We begin with democracy 2016. Hillary clinton, donald trump hours away from their last face to face show down. It is in las vegas. That is the last chance to win off undebated voters on the debate stage. Tomorrow night will be interesting. She is home sleeping and im working. Reporter donald trump taking a shot at Hillary Clinton ahead of the final president ial debate. Thats the way it will be in the white house. She will be sleeping and i will be working. Reporter fitness to be president will cause controversy in both campaigns including Hillary Clintons e mail and Donald Trumps insistence that the election is being righted. President obama. I would invite mr. Trump to stop whining and make his ca to get votes. You lose, you blame somebody else . You dont have what it takes to be in this job. Reporter the nominees engaging in psychological combat. Clinton inviting meg wittman and also billionaire mark cuban. Trump inviting obamas half brother as well as the mother of a benghazi victim that accused clinton of murdering her son. You can live on abc action news station tonight at 9 00. We are teaming up with politifact. Regal cinemas is showing the debate on the big screen. A night to remember for president obama and the first lady. They hosted the last state dinner. They honored the italian Prime Minister and his wife. Hollywood turned out in a big way for this event. It included some of hollywoods biggest stars including jerry james taylor. Mario batali provided a dinner that involved carting hundreds of plates from the white house kitchen to a large tent yards away. Hopefully the weather was nice. It was. They have been warm out there on the east coast. But that will end. One more day of hot weather then the cold front moves through. The same one that will get us this weekend and bring us the coolest air of the season. That happens friday night. The front moves in dry. Usually showers thunderstorms along it. This one carries little moisture. Not expecting much except for the big drop in temperature that you will notice with the humidity falling. Low to mid70s. Nice day today. It will be warmer than usual for this time of year. The humidity is in check. Not oppressively humid. The upper 80s wont feel bad. Compared to what is coming, it will be a shocker. This is what we have going. The east, warm, dry and cold by sunday morning in a few minutes. Good morning, everybody. Its still slow on i75. We started out this morning with a crash on i75 slowing it down southbound. Thats hoe we are ending. We have a crash in the southbound lanes, a big semi truck involved there. This is slowing it down just past fowler. This is north of i4. In the other direction, we are seeing slowdowns for onlooker delays and emergency vehicles. The emergency vehicles have moved out of the way. Southbound. Take a look at this. Its taking 40 minutes from 52 to i4 and 30 minutes from the apex to i4. Following breaking news out of the philippines. An antiamerican protest outside the u. S. Embassy in manila turned bloody. Three student activists were injured when they were run over by a police van. Tv cameras showed the van ramming the protestors as they police line and through red paint at the american embassy. Left wing protestors gathered at the embassy to demand the u. S. Leave the military bases in the philippines. A number of concerns over the facial recognition system used by Pinellas CountySheriffs Office. It is used by Law Enforcement across the country and florida as well. A study points to a lack of transparency that could lead to abuses. Abc action News ReporterRodney Dunigan is live at the pinellas what is the sheriff saying about this. Reporter for his part, he maintains that most of the information used for the system is already available to the public. Police department mugshots, drivers license photos and pictures on facebook, all of it can be used in gathering facial recognition information. Effectiveness in fighting crime and getting criminals off the street. It can be retail image, any type of face image. Systems analyst explaining to us in a past interview how the system maps more than 100 facial features to make an id match. If you are looking for the needle in a haystack, face recognition can help you find it. Reporter according to the report released by the center on privacy and technology, the Pinellas County outlining the use of the software that raises privacy concerns. The pinellas system is used for 8,000 monthly searches without audits. The system is used by Law Enforcement agencies across the state including in st. Pete and tampa. To have a mechanism to search that image against other fasts and be able to get a robust result is huge. Reporter the Sheriffs Office launched the facial its one of the longest running programs in the country. We will be speaking to the sheriff about this at 9 30. He will tell us exactly what he thinks about the study and if folks out there watching should be concerned. You can keep up to date by heading online. For more information, www. Abcactionnews. Com. For now reporting live outside the Pinellas CountySheriffs Office, Rodney Dunigan, abc action news. A crime alert out of deputies are asking for your help finding a dangerous felon. This is michael putnam. Detectives say he got in a physical fight with a woman then shot her in the arm. Putnam was last seen near state road 52 and altoona avenue in hudson. Once he is caught, investigators plan to charge him with attempted homicide and do not approach him. Call crimestoppers right away. A former tampa teacher convicted of having sex with two students is getting out of prison. She pled guilty to having sex with two teenagers. She was sentenced to 10 years. She is getting out early. She taught at Davidson Middle School and will be required to register as a sex offender. The woman that cared for the 74yearold victim of a deadly hitandrun accident is heartbroken over