He is very sick and not at loud to go to school and being tested from it. Sick from school. Bacteria concern at Pasco Academy and steps parents can take to keep their kids from catching the bug. In school and needs a safe place. Thats the problem. It is. A local teacher accused of encouraging sexting. What we are learning about his past and punishment he is facing tonight. I was really scared. I thought i was going to die. A girl attacked on the way to the bus stop. How she managed to get away. What deputies are doing to keep students in the area safe. You are watching fox13 and good evening. Im mark willson and im kelly ring. Several kids have fallen ill. They are battling shigella leading to dissentary. Students are being watched to see if they have this bacteria. Sounds pretty bad, 207 evan. Reporter students are not allowed back until they have had two negative tasks and we spoke to a parent who confirms three cases and she believes her child is infected as well. Jessica duncans son is almost being his old self. After a positive test for shigella wednesday he got a test that is negative. One more test and he has to pop negative for that, too. At heritage academy. A private school in zephyrhills. Between august 26th and september 7th, the school says three kids tested positive for diarrheacausing shigella. The Health Department says 21 others are examined with the same symptoms. I am very concerned. It is not something a child should have to deal with. I would never thought it would happen to my kid. The Health Department is working with school administers on cleaning the school of bacteria matter to childrens mouths and then from person to person. The three definite cases are in the preschool and duncans son is 13. I want them to clean it up, figure out where it is coming from so no one else gets sick. Dr. Jo says not all infected are aware. They should parents should make sure their kids are washing hands frequently. Not just washing their hands, get under the fingernails and clean toys and anything shared with younger preschooltype children in your home. And the school released a statement to us saying they are cooperating fully with the Health Department. I can tell you the last confirmed case and last positive test was found on september 7th. Lets hope they get it under control. Evan axelbank. A manatee s after being attacked at a bus stop. She is 16. She called deputies after it happened. A man approached her and pulled her in the woods and he sexually tried to assault her. We talked to the victim and she obviously didnt want her face to be shown but told her story. I tried to scream for help but he covered my mouth and he said if i didnt shut up he would choke me. A car came around the corner and cell phone and manatee officers will add more patrols at bus stops and keep an eye on students. And growing concern with parents after a former Rogers Middle School teacher encouraged a student to send and receive sexually explicit photos of students. Michael geist lives in brandon. Josh, you found new details about the teacher. What have you soogies had been talked to by administrators in the past regarding his conduct with students. We learned that earlier today. Nothing rose to a criminal level. You could call those things red flags considering new allegations that just surfaced. No parent in the student pick up line wants to find out a former teacher is under arrest. Its not good. Especially when the crime is involving students. Thats what the world is coming to. 31yearold Michael Geist was arrested at his home in brandon on charges of lewd and lascivious conduct. Geist taught science in river view. We had a few students that came to the principal and said something didnt seem right. That would ignite an investigation leading to geists abrupt resignation in may of this year. A month earlier phone to a female student urging her to send sexual messages to other kids. He also wanted her to take x rated photos and videos of herself and then he wanted her to show him what was on the phone. Geist appears to have conduct issues in the past. According to a memo sent by the principal he was talked to befoe being alone with female students and sending personal emails urging another to twerk in class. The same girl he allegedly gave the phone to. We have High Expectations for anybody that works for the district and we expect they will have the utmost respect soogies was hired in february this year and passed a background check first. You want to protect your children all the time. They are not protected at school, thats a big problem soogies is also said to have given the same girl the phone to, he is said to chocolate cake laced with marijuana. He is out of jail on 7,500. Mark, back to you. Josh casio reporting for us tonight. Thank you. The hillsborough state attorney is asked to be removed from the state investigation into the shooting death of riggins. In a letter to Governor Scott mark says his personal relationship with the family of Deputy Caleb Johnson could johnson is identified as the person who shot and killed riggins two weeks ago over serving a search warrant. He should be appointed to a fair and transparent investigation. As a result of the letter the Hillsborough CountySheriffs Office released a statement saying the case will be reviewed by a state attorney in another jurisdiction saying in part the Sheriffs Office will fully cooperate with the appointed state attorney and dictate the outcome. We have learned the driver killed in the crash that shutdown a section of i4 today was not wearing his seat belt. Skyfox was over the scene at 3 00 this afternoon near the state fairgrounds, Florida State fairgrounds and thats whats left of the red saturn two cars lost control and including a semi. We are told those drivers were not injured. Luring a carpenter to a home