Thanks for being with us. You were up with abc. The news of the day coming any moment. Lets check in with bill logan. The most accurate forecast. Some combing going on but still the remnants of her mean still here. Unfortunately even though we have dried out, we dried out yesterday but we are still dry this morning. We still have those waters rising and they have not yet quested even though the rain has pr through towards the east coast last night but as we widen the view the one thing you will notice again is that there is still that plume of moisture into the gulf of mexico and that is where we will get possible rains later on today. It is the tail end of the moisture associated with her mean. Which is now hanging out a few hundred miles off the coast of will stick around there and bring more rain to the middle atlantic states. We will be up to 89 or 90 degrees inland along the coast at 85 today. 82 degree gulf water temperature. Looking good for the beach today. And tomorrow. I will tell you about that bonus day off as we look to the Labor Day Holiday weekend forecast. Coming up in less than 15 minutes. A man was shot shocked whil utility pole. He was severely injured when he came into contact with a livewire. His coworkers were able to lower him to the ground and call 911. He was fun to tampa general and were working on an update to find out how he is doing. Concerns that the Anclote River could hit flood stage in a time now are pushing many in pasco county to seek higher ground. Pasco communities pulling families to safety and some residents used air mattresses with paddles to push their way out. Utilities have been shut off to those most severely affected hoping to motivate everyone that needs to to get out before its too late. The people here have lost everything they have. There almost up to kneehigh and water inside their house. Weve been trying to help everybody. As you wake up there are dozens of pasco county and we have a list of those on our website, abc action news. Com. Governor rick scott checked on storm Recovery Efforts in tallahassee. He visited gulf power crews. They have been working to restore electric service. Nearly 100,000 people were without power. In the bay area there are still people in the dark. Power is expected to be back on to everyone by tuesday. One pedestrian is dead following an accident in st. Pete. Driver hit him as he was walking on 18th avenue. There are no criminal charges pending and alcohol was not a factor. Pull county deputies looking for a missing teenager in bartow. The 18yearold austin welch teenager jumped into the peace river to try to save his sister and the current swept him away. Anyone who sees him can contact police. The big break in the investigation of an 11y boy adapted abducted 27 years ago. The remains of Jacob Wetterling have been found. He was 11 when he was kidnapped from a road in 1989 near his home 80 miles northwest of minneapolis. Reportedly a man who last spent years in jail on child pornography charges led police to the remains. Details at a new jersey after an officer was shot in atlantic city. Happened outside caesars casino saturday morning. A third suspect is debt and now an officer is in the hospital fighting for his life. Police say the started when two officers stopped the robbery near the casino and the suspects opened fire on the officers. In california, other officers injured during a shooting at the Fresno County jail. A visitor there started acting erratically. And officer confronted him and that is when police say the visitor pulled out a gun and started shooting. Deadly force was no longer present the personnel responded appropriately. And abby will be held accountable for what he did. Two officers in the hospital but both are expected to make a full recovery. Former nfl hall of famer back of the headlines. This time under arrest for dui in florida. Troopers say former new york giant great Lawrence Taylor not a troopers car but hit a mobile home. Taylor agreed to take three field sobriety tests and when troopers asked if he had anything to drink the 57year old replied, apparently too much. Taylor has had his fair share of legal troubles. Hes been open about it prep perk. This video is amazing. Spacex saying an investigation will footage in this recent explosion. The rocket exploded on thursday morning at Cape Canaveral during a test firing at the complex 40. Spacex uses the patches and satellites and rockets they carry supplies to the International Space station. Thankfully there were no injuries in this explosion. Still ahead, weekend edition, the medical test you dont need but your doctor could be giving mean. Her mean. It is still wreaking havoc on the folks into a new england and the middle atlantic states. It will get even stronger. I will let you know how this has left us with decent weather and how it is going to get better for the bonus day off on monday. All that and more when we come of police want to search the medicine cabinet in your home they have to have a search warrant but an investigation from the Washington Bureau found that states including florida allow Law Enforcement to tap into electronic investigative correspondent Mark Greenblatt investigates these and prescribed intrusions. Reporter i had no idea that a Police Officer just on a whim could go into my medical records. Utah firefighters ryan pyle and marlon jones had their i couldve lost my family were my career. Local police were investigating the theft of Prescription Drugs from an Area Fire Department in 2013. With no suspects they turned to the States Database that tracks description drug records. And conducted a search into the Prescription Drug histories of all 480 Fire Department employees. We looked at your medical records and saw you were taking medical prescriptions inappropriately. They were charged related to doctor shopping and for pyle and his wife adoption. It was these two kids that we potentially could of lost. That is what hit the hardest. Calvin comore said the police simply used the tools they had available. We were acting purely according to the state law. The charges were dropped but the controversy prompted utah to change the law and require states allowing Law Enforcement to tap into the confidential electronic Prescription Drug history without any type of judicial authorization. Nationwide adds up to over 340,000 searches in the past two years and that is six times the amount in states that do require judicial review. In Indiana Police simply have to provide a case number and in West Virginia no case numbers required. Only a promise of an investigation. And that the 31 states that do 23 dont even honor the program. When utah did an audit the state concluded access may have resulted in questionable use and more than half of the cases sampled. The states like new mexico dont conduct audits and dont require warrants for Law Enforcement. You trust that. Absolutely. The top regulator in new mexico said he is unaware of the database and believe it would be illegal. But state records reveal a different story. There is a Police Officer who accessed it more than 30 times getting patient information. Whats going on here. I have no idea but i am glad you have brought this to my attention. And so he said he would reconsider the states position on warrantless searches. We need to monitor that an for Public Citizen representing pyle and jones in litigation. When that information can be rifled through by Law Enforcement with the power of the prosecution that is a scary thing and something that you give pause to. As legislatures pass privacy safeguards the da is trying to get around that. Arguing an ongoing litigation that state laws shouldnt stop the federal agency from tapping do you need that extra test your doctor is prescribing. 