Surprise when he came faceto face with a 300 pound alligator. Where this gator was hiding out. Good morning and thank you for waking up with us. I am ashley yore. I am james tolley. You are up with abc. Lets check in with the peoples champion, and floridas most accurate forecast, bill logan. By the way, i just had gator for the first time. I ate it. It is the other white meat. Takes a lot like chicken. I would rather eat it then rescue it. We will have a growling start to the day. Speaking of gators. Seeing a few showers offshore from anna maria island. We can fire up the mainsail the east of i75. Through Temple Terrace towards pennant creek and wesley chapel. None of this is very heavy but just enough to get the windshield wet. Moisture from the southeast and that is where the rainfall is going to come from by later on. Still seeing a lot of moisture out here to the west moving the texas coastline towards houston. It will be a mess for those folks as they cleanup and you see the soggy conditions. For us it is typical summertime day. Temperatures now in the upper 70s. 77 st. Pete, clearwater and tampa 79, and the most accurate digital day planner shows 79 up to 90 by later on this afternoon and see that chance of showers. They will come from the south and work towards us. When the best chances for rain st. Pete. Second avenue north lanes are closed due to an accident. We will get more details and pass it along. This has been closed for eight hours. Traffic is detoured to 54th avenue and that is what we see right here. It has cleared out a bit. I just pulled up and the traffic has now been allowed through. They had the Police Escort move up and see if that was clear. A huge backup that is trying to clear out a little bit on 275 northbound. We will let you know with an update. Authorities are going car to car to rescue people stranded on the interstate from this is standing pictures. Three months worth of rain in a single day. At least three people are dead so far and 1000 people rescued. The governor has just declared a state of emergency. Phillip mena is in louisiana. Reporter the rain just keeps coming. This is not over. The floodwaters keep rising. Everything in the houses are destroyed. Louisiana under siege. Emergency crews rushed to bring everyone to safety. Record levels of flooding along rivers and creeks. And because these are record floods we dont know how wide the water is going to get in those areas. The National Guard called in to help. Police and Fire Departments helicopters are an active search and rescue right now. We are trying to coordinate with officials on the ground. This family had to leave their flooded home on foot carrying a baby through through rushing water. We are trying to keep the baby dry. Officials cant get to everyone and a Good Samaritan pulledhi i said dont panic. I will get you. People are driving into danger and it is frustrating for Law Enforcement putting more people at risk. If the sign said road closed it is there for a reason. Dont cross that. Phillip mena. Abc news. Two Police Involved shootings in two different looking for a suspect shot and killed a Police Officer in georgia. It happened last night in east men georgia, and hour from macon. Police were responding to a suspicious person call when he ran into the suspect and was shot. The officer was not wearing a body camera. Angry crowds in milwaukee after an officer shot and killed a 23yearold man. It happened during a foot chase after a traffic stop. The man was armed and wouldnt drop his now people have burned four businesses including a bank. So far police have made three arrests. The state is investigating the shooting. Officials say the officer who fired at the man was wearing a body camera. Police are searching for a gunman who killed a muslim religious leader in new york and they have Surveillance Video of the suspect. Shot in the back of the head after attending a prayerservice yesterday. There are no signs that their faith had anything to do with the attack. Officials say they are investigating whether an earlier argument at the mosque may have led to the shooting. The video shows the gunman leaving the scene with a weapon in his hand. Pinellas county teenager accused of carrying out serious crimes and making a big mistake. They got him caught. 18yearold rodney hydorn hes accused of scaling a fence and breaking into park auto service. He stole a gray dodge charger. He plowed through the fence and ditched that car and drove off in a shelby gt mustang. Only got a few blocks away when he realized he dropped his wallet at the business. He went back to get it and pretended to be a witness to the crimes but his story literally here you are you still a 35,000 hot rod, it is like fast and furious. And then you come back because you lost your license. And then get arrested. After paying for the repairs to his damaged property he will put up security cameras. He will keep car keys in a locked safe. Pinellas park Police Investigating a car crash on park boulevard overnight. Two vehicles collided. One person threatening injuries. A teenager is dead after a fatal crash in polk county. It happened early yesterday morning. The driver and two passengers and one of them died. Driving on i4 when the driver lost control. Killed. It happened on hillsborough avenue at midnight. This person is in Critical