lindsay no closed captioning is vanessa developing this morning in Pinellas County a possible health risk for students, at a charter school. jen parents are getting increasingly worried about . Mold at the largo campus of plato academy. jen it all started with some disturbing pictures. Showing what appears to be mold. There are some questions over . When those pictures were taken. The school ceo says earlier in the summer. Parents say in the last few weeks. But documents officials gave fox13 show the mold is gone. But parents worry it could be . Hidden. I thought my children were safe here and to know that their Overall Health and well being is being compromised is very very upsetting and very frustrating as a parent. Jen the school is replacing broken air conditioning units. Theyre trying to be proactive and preventative in treating this. As well as . Fast. vanessa detectives in Pinellas County say a father put his baby daughter in great danger. And now hes facing charges for it. Vanessa Douglas fountain was busted for dui. While his baby was in the car. Deputies were tipped off by someone who knows fountain, and told them he was using drugs. And driving his pickup truck. With his baby in the front seat. Deputies his baby was strapped into her car seat. Next to him. Detectives found crystal meth next to the babys bottle. Along with a glass pipe and several knives. Hes charged with dui, child abuse, and drug possession, among others. The baby is now with Child Protection investigators. jen new this morning a new Awareness Campaign hopes to . Drive home the risks, of texting while behind the wheel. And its not pulling any punches. A new video. Definitely gets the point jen fox13s Alcides Segui is live in tampa on the story for us. Alcides distracted driving is a huge problem. With potentially tragic circumstances. But maybe this time, people jen thanks, alcides. Pasco detectives are searching for the thieves who stole tens of thousands of dollars worth of boat motors from a business in hudson. They broke into pelican marine on us 19 wednesday night. Officials say a ford f150 dropped off several people. Who broke in and stole 5 yamaha outboard motors from four boats. That truck came back with an excursion nearly 3 hours later. The thieves then loaded the motors into both vehicles. Some of them weighing nearly anything. Call the sheriffs office. vanessa happening today. Football returns to Raymond James stadium. jen the bucs are hosting the browns in the first preseason home game of the season. Fans will notice a few changes at the stadium. Including extra security. jen fox13s Shayla Reaves is live outside ray jay anchor jen good news. Your trip through the airport should be a lot quicker, next time you travel. vanessa what the . Airlines did, to speedup those long, annoying security lines. walter and. This will . Perk you up turns out. Your coffee cravings arent just . Habit. The joy of java. Is in your . Blood. Im not jumping through hoops for a sale. A limited time only . Ill tell you whose time is limited. Coupons, really . Im still looking for their socks. Seriously, you want me to hurry . Oh sure, let me just drop everything for your one day sale. At t. J. Maxx, marshalls and homegoods, weve always offered amazing prices on the brands you love, every day. Time now is 5 xx. A day of rememberance today for a local news station in roanoake, virginia. Today marks one year since wdbj reporter alison parker. And her photographer adam ward. Were shot and killed on air. Alison was interviewing the head of the citys chamber of commerce. When Vester Lee Flanagan opened fire at least eight times. Flannagan was a former reporter. Who was fired two years earlier. Today the station plans to hold a there will also be offair tributes to both alison and adams lives. Alisons boyfriend chris parker remains at the station as an evening anchor. He wont be there today instead taking some time off with family members and close friends. vanessa remember those monster long lines, at Airport Security a few weeks ago. Theyre gone. Part of it is summers over. And fewer people are flying. But the improvements started before then. Tsa beefedup staffing. And three of the nations biggest airlinesamerican, united, pitched in to fund that effort. And airports hired contractors to pickup bins and direct lines, so ts a workers could focus on screening. jen new this morning. If youre one of those people who just cant function without multiple cups of coffee blame your genes. Researchers looked at peoples dna and asked how much coffee they drank. They found people who drank less coffee than average. All had they break down caffeine slower. Meaning it stays in the body longer. So that one cup of coffee might be enough for some. While others will need to drink up to get that same bolt of energy. anchors its now 5 . . Time it is 5 . . time now to