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WFTS The Now Tampa Bay September 21, 2016

What we have been waiting to hear about is her plan for the economy. She was supposed to do it in las vegas. Remember the pneumonia, that took her out for a few days. Why i care so much about supporting working parents. Its one reason why im such a strong supporter of comprehensive immigration reform. We will increase our Economic Growth and tax base. And right now, our sarina fazan is in the clinton. Watch for that at 6 00 tonight. And youre looking live at video from just moments ago of action air 1 over the scene of that sink hole on mosaics property in mulberry. It appears that the sink hole is getting bigger. This as we just got back the test results of the groundwater in the area. We have been following this story since it broke. Ryan raiche has been looking into the test results of the groundwater in the area. Reporter yeah, guys. I would say the concerns for the people are evolving as we did get that first wave of testing results in this afternoon. The company that performed the test, ect, says the nine wells they tested back on monday all tested with a normal readings. Some people, it is putting them at ease. Others are having trouble believing it and probably always will. That compy, individual homeowners today. And they should actually get the letters by the end of business today. Keep in mind, we are in the early stages here. More than 70 people have requested tests. And what we are finding is people are struggling to believe the results. Whatever they may be because mosaic hired the company. Is it hard to believe the results. Yes, it is. Here we are, the poor folk, have to rely on them to wonder if they are accurate tests that are coming in. Reporter all right. So another issue here is that it could take months if contaminated water ever if it ever flows past this site to Reach Private wells. So these people may have to retest month after month after month. Now, something that we will be talking about at 5 00 is this testing company. We met with the and asked them pointblank, why should people believe you if company said pointblank, we or would risk losing our license. This is our integrity at stake. We wouldnt do that. Guys, one more thing. Theres been a lot of outrage towards this investigation, towards the handling of it. Some lawmakers calling for a full investigation. We just got a statement from governor scotts office saying briefly here, we will hold all responsible parties accountable for their actions and directed the department of Environmental Protection to expedite the investigation that began a month ago. We will have more about that at 5 00. Thank you, ryan. Also breaking today in the st. Pete storm water mess, the mayor has now put the Water Resources director, steve levitt on unpaid leave. And gibson unpaid administrative leave. The mayor will address the city council tomorrow on an independent review. Management study of Water Resources in the plan of the individuals going forward. This photograph is related to the new york bombing. This he want to find these two men as part of the ongoing investigation. They put out the picture of the man that was captured on closed circuit tv. The fbi says that the man found sidewalk in new york city. They took a bomb out and then took off with the bag. That bomb did not go off, but one bomb did nearby. Now the new York Police Department says these men are just witnesses. Theyre not considered to be suspects. Lets take our first look at weather. Looking live outside right now. It looks like theres a little trouble over on the bridge on the sky way. It looks like it is sunny there. Shay, it was just raining at our studio across james. Yes. A few isolated storms out there right now. But you can also see as were looking over south tampa that we have dark skies. It depends where youre at. Most of Pinellas County is looking nice and dry at the moment. But as we zoom in here around Hillsborough County, we do have heavy downpours coming down near north dale and the tar pin area. This is to the east of west chase. Up and down the veterans. 4 and east of i75 around valrico, did you see that Lightning Strike live, this is south of brandon, also into the Pleasant Grove area. And like i mentioned, around valrico and into seffner. So its not widespread. But certainly touching some of the higher populated areas. And some of our major roads through Hillsborough County. Also into polk county, we have a little bit of rain across i 4. But, again, this is pretty isolated rain overall for our area. And temperatures have pretty hot and steamy today as a result of the lack of rain. 90 degrees in zephyrhills and brandon. Brooksville at 90. 91 in lake wales. The heat is on. We will continue to see isolated showers and storms here tonight. And ill help you to time out the showers and storms for tomorrow if youre interested in a round of golf or maybe going for a jog, ill help you time that out coming up. Thank you, shay. Weve got brandnew look today, our first look in fact at the ferry that will take tampa to st. Petersburg. The video that you see behind us is a promotional video from the company that will run the ferry. Nicole grigg explains why it could only be here for a short time. Reporter the cross bay ferry will test the waters in tampa bay come november 1st. Im actually really excited. Reporter helen lives in tampa and hates the drive to st. Pete. The one reason that i dont like going to st. Pete is because of the commute and the traffic is and all reporter tampa and st. Pete hoping the ferry will change that mindset. I feel its super convenient. Reporter the one and only ferry will be here next month and will do test runs starting the first week of november. This is the vessel. Reporter in a press meeting today, we found out that the ferry will take 150 people from downtown tampa near the Convention Center to