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WFTS Action News At 6AM September 12, 2016

Minutes. Now to breaking news an arson investigator looking into a fire at a mosque this morning where pulse nightclub shooter omar mateen attended. Crews in st. Lucie got the call at 12 30 this morning that the Islamic Center of fort pierce was on fire. They say theres no indication nog pointing to an arson but there have been past threats made at the very same mosque. The fire marshal and Sheriffs Office are investigating this morning. No word just yet on any injuries. Causeway is back open after a Chain Reaction crash overnight. Eight people were still in the hospital this morning. Two of them toddlers. Abc action News Reporter ashley yore is live on the Courtney Campbell where that crash happened. Ashley, one of the toddlers still in serious condition this morning. A 2yearold little girl still in Critical Condition this morning. Law enforcement says this was a stop at that light youre looking at now. Look at this white vehicle involved in the crash. So mangled you can hardly tell with a type it was. Rescuers took a total of eight people to the hospital. The 23yearold woman who caused the crash says she took her eyes off the road and then didnt see cars stopped at the redlight here at damascus road. She slammed into a mini van and set off that Chain Reaction. Firefighters had to extricate several people from that van. Eight people are now at three different hospitals this morning. That 2yearold little girl critically injured is now at tampa general hospital. Later on this morning we expect to find out more about the victims. Who they are and how they are doing. Of course were going to keep you posted right here on air and on social media. For now reporting live, im ashley yore, abc action news. Debris removal after hurricane hermine begins in an they toured dozens of homes this weekend. To verify the countys Damage Assessment numbers before money is handed out. Flood victims need to document any repair work that is done. There should be emergency funding available quickly. Estimates now are at 111 million. The average payout from fema to a homeowner is only 6,000 a household. Its not a lot of money. Its not an insurance gap. If they get every bit that fema can give them its 33,000 and 36,000. Again, its not going to fix a destroyed home. We should know by the end of the week with pasco qualifies for funding. For those cleaning up today there are some rules. Well break them down live on the news at 6 30. Two Tampa Police Officers are on administrative leave after they were involved in a shooting. Then he backed up and hit two officers. Cook has non lifethreatening injuries after the officers fired. He got out of jail 10 days prior where he served time for grand theft auto. The officers are on paid leave, again during this investigation. Pinellas dive team members hunting lionfish rescued two divers in distress this weekend. Members of the Sheriffs Office dive team heading out for the lionfish safari roundup and heard someone yelling for help and he said he had been diving for lionfish but became detached from a buoy. Deputies found his boat almost a mile away and were able to rescue a second diver. Todays the deadline for the victims of the pulse nightclub shooting to apply for funds. The families of those killed as well as survivors of the massacre must submit a claim to receive a portion of the one orlando fund. Its up to 23 million and will continue accepting donations until next friday. The city of orlando and National Center for victims of that money september 27th. Meanwhile city officials are announcing they want to keep an assistant center for victims open for at least three more years. People around the country and right here in the tampa bay area stopped yesterday to mark the 15th anniversary of 9 11. Many of them you may have been there gathered at the curlew hills gardens in palm hasher to remember lives lost from the worst terror attack on u. S. Soil. The sounds of Amazing Grace rang out. 9 11 survivor and retired new york city firefighter mickey cross escaped towers that collapsed and then spent months in search and rescue efforts. Of course its a special Everything Else has faded. Christmas, new years, my birthday. Those days mean nothing, this is the only day that is really important to me. The event also included a unique traveling exhibit that features the names and photos of the 304 florida soldiers who died fighting the war on terror since 9 11. Exciting news this morning Clearwater Marine Aquarium is breaking ground this morning an major on a they are adding a parking garage with 400 spaces, 1. 5 million gallon habitat for rescued dolphins and pelican habitat and two more fourstory buildings. It will stay open to the public through construction. If youre in the market for a new job or know someone who is browse through 500 jobs in tampa today at a job fair. The coasttocoast Career Center is going from 11 00 this morning to 2 00 this afternoon in westshore. More than 20 of the Top Employers in the bay area will be at the doubletree by hilton tampa airport. If you are looking for a job get there early, bring at least 40 copies of your resume. Were always updating our job listings too. Go to abcactionnews. Com jobs. Even though football season just started the Tampa Bay Lightning already gearing up for the next hockey season. Staff at amalie arena will begin to lay down the ice just one hour from now. The crews will be laying down a base coat of water on the concrete floor starting 7 00 and painting markings. The bolts start their preseason on tuesday, september 27th at home against the carolina hurricanes. 