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WFTS The Now Tampa Bay August 19, 2016

Die for hours until somebody noticed. We found out that Carlos Cordero is a familiar face in the neighborhood. He was helping him out with his lawn several times. They never thought that he was capable of a violent act. He visually attacked the 81 yearold wednesday afternoon. He was found laying unconscious, his wallet taken and his red kia sedona missing from the driveway. He laid in the sun for hospitalized for several more weeks. And his neighbor struggles to find words what led to this. Its not right for anyone to do that. Whatever the circumstances are, no one deserves no one deserves to be beat like that. Reporter watons kia is still missing. Cadero is facing a Battery Charge for attacking someone james, thank you. Were keeping an eye on the zika virus this afternoon here in the United States specifically. There is now a second zone where people are being infected, an area of miami beach. Right now. Cdc is issuing a travel alert for pregnant women to avoid going there. There are five known cases linked to miami beach bringing the local number of cases in florida to 35. Governor rick scott has already requested Additional Support spraying done to kill the mosquitoes that might be carrying the virus. We are doing what we can to help pregnant women across the state to be in a safe state. The other zone in florida where theyre actively tracking the zika cases is the winwood neighborhood in miami. Police are giving us more details about the man flashing people on campus. Try to find him but couldnt. They say he is a white male, possibly in his 30s with glasses, thin with short hair, either gray or blond. Officials are looking into if these flashings are related to the three that happened in apl. We dont need anyone. We take care of each other here. The man you were listening to was a questioning why president obama hasnt visited the area yet. Just into the news room, president obama saying he will be visiting baton rouge on tuesday after he got his briefing today. In the meantime, donald trump and his running mate mike pence are in louisiana. They toured a flooded home in baton rouge today with volunteers. The governor hopes that trump will make a sizable donation to the flood zone. And Hillary Clinton called the governor today and posted that people and the reporters along the way. Its a great place. Ive had a great history with louisiana. They need a lot of help. What has happened here is incredible. Nobody understands how bad it is. Im just here to help. Thank you. Again, just in, we are hearing that president obama does plan to visit louisiana on tuesday. And this also judge university in, a medical examiner says an autopsy shows that a black man shot and officer was hit once in the chest and once in the arm. The autopsy results for 23year old smith match what police and city leaders have been saying about the shooting. Smiths death over the weekend sparked two nights of violent protests in the city. Police say that smith ran from a traffic stop and was armed with a gun. Well, shay, people are chicks. They have an outdoor concert in a couple of hours. How is the weather going to be. You were at a concert there recently and it was pouring rain. And thunder and lightning. I hope the dixie chicks fair better than that. I put a bulls eye where the amphitheater is. It is dry right now. But we have hit and miss showers across ta so remember if youve been looking at your radar, youve been watching to the east to see if the storms are headed your way. Now you need to do the reverse. These storms are headed inland. Theres a possibility that you will encounter a shower or storm if youre headed out to the concert. Look at the tampa camera and you can see its blue skies and sunshine. If we widen the view on the radar, its hit or miss. A few. And thats going to continue through sunset, with a few lingering showers until about 10 00. So if youre planning to do some grilling tonight, sounds good for dinner, right, only about a 30 chance that you will see showers and storms around 6 00. By 8 00, most of this moves east of i75. Polk county is where you will be more likely to see the rain. Temperatures coming down to about 84 degrees. So with that pattern shift, weve got timing of rain. The rain chances overall are actually going down over the next couple of days. I will help you plan out your weekend around the rain coming up in the next forecast. Thank you, shay. An update on iris the dog. These are new pictures of the pup. We already showed you Surveillance Video of someone stealing the dog from the Humane Society of tampa bay. The dog was returned not long after. And a juvenile is now under arrest because of it. But the good news, were glad adopted. A mother and daughter took iris home, knowing nothing of the dog being stolen. Another duo adopted her brother. A florida funeral home closing after authorities find decomposing bodies inside. How to know what Funeral Homes are in Good Standing and wont leave with you an expensive bill. Tonight is baseball forever night at the trop. Its an effort to keep the rays in st. Pete. You discounts. 