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WTVT Good Day Tampa Bay 9AM September 17, 2016

Morning clouds are leaving. 1400 feet up and watch the Swift Movement of the clouds. This not fog, but as they mix out over the next 30 minutes or so, you will see increased sun and as a result more 80s. We actually have made it to 81 in tampa this hour. Clearwater at 81. Actual he lots of 81s. Brandon, sarasota, venice and st. Petersburg with the humidity. Well, it feels like the mid to upper 80s. We know that summerlike day today. Rainwise. Sky tower radar showing any sprinkles across the gulf are moving away. A very light northeast wind, and it is actually because of julia. A depression east of our state, and it is not moving. So with the light one, that sea breeze gets going and in between 2 and 4 p. M. , that rain chance builds in our Northern Counties and kind of pushes south and west. Just be aware that any downpours today can be locally heavy because slow moving. With a high of 90. Outrage is growing in polk county after a sinkhole almost property sent 200 million gallons of contaminated water into the ground. Anjuli neighbors of the fertilizer plant will hold a protest at city hall. The sinkhole was first detected on august 27. The company didnt tell pollution until cant broke the story. The department of Environmental Protection said they werent obligated to tell those who use well water. Contaminated groundwater has not moved past mosaic site. That explanation is not cutting it for some. Why arent someone transparent. A sinkhole and show an active evident instead of a massive coverup. That is what this looks like. Contaminated water out of ground and that could take years. A chance to turn yourself in. Alcides the Pinellas Sheriffs Office is holding a one day only safe sur render and nonviolent misdemeanor warrants. Kellie cowan has nor from st. Pete. Reporter we are here in st. Pete at Operation Safe sur render. The second straight event that the Pinellas County Sheriffs Office has teamed up with the state Attorneys Office to hold. I am joine with the Pinellas County Sheriffs Office, and spencer, this is a significant event not just for the people that are turning themselves in, but also for our taxpayers out there. Yeah, it saves the county a lot of money. It helps us purge a lot of these misdemeanor nonviolent warrants from our system. Reporter how many people how successful are these events for your department. We have had an upwards of 114 people show up to to so it fluctuates from event to event. Reporter you said before this can save the tax pavers thousands in just resources, but tell me the impact that it has on on your daytoday operations. Well, deputies are serving warrants every day. And this helps resolve that, because it takes it takes money and man power to resolve a lot of these warrants and us to search out search these people out and maybe contact with people are arrested. But in this case, people can come here on this day and resolve these warrants many times they are getting mitigated fines. The judge will often put them on payment plans. A continuous and sometimes even dismissed here. It saves the citizens money. It saves us time and money here at the Sheriffs Office in the account. So it is not an Amnesty Program per se, but can help out with peoples sentences or things like that as you explained, but the other thing as we want to stress, these are nonviolent offenders, correct . Thats correct. It is not an Amnesty Program but for nonviolent misdemeanors and many times a lot of these warrants are for failure to appear in court on traffic violations, code violations. Really minor misdemeanors and through this process we can eliminate a lot of these warr reporter sergeant gross, thank you very much. This event at 445 31st street in downtown st. Pete at the s suncoast safety council. Send it pack to you. All right, kelly, thank y you. Other top stories. Health officials have expanded the sdmreebinga zone in miami beach. Governor scott madeed announcement after five people in the expanded area were found with nontravel related sym symptoms. The number of zika cases in there is good news. If no new cases are found this weekend, an advisory zone will be lifted in the wynwood neighborhood of miami. As for the money needed to fight the zika virus, the battle in congress may soon be over. Congressional aides say republicans might allow planned parenthood affiliated clinics to share in funding to fight the virus. The white house has sent a message ruling out any legislation with funding restrictions. A pasco county woman is facing battery charges after admitting to stabbing her boyfriend. Port Richey Police say around 8 30, 51yearold andrew glisic was found dead behind a family daughter store on ridge road. They found a stab wound in his back and while working the c case, 49yearold Angela Garrett admitted to the officers that she stabbed him two days ago. More serious charges may be coming her way pending the results of an autopsy. Two Philadelphia Police hurt overnight in a wild chase and shootout near the university of pennsylvania. Officials say a gunman ambushed a Police Officer shooting her up to eight times before taking him for taking aim at the university of pennsylvania Police Officer. Both of those officers thank goodness are in stable condition. The gunman then randomly ta targeted several people down a busy street before being shot and killed by police. A motive has not been released. The man accused of shootg truck has been convicted of seconddegree murder and faces a minimum of 20 years in prison. Matthew apperson claimed selfdefense after he thought zimmerman flashed his gun at him last year. The bullet he fired missed zimmerman and was lodged in the trucks metal frame. The sentencing december 17. To the president ial politics now where Hillary Clintons campaign