You see the cone of uncertainty . When you have a circle you have problems. That means its not going to move much. That is going to be an issue for them. For us again on and off showers, some heavy at times throughout the day. So just keep that in mind. It will come and go rather quickly as they impact manatee and sarasota right now. Temperatures mid and upper 70s. Well stick with the upper 80s this afternoon. Generally mid80s by 1 00. A few upper 80s and rain chance 50 . Not going to rain every minute of the day but just keep in mind as the showers stream from the gulf well continue to see them on and off through today and then drier time ahead heading into the weekend. Wet roads in sarasota up through bradenton but elsewhere were pretty dry. Checking out i4, the drive from lakeland all the way to tampa looks great. This is i4 just west of i75. These taillights there heading towards downtown tampa. Lets talk about the serious crash we have in pasco, New Port Richey eastbound ridge also a heads up, we mentioned this yesterday. We have a sinkhole that opened on macdill, if you drive southbound macdill expect a lot of cones. I think were down to one lane there but cars are getting through. This is around aziel so give yourself extra time. Back to you. Weve got a major warning for people in Pinellas County. Lock your car doors. Deputies want you to be on guard because of a going crime trend in the area. Abc action News ReporterRodney Dunigan is live now were hearing that the number of car breakips in that area is on the rise. Reporter thats right. The kids involved, a 14year old and 15yearold were arrested and were also told that investigators are possibly looking for other suspects as well. So that is new information. Something else to think about this crime pretty simple. They looked to see if a car would take whatever they could. In some instances stealing the vehicles. We spoke with one Good Samaritan who witnessed this happening and called police. I saw like two kids running across the street from, like this side on the street across the way, thought that was kind of weird. Reporter thankfully she thought quickly and called police. At the same time this was happening lana beck was calling 911 as well. Turns out she had just watched crooks with her suv. All of this happening in her quiet seminole neighborhood. Shes shocked at how young the suspects actually are. These kids are armed today. My understanding is they are young. I really feel bad for their parents. Were told that 15yearold suspect had actually been arrested at least five other times and he was actually being watched by the county. Back here live, investigators Sheriffs Office also tell us that about 90 of the car break ins in this area are due to cars simply left unlocked so that is a warning to folks this morning, definitely watch your cars and lock the doors. Again they are possibly looking for other suspects as well this morning. For now reporting live in Pinellas County, Rodney Dunigan, abc action news. Breaking news from brandon. Hillsborough county deputies are investigating a suspicious death. This they were called to a home on midnight. All we know right now is one person was found dead inside. Detectives are pursuing a search warrant now, trying to get back inside and investigate. A Pinellas County mom plans to fight a decision not to charge a man for shooting at her son. Lisa green says her son was two blokes from home sunday night when it blocks from home sunday night when it happened. According to police her son joined other kids volunteering judgments while firing plasticple frets a airsoft gun it appears plastic pellets from an airsoft gun it appears the man didnt intenend to shoo anybody. An 8yearold cant give consent. It if it had hit him in the eye it could have killed my son. The state Attorneys Office says a crime hasnt been committed. Disturbing details in the case of a former middle School Teacher accused of soliciting lewd conduct from teens. Hillsborough defendants say right right, a former teacher michael geist, a former teacher asked a student to sext other students, he gave the student his cell phone. And also encouraged a young girl to twerk during case and allegations he gave a student cake laced with marijuana. Michael geist about inappropriate behavior almost as soon as he started to work there in february. A driver seen intentionally attacking Police Officers plowing his car into them while parked at a phoenix gas station. One of the officers goes flying into the air, one officer is on the ground, a third manages to get to the other side of the squad car. Before that driver comes crashing into them. The car then crashes into the gas station, even after the crash the driver struggled violently with officers for several minutes. This is a violent cowardly act on our its simply unacceptable. Our phoenix Police Officers were targeted. We have all heard about officers being targeted and ambushed in communities across this nation. This happened here. The driver will likely face two counts of attempted first degree murder among other charges. Police believe he was impaired at the time of the attack. One officer broke a leg, the other suffered head injuries. Look behind me. Elderly driver lucky to have walked away after driving right into the backyard pool in the fort myers area. The driver crashed through the carport and ended up in the pool. Luckily the two people in the car got out safely but both suffered minor injuries. Now to democracy 2016 the president ial campaigns focusing on child care. Its the candidates kids who are doing the talking. Its not a womans issue. Its a family issue. Its an american issue. Its been discussed but has yet to be solved. My father plans to change that. Republican donald trump wants to give stay at home parents the same Tax Deductions as those who work and says paid Maternity Leave for working mothers should be six weeks. Mom knows that education does start long before college. It matters to me that she understands how important Early Childhood education is. Important it is we support parents in our role as our childrens first teacher. Democrat Hillary