The person response searching for the person responsible for a coldhearted murder. Rodney dunigan is live at tpd headquarters this morning. Rodney, are Police Looking to making an arrest, any closer to making an arrest. Reporter deiah, police say they have a few promising leads in the case. They tell us that this crime does not appear to be random. Its weird. You would never expect body at 3 30 in the afternoon laying in the street. People like Dylan Gonzalez are shaken. It is very concerning just to be in this neighborhood. I lived here my entire life, 22 years. So, i have never seen that happen, this serious. Reporter thursday afternoon, the body of 30year old latoya smith found dumped in the middle of the street. Tampa Police Telling us smith had severe head injuries. This mugshot from a prior arrest. Investigators will be back in that neighborhood today gathering information. Gonzalez says people that live here will continue to keep a look out and watch out for each other. The good thing, like with my house and people across the street, there is always somebody at our house, always at the end of the at the end of the day. We tell each other, keep an eye on our house, keep an eye on the neighborhood. Reporter investigators are pe the young woman will provide the information they need to make an arrest. Reporting live at Tampa Police Department headquarters, rodney dunigan, abc action news. New developments in the mosul offensive in iraq. The u. N. Is saying its gravely worried that isis has taken 550 families from villages around mosul using them as human fields. They attacked several buildings battling the terror group for control of mosul. They targeted four police stations in kurdish offices in kirkut. Now a breaking update you may have seen on our Facebook Page. We are happy to report this 11 yearold boy from bartow has been found safe. He was reported missing after not returning home from school. Bartow police were searching for Tyler Tinsley since last night. He was found safe. Lets check in with look at the weekend forecast. Big changes are underway into the weekend here. We are going into fall, diving in. Plenty of sunshine, warm and dry today. We will talk about temps in the mid to upper80s. We have been teasing the cold front the entire week. It will arrive tonight. That hasnt changed but as far as the temperatures, even a little cooler. Each model run is showing us that. We dropped the temperatures a 70s right now. Widen out the shot, where the cold air is coming from, bottled across the western u. S. Its on the doorstep of tennessee, alabama getting into it, and then for us tonight is when we begin to get into cold air. For now, temperatures are holding in the mid80s. A nice day with plenty of sunshine. We will be back with the forecast on the cool numbers in a few minutes. A nice day and a nice drive as well. Traffic cleari we are out of the official morning rush hour. Traffic is flowing nicely at 275 at ashley through downtown tampa. The drive on i75 at fowler, back in the normal range, 10 minutes from the apex to i4. The only slow spot we are seeing is on i4 heading into tampa, 75 to 275, a tad slow, about 50 the average speed. Looking great on i75 and 275 donald trump will be coming to tampa monday. Last night trump and Hillary Clinton shared the stage for the last time before the election. It was awkward. They both attended the Al Smith Charity Dinner in new york. Its typically a chance for the president ial candidates to show their lighter side during the homestretch of the campaign. Little is typical about the campaign. Both president ial candidates took the gloves off and shots at each other. Here public pretending not to hate catholics. Donald looks at the statue of liberty and sees a 4. Maybe a 5 if she loses the torch and tablet and changes her hair. At the dinner, both candidates did something they struggled to do during the debate, actually shake hands. Pennsylvania. The latest email dump from wikileaks shows messages from president obama shortly before he was elected in 2008. Emails were apparently hacked from john podesta, Hillary Clintons Current Campaign chief and the president s former aide. One of the emails with the subject line diversity is about cabinet choices listing african american, latino and Asian American candidates. Another email reached obama 21 minutes before the eleio that was about what obama might hear from president george w. Bush in an expected congratulatory phone call. The president is hard at work on the campaign trail. In miami he didnt just have support for Hillary Clinton but took aim at senator marco rubio for supporting donald trump. How can you call him a con to all the controversial things he has says and then say, but im still going to vote for him. Come on, man. As the president criticizes rubio for supporting trump, rubio is taking shots at Patrick Murphy for supporting clinton. He has not once condemned her, not pointed a finger at her and broken with her on behaviors. According to a poll, the murphy is too close to call. The latest numbers show rubio with a 2 point lead well within the margin of error. A woman struck and hit by a car in Sarasota County has died. We found out this morning lynn taylor passed away at the hospital. The driver struck her tuesday night at the intersection of mobile and gulf gate drive. The florida Highway Patrol is searching for the driver. Taylors daughter is pleading bradenton man is accused of hanging the puppy by a leash and punching it in the face. The dog named zeoy has injuries consistent. He said he beat the dog because it chewed up his shoes. The other dogs were turned over to Manatee County authorities. Venice police say they caught the man responsible for a Violent Crime spree. Carjack two people. We got this mugshot of ralph forte this morning. Venice Police Arrested him at his home. He admitted to attacking an employee at the 88 spa massage wednesday then threatening two drivers. He served prison time for grand theft auto, grand theft and forgery. The woman is recovering after undergoing surgery for head injuries. Matthew struck in the bahamas, people dont have electricity. 