Football preseason is supposed to start tonight in canton, ohio, have to wait until the preseason because the hall of fame game was canceled due to poor field conditions. The packers and colts were set to play, but they used the wrong paint on the hall of fame logo. And in the end zone, which caused the paint to dry like cement. That is not good. Arena Football League did not need to worry about their paint drying on the turf. Cortez stopped in the pick six tied at 14. But the soul scored unanswered in route to a 6341 win. Storm ends the year with a record of 215. Stay tuned, were back after welcome back. More and more people wanting to own guns here in florida has manufacturing for the firearms surging. In fact, florida has more gun except texas. A 350 increase for licenses for gun makers since 2009. Its raising concern, though, because federal Officials Say trying to keep up with demand is putting a strain on the atf. The Agency Monitoring gun sales and distribution, no solution yet on how to tackle this issue that could be putting lives at risk. Many Senior Citizens angry tonight. They have been locked out of their online Social Security accounts. A new security measure added by the Social Security administration requires us the code is sent in a text. That means the user whos do not have a cell phone cant access their account. Right now, there is no solution to this problem. User benefits should not be affected, but the new measure does make it hard for you to change your address and request a new Social Security card online. The code was added to make Online Services more secure. Oh my goodness. All right, folks, heres another look at the future cast for tomorrow as the rains will through that morning commute, through midday, and pretty much right through the afternoon as well. Im going to put a 100 chance of rain. You dont see that often. Im going on a limb here. Youre taking a big chance. Its a strong limb. 80 chance of rain hardly, skimpy looking sunshine on tuesday as well. Well get rid of that massive moisture that has been sitting will move off to the north and east and away from us. By the end of the workweek, we could be getting back to near normal and i think by next weekend, yeah, about that 40 to 50 chance of showers in the afternoon and temperatures back up near 90 degrees. Heres one more look at the river gate tower camera down on to the bridge through downtown tampa. A reminder, those roadways are going to be slick tomorrow. More reminder. Do not use your flashes. I tell you what, that is one of my pet peeves. Your biggest pet peeve. It causes all kinds of havoc behind you. Folks dont know where you are going because they dont know whether you are making a turn, just slow down, keep both hands on the wheel and keep it here tomorrow morning because janelle and ivan will have your best routes around to avoid the this is so reminiscent of last year and all the flooding we got. We just had that anniversary, too. It was on the third. I remember that day i was working the morning news. That morning, and it just kept rolling in. Tomorrow will be the same. I dont think the totals are going to be as bad as it was a year ago, but school is starting in a lot of areas. Thats what i was just thinking. So please be careful. Allow extra time. So, go to bed, get some sleep. Raining. Might as well be in the classroom. Thank you so much for choosing abcactionnews. Have a great rest of your z22pvz zy6z previously on castle. What the hell are you doin . Thats my suspect. Okay, relax. Were on the same team. Royce . Hey, kid. 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