Strong category four. It is packing winds at 155 miles an hour. She is in with us this morning. Where is it at . If yany ing in jamaica into e cuba,heahamase family or planning in thatirtionu 5. It needed to go to winds. By oneil has lost a littleit is7 miles per hour. That isheca ht. It will and make costal showers t f our weekend we typers in Sarasota County and some moving into b make it to heae a ahead. I will have the seven day forecast ahead. R ght, federal and local officials are a threat. They ares who have fears ove water. What co we know this morning. Information right now. The Sheriffs Department and the fbi are investigating. A letter was sent to the company. It was received last night. We are working to see what the letter said and who it was sent to specifically. They ups about co water. There were protests two weeks ago today. We will continue to follow this and bring you the latest when it is available. Back to after driving wrong way. Trying to get on the highway from an exit ramp instead of an entrance ramp. She crashed into a guardrail and then refused a breath test. Dan na stepped off the curb on 5th avenue north and right into the path of a driver. She died at the hospital. Someone at the time of the accident. They are looking to speak to that person. If you know anything, call police. There was a stabbing popular club last night. We do know both victims are expect today be okay. These protesters behind me taking the streets outside san diego following a deadly shooting of an unarmed black man. Released of the shooting. They are making them angrier. You may find this disturbing. That cell phone video. You see him walking by a truck. His sister is yelling as officers approach him. Guns are drawn. One officer fires four shots while one man taseders him. Theres not been a decision yet on whether officer will be charged, but both are on a three day admy straighter leave. No blacks allowed. It is something from years ago. It is happens happen nothing a neighborhood. Someress departments are violating the fair housing act. They are accused of helping potential home buyers who are white, but t are black that there are no homes on the market. They are asking for a jury trial and asking for compensations for anyone discriminated against. Students charged after Wearing Masks and scaring people. They were saying clowns would harm students and teachers. One district is on alert. That tweet from creepy clowns invading the bay area. They did not believe the threat was credible. They told students and fire hydrants be on the look out anyway. They have reported sightings. One teen says two clowns, people with clown masks on chased her from the bus stop. I think it is scary. Classes did continue as a 75yearold north florida man facing serious charges after a young boy says he was touched inappropriate rattly after boy scout camp. Police arrested him after the boys reported he slapped them on their behinds on a camping trip. They found pictures of the boys on his cell phone. Happening today, new laws go you from credit card skimmers. Gas station owners are required to step up for protection at the pump. Penalties go up for those with fraudulent credit cards on them. You want to sit down and talk with your kids of what you they are doing on their phones. Here are the big changes. Reporter october 1 brings new laws to one important change is threats with guns. If you go on snapchat and make a joke or a threat about a gun, you can be charged with a felony. This law was created because of all of the school threat, but they cannot punsh those responsible. A teen posted a picture of a backpack and a gun at the high school. As we get ready to elect the next president , you will be get counted. Those across the state are getting a big pay raise. The supervisor of elections makes 140 thousand right now. This increase will give 160 thousand. Why all the extra cash . Because it will make us pay equal. Every other county will have the same pay raise, around 20 thousand dwlrs. People taking advantage of food stamps. Look people are online in florida advertising food stamps for sale. If someone has more than one ebt card or try to sell that card to meone else instead of feeding their own family, they could be charged with a first degree misdemeanor. Starts today. The route takes passengers across the bay. The first taxi leaves at 10 a. M. From the city hall. It is time to polish your resume. Yes, the Largest Hotel needs to hire hundreds of people and fast. We sat down with the general manager to see what workers he is looking for and the secret that will make you stand out. Is no a bay area elementary student with a big even bigger heart. She is making a dream for hundreds of sick kids. That is coming up next. If you are taking a dip in the afternoon hours or have yard work to do, we have coastal showers in the morning. Only 30 coverage. Most of us will be dry from start to finish. High of 88. Taking action for you, the largest resort ever built on Clear Water Beach, its almost done and they need to fill jobs and fas a lot of them. We found exactly who they are looking for. Reporter theres plenty of noise buzzing around what will be the resort. Right now it is more construction sfwoen that a four star resort, but in four short months it will go from this to this. Oh, this is a huge operation as far as complexity. This is one of the most complex projects i have been involved this six year operation. He is looking forward to the changes he says it will bring to the area. Whfrnlts you think about the impact this will have on the community being in the best location of Clear Water Beach, it is hard not to get excited about that. Reporter an average room will cost between 250500. A president ial suite will you 360 a day. A jobs, that is real life. From construction to