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Infectious disease specialist dr. Doug holt. There was dean usf health, hes a research, in obgyn. I have to tell you resounding message that was here, this morning was that we know so little about this virus. Were learning more every single day. Its very fluid. But theres so many concerns about what its doing, what it may do, they even likened it to the poe leo outbreak we saw in middle of last century. And when they were talking about this particular virus, saying about some of the microcephaly cases and some of the care for the pregnant women, they say we are already seeing healthcare costs rise. Because theres testing involved. Ultrasound. Sport mechanisms that have to be in place for families to support that. In addition to that, of course we have to remember the mosquito. 80s is one that is front and center right now. This morning, at a mosquito lab right here on usfs campus representative kathy castor, and and i talked to both of them this morning but you will hear dr. David jolly and what he had to say about the funding. Look, i think senate should have accepted the house position they didnt. And so lets pass the rubio nelson compromise today or pass president s plan. Lets just get it done. Important thing is there is consensus he meagering within the florida delegation. Because we understand the urgency. But similar to regional issues like Flood Insurance, its hard to convince the other 49 why is this is so important. Thats why a delegation we have to be united with one voice, to con shall leadership saying lets pass the zika package now. And again, here today they are saying this is not something thats just happening in florida. Its not just happening in South Central america. It is a global crisis. They say its probably going to move to europe in the very, very near future. Again, alcides, weve got a lab for zika. They cant do it because they dont yet have the funding. So again the resounding message here, once again is to get this funded and get on the road to try to stop this, this virus. Yeah lawmaker just have to get on same page ohs this i was just reading oh on that it doesnt seem it is happening any time soon hopefully things will change dr. Jo thanks so much. We appreciate that. Happening right no governor rick scott is holding a News Conference about the zika virus and zika preparedness quite frankly. He is health department. This is actually a live look right now. Hes expected to walk up to the stage at any moment. Miami, of course is front and center in battle against zika. Several people will have contracted the virus from mosquitos and Health Officials say its all within a square mile there in south miami, south florida. Lets see if, well it looks looks like hes not walking to stage any time soon. Lets give you statistics here. Number of zika cases in florida 18 travel related cases were reported thursday along with two more local cases in miamidade county. There are now more than 500 cases right here in the sunshine state. And of course, the problem isnt just south florida. They are all over the map. Including some cases right here in the bay area. As of today, at least 54 cases, polk county has most of them with 16 cases. Hillsborough right behind with 14. And of course, you just heard dr. Jo talk about lack of federal funding is also a big, bigon so well continue following this story, and if Governor Scott walks up to the stage well make sure to break in and see what he has to say. Meanwhile scientist are looking for people willing to be infected with the zika virus. Its to speed up development of a vaccine for the virus. Researchers in the u. S. Have already started safely testing two vaccine candidates and experimental shots are set for testing as well. But human challenge studies here is completely different. People actually agree to deliberately be injected with the virus, while scientists track how their bodies react. Those who agree must of course be healthy and not pregnant. And they will be monitored after the study is all over. All right switching gears following news alert slow going along northbound hillsborough avenue. Skyfox flew over an accident involving a motorcycle and semitrailer. Near 50th street. Truck driv motorcyclist ran into a trailer. Semidriver wasnt hurt motorcyclist from what we understand is in critical condition. And tampa police have made an arrest in a brutal, brutal attack. Carlos corp der ro of tampa was taken into custody earlier this morning. Hes accused of attacking. An 81yearold man in his leaving him there with severe head injuries. Officers say he stole the mans car after the attack. He was arrested. Morning. Also new this afternoon st. Pete detectives arrest a second person in a deadly shooting outside a library michael bury was arrested last night while 9 11 chamber was arrest earlier this week. Police say they plan to a rob the men when they met in the parking lot for a drug deal. Police say murry shot both of them, one of the men died. And here in tampa, a shooting at an apartment complex not too far away from downtown. Leaves one person d littered with bullets. Fox 13s ken suarez has latest. What terrible morning for people who live in oak hurst square apartments. It started very, very early. Actually overnight. 