She is back from vacation. And lets see if its going to be a good day. To logan. Bill, things are looking all right. As a matter fact, we are roughly a minute and a half away from the official sunrise and we are already seeing just a couple of showers. Offshore and into the gulf of mexico and also, a couple further inland. From wauchula down toward sylvan lakes, this is a very light shower just sort of popping up. It looked like ground cover originally but this is looking more like actual rain. Tampa right now with 81 degrees and it is 79 in clearwater and saint petersburg. The winds are calm and we will today coming out of the west and that will push any of the very random showers further inland. We will take that high up to about 9192 degrees later on today feeling more like 100102 so make sure you have plenty of water. Find some shade and otherwise, enjoy the sunshine. Even less rain chances tomorrow. I will show you the weekend outlook in detail coming up in less than 15 minutes. Right now, back over to you. It was two years pinellas trail where police found the body. And a tip led to the arrest but now, the investigation is all the way back to square one. Michael explains why a judge throughout his confession. [ screaming ] come out, jesus [ screaming ] jesus reporter that is because he walked out of jail with three ahead of him. He doesnt want to talk about the case. Reporter clearwater says his id and wallet were found inside jones home. Jones happen to find them walking the trail and pick them up as a good samaritan. His aunt never doubted her nephews innocence. All i know is that jesus released a child that did not do anything. Reporter a that his confession was coerced with nothing to hold him, the case was dropped and the cheap of clearwater releasing this statement. They did not make any egregious errors. There are elements which are subject to interpretation of the court. Ive got jesus and you know he had it in you. Can scratch one more name off their list. Reporter in clearwater, michael please, abc action news. Police found a twoyearold in the back of a car when it was stolen friday taken from the strip mall that you are seeing right here. Witnesses say the driver left the child alone for a minute to pick up something from a store. Of the time he came back, the car was gone along with the middleborough and small dog. The car was found about 15 blocks away. Police say she stolen ambulance shortly after being released from the hospital. She told an officer that she was just trying to get home but the metro bus was not running any longer. Police found her using the ambulance gps system. Early voting begins today and sarasota counties. The polls have already opened in hillsboro county. From 10 am until 6 pm today. From 9 am until 5 pm tomorrow. There are three early voting locations where voters can check wait times and in sarasota county, voters can cast any time between 8 30 and 4 30. There are four early voting locations there and election day is the 30th. You must register with the Political Party to cast a vote. The president announced he will visit that bruise on tuesday. The white house said friday that the president is equal to eager to get to the university. That announcement comes just after Donald Trumps visit to the area. While there, john called out the president for not yet visiting. Trump and his running mate met the flooding. The two of them handed out 70,000 pounds worth of food, water, diapers, blankets and supplies. After leaving louisiana, donald trump appeal to michigan to vote for him. Specifically, african americans. What do you have to lose . You are living in poverty. Your schools are no good. 58 of your youth is employed. What the hell lose . Reporter he also guarantees that at the end of four years, he will get more than 95 of the africanamerican vote work many people online taking offense to the soundbite saying trump assumes all black people are living in poverty and unemployed. All of this comes after a new poll shows trump getting 1 of the africanamerican vote. Hillary clinton responded who quoted trumps plea and tweeted herself, this is so ignorant that it is staggering. And elephant refuge will no longer operate in florida. The National Elephant center shutting down after three of the five elephants sent there died here the elephants have been sent to other facilities and Board Members are saying Board Members are looking at other ways to use the site on the east coast. It has for florida amusement parks. And plenty of scary headlines. Blaming everything from School Schedules to the weather for declining attendance and now, several parks are offering great deals to try to get you back. Free admission for Busch Gardens and sea world for the rest of the month. If you have an annual pass to disney, you can get a deep discount on park tickets oneday park offers for 70. Universal orlando. Florida residents can also get a three Night Hotel Stay and to park passes for 139. Health experts are cooling zika everything from a wolf in sheeps clothing to the perfect storm now that the virus is being transported transmitted from two different areas. There was a focus Group Meeting yesterday. There is research being done on that campus right now even though zika was first identified decades ago, there is still a great deal we dont know. We really dont know where the populations that we have here in the united states, how confident these