find out whats happening on the roads with our skyfox on time traffic. No closed vanessa the zika virus is a valid concern here in florida. And not just for pregnant women and children. jen later this hour the effort to keep everyone safe and healthy. At florida theme parks. jen and. Final frontier . Lots of people had lots of problems, when frontier they straightened out . Up next, we go right to the vanessa . Aquisition . Anxiety. When frontier took over for verizon, customers complained about everything from . Slow service. To . No service. vanessa so now that its been a few weeks, are the growing still getting a lot of calls and emails. From people upset over frontier service. So fox13 consumer reporter, sorboni banerjee, took those questions. Straight to the company. Frontiers takeover of verizon this past spring had an admittedly rough starta and customers are still contacting fox13 with complaints about service or issues getting refunds so we went inside frontiers facilities to learn what exactly went wrong with the transition. Same facilities . Yes. Same employees . Yes. Same fibers same wires . Yes. So the only thing thats diff for people is . . It is the tools and new systems we had to learn when we transitioned over so sometimes software didnt talk to each other frontiers senior vp for florida says the software discrepancies came from updates and changes to the systems 440 million lines of data that took place over the past 12 yearsisnt that something frontier should have was a lot of testing we would have liked to have done more. A flash cut is an immediate change in a complex system with no phasein perioda but frontier had done a years worth of testing ahead of that moment. We did not expect it to happen til it happened what happened was an outage of phone service so bad, that customers called the attorney general to demand compensation from frontier. Why did it get to the level the company had to hear from ag pam bondi . Once we assessed the issues and looked at the trends and what was necessariy then we were going to evaulate giving customers credit what she did was ask that we give customers credit immediately when the transition first happened there were more than 16oo complaints to the ag. That was back in may it went down to 500 in june 300 in july and just under 200 in august, not all are related to the transition so where do we stand today . For those of you complaining about Customer Service . Frontier blames a decision to initially use offshore call centers but says theyre now back in the United States slow highspeeed internet . It has to be analyzed on a case by case basis. To see if its related to someones personal router. Or extra traffic getting clogged in frontiers servers for any number of reasons from scheduled maintainance to bad weathe theyve credited everyone for the initial time they spent without services but pam bondis office has sent out letter to frontier asking them to address a new spike in complaints regarding billing issues and trouble getting refunds. Melanie if a customer has a situation that comes up they are not we will do everything to make sure that happens as quickly vanessa trouble reports are down. From 47 thousand in may to 20thousand by july. Frontier reps say thats a sign that theyre heading in the right direction. And yes, some people are still problems. But like the regional vp said, its casebycase, now. jen for 15years, he was part of our fox13 family. This morning, a sad farewell to a talented journalist. Who made all of us. Proud to . Work and . Live here. jen plus. Ready for some football . Its a whole new game for the bucs. And their fans. Up next the new upgrades at ray jay. Hillary clinton im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Bob kidder, owner, new England Shirt Company this factory has been here since eighteen eightythree. We have ts come from china, his suits from mexico, his coats from india. Trumps products have been made in twelve other countries because he says theres no place in america that he can make them. Well there is. You know donald trump says hell make America Great again while . . Know youre budgeted for the expected, and the unexpected. Know that at least the process of buying a new home can be clear and simple. Know your investing can make retirement closer than you think. Know. Althe guidan, because when you hav vanessa its 5 , on friday, august 26th. Im vanessa ruffes. jen and im jen epstein. Hope youre ready to roar tonight is the first . Home game of the bucs preseason. Stadium. jen fox13s Shayla Reaves is at rayjay. Where there are lots of upgrades for jen thanks, shayla. jen the time now is 5 . . Lets get you up to the minute on todays top stories nine people are recovering this morning after a scary day at the florida mall in orlando. People heard a loud series of . Popping sounds, and then an alarm. They