Tonight they have placed two on unpaid administrative leave all because of this. A whistle blower who warned Something Like this could happen. Chief operator of the city and Waste Water Treatment Plant wrote a letter saying the city is having spills related to the shut down of the waste Water Treatment place. How could you not know about the report . How could you not know . Mayor of the city. Just yesterday our own paul miller asked the neighbor why this is going on. Were trying to plan for the future and Everybody Needs to be working together on this thing instead of people that are doing things behind the scenes. Meanwhile, governor rick scott ordering the department of Environmental Protection to look into this and saying we must do all we can to provide for the environment. D. E. P. Is already involved and we should chalk this up to politics. Frustrating im sure to the people of tampa. Encouraging any City Employees with any information about the sewage spills to come to his office for assistance with whistle blower protection. Were going to get the feeling that hes on a hot seat with this one and wondering what may be coming down the pike. Very good question. Were going to find out exy address the city counsel meeting tomorrow. At this point all we know is hes dumped a couple of people on leave. And this investigation continues. Another major bay Area Environmental issue, some test results are now in for well water. Theyre providing bottled water for homeowners and hired an news channel 8s Jeff Patterson joins us now live. Yeah, good evening. Since 8 on your side first broke this story about this massive sink hole, people who live near here on well water have been concerned today. Some of theme were notified about their test results. As the crow flies, courtny and her family lives less than three miles from the plant with the giant sink hole. They depend on well water every with it. Whatever its needed for. Its just kind of scary. The family is now using only bottled water provided but they are worried about the future. So what is it doing if it is here and whats going to happen if it is here. What will they do to help us . They have now hired an independent Testing Company to examine well water in the area. In this case were looking for a fingerprint that would be the fingerprint of water would include high levels of sodium, sol feign, unacidic content and show radio activity if its from the mosaic plant. So far, the first round of test results have no sign of that. The asterisk or the star is the plant. The circle is generally where we took circles on monday. The water samples are sent to an independent Testing Company. Gary acknowledged it could take months or years for contamination to show up. The water may not be there today but it could be in six months. Yeah, the independent Testing Company examined 11 wells on tuesday. 32 more wells today. So the initial test results would be coming in over the next few days. Jeff, there are a lot of wells in polk county. Is everyone having wells in the area, their well water can be tested. Heres something very interesting we found out. A lot of people who called arent calling the Testing Company back. They need them to call them back so they can set up the test for their private wells. If they call and if they set up the test results, they can have their wells examined. They just got to call back. Well help spread the information. Live tonight from eagle hd, thank you. A 13yearold stud accused of trying to poison her teacher. It happened last friday. The deputies are reporting that the teenager ground up a piece of chalk and use that chalk that was being assigned for a class assignment and when she distracted the teacher she slipped that powder, all the ground up chalk into the teachers coffee. Another student stopped the student from drinking out of the cup. The teacher is fine but a she obviously cares about kids and has the skills to deal with the more difficult students or students with disabilities and so to have an incident like this happen directly to a teacher and to this teacher is extremely troubling. And in addition to criminal charges School Officials tell us this student will be expelled. The city of charlotte, North Carolina is braced for more po all of this following the Police Shooting of a black man tuesday afternoon. An incident for which police and witnesses give conflicting accounts. The officer that fired the fatal shot is on administrative leave. Other officers involved in the incident were. That video is being reviewed as the investigation continues. Meanwhile, the news of keith scotts death surged through social media fueling the angry we have a closer look at the chaos. Yeah, in several parts of charlotte, protesters squared off with police. Chaos in the streets after news of keith scotts death. Protests erupted near the shooting. Many of the large crowds were chanting and holding signs, some throwing objects at police. Ofcers fired tier gas. Watch as this prote police. Angry protesters demanding action. We hold the Police Accountable for what they do. A Family Member of the victim visibly distraught. They jumped out their truck and got a gun pow, pow, pow. Protesters shut down the interstate and started fires in the roadway. Others just wanting their voices heard. The throwing of Water Bottles and destroying city vehicles i dont condone that. As far as my child, my nephews, im concerned and worry about them. Other protests, tractor trailers were lewded and officers unable to make their way through these crowds. Theres a man standing on a Police Cruiser right now. Protesters say a Charlotte Police officer shot and killed scott who protesters claim was unarmed. Charlotte police say he when i see this, im thinking any given moment i get pulled over or stopped or a cop comes its likely im going to get shot. Armed or not. In all, police said 12 officers were injured during the demonstrations. 11 people were taken from demonstrations and treated for nonlife threatening injuries. Thanks josh. Now to your vote and the race for the white house. The recently deadly officer and tulsa are front and center on the campaign trail today. Both president ial candidates reacting to the Police Shootings that killed African Americans in the last 48 hours. Clinton was on the campaign trail. She says too many African Americans end up dead at the hands of police. Meantime today marks the first time donald trump condemned the Police Shooting that killed an african american. I dont know what she was thinking. Im very, very troubled by that. We have add to a list of African Americans killed by Police Officers in these encounters. Its unbearable. It needs to become intolerable. Both candidates will continue to campaign in battleground states. Tomorrow donald trump will be in pennsylvania and Hillery Clinton sending her running mate to california. Despite outrage from lawmakers. Pharmaceuticals has no plans to lower prices on epipens. The price is 608 for a two back. Thats up since 2007. They insists the company only makes 50 in profit for epipen. A 60,000dollar loss over a pop up band. Coming up next, the elaborate scam that preyed on a local victims trust. Another warm day. There are a few showers and thunderstorms that are strong but generally trending drier towards the weekend. Well talk about the warm weekend temperatures coming up. Well have that and more coming up. Youre watching news channel 8. The station thats always on. A person of interest in a Homicide Investigation is now in custody. 