Transcripts For WFTS Action News Weekend Edition At 9AM 2016

Might even do a little dancing. We have a lot of fun stuff happening. The most accurate forecast will determine how you spend your saturday, mr. Bill. I would recommend outside. It should be a great day outside although were starting to see a couple of showers out there right now. Nothing from atop the beautiful highgate tower in downtown tampa looking east. We see clear skies and just to be high clouds just off to the west, titan doppler radar, see a couple of showers just offshore from clearwater beach. These will stay mostly in the gulf and we could see them migrate onshore later on. But for right now, offshore showers but with a westerly wind. These could be pushing in just over the next hour or so. We will take a look at those temperatures right now and on average, about 7980 degrees. 85 at 10 oclock. We will be up to about 92 by later on. Seem to showers just going to push from the rest and they will push those showers inland. I will give you an idea of where those rains are going to fall, coming up, in just about 12 minutes or so. New details this morning in the investigation into a fire in a tempe area mosque. Attempt the area mosque. 22 arson on friday, fire investigators say they received test results back from the state fire lab showing gasoline was used to set the nearly 15,000 in turkish rugs were destroyed. Officials estimate it will take more than 50,000 to rebuild your to rebuild. This was a prayer place. Crime stoppers is offering a reward of up to 3000 for any information leading to an arrest. Police have found a two yearold girl in the back of the car when it was stolen late the car was taken from this strip mall and witnesses say the driver left her alone for a minute to pick up something in the liquor store and by the time he came back, the car was gone along with a small girl and dog. The car was located about 15 blocks away and both the girl and dog are fine. It is still unclear if the car thief has been arrested. Accused of stealing an ambulance because she had no other way home. She saw a parked ambulance, took it and took off. Police later caught up with her using the gps system. Early voting begins today for the primaries in kanellis and sarasota countys. Pulls opened earlier this week in hillsboro county. The polls opened earlier this week in hillsboro county. There are three early voting locations. You can check the wait times on both kanellis. Com. 30th and these are closed primaries. Donald trump visited louisiana in michigan yesterday but with one attempt to appeal to africanamerican voters may have backfired. Take a listen. What do you have to lose . You live in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs. 58 of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have lose . Spec then again, maybe it wont backfire. He also guarantees that he will get more than 95 of the africanamerican votes and be elected. Many people taking offense saying he assumes all black people are living in poverty and unemployed. All of this comes days after a poll earlier this week showed trump getting only 1 of the africanamerican vote. Hillary clinton responding is so ignorant, it is staggering. You have probably seen by now, caricatured statues of donald trump popping up across the country. Yes, i have seen them. [ laughter ]its like the man in the speedo at the beach. You want to look away but somehow, you cant. People in new york and seattle have been posing for pictures next to the nominee. Joshua dreamed up the the intro on this the emperor has no clothes. And a less than generous take on how shall i put this on what trump wanted america to no was not a problem. Certain things like the anatomy in the mail region had to be extremely lacking. They wanted it to be pretty were again, caricatured style. Almost cartoonish. Get out my tap shoes because i am dancing all around this one. He says feedback has been mixed but mostly positive. Zika has been called everything from a wolf in sheeps clothing nbc action news, Jake Peterson has a look at what is being done there. Advisory. And governor rick scott calling for more federal assistance this week if in addition to that travel advisory, government officials are also telling pregnant couples to go ahead and avoid Miamidade County altogether if nonessential travel. So far, 35 cases of zika have been reported in the city. Transmitted by local mosquitoes. We have his own in miami than one. 5 miles. Where requesting Additional Support from the cdc. We have already begun increasing rain. We will do everything we can to help pregnant women all across our state to be a safe state and we will keep it that way. It is tricky to fight the zika virus because crews fighting in highrise condos. The stakes are very high to get this threat under control. Last year, chris generated more than 24 billion in the miami beach area. The Humane Society is waiving adoption fees for black cats today and tomorrow. With any luck, this socalled unlucky will find a forever home. Take a look at this. Kitten stuck in a drain. She posted in facebook to get help and the kitten now named piper was stuck upside down inside this drain. Local plumbers responding not only pulling the kiddie out but also taking it home. Much more coming up on abc action news Weekend Edition. Parking problems downtown. The new rideshare servers that is not a war or left but while we are not completely free of clouds, nor showers today, should be able to dodge the rain pretty well. Especially if you are out on the golf course. Right now, 88 degrees. Temperatures hovering in the low 90s and its