Today in polk county a teacher accused of having sex with . Several of her teenage students is back in court. And shes planning to ask the judge. For a lesser sentence. Jennifer fichter was first arrested back in 2014, Florida Aerospace academy in lakeland. . Two more students later came forward. She was sentenced to 22 years in prison. On more than . Thirty charges. Today. Her lawyer is arguing to . Reduce that sentence for several reasons one. They claim the boys were . Willing participants. And two. They claim fichter has Mental Health issues, and she cant get the appropriate . Treatment in prison. Governor scott . Finally goes to washington today. Hes planning to meet with congress to pressure them to pass new zika funding. The governor originally planned to head up there last week. As soon as congress returned from their seven week break. He had to delay that. To deal with hurricane hermine. The governor will be in dc today and tomorrow. Florida is the state most affected by the zika virus right now. With more than five . Hundred cases. And congress could be getting . Closer to passing that zika funding. President obama just met with lawmakers on monday to work out a spending bill. The president is expected to get most of the funding hes asked to help fight the spread of the zika virus. Current funding ends september 30th, the end of the governments fiscal year. And Congress Needs to pass that spending bill to avoid another government shutdown. And new numbers released by the Florida Department of health. Show there are 8 . New nontravel related cases of the zika virus. Theyre located in miamidade and palm beach. That brings the total number of . Nontravel related cases to 64. There are also 621 travel related cases. Infections involving pregnant a woman who caused a massive pileup on the Courtney Campbell causeway. Is now expected to face charges for it. The crash injured eight people. And two toddlers remain in the hospital. Police say 23 year old julie gough was distracted when she reached for a gatorade bottle on the floor of her vehicle. They say her car slammed into a van that had stopped at an intersection. Police say gough is cooperating with their investigation. Hoping . This surveillance video. Helps catch an arsonist. The man targeted a mosque on sunday, on the anniversary of september 11th. And it was the . Same mosque once attended by omar matteen. The shooter in the orlando terror attack. Officials are investigating the fire as a possible hate crime. Theyre asking for help from the fbi and the federal bureau of acohol, tobacco and firearms. Theyre still not sure if . This man is the arsonist. Or was just in the area. Right now they just want to ask him questions. Deputies in pasco county are searching fo this morning. Who . Shot a man during a road rage incident. Jake everitt says he feels fortunate to be alive. His girlfriends car is riddled with holes from that shotgun blast. She was driving down state road 54 with everitt in the passenger seat. Everitt isnt exactly sure what they did to anger the driver in front of them. He says that person slammed on their brakes twice brakechecking them. Both cars later pulled into a walmart parking lot off let them pass. Then fired a shotgun at them. His window was rolled down and one of the pellets went into his arm an xray of everitts arm shows the pellet is still lodged in it. He says doctors believe its safer to leave it in there, rather than try to remove it. Deputies say the shooter was driving a dark suv. With a rack on the roof. There was also a dog in the passengers seat. Anyone with information is asked to call the Pasco Sheriffs Office or crimestoppers. Which is offering a three . Thousand dollar reward. Ever find an unexpected charge. In your Checking Account . Well several teco customers just did. And were not just talking a few dolllars. Were talking a few . Thousand dollars. And customers tried to pay for . One month, and they were then charged for all . 12 months of the year. It happened to pretty much . Everyone who paid their teco bills this past sunday. It was a computer glitch from the vendor teco uses to process bills. Teco didnt give the name of the payment processor. They just said its based in tampa and has had a Longstanding Partnership with teco. We talked to one customer, connie johnson. After making her payment sunday, she first got concerned when teco sent her . Several confirmation emails. Then. She was overcharged about 35 . Hundred dollars teco promises to cover any Overdraft Fees and make customers quote, whole again. But they havent glitch is fixed, teco says it cant accept . Any bill payments. If your bill is due, dont worry. For the time being, teco is waiving late fees. A teenager in north florida just had a scary encounter. Because of snapchat he used the app to try and sell his watch. But instead. He was robbed and . Stabbed. Ocala police say the 17yearold agreed to meet the potential buyer at a parking lot saturday night to close the deal. But when the time came the buyer never got out of the car. Pointing a gun at the sellers head and demanding his watch. They also had knives. But that didnt stop the seller from trying to fight back police dont think the teen knew his attackers. No arrests have been made. The sun will rise again, on the sunset music festival. The Tampa Sports Authority confirmed the news monday after meeting with show debate over bringing it back, after this years festival had two deaths and more than fifty hospitalizations. All linked to drug use. The festival says it was already a drug free zone. But they plan to add extra enforcement next year. Thats one of several changes the Sports Authority requested. Before allowing the festival to return to Raymond James stadium. They also have to increase medical services and have more water and hydration stations. Today in pasco county the cleanup . Still continues. From hurricane hermine. Even a week and a half later. There is stil several homes still heavily damaged. And this morning. One home in hudson is getting repairs, thanks to one amazing community. The home has been completely devastated by hurricane hermine. Everything from the floor to the roof has been damaged. Its gotten so bad that the family cant even live there anymore. Theyve been getting help from the red cross. But that help actually runs out on thursday. So the community has pitched in, to help the family rebuild. Theyll be at the home starting at five this morning to help with the there . Live for the whole process. Fox 13s ken suarez will join us . Live from the neighborhood, coming up in our next half hour. The kaepernick controversy continues. The quarterback just took the field last night, in his first regular season game. Coming