We seen things from the puppy that showed he would be opened to the young girl. And that we think trainability is good. Reporter this morning the two met at the Tampa International airport. Celebrating caspers arrival and lacys cancer remission. Reporting in Tampa Mary Mcguire news channel 8. Childrens dream fund has been making dreams come true for children with illnesses since 1981. Marco rubio is fighting to keep his senate seat. It has not been an easy battle. Coming up, why he is getting heated from the Lgbt Community . Budgeted for the expected, and the unexpected. Know that at least the process of buying a new home can be clear and simple. Know your investments can make retirement closer than you think know. The one word behind all the guidance we provide, tools we create, and services we offer. Now to the race for the white house. Bo president ial canidates were on the campaign trail today hoping to sway voters wars their running meats. Hillary clintons running pick tim kaine spent hampshire. Think stopped at a restaurant and had lunch with locals. Later he held a rally in manchester talking about Donald Trumps focus on the world. Donald trump stopped at for abietate a bite a bite at a burger joint in columbus, indiana. Senator marco rubio in fight for his senate seat. He is taking heat from the republican opponent. Thats not the only place he is taking heat. Reporter it has been two months since the the pulse nighluoo whh mao rubio claimetoback in the senat race. This week he took heat from the Lgbt Community speaking to a religious groubeen outspoken about eilgbt views. Politicians go with the they dont mean anything they say. Thats the difference between me and them. Some people spoke that community themselves in that i dont communicate myself in ways. You dont have to endorse what people do in order acthem and love them. That was if message the message i wanted to share. Reporter rubio was in brandon as he opened his offices act Hillary Clinton and the second amendment. He doesnt mean harm by it. He verbalized things that would be better not spoken about. I do disagree with donald on a number of issues. I disagree with hillary on every issue. Reporter saying Donald Trumps might impact other elections down ticket hurting marco rubios chances of winning november. The president ial race an election for president. The senate is an rubio made appearances in polk county and osceola coty, as well. We have not seen as many thunderstorms this aftern . 7storo get going were able to back a punch. Looking live from clearwater beach. Folks still enjoying the afternoon. Your skies have been clear couple of minutes. We are tracking thunderstorms around tampa bay at this time. 83 clearwater beach. St. Pete beach had some rain a few minutes ago. Esave cooled d also with some winds coming off of the thunderstorms. Lakewood ranch havent had too much. You had showers earlier in the day. With the winds that helps cool down the temperatures. 78 degrees now. Just a light breeze out there. We had the a downpour over downtown a few minutes ago. Thats come to an end 90 degrees right now. Thats coming off of our high of 92 for today. Still a little bit of a breeze out of the west and southwest. Tonight well fall to 7 8 degrees. Showers and thunderstorms will push towards the coast and wind down. Then tomorrow similar story. 80 degrees in the morning with mostly sunny skies. 87 by noon. By the afternoon temperatures 92. I think well see a better coverage of showers and thunderstorms as moisture 81 macdill. Thats a raincooled 81. 90 brandon. 95 wesley chapel. You can clearly tell the areas that have not had rain today. It has been blazing hot. 91 lakeland and bartow. Factoring in the humidity it feelslike the triple digits for tampa and plant city. 103 in brooksville. Not too many showers and thunderstorms today. The radar has compared to yesterday. The coverage hasnt been that great. We have had some isolated heavy downpours and isolated severe thunderstorms. Look at what is happening over downtown tampa. We had a shower and thunderstorm roll over heading towards carrollwood and weakening. Oldsmar seeing a good downpour. We had a lone thunderstorm over 301 in northern hillsborough county. Thats will be rolling towards wesley chapel. If you are planning on heading sure you bring an umbrella and keep an eye to the sky. Showers diminishing along the pasco county coastline. A few other thunderstorms in and around orlando that went severe. The video from louisiana has been a mess. It is still raining. This is the same area of low pressure earlier this last week brought us our heavy rain. It has taken a week to get back to the northern gulf coast. Had dry air overhead today. Moisture increases nday into monday. Well see more showers and thunderstorms by tomorrow afternoon. Thforecast model paints out. Any showers and thunderstorms activity will come to an end becoming partly cloudy overnight. Starting off dry for sunday. Sunday afternoon well be in a prevailing easterly flow. Numerous showers and thunderstorms developing. All pushing towards the coast. Like today we could see heavier downpours. We can not rule that out. School week. We are looking quiet. Well maintain mid august weather in tampa bay with 50 rain chances. High temperatures in low 90s. The 70s. Perhaps drier by the time we hit next weekend. The thunderstorms packing quite a punch this afternoon. Thank you very much. Coming up next in sports bucs were back out on the field at Training Camp this morning. The offense enjoyed a big day. Rays were part of baseball history today. But not the kind their starting after a recovery day and film session from thursdays preseason loss the bucs on the practice field this morning. This is the time when the Training Camp becomes a grind. Everyones had a taste of real game action. The reps must continues. First team offense came up with nice strikes during the red zone period today. Jameis winston to jackson kept the toes in for the score. Winston finds humphrys. Unable to get there. Touchdown. This was not a flawless day. Behind the big bodies a fumbling exchange. The ball bounces to gerald mccoy. That would have been a touchdown. Turnovers were an issue