in river view and robbing and carjacking him. They had no idea a vigilant neighbor was there watching the whole thing. That neighbor saw somebody standing by the house next door and thought it was weird and took out her phone and started recording. A short time later a red car pulled up and group of teens jumped in and took off. It started with a craigslist ad offering to do home repairs. Somebody responded asking to estimate. The teenage girl lured the carpenter in the home and the group of teens robbed him and carjacked him and that neighbor michelle battle there was to dial 911. They were all hiding on the back side of the house. When he pulled into the driveway they bumrushed him, man handled him and took his wallet and phone and jumped in the vehicle and took off in the vehicle and left him standing for neighbors and she is a hero with her quick thinking. Deputies spotted the vehicle and chased it down 75. And they range in age from 1519. Good for the neighbor being thoughtful and thinking about this and something didnt look right. Paying attention and called 911 and had the video. The first of three Public Meetings about the new st. Pete pier was held tonight and it drew some protestors. They were not pier. Up next why they were so mad and why it has to do with dead birds wash ago shore in Pinellas County. His entire life we thought it didnt impress him. Little did we know everything to him was flat. A new vision therapy is using video games and tonight at 10 30 we will show you how doctors are using them to treat lazy eyes and we will tell you all about it. And calm day today. National Hurricane Center chat. We have a Tropical Storm over florida up by jacksonville and there it is Tropical Storm julia is on the map. It is headed north and northwest. We will talk about that and impacts to our local weather coming up well when i shop, my coupons are in a neat little stack, and my weekly ad is folded like this. Ready to go. Thats how i save a lot at publix. How bout you . Publix. Where shopping is a pleasure. Im Hillary Clinton and i donald trump says he alone can fix the problems we face. Well i dont believe thats how you get things done in our country. It takes democrats and republicans working together. Thats how we got health care for 8 million kids. Rebuilt new york city after 9 11. And got the treaty cutting russias nuclear arms. Weve got to bring people together. Thats how you solve problems and thats what marco. Polo. Marco. Polo. Marco. Marco . Marco . But its not a game when our senator doesnt show up. Im Patrick Murphy. Solving problems means showing up. Showing independence. And working together. Its why i worked to protect Womens Health care and worked with both parties to stop cuts to medicare. Im Patrick Murphy and i approve this message because florida needs a fulltime senator. Marco . Marco . For me, shopping is a three step process. Step one walk the aisles. Two find the deals. Step three see, thats whats great there is no step three. Thats how i save at publix. How bout you . Dead birds are washing publix. Where shopping is a pleasure. Ashore in Pinellas County and many some dead birds are wash ago shore in Pinellas County. Many scientists think storm water could be blamed for that. It was dutched with heavy rains from hurricane hermine. St. Pete scientists found this bird. Salmonella was found after studying one of the birds hearts and brains. She claims she observed birds skimming the water for food over sewage. Something that can kill a bird can also kill people and this might be a indicator we have dangerous bacteria. The city of st. Petersburg tells us they have tes and Fecal Bacteria was removed. 8 other utilities were dumping waste water including water in tampa. Some waste water dumps included raw sewage. Some very frustrated st. Pete residents are speaking out protesting the citys decision to dump the sewer water into the bay. They crashed an information meeting about the new st. Pete pier and were kicked out for us how it played out. I know you talked to residents about concerns. What did they say . They say they do not feel safe going into the water out of fear it is too toxic for the sewage released into the bay during hurricane hermine about two weeks ago. They say whats the point of having a beautiful new pier if the water below it will smell like a toilet. We will leave. Thats a joke. Protestors are coughing at pictures of overlooking the waters of st. Pete. They say whats missing from the images are signs like this warning visitors not go near the water. I will not let my child go near the water for potential illnesses. Marcy and her children held signs about the danger lurking in the bay during tuesdays Public Meeting on the new pier now floating in the water dumped from st. Petes all the way to pass coand Hernando County when hurricane hermine caused local water plants to reach capacity. They were not putting the level of bacteria out there front and center. Reporter the unknown is frightening to many residents. A park that smells like feces. Thats awesome. It didnt take long for the group to be kicked out of tuesdays meeting. Joining them was city council darden rice. They have every right to be here, turning up the volume and making this an urgent issue. She says the city council played no part to release sewer water from the storm. We had no role in that whatsoever. I found out about it in the news just like you did. Moving forward they plan to have a safe. Criesman wants 58 million set aside in the budget to try to fix the aging sewer system. Be a top priority right now not building a new pier. Without cleaning up the sewage where no one will be able to enjoy it. For the actual focus of the meeting city architects want to create a playground, market space and plenty of waterfront viewing on the land side of the pier and planning