A. M. Well see sun through the early afternoon hours and then we see the atmosphere bubbl up. Temperatures in the upper 80s to low 90s this afternn. Better chance of showers and storms building west this afternoon annd o into thi evening. Wel detailhen rai chances for the weekend coming up i a bit. Vanessa thanks, mike. 6 01. Sky fox is overhead, st. Pete beach. We have a crash with lane blockage. Gulf and 35th and youra of concern and ction, is going to be aig through the area. Otherwise, it doesnt lookik le it will be affecting any other direction or travel lane more to come. Well get to the tampa area fro there. Fowler avenue at 15th street north so just east of that tersection we have a crash reported in the eastbound direction. We dont know about any lane blockage here but just be careful and well update you on this one as well. Russell all right. Here we go. So disturbing, t sheriff there says its one of the toughest hes ever seen. And weat he doing this story, but we have to tell it to you this morning. Laur a woman is sittinng i jail charged with manslaughter. Sheriff says that her 6yearold sonil his week old sister after t mothereft all three children alone in a hot car. The mothers names kathlee steele. Es 62 years old. She went inside a Cell Phone Store and left her 6yearold, her inside a hot van. The baby started to cry and the 6yeold beat her so severely, she ed. Steele did not get the baby medical attention until much later that night and by then, the bab was dead. Just three days after the baby was born, there was anoth incident at a hotel where the baby fell out of a car carrier and wasak to the htaospil wi brain bleed. Child protective services was called out butetmined in the end it was an accident and there what will happen to the 6yearold. The sheriff says he will not be charged. He has been placed in foster care along with the 3arold. 6yearold is also a student at Elementary School in Pinellas County. He will not be returning. Working with the Sheriffs Office and child protective serves to come up with a plan for the childs education. Russell and now the childs father, h died several years ago of nc. But steele hadis sperm frozen an was artificially insemat and this woman even appearedn the reality show pregnant and 55 years old. And this is footage we found of eriffs office is not releasing the name of the doctor thaterformed the insemination. Lake wales police had to rescue a 3yearold lockedn. To the back seat. It happened on highway 60. 86 degrees outside but it felt a customers saw the child and called for help. Ficers say she was hot and sweaty but foatrtunely, otherwise ay. The girls father and grandfatherlaimed this was an accident but investigators say Surveillance Video tells a different story. It shows them getting another child out of the back seat and looked back as they walked awayment officers arrested the childs father and grandmother. They are charged with child punta gordas police chief is taking the blame after a death during a Citizens Training Academy demonstration on tuesday night. As your chief of police, accept full responsibility for the actions of my department, my accountable. Bottom line is i am questions still remain about how live ammunition made its way into the weapon used in tha demonstration. Chief lewhe gun was blanks. D to be loaded wit he said officers wont use real demonstrations ever again. And this was on the front page of the charlte sun, the newspaper. Its a picture of officer lee koel taken by a staff memr just moments before he accidentally shot mary nolten esd as a criminal to demonstrate how officers decide when to use administrative force. Ura former Tampa Police Officer is accused of slexua battery in a case connected to a affic stop weekend. Adam was on his way to work whe shore plaza. The woman, who was in her 20s, said that he touched her inappropriately and his dna was found on her clothing and he was red back in march. He trned himself in yesterday morning toace charges. Hes out on bond this morning. York says he never touched the woman. A clearwater Police Officer has resigne amid two internal afirs investigations. Then for questionable comments on facebook. In june, oicer adam wahl responded to a call about a wreckless driver. The car drove straight toward him and he feared for his fety. He fired three shots. Heould have easily taken cover. The driver was not hurt. In july, he made some comments on a friends facebk post. Friend if he followed through with a threat to beat up the then offered to bring ammunition for anrifle. Twoic offers in georgia were fired for their comments on post last month. Number of zika ces has risen now to 25. Russell and despite the increase, the infection zone is shrinking. Florida health officls s the squareil me of the wyood district. Otr 10 blocks wereleared last week. Researchers in south florida are launching a Clinical Trial for a vaccine but scientists need 33 million to finish the first round of the study. Laura inne week, five children have bn hurt or killed on theme park rides. And this should be concerning for rents. Russell none of the accidents have happened at our local parks but many of on a regular basis and as parents, there are things we can all do to maketa c o kids are as safe as possle. Shayla reaves, those height and weight restrictions, there for a good reason. Go od morning. Rerter yeah. Good morning to you. This moing, i was just reading from safer parks. Org, and ty remind people, if