thought it was gunshots, and lives. Thankfully, it was just a misunderstanding. The sounds were caused by balloons popping. During an inspection of joey fatones new restaurant. But the panic started a stampede, and thats when people got hurt. jen the Florida Supreme Court handsdown the ultimate punishment in a dui setup scandal. All three tampa attorneys involved. Are permanently disbarred. Stephen diaco, robert adams and Adam Filthaut were all found to have setup rival Attorney Phil campbell in order to have him arrested fo used a legal assistant and a Tampa Police Sergeant helped them do it. State Supreme Court justices described what they did as shocking. Unethical. And unprofessional. jen a sad farewell to a member of the fox13 family. Larry elliston passed away thursday morning. He was a reporter here for 15years. From the late 70s to 1992. He roamed the state for his assignment florida, series. Bringing us stories from key west, to pensacola. He also hosted downhome tvt, larry worked with jack hanna. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. vanessa we talk about it all the time. How dangerous it is to text and drive. But people still do it. Now, a new Campaign Hopes to finally get the message across. With brutal honesty. vanessa fox13s Alcides Segui is on the story for us. Alcides. Hopefully, this will make the difference. It affects all of us. alcides take cg3 one in 5 drivers surf the web55 of young adults claim its easy to text and drive77 are very somewhat confident they can text safely while driving in 2011, 23 of all collisions vanessa thanks, alcides. vanessa so, has it been a long week . Do you need a good laugh . We can help. jen lets take a look back at some of the . Lighter moments of the week, in todays good day goodies. 0005 good day jen its supposed to be the . Happiest place on earth. But there are some serious concerns at disney, and other theme parks this morning. vanessa what . Theyre doing. To keep everyone safe from the . Zika virus, when we come back. vanessa and. She could have made millions. But olympic gold medalist, katie ledecky, turned down . All of e to do . Instead. Of endorsements. Introducing dunkins new cold brew coffee, steeped slowly in cold water for small batches with an ultrasmooth, fullbodied flavor. Discover the craft of cold brew today and keep on. America runs on dunkin. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. S either going to be germany, china, or us. And im going to make sure its us. From 500 million solar panels installed by the end of my first term, to precision manufacturing. Well beat the competition and create new high wage jobs. We can do this, millions of jobs right here in america. Dunkin donuts unbelievable selection dwiches, freshly made all day, so you can enjoy them any type of way, any time of day. Thats breakfast whenevs. vanessa florida is still america runs on dunkin. Waiting on more federal funds to fight the zika virus. The issue has been tiedup in a partisan battle in congress. jen and theres special reason to speedup the response here. Especially, for . Tourists. russell we know that schools have had to address zika concerns. Now theme parks are dealing with it, too. russell state tourism officials are monitoring the virus. To see how it could impact our multi . Billion dollar tourism industry. They met thursday in orlando, and say theyre in prevention mode, at hotels and theme parks. If everybody makes sure that those containers are dumped over so they dont contain water, we can tamp down the population. russell the Orange County mayor says for now they are not telling hotels and theme parks to do . Extra spraying to kill mosquitoes. But most have already been taking precautions. Russell Disney world is about to clear up a . Lot of standing water. Workers have started draining and filling in the pool. At its . Abandoned water park, river never torn down. Its now mostly covered in overgrown weeds and algae. Disney will now drain a 300 . Thousand gallon pool on the site and then . Fill it in. russell its right next to the fort wilderness campground, and disney says it was too much of a liablity. The park has been taking extra precautions with its waterways. Ever since a deadly gator attack, over the jen now to the sad picture on facebook, thats breaking hearts. But spreading love. And jen look at this sweet elderly couple from canada. Wolf and anita. Theyve been married for 62 years. And are still infatuated with each other. But theyre hurting right now. Since they have to live apart. In separate nursing homes. Everyotherday, their granddaughter ashley makes the 40minute drive, to get them both together, even if just for a few minutes. And every time, the visit ends in tears. She took this picture hoping the community would rally behind them, and help get her grandparents pled home. Its been shared . Thousands of times. But