in sports why the reaction from his . Home crowd. Was pretty surprising. And after the break a new mission. For an american hero. But this isnt going back to space. Hes going to . Hollywood. Z247kz zy6z move over sully. Another reallife hero is about to get his own movie. And you knew it was only a matter of time before this happened. Astronaut scott kelly. Will soon be getting the big screen treatment. Sony just bought the production rights to his story. Which scott will talk about in his upcoming memoir. Its called endurance my year in space. Kelly spent 340 . Consecutive days in space. At the International Space station. More than anyone else in nasa history. Kelly will be a producer on brother, mark kelly, and marks wife. Former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords youll have to wait a while for the movie though. The . Book doesnt even come out, for another . Year. Storm clouds are common this time of year, but check this out. Cindy gilmore snapped this picture of what looks like a funnel cloud forming in new port richey. But this is actually a low hanging scud cloud. walter cloud. Thought a . Hurricane was bad. How about a . Super typhoon. Thats whats swirling on the other side of the world right now. Lets head over to lindsay right now with time to talk some sports this morning. And the first week of the nfl came to an end. With a rare double header on monday night football. It all wrapped up, after . One this morning. Of course they didnt mind. Since this game was on the west coast. The san hosting the . Los angeles rams. This is the rams first year back in la, after playing in st. Louis. And the rams had a pretty rough welcome back. The niners literally . Ran all over them. They had three rushing touchdowns, including two from carlos hyde. And the rams put up a goose egg. Getting shutout, 28 to nothing. The rams had 185 . Total yards of offense. 49ers backup quarterback Colin Kaepernick entered the game in the final two minutes. And he actually got . Booed by his home crowd. And heres the reason why. Before the game, his National Anthem protest continued. He took a knee. While everyone else stood up. Teammate eric reid joined him this time. Several players on the rams side also protested during the song. Raising their fists in the air. There were similar protests throughout the league on sunday. And the . First monday redskins. And this one wasnt even close. Mostly thanks to steelers wide reciever antonio brown. Making catches like this all night. And the touchdown dance. Yup hes twerking. and yup. He was fined. The team also got a 15 yard penalty for excessive celebration. Didnt matter. Brown had . Two touchdowns on the night and the steelers dominated all four quarters. Winning the game 38 to 16. Diamond now. Where the rays just started a series with the jays last night up in toronto. And this one was a pitching duel. Until the sixth inning. One on for torontos jose bautista. And that one is . Not coming back. Its deep and over the left field wall. Blue jays up 2zip. The rays would later tie it up off two solo home runs of their own. First from evan longoria. Then brad miller evens it up with a shot to center field. Torontos ezequiel carrera. Pinch hitting. Deep into the left field corner. Game winner. Jays take game 1. 32. When we come back, lindsay will have another check on your tuesday forecast. And. Donald trump now has a new . Home on pennsylvania avenue. But its not . White. After the break. A look inside his new hotel in our nations capitol. And why you may have to be we have a news alert for you right now out of sarasota. Deputies there are on the scene of a deadly shooting. It happened on the 18hundred block of rita street, thats just west of us 41. We know one man is dead and deputies have accounted for everyone that was involved. The shooting happened just before 2 30 this morning. We have a crew on the way to the scene and we wil as we get it in. And heres a quick of the stories making headlines across america. And we begin with another Police Officer . Shot in the line of duty. It happened last night in detroit. Thankfully. That officer . Is alive this morning. The shooting happened just before midnight at a gas station in the citys seven mile road. This is a photo taken at the scene. A Police Supervisor went to the area after getting a report that a carjacking suspect was there. And when the officer approached, the man and fired. Hitting the officer in the shoulder. Other officers quickly arrested the gunman. The officer was rushed to the hospital, and is expected to make a full recovery. A memorial last night in memphis, tennessee. For a family . Killed in a house fire. The victims included three adults and . Six children. And a . Seventh child. An eightyearold boy. . Barely survived. Investigators believe the fire started because of a faulty power cord on a window ac unit. That was working overtime to cool the house. The house . Did have a on every window. And the fire was . Blocking the front door. So the family had no way to escape. At last check, the family says that surviving child is on life support and in critical condition. The us military is giving a show of strength to north korea today. Us bombers just flew over the skies of south korea in low altitude. It was right by a south korean air base. Many think the u0s wanted to give a show of force and . North koreas latest nuclear test. The launch sparked fear in several neighboring countries. North korea was . Already facing un sanctions for previous tests. An update on the health scare for hillary clinton. She says she plans to get back on the campaign trail in a couple of days. Shes been recovering from pneumonia since last week. The illness had her leave a 911 Anniversary Event sunday, and video showed her . Collapse getting into a waiting car. Clinton said she was weak. Because we went . Against her Doctors Orders to rest. Sh stops through today. And when asked . Why the campaign didnt disclose clintons illness earlier. She said she didnt think it was a big deal at the time. And on the republican side. Donald trump has some new digs in washington dc. But its not the white house. Not yet anyway. On monday, he held a soft opening for the new Trump International hotel. Its right on pennyslvania avenue, just five blocks from the white house. The building was formally the citys Old Post Office before rennovation. The hotels . Offical grand opening is next month, just a few weeks before election day. Rooms start at around 900 dollars a night. And thats expensive. Even for . Dc standards. Still ahead a family was trying to protect themselves from the zika virus. But the one thing they . Didnt protect. 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