going to feel like 102. You want hydrate accordingly. And you want to stay here because were going to give you the best idea about where those raindrops are going to fall when we come back right after welcome back. If youre heading downtown, this isnt news to you. Many of you already know there is some trouble parking but that may soon be getting better. Creative solutions are coming soon. I have to account for probably at least an hour to figure out where to park. Reporter she drive to downtown tampa to go to hockey games and now to eat but she says parking is always a problem. There is usually a lot of circling around. It is pretty much a hassle. Reporter a hassle the Downtown Partnership are hoping to ease. You will see electric cars the whole concept of having people provide rides for others is changing. Reporter up to 10 of these cars to be on the road. You will use and have to order one and it is all completely free. You are not even allowed to tip. This is also adding Weekend Hours for their bus also free of charge. Instead of filling out where theyre going to park but figuring out the alternatives of different options that they have. Reporter also talking about running the trolley every 10 minutes and even potentially making that service free, as well. A change for people downtown which say could cut the we can gridlocked. The cars are tracking. People are walking down the street to their parking spot. You have to stand you have to time it. Reporter better than searching for a coveted spot. A ton of adds to the this is lindsay back from the vacation and she has this idea. We have ceremonies coming up tomorrow and she wants to do a Weekend Edition olympics. We are doing it on facebook and this is very interactive. We have trivia. We just had a jellybean testing contest. Im not sure how that is interactive. We are doing Business Card basketball. Badminton. Weightlifting. It is streaming live right now. I have connected on my facebook page. Sorry, that song gets me every time. You got it going in slow motion. Realtime out to our circles of palo beach pier look at that beautiful shot. Just a few clouds off in the distance and mostly blue skies. We will said the clouds thicken but the rain chances remain remote. And that is really the good going to be a goodlooking weekend. Both today and tomorrow. Aba 2030 chance of showers. The sunshine is on the increase and as is the activity in the tropics. So were watching the tropics right now. Not into the golf tips not into the Caribbean Sea but further to the south where we have not only this storm but another one starting to brew. This is the owner. The spaghetti model is taking this toward bermuda but its going to be mostly a fish storm and as it makes progress, it is going to be falling apart took this one in the meantime has a more southerly project three which means that the islands are going to be perhaps affected and we will need to keep a better eye on things. But it is still a ways away if anything bears watching. We will let you know. Were watching a couple of storms right now just off to temperatures right now are already rising through the 80s. 81 for lakeland and bartow. Still holding on that at 79 degrees. 80 in st. Petersburg, clearwater and tampa. Also looking at 85 degree reading with all of that concrete down at the air force base. Heres the way those storms are going to go. Kind of 1 00, we will see them lining up alongside 75 pushing inland. By 6 00, a few very spotty showers located in eastern portions of pascoe county into pope county and this will continue to push off toward the east coast. Tomorrow, about 1 oclock or so, we will start to see a few storms with him up and again, they will push inland less moisture in the air on sunday so we only have about a 20 once will be se through the Morning Hours and shifting westerly and that is where we will have push of sea breeze pushing those storms inland. Wanted to put seasoned a light chop. Your high tide comes at 4 oclock this afternoon and low tide is not until 10 30. The sun will set at 8 03. Concentrating on the weekend, 20 to 30 chance of highs will remain in the low 90s but hold onto that. Low rain chance and warm temperature pattern right to the workweek, as well. If anything changes in the tropics, we will let you know on the nbc action news app and on live twitter feed that you see on the right hand corner of your screen at bill logan wfts. There is a big election coming up. Sooner than the one everyones doctor Susan Mcmanus is here with us a doctor, in the battleground state. No different this year. The polls are closed right now but you want to talk about what is right in front of us, the primaries and what people should know. We have some great races and its not just the president ial race as you said, it is the u. S. Congress. Some very important u. S. Senate race, a lot of county commissioner races and a lot of for the court. The Circuit Court in the county court. Many people dont realize that you dont have to be a registered democrat or republican to vote in these judicial races. And theres also a constitutional amendment on the ballot regarding given giving a tax break to businesses implementing Energy Saving devices such as solar. It is so crucial and part of having educated voters out and i guess we will start with marco rubios race and he obviously has a lot of notoriety re notoriety. Is this kind of part of the process . Well, he has to beat somebody. A person from our area, manatee county, is running against him and spent a lot of money. It is competitive so it looks like marco rubio is ahead. And we are often lucky to see a 2025 