Clinton wants to give new parents 12 weeks of paid family or medical leave. Clinton wants no more than 10 of a parents income to go for child care. Also wants free prek for all 4 yearolds. Hillary clinton returns to the campaign trail tomorrow after taking several days off to recover from pneumonia. The newest member of Davie Police Department could help traumatize kids say what happened to them. A therapy dog will be present during an interview and its shown that many children are more likely to talk. Operating system update for the apple mobile users but you may not want to download it yet. Many people quick to download it are complaining it locks up their iphones and ipads. If this happens to you apple and connect to the itunes store to restore access. General motors putting some heat on tesla, the company now claiming their new chevy bolt electric car drives longer on a single charge. One charge lasts 238 miles, that is 23 more than teslas model three. The bolts electric motor reaches speeds of about 91 miles per hour, and will sell for a little over 37,000. No secret that people are judged on weight and Research Shows its worse for women that can lose out on Job Opportunities even if you are not medically overweight. A new study asked potential hires the people surveyed found that women who had a healthy weight but at the heavy end of what is considered healthy were less desirable as job applicants than men who were clearly overweight. A little upset about that. I imagine so. Honeymoon island you may be surprised, the sand is not where it used to be. You can blame hurricane hermine for that. We have a look at the scar that storm left behind. Hermine chewed up the brand new 4. 5 Million Dollar beach renourishment project on honeymoon island. Officials say it would have lost even more sand if not for some protective rocks. No word on whether the county is considering another beach renourishment project. As we head to the break well check in on mostly cloudy skies but of rain out there this morning, on the back side of our latest Tropical Storm up in jacksonville. Julia, with temperatures in the upper 70s for the bus stop. Youll want the rain gear throughout the day today. Well see on and off showers. Well talk about where julia is headed and the extended weekend forecast coming up. 5 40. Also coming up two hikers reported missing in Yosemite National park are now home safe. How one of the missing men i see cars driving by us and just took pictures and left. A bride gets stuck on the side of the road on her way to her wedding after her limo got 5 44. In miami police say a man broke into the same home three times three days in a row in fact stealing everything from electronics to leftovers in the fridge. This is video of the thief this happened in broad daylight while the homeowner was out of town. The homeowner thinks the thief got in through a window. Even though an alarm goes off he at one point wanders over to the fridge and ate a piece of cheesecake, even stooping over to eat crumbs off the floor. Once again hes brazen but i get thieves get hungry as well apparently so. The thief took ipods, ipads, projector, bicycles and computers. Sounds like including the kitchen sink. Did we forget to mention he actually stole the sink . From a different room. Each time he broke in police got there a little too late. Hes still on the run this morning. Ate cake from the floor . He was hungry. The fivesecond rule has been eliminated. You now know, Research Shows that yeah, police have about that. Lets check in on julia. If you went to bed before 11 00, dennis was talking about this last night. A new Tropical Storm. We have julia up across well north of jacksonville at this point. Continues to graze the coast with plenty of rainfall. A prolific rainmaker for georgia and carolinas but for us minimal impacts as it looks now. Were talking about it stalling to the north. For us it will be showers on the back side of it on a flow off the gulf so in fact we have those right now impacting with portions of manatee and sarasota counties. Well head a little closer and youll be able to see it will impact 75 but not in any significant fashion. Weve had heavier rain through the mornings without a tropical system here. So thats the way its going to go today. On and off showers as you saw that stream of moisture from the gulf. So not going to rain every minute but well have periods of heavier downpours here that into some drier times, thats something to look forward to heading into the friday time frame and the weekend. If you have plans already i think its looking good. 88 tampa and that will be the high today. Typically 89, where we should be this time of year. Though the rain chances obviously a little higher the next couple of days. Then back down to 40 . Heading into friday and into the upcoming weekend looks good. With plenty of sunshine early and then well see scattered afternoon thunderstorms, but not a huge deal here, overnight lows back in the mid and upper 70s. So that a few wet roads out there but not much. I think well be all right for the morning commute. Volume probably going to be more of an issue for you. Pretty light as far as the traffic now. Lets check the cameras, starting on the bridges, what it looks like, tampa side of the Courtney Campbell causeway. Not many cars out there. I just checked the drive time to get from Pinellas County into hillsborough. Just 7 minutes to get across the bay this morning on the Courtney Campbell. Your drive times on the veterans expressway looking great, a lot of the were all good to go there. Just 17 minutes from 54 to 275. I4 all the way from lakeland into tampa youre looking great as well. Just 22 minutes to get from county line road into downtown tampa. 7 minutes from 75 to 275. Just a heads up in the New Port Richey area in pasco county, and ridge road still blocked due to that fatal crash that happened overnight. This happened right at airway boulevard. Ill keep you posted on this crash here and of twitter tampabaytraffic. 