6 07. Still ahead the florida teen notorious for pretending to be a doctor is in trouble with the law again. What police say he tried to fake this time and how his past tipped off the person he was trying to trick. A School Bus Crash leads one dad and several others injured. Driver did that investigators are now honing in on. Z23xyz zy6z new developments, a florida teen already who is facing charges for impersonating a doctor is in more trouble with the law. The guy cant stay out of trouble. This time in virginia where officers say he tried to scam a 19yearold malaki love robinson faces identity and theft fraud charges this morning. Investigators say he used fake documents to try to buy a 35,000 lexus friday. The dealership says his application raised several red flags. The things he was staying and doing that didnt add up. The dealership says when they performed an Online Search of loverobinson they found his previous arrests and called police. Officers jailed him without bond, loverobinson was original after giving a medical exam to an undercover officer. He still is awaiting trial for that crime. Big change in the forecast here after a dry hot weekend. Ware going to be cooler but that is because rain is going to be coming in. In fact tropical moisture will raise rain chances big time the next few days. More on that coming up in a few minutes. Coming up a new miss america was crowned last night history. A cause she hopes to bring awareness to. Plus this cell phone cameras capture a student beaten outside of a florida middle school. The scolding police have not person that shot a 2monthold girl on the interstate in wisconsin. Witnesses say she was a passenger in a silver prius. The driver pulled off the highway after the shooting. Authorities shut down the freeway for an hour to investigate. The girl is in the hospital this morning. And should survive. Into a School Bus Driver is dead after veering off the road at the Denver Airport and crashing into a concrete pillar. At least 10 others on the bus, students, were hurt. Two of them in Critical Condition this morning. The bus driver had just picked up the members of the Legacy High School football tm another loop through the airport. Police dont know at this point why she circled back. There were 28 students and four adults traveling team with the team. Miss arkansas is your new miss america. Miss arkansas [ cheering and applause ] shields performed a jazz of the show. And during the question and answer segment she took a more political route when asked about Hillary Clinton saying that both president ial candidates have done a good job and that everything they say or do matters. Shields is a senior at the university of arkansas and majoring in art. While miss missouri didnt place in the top 15 she made history at this years pageant. The first openly gay contestant. The 23yearold says her goal of getting this far was not community but to inspire others to follow their dream. She hopes all the attention will help raise awareness for her platform which is suicide prevention. Sad news for the lgbt community. Transgender actress Alexis Arquette has died. Family members confirmed the loss yesterday. They have not revealed a cause of death. Saying she was just battling a lengthy illness. Robert arquette, alexis was born Robert Arquette was a roles in several movies. Her famous siblings were there with her at her final moments. She was 47. Cell phone video that shows an eighth grader being beaten by her classmates at a palm springs middle school. The two accused attackers have been taken into custody. The victims mother says she can barely sleep after watching this video. She called her daughter last week wednesday to tell her she was coming to pick her up and on the call says her and got to school and someone said her daughter was beaten up. And nobody called for help, they were too busy taking photos and videos. Instead of taking videos and photos take action. Call the police department, call a parent, call the school. Theres Police Officers all around. So rather than taking the time to sit and videotape it we have basically at risk because they phone out of the victims hands faces additional charges. Lets check in on the forecast. We have big changes underway today. And through the middle part of the week. I think were going to be copying and pasting the forecast. If you dont like rain its a problem because a lot of it is coming in, in the form of tropical moisture. That doesnt mean were going to rain the entire day. Just we have a lot of moisture to work with so we need the heating of the day and sea breezes, everything gets going moisture streaming from the southeast. Of course one bonus, we wont be as hot as we were this weekend with the mid90s. Well top off in the mid80s to lower 90s. Look at the moisture coming. In its not that we have to wait for the showers in particular here. We make our own with the sunshine as we head through this afternoon. Its a tropical wave. Well talk more about that in the tropics here but heres your futurecast, showers and storms by 1 00, 2 00, firing across the east and ending up looping the coast between 4 00 into the gulf. Quiet down tonight and do it again tomorrow and that is going to be the case through the next few days. This is the middle of the atlantic, that Tropical Development is going north. No need to worry about that. This 10 is not going to develop into anything except a lot of moisture for us. That sets the stage for plenty of thunderstorm activity. By the way we have action in the pacific, away from mexico, moving to the west the next few days and western typhoon in t almost a category 155 headed to taiwan with 160 mileperhour winds. They are bracing for that. 91 today, 86 st. Pete. Well continue to see rain chances coming up. 60 to 70 . That will be the trend through the middle part of the week. Then beginning to come back down by friday and in time for the weekend. Looks decent now but that is seven days out. Still flashing lights on the Howard Frankland. In the southbound lanes not causing delays but a little distraction. Cars slowing down when