Off with us here on abc. We are glad you are with us. We will get to all of the top stories in just a moment. Lets check in with bill logan, a lot to talk about with rain. I have an update for you [ indiscernible ] the wind is picking up and the rain is getting stronger. Ocean city maryland up to ocean city new jersey and up into new england is going to be a mess thi so long to move from our area and finally get onshore has really scooted up the east coast. We still have some lingering rain here. As a matter fact we are seeing some pretty good storms around tarpon springs. Pretty much from Clearwater Beach up through palm harbor right along the coast any go up us 19 you can see some pretty good cells, hernando beach, brooksville and falsity starting to see some of the rain come down. All of this is moving off to the east. Again it is 10 wheeling through that last little band or feeder band that stretches all the way up to where hermine is now. You can see those bands of rain that come back into florida. It will take another day to get rid of this, we are actually seeing some sunshine in some locations. Tampa has 80 degrees and cloudy skies, clearwater and st. Petersburg. Temperatures at 78 and 79, the wind coming in at the east. Through the day we will see some clouds and showers. We will see some breaks as well as we push the temperatures up into the upper 80s. For more details on how much we will get on sunday and labor day monday thats coming up in less than 15 minutes. The bay area while we are dealing with standing water and flooding. Jake peterson is dealing with that as well. He is looking at some trouble spots. I know you have seen several spots of standing water right now. 1 all over different parts of the county especially west paso county. Right here we are on foxwood drive, if you look down here, this street was flooded this morning when we got here about 23 feet of water, thi obviously residence here they are hearing the rain and seeing it it is not good news for them, that water is going to keep going up especially as cars drive by it pushes all of that water onto the property. They are definitely worried about more flooding especially as they try to pick up debris. There are plenty of tree limbs, branches, bushes that need to be cleaned up but they will not still raining. Also they are without power in this neighborhood. They are trying to do all of this, they have not had power in todays in two days. No power. The general freight or the generator is running right now. A lot of people are seniors and they have no way out of here because they have ry reporter about 1000 folks in pascoe county are without power. If the weather starts clearing up the power plant plans to be out to get them back online. Meanwhile county officials will start the storm assessment process we will see exactly how much damage hermine caused the continuing this morning in the bay area this is damage left behind from strong wind. We spoke with people there about the moments hermine came through. It sounded like a Freight Train going through. Reporter trees snapped like twigs, cars crushed beneath them. This Crystal Springs neighborhood was hit hard by my house was shaking. Reporter tiffany and john are doing all they can to sell to what they have left. Scrabbling to replace the ceiling that no longer exists. Jared is doing the same. This is the roof that was on the house. Wind gust some reportedly as high as 60 Miles Per Hour through the area around 8 00 thursday night in seconds the debris. Aluminum found in trees also covering this field, all of it ripped from a nearby farm. They are trying to put their life back together doing it with generators power is out tonight. The trees were like twigs. Reporter his home was spared but his neighbor was not lucky. Treasonous the hospital and his truck into scrap metal, despite the damage he like many of his neighbors is grateful everyone made it out alive. Thing god nobody reporter in Crystal Springs abc action news. The cleanup is still happening right now is seminal heights. One of our viewers sent us this picture of a tree that fell over in a neighbors yard and then went into his yard. Win hermine came onshore it doesnt alligator point. Part of the road is impassable torn up and spots. Meaning that part of it as a category one hurricane. No word on much it will cost. We hope to find out that cost later this morning. Governor rick scott is scheduled to give a press conference from 9 30 from tallahassee to talk about hermine and the impact on the state and revealing the estimated cost of damages. We will be on the call and 9 30. We were bring it to you as soon as we get it. In South Carolina this wa heavy rain. This is video from charleston. People taking advantage of getting out to the pier to get some video and photos to describe the wind at the heavy rain. As the storm heads up the east coast, Business Owners along the jersey shore are preparing for the worst. Theyve learned the first time around with super storm sandy. They have no plans to shut down yet. That is because it is a big city for the threeday weekend. They are waiting to see what hermine brings. One person has died because of a hurricane the treat fell on a homeless man as he slept in a tent. This is the perfect time to download our storm shield app. It will send warning straight to your cell phone or tablet. You can check the live radar and lightning as it is happening. Protesters gathered demanding