what happened to her friend. Jarvis kendri hitting janice joy. Polk deputies found a piece of kendricks truck near the scene. They say he deliberately crashed his truck into a sign then contacted the Insurance Company to cover up the hit and run. The care taker says because of his selfish actions, two families are left hurting. I feel he was selfish. The choices he made now his family is fixing to lose him as leaving the scene of a crash involving death and tampering with evidence. Plans are moving forward for the College Football play offs in tampa in three months. Organizers will meet this morning right now, in fact, to discuss the venue, security and traffic for the game and related events. The game will be played monday, january 9th at Raymond James stadium. Thrilling night on the ice for Tampa Bay Lightning fans. The bolts paid contribute a sold out crowd welcomed Vinny Lecavalier back to tampa. He dropped the first puck with two of his three kids. Mike cat mathison scored the Michael Mathison scored the first goal to give florida a 3 2 lead. With seconds remaining, the lightning tied it up. Stamkos, top of the crease, they score. What a goal. Stamkos with the goal there. The game went into a shoot out where braydon point showed off his skills taking the puck past the goalie. Light forecast win it 4 lightning win it 43. Coming up, not what one georgia man expected to see out new York City Police shot and killed a woman armed with scissors and a baseball bat. It happened in the bronx last night. Police say they responded to a 911 call about an emotionally bedroom. A sergeant tried to get her to drop the scissors but she grabbed a baseball bat and tried to strike him. He fired two shots. From what i have seen of this lady, they were probably defending themselves. I didnt see it but they were probably defending themselves. Nypd says the officer was armed with a taser and an investigation is underway to see why he didnt use it. A major show of support in palm springs, california f take a look. 10,000 people honored them at a Memorial Service yesterday. They were shot and killed after responding to a family disturbance october 8th. Hundreds of Law Enforcement officials attended the Memorial Service. One was with the department 35 years and was going to retire in december. 4monthold daughter cora. Democratic National Committee is under fire for what this tour bus did. A witness got this photo of the tour bus illegally dumping in a storm drain. The incident spawned an all out hazmat situation. Just dumping it pouring out in the storm drain. At this time i got my cell phone out and i am taki that is wrong. Dnc representatives explained what lead up to the incident. The driver saw that the sewage container for the bus was starting to leak because it was full. He was concerned that the bus would have to drive a substantial distance leaking sewage potentially putting cars at risk. The dnc said this was an honest mistake and apologized. One man in nebraska loves donald trump so much he decided to show his support in a big visit in may and the words dump trump were spray painted on his silos. He wasnt happy about that graffiti that sat on the silos for two weeks. He made his own sign. He mowed the letters trump on the side of his hill. One everything a bunch of string and tape measures. To keep it visible, he trims the letters once a week. It takes he supports trump because of his tax plan, National Security plan and thinks he will protect the borders. Professional clowns say the creepy clown incidents are beginning to affect their livelihood. They say bookings at parties and other events dropped sharply. They worry about going out in public with their makeup on. Their costumes at the party. A new way to get the best deal on airfare. Google flights has a fee take your that will notice you about flight changes. They are updating the hotel search showing discounted fares. Airlines could be required to refund fees when checked bags are substanti Obama Administration is taking for passengers. Airlines are required to refund fees for lost bags but the latest proposal would include delayed bags. Transportation officials have not defined what is exactly considered a substantially delayed bag. Remember letter when sunday newspapers were filled with great coupons. Now its harder to find them. Upset about this trend and what you can do so you dont waste your money. Reporter shoppers have been asking, what happened to the Proctor Gamble detergent coupons. The inserts no longer contain the valuable coupons. Joyce runs a dog rescue. Each week she buys lots of dog food and laundry detergent. I do a lot of dog laundry. It has to come out i love tide. She was stunned to open the latest brand safer insert in her Community Newspaper and find this. They had coupons that are not coupons. Instead, the little dollar off tide and gain coupons was a box that told her to go online and register for p and g coupons. If you are not reading them closely, you dont see that. Joyce said she likes to clip not register. If you dont go on their web site you cant get coupons. Reporter she has been noticing it with the fliers that arrive at the door or newspaper. There are a lot of ads but fewer coupons to clip. Time magazine says paper coupons are declining as brands switch to digital coupons that lead to more Shopper Loyalty and stores to track usage and coupons are less generous which joyce has noticed, too. Reporter for coupon clippers like joyce, the great deals are harder to find. Reporter p and g continuously tests ways to reach consumers but it doesnt mean that they wont necessarily not print old style coupons. John matarese, abc action news. Save us a lot of trouble by lowering the price a dollar. Thats the only thing we get the first cold front. It will be so nice. Refreshing. Take a look at this. Gorgeous shot. Plenty of sunrise. The difference this weekend is the humidity