2 00 a. M. In the morning they hear gunfire. A number of people get up and they call 911. They go outside, and they find a young guy, neighbors tell me it less than 21 years old. He has been shot. Hes bleeding. There are also bullet holes in two separate cars. One through the windshield, and other car, it was into the door. Here. In the meantime emergency workers arrive. They take this young man to hospital somewhere along line and were not sure where, he unfortunately dies. At this point were presuming gunman is on loose could more than one person. But there are certainly more questions. Many more questions than answers. We have only thing we know is we have one dead person, we know hes very, very young, people here, wondering why did this happen. It doesnt have to happen. But it did. Thats about it tou im sure tampa police were will release more information. But this at this point, is just a tragedy with more questions than answers. Ken suarez reporting there. Meanwhile an fsu College Student is charged with first greed murder after stabbing a couple to death and then biting the mans face. Police say Austin Harrouff stabbed couple in garage on monday night. By time police arrived, they say a neighbor was also stabbed. He was released from the hospital yesterday. Drug tests havent shown any street drugs in his system. But, test hallucinogens taking a little bit longer to come back. Right now heavily sedated. A hospital. More than 900 students didnt go to school in orlando this morning after a man post ad message on twitter threatening to shoot students and put bike bombs on campuses. 4 high school and a middle school were named in threats. The f. B. I. Is looking into them. But doesnt think they are credible at all. Theres man who was arrested. Investigators say hes 23 years old and transient who lived in florida, virginia. Maryland and california. A task force will meet today to talk about the author g Dozier School for boys. Several former students accused School Officials of abuse after a lengthy investigation. Grew now tasked with figuring out where to place memorial for school. And secondly, where to bury unclaimed remains dug up during that investigation. Right out in task force is split on both of those topics. Heads up, purple flags are flying high at clearwater beach. Thats because sting way rays solution for that. Of course just do sting ray shuffle. Slide your feet along the sand instead of taking big steps. It sends vibrations to scare away sting rays life guards say on wednesday, ten treated for minor injuries. New a noon american swim ryan lochte apologizes for his behavior during the rio olympics. He issued his apology today on the instagram account. It comes after brazilian polic say he lied about an arment robberially sunday morning he says he should be more careful in how he described the events. The u. S. Olympic committee is also apologizing for the ordeal. Other swimmers as well. And as fox 13s steve hair began explains the whole ordeal leaves a lot of people disappointed. U. S. Olympic swimmers jack conger and a gunnar bentz are back on american soil after being planed off plane in brazil a day earlier. Two testified about an alleged robbery involving ryan lochte and another member of the swim team which Brazilian Police say was made up james feigen is only one of the four still in brazil. To get the swimmer out of the country after donation to charity is made. Brazilian law concedes in light of crimes the possibility of reaching an agreement before the criminal prosecution. After a long deliberation, this agreement was reached. He will donate 10,800 usd to an institute and with that the case is resolved. Brazilian Police Released security vird they say shows the in rio. The police started investigating after 4 swimmers claim they had robbed by gunman impersonating Police Officers early sunday. The incident leaving a bad impression abroad as well as with those at home. The apology should go to rio residents who saw the name of the city tainted by a fantasy version of facts. We know it was fantasy, we know that robbery did not happen. When you have doing things then they, exhibit negative behavior, it kind of makes all of us look bad. U. S. Officials have publicly apologized to brazil the distraction caused by american athletes. In rio, steve harrigan, fox news. Theres new parking at the International Space station. Two astronauts finished installing new docking adapter earlier this morning. One is . Designedtodockwith future commercial cruise designed by spacex. They lightning along with boeing plan to resume human launch out Cape Canaveral in next year or two zika is become a problem not only here in florida but parts of california as well. What authorities are doing to kill those mosquitos. And of course, you have jim tracking your forecast for you. Good afternoon, jim, you know we have been pretty busy all week long with scattered showers and thunderstorms during afternoon. Some mret big ones over the past several days. Now things are starting to change. Weve got a lot of dry air, thats worked its state. Wind is starting to change directions so rain will be a little harder to come by over next several days as you look outside right now beautiful view from our all Childrens Hospital camera you can see clouds off in San Diego County Officials Say the city will begin spraying pesticides. Its after welcome back San Diego County Officials Say the city will begin spraying pesticides after mosquitos were foundz in the area that are known to carry the zika virus. Foxx Felicia Martinez has costa rica and guadalajara shows symptoms of a possible mosquito born illness. Diarrhea that was like, i