two more public input meetings and the next at 6 00 at the j. W. Kate rec center. One of the protestors vowed on his way out they plan to be there as well. Room crystal clark fox news. It is not going away soon. No, its not. Lets get to paul. He had breaking news about the Tropical Storm. Wow. This escalated quickly. This morning, which is interesting about today. The Hurricane Center at 8 a. M. Had invest the 3l as zero Percent Development in the next two days. At 2 00 it was 40 and 8 70 and actually over land. I can talk more about this. This is a reflection of what happened in louisiana when they should have named the storm inland over louisiana and did not and kind of learned their lesson. The storm developed over land near jacksonville. Heavy rain boca grandpas from karen lynn blackford. Southwest wind around the developing tropical system will likely mean showers and and from ed, finally, nice tropical sky in south tampa. Here is i put the symbol on the map. The Hurricane Center is yet to put out information as far as the track goes. We do know in communication with the Hurricane Center this will be a Tropical Storm by 11 00 and it is not obviously headed south. It will head north and northwest. This is a lesson. I think they learned they should louisiana and thunderstorm and how often do you see the Tropical Storm not over water and over land. I cant remember the last time they have done that and this is a lesson they have learned with the system producing the devastating floods in louisiana. We will get the track information by 11 00 and one thing it is doing is producing a southwest wind over the bay area and all that means for us, we will likely see showe and on tonight and tomorrow morning and tough to say exactly where but likely some showers and thundershowers around. You can see rain and storms down by the mouth of tampa bay and then rain developing in northern hillsborough and pinellas and some by dade city. Can you tell theres a storm on the map. The rain direction is kind of flowing and rotating around the center of julia up by jacksonville dade city and then inland and polk county not too much. Rain by fort myers. Again tonight a continuation of showers and storms and rain up by orlando and nothing heavy here and circulation with julia is in jacksonville or near jacksonville and sustained wind at 25 and gusting over Tropical Storm force. You can see the northeast wind in jacksonville and southwest wind in tampa and south wind at daytona and it is a broad circulation. Up here temperatures holdi big time of year this time of day and put on the Tropical Storm symbol and it will move north and northwest into georgia and probably weaken. It has to over land. It will stay in the soupy tropical air mass and of note we have ian in the atlantic. That will head up to greenland and iceland and not concerned about that. Typhoon meranti reaching peak of intensity in taiwan with winds over 115 miles an hour and moving west and northwest ward in china making landfall wednesday or wednesday night and a super typhoon gusting up to 200, 205. Thats a monster. Showers and thunderstorms around especially near the coast and down to 77. Tomorrow showers and thunderstorms around with a storms move inland during the day. On thursday more showers and thundershowers and 40 rain coverage, not raining all the time. It keeps temperatures mostly under 90 and high in tampa was 89. We have a track map on julia at 11 00. Back to you. We will wait. A rash of boat burglaries in pasco county. Still to come, the dock im really good at war. I love war in a certain way. Including with nukes, yes including with nukes. I know more about isis than the generals do, believe me. Nuclear, just the power the devastation, is very important to me. New at ten the pasco county sheriffs new at 10 00 pasco Sheriffs Department is looking for a group of boat burglars. They were targeted in drydock storage on holiday. The Sheriffs Office posted this Surveillance Video on their facebook page. See the man on the right of the screen with a backpack. Hard to say if he has a bald head or cap on. Definitely wearing a backpack. Deputies stole a number of items, flairs, fire extinguisher and remove valuable items from your car and lock your car before headed to bed. Everybody lives in a great neighborhood but lock your car. Thieves broke into cars overnight and if you know anything about the crimes call the pasco county Sheriffs Department. Surviving the pulse nightclub shooting, but lost his life tonight. Tonight they are waiting on toxicology tests. This is a picture with him with his boyfriend. The man on the right. Rodman was found unconscious early sunday morning at a house party northwest of tampa. Sadly, rescue crews were not able to revive him. A rare show of unity in washington as lawmakers came from florida coming together against a common enemy. Mosquitoes dont have a party. They will bite anyone. Congress has not come up with more money to fight the zika virus. The bottom line for me, the time for politics is over. Thats a fed up governor rick scott. In washington meeting with them to stop the mosquitoborne mosquito virus. Six confirmed cases and 70 people infected with zika because of local mosquitoes. Theres a good bit of news, the long stalemate, the zika battle appears to be almost over we hope. Chris kato joins us. This has got to be moving in the right direction, chris. Reporter it sounds like it but this is washington and anything can happen. Florida almost hit a milestone since the first case of zika reaching the and 79 cases confirmed and most are travelrelated and locally acquired cases continues to grow. The centers for Disease Control says it ran out of money for zika. Governor rick scott traveled to washington and met with marco rubio and paul ryan telling them unborn babies. Zika can caus