Government estimates more than 4000 people in 50 states have lost a total of 23 million to the irs scam. Hillsboro protection chief says complaints continue to pour in. People are paying and losing their money. There is the badge number. This cancer patient proved no match for the color. He convinced her she would face arrest if she did not pay. I cant believe people this. Her elderly dad paid with 2500 worth of itunes gift cards that can be used the same as cash. When you give the number to someone it is like giving the money. The fake agent answered our call, we checked with the irs you are not an employee. The men id. And it prevented provided a why are you calling people stealing their money . This is our job. Okay . It is too late for sherry, she shared her story with the help of sparing others the pain inflicted on her family. Jackie callaway taking action for you. Check the irs will never call you over back taxes, you can get one of these calls just hang up or reported to the federal trade commission. You website, abcactionnews. Com a dangerous and violent man on the run Citrus County deputies need help getting him off the street. Deputies are looking for the 36 yearold right now, look at your screen he has some distinctive tattoos. Investigators say he robbed and stabbed a man in the throw sunday morning at an rv park in lecanto. Marcum is a career criminal please call 911 if you see him. The most Accurate Weather Team in florida, abc action weather. Spreckels and showers working their way off Pinellas County beaches, also off of pasco county you can see some of the rain moving to the north of Indian Rocks Beach in between and to the south of harbor bluffs. As we take a wider look not a lot of rain across the state a lot of this having a hard time reaching a few isolated showers and sprinkles or the remainder of tonight, planning on taking a walk after dinner . Things look great, temperatures falling through the 70s after sunset. I will have the big cooldown coming up in just a bit. A brandnew look at the toxic sinkhole you see. The Company Released this drone video you see the cruise tonight, ryan raiche gives us the best idea yet of how deep it is and what is next. Tonight we are peering into the dark of this the toxic sinkhole that took an engineering master to measure. Mosaic is committed to making this right. New videos and pictures of the tedious job of getting inside the sinkhole. The Company Working with contractors to build a device to drop in light rays to map distances. This is the exact device engineers dropped into the sinkhole finally providing answers as to how deep it is. Since crews could not safely walk to the edge contractors ran a cable from one side to the other. The cable is similar to something youre used to. At nfl Football Games the video going across the field. When in place they gathered the data, the take away from of the bottom eight staggering 255 feet deep. We still dont know the exact depth of the sinkhole because the fertilizer byproduct gypsum is in the way. They believe every drop of the 250 million gallons of radioactive water seeped into the aquifer. If you sprayed water on a brick file it will go through the pile. Today trimmed months off the project, now they know how close workers can safely get to start pumping in more concrete than you have ever seen. Using this equipment has never been done this way before. Unchartered territory for a company trying to make things right with neighbors that were kept in the dark. Ryan raiche abc action news. Video showing the fight against isys. Us military releasing this video showing an airstrike on mosul. Hours into the Operation Forces have gained control of the 77 square mile area in the city. Sarasota Police Taking drugs and guns off the street, officers releasing pictures of the police raid from earlier today on 20th street, last week they seized an Assault Rifle a handgun and highcapacity magazines. They also found marijuana, prescription pills and cash. This man is facing a long list of charges. 75 religious leaders calling on florida to suspend the Death Penalty, the group presenting a letter in tampa urging the state attorney to immediately suspend Death Penalty prosecutions. This after report from the Harbor Law School finding hillsboro and pinellas have a higher number of Death Penalty convictions than most of the country. It provides no relief for the families of the victims. Longer and longer. Floridas Death Penalty is on hold right now, the state Supreme Court declared the current law unconstitutional because it does not require a unanimous decision. Braking late abc news confirmed the Trump Foundation has agreed to stop soliciting donations in new york state, the attorney general of new york ordering the foundation to stop asking for money this month the order coming after reports had not submitted to routine annual audits as required. Senator marco rubio and Patrick Murphy preparing to go headto head in a primetime debate. The crucial race could help decide the balance of power in washington. We go live tonight to orlando. Reporter republicans have control of the Republican Senate seats up for grabs which could mean a shift in power if a democrat wins you see behind me a lot of supporters for rubio and murphy. That is why people are paying close attention to the debate tonight and the senate race. Marco rubio running for reelection after he failed to win the president ial nominee against donald trump. s competitor, Patrick Murphy who was a member of the us house of representatives. Murphy not as wellknown as rubio something to stand out. They have to rise above this highly negative campaign that has been ongoing for months. They need to talk about issues that are important and for floridians the economy and jobs is number one. The debate starts at 7 00 pm it is expected to last one hour. You can see supporters here a recap. Marisela burgos abc action news. Watch them square off right here on abc action news starting at 7 00 tonight. We will stream the debate live on our Facebook Page and mobile app. In hillsboro county more people expected to vote before the election. 