Condition. Westbound lanes on dale maybury were shut down for several hours overnight. Waiting to learn the name of the pedestrian killed on broadway. He was struck by a car yesterday morning. Police have not identified the person. A 14yearold girl is dead after jacksonville policesay someone shot her at a house party. Three adults were also hurt. The shooting started after an argument. Th north carolina, raleigh Police Investigating reports of gunfire at a busy mall. No one was shot. This is cell phone video of the sheer panic as people try to rush out of the building. That is how people did get hurt. Eight people were injured running into chaos. There is no evidence of gunfire. Police havent found shell casings. Witnesses told police they two Young Children on my side and i had my sons twomonth old. Westarted running out and we heard a few more shots. There were 15 people near the shooter. The scariest thing ive ever gone through. Police shut down the mall and the youngest person hurt is 10 years old. Coming up, School Year Kicks off tomorrow for some students and the apps that could help kids stay safe. We are keeping you safe right now. By firing up the titan Doppler Radar. We have some showers right off of anna maria island. We will fire up that makes last day of freedom for students in polk county and new safety plan and pasco county meant to protect her kids in the classroom. Erics wax were shows us more. Reporter at every Pasco County School in every classroom along with books and computers you will find discolored flipchart and the hope is it is never used. But when an emergency comes teacher should now know exactly has to come in and respond to emergency situations and they know it will be an active scene. The plan put together by the sheriff covers everything. Emergency, fires, tornadoes, bomb threats and more. Something as simple as bedding out a threat. If one of these emergencies happen Staff Members will know where to go grabbing the step instructions in emergency numbers easily accessible. It is also available on their phones. They want to keep the procedures private so the wrong people dont know how a crisis will be handled. At River Ridge High School the principle is using a Smart Phone App to connect her school like never before. Teachers have remind 101 so any crisis alerts can be sent out to everyone. They will get a text message saying we have someone on campus that is wearing a red suspicious activity and watch for it. The communication will be a big help for the School Resource officer. The campuses sprawl so it is a never ending effort to make sure the campuses are safe and secure. For pasco students the work starts monday. Whatever the school year may so my school kicks off tomorrow for several more counties. Polk county is one of them. Their district still needs more teachers. They have 150 openings and there working with hiring agencies to fill spots. Today officials asking for patients as teachers and parents find routines. Give yourself extra time if you are taking your kid to school because 500 school buses will be in route to take 50,000 kids to class. In maryland, strange up there. A lot of future openings. Its interesting. Cant get enough teachers to help do do the book learning. Showers are showing up. You side on the title and Doppler Radar. This is off to the north of anna maria island. However we will see some of the showers and storms pushing through. You can see it there, a little bit of yellow. That has just now popped up. We have seen a few storms moving inland up towards the i 75 Corridor North of tampa bay. These are very light. You may have to put the windshield washer son a few times to see. Otherwise starting off clear and breezy we will see the sea breeze storms by this afternoon and we will see better coverage of the storms that we saw yesterday. Right now 79 degrees and sunshiny skies in clearwater as we are an hour into the sunday find a. 77 st. Pete with sunshine. Winds out of the southeast at 5. More clouds in tampa as we have seen some of the clouds 80 miami and orlando. Key west 82. Warmth through the east coast as well and charleston at 82. Further up 995, 86 baltimore. We are going to see temperatures pushing into the mid90s. The heat is on. Watch the rays game later on and they will talk about the at about the flooding and the rain has moved off to the. But for us were going to see showers move mostly off to the north and east by 6 00. Some good showers through central polk county into pasco and then across the tampa metro. By 10 00 bloomingdale and plant city, heavy rain and showers will over spread into parts of tampa and pinellas county. Tomorrow we will do the same again. Starting up at and pinellas county. Tomorrow we will do the same again. Starting up at 2 30 am and watching the showers pull back across the the midnight hour. The forecast for today, it will be hot to start and 91 for st. Petersburg. We will watch the showers later as we hit a high of 92 in tampa. Here is a look at the voting weather forecast, 86 on the beaches. Winds out of the southeast and temperatures staying milder along most accurate seven day, let me get back to that again. There it is. 92 today with the 40 chance of showers continuing into the workweek. More moisture and better ring coverage by tuesday and wednesday on what is looking very much like a