Let the political chips fall where they may. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton set to battle here in las vegas its third time two Major Party Nominees are meeting on the debate stage. With the second debate wasnt all a meaningful, i guess you wouldnt expect going into it that third debate would mean all that much either to the polls. But who knows maybe something out of ordinary happens tonight that actually does have does cause some sort of shift in the race. Clinton coming into the contest ahead of trump. Nominee holds a 6 point lead over republican rival. Both campaigns however are dealing with a controversies ahead of the debate. We already know that were up against an avalanche of anti trump media. Fine. But that means opportunities like president ial debate allow him to bring that case directly through the silencer through noise to the people. Think she has the opportunity to the tonight really to deflect in ways she hasnt done in the last two debates. Our kitchen table. I think wee had too much about trump and not enough about us. Debate will be held athe university of nevada las vegas. And will run for 90 minutes without commercial breaks. Fox news sunday anchor Chris Wallace moderating and set forth six topics of discussion which include immigration, and foreign hot spots. What happens tonight is an especially important because early voting is already started in some Battle Ground states. In las vegas, caroline shively, fox 13 stage at the university of las vegas tonight at 9 00 p. M. And you can watch that date right here on fox 13. The Pasco County Sheriffs Office is searching for a convicted felon accused of a shooting a woman. Michael putnam is considered armed and dangerous. He was last seen in the area of state road 52 in altoona avenue in hudson. After the shooting the woman managed to escape. She ran to a nearby Dollar General and asked clerks for help. Investigators say her injuries information leading to putnams arest. If you see him call 911 immediately as he is considered to be dangerous. New this afternoon tampa police are searching for three masked men after they robbed a pawn shop. This is video from the value pawn on hillsborough avenue west. On monday three men one of them with a gun ordered everyone there to the ground. Then they smash ad glass case it took between ten and 20,000 worth of jewelry. They took off with a fourth person who was waiting in what police b model honda accord. If you know anything call police and you could also be eligible for 3,000 reward for that case as well. Charges are if a deputies say man set his own home on fire. This happened on gunn highway early this morning. Deputies responded to a reports of unstable person while on scene they say that man who livers alone set the house on fire. One firefighter suffered a minor injury. A fire at big and deal investigators say an electrical malfunction above the kitchen is to blame. It took several hours to put that fire out. Fortunately everyone got out okay. No injuries but theres ma. Owr s er b able to reopen. In anen mop led polk county deputies to man accused of a hitting a 74yearold woman and staging an accident to cover his tracks. 37yearold Jarvis Kendrick is charged with death of janice joy. On october 6th the Deputy Kendrick hit joy and ongoing. Days later they say he deliberately hit a sign causing damage to his ford pick up in ordered to have it repaired without arousing any suspicion. Sheriff grady judd says that had kendrick had he just stopped and called for help, he likely wouldnt have been charged. Kendrick by the way is banking executive. Governor rick scott was in tampa morning to celebrate creation of new jobs. Pharmaceutical giant Johnson Johnson officially open new Regional Headquarters in tampa with that ribbon cutting. At the Hidden River Corporate Center near each fletcher Avenue Company plans to create 500 high paying jobs over the next three years. A great company. Over 23 Million Investment right here in tampa. So hopefully they will continue to grow here. This is Wonderful Company with wonderful employees. I had opportunity to work with them quite Hospital Business and they do a great job. So its exciting day for our state. The new facility will House FinanceHuman Resources and Information Technology services. All right 1 minute youre driveing down the road. The next a snake is schlitt emergencying out from under your hood. Not a halloween prank. This really happened to man in clearwater. And that man is sharing his nightmarish experience. Fox 13 ken suarez has his story. You know their certainly upside this may be fact that the snake was on the outside. It was a windshield between the snake and the driver. That certainly does make things any less weird. You know theres a series of books called weird florida. Its this kind of thing that puts us on the map. Tim may end up in necks sdwigs along with his little friend here. He was dive driving down u. S. 19 coming home from work on monday. When this guy appeared out of nowhere. He pulled into the parking lot of a nearby walmart, then as mysteriously as it disaperiod. Where did it go . I was face timing someone and taking pictures next thing i know i look up its gone. I pull forward looked around on the ground behind me didnt see him anywhere im assuming hes still in there somewhere. Youve heard about cats crawling up into an engine to stay warm with cooler temperatures upon us snake may have do exact same thing. He was kayaking over weekend he there it hitchhiked home. He original thought it could have been have been a dangerous snake like water moccasin. We checked in with local animal expert. He tells us that its southern black racer it can tell by white under its head that is a nonvenomous snake. And really nothing to worry about. But heres the other thing thats kind of wacky with this. Any snake can live for months without food. This snake if hes still in there, could living without food and getting his water from the air conditioning system. So there or not. It could be months until we figure this whole thing out. Back to you. Have you taken that car oh auto mechanic to check. Wouldnt yall . 