particular species factors are going to be and whether there will be variations in the ability of this mosquito to transmit this virus. David jolly and kathy castor researchers about work on a vaccine. It is still being developed and tested. Much more coming up on the weekend edition. The death of a beloved teacher still sending shockwaves throughout tampa bay. New efforts on the way to keep Young Drivers off the road and make sure all of us are safe. Drunk drivers off the road and make sure all of us are safe. Up next, the in demand skill that could make your of schooling. Do you know what . You do not need a lot of school to play golf but you do need skill and luck and good weather it looks like we had good weather for today starting off in the upper 70s and low 90s by later on. Very slim rain chances so it looks like you will get a round of golf in okay. Whether or not you play will is others and bring you a fun forecast for this entire the Highway Patrols drive sober or get pulled over campaign right here in area tech stack those impacted hope it is the bay area. Reporter in describing her longtime friend i honestly dont know many people who are as kind and selfless and generous. And just a good souls. Reporter she and her boyfriend were hit a jump driver. She said she never really understood the tremendous impact. The decision of one person to drive drunk can have until now. It just seems more cruel now than ever that someone would have a drink or 10 and get behind the wheel with a real possibility that somebodys life could end that day and the Ripple Effect that it has to friends, family, community. Reporter the florida Highway Patrol says it remains committed to stopping drunk drivers in their tracks. It boasts an average of 150 impaired drivers a month. The annual drive sober or get pulled over campaign will put everyone on notice that drinking and driving is never okay. I dont want you driving impaired for any reason. Long trip or short trip, it doesnt matter. We have lost too many people. Reporter those who knew and loved this analysis this Pinellas County tenet teacher it is murder. I urge everyone to please think about it before you do. Reporter in tampa, abc action news. The legal fees are so much more than paying a order for. Even if you have to go back and get your car the next day. Just 10,000 around 10,000, just estimating. So many people affected by that. Not only the students but the teachers. And the other good reminder is the traffic stops are going to be happening between now and labor day. So just do yourself a favor and be smart. If youre going to drink, make other plans on how you are going to get home. Bay area roads will be crowded today for sure with folks heading to the beaches. A nicelooking start as the sun comes up. As we take a look out at some high clouds and mostly blue skies from our rivergate tower and a gorgeous sunrise th weekend are going to go down. The sunshine will be on the increase and yes, we are still watching the tropics and keeping an eye on things away from here. It is not a problem. It looks like fiona with another couple of tropic waves off the coast. We are still watching but nothing to worry about. We have seen a few showers off coast but thats about it if we it is going to go right through this section of the state and push inland. Right now, 81 degrees in tampa. 81 in hudson. 79 in sarasota. And 75 currently in lakeland. Here is a look of that future cast for you. By 1 00, you will start to see those storms start to push along the i75 corridor and they will continue to move off to the east by 3 oclock. You could see some decent storm cells in southern hillsboro county looki but for the most part, all of this will push to the east coast so were looking for no more than 20 to 30 coverage today. Maybe 10 to 20 coverage has those storms remain widely scattered. Here is a look at floridas most accurate day planner. Going from 80 degrees to 90 later on and how about that bald . Further north, they are going to be playing in jacksonville. And the temperatures will drop as the sun dips below the horizon finishing up with very steamy temperatures in the 80s. 86 degrees is your gulf water temperature right now and it will go up to about 81 later on today. The air temperature will be about the same with the uv index in the extreme category. Is a look at floridas most a very slim chance of showers and we will hold on to those remote rain chances during the beginning of the work we. Still warm and 92 degrees today. The sea breeze comes in just a little more pleasant but no more than a 20 30 chance of showers right through the end of the workweek. That is floridas most accurate seven day forecast and remember, you can always check it out 24 7 and the weekend is always im sure friday was paid a for many of you and you may find this information useful. Getting a bigger place check paycheck could be just a click away. Committed to finding new ways to plan a better career path. 