You to make extrs 4 00 and the bay is on. And right now lawmakers are still fighting about how to protect people against the zika virus and blaming each other because they havent accomplished anything yet. This as were learning we have one more travel related zika case here in the county. He brought mosquitoes to show what they are up against. The senate voted down a bill because it included unrelated provisions. But just so you now, the house did its job and the senate has been blatantly political with zika funding. We will find out how to get over again. They should drop the partisan filibusters. They haveords for even thelow bar th have set, it is incredible that they cannot fulfill this basic responsibility of governing. Lawmakers only have about a month to find way to agree on this or the cdc will run out of money to pay to develop a vaccine. Staying on Recovery Efforts from hour kind hermine. We just got final numbers in on the damage to pasco. People are getting help. Like those in the bass lake area near new port richey, thats where we find ryan smith. Ryan, how bad did it get there . Rte, gu. In fall opd and the damage was assessed from hurricane hermine, no doubt this is one of the hardest hit areas. With impassable roads and floodingo thei leavremains under a mandatorev duatiage cos yot up is coming from this area. Lets break down the numbers that we receive from pasco county today. More than 2600 houses impacted by the storm. Hurricane hermine caused an estimated 89 million in damages to homes and residential properties. Emergency management Officials Say at this point, hermine marks potentially the most expensive storm in county history. Kevin guthrie said thats due not only to the weather itself but also his crews being more aggressive with damage assessments poststorm. We went out and found those areas. We had our folks go every square inch of this county looking for water that is on reporter and we also learned late this afternoon that hurricane hermine destroyed completely 7 homes in pasco county. What that means is those seven water above doorknobs inside the homes or portions of roofs and walls missing and coming down due to falling trees. Thats the latest in pasco county. Ryan smith for the now tampa bay. Thank you, ryan. Causeway and trail is back open this afternoon. Here is what it looked like yesterday. Closed for days as crews tried to clean up the debris from the storm. Again, the trail is back open. Lets talk weather with shay. Shot, shay. Saw ryans live there is plenty of water in the pasco area. When are we going to see it dry out. We have another day. Take a look at the r. Moment. So it will take time. Days are relatively low. They are going up where they have been for the past two days but it is looking good. As we take a broader look outhe anorm thats weve had have been around highlandand desoto and sarasa county, you have heaviernpours. Look at this. Blue skies and sunshine. The ver gate tampa camera showing how gorgeous it is over harbor and davis island with the but no rainfall out of it. As we look toward the rest of the evening, if your kids have Outdoor Sports practice, its not often that i can say that the rain chances are this low. Temperatures will still be in the upper 80s through about 5 00 and then the mid80s by the time that the sun is setting. Were looking at hot and steamy conditions for the next couple of hours. Then we will be cooling off closer to sunset. The best chance for any storms interrupting afterschool counties. As we take a look at tomorrows bus stop forecast, ill let you you, shay. He chances are for urgent warning about a man in polk county accused ing youn james malone, already in jail, arrested on dozens of counts of child pornography over the summer. During the investigation, they realized that some of the kids are local and had been molested. He watched kids of people he knew and his house just for kids. One neighbor says her grandkids hung out with him and no one knew a thing. They have been talked to. They went to the therapist. They are good. We all know each a our kids all grew up here. So yeah. Were all in awe. Yeah. At this point, Authorities Say they know four children were victims. And th say more are out there. Breaking news this afternoon. Carrollton, georgia, about an hour fromatlanta. Three people are dead. That crash happened at the end of a runway. Witnesses telling our affiliate in the area that both planes looked like they were trying to land. One plane was a training plane. Were told there isnt a lot of traffic neven air traffic ineaking news on the for the white party. Jill stein facing charges after she stopped by a protest of a Controversial Oil pipeline in north dakota. She spray painted a piece of Construction Company and could be charged with vandalism and trespassing. She wrote i apove is message on bulldozer. In a few hours, both donald trump and Hillary Clinton will be at the same place in new york city to talk national security. Dont expect them to be on just yet. Trump talks about boosting military spending. When i take office i will submit a new budget to rebuild our military. It is so depleted. But he didnt say exactly how big that increase would be during his speech in philadelphia today. Right now the u. S. Spends more than 600 billion a year on the military. Trump also says he will ask u. S. Generals to give him a plan in office to destroy isis. Were facing the most complex and diverse array of ts seen in my 53 or so in the business. Clinton accuses trump of being all over the map when it comes to his plan to fight isis. You will see her plans at any time during the forum. About to say . . Thats bill clinton campaigning for Hillary Clinton today. Were seeing a different side of the president going after trump including his pledge to make America Great again. If youre a white southerner, you know exactly what it means, dont you . What it means is i give you economy you had 50 years ago and ill move you back up on the social totem pole and he people