10 for the upper level, 20 for the lower. Youre watching the tampa bay youre watching the now more twists and turns today in the ryan lochte and u. S. Swimmers debacle in rio. The story is being picked apart more and more by the minute. We have eyecatching front liar, liar speedo on fire. The ugly american. Then theres the new york daily news. Let me show you the other one here. We have seen this same headline as a hashtag over twitter. The lochte mess monster. Makes you laugh. But laura, you have the latest. What is developing today with the big mess . People are making jokes about it but it is serious. Ryan lochte apologized on instagram. It was also on facebook. He should have been much responsible in how he handled himself. Its in response to claims that he and three other swimmers were robbed at gun point in rio. There was no robbery, but security guards pointed guns at the swimmers after they vandalized the restroom at a gas station. One of the swimmers, jimmy feigen has paid 11,000 to a brazilian charity to avoid prosecution and return to the properly stored and found decomposing. Nicole grigg is looking into who regulates the funeral home industry and the questions that you need to ask after your loved one passes away. Reporter from the outside of the funeral home in north florida, things dont look too unusual. But inside, investigators saying there were flies around 16 decomposing bodies, not properly stored. This man just realizing in a refrigerator. Come to find out he just stuck her in some room in where and left her here. Reporter the funeral homeowners daughter and the owner facing 16 counts of unlawful storage of human remains. It is regulated through jeff atwaters office. Homes once a year. The most important thing that you need to be checking when finding a funeral home is whether theyre licensed. You can do that on the states website by finding their license search. When you get inside a funeral home, the first thing that you want to ask is to see their general price list. When you get this, you can see how expensive it is. And then they cant overprice you. Reporter as for what funeral home to choose, look at the grounds and reception area and is there adequate air conditioning and lightning . Is it clean . And take a good look at the staff too. How theyre dressed and how compassionate they are. For the now, im nicole grigg. Well, it is not just during tax season that you need to worry about scammers. They could be trying to hit you up for money right now with the kids heading back to school. The irs put out a warning saying that impersonators are student tax. If you dont it, the scammer threatens to report you to police. But this tax does not exist. There are easy ways to tell the difference between the irs and the bad guys trying to scam people. Exactly. Listen up. The irs will never demand immediate payment through a Prepaid Debit Card or wire transfer. They will generally mail you a bill first if you owe them money. The irs also wont demand that you pay the taxes without letting you question if so with all of that said, if you think youre dealing with a scammer, dont give them any of your personal information. Make sure that you hang up the phone right away and report them to the treasury inspector general. We have a link on all of that on abcactionnews. Com. Ashley. Some things that you cant unsee. Oh, wow. Like this. Lifesized nude statues of donald trump popping up in five cities complete with small hands and all. We assume that is happening in los angeles, san francisco, cleveland and seattle where the other statues are popping up. This is signed indecline, the name of a street artist. The new York City Parks Department Released a statement about this saying this i quote, this is a quote, we stand firmly against any unpermitted erection in city parks. Meanwhile breaking today, another shakeup for donald his Campaign Chairman resigned today. Trump put out a statement saying im very appreciative of his work in helping us to get us where we are today. But manafort may have been a distracts for the campaign. He is facing scrutiny over his past work in the ukraine for prorussian forces. This week trump put these two people in top positions in his campaign, brandnew to the team. So that may have been a part of manaforts decision to resign. The system stays rigged against americans. Syrian refugees flood in. These are pieces of a brand new trump ad that started running in florida. This one called two americas immigration. How trump is the candidate to make america secure again. In the meantime, Hillary Clinton is passing some of the blame for using a personal e mail account when she was secretary of state. She says former secretary of state colin powell advised her to do it. The new york time says the handed over to congress this week. That conversation between clinton and powell happened during a dinner party in 2009. Powell office says he has no recollection of what she is talking about but he sent clinton an email saying that he used personal email for unclassified emails. Well, what a week its been on the campaign trail. Big speeches, new attack ads, staff shakeups, and even a to putt together for the week in review. Reporter this week started strong with Vice President joe biden stumping with Hillary Clinton while donald trump grabbed headlines for a pair of policy speeches. On monday he delivered a not so modest proposal on rad rale izzo razz cal islam and immigration. I call it extreme reporter on tuesday, in a 95 white town, a call for more than his current 1 of African American support. Im asking for the vote of every africanamerican citizen struggling in our country today who wants a different and much better future. Reporter so that was all interesting enough. But then came the big behind the scenes shakeup. Down in the polls, trump accepted the resignation of Paul Manafort and made a slew ukrainian officials. That came two days after bringing in steve bannon to run the campaign. The first headlines of the regime, the unexpected and unprecedented remorse for the insults he has hurled over the last year. Believe it or not, i regret it. Particularly where it may have caused personal pain. Reporter Clintons Campaign called it a teleprompter regret. And this week clinton aired a new taxes but trump has his first anticlinton ads going up in four states too. For the now, im mike sax. Mike, thank you so much. Check out action air one over Clearwater Beach today. A woman stepped on a sting ray at the beach today. She was treated and the city has been warning people in the area to stay away from the sting rays. Earlier this week, nearly a this is what we saw instead. We caught this cute dolphin jumping up in the gulf on a friday. Shay, how are things shaping up for dinner tonight and the weekend. Things looking great out there