Until after 3 00 in the afternoon. Whitaker his neighbors are defending him saying this was nothing more than a tragic accident. It was a tragedy. Much the same way if a child had accidentally drowned in a pull. The troy i know, this was not, i would trust him. Even with this tragedy. That is what it is i would trust him to watch over my kids grandchildren. Whitaker facing serious charges and comprehending his sons death his neighbors want him to know he is not alone. I hope he stays strong. Reporter whitaker has been with hillsboro county fire rescue since march 2012. As for his administrative leave, no word on how long that will last, a determine it on a personal matters. Such a tragedy. Thank you very much. Police are searching for a missing threeyearold. Harry charles was last seen this afternoon, his father handy charles took the boy from the home, he shares custody of the boy with his estranged wife, handy charles may have a gun, there is an active search going on. These two are believed to be in a 2003 blue honda civic license plate if you have seen them or you know where they are, call the police department. It turns out the vast a tampa man was wearing when he was fatally shot was not a bulletproof vest. The 24yearold Alexandro Garibaldi shot the victim to see if the vast would stop a bullet but investigators revealed the victim was wearing a flak jacket which is a form and Elementary School in clearwater had to be evacuated when somebody called in a bomb threat. Students at lila Davis Elementary were brought to the Presbyterian Church while k9 units searched the building. They did not find anything, children related to class shortly before 2 00 p. M. New information about a car wreck injuring two people on the Courtney Campbell causeway the driver who caused the Chain Reaction crash took her eyes off the road when she she looked up it was too late to stop. An 18 month old remains in Critical Condition at tampa general hospital. Her threeyearold sister was also hurt. Mark douglas is making sure your hardearned money isnt going down the drain. Because you paid for it. The bills are coming due from hurricane hermine and pascoe county damage estimates damage estimates are up to 111 million. Wait until you hear how much taxpayers will have to pay for the storm response and the aftermath. This is a mammoth undertaking for a county where funding for flood prevention lags behind the problem. Mark is on it because you paid for it. The numbers are staggering. Hundreds of millions of dollars. Absolutely, 300 million the working number for longterm flood relief is focused on what you will pay now for the Emergency Response and the cleanup of this storm. Pascoe county estimates there is enough storm debris to fill more than 1000 trucks like this and when victims pile it up that makes disposal even more expensive. The ultimate reason for separating is saving tax money. The storm. We dont have the money to go get extra garbage bags. Emergency managers expect it will cost taxpayers as much as 1 million to clean debris and other 1 million to repair parks and 15 million to fix roads and bridges and that is not the half of what managers were adding up for fema in this meeting to plea for federal disaster relief. We will submit our calls we are doing that now. We have estimated however it goes if you are a taxpayer you will pay for it. Over the past nine years pascoe taxpayers have forked out 100 million in stormwater fees costing residence 57 per year and no one is saying how pascoe will pay for the 300 million in stormwater projects needed to break the cycle. It seems like throwing good money to fix the same problems without longterm solutions. I agree. We have to get to a point where we are getting proactive. We are turning the corner to become proactive. Proactive or not, too late to help jason and his family. They are leaving pascoe in the Rearview Mirror today. Everything we owned is in the truck. Pascoe county leaders say it will take 90 years current pace to complete the 300 million worth of stormwater projects, meanwhile if taxpayers want to save money sort out the debris into piles of garbage appliances construction debris electronics and so forth and that might cut a few dollars off. We are targeting pascoe but this is really tampa bay in general, these projects are but 1000 truckloads. They estima it will take a couple of weeks seven days a week 12 hours a day only if the residents cooperate and sort that out. They havent gotten that response yet so it will cost time and money. His quick actions helped put an attempted kidnapping suspect behind bars. How the deputy who chased it down this guy and put them in handcuffs was honored today. A hot , more moisture in the atmosphere means better rain chances. Major damage to a funeral home after a pickup truck plowed through it. The driver had a medical emergency and crashed into the funeral home. Nobody was hurt but the crash a big honor for a Citrus County deputy who helped catch a kidnapping suspect. You may recall the chilling video showing this man violently grabbing a girl and dragging her through a storm, the girls mother thought off the attacker. And a deputy ended up chasing down the man to arrest him. Deputy bennett was honored in tallahassee as local Law Enforcement officer of the year, was charged with kidnapping attempt but he was ruled incompetent to stand trial. The tampa mayor and Business Owners stood up in support of drive services buber and lyft today the hillsboro county Transportation Commission will consider new rules that can push those companies out of business or out of the county at least. Fingerprint background tracks want to be required for buber all we are asking for is the opportunity for these companies to compete and these employers and young people who use them if there wasnt a demand for uber or lyft they wouldnt survive. The ptc meets on wednesday. When you drop off your trial that school you should not have to worry about their safety. That is exactly what is happening to some parents in that may be putting their kids into danger. Marco. Polo. Marco. Polo. Marco. Marco . Marco . But its not a game when our senator doesnt show up. Im Patrick Murphy. Solving problems means showing up. Showing independence. Its why i worked to protect Womens Health care and worked with both parties to stop cuts to medicare. Im Patrick Murphy and i approve this message because florida needs a fulltime senator. Marco . Children in danger, several cars have hit the future Care Learning Center in polk county when kids were inside the building. It sits at a busy intersection at the corner of charlotte and old winterhaven road a concerned parent reached out to 8 on your side for help. Melissa marino joining us from the Learning Center in something. Reporter good evening, take a look this fence is the only thing keeping a car from smacking into the side of this daycare, this window is a classroom it has happened before and parents worry it will happen again. They remember the day a truck plowed through the fence and hit the building. This is where the truck hit the building on the corner of this window. That light is a classroom with children inside. Didnt hurt the structure of the building. But it was scary. According to the owner of future Care Learning Center there has been plenty of close calls. You installed that fence to stop cars from hitting your building. I did put up the fence and we put more to buy force in their there. I know it probably wont stop a big truck going fast. In the parking lot. This parent doesnt want to see that again, so she reached out to 8 on your side for help. All of the parents have signed petitions but the county wont listen to us. 8 on your side looked at crash data for the intersection, since april 2015 there have been 15 crashes. 