turnout. On the other side, the democratic side, a great u. S. Senate race, as well. And patrick murphy. And let me tell you, this is one of the most important celebrations in the entire country. Why is that . Because if the democrats were that are now republican controlled clipped democrat, it would mean that the u. S. Senate is once again controlled by the democrat work so theres a lot of speculation that she doesnt want to do that. She doesnt want to lose that senate seat. We hope that of these candidates have statues made after them and are popping up in cities with less than flattering parts the lets talk about trump. He did have the Campaign Shakeup yesterday. What does that sign. The second time hes had a major shakeup over the last several months. When youre getting ready to get to labor day and doing light in the polls, now is the time to make a move. And he did much better on the trail yesterday. Maybe with the exception of the comment about blacks that Hillary Clinton has her own problems. The judge ruled yesterday that she has to testify about her going away. And even though people are saying they dont like these candidates, record numbers of people say they just cannot stop watching this election. We know we will have you back to get your take on that but again, august 30, the primary. Get out and vote and educate 9 24 right now. In a wedding dress. It is something people where only once. And with a heavy price tag, many women tried to sell the addresses online to other brides. Kind of like this woman here. She is selling hers on ebay except her happily ever after did not go she said her fianci and now her ex, cheated on her and she is selling the the dress to pay for the divorce. The auction is up to 86,000 for her wedding dress. May i say, save the drama for your moms. Okay, that was horrible. On sorry. Its been a long morning. Smore wedding drama. The North Carolina couple getting famous thanks to just happened to coincide with the same venue as a llama convention. What is a llama . I didnt even know what a what it was in a wedding picture. Speaking of facebook, we are live on facebook. The Weekend Edition olympics for us. We are getting ready to start the next event to log on now and get ready. Coming up next, your morning caught on camera. Attacking his dog. Many people think the punishment doesnt go nearly far enough. What do you think . Coming up next. Trouble for amusement parks live from the station taking action for you, this is abc action news. Welcome back. I am james colley and its about nine to. I am james colley and its about 9 to 30 right now. Here is what we are watching. [ screaming ] jesus come out jesus a three car crash shuts down several lanes on the cars burst into flames. Check this out. We will tell you why this man tried to hide in his drier and who caught him. It does look very comfortable. A nicelooking forecast this weekend. It really is. We have a few showers likely today. Maybe a less tomorrow so plenty of sunshine for both saturday and sunday. Looking outside right now, the child camera shows gobs of sunshine. That is the crosstown expressway right there at the bottom of your screen. Davis islands up there, right there. Davis island and tampa general hospital, as well. Although, as we look to the west, and as we take a look at our satellite and radar composite, we do see just a few lens shift today, though showers could be pushing onshore so it is going to be a shift in the winds from what we had yesterday with those showers kind of going back across toward the gulf. They were going to go in the other direction. Take a look at your current temperatures. 84. 80 still in st. Petersburg and brooks berg, you are Still Holding on in the 70s. 79 degrees. We will be up to 82 by this afternoon and it will be a warm one, it will feel at 102. Before those temperatures start to dip down. A suspect in the 2014 murder case is now a free man. Investigators are looking into a woman stepped back to square one. Wayne jones was just 18 when arrested and charged with the murder. The womans decomposed body was found near the pinellas trail in clearwater. Investigators found her wallet the judge granted a motion to suppress his confession saying he was coerced. All i know, jesus has released a child who did not do anything. That is what i saw. Jones would not comment about the case after he was released. The Clearwater Police chief stating the police chief did not make any errors during their interrogation and the case remains open. Earlier this morning, as cars cruiser causing to cars to go up in flames and causing quite a mess. Police say an officer stopped the bridge to help a driver whose car broke down and another car slammed into that Police Cruiser and a broken down car. The driver who caused the crash , his car burst into flames. A man out of jail this this morning facing serious child abuse charges. He took the boy to the pond and threatened to feed him to the alligators. He shoved the eightyearold in the face each of the eight yearold space in the carpet shutting off his air supply. He denied that. This is tough to watch. This is really tough to watch. A foot all clear beating again, we will mourn you that this video is a bit disturbing. The Baylor University put all players beating his dog posted on another players snapchat. Police document show that fellow students initially went to animal control and the baylor pd with this video and also show the athletic discipline his dog and not harm him but after an investigation, the case is closed. He received the ticket that could cost him 500. And also, according to the police documents, he