20 teco workers are on there way to join about 35 crew members already there work in a devastated area where every customer lost service. More than 19,000 people did. In some areas the electrical system will have to be rebuilt from the ground up. The International Space station got more crowded. An american and two duked with the iss before 6 00. They opened the hatch and were greeted by the stations existing three person crew. They will stay in space about four months conducting hundreds of experiments. St. Pete continues to make plans for redeveloping the tropicana field sit should the rays move to a new stadium. The Architectural Firm created not many are thrilled with demolishing that spur. The architects should be finished crafting the plan within the next two months. Yet another quake hits japan rattling people in the country. How big it was and if it caused damage. The details coming up. Students hit waiting for their school bus. How witnesses help a young girl stuck under the car that an s. U. V. Plows into three children boarding a school bus. It happened in louisville. The bus stopped suddenly. The s. U. V. Driver swerved to avoid hitting the school bus then ended up on the sidewalk hitting the three kids. Police say the driver did not see the children. A witness says one of the kids was pinned under the car. Two of the kids are in critical condition. California police have arrested two people in connection with tuesdays shooting outside of a high school in san francisco. Four students were shot and injured. Police say the investigation into the crime continues right now. A large 6. 2 magnitude earthquake rattled japan. Take a look at the video that shows when the quake hit. You will see the camera jumping up and down, people running of the room. The u. S. Geological survey says there were no immediate rots of damage and no tsunami warning was issued. Japan is on the socalled ring of fire and is no stranger to earthquakes. The largest recorded earthquake to hit japan came in 2011. A typhoon is taking aim at china after smashing into the and rain. It killed 13 people. China suspended Train Service in several provinces. Hong kong hunkered down as it was lashed with rain and gusty winds up to 68 miles per hour. Police in massachusetts say a teenager walking to school was dragged right off the street and sexually assaulted. The victim tells police she was held for more than two hours the victim reports having been forcibly dragged from the street into a second floor apartment. The teen ran to school. Officials then called police. The suspect was arrested and is charged with kidnapping and aggravated statutory rape. He was on probation and wearing an ankle monitor. He was not a prior sex offender. Arkansas police are searching for three suspects that they say are responsible for spray painting graffiti all people walking up to the islamic prayer center. The other is oblivious to the fact there was a surveillance camera next to him. Comes up to it. The suspect did damage to the porch and damage to a garage and that sign out front. In pennsylvania, professors are expected to strike for a third day at 14 state universities. More than 5,000 professors across the sta wednesday morning. They argue negotiations went south over curriculum issues, health care and salary. They are working to move toward a fair contract. In the meantime, thousands of students are out of class while the strike continues. They spent three days away from their home. Yesterday wildfire evacuees in colorado were able to go back. It burned almost 18,000 acres and is 33 contained. Structures were destroyed. Cooler weather is helping firefighters get temperatures under control. Those temperatures are expected to rise today. Take a look at this picture behind us. Keep looking. That is a stinging caterpillar. They are found in the bay area but they are causing problems for people in houston. They contain venomous bristles that can break off and stick in you them. One woman said her 5yearold daughter stepped on one and started screaming. The screaming didnt stop for hours. I stepped on something, i stepped on something. At first i thought she didnt have shoes on, we ran out the door, i thought she stepped on a leaf. It progressively got worse. Mom said she placed the girls foot in ice and watched time of year and are around until winter. I have never seen them. Thats a good thing. If you do, now you know what to do. Earthquakes, typhoons and fires, caterpillars, we are not safe. Elephant ears, are those okay . Can we eat those. Brandon, the fair is on. Fantastic weekend for it. Cool out there. If you are headi that in mind. Great today. Mid70s then the mid to upper 80s with plenty of sunshine. A few clouds will roll in. That is the front. That would be about it. I will show you that in a second. 