typical summertime pattern. Modern medicine is something to marvel at. Doctor gilman tire, Memorial Hospital tampa. Robotic surgery. Something called the da vinci x i that is a single site surgery. It is fascinating because were talking about doing things that you probably didnt think were possible a few years ago. Robotic surgery has been around for several years but have Memorial Hospital involves operating through one small incision. Only an inch long. This is the gallbladder removal. The incision is buried in the bellybutton. Cosmetic result as far is far superior. It has evolved quite a bit. Back in the early 90s it evolved from the Standard Open operation to laparoscopic major improvement. Laparoscopic surgery involves at least three or four incisions and then when the robot came along a gallbladder could be done robotically to several incisions but lately its been able to be done to the single site. This is the first in the area to accomplish this. The first in the area to accomplish it with the latest version it is a more versatile piece of equipment than the older version of the robot. We have the latest version there and Memorial Hospital. What was your reaction to it. When you completed the surgery with a small incision in removing an entire gallbladder. It is superior for the patient and the patients have done very well. They have less pain and from a cosmetic standpoint it is quite well. I guess that means it covers all the bases so it is safer. It is as safe as the other operations but the advantage of the single site is cosmetic. Were talking about expanding to other kinds of surgery. Fda has approved the single site surgery for gallbladder surgery and pelvic jim surgery. Candidate for the gallbladder surgery . People that have gallbladder disease that need their gallbladder out. It is not necessarily applicable for emergency gallbladders that are severely impacted. This can be done under a more timely fashion and controlled fashion. Anybody watching, it is good out of it cosmetically better. Its amazing. She is Carrie Johnson with american bulldog rescue. You have a dog with the this is big head bernie. It fits in perfectly. Is a sweetheart. He is a little camera shy which we totally understand. He is a gentle giant. He is a loving boy. He will fall in my lap and give kisses. He does give kisses on command. We had a mini foster home so about bulldogs is that they have humanlike eyes. You can read their emotions. Bernie is scared so he is breaking everyones hard out there. Is about 95 pounds. He is between two years old and four years old. He had an owner at one point because he is healthy. Someone to take care of him. He was found as a stray we picked him up and brought him over to boarding until a foster home opened and now he is staying in bradenton. For bernie. Were on a really good street care. For weeks in a row weve gotten the dog adopted on sundays. Where do people go . American bulldog rescue. Org or applications online. Submit an application there and we will process it and get in touch with everyone. Maybe he will go home with as guccifer 2. 0 strikes again affecting phone numbers and email addresses released to the welcome back to abc action news this morning. I am ashley yore. Here is what were watching this morning. A second pedestrian hit in tampa. The latest accident happened on hillsborough avenue midnight. The victim is in Critical Condition and the westbound lanes near del mabry shut down we are making calls and working to get more details. Violent riots underway in milwaukee after an officer shot and killed a 23yearold man. The shooting happened during a foot chase after a traffic stop. The man was at least four businesses burned armed and wouldnt drop his gun. Including rescue teams are going car to car to help people stranded during the flooding in louisiana. The storm is dumping three months worth of rain in one day. Three people have already been killed and the governor declared a state of emergency. More than 1000 people have been rescued. You may have questions about what is going on there. Bill logan is here and we are live on facebook now. If you have questions for bill, type them in their and c i posted something on my Facebook Page last night an amazing rescue of a woman who was under the one a water quickly and managed to get out. It was a touch and go moment. A lot of that stuff going on as this continues to move to the. And moving towards texas. We have seen showers and clouds move toward our neck of the woods. This is the look from the rivergate tower camera. Pointed to the south and east and that is where we see more clouds and some of that rain that has pulled across the area. As we look at the titan Doppler Radar starting to see if you light showers into central polk county and a few more light showers moving off to the of i 75 along the suncoast parkway and out around off nothing that is going to be getting in the way of your day but a few showers that will skirt. 