said the dog away to live with resident relatives. Ties to disney. The National Elephant center shutting down after three of five elephants died. The remaining elephants have been sent to other facilities and Board Members are saying organizers are looking for ways to use this. 225 acres on the east coast. Places for fastgrowing companies, ink magazine based in new york city says clearwater is number one in the nation for growing private businesses relative to the citys population. Where water continues to grow businesses in areas like it, financing and managing. A number of local businesses and the magazines top 500 and top 5000 list. Police in california found yesterday afternoon and the man was wanted in connection to a Domestic Violence incident. When police spoke with him, he locked himself in the laundry room. Offices entered the locker room appeared to be empty leading police to the key left the scene but they checked one more time and found him hiding in the driver. Ivan lopez is in the frontloading drier and arrested without further incident. It has been a rough summer for florida amusement parks to say the least. There are a lot of scary headlines. Sea world blamed everything from School Schedules to the weather and now several parks are offering great deals. First responders can register for the rest of the month. Their families can also get ticket discounts. If you have an annual pass to disney, you can get a deep discount on hopper tickets through september 30, one day florida residents can also get a Jake Peterson<\/a> has a look at what is being done there. Advisory. And governor rick scott calling for more federal assistance this week if in addition to that travel advisory, government officials are also telling pregnant couples to go ahead and avoid Miamidade County<\/a> altogether if nonessential travel. So far, 35 cases of zika have been reported in the city. Transmitted by local mosquitoes. We have his own in miami than one. 5 miles. Where requesting Additional Support<\/a> from the cdc. We have already begun increasing rain. We will do everything we can to help pregnant women all across our state to be a safe state and we will keep it that way. It is tricky to fight the zika virus because crews fighting in highrise condos. The stakes are very high to get this threat under control. Last year, chris generated more than 24 billion in the miami beach area. The Humane Society<\/a> is waiving adoption fees for black cats today and tomorrow. With any luck, this socalled unlucky will find a forever home. Take a look at this. Kitten stuck in a drain. She posted in facebook to get help and the kitten now named piper was stuck upside down inside this drain. Local plumbers responding not only pulling the kiddie out but also taking it home. Much more coming up on abc action news Weekend Edition<\/a>. Parking problems downtown. The new rideshare servers that is not a war or left but while we are not completely free of clouds, nor showers today, should be able to dodge the rain pretty well. Especially if you are out on the golf course. Right now, 88 degrees. Temperatures hovering in the low 90s and its going to feel like 102. You want hydrate accordingly. And you want to stay here because were going to give you the best idea about where those raindrops are going to fall when we come back right after welcome back. If youre heading downtown, this isnt news to you. Many of you already know there is some trouble parking but that may soon be getting better. Creative solutions are coming soon. I have to account for probably at least an hour to figure out where to park. Reporter she drive to downtown tampa to go to hockey games and now to eat but she says parking is always a problem. There is usually a lot of circling around. It is pretty much a hassle. Reporter a hassle the Downtown Partnership<\/a> are hoping to ease. You will see electric cars the whole concept of having people provide rides for others is changing. Reporter up to 10 of these cars to be on the road. You will use and have to order one and it is all completely free. You are not even allowed to tip. This is also adding Weekend Hours<\/a> for their bus also free of charge. Instead of filling out where theyre going to park but figuring out the alternatives of different options that they have. Reporter also talking about running the trolley every 10 minutes and even potentially making that service free, as well. A change for people downtown which say could cut the we can gridlocked. The cars are tracking. People are walking down the street to their parking spot. You have to stand you have to time it. Reporter better than searching for a coveted spot. A ton of adds to the this is lindsay back from the vacation and she has this idea. We have ceremonies coming up tomorrow and she wants to do a Weekend Edition<\/a> olympics. We are doing it on facebook and this is very interactive. We have trivia. We just had a jellybean testing contest. Im not sure how that is interactive. We are doing Business Card<\/a> basketball. Badminton. Weightlifting. It is streaming live right now. I have connected on my facebook page. Sorry, that song gets me every time. You got it going in slow motion. Realtime out to our circles of palo beach pier look at that beautiful shot. Just a few clouds off in the distance and mostly blue skies. We will said the clouds thicken but the rain chances remain remote. And that is really the good going to be a goodlooking weekend. Both today and tomorrow. Aba 2030 chance of showers. The sunshine is on the increase and as is the activity in the tropics. So were watching the tropics right now. Not into the golf tips not into the Caribbean Sea<\/a> but further to the south where we have not only this storm but another one starting to brew. This is the owner. The spaghetti model is taking this toward bermuda but its going to be mostly a fish storm and as it makes progress, it is going to be falling apart took this one in the meantime has a more southerly project three which means that the islands are going to be perhaps affected and we will need to keep a better eye on things. But it is still a ways away if anything bears watching. We will let you know. Were watching a couple of storms right now just off to temperatures right now are already rising through the 80s. 81 for lakeland and bartow. Still holding on that at 79 degrees. 