dropping big time and the temperatures as well. In fact, i can here complaints about sunday morning. A little too cool for us here. We will be in the 50s rand a bit of a breeze will make it and a bit of a it chilly. Low to mid70s. Still comfortable. The humidity is not terrible, right. Not oppressive but its noticeable. By the time we get into the afternoon, the upper 80s will feel toasty. East wind wont bother us. It will bring in clouds. We dont rain today. It stays dry. We have a lot of dry air on top of us here. That will remain the case. Further east an area of low pressure. Not tropical. It could develop into something the cold front coming this weekend will merge with the low that happens when the things come in from the east which is where we like them. There is the front blocking it from us and merging with big rains to the northeast then we cool off behind the front. Usually we have showers and storms along the frontal boundary. This time when i showed you the dry air, look at this, a band of clouds. That would be it. That will happen through the overnight hours. You wont notice it. That is the morning which will be chilly with temperatures in the 50s. Keep in mind the peninsula of pinellas will be warmer. Elsewhere low to middle 50s. With the breeze, it will feel chilly and compared to where we have been, almost a record high of 89. Look at this. Next couple of days and the front wont get here until friday night. If you dont like the cool air, you have about three days to be comfortable. Northeast winds 10 knots. This his the issue for boaters into the upcoming weekend. 4 to 6foot seas by saturday morning. Boating will be iffy. Likely need a small craft out there. 70s saturday and sunday. Again the first sevenday forecast without any precip chances throughout good stuff. Overnight lows cool and nice next week. Coming up, an unexpected passenger aboard a plane that made the flight anything but normal for the people behind them. We have the story behind the you have heard of therapy dogs but what about a therapy duck. Daniel the duck took a trip with his owner carla. Other passengers tweed that daniel was a big tweeted that daniel was a big hit. He helped calm carla down. A therapy animal. Popeye has more than 100,000 followers, dan. People love seeing and posing with all kinds of food at pet friendly restaurants. He looks like he is happy. Who wouldnt be. Popeye is so cute. You are in luck. Pinellas animal shelters waiving the fee for large bread dogs. All animals all breed dogs. All for large breed dogs. All animals are spayed or neutered. Who a firefighter was called out to save. Trapped inside a car. How a group of men sprang into on another big night in politics, how a rising number the president ial candidates making statements with who they invite to the final debate. Who will be in clinton and trumps corner. The mysterious death of a florida teenager. The one thing stopping investigators from arresting the suspected killers. Good morning, im deiah riley. Im dan shaffer. We will get to the headlines in a minute. First ivan cabrera has the forecast. A cold front is coming fantastic. Gorgeous sunshine with the marina. We will have problems with the boating conditions this weekend. Cold front moves in. Winds 4 to 6 feet saturday morning. 3 to 5 in the afternoon. Keep that in mind. Before the front, temperatures are climbing into the upper 80s. If you want to see where the weather is coming from, take a gander. Temps in the low 40s. The air mass will moderate as we will talk about that in a few minutes. Ahead of the final press den shall debate we are press den shall debate we are seeing more people registered to vote. Do the increases favor either candidate . Abc anchor james tully has more from hillsborough county. Reporter here in hillsborough county, they reported over 80,000 new registered voters from the that was before the deadline was extended twice. Mail in ballot requests are up across the bay area. In past elections, more mailin ballots favor the republicans. Its easy to assume that more registered voters would help voter turnout overall the negativity surrounding the campaigns could be pushing others away. As dr. Susan mcmahon nice explains, pushing away voters elections. There are traditional voters that are soft and not really sold on the candidates and we dont know whether at the last minute they will vote or wont. No poll in this country can predict turnout. Everybody tries. Its difficult. Reporter it has been an exciting Election Campaign and more people may be following it because of that and that could lead to a larger voter turnout. Many feel its a stressful Election Campaign and they thing the stay home and not vote at all. Reporting in hillsborough county, james tully, abc action news. There will be extra measures at polling places around the country to keep them safe. Officials in several states are rushing to reassure you about voting locations. They are taking subtle the steps to boost security because of the passions stirred up by the race. Some places are increasing patrols like in South Carolina and at least one town in maine agitated voters at polling places located at schools. Trump and clinton are trying to rattle each other with their choice of guests for the debate. Trump invited the mother of an american killed in benghazi. Patricia smith gave an emotional speech at the Republican Convention where she personally blamed Hillary Clinton for her sons death. Hillary clinton invited mark cuban. Strum invited clinton invited meg wittman. You can watch the debate at 9 00 on your abc action news station. We are streaming it live on our web site and free mobile app. At 11 00 we will fact check and we will have undecided voters to see who won their vote. Asian markets are higher. European investors are 18,193. The dow gained 75 points tuesday. A tampa man is behind bars for allegedly setting a mobile home