Weve seen stores broken into. Weve seen looters taking what they can. Hotels have closed in order to protect the property and people who are staying there. What youre seeing now is basically a line, Police Standing firm inching along one step at a time trying to get this crowd under control, once again a flash bomb thrown out to disperse the crowd. They separate. They go, but as i point out, they seem to come right back. Thats right. A scary situation altogether, police being very police and as keith mentioned, they are inching their way step by step. A couple of situations we have seen earlier tonight where we are talking to these protesters face to face, but theyre doing it very gently. Its going to be a long night. All of this is in protest of the most recent Police Shooting of an African American man. Police claim Keith Lamont Scott was holding a gun and did not respond to their commands, but others claiming that the gun was planted. As this investigation edge. Nbcs mark barger has the latest on this chaos in charlotte. Reporter police equipped in Tactical Gear used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse several hundred protesters in Downtown Charlotte tonight. Loud booms echoed through the streets as many demonstrators ran for cover. One witness described seeing a gunshot victim. I dont know. They just shot somebody and he was laying in front of the omni and there was blood and there was a crowd of people. I dont know if hes i dont know if hes dead. Reporter charlotte medical service reported transporting numerous patients from the scene. Some protesters continued engaging with police even after the numerous clashes. Tuesday night there were similar clashes between protesters and police miles away near the scene of a Fatal Shooting of a black man by police earlier in the day. Police say Keith Lamont Scott ignored officers commands to drop his gun which was recovered at the scene, but multiple witnesses say scott meanwhile tonight an evening that began with a peaceful candlelight vigil in a Downtown Park was soon overshadowed nearby with a display of violence. Mark barger, nbc news. Now you will want to download our news channel 8 app to get the latest breaking news and alerts on this as things develop there in charlotte, north carolina. You can stay with us throughout 11 30 this evening for the latest on the chaos in charlotte. Were also updating on wfla, facebook and twitter. New tonight from the sewage scandal in st. Petersburg. One City Council Member now tells 8 on your side theres a way it could have all been prevented. Mayor Rick Kriseman called for an independent investigation yesterday. The government and others are now getting involved. Paul mueller joins us live now from st. Petersburg city hall. Paul, this keeps getting bigger and bigger. Very controversial vote taken here by the council at city hall back in 2011. This was in around to closing the albert was in regard to closing the Albert WhittedWastewater Treatment plant. It shut down last year and some say things have never been the same since. I think the second we started discharging at the northwest plant the next second we should have been notifying the media and public and letting them know. Reporter st. Councilman Steve Cornell sounds off to 8 on your side saying hes done everything he could disappointed by the recent dumping of nearly 150 million gallons of sewage into the bay in the wake of hurricane hermine. These overflows wouldnt be happening because they were clearly caused by this closure. Reporter that closure . The Albert WhittedWastewater Treatment plant. Cornell said theres a good possibility the environmental nightmare could have been averted if only council had voted to keep the plant open. Woes mayor kriseman put the water resource director and administrator on unpaid leave. Both saw the report. A whistle blower warned this could happen. When i asked the mayor on tuesday about that in a consultant report that said the same, he claimed hes been in the dark. You can sit here and truthfully say you had no knowledge of the consultants report, the e mails . That is what im saying. Reporter somebody has to take the fall for this or no . So it doesnt happen again. Reporter wednesday the governor rick scott ordered the epa to get involved. His spokesperson said we can chalk this up to politics. Still theres one thing everybody can agree on. We need to get it done tomorrow, but unfortunately thats not feasible. Reporter the councilman wanted me to emphasize he wants to get Albert WhittedWastewater Treatment plant reopen again. That will be on the agenda at the City Council Meeting just the governor getting involved. Politicians seem to be lining up, if you will, to get the situation under control. Is that right . Reporter thats right. Congressman david jolly wants any City Employees who know anything to come forward and then late tonight this may have been a surprise move to the mayor who knows . But senator marco rubio is asking the epa