downtown st. Pete. It will be a 50minute ride. Not only is this a pilot program, were also learning only going to be seasonal, meaning it only operates six months out of the year. Thats why critics are asking why four local governments are spending so much money for this test run. But dave scott with citizens for high speed ferries says this test will give them the data. We can decide do we extend service . Do we add boats . Do we add terminals to pick people up. Reporter the ferries will cost 10 for adults, 8 for kids. And for the now, im nicole grigg. Thanks, nicole. Breaking news right now. A live picture of a congressional hearing right now about the epipen and the recent price hikes of more than 400 . Heather bresch is answering questions right now in a prepared testimony of newer statement she said people wrongly assume the Company Makes 600 off each epipen. She says its closer to 50. Picture. Of course so many people in the congressional hearing right now. It is used as a lifesaving treatment for severe allergic reactions. In 2007, it cost 100 for a two pack. Now that price is 600 as we have said before. The backlash was swift and strong with the stock price hitting an alltime low. Some parents launched an on time petition asking to stop the price gouging. We are waiting heather. There is a lot going on in the hearing. As soon as we get more and we hear her speaking, we will bring that to you. . [music] . . Pictures of the smiles we left behind . . I could sing that all day. The way we were. Just announced, the one and only Barbara Streisand coming november 30th at 8 00. Tickets go on sale next thursday. Paul is going to sing a little more. We will be back in just three minutes. . [music] . Come into Steak N Shake for handdipped fall milk shakes. Better yet, come into Steak N Shake for handdipped fall milk shakes at h. During halfprice happier hour, weekdays, now two to five. Hillary clinton was in orlando today. And our own sarina fazan is speaking one on one with Hillary Clinton right now. She is putting together that interview as we speak. Look for that tonight on abc action news in just minutes. Meanwhile, donald trump is in another big Battle Ground state today. He is trying to channel a Little Campaign help from up above. Watch. And we ask you, god, to let that help be in the form of the next president , mr. Donald trump. All right. So there it is. People are talking about this today. Starting his day in cleveland. Donald trump and his nominee mike pence meeting with pastors, many of them african american. And everyone is talking about and how he repeatedly tossed around the n word as he talked about how africanamericans have tried to become successful. Ultimately king says he would take the system apart and create a whole new system. Trump is weighing in on the Police Killing as well in tulsa, oklahoma. And this young officer, i dont know what she was thinking. I dont know what she was thinking. But im very, very troubled by that. Im that. And we have to be very we have to be very careful. Okay. After that, trump and mike pence, they moved on to toledo for a rally there. You have a look how tight the race is getting at this point. It seems every day there is a new poll out, Something Else telling us which candidate in the lead. We have suzanne mcmanis with us today. It is interesting to continue forth. Absolutely. The key numbers are what is the expected Electoral College vote that each candidate would get if the election were today. And you see for clintonkaine, it is 200. For trump, 164. But neither has reached the magic 270 that you have to get. Right. To get elected. You have all of these gray states that are tossups, including the biggest prize of all which uhhuh. And these states are changing almost every day. What overall this shows is that the race is tightening. In our state, for example, is a statistical tie between Hillary Clinton and donald trump. The same is true in some of these other gray states. But as soon as the polls flip, and it moves solidly in one direction or another, then it will bece red or blue and those numbers change. Yeah. All right. One you that might relate to more. More people are ready for the election to be over than they are excited about it. Thats even if their person inwiths. They decided to ask voter its they were happy about the contest so far. Here are the results. 57 are frustrated. 55 disgusted. 31 interested. And only 10 said that they are excited. A little later, we will dive into what it will take for Hillary Clinton or donald trump to walk away with the first president ial debate which is on monday, next week. Animal lovers are furious over the proposal to kill wild horses in the american west. We can tell you that it has been rejected. But the fight over federal land and free roaming herds is far from over. Reporter theyre considered a living symbol of the american west. Wild horses. Federally protected, along with danger from the Agency Charged with protecting them, the blm. The blm for years and years has been creating this problem that they say they cannot solve. Reporter that problem, overpopulation. We want these herds to be healthy and strong. To do that, they need water and grazing land. Reporter in the wild, the horses compete with cattle and other cattle for the use of public lands. These are not called special interest lands or cattle lands. They are not called lands for profit. They are called public lands. Reporter over the years, many have been rounded years over the years. Nearly 45,000 are being held in enormous pens like this one in kansas, cared for at a cost of 50 million a year. A board recommended selling or euthanizing nonadoptible animals. Prompting protests outside of a meeting in arizona. Send a strong message to the blm that the American Public will never stand for anything inhumane to our wild horses. Reporter the blm swiftly rejected the idea, promising not to put down healthy