State officials want to know what led to 248 million gallons of sewage discharged into tampa bay this year alone. How did it get this bad, and whats done to permanently fix it and bhaets done right now . Officials from pinellas county, clearwater and largo spoke about their own issues, but the main spotlight is on st. Petersburg which had three large discharge events since last august. They wanted to know why the Wastewater Treatment closed and why a to 14 whistleblower report predicting massive overflows with to closure was ignored. They said they didnt have knowledge of the reports. Hes seeking independent counsel to get to the bottom of it. Upgrades are in progress but could take two toe three years. Hes doing what he can in the meantime to prevent history from repeating itself. We will do everything we can to minimize the opportunity. To bring that capacity up. We cant get that work done overnight. So we have already started the work to on that construction. Having said that, were also looking at trying to reduce the infiltration into our storm waters and into our sewer system through our pipes, so were going to be lining our pipes. Well be looking at manhole covers. Reporter that twohour meeting had to wrap up at 5 00 p. M. Shap comments and questions. The senator said this meeting was meant for factfinding. The next meeting is meant for finding solutions. That will be scheduled in the next 60 days followed by a vote on proposals in november. Kelly. Haley hinds reporting for us tonight. A different pollution concern, one the public was not told about for weeks. Neighbors of mosaics plant in mulberry say they were kept in sinkhole there. Today Senior Management came clean on their mistake. Anjuli davis has details on that. Anjuli today they owned up to the mess saying they deeply regret how they handled the situation. They first found out about the radioactive water pouring through a massive sinkhole on the mulberry site in late august. The public didnt find out for weeks later until the media broke the story. Today a senior vp for mosaic re theyre taking ownership and will do everything they can to regain the trust of their community. We realize that we could have done a better job in providing more timely notification to our neighbors and the broader community. I deeply regret and apologize for not providing that information sooner. Anjuli they say testing shows the contaminated water has not moved past their site, and its actually moving at a pace theyre using a production we will to suck up the water out of the sinkhole. Theyre paying for nearby residents to have their well water tested. They can go through a private lab or the dep to schedule testing with a different party. Either two options would be paid for by mosaic. Chris. Anjuli davis, thank you. Preventing the spread of the zika virus was the focus of discussion today. Pinellas county Mosquito Control staff and experts gathered at st. Petersburg college to talk about bourne illness. Residents could ask questions and learn things like how zika most keets feed during the day. A mosquito that can carry the zika virus is what we call a day biter, and really the whole idea of it is this mosquito adapted to our human behavior. Were out in the daytime primary and so is this mosquito. Its primary food target for a blood meal is the human population. So not only does it live in favorite feed. We have it over and over. It never rurts to remind you again. The number one way to remove the threat remove standing water and wear mosquito repellent punishment. So now landrum gets a redo on her sentence. Sentencing people under 17 to life is cruel and unusual. We have whats going on in the case. The defendant was in court recently, but now she gets a resentence real soon here. She was in court, and actually her attorney told the judge that hes preparing for her resentencing. Theres a lot of things to look at including witnesses called to testify Like Mental Health experts possibly and maybe family members. It was back in 2004, though, convicted of beating to debt emily clements, her boyfriends ex. They beat her to death with a hammer and pots and pans and threw her body in a dumpster. During her sentencing back in 2006, she gave the victims a very sorry, tearful apology. Take a look. I would like to apologize, and if i could i would bring her back but i cant. I apologize for that. Im very sorry. Despite that the judge gave her life in prison, but the u. S. Supreme court ruled that sentencing juveniles to life in prison is cruel and unusual punishment. So she will be resentenced. Happen as early as january. D we, of course, will keep you posted on that. Back to you. We know you will gloria. Thank you. We hear it all the time. Seniors that get tricked out of their life savings, floridas chief Financial Officer wants to the workshop is being called bescamsmart. Cfo jeff atwater hosted this today. The Countryside Library along with the department of Financial Services and the goal is to teach seniors how to recognize financial scams, how they work, how to protect themselves. The workshops also show people how scammers can try to convince seniors to bet on something thats really too good to be true. Studies estimate that 1 out of 5 adults been the victim of financial fraud. So some of the scams were going to share with our attendees today are going to be scams related to the lottery, romance scams, the grandparents scam, as well as various telemarketing and sweepstakes scams. If you missed todays workshop and would like to attend, theres another one tomorrow morning at 10 00 at New Hope United Methodist Church on north ninth avenue in brandon. Improper. State attorney general pam bondi speaks up about his decision to accept a donation from donald trump that came at a time when her office was considering whether to investigate a complaint about trump