to get involved. So this issue went from local, state and now its all the way at the federal level. A lot of eyes on the situation, as they paul mueller live in st. Pete, thanks. Now to an 8 on your side consumer alert, a skimmer strikes again at a bay Area Convenience store only this time theres a twist. The culprit put that skimmer on an atm inside the store. A technician servicing that unit yesterday afternoon found the device and called police. Now police want to warn you. Chip osowski is live in bradenton tonight at this 7 lion where the skimmer 7 reporter weve done a numb chip . Reporter weve done a number of stories on skimmers in the past but normally on an exterior gas pump or exterior atm. The fact this skimmer was found inside the store right there may mean these crooks have gotten bolder and graduated to the next level. It concerns they i mean because people come in, we didnt even notice that that happened. I use my bank card in there. It worries m amanda sharlin wasnt here when the Police Arrived tuesday, but is now concerned about her finances and her customers. She cant figure out how this happened. They had to be very slick about it because nobody noticed it. Nobody knew it. I didnt know it. Reporter in many cases like the one in tampa 8 on your side broke earlier this month, the skimmer targets gas pumps normally out of the clerks technician servicing the atm inside the store discovered the skimmer. Investigators tell us the atm is located in the back of the store where on a busy day someone could go unnoticed for a period of time. A lot of people steal from the stores get away with it because they know the clerks are busy at times. Reporter customers like tim clark are changing the way they do business. Thats the reason for one i never use a card in an atm, even at my bank. I go into the store itself and get money from the bank itself. If im using my card, its like here at a Cash Register because its the best place to do it. Reporter sharlin believes thats good advice. It worries me. I hope i dont have any issues. Im going to check into everything. Reporter police are offering common sense at vice when it comes to using at advice when it comes to using atms. Come out. Look at that atm and do some of your own investigation. If something doesnt look right, notify authorities. Our 8 on your side investigation into the crater coverup is bigger than we first thought. Not only did officials keep the secret from the public, mosaic and floridas department of Environmental Protection also kept Hillsborough County government in the dark. The countys Environmental Protection commission learned of the sinkhole contamination by watching our 8 on your side investigation. That sinkhole opened in august below a gypsum stack at a Mosaic Fertilizer plant and that void drained a pool of extremely contaminated radioactive water that eventually dumped into an underground aquifer. Hillsborough countys epc has no idea why the Florida Department of Environmental Protection chose not to share this important information. Thats a question for dep to had it been in Hillsborough County, i assure you the response would have been different. If you happen to notice a different smell, taste or color to your water, do not drink it. Just call to have it tested. The water dumped in the acquisitioner if was referred aquifer was nasty and he said that local wells will need to be tested again and again for years to come. To request a water test from mosaic call on our website at www. Wfla. Com. Now more breaking news, two people are dead in a crash in largo tonight. Right now this is a live look at bryan dairy road. This is at starkey road where all the lanes are closed as this investigation continues. We can see two cars involved and investigators remaining on the scene. Well check for updates and murder of a 95yearold Highlands County man is locked up. Investigators say they tracked down lacey heflin and say she had cocaine and a wallet that did not belong to her. So far she is not charged in the murder of dominic demundo. A 13yearold student faces felony charges tonight accused of trying to poison her teacher. It happened at the achieve center of ager ground up a piece of chalk, distracted the teacher and slipped the chalk powder into the teachers coffee. Another student stopped the teacher from drinking it out of the cup. That student were told will be expelled. Were continuing to keep an eye on the breaking news out of charlotte tonight. A lot of tension there. Coming up next hundreds of people continue to spill the streets as police stand watch. Tear gas is being used, rubber bullets being shot. Up after the break. Also ahead the rising price of epipens has landed the ceo in front of congress, why she insists the life saving drug is fairly priced. Temperatures in the 90s today, a few scattered showers and thunderstorms in the area. Its close enough to the weekend to look at that come into Steak N Shake for handdipped fall milk shakes. Better yet, come