60s out there. This is not the front. Titan Doppler Radar not showing much, it hasnt for some time. The easterly flow brought us a few showers. Here is the front positioned here. What im showing you is how dry on the Northwest Side of the front. You need the contrast to get showers and thunderstorms going. Because its dry ahead and dry behind it, it wont do much. A few clouds rolling through. The only thing we notice is the winds picking up. By tonight and early tomorrow morning you will notice the temperature and the humidity drop which will plummet. Mid to upper80s. One last day of warm temperatures. I will take you on a tour of here it is. Even in pinellas, the warmer spot, surrounded by water on all sides, low 60s. Then you get away from the 80 degree water temperature and things get interesting. Upper 40s to lower 50s. We will do that with a wind. Its not howling but it will be enough that it will give us a windchill early enough if you wake up with us here tomorrow. Today still looking good. 85, which is average for this time of year. Still warm and breezy. Airport, 59. A lot of us, remember, a good 10 to 8 to 10 degrees cooler than that. Upper 70s through the afternoon. Gorgeous end to both weekend days. Chilly start but by the afternoon, we are looking fantastic for saturday and into under with both days climbing up into the upper 70s. Its hard this time of year to have the cold air stick. It wont. By monday morning, we are waking up with cool temperatures. Notice the trend here, low 80s and then we begin to climb up temperatures, along with the humidity, getting back up there. Not uncomfortably so. We have to add some rain chances by the middle to later part of next week. Big first fall weekend with the cold front. Enjoy that for saturday and sunday. Thanks, ivan. Its come to this. The band going into effect in a Mississippi County that takes clowns off the list of welcome back. Its friday. Time to introduce you to our named a few years back. When she was a puppy. What a gorgeous husky she is. Gorgeous. How old. Six years old. So, what you see is what you get. Not getting any bigger. No. What you have to know about huskies if you have a problem with hair what is it about huskies. They are wonderful loveable dogs, great companion dogs but they shed. Hair trust me mine is half husky and half shepherd. They shed. They dont bark like a normal dog. They yodel. They are pack animals. If introduced properly, they get along with other dogs. They need activity. They dont like sitting in a lot of people shave the husky down and think they are doing a great favor but they are wonderful luxurious fur insulates them from the heat and cold. Warm in the winter and cool in the summer. You have to maintain the fur. They have to be brushed. Know what you are getting into. Research them. They are fantastic dogs. Look at her eyes. Beautiful. Thank you for bringing her in. Good luck. The number is on your screen. Thank you very much. Have a great weekend. You too. Coming up, a touching contribute. How a young boy honored the father he never got a chance to meet. Plus, an incredible emergency landing. What caused the problem with this plane and what it took to new safety concerns about the takata airbag recall that affects millions of floridians. Im lindsay logue. That story at 9 30. A beautiful contribute to the dozens of lives lost in the pulse nightclub tragedy. The message an artist is hoping to spread with his new mural. She has been suspended. Why parents say that is not enough. Thank you for joining us for this half hour. Im deiah riley. Im dan shaver. Mother nature finally checked her calendar. A month late. We have that delay, the same thing with winter. Lets check in. Have you heard, yes, we will be chilly. Not today. Folks are asking. You are fine today. It will be warm. Head to the beach if you have outdoor plans looking good. The cold air wont make it in until late tonight then early tomorrow. It will be chilly. The coldest air mass of the season. Compared to where we have been, a few days we hit 90. The contrast will be dramatic. Right now looking great. Temps in the 60s and mid70s. We will warm up. We will do that quickly in the next few hours. We are good. Tonight we tumble with the temperatures. I will be back with more on that in a few minutes. A consumer alert for florida drivers. If your vehicle is on the takata airbag list, park it. A california woman is the 11th person to die in the u. S. After her airbag exploded during a crash. We are taking action for you with how to keep you and your family safe. Lindsay logue is live in tampa. We have been reporting that tens recalled. Why have only a fraction ben replaced. Deiah, dealerships tell me they cant get the part in fast enough from the manufacturer. I know several people, the owner of this car cant get a replacement inflorida tore. They have been waiting for months. Its hit or miss. The dealerships, some say we have the part, others didnt. If you are not driving into the driving it at all. Thats the urgent message for anyone with a vehicle on the takata airbag recall list. A california woman died in a crash. The faulty airbag in her 2001 honda civic deployed with too much force and sent metal fragments in the car. Honda says despite sending recall notices, the vehicle was never repaired. Now new concerns for drivers in florida. That is the humidity. It makes certain cars more dangerous. Here