passing the southbound lanes on the Howard Frankland. No huge delays here. In st. Pete, 275 at 54th avenue north up to speed now in both directions. Lets check drive times on some of the major roads in our area. Still ahead a big change for teslas selfdriving cars. One technology the company says would have prevented that deadly crash earlier this year in florida. Jail with a side of fries. One womans hunger lands her in first on the first sunday of the football season players joined protests during the national anthem. We see how the movement is growing. Reporter in this mornings gma first look the wave of nfl players joining Colin Kaepernicks protest against racism and police brutality. From coasttocoast players showing the quarterbacks movement of support new york some cases entire teams making the unified decision to link arms in solida national anthem. Its unifying our team. But its also unifying our stadium. Its unifying our communities. Its unifying our state. And hopefully it will unify our country. To where theres a message that needs to be heard. Reporter with other players like the chiefs cornerback grabbing headlines. But making a statement has come at cost for some players like Denver Broncos brandon marshall. The Academy Credit union dropping him saying his actions and coming up at 7 00 a. M. Espns steven a. Smith weighs in live with your gma first look, abc news, san were learning tesla will update the Autopilot Software on its cars in two weeks tops. That is what the ceo announced deadly crash in levi county four months ago. That is when a driver slammed into a tractortrailer when the autopilot didnt identify. Tesla says the new system will rely more on radar than traditional cameras, that may not work well in some lighting conditions. A woman picked the wrong person to steal fries from. Police say she sat down next to a Police Officer in washington, dc and simply helped herself. What . To his plate. Not the smartest. That officer was eating dinner at an Italian Restaurant last week when and a friend joined him. Uninvited. The officer says she seemed drunk and tried to start a conversation before taking one of his fries. Now the officer told her to stop but she took a second and third. Finally the officer arrested her charging her with theft. Good morning. Were still watching this crash on the Howard Frankland in the southbound lanes. Now it looks like we have an still not causing any major problems. We have a report of a large hole that opened up on mlk, well have more on that coming up. Also ahead a man who wanted to try out a bulletproof vest ends up dead. The Family Member police say pulled the trigger and his account of what happened. Hillary clintons health scare captured in video many of you are talking about. New information from her doctors as donald an opportunity to rehash an old 6 30 picking up the pieces. New progress today for flood victims in pasco county. Cleanup starts just minutes from now and theres one thing fema is focusing on today. How much federal money if any on this monday. We have a live report on the recovery in pasco county with steps for people to take but first weather and traffic. Come on back. Ready for that weather. Its mondays, its tired. Just wants to get on with the thing, i get it. 80 degrees in st. Pete now. 79 in tampa. Big changes coming up. Cleanup in pasco county, unlike the last week its going to be pouring this afternoon. Keep it in mind. Were going to tropical moisture moving in and that will yield rain chances to 60 , 70 the next couple of days. So most of us will be getting wet certainly through the middle part of the week as that moisture streams in from the bahamas. In fact theres a tropical connection from the southeast. You can clearly see showers streaming in. These will turn into thunderstorms eventually and so that by the time we get into the evening commute i think well be in some pockets of heavy downpours, frequent lightning and even strong gusty winds. Well watch that. Rain chances about 89 to 91 the range for today. Lets check with janelle. Were still looking at the same camera on the Howard Frankland because we had a hit andrun crash reported in the southbound lanes, now looks like an incident, possibly a stalled car or another minder fenderbender in the northbound lanes. So flashing lights both ways though i checked drive times and youre still looking at less than 10 minutes across the Howard Frankland. Again in both directions. This is what it looks like at i 275 and busch, starting to get a some cars tapping the brakes. 7 minutes to get from here to downtown tampa. Your toll roads looking pretty good. Veterans still in the green. And 6 minutes on the selmon from i75 to downtown. We have a large hole that opened up on mlk between himes and macdill. Captain al is checking it out. Reporter good morning. Himes avenue. That first light. Panera is out of the picture there to the right. You can see that hole is on the entry lane to eastbound mlk. Its off to the side. However, they are using that right lane just to protect that construction area until they deal with this im sure a little later this morning. One lane getting by, not really backed up, not a lot of traffic eastbound on mlk early. That is good news because westbound from i275 is busy, southbound dale mabry as well, its a a lot of cars coming from carolwood to 275, otherwise back to you. Hurricane hermine cleanup continues today in pasco county. Nearly 3,000 homeowners are able to put trash in front of their home for collection today but jake peterson, live in new port richey, there are several dos and donts during this process today. Reporter yes. There are different crews going out to pick up different items. If you have things like tree limbs, they need to be placed near the curb in one pile. It needs to be in a different pile. If you you dont d

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