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Hard deadline, a date that will actually stop. Reporter according to the website, Design Concept are supposed to be finalize the summer but that has not happened yet and groundbreaking has already been pushed back. Steve cornell says the last meeting, the plans were still changing beyond what he expected with the construction process. Too many things were on their list that i thought and were kind of sold as part of the basic project. With a 70 million budget, he says the splash pad should not be negotiable. Find a make find a way to make it work. Dont put it out there as a half project and say this is what we can do because thats not what anybody told us. Meetings with the public are planning to start in september and cornell says they are asked to sharpen their pencils and people who live here just want progress. The next update on the peer with all of city council scheduled for the beginning of october. In st pete, abc action news. The city architect tells us several ordinances in the design need changing. The next open house coming up showing a very curious family of skunks getting close and personal to the cyclist, smelling the mans shoes. Luckily, that is all they did and then took off keeping their own smells to themselves. There is a really funny joke there and i just cannot, it is too early in the morning. Maybe for the commercial break your coming up at 7 30 and e at a tampa mosque. And what led investigators to suspect arson, ahead. The new trump statues and what he says about their live from th taking action for you, this is abc action news. Welcome back on this saturday morning. 7 30 and i am lindsay logue. Hear the stories were following this morning. It could cause the local mosque more than 150,000 to rebuild. The son of a victim in a service for his father. We will take you to jupiter expect a College Football player caught on camera feeding his dog. Wait until you hear. Thats all ahead but first, jason. We are still happy to have mince back. She has planned this tampa olympics. We are always live on facebook during our 9 oclock show on saturdays. Lindsey hess this big show plans. There is weht theres putting. There is jelly belly tasting. And a few more things. Plus, we have trivia. And trivia. My goodness. You and i know about trivia. So much going on. Lets get right to the weather and show you what is going on right now. A gorgeous shot from apollo beach. Just a few clouds out there into the gulf of mexico. There are showers associated moving onshore yet. And we dont expect them to. Lets check out the tropics. This is the time of year where we start to see the numbers of storms increase. The actual peak of the Hurricane Season is 10 september so we are heading right toward that. And we are checking out a couple of disturbances out into the atlantic looks like this will kind of curve this way and be a fish storm but this area down here is showing development and folks at the National Hurricanes center are pinning this at a 50 chance of development over the next five days. The track on this one takes it a little further south into the island. So that will bear us watching. First, we will continue to give abcactionnews. Com. And if anything breaks or gets tricky, we will be sure to let you know. Closer to home, we do have showers offshore and nothing is showing up onshore yet here, though, we did have some pretty good rains mr. Yesterday afternoon here especially through Pinellas County. Peasized hail through parts of canals part work we are 81 right now in tampa. 84 in longboat and 81 in osprey. We will go through the day and from those temperatures up to the low 90s with a very slim chance of showers. Only about 30 and i will show you the best chances of picking up some of that rain as we drill down into the details and timeout those storms. That will be coming up in less than 15 minutes. New details into the investigation of a fire. It was originally rolled an electrical fire but new evidence is pointing to arson. Test samples back that showed gasoline. Nearly 15,000 in turkish rugs were destroyed. I was really disappointed. Because, this was a prayer place reward of up to 3000 for any information. Friends and family gathered in jupiter at a memorial service. Deputies say the Florida State student killed john and Michelle Stevens in their home last week. The murder happened days before the couple plan to kristin plan to attend the christening of their granddaughter. We cannot wait to meet her he could not wait to meet that the couple had written to each other over the decades of a marriage. Two cars go up in flames. Take a look at the scene. Just a few hours ago. St pete police say an officer stopped on the bridge to help a driver whose car had broken down and another car slammed into the Police Cruiser. The car the caused the crash and a broken down car went up the Police Cruiser did not. A palm coast man is in out of jail this morning facing serious child abuse charges. In a said he took the boy to up on and threatened to feed the boy to the alligators. When they got home, he shoved the eight euros days into a carpet cutting off his oxygen supply. Down to a horrifying story feeding his dog and we want to warn you that the video is disturbing. Oh, my goodness it is really bad. It was posted on another bu players snapchat. Showing the former baylor student initially went to animal control and baylor pd with the video and also show the atla about this and said he was only trying to discipline his dog and not harm him. After investigation that lasted little over him a little over a month, it was closed and he received a ticket that could cost them up to 500. The dog is with relatives in houston. Okay. A california man almost got away from police but decided, lets check the guys drier and the Domestic Violence suspect hiding out. Police arrested him. I dont think