80 in st. Petersburg, clearwater and tampa. Also looking at 85 degree reading with all of that concrete down at the air force base. Heres the way those storms are going to go. Kind of 1 00, we will see them lining up alongside 75 pushing inland. By 6 00, a few very spotty showers located in eastern portions of pascoe county into pope county and this will continue to push off toward the east coast. Tomorrow, about 1 oclock or so, we will start to see a few storms with him up and again, they will push inland less moisture in the air on sunday so we only have about a 20 once will be se through the Morning Hours<\/a> and shifting westerly and that is where we will have push of sea breeze pushing those storms inland. Wanted to put seasoned a light chop. Your high tide comes at 4 oclock this afternoon and low tide is not until 10 30. The sun will set at 8 03. Concentrating on the weekend, 20 to 30 chance of highs will remain in the low 90s but hold onto that. Low rain chance and warm temperature pattern right to the workweek, as well. If anything changes in the tropics, we will let you know on the nbc action news app and on live twitter feed that you see on the right hand corner of your screen at bill logan wfts. There is a big election coming up. Sooner than the one everyones doctor Susan Mcmanus<\/a> is here with us a doctor, in the battleground state. No different this year. The polls are closed right now but you want to talk about what is right in front of us, the primaries and what people should know. We have some great races and its not just the president ial race as you said, it is the u. S. Congress. Some very important u. S. Senate race, a lot of county commissioner races and a lot of for the court. The Circuit Court<\/a> in the county court. Many people dont realize that you dont have to be a registered democrat or republican to vote in these judicial races. And theres also a constitutional amendment on the ballot regarding given giving a tax break to businesses implementing Energy Saving<\/a> devices such as solar. It is so crucial and part of having educated voters out and i guess we will start with marco rubios race and he obviously has a lot of notoriety re notoriety. Is this kind of part of the process . Well, he has to beat somebody. A person from our area, manatee county, is running against him and spent a lot of money. It is competitive so it looks like marco rubio is ahead. And we are often lucky to see a 2025 turnout. On the other side, the democratic side, a great u. S. Senate race, as well. And patrick murphy. And let me tell you, this is one of the most important celebrations in the entire country. Why is that . Because if the democrats were that are now republican controlled clipped democrat, it would mean that the u. S. Senate is once again controlled by the democrat work so theres a lot of speculation that she doesnt want to do that. She doesnt want to lose that senate seat. We hope that of these candidates have statues made after them and are popping up in cities with less than flattering parts the lets talk about trump. He did have the Campaign Shakeup<\/a> yesterday. What does that sign. The second time hes had a major shakeup over the last several months. When youre getting ready to get to labor day and doing light in the polls, now is the time to make a move. And he did much better on the trail yesterday. Maybe with the exception of the comment about blacks that Hillary Clinton<\/a> has her own problems. The judge ruled yesterday that she has to testify about her going away. And even though people are saying they dont like these candidates, record numbers of people say they just cannot stop watching this election. We know we will have you back to get your take on that but again, august 30, the primary. Get out and vote and educate 9 24 right now. In a wedding dress. It is something people where only once. And with a heavy price tag, many women tried to sell the addresses online to other brides. Kind of like this woman here. She is selling hers on ebay except her happily ever after did not go she said her fianci and now her ex, cheated on her and she is selling the the dress to pay for the divorce. The auction is up to 86,000 for her wedding dress. May i say, save the drama for your moms. Okay, that was horrible. On sorry. Its been a long morning. Smore wedding drama. The North Carolina<\/a> couple getting famous thanks to just happened to coincide with the same venue as a llama convention. What is a llama . I didnt even know what a what it was in a wedding picture. Speaking of facebook, we are live on facebook. The Weekend Edition<\/a> olympics for us. We are getting ready to start the next event to log on now and get ready. Coming up next, your morning caught on camera. Attacking his dog. Many people think the punishment doesnt go nearly far enough. What do you think . Coming up next. Trouble for amusement parks