65 swans from lake morton or getting their yearly check ups today the birds were caught yesterday during lakeland 36th annual round up. Vets will check out each one of them they will weighed and vaccinated and micro chipped if necessary. We will check their weights feeting from feeders good and they are looking like they are in good weight. The doctor volunteers her time every year to tend to those swans. A warm wake up for pregnant manatee two took unexpected trip to cooler watersrescuers found 800 pound sea cow in connecticut well you know its too cold for her to survive. The u. S. Coast guard flew her 1300 miles to orlando where she will undergo rehab at Mystic Aquarium members of seaworld nicknamed her some a. Surprise on their way into work this morning free flowers. Just because. Well explain why they were given two bouquets when we come back. You will like it. First jim is here with our forecast i think you will like that too. I think youre going to beautiful start to the day. Hardly a cloud in sky. You can start to tell its feeling a bit more comfortable outside. That humidity maybe creeping down a little bit. As we head to toward we can watching cold front which will you look outside right now from our riverview net cam 1400 feet up, gorgeous few clouds off in n solar energy. It also guarantees that those who dont choose solar dont have to subsidize those who do. Amendment 1 means commonsense Consumer Protections safeguarding seniorsand all floridians from scams, ripoffs, and longterm contract traps. Thats the right way to do solar. Amendment 1 good for the economy. Good for the environment. Good for florida. Vote yes on amendment 1for the sun. Runs 06 the next crew of the International Space station lift off the next Crew International space station lifted off from kazakhstan this morning. They are american shane and two russian cosmonauts. Due to technical issue you can see this one went off without a hitch. They will doc with iss friday more than and spend four months living together aboard the orbiting lab before returning home in february. A pair of chinese astronauts just moved into their new home. They will spending next month on an orbiting lab just over 30 feet long. This will be chinas long is crude mission during 30day stay astronauts will conduct experiments in medicine and space relayed technologies. Experimental 7 is consider a stepping stone for to moon and mars. Well everyone loves getting flowers, right . Especially if its a surprise. This morning hundreds of people received a bouquet of flowers part of movement by floor riss in tampa and across country too. Petal it forward. Fox 13 jen epstein explains what its all about. Flowers are a perfect way to spread joy. Exactly whats happening here in downtown tampa today. It forward a local flower studio giving away flowers to strangers not just giving them one bouquet but two. One for themselves and other to petal it forward. Give it to anyone that they wish whether a Family Member a loved one or even a stranger on the street. And its a great campaign. And zoey is here with me this morning tell me about this effort we were at the society of american florist convention and they did this last year. We werent able to be a part of it we decided we had to do it this year. An great. You know bringing smiles to people when we can. And you know, just something to brighten our day as well. Talk about the smiles, reaction that is youve been seeing throughout morning since you got out here. Yeah i mean its awesome. People have been saying they never received flowers like this before. Some people tear up. Some know exactly who they want to send it to. Others just kind of bough their head and walk away thinking wee giving away stuff for free or not. But its been really great. An awesome morning. How about you . How had it is changed your mood . Well i wish we could do this every single morning that wouldnt be possible. But its just been awesome. A great fun way to start the day. And spread some cheer. Tell me about, one studio is giving away 400 bouquets of flowers. How that is even possible . We were just a Little Assembly line yesterday. There. Their was eight of us just tack willing it. And wrapping them up and putting them in plastic. So it was a production. But we were really happy to do it. Today definitely Team Building experience. Team building experience, yeah. Its gat faces and everyone else around you. I mean its definitely doing the job of spreading cheer and just kind of petaling it forward. They are out here all day long. They will giving out a total of 400 bouquets. I think they have another 100 or so go. If youre downtown tampa today make sure you stop by and maybe youll get a bouquet as well then you could have chance to petal it forward. Live in downtown tampa fox 13s jennifer epstein. Thanks jen i know another way to it is spreads a lot of cheer. You know i can tell you that. It looks like were watching this real closely. So as we head toward the weekend that front is heading our way. Looks like lay friday into saturday. You get up saturday morning going to feel real nice get better a we go through the day by sunday morning that looks like that will be the coolest of our days. You look outside right now, gorgeous looking view out clearwater beach. You can see just a few scattered clouds. Water temperatures starting to cool down a little bit. Down to about 79 right now. So, water, and might actually see few people in there those people probably not from florida they are visiting. If you live in florida 79 degree water on chilly side. So, you know, still beautiful weather get out there along the beach. Plenty of sun, nice weather. You can see on visible satellite loop start out like weve