youre going to be onhesees at amustemen rk every Amusement Park rule comes from someone elses tragedy. Repeated. Es from being those are words from a Non Profit Group that takes a look at Amusement Park safety across country and this is something that people are talking about, especially with events unfolding during the last five days. So i want to talk a little bit more about these accidents that have happened. None o themere in florida. These are accidents that happened in other places around the cotry. Lets start with this one. The rollercoaster accident just haened yrdesteay in 3yearold boy actually fell out of a wooden rollercoaster re at the idle idyllwild. And then a 10yearold boy died in kansas city. In tennessee three days ago, three children fell from a though none of these cases, again, happened in florida, heres a closer look at some numbers to give you some pe rspective. Back in 2013, nationwide Childrens Hospital conducted a study about injuries and looked at emergency roo visits over a 20year period. From 1990 to 2010, more 92,000 children under the age of 18 received emergency room treatment for injuries. Thats more than 4400 a year and more than 77 of those hurt suffered injures between may and september. A day. An average of 20 injuries when it comeso ride safety, safer parks. Org calls the role of parents essential. Parents are a key line of defense when it comes to avoiding accidents. Riders are encouraged to follow all of those postedrules, restrictions, restrictions on and if someone wants to ride or does not want to ride, rather, do not force them to ride, especily when a child is involved. Just to give you finally an example, if you put your kindergartner in platform shoes to sneak them on a ride theyre too short for, you coud risk their life in one of these cases so the rules are there to make sure your experience is a safe one and well take a closer look and perform more information for parents and their Amusement Park experience is pitive coming up at 7 00. Back to you. Russell talk to you later. Thank you. Police in canad a tip from th f. B. I. Helped stop what could have been a terror attack involving a suide bomber. Blefthors do not believe the man had any accomplishes. Want clear who h target. President bama said the United States is winning the fight against isis. The cases like this and recent attacks in france, belgium and orlando have caused some to question that position. Laura and now a Congressional Task force says we cannot trust the infmationoming from u. S. Central command. Walter allen explains how they got to that conclusion. Good morning. Reporter military cooked the books. Theyay intelligence reports were deliberately manipulated to make american efforts in iraq and syria appear more successful than they really are. Investigation centers around centcom that operates out of Macdill Air Force base. It oversees all middle east military operations. A new report says fo two year senior centcom oicffs have been approving intelligence assessments that inflate u. S. Efforts to combat isis militants the culture inside of this administration is one that bad news doesnt sell well and they wanted to tell a story that isie that the storyha le promoted, i. Intelligence waspuland no evide th changes came however,en secretary f slowing rie own view. Laura hau. Influential reblic National Committee tost reporting thaprevis did threaten to withdraw funding from Trumps Campaign but trump is denying the conversation too place. Clinton will rerees tax returns today. Kaine is doing the same. Trump says that hes under audit. Turns. Ot stop them from givg a new outlook for the atlantic rricane sean and a devastatingxplosion more than 24 hours later, authorities dont know how it started or h many people are still missing. Mike late day evening storms yesterday. 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Laura atlantic Hurricane Season could be the busiest since 2012 and the noaa are edicting 12 to 17 nam hurranes, two to four of which could be major, they say. Riginal outlook called for an average year with just 12 named storms which sounds like a lot innd itself so rest of the season. We have uil November Mike the wasnt too much of tlook was 10 to 16 named al storms,our to eight hurricanes and one to four major hurricanes so they upped it a little bit, more leaning toward en of things. As laura mentioned, new tlook, maybe one or two more named storms so not big difference there in the updated outlook and typically you lookt where tropal activity falls, 27 of our named storms come in august. 34 in september. So t worst is yet to comend that we now gearing up toward the peak, the typical peak of our Hurricane Season. Still a few wee awayut certainly Pay Attention over the were not out of it. Satellite and radar view shows showers and storms continuing t work offshore. The c cover with it and were dryi out finally. Took awhile for the showers to kind of wrap up last night. Somef them hung around until 1 00, 2 00 a. M. Here is rainfall recap in tampa, at about 4. 77 inches for the year. Were running about 10 inches above average. Wve seen our fair share of rain. Rain chances remain pretty tycal t next four or days. Well boue back and for chances. 40 and 50 rain the highest rain chances are going to be closer to the west coast. 