down. Clinton also pointed out that today for the First Time Since world war ii, the Dallas Morning News endorsed a democrat for president. Well, can you imagine youre dropping your child or grandchild off at day care and they come back looking like this, covered head to toe in human bite marks . How is it okay for someone else to have neglected him and still be out Walking Around . We dug into the day cares concerning reports. The actions that the state itan before idering a day care. Only on the now tampa bay, these pictures are tough to look at. A child bitten more than a dozen times at day care. Theyre human bite marks. But how a child could do this this misdemeanor times before an adult steps in is one of the biggest questions in the story. The now nicole grigg talked to the mother of the resource you that need to check before and during your childs day care stay. Reporter its taken more than a week for amanda to finally sit down with us. As a mom you feel like its your fault. Reporter but what happened to her 18 month old son isnt. I got a phone call from the day care. Reporter and on the other end of the call, the owner at the day care. It didnt sound like it was just a bite. His face is swollen. Reporter human bite marks from another kid to his face, back, arm and leg. All i could do was just pick him up and cry. Reporter amanda in shock demanded to see Surveillance Video from inside the classroom. And i didnt actually get to see the attack because the way the lady had the cameras set up in the room, it was like zoomed in on one part of the room. Reporter but she says she did see her son alone. Then he comes back into sobbing hysterically. Reporter after 15 minutes of watching the same video. At that point im like where is someone to come rescue or comfort my son. Reporter amanda took her son straight to the hospital and filed a report with the sheriffs office. I went inside the day care and they tell me they cannot speak to me but i was able to confirm that the teacher who was inside the 18 month olds classroom that day has been first time that a child was left alone. I found two complaints about the same day care made to the States Department of family and children services. You can do a search online. One report in april of this year where an infant was left aleno was left alone. That teacher was let go. How is it okay for someone else to have neec still be oalking around . Reporter the state tells us they are conducting a licensing investigation. For the now, im nicole grigg. A new wave in food delivery is on the road in tampa as we speak. Its called uber eats. It works just like uber you see the map in the tampa bay area. They tell me they will a lot more counties in our area coming soon. As uber gives you a more out at home or work, its also a way that you may earn a little extra cash. Reporter 75 tampa restaurants for a 4. 99 fee tacked on to your tick e thats what uber is bringing to the people of tampa through the new app. You stroll through, pick your restaurant, order the food that you want and wait. You can keep track of your food the entire time, even see how far your delivery is away. Im so hungry. Reporter uber eats Delivery Driver right there. So you went and picked up the food. I did. Was it like regular uber. So instead of picking up a person, you just picked up my food. Exactly. Do you get paid anything extra to pick up food . No. Just tip thats are optional. So its the same thing. Its not like youre having to pay an additional fee to be youre an uber driver. Im not an uber driver. What . Im not an uber driver. It was a perfect opportunity because i wanted to make extra money but didnt want strangers in my car. Thank you,. Safe travels. Goodbye. And while it seems pretty easy enough, there were a few ny of them from uber drivers who said they werent getting tips. There are even promo codes and u for free food and abcactionnews. Com. You can also find itn our facebook page. Junow mpa if you have a budget and you do Grocery Shopping the Old Fashioned way, get your food list in hand and go down the aisle of each store. This is called basket. Its supposed to help you find the cheapest prices on a whole bunch of different food items. This is how worinks. The app, then youre prompted what kind of milk. You put in up here i put in 2 reduced fat milk, for example. Once you plug that in has the nearest Grocery Stores and places that you can buy the item. You at cvs, 4. 59. Publix, 5. 99. By checking with this app, you can see what is the cheapest place to buy the it can add up. One basket user reportedly 75 b even two miles away to a different store to get the food they wanted. By the way, we checked. This basket app is free. The best part if you k me, laura. I love that. My favorite price, free. Right now were taking a look outside. Shay, is that rain. Our southern counties are seeing rain. Temperatures or what it feels like outside right now, remember we have felt a lot of the summer eling like were around 100. Right now with the slightly drier air in place, temperatures are feeling like were in the mid 90s. And thats without the rainfall to cool us down. A couple of spots where they have seen some rain, like around arcadia, 88 degrees is what it feels like right now. It still feels like 9in saso been moving around the southern counties around desoto and hardee and southern manatee. Not a ton of rain but its focused farther south. That will change over the next 24e the isolated rain in our southern counties and we will all be dry overnight. High pressure off to the north still in control and our winds around it are coming from the east to west. So were seeing showers and storms developing south and my next forecast. Laura. Thank you, shay. Its not all about the money, right . The other reasons benefiting you that may have you reconsidering when youre going to retire. And i want you to check out some kids from Grace Lutheran Church in st. Petersburg. Going gold isawareness during Childhood Cancer month. 