into Steak N Shake for handdipped fall milk shakes at half price. During halfprice happier hour, weekdays, now two to five. Now an update on the breaking news, chaos in charlotte, a second night of protests turning violent here. Just before our newscast we learned a man reported killed by the city of charlotte is actually in Critical Condition tonight on life support. That man shot not by police but another civilian in the crowd. Block the entrances to protect the people and property that are there. You can see hundreds of people in the streets of Downtown Charlotte, the row of Police Officers there in their riot gear. Now lets take a look at some brandnew video that just came into our newsroom. Time to go, time to go. This is the scene from near the omni hotel. This is where much of the violence is centered. Again we are staying on top of this story. Well keep bringing you updates as soon new tonight a pasco county deputy is out of a jump for punching an inmate in the head. Jorge febus hit a handcuffed inmate after reportedly he threw a fit inside a holding cell. Two other deputies witnessed the entire incident. Febus had been with the agency since 2009. Clearwater police are investigating a crash involving a pedestrian at the intersection of cleveland details on the specific crash are limited, but the pedestrian was taken to the hospital with life threatening injuries. Some scary moments for a family in st. Petersburg when a mattress inside their home caught fire. As you can see here from the home, there is not much left. Firefighters were quickly able to put the flames out before they spread. The family tells us a recalled Samsung Phone may to be blame. Despite public outrage and questions from lawmakers, the has no plans to lower the price of those epipens. Today on capitol hill lawmakers accused Heather Bresch and her company of jacking up the price to get filthy rich. Bresch, however, said people are wrong if they think mylan is pocketing massive profits. I think many people incorrectly assume that we make 600 off of each pen. Its simply not true. Recent epipen price increases mylan that many assume. After subtracting costs our profit is approximately 50 per pen. 608 for a two pack up more than 400 since 2008 is the current price. She said a generic version is planned to be sold of theepipen for around 300. A few showers on the radar tonight down in highlands few lightning strikes south of town north of the archibald area. A few scattered showers have developed around the area today, 77 degrees the forecast low, 86 at noon, 90 for the high afternoon temperature, sunshine and clouds like today, temperatures easily reaching 90 degrees, feels like temperatures well above 100 degrees with the higher humidity and dew points in the mid70s throughout the day. 81 degrees now in tampa. Elsewhere, 79 new port richey, Clearwater Beach 84, Pinellas Park 78, lutz 75, bartow and sebring 79, brooksville 76, dade city upper 70s. Quite a bit of dry air high above in the atmosphere. When we show you the water vapor imagery, were talking about the midand upper levels of the atmosphere, not at the surface where wed like to see drier air. Still higher moisture levels to the south. Thats had a big impact in the clouds and the shower activity across the state of florida y. Imagery, not too much going on here, drier conditions south georgia, northern part of florida, just a few popup showers across the southern sections of Highlands County. The tropics are still active. We have tropical depression karl today. Computer models didnt do a good job fracking the intense it i on intensity on this one. It will likely stay out to sea. Both these storms arent lisa not in a great environment, never really has been and a lot of dry air ahead of it, so probably a tropical depression before too long and will continue a long way away from the state of florida and the east coast of the u. S. An area of low pressure off the east coast a bit of a surface cold front, slightly lower dew points. Again we wont sample drier air here locally. Dont get your hopes up. Yes, fall starts tomorrow, but it doesnt come with a big batch of drier thats happening a little across the northern portions of florida but especially up into georgia and alabama. Tomorrow afternoon limited rainfall. The drier air will slowly work its way south and stabilize the atmosphere. Friday morning sunny start, average temp 77 degrees, friday afternoon again just not much painted on here largely because of the drier air that we saw. Pollen forecast crawling up there, spring and fall, especially spring, are high for pollen, but theyre getting up the medium category. You might feel a little bit of that. 77 degrees forecast low temperature, high of 90 degrees in the afternoon, sunshine mixed with clouds. Next three days temperatures are near 90 degrees, 20 chance of showers thursday, same for friday. That is the below what we expect this time of year, below normal, that is, normal being below 30 . Were in the second half of september now, so the rain chances tend to slowly drop a bit, a thursday and wednesday. Getting to the time of year headed toward dry season, not there yet. Some folks did get a lot of rain today, so theyre saying what dry season . We want dry air we can feel. How about dropping those temperatures . Patience. Coming up next in sports tonight the rays hit four home runs in one inning against the yankees, but its still not enough to win. With bucs running back doug martin out of action this walk is just around the corner. We need your help raising 100,000. Kia is matching the first 50,000. You can go to www. Wfla. Com heartwalk for details on how to join stacie schaibles team. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Donald trump says he alone can fix the 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 sports on news channel 8 is sponsored by your gulf coast honda dealers. The verdict is in on bucs running back doug martin out injury. This morning the bucs offensive coordinator said the team hopes doug is back earlier than that. That would be nice, but no matter how long martin is out the bucs running game just took a big hit or did it . They already have a proven backup in Charles Simms and how lucky are the bucs for signing a guy that already knows the offense . The audition for this role was more than two weeks ago, but key member of the bucs offense in his second game with the team . I got thrown into the fire last week, but i was ready. For me my goal is to get more familiar with the playbook so i can go out there and be able to play full speed when my number is called. Reporter rogers waited for his number to be called in atlanta for four seasons all under offensive coordinator dirk koetter who became enamored with rogers dating back to his College Career at oregon state. He hes a muscled up guy. Hes hard to see back there. Hes extremely hard to bring down, really good quickness. The offense is pretty much the staple as when we was in atlanta, so same as when we was in atlanta, so its just different verbiage. Reporter last sunday rogers ran the ball two times, one carry good for 24 yards, but much like Charles Simms rogers is equally effective in the passing game. Five of them which were short passes turned into big plays, but it is not easy to replace the nfls second leading rusher from a year ago. Rogers will wait his turn behind simms, carries and catches not guaranteed. Were going to go out there and make sure its no dropoff from what doug brings to the table. Rays and yankees, boy, alex cobb, what a nightmare, chased from this game inning, seven runs allowed on nine hits, but the 4th inning tanaka is on the mound and bobby wilson leads off with a home run. Then its evan longoria, brad miller and Corey Dickerson back to back to back home runs off tanaka. It looked good then, not enough, though. Rays lose 115. Yankees 2 1 2 games from the wildcard spot. So they are on the move and people thought they were dead at the trade deadline. The postseason. Its convenient for the rays to do all their highlights in one stretch, dont have to watch the whole game, just one inning. That was it. Thanks. Well be right back. We are one nation under god. That black and white, we are one nation indivisible. That republican and democrat, we are all americans. Id like to punch him in the face. You know what they used to do to guys like that . Theyd be carried out in a stretcher, folks. Priorities usa action is responsible lets take one last check chaos in charlotte this evening. We now know a state of emergency is in effect in the city because of violent riots throughout the streets. This is a live picture from the streets of charlotte. You can see there police lined up side by side. Some of the people in the streets going toe to toe not saying a word to those officers, pretty much just a foot or 2 away looking in the eye. Thank goodness its not violent at this point. We also have a view from the streets of charlotte from above again. You can see up crossing off the intersection there. Again it got a little violent earlier this evening. Things seem to be quieting down just a bit, but we will keep an eye on the situation out of charlotte tonight with the chaos in the streets. We have one person critically injured, a difficult night, civilian violence in that group. Weve also had 16 Police Officers injured yesterday, seven more that we know about earlier this evening. This is a difficult situation, two days of protests and rioting and probably will here, so far so good, right . Upper 70s tomorrow, not much rain. Thank you and thank you for joining us. Jimmy fallon is coming your way next. Come into Steak N Shake for handdipped fall milk shakes. Better yet, come into Steak N Shake price happier hour, weekdays, now two to five. At Steak N Shake. [ cheers and applause ] . Steve from studio 6b in Rockefeller Center in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon. Tonight, join jimmy and his guests kelly ripa,