running the place, this resort will add approximately one thousand jobs. Line cooks, house keepers, front desk staff. Reporter he will be hiring crunch come november. He needs to fill 300 positions. It is all about the attitude. Business. Reporter he says the salaries will be competitive and invites folks to be apply in october. I am proud of it and it is not even open yet. Reporter polishing up your resume while workers finish up the resort. Abc action news. Ffrments you are looking for a job in less than an hour, there will be a job fair. They are looking for polic you can can fill out an application there and get a preinterview on the spot. It runs from 106. Okay, shaye , everyone is talking about this hurricane. It is really not going to impact us at least this weekend. A lot of questions i have been asked is if it will impact our weekend. We have a typical weekend. Unless you are getting on a you have another thing coming. Other than that, we have nice skies. They did have some rain coming down just a little bit earlier, even some of the sand still, you can see some puddles, but sunshine is starting to come throughout clouds. These counties were mostly dry. You can see that rain moving we have this onshore flow. It is trying to make its way inland. Along the beaches you may catch a few showers over the next couple of hours, and then as we move through the afternoon we will have a greater chance for hitormiss storms. We have a frondal boundary, but it is hanging out there. It is helping keep the chances for rain along that boundary we have a chance for rain in the northern counties. Hitormiss showers and storms. Typical florida, right . In the tropics, we have a nasty Storm Brewing out there. This is hurricane matthew. A category four storm. In its path is jamaica, haiti, the bahamas. It is unlikely that the u. S. Will he edge of uncertainty. We are not ignoring it. We are not fwiving the all clear just yet, but i think overall it will continue stay in this range here where it goes out into the atlantic, the likelihood of getting closer to southeast across tampa bay. 73 in crystal florida. A little above average to start the day. We should be around 72. We will end the day around 87. Ending at 88 will not be noticeably warmer. Tomorrow we have 450 coverage of shower. And monday and tuesday the rain chances g year. It is the coastal rain in the morning for today and tomorrow and afternoon storms will be possible. The end of the week, the rain chances goes down if matthew stays on the same path because it will draw the moisture out into the storm as it works parallel from florida. That is your seven day forecast. Lindsey, over to you. Area. She has her own shoe company. You may have seen her at craft festivals or come across her facebook page. Im excited that you are here to talk about floppies. Thank you so mh for being here. Youre welce. A flipflop company in florida, wff to a good start. What do you think about that . I choose they will keep you cool. You design these bythey adma. Okay. So what we do is we get tool and a small ribbon and a diamond or jewel and put them together and this is what we make. Clearly they sell themselves. I have a pair on. They are very comfortable. Youre not. Tell me about it . One hundred percent goes to children hospital. How come . Why are you giving back . Because one time i was there. They gave me something special. Im returning the favorer. Paying it forward. Your company floppies, you started it a couple of months ago. The teachers have been supportive so far. Where else are you selling them . Im selling them at craft fairs. Thats really it. Just starting out. Mom, what can you let people know. If they want to donate a pair or donate money, what can you tell everyone . She is doing really great. She has a facebook page. She is really a good little girl with a big heart doing good for kids in the hospital. You have talk today them it. So many at all children that need that extra bit of love that knows someone cares. Definitely. As we head into the holidays, what do you want people to know . Always try to donate and get a pair of floppies and we will try our best to help those kids. We will be following up on your success. Best of luck. Thank you their journey with floppies. You can follow this on our website abcactionnews. Com. Y2474y yy6y here she is with dare. We will learn a lot about sunny today. He is stealing my heart today. Tell us about sunny. He is around 8 months old. He is a long haired dog. It is a result of breeders two of these dogs together. But his sense of smell very much intact. Definitely. His other senses are in full swing. He can follow me through my footsteps and smell. Hes got the cute factor taken care of. Totally. He is a ten on the cute scale out of ten. Someone who is thinking about taking him in a pet, how would that impact him as he is good. He gets along well with other dogs. He does not get along with cats. I cant hold that against him, can you . No. Let me turn this on. Show us your face. There you go. Theres that sweet face. So he does require some special training. A lot of it is sensory and we will give them the tools to train him. He is sensing all kinds of things. Get in touch with dare if you want to make him part of your family. Welcome back to abc action news. Just about 9 30 now and here are the mornings top stories. Right now the fbi area they are investigating a threatening letter with a powered that was sent to a company. It was received last night. We are still working to find out what that letter said and who it was sent to they were jut set about contaminated weather. A woman was arrested for driving the wrong way on the expressway. She was trying to get on from an exit ramp instead of an entrance ramp. She crashed into a guardrail. She refused a breath test. We are watching hurricane matthew. It is a cat four. It is still strong. We are with shaye ryan. Not a concern for us. It is on the ellen of the cone. Exactly. If this storm stays on its current path or anything close it it to it, we are in good shape. There are enough days to change. We dont want this monster near us. It is looking beautiful out there across much of tampa we do have extra clouds closer to the coastline. You see that. The water is look very nice. We do have a lit of cloud bit of cloud cover, nothing that should stick around. 