is pro protesting what it calls Donald Trumps pattern of inciting the reaction come after comments he made at a Campaign Rally in miami last night. Thing her body guards drop all weapons. They should disarm. I think they should disarm immediately, yes . Yes. Take their guns away. She doesnt want guns. Take theirs lets see what happens to her. Alcides during in miami he said unless the castro regime meets certain demand, we reverse president obamas efforts to normalize relations with cuba. Bad news for third party candidates. The Commission Says neither libertarian candidate gary johnson or Green Party Jill stein have enough support in the polls to take part. They set a 13 threshold. Johnson around 9 . And still ahead, we always want to ask how if a child or pet dies in a hot car. What one local expert says we can do to prevent a tragedy like that from happening again. The plot thickening for Wells Fargo Bank and federal investigation into the com companys fraudulent sales brass. And at 9 09, starting to bring the heat. Low 80s this morning and a bright way to get that health as you head out of the beach. Light winds means that se coast fairly early today and i would expect only isolated spotty rain at the beach by midday in one or two spots. 81 in tampa. 78 in brooksville. The radar is quiet until at least 2 p. M. In most spots. Storm chances today 40 . The further north you live by sunday will sneak in a little dry air. The weekend forecast and talk tropics three areas in the Atlantic Basin after the break. Atlantic basin after the break. Leaves my side. That is why i signed up for publix digital coupons. And i got the paper ones too. So retro. Thats how i save at publix. How bout you . I dont clip, i dont plan, but i still save a lot. I just shop for publix brand products, cuz theyre great. And thats it. No really, thats it. Thats how i save at publix. How bout you . Time now is 9 xx. A time now is 9 xx. A House Financial Services welcome back, time is 9 9 12. It a House Financial Service Committee Investigation into wells fargo for fraudulent sales practices. To testify at a hearing some time on monday. Last week the bank agreed to pay a 185 million fine and refund 5 million in fees that were wrongly charged to customers. The bank also fired 5300 employees who opened fake accounts to meet sales goals. Wells fargo has sin got rid of its sales goals for retail bankers. The Justice Department has investigation into the bank. The muchanticipated iphone 7 has finally been released. Its base price of 649 has been helping apples stock hit a new high, but some retail experts dont think the phone will sell as well as the iphone 6. As of right now, the iphone 7 plus is sold out in all colors while the iphone 7 is sold out in the popular jet black color. Uber rider s in pittsburgh are getting a glimpse int a fleet of selfdriving ford fusions now picking up uber riders who opted to participate in a test program there. The vehicles are loaded with features allowing them to navigate on their own. A engineer will sit in the drivers saturday. The First Company in the u. S. To make selfdriving cars available to the general pu public. That is carry and impressive at the same time. A virginia woman is hoping to change the skin care Free Products. Laura ratliff makes Skin Care Products for people with gluten intolerance. She started her business in september after selling about 80 items in seven weeks to people in her community. Skin care experts say there arent a lot of gluten Free Products on the market but she says she is up to the challenge of learning how to profe professionally create these products for others. What okay, i am just going to sorry, i dont put a lot of makeup o free. Is that good for you i guess . I guess if you have all allergies alcides oh, i guess. Lindsay a lot do have harmful chemicals so i get the natural thing. Probably hard for her to come up with the combinations. Alcides i am sure. A look outside. It is getting hot. Lindsay it is getting hot and the heat index building into the mid up to ir80s at 9 a. M. In late september and i know at this point i am with you. We are ready if that cold fr front, we are ready for at dont have it for at least another couple of weeks. So in the meantime, we can do our summerlike activities which means getting in our dog walks early. 81 brooksdale bayshore with an eastnortheast wind and hop over to lakeland where it started off gloomy. Low clouds have scoured out. 79 with a light northeast wind as well. Typically when we see a northeast wind over the next few months, that is the breeze we like to see. Pulls in drier, cooler air and help to drag in tomorrow for some, but today, a warm morning with afternoon storms on deck. 80 in west choice. 81 in clearwater. Fan it is a take beach day. 81 land o lakes. Pop over to venice, the warm spot, 82 degrees even north port at 80 and you are basically at 80. Frost proof at 78 degrees. With the humidity at 9 a. M. In late september, it feels like the upper 80s. So make sure your Water Bottles the dogs water bowls are filled as well. Sky 10 radar is really quiet. Only rain is a sprinkle at b best. 100 miles offshore as we have that light northeast flow. That, believe it or not is on the back side of tropical depression julia which is stuck and we hav been in this wind flow for two days. Now with that that means inland rain north of tampa bay by 2 p. M. As the sea breeze moves inland at the same time, that is where our storms will gather and push south and west into the evening tonight. The stationary. You notice that. 30mileperhour winds and on its track to losing some tropical characteristics. So we wont be talking about this much longer. Meander east of the carolinas giving them a rip current risk but no rain. A moisturestarved system with some wind shear. We will see rain. By noon pretty dry. By 2 00 spotty storms. 