answers officer involved shooting in Hillsborough County earlier this week. This after investigators reveal a swat team deputy killed an unarmed black man. Investigators say Deputy Caleb Johnson shot and killed 22year old Levonia Riggins on tuesday. Investigators at the swat team was in the home where he was hiding, a place they had been looking into for drug activity. It is not clear if he made threats against the deputies, the protesters claim he was shot while in his bed. Deputy johnson has been placed Atlantic City where the police are in a desperate search for two suspects after someone shot a police officer. It started by a parking garage near caesars casino. That officer is in surgery in the hospital in critical condition. One suspect is dead but we know two other people got away. We have not heard anything else from the police about what led up to the shooting. As soon as we get more information we will continue to bring you that developing out of georgia. Look at your screen, this will boy is missing. Deputies are looking for two yearold thomas klein just southwest of atlanta, the boys father reported him missing last night around 8 00. The dad told police the boy must have wandered out of the home while he was asleep. A prominent dna expert who testified in the Casey Anthony his reputation. He was barred from testifying in a Sexual Assault case under oath. He testified in his lap, he has not been accredited and he has failed basic proficiency test admitting he is self trained on running dna profiles. This is a dangerous, dangerous thing that he does and in very serious cases. It needed to be exposed. Reporter he testified for casey and the hubris found not guilty of murdering daughter. Checkup this photo. Deputies in south florida caught a suspect, he was not going down without a fight. They picked up this guy earlier after it was reportedly chasing a group of kids. The deputy and the trapper were able to tie up a small gator. It is being taken to the alligators mom farm. It will live out the rest of getting easier thanks to researchers in florida. After six years a team figured out how to breed tank saltwater fish in tanks. The blue tang became fair popular after finding nemo and the latest sequel finding dory. I want one of each. Much more coming up. Rising water, very little anyone, anything can be done. Were checking in on the communities dealing with more problems than flooding. While erode throughout this week, we are actually saying better beach conditions and perhaps even getting out and enjoying the sand were expecting rain later after showers hit the coast this morning. It temperature of 82, some afternoon storms tomorrow with a high of 89. You it will get better for monday and labor day. The forecast coming up after continuing our coverage this morning, in Citrus County people are dealing with the mess left behind, families are going back to the flooded homes trying to salvage everything that they can. Some of them are having to do it in the without power. We get a tour of Crystal River. Reporter they are getting through the night with candles and a flashlight. They lost power at 1 30 this morning. I saw a generator downstairs and it got froze up with the saltwater. I had elevated to feed off the concrete. Reporter hurricane hermine sent a seven foot surge that we have been used to hurricanes and tornadoes and all that stuff. It is just wait until it is over and then clean it up. Reporter they do not have too much to clean up. They hope their electricity turned zone soon. As soon as it was done i opened it up to see how my food is. Reporter they have plenty to get by just in case it takes several more hours. The refrigerator has cold drinks, of course they are not cold. And i have a deep freeze hopefully it is holding. Reporter they are preserving of the temperature of the refrigerator and freezers as much as they can but they cannot save everything. A milkshake. That is all my ice cream. Reporter they are thankful it was not much worse for them or their relatives. There is still a lot of activity that the strong storm is heading up the coast. It is not our storm. It was a strange storm it took forever to get going and then it came in as a hurricane and then went through, now it is up to virginia and maryland. I am glad it is gone from here. We are still seeing some rain. Lingering bands. We will show you that as we checked out the radar in a second. You can see the clouds and a little bit of blue skies as we take a look out from our circle vantage point. This is a nice start, further north along the coast were still getting rain in areas from [ indiscernible ] springs only up into new port richey. Not completely clear but clearing as we take a look at the weather headlines for this we say goodbye hermine, but it is causing problems of the east coast. It has left a message here, high water, flooding and a little bit of wind damage, some tree limbs and leaves. The good news is sunshine is on the way and it will be Getting Better as we work through this weekend. Once again you see the showers showing up from pasco county, even parts of Citrus County right along the coast and then it goes brings along the pinellas coastline. This is stretching up all the way to where hermine is now, you can see that right across the northern part of florida and then across the central part of the state. We are seeing showers, clearwater is 79, same thing in apollo beach where we saw that model sunshine. 