155 mile per hour maximum sustained winds. If it was at 156, it would be a cat five. It was cat five over night. The upper winds are slowing down here this morning. As it continues to move north, it will weaken a little bit more before impacting, making landfall in eastern jamaica or just brushing the coastline of eastern jamaica. It is impacting haiti as well and cuba before moving across the bahamas. This is going to take a little time. It is into the bahamas on thursday and possibly at that point staying off florida off into the atlantic. That would be good news for us. I will have more on that and how it will impact our weather in tampa bay coming up in the seven day forecast. More drama in election 2016. Donald trump sent of tweets. Leaks in his campaign, calling a beautiful queen disgusting. Tweets of her own. Jason carol has the details. Reporter donald trump up early this morning and not letting up on his attacks. The gop nominee tweeting before dawn, crook hillary was used. They afloated her checking her past. Did she help her become a u. S. Citizen so they could use her in the debate. Hillary clinton responding with a tweet of her own, what kind of man stays up all night to smear a woman with lies and spircy. They criticized her after she gained weight after heroin in 1996. Has become a u. S. Citizen. Oh, really . And you can bet she is going to vote this november. He is talking about her on a daily basis as he continues to push back on reports that his advisers were not happy with his debate performance and over halling his approach before the second meet winning hillary clinton. Every poll said we which is great. The online polls are not scientific or serious. He tweeted remember, dont believe sources said by the dishonest media. If they dont name the sources, the sources dont exist. It should be noted that citing unnamed sources is a common practice in journalism. He is at odds with the papers urging voters to support anyone but donald trump. Donald trump is by unanimous consensus unfit for the presidency. All this as some gop leaders encouraging trump to stay focussed on issues, not on the former ms. Universe and bill clinton. He remains defiant. I didnt want to go there. I thought it would be too disrespectful. She was very nasty. We will see what happens. If it comes up in the next debate, your past martial history is fair game. I guess so. It is different, that i can tell you. We are learning that florida was among dozen of states that hackers tried to attack in hope so to getting into voter supervisors to ensure the safety of all ballots. As you know, an important state for candidates to focus on in this election. Prosecuted obama yelling at someone named bill. That someone would be former bill clinton. This is a cash equal moment between two president s. You may have seen this on social media. He is on he waits for bill clinton who you cant see on camera. He is on the ground caught up in conversation. He is yelling come on, bill, lets go. He is clapping his hands like to call a dog over. It is kind of funny. Clinton heads up the plane and the bank illegally repossessed four hundred cars owned by active duty members of the military. It took place between 208 and 2010. Wells fargo now force today pay fines up to 24 million. Hey, listen to this, we found a company that will pay you, will pay you to take a vacation. The Software Company reimbursing employees up to 2 you have to move to use where the company is based. A Study Released in june, they left Vacation Days on the table last year. Look, use, im looking up the state fact. It is beautiful. You have the mountain ranges here. Two grand for vacation better. 97 creepy clown sightings. One girl said she saw him and he chased her. Be on the look out. It is already october is, laughing. A clown actually chased her daughter. The girls story matches others across the country. Here is nicole gray. Reporter wednesday morning, she got a call from her daughter. She says, oh my god, i was chased by clowns. Yo her mother met her near the bus stoppy it happened. They seen something in those bushes. Reporter they were right by the small ditch. That is where the creepy clown came from. There it caught her 14yearold off guard. They came out, so they started running. Reporter it is what happened next that took it too far. They popped out and she fell. Reporter it was not just a person with a mask, but the clown was decked out in a yellow suit, red poke ca dots white mask, klair hair something clown was caught on video along a dirt road. The calls are coming. Reporter the Sheriffs Office said the sightings in other states have been fake. If it is, its a big waste of resources. We encourage parents that if their children are going around to harass other people, that is an illegal act. I notice people making light of it, that could be taken lightly. If it was someone elses kid, they would take it seriously. Jo they are trying toind a man who they think was in the clown suit. It is a party with a purpose. It is happening tonight, dancing with the stars to raise hundreds of shanz of dollars for charity. One is kimberley home. The board of directors. First question, most important, what does the kimberley home do . Thank you, james. It is wonderful to be here. We have been