6 00 scattered storms. Hit 90 for our high. Futurecast with the wind arrows, doing a good job. Building to storms. Dinnertime tonight somewhere near i75 with the sea breeze. Those storms pile up and push south and west. On sunday, drier air sneaks in tampa bay north. So the further south you live, the best rain chance for su sunday. We also have carl in an african disturbance in the tropics. Karl moves west and may be a hurricane and may impact not the u. S. And glide to sea. Why the traffic is busy no local impacts for us. Scattered storms. A 40 chance afternoon and evening and those storms push south and west. Spotty storms until 10 00. 77 for the overnight low and sunday, we may sneak in a little drier air and actually bump the rain chance in tampa north down to 30 . Further south you live, well, see some storms. If you were boating an east wind becoming northwest at 5 to 10. More of a west wind with a 40 aboveaverage highs near 90 thursday. Alcides thank you, lindsay. A tragedy that unfolds every summer here in south florida. An innocent childs life is lost in a hot car. Each time happens it unleashes a firestorm of fury from parents who wonder how this can happen. Anjuli we sat down with a professor that spent the last 12 years researching that. Reporter for a parents perspective the most precious possession in the car, children are forgotten and many killed by the time their loved ones ever notice they are missing. A bay area fire fighter was charged with manslaughter after leaving his 2yearold in his car seat for hours. Eventually leading to his death, but usf professor David Diamond says there is a canines behind the fatal error. He says oftentimes the brain kicks into autopilot. It allows us to do something that we have done many times we actually have a part of our brain, the basal ganglia that allows us to do is automatically. Reporter during this suppression of pro speculative memory, routine overrides out of the former rand. Something as innocent as getting groceries on way home from work or as tragic as leaving a little one in the back seat of a car. They lose awareness that the sleeping child is in the back seat, so they go through a routine that they have done many when they get to their destination, because they have lost awareness of the child in the car, they exit the car, they go about their daily activities, completely unaware that the child is in their car. Reporter over his 12 years of studis, diamond said he has seen the tragedy touch families of all different demographics including doctors, lawyers, even teachers. He says before we shame anyone, you have to look at the science being human means that we are flawed. Anyone is capable of forgetting a child. Anjuli diamond recommends leaving something that will remind you of your little one, a toy, a stuffed animal, even the diaper bag. If your child is enrolled in day care, it is always a good idea to set up a policy with them to contact you if your child does not arrive within a certain window of time. Good advice and so scary. Heartbreaking. Alcides happening too often. After the break music some students ears and others jealous. No homework. More on the educational trend making its way across the nation. You got to see this. Incredible video captures a fiery crash in texas. Foster farms presents appetites. Even a small one can throw you off your game. They can happen anywhere. And they only get bigger as time goes on. Serve foster farms corn dogs, a delicious plump frank wrapped in a honey crunchy coating. A corn dog with 7 grams of protein makes a big appetite go away. Foster farms corn dogs. Time now is time right now is 9 23. A texas Police Officer is in Critical Condition this morning and another saved by body ar armor. Anjuli officials in fort worth say they were both shot answering a suicide call last night. Police say when the officers arrived at home they found the man unresponsive with a a witness told them that somebody was in a shed in the back yard. The two officers were shot as they approached that shed. The officers fired back killing the shooter. And staying in texas, one person is dead after a fiery wrongway crash in houston. Early yesterday morning, a ford f150 speeding down the hig highway. The wrong direction crashed into a kia altima. The car burst into flames and the kia flipped over a witnesses helped pull the man from the burning truck. He was hospitalized with nonlifethreatening injuries. As of right now no charges have been filed. Police are awaiting the ruts of a blood alcohol test. The governor of North Carolina says the city of whatever lot will have to repeal its prolbgt ordinance before any actions are taken to revealing its controversial house bill too. That law has recently led to cancellations of concerts, sporting event and conventions that were to be hosted in North Carolina. Some republicans have calmed for week after the ncaa and Atlantic Coast conference removed their championship events from the state. You may remember the story of no homework from godly, texas. That is where a Elementary School teacher sent a note home to the parents explaining that she thought it would be a good idea to not send home homework to students. Anjuli sounds great for the kids. Alcides great for the kids. Anjuli turns out in some more of a reality. Reporter student at kelly Elementary School in holyoke, massachusetts wont be using the excuse the dog ate my homework. That is because homework has been banned. Now i dont have to stress and go home like i got three hours worth of homework. Reporter instead of homework, students spend two extra hours to improve grades at one of the lowest performing schools in the state. I cannot find a direct correlation between homework and student performance. Reporter antihomework trend some schools say no to h

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