8 of people are getting low Value Services according to insurance claims. The services can include hormone test for thyroid issues, or a bring scan for uncompensated headaches. The procedures provide little value given t c the cost of the services adds that. Also in the report, money wasted on healthcare. 750 billion a year goes down the drain. New option for people who depend on epipens who cant afford them. The company that makes the lifesaving allergy treatment will offer a cheaper generic version. That company my land said in a few weeks it will start selling the product for 300. That is half the current price. Same drugs is a version insults now. They came under fire for hiking prices up and they cost six times with the use to 10 years ago. Are you trying out . We stayed pretty dry. Around the river they are getting runoff and the l firs we will get the crest mid afternoon and that is when it reaches the highest point and then we will slowly see that drained out. As we keep it dry we will keep it dry today. Nice shot from the mainsail beach in and as you can see there in the corner of that shadow and have to keep things cool as they get ready to put action out there. Let me get out of the way. Go ahead and make your way down the beach. Nicely done. Bill, you are so polite. I dont want to get in their way. He wont get in the way of a great day either. More son than yesterday. And more drying so that is the good news. Better news is that as we work into the workweek we stay very dry as her mean has finally headed north stalled but it has taken most of the moisture with it. Or it will be taken the rest of it. We will get back to normal and see those reduced rain chances as we work ahead. Last night we did see some of the storms bloom up and work back to the east coast before we cleaned out into the overnight but we still got more moisture back here in the gulf. So this big plume of moisture will be the last gasp of trying to pull the moisture from this far south for the storm which is now still kicking with 65 Miles Per Hour. It will get stronger to the north even though it is extratropical and we will get drier along the coast. 75 for inverness and sarasota 79. We have a 77 degree reading and winter haven and 73 for bartow. Brooksville 76. 76 Macdill Air Force base and 79 from st. Petersburg to tampa and brandon and clearwater now is sitting at 80 degrees. Gulf water temperature has gone down over the past week. Temperature go up but so will the uv index. Right now in the high category at an eight and up into the 11 range extreme territory by later on tomorrow and into the rest of the workweek. East winds will turn northwest later today at 5 to 10 knots. High tide at 4 36 pm. Low tide 10 30 pm. The sun has been up since 7 10 pm and will set in 13 minutes before 8 00 this evening. This is the most accurate seven day. There are changes into the workweek. Today and tomorrow, 40 chance of those showers and 30 tuesday and wednesday and by thursday and friday only a 20 chance but again you still have two days a week and. Partly cloudy in the morning today and afternoon storms and sunny to start on monday with some scattered isolated storms coming again in the afternoon. There is floridas most accurate sevenday forecast. Its always available on what app . Abc action news of course. For many people having one the norm. Legitimately you need that much to function. But why. For those of us who dont work an overnight shift the answer may be in your dna. Mark maloney has more. Reporter with you need a pick me up at work or just happen to be a latte lever new Research Suggests your espresso habits may be linked to your genes. 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Were learning that governor rick scott will be in pasco county in the next hour to visit some of the hardest hit areas by hurricane earl mean. The search for 18yearold austin welch continued. He jumped into the river saturday to save his 11year old sister who fell off into the mother was able to jump in and get a hold of her daughter but the current swept austin away. He hasnt been seen since. Minnesota, closure and heartbreak for the family of Jacob Wetterling. He was abducted 27 years ago. Last seen near his home riding bikes with his brother and a friend. His mother patty has always held out hope that jacob would found be found alive. The Sheriffs Office confirmed they found his remains. The man named as a person of interest last year led them to wetterlings body yesterday. Thank you so much. She is leaving a great discussion on our facebook page. We want to keep that discussion going. Im holding this up and its facing the wrong way. You just wave it nothing. There several hundred people watching this morning. Thank you for being a part of it. I want to talk about the storm hermine. It is a very interesting storm and is continuing to wreak here. This time last weekend we were saying wait until the weekend and it will come through. And then it made landfall i now it is stalling again. Still powerful. They have 75 Miles Per Hour winds and lots of rain and flooding and the storm surge into those areas up to the north. That will be the problem today. No storm surge issues here but we still are seeing the rising waters the manatee and little manatee. We will still see some Flooding Issues but those are going to be lessened as we go through a nice sunny day. Again we have seen some showers move through again from last night but we have cleared off nicely and while there is that moisture from the gulf up to where hermine is now it is getting pulled out of the way and by the time this starts to and away from land we will pretty much have everything out of our general direction as well. Heres the way things will go as far as the forecast for today. I will show you the first three days of the forecast. This will be a tease. 40 chance of showers today at a high of 92. Warmer tomorrow and maybe a little bit better rain chances as we shift in the wind but we will drop the rain chances we work into a truncated workweek so more sunshine and less work. I will have more on that forecast coming up. Lets go to democracy 2016. After weeks of criticism donald trump trying to be appeal to africanamerican voters by appearing in front of an audience full of the african americans. He attended service at great during worship. On the other side of the coin the fbi releasing documents from the investigation of Hillary Clintons emails. She said she relied heavily on her staff to mask and handle classified information. The fbi found there was not enough evidence to charge clinton with any crime. Many people in the midwest from illinois to texas are rattled after a 5. 6 magnitude earthquake. Ashley holt that a family whose home here epicenter. Reporter there is still blocked off areas but the town is recovering. When we arrived these people were looking on as the Fire Department put out the second fire on their front today. Linda showed us inside their home. Pictures were broken and reports detached from