live from the station taking action for you, this is abc action news. Welcome back. I am james colley and its about nine to. I am james colley and its about 9 to 30 right now. Here is what we are watching. [ screaming ] jesus come out jesus a three car crash shuts down several lanes on the cars burst into flames. Check this out. We will tell you why this man tried to hide in his drier and who caught him. It does look very comfortable. A nicelooking forecast this weekend. It really is. We have a few showers likely today. Maybe a less tomorrow so plenty of sunshine for both saturday and sunday. Looking outside right now, the child camera shows gobs of sunshine. That is the crosstown expressway right there at the bottom of your screen. Davis islands up there, right there. Davis island and tampa general hospital, as well. Although, as we look to the west, and as we take a look at our satellite and radar composite, we do see just a few lens shift today, though showers could be pushing onshore so it is going to be a shift in the winds from what we had yesterday with those showers kind of going back across toward the gulf. They were going to go in the other direction. Take a look at your current temperatures. 84. 80 still in st. Petersburg and brooks berg, you are Still Holding<\/a> on in the 70s. 79 degrees. We will be up to 82 by this afternoon and it will be a warm one, it will feel at 102. Before those temperatures start to dip down. A suspect in the 2014 murder case is now a free man. Investigators are looking into a woman stepped back to square one. Wayne jones was just 18 when arrested and charged with the murder. The womans decomposed body was found near the pinellas trail in clearwater. Investigators found her wallet the judge granted a motion to suppress his confession saying he was coerced. All i know, jesus has released a child who did not do anything. That is what i saw. Jones would not comment about the case after he was released. The Clearwater Police<\/a> chief stating the police chief did not make any errors during their interrogation and the case remains open. Earlier this morning, as cars cruiser causing to cars to go up in flames and causing quite a mess. Police say an officer stopped the bridge to help a driver whose car broke down and another car slammed into that Police Cruiser<\/a> and a broken down car. The driver who caused the crash , his car burst into flames. A man out of jail this this morning facing serious child abuse charges. He took the boy to the pond and threatened to feed him to the alligators. He shoved the eightyearold in the face each of the eight yearold space in the carpet shutting off his air supply. He denied that. This is tough to watch. This is really tough to watch. A foot all clear beating again, we will mourn you that this video is a bit disturbing. The Baylor University<\/a> put all players beating his dog posted on another players snapchat. Police document show that fellow students initially went to animal control and the baylor pd with this video and also show the athletic discipline his dog and not harm him but after an investigation, the case is closed. He received the ticket that could cost him 500. And also, according to the police documents, he said the dog away to live with resident relatives. Ties to disney. The National Elephant<\/a> center shutting down after three of five elephants died. The remaining elephants have been sent to other facilities and Board Members<\/a> are saying organizers are looking for ways to use this. 225 acres on the east coast. Places for fastgrowing companies, ink magazine based in new york city says clearwater is number one in the nation for growing private businesses relative to the citys population. Where water continues to grow businesses in areas like it, financing and managing. A number of local businesses and the magazines top 500 and top 5000 list. Police in california found yesterday afternoon and the man was wanted in connection to a Domestic Violence<\/a> incident. When police spoke with him, he locked himself in the laundry room. Offices entered the locker room appeared to be empty leading police to the key left the scene but they checked one more time and found him hiding in the driver. Ivan lopez is in the frontloading drier and arrested without further incident. It has been a rough summer for florida amusement parks to say the least. There are a lot of scary headlines. Sea world blamed everything from School Schedules<\/a> to the weather and now several parks are offering great deals. First responders can register for the rest of the month. Their families can also get ticket discounts. If you have an annual pass to disney, you can get a deep discount on hopper tickets through september 30, one day florida residents can also get a Free Hotel Stay<\/a> and todays of what passes for 149 through december 15. Tampa bay watches the great bay scallop search starts in just a few hours with hundreds of volunteers searching for skeleton of in an effort to restore scallops to the bay. Polution was to blame. But since then, while the quality has improved and the scallops have returned. Hundreds of ensured that the scallops stay healthy. Still to come, high Student Loans<\/a> out of high school. But lope. Next, a new tool that could help you find the best career to boost your morale and your in clearwater, enjoy two at the childrens museum, they are wrapping up their series on Child Development<\/a> for kids ages five and under. And voting continues for tampa welcome to our rescue in action for saturday. We have kelvin here from maxxes rescue and your brother only by. Levi has kind of a