right now. Of course the gulf of mexico, a good place to cool off right now. Water temperature around 87 degrees. Take a look at circles of apollo beach camera. Beautiful across the marina. There are clouds on the left that are starting to build a bit. As we look at the radar there, are a few showers and st the Macdill Air Force base area. This is all moving inland now. It is a west to east flow. Pinellas park getting pounded by downpours. That is about to move into the Feather Sound area and possibly across part of the Howard Franklin or Courtney Campbell bridges. That would be the gandy bridge not the Courtney Campbell. We have had hit and miss corridor. It will be hit and miss throughout sunset. Then we will taper off after that. Take a look at futurecast. By 8 00, we still have a few lingering showers through polk county, into sumter, and into arcadia. And then it tapers off after that, leaving us dry by midnight. Tomorrow morning when you wake up, maybe you want to go for the saturday morning bike ride or jog. Things will be nice and dry. With the west to east flow, we will have a slight chance for rain before very little coverage developing between noon and 8 00 tomorrow night. Were talking about 30 coverage thanks to an area of High Pressure that is seth up in setting up in the gulf. That acts as a bubble to keep the storm clouds out. We will have a chance for rain. Again, when youre looking at the radar tomorrow, it will be a west to east flow. If tg to t west of you, you know its headed in your direction. The bottom line is, evening storms tonight taper off. The morning low. Tomorrow, low chances for rain before noon and low chances after noon. But it will be the west to east flow allowing high temperatures to about 92 degrees. So still hot and steamy out there no matter how youre looking at it. If youre planning to the beach, i will have a beach forecast for you coming up. Thank you, shay. Breaking news into our news room in just the last 20 minutes, the nba is moving next years allstar game from North Carolina to new the change due to the antilgbt law also known as the bathroom bill. The february games venue changed today as the government refuses to repel the law that has been criticized as discriminatory to transgender people, not allowing them to use the restroom of the sex this is pretty wild to even think about here. Your contact lenses could communicate with your smart phone in the future. Sounds cool. Researchers have developed a way to connect the lenses to your phone by converting bluetooth signals into wifi transmissions. Sounds complicated but listen up. This could change how the lenses could monitor the blood sugar levels in tears and send a notification to your phone when the blood sugar level drops. Identify this under what you should not ever do. An underaged woman is accused of driving drunk to a Michigan Police station to go pick up her friend. Of Course Police didnt have to go far to find her. She was parked at the courthouse, not far from the police station. She told officers she wanted to pick up two friends who had one arrested for drinking and driving. The other arrested and accused of drinking under age. Three, two, one. And liftoff. This is cool. The air force says think of it as Neighborhood Watch high above the earth. The u. S. Launched satellites that will Work Together scanning for space mines. Any objects that could disrupt communications and surveillance satellites we rely space craft other countries could launch to disrupt our own technology. Just released video of the fsu student just fore he accused of murdering two people that he didnt even know. How the neighbor is doing who tried to save that couple the husband and wife were beaten and stabbed to death after being randomly attacked in their garage. Deputies say when they got on the en they found Austin Harrouff biting the face of one of the victims. Harrouff is officially charged in the murder and attempted murder after he allegedly stabbed a neighbor who came to help. Harrouff was abnormally strong. They had to tase him several times. He was also bitten by a k9 officer. The sheriff says they didnt shoot him because get a good angle. Brandnew video released from the Sheriffs Office shows harrouff just before the murder. You can see in the short clip the teen walking out of that restaurant. He was there with his family and deputies say he got into a fight with his father and took off. His mom called Law Enforcement later to report him missing and he was found at the crime scene. Right now officials are working to see if drugs were in his system at the time of the attack. Neighbors during the deadly attack, is out of the hospital. Jeff fisher went running towards the screams of his neighbors. Those who know him say that shows his true character. Let me tell you something, he is handling it well mentally. He is a strong guy. Not that hes not upset about what happened to two of his best friends but he is a strong mental guy. With if it had been anyone other than jeff, there wouldnt have been a jeff to come home and call on the telephone. I think he was one of guys in the neighborhood who had enough strength to jump in and survive. As you can imagine, jeffs father says it will be a while before his son is back normal again. Were starting to get an idea of the damage from the Massive Wildfire we have been telling yoabout burning in southern california. The early number thats just came out this afternoon, shows 96 homes and more than 200 buildings have already been destroyed. Crews are making some progress on the fire today. It is 26 contained. Into their homes. I didnt want to leave. Because i didnt want to sit in that litt valley with all of that smoke around us again. It was like we were trapped. With that, you can see that smoke from space. This is a satellite picture from nasa of the fire. Acres. W more than thats nearly uare if youve already tried everything, anything to start the annoyin

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