77 current temperature, d point of 75. Retive humidity at 94 . Other temps out there at75 in brdon, 72 in bartow, 73 in lakeland, 73 in crystal river. Dew points sitting in the m 70s so warm and muggy to start the day. Even a little bit of fog. Caref out there, especially ast. Here is the satellite and radar. High pressure back to the west. Well continue that southeast fl across the state. Future cast through the morning hours, dry. l see a fair share of sun through at least e afternoon. En we start to see showers kind of pop up along the east coast. Those migrateoward the west coast but it will be awhile. If y he any outdoor plans, try to gethe t done by mid to early, Late Afternoon and then roll through the area. So heres your recap for toda 91 degrees, hot and humid y. Those evening storm building west for tonight. 76, evening storms continuing to push offshore. Sevenday forecast,ain chances generally 40 to 50 for the next week. Mainly afternoon and evening storms so overall, a pretty typical looking sevenday i the mile o the mmer. Vanessa e take it. Thanks. 6 20 i the time. I4. This is the area near macintosh, starting to pick up outhere but some decent travel times if youre hitting i4. Eastbound and westbound, eastbound coming from the interchange to the mlk exit sittg at a four minute de looks good. Herever the Howard Frankland bridge and tn northboun 75 heading in towards the pasco, Hillsborough County line area. Just want temind folks once again, sky fox is monitoring thisro fm st. Pete boulevard. Lder butou have some the poce cars re. Gulf blevard at 35th avenue, th southbound direction. Carefu laura ownerf the pul nightclub is getting political. Two months after the deadly attack, what shes doing to honor the victims meries. Russell and either we been watching too much sharknador sharks are learning to fly. Coming , a scary encounter its time to see whats icki onhe b. Laura look who it. Oo gd morning. What a trt. Russell it is, for us. I never get to do the fun stuff. If youve er been to a concert, you know that sometimes musicis pull people on ste, to sing with them. Ask volunteers thats what happened at one of adeles recent concerts and man she picked has amazing pipes. Take a sten. Jamie, you got do it the singer is 24 pressive. Grayson. Ger is 24yearold jamie as you can probably tell, shes no amateur. Shes arammy nominated singer with two christian albums under her belt. Was very surprised wn s started singing. Their performance has been view times. What an experice. Laura that may have been her moment. Russell et pokemon go makes its return to hot flicks. One woman is hiding little yarn pokemon near places of they look kind of dont they . Kind of creepy, kind of cute. She leaves a card telling people where they can find the patterns if you want to give it a y, get year name out of the gutter. San diego fng captain reported this video of a shark repeatedly j out of the w. Ter. I think its a tarpon or something. Its a shark. Its a short fin, somef the fastest sharks in the world. Laura thats more than one . I think thats one shark just going over and over. Th can jump up to 20 feet in the air, guys. How out. You would to wch me but justwatch. Russl enjoy the show. Good to have you here. Thanks. Ce to be here, guys. Laura good. Russell a big reveal in the new star wars trailer. A all aboutis norman. 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We had some powerful storms hit parts of the aare overnight. Mike bennett in for dave this morning. Did you get some . Russell thunder late at my house. Mike my dog was shaking and yeah. Stuey does not like thunderstorms. Russell you would thinke would be okay with thatecause of you. I try to give himhe fortecas ahead of time. He doesnt listen to me. Take a look outside right now. Sun getting ready to come up in a half hour or so. Beautiful colors out in the distance. This is looking over tampa. To the east, satellite and radar, there were the big storms, about 12 hours ago or so making their wayoward the river view area and then weve got redevelopment ofthem. They finally moved offshore around 12 00, 1 00 this morning. Current temtuperares 77 in tampa. 74 in punta gorda. 82 in west palm beh. Hot and humid today and hot and humidhe next few days. Well see more Late Afternoon, more evening storms building. E rain chances about 40 to 50 through the ekwed. Vanessa . Vanessa mike, right now we have live look in the polk county area. This is davenport, i4. Westbound ramp were checking out near 557. Seeing involves a tractor re trailer that appears to have a complete blockage on that exit ra. Once again, the exit is blocked coming off i4 westbound to 557. S moving a bit slow here in thatestbound direction on the travel lanes themselves so expect some delays there. And then of course, for those folks trying to exit inhat to one exit down which is going to behe 557 exit. More on ts to come. We dont know about injuries y but well keep you posted. Laura today marks two months since the shooting in modern u. S. History. On june 12, a man went on a rampage at pulse nhtclub in orlando, killing 49 people and wounding 53 others. Today family members and survivors begin filing claims. More than 23 million wasaised by the one orlando fund. Sub migs will be accepted until september 12. Russell owner of the pulse nightclub and the sister of one of the victims are joini gay rights advocates and protesting and gathering of religious the american renewal project promotes wt it calls religious liberty. Protestors are calling the conference distastefulnd dismissive of the lives lost at pulse. Laura pasco county depries looking for ka do