80 degrees in britain, 81 in we could be in the low 90s for inland and then right along the coast temperatures in the mid to upper 80s, that is about as good as we will get today. Tomorrow when we see more sunshine the temperatures will go up. If you take a look at future cast you will see the possibility for showers on sunday afternoon and monday afternoon. We will slow it down for you, i 3 00 still scattered showers around mainly to to the south of tampa bay. They will combine and push over towards the east coast later on this evening. I think we should be fine for football at Raymond James tonight as the bulls opened their home season against a formidable opponent from the state of maryland. Sunday afternoon storms. They will push into the interior. And then monday looks to be sunnier than sunday. Improve. We will see some sun, temperatures warming up to near 90. Here is what things will look out for College Football kickoff at Raymond James stadium, tailgating wrapping up around 6 00 or so, still about 8586. Kickoff temperature should be 83, 84. There could be a random shower around as the game goes through and continues with very warm muggy conditions. 87 the high today, 67 chance of showers, tomorrow we will be up to 89, 50 percent showers on monday but more widely scattered, by the middle of the work week after you get through the holiday maybe 30 percent chance of showers, that is it. It very much improving forecast for the next seven days. That is the most accurate forecasts you can check us out anytime online at abcactionnews. Com. Welcome back. Eagle rescue. He has a little girl here today. This is clover. She is about six years old. She is a mixer, she has beagle ears and when you walk or she has that beagle knows. Talk about beagles, everyone knows snoopy from peanuts, these are really special dogs. Special dogs as far as they are sent house. There sent is tremendous. When they walk you never walk in a nose to the ground, zigzag, smelling everything. A little bit of patience. A little bit of patience. 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One officer is in critical condition, once a spot one suspect is dead, at last check that officer was in surgery. Were just getting word and Oklahoma Kansas border, 5. 6 magnitude, travers tremors felt across several states. That area does not get a lot of earthquakes but it is out in that new madrid area, you are going to see shifting of the tectonic late. It was out near pawnee. It was felt as far south as austin texas, as far north as omaha. We will keep an eye on that. We will keep you earthquakes and hurricanes and lingering rain. Were still dealing with the aftermath of hermine. For the folks up in the northeast, middle Atlantic States they are getting to deal with hermine in realtime right now. We are still feeling that back lash, the width of the tell as is finally get on out. Just some wispy high clouds, a few rainmakers off in the distance. Skies as we take a look out live. Still seeing some rain, let me move over here so we can see the rain better when we look at our satellite and radar. There is the radar right now. A good line of storms working from central Pinellas County all the way up into pasco county. We have some pretty big storms from largo, high clearwater, into westchase, palm harbor seeing some good showers right now. Pretty good lightning strikes right around newport which in the last 15 minutes or so about 100 lightning strikes. Bayonet point over towards the suncoast parkway, springhill into floral city Crystal River and [ indiscernible ] all seeing rain. It looks like tampa will be in line to get some showers in the next half hour or so. Keep a weather were eis is continues to track across. All in relation and all follow up to this storm which is off to the north. 79 in clearwater, 78 in st. Petersburg. You will see these partly cloudy icons change to rain in the next 20 minutes or so. Looking for a high of 89 degrees by later on today. I know it is not thursday, i have to get on that graphics guy, looking for Better Weather on sunday and monday, more coming up in a bit. Any moment we are waiting on governor rick scott he is in tallahassee expected to talk about hurricane hermine and its impact on florida. We expect he will reveal damage estimates from the gulf coast ongoing response to recovery efforts. Caught on camera, we split the screen into parts showing two different situations where students getting off school buses were hit by drivers. This happened in texas and were with you, this is tough video to watch. Luckily neither student was tersely hurts. School recently is back in session. Authorities in austin where the kids are hit they are raising awareness. They issued 1000 citations in the first week. 1000 citations. Both signs on their Respective School buses were flashing. When a bus is stopped with a sign flashing, all of the cars are supposed to stop. If you do not do that it is called overtaking the school bus, it is frowned upon big time. The driver of the white truck was a 16yearold girl and she told the witness she did not know about that law. In both cases the driver stayed at the scene and they were cited by police. Nationwide drivers killed 10 kids each year for illegally a South Carolina deputy will not face charges for this violent classroom confrontation. Deputy benfield caught on cell phone video flipping a 16year old girl out of her desk, dragging her across the classroom. Teachers call the officer because the girl was being disruptive. Caught on camera, a wild ride when the driver lost control of his car and splash at splashed into the river. The driver had a emergency and that is what caused them to go out of control. Luckily he was able to get himself out and he walked away with a few injuries. His truck was destroyed. In a consumer alert, the antibacterial soap may not be antibacterial. 