university. Trump made that 25,000 contribution in 2013. Bondis office investigated the school two years later. She said only one complaint was filed by a floridians between the time she took office in 2011 and the time of that donation. She also says she had no knowledge of the complaint herself. A staff member found no justification to investigate. I would never, ever trade any campaign donation. Thats absurd for, for some type of favor to anyone. Bondi a republican has been an outspoken supporter of trump appearing at many rallies alongside him. Trump said he sought nothing push to be the first u. S. City with a cuban consulate. City leaders are showcasing the artwork of a cuban artist in an effort to warm up to the island nations government. Hes known internationally and even secretary of state john kerry has recognized his work. His work featured thoughtproceed voking flags together. The one in st. Pete warehouse features a u. S. And could you go ban flag. Showing him some and were open to exhibit his work. It helps to build that relationship and lets him know were sincere in the effort. This is normally my work, you know what im saying . Michelle says hes doing his work. If they like it, great. The city of st. Pete has worked to attract a cuban consulate its expected to be unveiled on friday at art exchanges soft when we come back a look into the future. A loot at how channelside will look when all is said and done. Rain coming in from the gulf today on the west wind as a tropical air mass continues. It still looks tropical. Clouds in the background, showers in northeastern hillsborough. Well talk about that plus the tropics are active. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Hes not a serious adult. I cant vote for donald trump given the things that he said. Trump should not be supported. I believe hes disqualified himself to be president. I just cannot support donald trump. Come into Steak N Shake for handdipped fall milk shakes. Better yet, o Steak N Shake for handdipped fall milk shakes at half price. During halfprice happier hour, weekdays, now two to five. kellyvo its being called a reimagining of tampas channelside district. Developers its calleded a reimagining of the channelside district. They presented their vision today to the board of commissioners. We get a clear picture of what the area will look like around the port. It will begin to take shape in the coming years. Aaron maz measure is live at channelside right now. Theyre staking a lot of downtowns future on this development. What will it look lik reporter well, were just getting that clearer picture right now, as you guys said. Weve been talking about this for a long time. It seems like years. Its been at least months. New retail pace and new office space and residential and everything you can think of. Now we really see what that finished product might look like. The renderings reveal today theyre really exciting. The developer as Strategic Property Partners say the 3 billion project is bigger than initial plans. Square feet. The riverwalk is extended under a beneficial bridge and 5 hundred hu,000 square feet of new ground level retail space is going in replacing the entire channelside bay plaza structure that everybody knows. That will allow for the construction of a new Waterfront Park and plaza that includes an events pavilion and beer garden. Its a joint development between jeff finnick and bill gates. We hope to create an extension of downtown that is a great gathering space and really becomes a hub of the tampa bay area and does activates the waterfront in the downtown area in a way that hasnt been done. This project will go up in four phases. The plan is it to build that park plaza and pavilion first along with businesses fronting it. Residential units, a 2. 5 million square feet of office space and another hotel that will be built across from the existing marriott. Developers hope to have the approval to break groun sometime late next year and by the end of 2018 they hope to have phase 1 completed and sometime after that we see all the other phases go in, chris and kelly. Very exciting. Its a perfect area and something to capitalize on. If it works out, it will bring in a lot of people, and well traffic downtown as well. A nice evening out there. A couple of days away from it is muggy. Its a couple days away from fall, but doesnt feel like autumn does it . No, it doesnt. Paul. Last year we had our first touch of ought tm in early october. We had a couple of nights into the low to mid60s. Still dont see that at all on the sevenday forecast. In fact, it looks very prop cam today. Look at this. Big clouds off in the distance. The air mass just the same way it would be in july and august. Just a lot of water in the atmosphere, and ive been watching radar all day today. We had one little surge of rain come in off the gulf around 9 00, 10 00 this morning. That moved east across the bay area and rained itself out. Now there isnt much, but every once in a while as we watched sky tower, a shower kind of randomly pops up. You can see one has popped up thats new in the past ten minutes. Another one popping up up near Temple Terrace and also new. This is moving all to the east and southeast. Theyre small, but if youre out and about for the next hour or two, dont be shocked if all of a sudden it starts to rain. Thats how unstable and moist it is. Theres no real big boundaries around to produce any widespread rain, but certainly enough instability for a couple of shower. Everything is moving northwest to southeast. Rain is scattered throughout gone in de soto county. We zoom in with rain up and down 27 and lake placid to sebring. One here, one here, one here. Nothing like yesterday when we had all kinds of heavy rain along u. S. 27, haines city south of frostproof. Now we have scattered showers with heavier rain by orlando today. Tomorrow is a full day of autumn and thursday is the tomorrow is the full day of summer. Then on thursday you have the first day of autumn, and we still look like midsummer. 