went, rafting i figured i swalloweded water. I had some body aches and pains, but thats, you know, again, maybe i slept wrong, you know, everything had an excuse. And then, i, i had conjunctivitis in both eyes, pink eye thats when they raised the question, so thats when i for it as a result of his symptoms county of san diego Vector Control inspector surveyed mans neighborhood and found 80s mosquito larvae nearby a preventative county started hanging up signs and fliers thursday. Notifying residents about the potential risk. They say they plan to spray on friday. Well go to houses in that area check all yards look are for any breeding going on ask try to eliminate breeding that area between 31st and 32nd street. Grate and elm treat residents shoulds alled take prevent itchy measure things like wearing mosquito repellent and tossing out what atracks mosquitos having people be vigilant dumped out screened off or otherwise capped off so mosquito karpt get to is huge benefit to stopping breeding from going on meanwhile resident tells us hes also be advised to follow certain guidelines. They want me to wear long sleeves, and pants and avoid any areas that have mosquitos. For women, women who intend on being pregnant in the next year. Some people are heading back home. Back home, back to their homes in california after being forced to flee after huge fire there. Most residents are still being told to stay away from that area. But some who need to get important medications and other emergency items are actually being escorted back. Unfortunately, many will be returning to major damage. The fire began it still not clear yet what caused it. Or wildfires out west. For quite some time now. Looks like unfortunately they will dealing with it for a while longer. Yeah. You know, theyve got wildfires out west. Youve got the huge flooding across louisiana. So, you know lots going on. For us though you know weve had a lot of storms during the afternoon hours. Over past several days. You can set your watch to some of these big storms youre having during the late to mid to now were changing things around. As alook at the visible satellite loop really seas nice looking today fury watching this over past couple of days by this time were start to see more clouds developing over the state. Where we get more heating. Now kind of hard to see. You can see couple little scattered clouds there east coast sea breeze as well. But the winds are a bit lighter today. A ridge of High Pressure settling down over us. And also, youre seeing more and more of this dry air. That red shade, that all dry air in the atmosphere. So that combined with High Pressure coming down o just going to limit our rain chances as we go through the next several days. A you look at skytower radar, really not much going on. Weve had a couple showers out into the gulf of mexico. You really not seeing much motion with those. So those are going to stay out over the water. And then, as you head out into over towards sea sebring you can see scattered showers trying, trying to pop up. Now, right now, temperatures warming up pretty quickly. Here in tampa 87 degrees. Wesley chapel at 90. St. Petersburg currently sits at 84 degrees. And High Pressure there, you see that ridge, basically right over the state. A couple of days ago sitting right about here. So we had that good easterly flow across the state. Now as it pushes a bit further to south you get much lighter winds. And eventually going to shift a bit further to the south. And well pick up more of westerly wind. That means any wayne rain we do get comes earlier in day tend to work their way into interior and over on towards the other side of the now, we are talking about at tropics. Its a that time of year where things really start to heat up. Once you get towards say middle to the end of august, heading into september. The peak of season being september ternt. That one will continue to struggle as we go through next several days. Lot of dry air surrounding this system. Then that orange shade, thats an area we will have to watch as we go through next couple of days. Because right there, that is expecting much out of the system. But over next five days. Thats 50 percent chance. That we could see something developing. And notice the track, not moving to the north. Its moving more towards the west as we go through next couple of days. Talk about feeney, latest accord unanimouses on this 17. 8 north. Top winds right now at 45 miles an hour. That might be a little bit on generous side right now basically continue to weaken as it moves over open waters. Atlantic dealing with more dry air as we several days. But as you look invest 99, look at all computer models, very good agreement, basically on that. Continuing on that w. Westerly track. Theres a number of computer models that we look at to kind of get an idea what these systems can do. We have gfs weve got european. As you look gfs this is just one of the ideas, what could happen. And you know weve got two very good models gfs shows Something Like this. I got to tell you european is not picking up on this and so this a long range forecast. Something were going to have to continue to watch and tweak as we go through the next several days. But the idea is this could be heading towards islands and eventually curving more towards the north. Obviously, this is a very long range forecast. Were talking about a system that really hasnt even developed just yet. But keep an eye on it as we go