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The earthquake killed nearly homeless. Tomorrow Mother Teresa will officially become a saint. Pope francis will canonize her for her missionary work helping abandoned children, the dying, destitute and lepers who no one else would help. She died 19 years ago. Her track to sainthood was fast tracked at Pope John Paul ii. You can catch gene wilder on the big screen one last time in one of his most famous iconic roles. Amc theaters will play willy wonka and the Chocolate Factory an theaters nationwide. The amc woodland square will share the classics for five dollars. You can also catch willy wonka at the citrus park and theater and port richie. He died earlier this week at the age of 83. Coming up, the Public Library celebrating a these pictures explain. Interesting paranormal things happening. We will tell you all about it next. Oh yea, everything is digital nowadays. This thing never leaves my side. That is why i signed up for publix digital coupons. And i got the paper ones too. So retro. Thats how i save at publix. How bout you . Publix. Where shopping is a pleasure. Hillsborough county Public Schools is supplying those with four Year College Degrees to train as special education teachers. Of willy wonka and the for me, shopping is a three step process. Step one walk the aisles. Two find the deals. Step three see, thats whats great there is no step three. Thats how i save at publix. How bout you . Welcome back. The library is opening its 100th anniversary with the event. They are also playing this song. Here details about the event and about the library itself here are [ indiscernible ]. 100 years is a long time. Yes. Time for a big party. It will be on saturday, september 17 starting at 12 00. We will have fun. That is 12 pm. Yes. People can learn about the library. We will have bags to hand out. With books . Yes. We will have a lot of cake, were going to have library tours, history programs. Kayla was telling me in the green room about the 3d printers that you have. I am so printing. You are really capitalizing on the pokimon go trend with your 3d printers. For the month of august and september we are currently every wednesday from 68 30 hiding 3d printed pokimon throughout our library and also setting up pokimon wars for families and people of all ages to come in and enjoy us. That. We can play the game without having the app on your phone. The last thing, you told me about something a little spooky going on at the library. We have some pictures. We will say the first picture. Who is this . Amy owens was a library and back in the 1940s. Mrs. Owen was struck and killed in an Automobile Accident in march 1942. Te library. You think she is still around . Every year she comes by and helps out patrons, helps patrons find books. You captured it on the security cameras. Can we put it up . Last year on the fourth floor of the main library, she is seen helping a patron find a book. You said she is seen but youre looking on the right side the ghostly image. There. They just put the arrow there. She is still helping out. You said you heard the toilet flushing overnight after hours by themselves. That is clearly unobtainable. Interesting. And all seriousness, even though it is creepy you guys have been there for 100 years and it is a great library. Go out and see a ghost or eat some cake. Come and eat cake, have fun. Saturday, september 17 from noon to five clearwater Public Library celebrating the 100th anniversary. Thank you for being here. Addressing the media. You can see how much water came up, they have boats that were probably 30 feet from the water, we also saw a significant amount, there is a nice public stock that was really messed up. They also said there was another public dock that was messed up that we as you would expect when you go down there, individuals are worried about their jobs. In cedar keys the impacted areas [ indiscernible ] residents have been severely impacted. Many are worried about losing their jobs. There is one lady who found out that she would not have a job because she worked at this condo area and they are also messed up it will take so long. Source and hopefully she can get a job. These areas were in the direct path of the hurricane. There was one lady it was there weekend home and she said they lost their sewall and this father and two sons they were on the way to disney, they change their mind, they had a truck and they came and rebuild her sewall. They spent the day redoing her sewa lot of stories about nice people. We were in [ indiscernible ] all of the residents were coming down to help dry things out and clean things up. This was the second biggest weekend. We have a lot of work to do following the storm. We will continue spending the coming days assessing the damage and responding to the event. Throughout the weekend we will remain vigilant about taking proper safety precautions. Just because it is a sunny day outside does not mean it is safe. Over the past day governor rick scott