91, missed the record by 3 degrees, and the morning low is 78. So far this month it really has been a continuation of june, july and august heat. We had three days below average, and that was because of clouds and rain from hermine. We had one day average and then we had 16 days out of 20 with the mercury above average. An expensive summer to keep your house cool. No doubt about that. Even by our standards its hot. Hurricane season peaked on september 10th, and from now on it drops significantly. Then in late october and november a little uptick in activity, and all of that is because cold fronts move into the gulf and they sometimes die out over the gulf. They can produce tropical activity late in the Hurricane Season, so wat in about a month or so. Enhanced satellite shows two systems. Heres karl. Heres lisa. Now, lisa is not going to do much. Karl, i think, is a hurricane in about a day or two as it moves northwest. A bit better satellite presentation today on karl, and lisa looks okay with some banding. Storms moving westnorthwest, and first stop is karl. Its a 40mileperhour tropical it will get kind of close to bermuda and then take a big righthand hook and miss the island. Anytime a system passes east of a land mass, the impact is generally weeker than the storm passing west of them. It shouldnt be too bad for bermuda. Lisa does its thing in the atlantic and moves across open water and should be gone in a couple of days. So much for that. Now, theres dry air in the west in yellow. There will be dry air weekend from maine all the way down to North Carolina. Still too early to drag down this dry air or way. We stay in the steambath for the predictable future. It will be cooler and less humid in North Carolina to maine, but no way thats getting our way anytime soon. 86 is and the dew point 72 and a west wind at 9. Tonight a couple of showers near the coast. Were down to 78 and a mix of during the day. The Rain Coverage is 20 , 30 and thats it. On thursday partly cloudy, isolated thunderstorms will back up to 88. The average high is down to 88 degrees, and we stay upper 80s and low 90s and nighttime lows in the mid70s. Hey, scott. We have two big games at ray j. In weekend. We have Florida State on saturday and the bucs home opener sunday. The rays kick off their final home hear from the skip on how he views the en a officer was killed in action florida was not doing enough to give their families the help they desperately needed. Dana young understood. That was wrong, so we changed that law. To ensure these families get the benefits they are entitled to and the honor they deserve. Dana young has our back and she has yours. Dana young for the florida senate. A return to common sense. 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 the usf bulls still have not cracked the top 25 the usf bulls have not cracked the top 25. Tle get a chance the noles as extra motivation this time around. Still fresh, cook ran wild around the defense. He had 266 yards and three scores and the noles won 3414 in tallahassee. Usf head coach Willie Taggart says special attention has to be paid to number 4 to avoid a repeat at raymond jam james. This is a team sport and game, and we have to play well, offense and sfeshl teams as well i think if we would have did anything offensively last year it would have helped youre guys to where they wouldnt have had the opportunity to continue to keep feeding the ball to cook. You know, you give it to him so break point. Eventually hes on theres a chance the bucs will be without key players this weekend. They expect to learn more about the injuries to doug martins hamstring and ankle once the mri results come back. It could be a daytime ci its lining up in the backfield for the defensive end. Dirk koetter expects a more inspired effort this week in the home opener against the l. A. Rams than what they saw last week against the cardinals. He thinks the International Makeup will show some fight this weekend. I expect fantastic look at the cardinals with a disappointing loss. They came back, and you know, got after us pred good yesterday. Look at the rams, who we play this week. The rams lost 280 on their opener and came back with a huge win against seattle yesterday. We havent been tested yet this season in that department. Six mother games to catch the rays at home this season starting tonight against the new york yankees. Drew smyly gets the start tonigh year. Hes 03 with a 9. 31e. R. A. In this final home stand the rays want to finish strong. Its been a tough season with more downs than ups. Kevin cash was asked if he feels more frustrated about the season or happy with how theyve come together a little better in the second half. Thats a good question. Its a very even 50 50 balance were frustrated with where were at right now, but very happy with the ways the guys the effort level and how they compete over the last month. This last road trip after the first three games in new york, the guys played really well and that was good to see. We have to find a way to do it for a full season, and i think a lot of teams and especially us, thats a balance you try to find. We just got to avoid those really tough stretches that we had. Yeah. Those touch stretches hes referring to in the first half that month and did not win the game, they would be in the picture. They would be a Competitive Team down the stretch with the wildcard. It just takes a cold streak to ruin your season, and they think a hot season can turn it around. Thats what we hope for for sure. Thank you. Whether when we come back at 6 30, we learn more about the suspect in the new York New Jersey bombing. 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