192,000 vote by mail ballots have been mailed out, on pace to beat the there has been at least one incident of an absentee ballot going missing from a homeowners mailbox. The Elections Office says that is rare and there are plenty of safeguards in place to protect your vote, one feature using paper ballots. Each has a unique identifying number. If summary says i dont know what happened give me another one, we will cancel the ballot and send another one so even if it does hit our office it wont be accepted. Comfortable mailing in your ballot you can drop it off anytime between now and 7 00 on Election Night at any of the 16 early voting sites or four election offices in hillsboro county, you can track your ballot online to make sure it gets to you and then back to the election office. Still to come, off the job a bay area cop resigns amid an Excessive Force investigation. Why the firefighter case is far from over. Get out. Get out of their. Get on the ground. A bizarre hiding spot. The odd place deputies found this fugitive. It has been a beautiful hot and steamy day, the rivergate tower camera showing clear skies over harbor and davis tampa, i will let you know how long the weather will stay this z256qz zy6z st. Petersburg Police Officer resigning from the department during an investigation into his use of force. Are iteam broke this story inmate. The officer tased a firefighter several times. Jarrod holbrook the firefighters attorney is not happy with the investigation. Reporter the police chief considers the case closed because the officer resigned and retired before facing his disciplinary hearing. I believe it is a pure confession of guilt. He saw the writing on the wall. This attorney talking about former saint pete Police Officer at the delmar bar he was trying to talk to hillsboro county firefighter clint walker not commit. This is bar video of the assault. Officer say walker was combative and uncooperative. Surveillance and cell phone video show the officer teasing walker whose hands were behind his back. Walker was tased four times video shows him getting kicked. He also grabbed Robert Ramirez by the was escorted out he pushes him. These are thug gangland tactics and the citizens of saint pete are very fortunate that he is no longer in the law enforcement. All the way up to the kicking i did not see anything wrong. Police chief says yes walker had his hands behind his back but the commands were to get on his knees. He was yelling f bombs at the officer. Ramirez was charged with obstruction, both firefighter charges were dropped. Internal affairs was investigating de jesus, he resigned and retired. Did he resign voluntarily or was he forced . Walker says he was targeted because he was wearing his Outlaws Motorcycle Club shirt the outlaws are defined as a criminal gang by the department of justice. Despite his membership the video speaks for itself. Had he gone to a full internal affairs hearing, they would have terminated him, no doubt in my mind. The chief says he would have liked to question de jesus. I appreciate you covering this. When there was a report of use of force we will investigate to Attorney Says they plan to sue the Officer Police department and possibly the bar. De jesus is retired and getting a full pension. Im Jarrod Holbrook taking action for you. A lesson in you can run but you cant hide. The Pasco County Sheriffs Office releasing video of a suspect in his bizarre hiding spot. Jason taylor being found in a hollowed out dresser. Officers went to his home because he had warrants for his arrest. Team in florida, abc action weather. We havent had any thunder lately a few showers and a heavy downpour here or there but overall a decent couple of days, south tampa you can see cloud cover also blue skies, there is still sunshine to be found, quite a bit today that lately and we will see more of the same week as we remain pretty dry out their. Now a few showers working their way across the state. Most of what has held together is moving out into the gulf. We will continue to have the same pattern into tomorrow, we will continue to see the highs in the upper 80s near 90 degrees. We primarily have a northeasterly flow so we will be watching the showers developing on the east coast of together. It will continue to be warm and muggy and those sprinkles you may encounter with less than a 10 chance wont do much to cool you off. By the time we get to the middle and end of the week we are looking at a similar pattern so lets say thursday you have a round of golf in mind we are looking at highs in the mid to upper 80s so getting that in earlier in the day is a good idea. The amount of humidity we have got. With temperatures starting off near 70 degrees, fairly comfortable for this time of year although quite a bit above average. By friday things start to change. Looking at a high in the mid80s but the cold front moves through from north to south bringing a few showers, nothing extreme as far as showers and storms go, but behind it the cooler dryer less humid air settles in, you will feel it saturday for sure. Were talking about in the 50s. This is quite a change from the dew points in the 70s all summer long. Now it will start feeling a bit more like fall and a bit more pleasant with a High Temperature saturday of 79 degrees and sunday 78. This is the real first taste of fall. And into monday, we will see is likely saturday and sunday we wont make it near 80 degrees. Overnight temperatures from the mid60s to the upper 60s for a couple of mornings that will feel quite different than what we have seen lately in some of the suburbs to the north seeing low temperatures in the 50s as they wake up, over the next couple of days we have High Temperatures in the upper 80s and it will continue to feel steamy with low chances for whatever you have in mind should not be interrupted by rainfall. Laura, back to you. Breaking news in pasco county, someone finding two suspicious devices near the fence at hudson cemetery. The bomb squad in route as we speak pasco deputies have shut down a small section of hudson avenue between us 19 and five a road. We will monitor the situation bring those to you onair and online at abcactionnews. Com. The big 12 conference has made its decision on expansion. Hello folks, the actually going to expand but it didnt. We expect the official were to come down but officially we are hearing the big 12 has decided to stay at 10 teams for now. Usf was one of 11 universities that wanted to get into the big 12. The meeting ended early today. A super majority of eight out there was a vote and if there was, all 11 universities failed. Hopefully big 12 commissioner will clear it up with a News Conference set to get underway at 6 30. Meanwhile quinton flowers moved to the top of his class this week in the aac named the top conference player of the week he demolished yukon over the weekend throwing for 213 yards and two touchdowns while rushing for 157 yards touchdowns. Usf made strides up the coaches poll they are ranked 27th in the coaches poll. Temple this week and the 25th ranked navy. There is good news over at one buck, wide receiver louis murphy back after being out for nearly one year with an acl tear, he is ready to go. We will see what the buccaneers decided later in the week. 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A suspect in body armor and the takedown here tonight. American troops helping the iraqis at this hour