is the considered high urgency. For example, airbags in older monday model honda civics and accords have greater chance than others. Dealers will replace them for free when they can. What are your options if you are waiting . You can try to ask for a loaner or a rental. Check your Car Insurance policy first. We have heard of some mechanics disabling an airbag so it wont deploy in a crash, although if you need an airbag replacement, keep calling the local dealership. Dont expect them to keep calling you. I found this app made by car fax. You put in the make and model of your vehicle, your license plate and keeps you up to date on any recalls. My car, no recalls reported. Of course its not going to be the case for everybody. A free app, a good tool for car thanks a lot. New this morning, love is in the air. We stand together. Just a few of the messages covering a mural at the pulse nightclub last night. . Like a bridge over troubled water . These the first time people have gone beyond the security fence since the june 12th 68 injured that night. Its designed to constantly change. Anyone can add to it. The artist is from los angeles. He said what happened inside those walls of the pulse nightclub four months ago shook him. For sure there is a statement. There is a statement that we are here, you know, we are not forgetting. We are here. We give love. The memorial will be at the nightclub as long as the Community Wants it there then they may take it around the world. A new floridians dont want College Students studying in a country where there is terrorism. School Officials Say they spend months planning in advance before sending students and staff abroad. They have hired two International Risk and Security Officers whose jobs are to advice them about safety. Usf closely follows state department recommendations. We have had students in terrorist activity. And we know our system works. Usf says over the past four years they have seen an increase in students studying abroad. A south florida man is blaming a kia dealership for putting him and his family in danger. The man saying the dealership in port st. Lucie rented him a car with a loaded gun left in the center console. That weapon belonged to an employee. A pilot made a difficult and dangerous landing look easy. Experts say it took incredible skill to do that. The pilot was on the way from jacksonville to oklahoma city. He noticed the nose gear wasnt dropping. He notified air Traffic Control he was having a problem then diverted to an airport with a longer runway. He touched down, eased off the gas while keeping the nose up as long as possible but it did smack into the tarmac. U. S. Financial markets just starting five minutes ago. Tough one on wall street. Dow is down 104 points to 18,058. Parents in kansas are calling for a teacher to be fired after allegedly making razist come ra cit racist comments made in class. Whites are more superiors than blacks and because of the color of our skin make the amount of money that other races made. Some parents say their children reported previous incidents involving the teacher and they want the district to fire her. A crime alert. Thieves are posing as Bank Employees and trying to scam Senior Citizens into giving them their debit cards. Here is how it works. The thieves call seniors saying Police Caught someone trying to use their debit card and it needs to be replaced. Someone will come to the home sure enough, a knock at the door and the victim hands the card over to the thief. Several victims in south florida. They really had me fooled. I dont think i had been hoodwinked that way any time in my life. Police say they have leads but are not ready to release any suspect names just yet. An 11yearold north dakota boy has closure with the late father whom he never met. This is a sweet brandon was adopted at birth. Earlier this year he found out his biological father died and was buried in suburban chicago without a headstone. Brandon started mowing lawns early last summer to buy a headstone. He helped design it. He was at the cemetery to see it installed. Brandon says its his gift to the father he never met. If he would be here, he would be proud and, like, even though i think i have never meet him, i still honor him and i still believe in him. It turns out the company that made the headstone donated it to brandon and wouldnt take his money. New recommendations this morning about how much time kids should spend exposed to digital media. The American Academy of pediatrics set the new guidelines this week. It says children 18 months old and younger shouldnt have any screen time at all, no tvs or tablets at all. Previously two hours between 2 and 5 but now its recommended it be cut in half to one hour a day. For 6 and older, parents can determine restrictoins. Downtown tamps Grocery Store options take a giant leap forward today. In less than 25 minutes, tampa store. In december they announced they would open a store at television and meridian twiggs and meridian. It will feature rooftop parking. It is expected to open in early 2019. If you havent gotten your flu shot, today is a good day to do it. Usf is hosting the free flu shot drive. It is underway. It goes until afternoon. You have to be 18 or older to take advantage of it. The cdc encourages anyone six months or older to get the flu vaccine. You can fill up your gas tank at a local Circle K Store for the fueling our schools day. 8 00 because 10 cents will