37yearold lace heflin was arrested on drug charges unrelated to the Murder Investigation of 95yearold come anemic demundo. Charges are expected against heflin in that case. Monday investigators found dead in his home. Theyre looking for people who was hired to do work around his home. Weve had heat today and a few showers pop up. It came and its raining. Threat. It helps to drop the temperature too. A few clouds around. Here at hyundai, newport richey, 86 degrees. 6 Miles Per Hour out at the beach. Always a lovely place. 85 Degrees North west. Nothing in the way of presip. Terms of rain fall, theres showers and thunderstorm activity occurring at the moment including us. Thunderstorms are generating here. Just north of i4 and east 75 lifting towards the western part of the hills. North of brandon and south east hillsboro. A few showers out in polk. Those are drying up north and east. Thunderstorm activity. Further south you can see the northern sections dry and elsewhere. 77 degrees and 90 degrees in the forecast for tomorrow. Im mentioning were trending drier overall. That will help. Most areas are plain hot as you can see. We have a bit of a west coast sea breeze. A few clouds and showers here. That red color, thats dry air at the midand up every levels of the atmosphere slowly singing farther down south. Overall, this red color, this drier air higher above in the atmosphere you dont feel way in the much of humidity is stabilizing the atmosphere. Look north across georgia not much in the way of presip. In the tropics, we have carl just a report on them, you can see carl weaker. Computer models havent done a good job with the intensity. Thats not a problem with forecasting especially with intensity forecasting and 45 mileper hour winds. Well continue to watch the tropics closely. As for the rest of the evening a few thunderstorms in the forecast up until 7 30. Scattered to isolated th tomorrow, we have this boundary to the north fizzling out. The drier air in the atmosphere. Maybe a few showers and limited rain fall a good way to put it. Weve lowered the rain chance at 20 . You can see here on the 8day forecast. 20 for thursday. 20 for friday and i think Northern Areas probably fewer well look for changes mid october. Thank you. More than 60,000 gone. 8 on your side found out a 71 yearold polk county man fell victim to a scam that all preyed on his trust. Now this orlando man is behind bars accused of milks innocent. Joining us live with an 8 on your side warning. You spoke to one of the victims. Yes, thats right. He lives on a fixed income and this wiped out his savings and this all started with a computer pop up add. Just a few dollars shy of 60,000. An entire savings wiped out. Looking back, hes embarrassed. How can you be so dumb to shown but his story out. The 71yearold man responded to a pop up add on his computer for a 499 Antivirus Software program. A person claiming to help him. Were told this man was getting access to his bank accounts. The victim was told the Software Still wasnt working so he could have his money back. The scammer claimed he accidently refunded him too much money. I said i have no problem sending it back to you. Then came a transfer of money orders to thailand. When the victim caught on, it was too late. Convicts is what they are. After your money every moment of the day online. Theyre there and if you give saves at least one person from falling prey to these scammers. If you dont know them, havent done business with them before, dont send them any money. The suspect was arrested in california for running a similar scam for 11 6,000 dollars. Hes also wanted for another one in missouri and it is very likely there are more victims right here in florida. Melissa, how was he connected to thailand . Detectives believe he was working with people there. Theyre trying to see how far this scam goes and how far it reaches and how many people were involved. Melissa live for us in polk county, thank you. And lets talk about heart health, shall we . The 2006 heart walk is around the corner. News channel 8 is your proud were committed to raising 100,000. Every dollar you donate counts as two. Go to wfla. Com dollar heart walk for details. A botched booster seat. Ahead the problem that prompted a recall and could put your child in harms way. Plus a samsung fix. Where you could take your galaxy note 7 to for a refund. Next. Well i dont believe thats how you get things done in our country. It takes democrats and republicans working together. Thats how we got health care for 8 million kids. Rebuilt new york city after 9 11. And got the treaty cutting russias nuclear arms. Weve got to bring people together. Thats how you solve problems and thats what we are one nation under god. That black and white, we are one nation indivisible. That republican and democrat, we are all americans. Id like to punch him in the face. You know what they used to do to guys like that . Theyd be carried out in a stretcher, folks. I could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldnt lose any voters. Priorities usa action is responsible those defected galaxy note 7s can get a new one. It was all due to a malfunction that was causing the batteries to overheat and expire and explode. You can pick up your free replacement from samsung, your wireless carrier or if store where you bought your flow. Evenflo is recalling booster seats because the kids can loosen the harness adults knowledge. So far, evenflo has no reports of injuries. You may not be seeing the true price of products on amazon. An investigation by propublic finds amazons Price Comparison tool works for prime members and people who order more than 49 worth of items. For everybody else it doesnt result in the lower prices harder to find the best deals. And move over facebook because google now has its own messaging app. Google allo is now available for download. It includes Group Messaging and ability to add photos to your messages. Theres one thing missing, the ability to make video and audio calls. Thats intentional because they want the app lost in august called duo to make the video calls. Its a le van dike marathon. Hello. Thats what theyre going for. Coming up at 5 30. The ferry plan unvailed. We were there for the reveal. What all the fuss is about coming up. Plus selfdriving taxis are on the road but would you climb in the backseat . 8 on your side found out how potential riders in bay area really feel. National safety Officials Say 2016 is already shaping up roadways and officials are. Right now at 5 30. Good evening. Thanks for being with us tonight. Major developments regarding a new high speed Ferry Service between burger were released today. The Ferry Service is going to launch in november and mary learned a round trip certainly wont break the bank. The dream of traveling between downtown tampa and st. Pete without getting stuck in traffic with soon become a reality. It will be between two of the bay area cities becoming more concrete and project officials become more detailed. Its a six month project