providing support services for women, children and family, unplanned pregnancy. It is a relatable situation. We all know someone who could benefit from the kimberley home. Scott, you are here, being a beneficiary, dancing with the stars is raising so much money, do you know what you are going to do with the funds . Absolutely. Transitional housing is one of the things we provide to these women and their children. We bought our 8th house. We are excite today have that as part our campus. It is great to use that money towards that. Expansion is a good thing when that is happening. You were telling me back stage how you were approached about this. Absolutely. Dee came out and they i think they were very happy with what they saw. Because of her background, about 85 of the women that we serve have some kind of abuse in their past, whether it is emotional, physical, and so this touched her heart, too, i think. We try very hard to get women back in a good place, a place of joy and where they can see their future brighter. We have daycare right on our site so moms and babies. We have an Educational Program where we teach them about life ills and anything they need to be a parent. Sofrnths many things you see there that would touch people. They get down it and plug on the heart string physical you will. Absolutely. Did you become why did you get to the board of directors. We are believers in the kimberley home and the wonderful volunteers made it easy when you saw the liv was so anything othr than offer to help. Thank you so much. There is a quick plug. I am honor today be on dancing with the stars, not for dancing but to be apart of the event. Rehearsals, they are doing great. My dad dug this up. It could be proof that i was dancing before i could even walk. We will be right back. Jamie, can you dance . Can you dance . We need music for him to dance. Here, lets turn some music on. . 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Over night we will be on the dry side. Not a ton of coverage. This is a 24 hour loop. We are not getting a ton of rain across the area at any given time. If you are making it a beach day, we we will have dry time. The boat races, good stuff out there. 88 degrees. Or storm, but nothing too impactful. This is all in the direct path of this storm. The u. S. At this point, its unlikely will have a direct impact. We could see on the east coast of florida, some rough seas. It will move up the eastern coastline. Take a look. These are in good agreement. It will be most likely it will stay off shore. Take a look at when we get to the setch day forecast, the impact on our local weather. We are up to 79. 79 in st. Pete. The next two days, think of it as a typical day. Plenty of heat request humidity. The rain chance goes up some for monday and tuesday. Where matthew just pulls the moisture across the state and into the storm. So our rain chances are going down as a result. Tomorrow we will start the day with a few coastal showers. It doesnt look like they bear a ton of carve average. It will be similar to today. A few chances of storms with 40 cover ramming. It will not be a coverage. It will you can get updates on our facebook and twitter feeds. Tailgate. Wow your friends at your next football party. Thats what we are up to. You Better Believe it. He is a chef. I feel like ribs are easy to screw up, yet really easy to do well. Absolutely. Lot of great tailgating food available for any football game, right, the chef is known for his epic tailgating parties. Big thing. Exactly. We will be hosting him monday night at the market. We will talk about that. Tell me about the wings and ribs. Absolutely. It smells amaze nothing here. The nachos will not sit there very long. Oh, specifically for you. I brought jumbo wings. We season them with salt and pepper. Okay. We cooked them in the oven for 45 minutes. You dont need to grill them . Pop them in the oven and go. Absolutely. You can do them on the tabletop grill. Otherwise 45 minutes in the oven. Bbq sauce. I like spicy wings like the next guy, but this takes them to the next level. This is chilly paste. A little bit of so i sauce and honey sauce for sweetness and Crushed Garlic as well. These do have a mild heat. They are floral and have sweetness as well. Dofrnths you do ranch and blue cheese on the side . They are are, but i am a ranch guy at heart. I have that close by as well. Are we plating this . We do. We will go ahead and put these in there. For tailgate food it doesnt have to be picture perfect. We will pile these nice and high. While these are in the oven, you have 45 minutes. You can work on other things, other food prep, clean the bathroom. Ready. All i need is, you know, good friends, plenty of great food and lots and lots of cold beer. Tell me about the monday night party. It is huge. The chef is not always here in tampa, but he is coming back for this event. Of course we are happy to see chef michael. The event will run from 68 30 on the market floor. We have seven food set up. The game is between the giants and the vikings. We have some food that is sort of new york specific, and minnesota specific. Hopefully people will show up on a high when the bucks play. We will post the details on our website at abcactionnews. Com. We will see you back here in all right. 88 degrees as a high. Think of this weekend as just a typical weekend. Hurricane matthew will not have an impact on our weather. We will continue that hefty storm. Through the option now. Does this look fantastic or what . We are keeping the food from the camera. Happy october, everybody. Happy birthday to lindsey. Thank you. Good luck tonight with dancing with the stars. It will live stream. We will post it. If i fall, it will go viral. This is true. Thats what im going for. 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