5 48. To an amazing survival story from Yosemite National park. One of two missing hikers managed to save himself and also able to tell rescuers where to find his friend. Javier avillar and dave brown are firefighters and experienced hikers. They hiked in yosemite last weekend and when they didnt show up for work monday the fire chief reported them missing. Dozens of people helped search on Tuesday Morning brown walked in to a rangers station. He and avillar got separated but he was able to tell the search team where to find his friend. Their knowledge, experience and their physical ability, absolutely contributed to them coming back home. Its not clear exactly what went wrong during the hike but surprisingly both men are in good health. California man and his chihuahua are hiking 375 miles to raise hospice car. Jeff douglas and his dog started to hike near reno, nevada monday. Going to walk all the way to the Pacific Ocean north of san francisco. They hope to get there by october 6th. Douglas is a chaplain at a hospice care facility and says he wants the long journey to remind people they dont have to die alone. A bride in New Hampshire will always remember her wedding day and trip to the altar because her limo got a her and her bridesmaids, got a flat, so she got out and did all she could. Stuck out her thumb and hitched a ride. Several cars didnt stop but one finally did. The Good Samaritan who didnt want to go on camera had a car full of kids at the time but still wanted to help so he dropped the kids off and then came back for the bride. He took her on the 7mile trip to her wedding venue. An leek arrived 30 angelique arrived 30 minutes late, just late enough to scare her groom. Like, wait a minute, im not getting stood up am i . For a brief second. He was laughing all night about it. The happy couple says the story they will remember forever. Some did stop, took her picture and left. Poor girl. Coming up a bed made for 10. Who a new york couple is making room for ahead. At first i thought they were im like oh wow. A cheerleader with cancer honored by an nearby Football Team breaks her silence. Tracking a few showers, back side of julia still going rain will be with georgia and into the carolinas. Still seeing pockets of heavy downpours here impacting portions of our southern counties. This will continue to be an issue on and off all day as showers and storms move. In well have a few periods of heavier downpours. Temperatures this afternoon in the upper 80s. Extended forecast coming up. 5 54. This is a bed built for 10 a new york couple commissioning the special bed large enough for them to both sleep in it with their eight the couple saying the dogs love to cuddle with them and wanted to make it possible for all of them to do it. We told you last week about a high school cheerlead we are leukemia who got a touching show of support from the Football Team. Now were hearing from her. A video of Football Players leaving roses at ashleys feet went viral. People all over the world watching it. The one person who watches it over and over and over again . Ashley herself. Watching it. Why not . It just brings back all those feelings and makes me feel all those feelings again. Ashley has been going to school and attending cheer practice even though shes in the middle of chemo treatments. She says she wishes she could do everything she could before she got sick. The 15th anniversary of the 9 11 terror attacks was three days ago but stories about tributes are still coming in. A kentucky bartender sharing her touching story mystery customer. Audrey drake says she was working on sunday when a military veteran ordered two shots. He left a short time later but didnt drink one of the shots. He left behind two badges and a note instead. I take this shot as a salute to those i served in uniform. I leave the other for all the brothers and sisters who brought the fear of god into the eyes of the evil. I leave any global war on what have took place 15 years ago today. All that is known about the man who left the letter, his military branch, navy and ship uss new york. Nobody wants to wake up like this. An suv crashing into their apartment building. What the driver of that car told the woman who lives here and what police told him. Coming up. A major decision on ridesharing apps. Scrapped for now. The reason leaders wont be z23xyz zy6z at 6 00 rude awakening. A car crashes into an apartment near usf. Were hearing from someone who was inside at the time. The pulse nightclub shooting. For the First Time Since sundays fire worshippers are being allowed back inside a fort pierce mosque where the pulse gunman once prayed. Thank you for joining us on this wednesday. A live report on the damage of the car hitting the apartment complex in the usf area coming up. First a look at weather and traffic together. Any problems on the road . Yes, and were monitoring wet roads south of us. Right, ivan . I think as big impact but nevertheless wet roads. We didnt have it yesterday or the day before. 40 mileperhour winds. Heres Tropical Storm julia spinning that moisture from the western atlantic and pushing it all the way into georgia and south carolina. This is going to be a big event for them because its not going to move much the next couple of days. Well have gusty winds but the big story will be the rain, six, upwizards of 8 inches locally. For us not as heavy. Heernl got us but julia sparing us with the heaviest of rain. Still though seeing pockets of downpours, on and off today. Well take you across extreme portions of South Sarasota and there you see englewood, venice about to get in on showers and storms but basically really not going to amount to much as anything widespread so most of us headed to the commute are going to deal with dry roads but there will be wet roads and janelle will talk about that in a second. As far as the temperatures, 78 because of the chowed cover and on and off rainfall Still Holding in the mid and upper 80s. After 7 00 we wind down and transition the next few days into drier times ahead. In fact friday heading into the upcoming weekend. Lets talk about the wet roads. Mainly south of us in sarasota through bradenton. You can see i75, so if youre traveling i75 through sarasota up through bradenton just be