special story. He came out of Animal Services<\/a> down in miami and no other rescue wanted to step up so we did have a huge he did have a huge mess on his right front leg. After extensive testing, they and it was amputated so now, he is cancer free. He has also licked free but it is not causing many problems. He does. He gets around pretty well. Pretty quickly. He has six or seven. He has adapted to this after growing up with a leg and still, no problems getting around. How about other animals . He has lost two brothers in his home and gets along with children really well. How many dogs are in rescue . Probably about 40, i would say. Rob oblique. All right. Lets get a nice shot of this guy and i tell you what, if you have some room in your heart and room in your home, i am sure the folks would love to hear from you it is max at double ax. Kelly, thank you for coming in and thank you for bringing levi in and a real special guy with a special story and maybe a special place in your home. We have all been told that you need to go to college to be successful. I was told that say that is not necessarily true. Your degree can lead you thousands of dollars in debt and a few ways to pay it back. This morning, we are taking ways to show you action we are taking action to show you ways. Reporter she looks at the world differently now that she has her legal journey but to do that, she needs to obtain her own. She has been at hcc but did not know what she needed to do. She took this career aptitude and that is proving more important than ever. Especially as many College Graduates<\/a> leave school only to find themselves in debt. It may lead to an to a degree that puts them in the unemployment line. Reporter it breaks down your interest in what will ultimately satisfy you at work or each person takes it and in demand, local careers that match and a career counselor. You can walk away from taking this. Ashley found that she will most likely do well as a surgical tech, a skill you can learn at a tech school here i want to find something im good at and passionate about. Now, it is just it is about more than just her. Reporter if youre interested, go to abc. Com your page, click on your county and that is where you will find your own personalized invitation code and all of the directions to be able to get started and take this. It takes about two hours. Back to you. We are committed to getting you back to work with a good paying job. During this fourweek partnership with the education foundation, you will be given free access to future plans career survey. s largest showed you, find out how you can take advantage of this very unique opportunity. First, it and now it is mine. I am on dancing with the stars this year. And i really need your help. If im going to win, i really need your help. This event is loads of fun but most important of all are the thousands of dollars that z22pvz zy6z happy weekend. It is free ice skating during the grand opening of the clearwater ice arena. Only five dollars. Wesley chapel, enjoy a free antique car show with more than 200 vintage cars expected. And voting for dean kent and voting for dancing with the scars dancing with the stars. Welcome back. 9 46 and it is supposed to be a nice weekend. Maybe you are planning a beach day but we want to make sure you check for the flags. At least 10 people were stunned by the stingrays. One thing you can do to prevent a nasty sting. Reporter the color purple anyone out of the water. You go in the water and you do the stingray shuffle. Reporter ilene says she has been in the water nearly every day the last couple of years and mr. And the threat of stings wont stop her. You slide your feet across the sand and that produces vibrations so that the stingrays will go away. Stingrays zapped at least 10 people here biologist from Clearwater Marina<\/a> says it is normal to see more stingrays when the heat goes up in the summer. Lifeguards try to spot them but it is not easy. It is hard to see anything on the bottom. The stingray is rather small so as bad as it sounds, what kind of depend on the injury to reporter and then they can warn people. Its not going to kill you if it happens, anyway. It will just hurt. Its not going to keep us from going into the water here reporter just remember, shuffle, shuffle, shuffle. Its always important to shuffle. I will tell you, my youngest daughter actually got those into her foot and it is extraordinarily painful so please, shuffle, shuffle, shuffle. We will shuffle right through this last hour of nbc action news. We are on facebook with olympic trivia and we have folks coming up in studio to talk about where the money goes for dancing with the stars and im going to talk about hurricane season. We are rapidly ramping up into and you can see that by the time we get into september, that is when most storms form. We have seen fiona and it looks like this is going to be coming out into the atlantic took this one further down to the south and folks at the Hurricane Center<\/a> say keep an eye on it. It will take a more southerly track so we will keep an eye on it and update you constantly on nbc action news. Com. Temperatures are mostly in the 80s there credit for croissant for start for for i4. And we have 83 in Wesley Chapel<\/a> but the feel like temperatures have already pushed into the 90s so by the time we hit that high of 91 and 92 later on today, were going to be into the triple digits so govern yourself accordingly and find the shade. Give yourself some hydration and take it easy. Especially if you start to feel feeling faint with all the pads on and all the bumping and tackling going on at everbank field. The Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a> starting off on off at seven 30. The temperatures should be about 93 degrees. Steamy as we work through the afternoon and into the evening. 