still no progress on reuniting her grandparents. jen making all of this even more agonizing the race against the clock. Ashleys grandpa has congestive heart failure, and was just diagnosed with lymphoma. He also has dementia. And she wants him to be able to spend time with his wife, while he still remembers her. The nursing home staffs feel bad about all of this, too, and theyre doing all they can to reunite the couple. Well keep you im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Theres a race going on right now. The worlds clean energy super powers either going to be germany, china, or us. And im going to make sure its us. From 500 million solar panels installed by the end of my well beat the competition and create new high wage jobs. We can do this, millions of jobs right here in america. Thats my plan. . We buy any car dot com, . . Any any any any . Tradingin or selling your car, truck or suv . Webuyanycar. Com takes the hassle out of selling two, drive to your local car buying center. And three, walk out with your check in as little as 30 minutes so dont wait. Get your free online valuation now. At webuyanycar. Com . Find out how much your cars worth . The stadium renovations are complete. And the giant video boards will be lit up tomorrow night at Raymond James stadium. When the bucs host the browns in the preseason home opener. Starters will see extended playing time. Atleast a full half. But position battles continue. With the first round of cuts coming up on tuesday. Final cuts next saturday. And the bucs have a strong battle at the 4th and 5th receiver. A guy thats making a case is donteea dye. With a series of 4 straight catches in yesterdays 2 minute drill. He also shows some flash in the return game. Dirk koetter taking in some High School Football tonight. Watching Berkeley Prep and clearwater central catholic. Not as a coach, but as a dad. His son, Davis Koetter is the buccaneers quarterback. Connects with zach mathis for the 57yard td strike. Berkeley prep hanging close with the marauders. Night. But ccc is a powerhouse. Their only loss last season was in the state semifinals. Jakob parks finds amari burney for the touchdown. Parks finishes with four total tds on the night. Ccc gives coach chris harvey his first win. 4427 the final the best pitching staff in the American League since the allstar break has been the rays. And no better starting pitcher in the al than jake odorizzi. A 60 record and 1. 58 era since the break. Doing his thing again today against the red sox. Odorizzi in a jam in the sixth. Bases loaded with a run already in. Odorizzi gets the inning ending double play. Limiting the big innings is whats ordorizzi has been doing so well during this streak. Odorizzi pitches seven innings, throwing only 96 pitches, giving up just one run, while striking out four. Mike mahtook ensures odorizzi gets the win. A ripped shot to left. Steve souza junior scores from first. Mikie mahtook ends an ohfor34 hitless streak with the rbi double. Rays lead 21 enny romero then ends the game by striking out david ortiz. Picking up his first career save rays win 21. vanessa olympic swimmer, katie ledecky, has the world at her feet, after winning four gold medals in rio. And shes been . Swamped with endorsement offers. That could be worth upto fivemillion dollars a year. But she turned them all down. At stanford instead. She told interviewers yesterday shes always wanted the college experience. And all the bonding that comes with it. jen theres much more to come on good day. vanessa lets turn it over to russell and laura to find out whats ahead in our 6 oclock hour. russell 2shot its a big night for football. Charley belcher is getting us ready for the High School Opening games laura and Shayla Reaves is live at Raymond James stadium. Where security and a gigantic . Scoreboard are the talkers, russell take vo also ahead a big ballot blunder. Donald trumps name didnt make the ballot in one state. Whats being done to fix this problem. laura take vo and concern at a Pinellas County school. Pictures of . Mold. . Everywhere. At six the Health Departments findings. And what 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. Coordinate your choice with rugs, lamps, pillows and more. Get free delivery, and enjoy 36month, nointerest financing. With havertys, your home can be perfect, even when life isnt. Havertys. Life looks good. Youre racist, youre racist, youre racist. Youre racist, youre racist, youre racist. Russell new accusations against donald trump. Hillary clinton said hes taken hate groups mainstream and we have his response. Laura and the city of sarasota held hostage by hackers. An online threat thats bringing business to a crawl. Russell security is tight as the bucs prepare for the preseason home opener. What fans should know before
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