through the weekend. You can log on to www. Myfoxhurricane. Com ask tra 92 degrees isolated storm. Warm and muggy for tonight. Overnight low of 79. Then for tomorrow, showers, just an isolated mainly throughout interior high tide comes up at 3 12. The extended marine forecast showing winds becoming more out of a westerly direction as we go through the next several days. Sevenday forecast, there you see that rain chance, down about 30 percent. Through the weekend, alcides. Jim, thank you. Ear earlier, zika preparedness. Asking center for Disease Control for the following, initial 5,000 zika anti body test kits. This will insure we can quickly test people for the virus. Additional lab support ep help us expedite zika testing. An additional 10,000 eeks kits these are essential for pregnant women. I repeatedly called on the federal government for these additional test kits and to date today weve not received Additional Resources for them. We also like detailed plan from Obama Administration on how they would like us to work on with fema. Now this has mosquito born in our state. I usually ask for this on june 1st. And request it by june 15th. Still havent received it i repeatedly called on the president for this. Just like we did in wynwood, countys already begun, an indication plan that includes additional spraying in miami beach. Ive also directed the department of health to contract with private companies to assist the county in this effort. We will continue to work the countys Mosquito Control district, and the department of agriculture and Consumer Services to insure we are utilizing all resources for mosquito abatement. The department of health will also be doing extensive and strategic testing to identify any other people who may have contracted the zika virus. Tourism is a driving force of our economy. So again that is Governor Scott speaking right now in miamidade county. Hes asking federal lawmakers for additional funds to fight zika virus. Right now there are about 500 cases here in state of florida. About 50 or so here in the bay area as well. We will continue our zika i think everyones home becomes a part of them or takes on their character. And you lose so much of that stuff in the flood that made the house your home. You just cannot imagine how much damage a little bit of water can do. And if i would have had to float the cost of repairs. Id have probably lost the house. The Flood Insurance allows me to put my house back together. Llary clinton and i ap now where were know where the these were mat ity and theyre doing great. . S . Offcamera voice the shake up ps Campaign Shake campaign continueshai reconstrucgn Leadership Team campaign mag manafort a putin was a deeper than during a r night, himself seemed to recognize this and tried to take a softer tack. Sometimes in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you dont choose the right words or you say the wrong thing. I have done that. With just 81 days left until the election, analysts say this change in approach could a wise move where at embattled republican nominee. Kelly anne conway said donald trump is indeed the under dog. And you have to embrace your role if youre going to change it. In keeping with his more compassionate tone trump and running mate are in louisiana today touring the flood ravaged state. In washington, lauren blanchard, fox news. Locked inside an unable to get out. Ahead the robbers who got more than what they bargained for. New Jersey Transit buses. New Jersey Transit buses. The investigation is under way hey mom, i could use some basil. New Jersey Transit buses. The investigation is under way oh, sure thing, sweetie. Life is eating out of a flower pot. Wait wheres the . Right. Its being a food paparazzi. Honey, your rump roast just broke the internet. As it should. And a takeout romantic. Dessert happy anniversary. Life is mucho, and grande. Life is eating, laughing, loving and a place to enjoy it together. David was proud to be an american soldier. And i know im prejudiced because he was my son, but i dont think he had a mean bone in his body. There is not a day that i dont think about david. 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A corn dog with 7 grams of protein makes a big appetite go away. Foster farms corn dogs. Hey everybody im Charley Belcher coming to you from a tampa bay downs. Where a during wintertime where horses race. Theres a start gate down there but, while time of here during humans will be actually racing on this track. Or an at least a portion september 17th for gre charley is here from Tampa Bay United Soccer Club. That who is who this charity will benefit. And lets tell everybody what is Tampa Bay United Soccer Club . One the soccer clubs thats in area. We have a regs creational socker that starts a 4. About 9 they have competitive sock other continuous recreational soccer. About 2500 members. Kids that play from 4 to 18. Nice. And great exercise and great sport. Getting more and more popular here in america. Good to see that happening course. And you like to try to offer scholarships for kids who want to play and cant afford to. You have to have fundraiser september 17th, the big deal is going to be this hoofing it 5 k that 150 yards will be right here in race track. Right finish at the finish line prize will be given Winners Circle but one big group. So a lot of 5 ks you do couple loops or out there on streets. Roads that go by stables all over this plac huge complex. Beautiful grounds here. That will be a fun just to read that to see grounds. To finish on track its cool. We dont think everybody has done that out here. Never done if coordinating to coordinating to understood years and never had foot race. Two footed race. Thats right. Now weve got a lots of other things planned for that day including a soccer benefitting soccer soccer balls out here you will do foot golf. Foot golf they are kicking soccer ball right there. 