animals in the pens and the blm is not going to euthanize healthy animals on the range land in any event. Reporter kicking the can down the road or the range where the future of these beautiful animals is far from certain. Fay fredericks for the now. And around the country, the blm is conducting trials of an inexpensive Birth Control called pzp. The effects last a year. But critics worry it will be hard to get close enough to successfully inject the horses. Celebrity hookups and break upare the bread and butter of magazines. You wont be reading about it in people or us weekly because page in enough time. They were in printthe news broke yesterday. Who is cashing in on the celebrity divorce . Intouch. Apparently they were days ahead of this, getting a tip it was already happening. A 400 million divorce. There you go. Wow. Today the wax museum in london is making brad pitt and Angelina Jolies divorce official. You see they separated the wax between. Thats when you know your divorce in hollywood is official. You get a partition. Come on down. You could be the next contestant on the price is right. It will be at Ruth Hecker Hall tuesday april 4th, 2017. This is video of one of the latest traveling events in las vegas. Its not the show withdrew carry or anything but you have the chance to win cool prizes. We posted a link how to you can find us right now on the facebook at the now tampa bay. You know what else you can find, paul . What . It looks like its nice outside. I can promise you its hot out there. It looks beautiful. Shay, what do we have out there . Youre right, laura. It is hot and steamy. Dark clouds out there as well with the sunshine. Take a look across tampa bay. You can see that its pretty dry. But as soon as you move into quite a few of those scattered showers and storms. But most of this rain is moving through from the northwest to the southeast. So right around chevalle, you will get heavy rain coming through. It is hit and miss across most of the area. But Hillsborough County is getting the majority at the moment. Around mango, seffner, this is right where the i75 and i4 the bulk of the thunderstorms have been a little farther south in Hillsborough County closer to to the river view area. So in polk county, weve got a couple of or a couple of heavier downpours as well. Again, this is not widespread across the area. What is ahead for the rest of tonight, we will continue to see this northwest to southwesterly flow with a few of the evening showers and storms. Then we will be dry overnight. We had a lot of good dry hours today. It allowed us to hit the we will see that again tomorrow. We will start off in the upper 70s early in the day. Once again, that is the best time to get out and enjoy golf or whatever you might have in mind. North to northwesterly winds at 5 to 10. Thats when the temperatures will be the most comfortable, going from the upper 70s to upper 80s by noon. I think the majority of the storms will hold off until after 2 00. Again, giving us a lot of good, dry hours. 90 is the high. 100. I know you want to know what is happening this weekend. I have that forecast for you coming up next. Laura. Thank you, shay. You could wind up spending more on presents this holiday season. Something you dont consider when shopping is getting more expensive. Youre watching the now tampa ups just raised rates and year. Theyre cashing in now. Laura, something to keep in mind if you buy gifts online. Only 94 days left until christmas. Only. I have time to get my gift cards. People dont like me. The higher shipping costs may make online shipping more expensive too. A lot of stores offer Free Shipping if you spend a certain amount of money. Shop around if you need to. But in 2015, we fail today live up to our standards. In so doing, we let our customers down. I remember this. That is chipotles ceo apologizing as the customers struggle to get the customers back as they struggle to get the customers back. Sales were down 24 for chipotle from april to june. Walmart just spent about to 932,000 hourly store employees. Thats about 500 a worker. Employees were awarded for meeting sales, profit and Customer Service goals. That last one affects those of us who shop there, which included cleanliness and check out time. The payout is part of an Incentive Program that launched last year when walmart raised the minimum wage to 9 an hour. Im todd walker in charlotte, North Carolina. Unrest and riots after yet another Police Shooting rush to judgment and what is right now, calls for calm out of concern there could be a repeat of protests that turned into riots charlotte, North Carolina. There are new questions about what led to the unrest after police shot and killed an africanamerican man. The nows todd walker traveled to charlotte to cover this tense situation. Todd joins ughs live right joins us live right now. Todd. Reporter call laura paul and laura, things are calm in charlotte. People hope it stays that way. Discourage violence and come up with a strategy for making everyones voices heard. That anger already coming through loud and clear. Tear gas, flash bangs, police in charlotte, North Carolina break up a protest that turned ugly, descending into a riot. Looters setting fires and pulling things out of the back of pickup trucks. And Damaging Police cars. At least 16 officers were heroically were just trying to deescalate the situation and resolve it as peacefully as possible. Reporter the violent outlash is a rush to judgment. It is time for the voiceless majority to stand up and be heard. Its time to change the narrative. Because i can tell you from the facts that the story is a little bit different as to how it has been portrayed so far, especially through social scott outside of this apartment complex tuesday afternoon. They were there to serve an arrest warrant to someone else. Scott got out of hi

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