addressing the media in tallahassee. Were going to have more on that and what he said on our website later on today. In the meantime lets get to bill logan. We are still fal yes. Even though it is a sunny day do not put your guard down, we are not seeing sunshine everywhere, some areas of the state, yes. But we are seeing clouds encroach. Right there we are seeing those clouds moved in. After we cleared out last night ging us a nice look at the sunset, finally clearing after days and days of gray skies and rain. Rain move onshore from clearwater and largo all the way over to odessa in the westht up in through pasco and Citrus County coastal areas. These showers are going to continue to move inland as we go through the morning. This is the remnants or the theater been, the last vestige of hermine. That is 80 mile an hour wind, 60 mile an hour wind. It is really start to pick up Forward Motion with speeds of 21 Miles Per Hour off to the east, northeast. This is sitting pretty much right off of virginia beach. It is going to continue to move very slowly in the new england area. Watching that store move up the move indialantic and were watching another area down here that shows 30 percent chance of development. Watching the topics is something we need to do this time of year as we head toward that highest part of the hurricane season. Still seeing the clouds around today. Still seeing shower possibilities today. Seeing more sunshine as we work into saturday evening, clear things out, more sunshine into sunday as well. Only about 50 percent chance neighborhoods right down the suncoast expressway pushing off to the east and the interior parts of the state. Monday even less of a chance of showers. We will go from 80 now, up to 89 later on and then back down to the low and mid 80s by a about 8 00 this evening. 82 is the golf water temperature off of Clearwater Beach, expect the wind to be from the south at about 1015 knots. The uv index is in the moderate go through the rest of the weekend. 23 fleet seas. Low tide comes at 12 12 this evening. The sun will set at 7 48 and then looking good for football tonight as the bulls host the tigers of collison university. That is a fine institution of higher seven day i will hold that until the very end of the show. They start in new york city, moved to london and then milan and then paris. Were talking about the industrys top designers setting the fashion trends for the Upcoming Season during fashion week. The tampa museum of art host its own version of fashion week sometime between milan show and paris show. The event is called city and it museum. New this year the first of its kind fashion exhibition with a celebrity designer being featured in the runway show. It is a multimedia exhibition and city event to raise funds for the Art Education programs yearround. Joining us are the cochairs of this event. We have Henderson Everett lee and [ indiscernible ]. Thank you for coming in. How big of deal is it for us to have [ indiscernible ] cin it is a big deal. She just won the Lifetime Achievement award, her career has never stopped. It is an honor. What can folks expect when they go to the event . It is an event im really around a fashion show. It is a 20 minute fashion show with looks that norma has selected for the museum. And then after that it is going different than things that they do. Their turn to bring fashion and art together. Both of you are wearing your norma kamalis. What is the look of norma . She is relaxed faction fashion. She can be relaxed but it is about comfort and movement. Do you feel pressure to bring those items to the event . Absolute event and take it beyond into their lives. We will continue this conversation on facebook. We have a whole lot more pictures to share with our viewers at home. If you would like the information for this wonderful event it is september 24 at the runway fashion show. The number to call is 813274 8130 or you can visit the now at havertys furniture, its our labor day sale. Where you can create the perfect Outdoor Living space. Now through september 5th, select groups are up to fortyfive percent off. Plus, take an extra hundred dollars off every onethousand dollars you spend. Cote your choice with rugs, lamps, pillo and more. Get free delivery, and even when life isnt. The labor day sale is going on now. Havertys. Life looks good. Z23ppz zy6z were coughing up some rain right now. Radar showing showers moving from central areas in Pinellas County in toward central areas of hillsborough. The rain is still with us all associated with the final remnants of hermine. Showers. We will back the rain chances off tomorrow and labor day monday as we get back toward our normal summertime pattern. It is still going to be a rain messy day. It will be a cleanup day. Then spend the rest of the time on the couch watching College Football. Into join us for abc action news at 7 00. Thank you to the thousands of people who watched us live on announcer jack hannas wild countdown is sponsored by nationwide. Jack hi, everybody, im jack hanna, coming to you from my base camp here at the columbus zoo, and welcome to wild countdown. Sue oh, my goodness, theres a whole herd of them. Jack today, were checking out 6 species that turn heads everywhere they go. Why . Look at this. This is the funniest thing, sue. Look at them. Because of the outstanding appendages growing from their heads. 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