18 holes. There will be four par 3 action one loop around about a mile and carr. And it should be a fun time. And you can have up to six. We have about 90 tee times and you can gel them on tvusc. Com. Just like golf although youre playing with soccer ball you will have hole in one qualifying competition that ultimateth win million dollars. Thursday or friday night the 16th and then all day saturday one person per hour will qualify to get one chance on a p course to be named we will do that later in the fall. If you put a hole in one in you get a million dollars, but its 25,000 for four years. That saves on taxes. Youre also going to soccer ball drop with squishying soccer balls from helicopter then we have 2200. Not going to drop all at the same time. 11 drops. And 200 each. The top 11, top winners on each of those 11 then will get a big soccer ball closing to pin if winner. Im sure there be food and music and fun. Sounds like a great family event september 17th, tampa bay downs. Right on race track road. Just north of oldsmar. And this Little Corner of hillsborough county. For more information go to www. Fox13news. Com, well take care of you or if you can remember it tbusc. Com. Tampa bay united soccer club. Thats what c stands for and all the information you need to regist come out have good time they will welcome you. Thank you very much. All right Charley Belcher, fox 13 news. Okay look charley back drop. What gorgeous day outside. Yeah. You know the thing we will pretty much stay that way throughout day because rain chances they are dropping. So you know weve sit setting our watch over past several days big thunderstorms during the afternoon. Just going to kind of hard to find those today. And really throughout much of the weekend. Boulevard, looking to the west, you doe see some a little bit of vertical development to those clouds. So cant completely rule out seeing any showers today. But really the rain chances, over the last several days weve in that 40 to 50 percent range. Probably more like about a 30 percent chance of those showers and thunderstorms for this afternoon. Its warming up though. Over in brandon youre a 91 degrees. Here in tampa 87. Downtown st. Petersburg, 84 degrees. Sarasota, checks in at 90 degrees. You head up to New Port Richey and cle an 89 degrees. Big thing thats changed over the past several days, is that ridge of High Pressure has been sitting well to our north. So weve had a pretty strong easterly flow across the state. Plenty of moisture. So we get this big thunderstorms during the afternoon. Now this is start to sink a bit further to southat the same time a lot of dry air starting to kind of work its way over the state. So that tends to suppress those showers and thunderstorms. Now, its august. Tends to find a way to at least produce some shower activity. Thats why we will go ahead and keep that rain chance in as we go through the next several days. But eventually as we get towards middle of next week that ridge will breakdown and get back to better chance of storms. Now were watching the tropics. This here, that Tropical Storm feeney. This is invest 99. Had big flareup convectin. Actual center is located right about there. A little spin in this system. And these are going to be areas we will watch over next several days got dry air around the system. Winds right now are 45 miles an hour. Going to continue to basically weaken out over open waters as we head through the weekend. Into the first part of next week. But now with all the other one invest 99, watching this closely because you see the computer models that general idea that continues to move towards the west. Over the next several days. Then, we look at lot of different computer models get an idea what systems can do. Both very good computer models. Here is the gfs because youre watching basically keeps this system together now. As it heads towards the islands we start to get a real intensification of this system. This could make its way into the caribbean, could go a bit further to north. Obviously something we will watch very closely over next several days. I got to tell you as you look european model were not seen as an aggress intention fiction. Weve got two very reliable. Two very good models getting two very different answers. So obviously this something we will continue to watch and tweak as we go through next several days. Back closer to home, you can see just random showers as we go through the afternoon. They will continue to be mainly throughout interior as we pick up more of a westerly flow as we go through the next couple of days. That rain chance along 0 n low side for weekend. Hot, humid, isolated storm for today. Daytime high of 92 degrees. Warm, muggy for tonight. Overnight low of 79. For tomorrow rain chances a bit daytime high of 91 degrees. Now on the water, high tide comes u up 3 12 this afternoon marine forecast showing more of a west or southwesterly wind. And seas rniight around two feet with light chop on the bay. 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