11 during school hours. Theyre going down fast not paying attention. It is getting to be out and want more than just a fence to protect the children. I am afraid something will happen a lot worse than we have seen. Reporter we did reach out to the county, a spokesperson emailed that they are looking at crash data we are told staff came out after we emailed to check out the intersection and see what can be done although we are told that could take a couple of days. Keith. Your report. Is speeding an issue . The chief said they did a study in august for seven days, during the study they determined speed was not really an issue although they did come up with 60,000 drivers during that sevenday period so 8000 drivers per day on the road. Thank you Melissa Marino live from polk county. Check out this cool video nd dolphins enjoying the sun and warm water over the weekend. Shannon recorded the dolphins jumping out of the water. A cool side, thank you for sending this video in from this weekend. Good timing on that. Putting on a show. In venice you can see the rain coming down, 74 degrees. Helping to drop the temperature. Working on one inch of rain in 81 degrees the current temperature, the plantation crystal river, 863 , i think we need to reset that. Anyway the picture looked really nice, showers continue to move to the west, off of sarasota around st. Petersburg a few showers to the north of the downtown area, from north to south the bulk of the heavy showers and thunderstorms in the western part of hillsboro county moving into the northern part of pinellas county, folks in palm harbor watch for these to your east moving your way, possibly Clearwater Beach north of downtown saint pete otherwise quiet in polk county, same in highlands county, a few showers to the east there are some showers generating to the east so we may see a shower into the evening. Moving offshore of inglewood pretty good downpours in venice on the camera image remains. A great shot from the causeway you can see the beauty but also in the Rearview Mirror a lightning strike. Good timing on that one. Our high temperatures in the upper 80s tuesday wednesday thursday the normal high 90 degrees, that is our average, 89 degrees now the average, trending downward but temperatures will be fairly warm maybe a little cooler because we are expected gh chances. At four clock p. M. , 88 degrees, showers and thunderstorms possible tomorrow, 77 riverview , lakeland 78 degrees. Quite a bit of cloud cover across the state but we are looking to the east for this tropical wave it is moving our way, this is not a tropical system, the Hurricane Center has about 10 chance of possible development for the area. It will help to enhance the rain chances across the peninsula. 40 mileperhour winds from this tropical storm, a lot of blue behind it, it looks like that is where it will stay out there officially on the satellite, the imagery. And this area i referenced a 10 chance of possible development. It will help to drag moisture our way and kick up the rain chances. We have shower chances especially early evening hours, late evening things get lesser in terms of the shower activity, a pretty high chance tomorrow, 60 chance tuesday, 50 chance wednesday and thursday, high temperatures in the upper 80s largely because we will have a few more clouds and showers in the forecast, like we said we are turning cooler toward fall the normal high no longer 90 the normal high is now 89. That humidity today. I knew it was hot. Around the corner, we need help to make the walk this year bigger than ever before. This is personal for me, i walk for members of my family, my dad affected by Heart Disease and my sister had a heart attack. Our goal is to raise 100,000 and the first 50,000 will be matched. All of your dollars are worth two right now, the heart walk november 12 just go to wfla. Com to join my team and tony. Coming up next, then lucas pays a point to cutters corner. The coach very happy after the buccaneers openingday win. Find out what he has to say about a change made during the im really good at war. I love war in a certain way. Nuclear, just the power the devastation, is very important to me. I want to be unpredictable, unpredictable, unpredictable, unpredictable. Priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. A few minutes ago the defensive and was announced to that made for a bittersweet conversation with the head coach dirk koetter. We are learning week by week more about james winston. He is just 17 or 18 games into this. What did he show you wednesday sunday . He showed me the same stuff he is going to go through some spurts where he doesnt do it exactly like we would like them to but he will make up for it. He is going to make some plays you dont expect. Things settle down offensively, i say settle down but you pick up the pace. The guys said they all enjoyed it. Do they get in your ear . A little bit. M it is just actually, the no huddle was probably easier for us to communicate yesterday then when we did huddle. We had more problems getting our personal groups in when we were in no huddle, we are trying not to change personnel groups is anyway for the defense. We had a little problem with that, the crowd noise, you can never duplicate it in practice year in a row in the building it comes down to one possession , your defense makes a play to finish the game. How fitting was that . That was awesome. We had two blocked balls by gerald. A lot of times you will see a bucket tipped ending in an interception. But, we had good coverage in there, we got good pressure all day, gerald mccoy played fantc. Negative, but there was a personal foul during the game. Outside of the building we can say this is ridiculous, however they were in the position. What are your thoughts . The thing about that rule when a player celebrates, you can have a planned out celebration with another player. That wasnt planned out, gerald got the sack and he was doing his dance and then in the moment write when i saw it i said they are going to call that. Will have a talk about it, it is unfortunate because it could of been huge. We did a lot better on penalties last night, i think it was six for 48 yards but we had foolish penalties but that wasnt malicious. That is one where i have got to a better job making sure our guys know the rules. Will have the complete rs you love him. Watch it. Exciting news for lightning fans, the ice is back. They will be working around the clock to get it ready. Can you believe it already . Nightly news is coming your way next. Have a great night we will im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Donald trump says he alone can fix the problems we face. 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. 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