be donated. Real bones inside a Haunted House. How they ended up there. Something of a cliche. A Sporting Good stores in canada hit by thieves that only stole hockey sticks. Why this was so hard to pull a break in at a Sporting Good stores in capped looked like a scene from a hollywood thriller. Scenes broke in and swiped about 150,000 worth of hockey sticks. No sense of urgency. Store emerying the sticks priced at 300 a pop. He piled them at the backdoor where an accomplice loaded the loot in the van. The manager suspects this may have been an inside job. 60,000 square foot fatality. On top of the roof to find the delocation kilo indication where you dont hit beams, pipes, electrical lines in stick section took planning. Investigators will be questioning the staff. A civil rights activist is using quotes from donald trump to make a point using hats. He is of mexican descent. He is making hats with like make america mexico again and taco truck on every corner. He wants to shed light on hate speech. Too. I can facilitate somebody that is an introvert, stand up to hate, my job to help them out. This weeks hat is bad hombre. One county says enough of the clowns. People were banned from wearing clown costumes or make up in public. It carries a penalty if its broken. It halloween. Officials say its a matter of public safety. Uber like air taxis, are they the thing of the future . Airbus thinks so. It has lifted the curtain on an ambitious Silicon Valley project. It is a pilotless aircraft that will add a vertical component renderings. Give it 20 years or so. Work out the kinks. A Haunted House in wisconsin is under fire for props too real. Somebody donated antique coffins years ago. They have been in storage all this time and they were pulled down this year. When the organizers of the Haunted House opened the coffins, they were shocked to find two human skeletons inside. They say they are medical skeletons and one is totally halloween show. Just in time, cool he we are cooler weather. Ladies get to break out the boots. We are exceeded. I dont have boots yet. Get you some uggs. We wear them in 60degree weather. I have seen them. Temperatures mid to upper80s while. Look at the folks enjoying themselves on the beach. Later on tonight and into tomorrow, especially early on, it will be too cold, certainly to dip in the water, at least for me. This is a gorgeous shot from temple terrance. Good morning. Looks similar today with plenty of sunshine. Temperatures are out of the 60s, into the 70s and we will make it to the mid and a couple of 80s. Titan doppler is quiet. The low we have been monitoring is east of us, not an issue. It will merge with the front. If you are traveling northeast, a rainy weekend for them. There is the front for us. Its barreling through with a wind shift to the north and west. Gusty winds, lower humidity, lower temperatures combined to make it feel like december, i think. Wait to see the temperatures in a second. 85 for tampa this afternoon. Thats average for this time of year. Look at this. We will drop about 30 degrees from the daytime high tonight to the morning low tomorrow. We are not done there. I will show you the high temperatures. Very comfortable. We end up in the mid to upper 70s, still nice. Then colder on sunday morning. Upper 40s to lower 50s. That will be a shocker to the system. Welcome for most of us as we get to enjoy some cool temps finally. 85 boaters have an issue. Small craft advisory is in effect through tomorrow, 5 to 7 foot seas. Small accurate you are not out there small craft you are not out there this weekend, i hope. Overnight lows in the 60s next week. Coming up, attention animal lovers. In hernando county, a project good morning. On positively tampa bay we continue our focus on the volunteer opportunities at local Domestic Violence centers. The done center of hernando needs help building aiken nell. Protecting the family pet is one of the most common relationships. So, the advocates are hoping to change that. They need help from local businesses and residents to build aiken nell on the property in rural hernando. Don center is partnering with the rotary club of brooksville to build an on site center. We will be in need of pet crates, beds, bowls, food. Or if they have materials that would be helpful or useful during the construction phase. We would appreciate that as well. To connect with the don center directly or any of the other Domestic Violence centers, visit us on abcactionnews. Com slash d. V. They are listed county by county. We have information about each of them on our Facebook Page and i am hope to report a lot of checking it out and seeing which volunteer opportunities are a good fit for them. This is one i never considered. They are hoping someone says im ready to build. Lets help you. Stay with us. Dan shaver has 12 hours to get his uggs before the cold air moves in. Mid to upper80s then we drop big time. The slippers. Can i do slippers. Yes, you can. Tampa bays Morning Blend is captions by caption colorado, llc 800 7757838 e mail comments captioncolorado. Com . [music] . Good friday morning. Tgif. Im carley boyette. Im shawn daily filling in for natalie, whos taking a few days off. Yeah. Enjoy yourself. Yeah. Shes been working hard. You came back. We didnt say you off yesterday. You are stuck with me, i know. I guess you lost the bet. No, thats not true. We have another great show today. Its a good show today. We have food that well get