thursday. Concentration remains paramount. They are sore after a game. First time playing live in a few months. We are in Training Camp still. We cant forget because we played one game this is still Training Camp. Today was tapered down. It wasnt fad pads day. We are still in counting mode. We are grinding and working. It was a great day today, i well go back in the film room and break the film down and see the adjustments we have to make. A week from tonight news channel 8 your official bucs station presents bucs and jacksonville jaguars. Check out your Cable Provider for the channel numbers on your screen. Rays and yankees today. Judgement day. Thats for yankees prospect aaron judge batting behind tiler austin making his First Major League debut. His first atbat was a home run. Judge homers. First time in Major League History backtoback homers by players in their first big league atbats. Brad miller had two home runs. 22 for the season. Seven total in the game. 84 the final. Ball was flying. Thank you for joining us. Nbc nightly news is coming your way next. Great 38 at 8 00. We are back here at 11 00. See you later. Flooding. There have been flooding. Hundreds of dramatic rescues and the region prepares for up to a foot more Gabe Gutierrez has the latest. Reporter in parts of the south, the devastation is unprecedented. Its unlike anything 96yearold florence washington has ever seen. How are you doing, maam . Reporter we were there as Good Samaritans saved her from her flooded home here in baker, desperation is mounting. Some areas seeing about two feet of torrential rain in less than 48 hours. Ive got about four feet of water in my house. Everything is ruined. Reporter the water seemingly everywhere. This drone video showing the scope of the disaster in livingston parish. This is the 911 center. Authorities for t abandon it and race to higher ground. It is terrible. Its insane. Reporter she was trapped with four children inside her Denham Springs home. Our whole front yard, the street, everything is a river. Reporter so far at least three people have died in the floodwaters. The governor declaring a state of emergency. Because these are record floods, we dont know how wide the water is going to get into those areas. Reporter tonight i have never seen nothing like this in my whole entire life. Reporter how quickly did the water come up here . Really fast, really fast. Reporter and Joyce Griffin was shaken. Its awful. Its awful. I dont know what else to say. Its just terrible. Reporter her home is under water, but thanks to a strangers boat she is safe. The water here is rising rapidly. The street im standing on was completely dry just a few hours ago. Flood w tomorrow. Lester . Remarkable view there. Gabe, thank you. Here in rio, the gold medals just keep stacking up for team usa, especially in the pool as the swimming competition draws to a close and track and field heats up. Heres stephanie gosk. Reporter victories are great. Surprise victories are even better. 35yearold anthony of a second. After olympic gold in sydney 16 years ago, irvin retired, but the water called him back. I was just trying to swim, just to find the love of it again. Reporter maya d dirado wasnt expecting a win either. Eight years ago, joe schooling probably thought it couldnt get any better than thom Michael Phelps, but it did last night. Last night he edged out the superstar for a gold in the 100meter butterfly. I was lucky and privileged to race him. Reporter and although Katie Ledeckys win in the 800 meter free was no surprise, her time certainly was. Yet another world record, more than 11 seconds faster than second place. I felt good the whole way through. Reporter the u. S. Water. Today the womens eight proved they arent half bad on top of it either, winning a clear victory for a third consecutive olympics. While still searching for clarity, that diving pool. The pool is also being partially drained to get ready for synchronized swimming. Track and field is off and running and jumping and throwing. Michelle carter became the woman to women gold in shot put. I get to hear our national anthem. Its me this time. Reporter tonight Michael Phelps chatted with his fans on facebook and repeated that this would be his last olympics. 24 years in the sport and were finishing up tonight. Reporter phelps is racing in the medley relay and likely to win another gold medal. Weather continues to be a problem here. Strong currents for the marathon swimming, lester, but organizers say theyll be ready to go by monday. Back home, donald trump is telling audiences he is worried about cheating on election day as polls show him losing ground to Hillary Clinton in states like pennsylvania. Reporter three months to go and donald trump is pining about pennsylvania. You know, ive been talking about a rigged system for a long time. Reporter appearing to warn voters they cant trust american lose, in my opinion i really mean this pennsylvania is if cheating goes on. I really believe it. Reporter now his team is calling for volunteer election observers nationwide. Quote, were going to do everything were legally allowed to do to stop crooked hillary from rigging this election. We dont want to see people voting five times folks. Reporter trump raising fears, but nationally voter fraud an investigation found just 31 cases of voter impersonation out of more than a billion ballots. If Hillary Clinton is the winner of the election, youll have a large group of Trump Supporters who believe they were robbed. Reporter to keep the candidate on message, advisers are giving trump talking points he can hold in his hand. So heres your total national debt. Reporter and a campaign telling nbc news candidates are trading off trump sitting with reince priebus. Its not working. Trump is down across key battleground states where clinton trounced the republican among women and minority groups. Is there anybody in this room who believes one word that donald trump says . No were not gullible people, folks. Reporter the democrat not without her own problems. Continuing to cut into her creditability. You have a lot of negative publicity and people dont know about you. 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