79 tampa. Clearwater has the same reading as does hudson and sarasota and siesta key. Winter haven is warmer at 80. Avon park 74. And looking for a high in tampa of 92. As we push the temperatures upward we will go from the muggy morning to increased humidity and steamy conditions and then rain around by later this afternoon. I will let you know the timing of the raindrops coming up. The end of an era in brazil. Michael phelps tops his amazing career. The most honored olympian went out on top powering the us team to a says will be his last. Jim ryan has report. Reporter the end of an era, Michael Phelps tops his story with a gold medal. The greatest swimmer of all time helping the relay team surge to a win. This is his 23rd alltime gold medal. The most decorated olympian ever and he says goodbye to the 4 x 100 medley relay. Simone manual was chasing another goal manual medal in the freestyle, splashing. She came in second for the silver. She already won gold in the 100 m freestyle. In the mens 1500 m freestyle, Connor Jaeger swam to his first olympic medal, a silver. Gold for the worlds fastest woman, the latest competed Elaine Thompson rocketed across the line 1st. Americas tory buoy one silver. Jeff henderson bound to a gold medal. More history in fencing. Mohammed and the us womens team battled to the bronze medal and mohammed is the First American medalist to compete wearing a he job. London Gold Medalist farah despite taking an early tutumbl phelps did hold a Facebook Live session confirming that rio is his last olympics. In response to the hash tag, four more years, phelps said no but he did add he will go to the tokyo games but not going as a competitor. He first qualify for the olympics in 2000 at the age of 15. He didnt win a metal. Its not about how you start but about how you finish. He just wanted to get faster. He did. He did quite a bit. Lets move on to democracy 2016. Governor mike pence said he will release his tax returns announcing his returns will be made public before election day. That is contrary to trump who said he is being audited and were release them when they are completed. Quentin has released her stating back to 77. They made this public on his tax returns under wraps because he is being audited but the agency says theres nothing legally stopping him from releasing his returns. The hacker known as guccifer 2. 0 strikes again. After providing 20,000 Democratic National committee emails to wiki leaks. The persona is claiming credit for outing the personal phone and email addresses of hundreds of house democrats. The data was posted to the goose of the Committee Said it is cooperating with investigators who are looking into this. Hillsborough county deputy being called a hero after saving the life of a threeyear old boy. The rescue happening at a waterpark. Jake peterson making a rare in studio appearance with the latest. Offduty correction deputy hobby ponds was at the splash yelling for help. He went to the lazy river and saw a threeyearold floating motionless under the water. He pulls the boy out of the water and perform cpr. Andrews starts breeding breathing normally again but was taken to the hospital. The 3yearolds mother simmons lost sight of him for six minutes and she thought he was with another Family Member at the time and no charges are pending. A very lucky boy to have someone with this close by. We want to inform you of our Newest Campaign called taking action for your future. Were joined with the Pinellas Education Foundation and Careersource Tampa bay to provide career counseling. This is the future plans interactive online survey. It will take place august 15 to september 9. You can take the survey at no cost participants of the results and Career Councils at local officers offices will review results with you for free. It is National Store day. We have extra live in the studio to talk about how to get what you need for a bargain price. And how shopping at Thrift Stores doesnt benefit the community. A home renovation boom has hit tampa. A shortage of workers could impact your pocketbook. Y22tfy yy6y z22sbz zy6z y22sby yy6y if you are shopping for back to school or maybe you want to freshen up little bit, you can do that for very little money. We are here with experts this morning. We have resident fashionista Wendi Braswell with this. We will talk about what some of these options are on the table and then we will speak with you kayla about where the money is going because that is important. First we want to get to the this could be at your local thrift shop. Im excited about National Thrift store day. In high school i lived for thrift shopping. I am wearing the fit and flare today. This is from a thrift store. Amazing. For a fraction of the cost. I will show a few items today. Look for at Thrift Stores is quality. You will find value. Like the this is a tory burch brand. It retails for over 200. This is the fall color and open toe ballet flat is a basic for me. This is a value. Look at the quality. For the fraction of the cost. Like this leather vest. Another fall trend. Find this year with a striped for trends and know the trends and be prepared before you shop. I wanted to ask you you can find these deals at the thrift shop and it is the best place to go because your money is going to a good cause. Every purchase supports those in the Community Living with chronic illness and advanced illness or experiencing grief. You have a special deal coming up where you can save more. We will recognize National Thrift shop day august 17. You can get 50 off of all clothing at the store. Already low prices. Lets bring the models over. We had this one bag. Come on, get over here. We dont have the budget for women models. You grab