86 degrees. Golf water temperature will warm to about 88 later on today. And those are temperatures will be 87 brother and one, 92. We are looking for a 30 chance of showers today and 20 tomorrow. Still holding onto that warmth and relatively low chances of rain right into the workweek. Through the weekend, isolated storms pushing inland. For tomorrow, very little rain and anything that pops up will just sort of meander but it will be possible to develop at any time from 1 oclock on. That is a look at your day forecast. It is pretty much the picture consistency as we get into this time of year. Phil collins said i cant dance and i agree with them but im going to do this anyway. Is a party with a purpose. Dancing with the stars raising over 1 million bucs since 2010 for charities. Posted by across the bay. The pressure is on i want to do a great job for these organizations and i am following in the footsteps of lindsay logue. Piercys last year dancing. What was this . A salsa samba. Raising a quarter of 1 million. Planned to, you looked pretty good there thanks here with more is the tampa bay Crisis Center<\/a>. Cindy maclachlan here. Thank you guys so much for taking the time. We appreciate it very much and i think what our viewers would appreciate is everything in the Crisis Center<\/a> because you accomplish so many things. We do. We have a variety of services and programs all designed to help folks in a time of crisis. We think of ourselves as the communitys gateway so whenever anyone is in crisis, they only have to call the two one to find help and support. And that that is so important. It is so easy and you help out thousands of people every single year. Thats right. Over 165,000 individuals last year. We were able to assist throughout a Crisis Center<\/a> and specifically, on the two one line, we help over 2000 individuals every week. Seven of those individuals identified that they are suicidal and we know that the cdc has indicated an increase suicide so we know it is an important topic work like you said, he coming more and more important by the day. And maybe even, by the hour. So lets talk about the dancing with the stars event. You can logon. I have a link. You can follow that link and vote for the dancers. You dont have to vote for me. Up for any of them because all of the money is going to that same place. And as i said before, over 70 individuals only collis indicated they are contemplating suicide. And that is just in hillsborough county. 70 people a week and that is 10 and a that are calling your that is a very high number. And increasing, unfortunately, every year. The other things that you are we talked about some of those. Please absolutely. We are also the Crisis Center<\/a> in hillsborough county. Those who we call survivors are coming to our location for services and support your we have a Family Stabilization Program<\/a> to help families stay in their homes. Help them through financial crisis and we have a Crisis Program<\/a> specifically designed to work with individuals that have experienced a trauma. Is excellent that yo partnered with hands across america. We do want to talk about julie. Julie has been a friend to the Crisis Center<\/a> for a very long time and their organization, hands across the bay and the Crisis Center<\/a> of tampa bays mission are very similar and that is to ensure that no one in our community has to face the crisis alone so were thrilled to be partnering and to be a recipient of this event. This money will go a long way to help in suicide prevention. Thank you so much for being with us this morning and dont this effort by voting online. It is one dollar per both. Go to hands across the bay for information and to cast your vote. It is all going to the same place. We will be back right after quick check of titan doppler radar. A couple of storms just offshore from new port richey. Actually, one making its way onshore through parts of citrus county. This is around just how was good [ indiscernible ]. As we work through the day today, watching temperatures rise to a 92 with a 30 chance of showers. It should be a really nice day. Were back tomorrow all again. Dark and early. We will do it at 6 am and remember, we are always on abc z236az zy6z y236ay yy6y announcer jack hannas wild countdown is sponsored by nationwide. Jack hi, everyone, im jack hanna, coming to you from my base camp here at the columbus zoo, and welcome to wild countdown. Dogs are called mans best friend for a good reason. They help prevent crime brett we use them for apprehending poachers. Jack find missing disaster victims walt shell pick up the scent and off shell go. Jack and provide love and companionship, maybe the most important job of all. Sue aw. Brad these are some of our special guests here at the adoption center. Jack and wait until you see the dingoes and painted dogs, canines that are still living","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"archive.org","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","width":"800","height":"600","url":"\/\/ia803405.us.archive.org\/7\/items\/WFTS_20160820_130000_Action_News_Weekend_Edition_at_9AM\/WFTS_20160820_130000_Action_News_Weekend_Edition_at_9AM.thumbs\/WFTS_20160820_130000_Action_News_Weekend_Edition_at_9AM_000001.jpg"}},"autauthor":{"@type":"Organization"},"author":{"sameAs":"archive.org","name":"archive.org"}}],"coverageEndTime":"20240625T12:35:10+00:00"}