seen over the past several days. We start out with hardly a cloud in sky there. Just enough moisture in the lower levels of the atmosphere to producer just few scattered clouds. Getting really dry. Youre just not going to see much in the way of any rain. If you see anything, consider yourself lucky at this point. Because you can see in the mid and upper levels of the atmosphere, very, very dry air in place. If you see anything, its going to a sprinkle. And thats just about it. Outside right now, 82 degrees. Dew point is 66. Thats starting to kind of sneak down a little bit. Just because weve got so much dry air in the atmosphere eventually some of this kind of mixes down to the ground. Humidity 28 and winds are out east northeast at eight miles an hour. Mild temperatures here in tampa 82 degrees. Brandon though all the way up to 88 already. St. Petersburg, youre at 80 degrees. Clearwater at 82 degrees. You head down into bradenton and sarasota both at 84 degrees. And pretty much the same story all across the state. From tallahassee at 83. You head down to miami, 83 degrees. Down across the keys temperatures running in the mid 80s. You look at the dew points. And dont want to say they are 60s. 70s and few spots as well throughout interior. But as behead into the weekend, these kind of numbers, they are going to take big tumble. You look dew point trend right now through here next few days call it somebody comfortable outside. But as we head towards the weekend, just that invigorating dew point you dry the atmosphere out you Cool Temperatures you will see morning lows in 50s to our north. In low 60s across the central and southern part of the viewing daytime highs in upper 70s. Low 80s. High pressure still sitting to our authority. That will continue to give us more east and northeasterly wind over next couple of days. Because atmosphere is really drying out very pleasant outside. Still watching front back to our north and west. Thats the one thats going to swinging our way. And bringing the nice conditions as we get into the weekend. And the tropics, still watchig this one area. This is invest 99. Kind of hard to tell what were you can just tell by looking at that it is very disorganized at this point. Now some of the computer model still hinting something is going to try and develop. Weve got a lot wind sheer in this area. Very narrow window to do something. Computer models suggest if anything does develop going to be sub tropical or tropical system. Probably leaning more towards that sub tropical but basically going to work its way to north and stay away from the continental u. S. As we go through the next several days. Now watch that front back to our northwest. It will be swinging our way. We still continue with warm afternoon. Mild evening over next couple of days. Theres invest 99 if anything decides to develop with that, in cold front working its way towards us late friday and into saturday. That brings the big changes across the area. So forecast goes like this for today. Sunny still on warm side daytime high 87 degrees. Mild night for tonight mainly clear skies overnight low of 70. Then for tomorrow yeah we stay on warm side for a couple more days. On the water, winds are out northeast. Seas two feet light chop on bay high tide comes up 6 27 this evening. Heres your sevenday forecast, in getting into weekend just spectacular looking weather looks like that will continue. At least until about middle of next week. Linda. Thank you, jim. Theres new device to help in battle against Breast Cancer. Its a game changer. And could affect lives o were going to tell you about this is mikes office. If he doesnt show up, he doesnt get paid. Too often marco rubio didnt show up and failed us when he did. I am Patrick Murphy. To get things done, youve got to show up. Youve got to work together. Nomy, weve got to start solving problems instead of pointing fingers. I am Patrick Murphy and i approve this message linda its the because ill never stop working for you. Month to think pink. And pretty much everyone is getting involved with the important cause. It montana to think pink pretty much everyone is getting involved with important cause. Tampa Sports Authority helped paint this big pink ribbon on Hillsborough County employees painted it in preparation for an event that could be happening 2 oclock today. Where commissioner will deliver proclamation to American Cancer Society for Breast Cancer awareness month. County worker are inviting everyone to come down to check out bright pin ribbon. Very cool. For many weapon suspicious lumps in their breast figuring out whether its cancer or not involves a breast biopsy. Thanks to research out of university of south florida, that process just got a lot easi so what color did you get today at school . Haley carol cherishes time with her daughter now more than ever. So you said that youre going to try to get gold . Thats because at the age of 25, haleys already had 4 breast lumps surgically removed. Ive had three procedures in past four years. First two procedures, wires were placed into haleys breast. Pinpointing and guiding surgeons to the lumps. Haley says that process didnt go well. Long time. You couldnt move after they had wire in place. And it hurt to put the wire in the lidocaine actually wore off it had to have another dose. 5 months ago with last procedure haleys doctor tried something new called savvy scout. Its a game changer. And could affect the lives of literally millions of women. Usf choshth charles cox was not only first to use this device in a patient he helped develop it. Instead of bulky wires that stick out of the breast, and is basically injected into the breast through a large needle. How long does it take to place it . About ten minutes. And while it may sound like a Geiger Counter savvy scout isnt radioactive. Instead it uses Radar Technology infrared light and hand piece penetrates the breast. We having reflector buried