this item. This is a layering piece. Good to go. Lets make sure you can accessorize it. [ indiscernible multiple speakers ]. I may have to go pick up some shoes. Were saving some money. Bill logan has been accessorized since the commercial break. I like the scarf. It helps with color. Little snap. Not a lot of people know this but for a while i was a host at hsn. It was all about accessorizing. Bring the bling. On twitter, bill logans summer start scarf is you set the internet on fire. If you are not joining us on a sunday morning. I know its early. This is the place to be. Were seeing clouds as we look out from circles in apollo beach. Some of the clouds have brought a wee bit of rain but we are not looking for a tremendous amount of rain early on. That will come later in the afternoon. I want to give you a view of what were looking at as far as the Hurricane Season goes. We have come through slow once but by the end of august and into september and october that is when we see more activity. Although we are not seeing much activity now. Not to the caribbean or through the atlantic and no Development Expected over the next several days. Like a pop of color. What you dont see on this graphic is the massive humidity and that is because we have a lot of water vapor in the atmosphere and precipitate bowater is water is huge. It is not like it is out here to the. New orleans has finally seen some slacking up of the rain but its headed over towards texas. That area of low pressure is the area of lingered last weekend and slowly moved. We are going to see the moisture coming from the south and east. It will be breezy and hot early. We may see a random shower moving through but a better chance of showers and storms by this afternoon. By 6 00 bartow and lakeland will have showers. That will pull back across tampa areas and central st. Petersburg, we will watch for showers later on and then finally getting rid of them by midnight. We on monday on monday, 40 of showers moving through lingering into the evening. This is a typical summertime pattern. Right now partly cloudy skies. Up to 92 by later on england inland. Winslow southeast to south and then we see tides come later this afternoon. It will be 8 09 pm at sunset this evening. We will watch the rain chances wrap up a little bit on tuesday and wednesday as we continue to see that moisture coming in from the south. By next weekend we are back to normal and this is the picture sevenday forecast. This is locked in with the summertime pattern. The only thing that will change is anything bubbling up in the tropics. That is not happening. If it does change you know i will let you know about it on my twitter feed. What is old is new again. Americans are fixing up their homes and now the renovation market is surpassing the prerecession peak. You can see the big rebound started a few years ago and now the home renovation market is worth 300 billion. But the business boom is causing a severe labor shortage. How that could impact your wallet. Reporter homeowners a spending a record amount of instead of buying new. We came to a job site in tampa and found out this boom is forcing contractors into a desperate search for more workers. Its a good problem to have. It is going well. Too many jobs and not enough skilled workers. We dont have the overall quality workmanship and the people. Dennis bowman and his group are starting this project. The general same trend. If anybody needs work give me a call. 2 Million Construction workers left the industry eight years ago after the housing bust with Consumer Confidence at an alltime high to renovate. The worker shortage will cost 10 more than in years past according to king. The price has gone up. King wants the labor demand that tracks unlicensed whoever you higher is registered with the state. You will be stuck with a substandard job and you have no legal recourse. Now you can find a guy. Coming up, a suspect mistakes the courtroom for a nightclub. Look at this guy. The dancing criminal caught busting a move at the long time area of the judge he wasnt happy. My favorite story. Caught on camera. Miami man in court for stealing a car and breaking out torquing and part. The judge was not amused. She set his mind at 18,500. He wasnt dancing after that. Im glad he wasnt hungry when i walked out to the garage. Texas homeowner got a good scare when he opened up his garage door and found a 9 foot alligator waiting for him. It is trying to be removed right there. It flipped out. Wranglers did get it but not a happy camper. Deepfried bill is delicious. The other white meat. White and gray clouds as the temperature preaches 292 and a 40 chance of showers later today and we will hold onto that tomorrow. Typical summertime pattern. To work starting right now on this week with george stephanopoulos. On the ropes . After another offmessage week for donald trump. Barack obama is the founder of isis. Nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, know. More republicans now breaking from their nominee. I just cannot support donald trump. And with new polls showing clinton pulling away in swing states. Its either going to work, or, im going to, you know, im gonna have a very, very nice, long vacation. So is the race now Hillary Clintons to lose . Well ask top Foreign Policy advisers to both campaigns. Plus, after months of