25,000 families across the world have kids who are going gold next saturday. If the game sells out, 10,000 cancer research. Welcome back the now tampa bay. Kissing retirement goodbye. Many of us are choosing to work instead. Yeah. A new survey suggests that 7 0 say that. But its not just about the paycheck. Reporter were living longer, were working longer. But not just because we have to. According to this study, some people just really like to sooner than i did. Reporter others preparing for it. Looking forward to retirement personally. Working on getting there by 55. Reporter but for many. My family members worked as long as they could. I would like to keep on working into are working right on through retirement. Do you have anything for retirement . I have no reason to leave. Reporter he has worked on this floor of the libry after 30 years. I knew that. Reporter hes not packing up his desk and moving out any time soon. I know its going to come eventually. But right now it doesnt feel like it. Reporter parnel is not alone. According to a bankrate. Com report, 7 in 10 americans now plan on working during some say it kerp. I love the people. I love meeting people. I love talking to people. Youre as young as you feel. I believe youre as young as you are. And i are. I feel great. Reporter another point made in the report, right now people what they have saved for retireme so th just keep working. T work as long as possible, half hope to officially retire in their 60s even if they keep some type of job afterward. Its a new model for aging that older people have energy and ideas and want to make a difference. 35 sounds good for me. That may be a little early. Pothole problems Getting Better in some areas of the well, with all of the rain we got from hermine, you might be thinking here come the potholes like we saw last summer with the flooding. We have good news this time around. Fewer potholes and things you may not have expected actually led to the positive results. That was very large. Reporter 2years old and in college, larissa does not have a lot of cash. It was a 1,000 deductible. Reporter the last thing she needed after hitting her tire on a pothole. I think theyre hoar fifth i can and theres more and more and more. Reporter heha of problems too. They pop up everywhere much its impossible to avoid them in tampa. Reporter repairs are always in overdrive after heavy storms we just saw. All of that water gets into the asphalt, erodes the base, causing a collapse. Weve got two crews out working to address those. So by the end of the week, we will have them all cleared up. Reporter the woman directing the repairs, jean dunkin says this year theres a street, that minimizes the number of potholes that we had this time. Reporter all of the credit doesnt go to mother nature. Last years relentless flooding led to some 5,000 potholes. Adding to the problem in 2015, tampas largest pumping station in desperate need of upgrades. That happened this year, which means less water on the roads. More news that might help, city council of a plan to upgrade the storm water system will also help with potholes, even though that means the first bill hike in decades. There are things not worth paying for that we pay for. Our money is going to fix potholes. Drainage and Flooding Issues from heavy rain arent just a y look at this flood in the south. Its in the charlotte harbor. Heavy rains this week leaving the problem is road widening projects around the area that is pushing the water into the area. Public works says there is nothing to do about it except make sure that the drains are clear and the property is just too low. Lets take a look at tucson, arizona where Tropical Storm newton is passing through right now. You see the rain on the camera. Those dark clouds. Luckily it is weakening at this time. But not without soaking the city first. Some areas are under floowah until 8 00 tonight. A reporter from our now station there posting this video to twitter. Check that out there. She says they got to this road yeah, thats a road when it was clear. Within seconds water came rushing in. You can hear it in the video. This is the sixth Tropical Storm to ever make it to arizona. And in mexico, the storm claimed the lives of two people in baja, california, according to mexican authorities. Two fishermen washed ashore. While aboard a shrimp boat. All 650,000 people in the area are safe. All right, lets take a look outside with shay ryan. Shay, we were just talking about this. They are getting that a lot of rain in that area. And then it just floods. Yeah. I was just she canning with an update to see if this moisture right here has been Tropical Storm newton. But it was been downgraded to a post Tropical Storm. All pected inches of rain today. Most aas aonto three. To put that into context, the average rainfall for the whole month in tucson is about an inch and a quarter. So thats why that amount of rain, one to three inches, causes flash area. They just cant absorb that much rain in a short period of time into their soil. Here is the post Tropical Storm hours or so. Where it will dissipate. Along with it, still bringing very heavy rainfall into parts of arizona that just cant handle that kind of rain. So as far as the rest of the tropics go, things are very quiet. In fact, we were talking about another system that was south of of the Dominican Republic yesterday. Had a low chance of developing. Now its off the map. But we still have watching a high chance for development of the coast of africa. The great ne is that it will not have an impact on the u. S. At this point it remain out in the atlantic ocean. So let it develop and let it do its thing, as long as it doesnt bother us. As far as our forecast goes, yeah, with such low chances for rain lately, theres only one place for it to go. We will have that and when the rain is likely coming up. Thank you, shay. School early today because its too hot. 19 schools now closing early in that School District right now. Temperatures in the 90s but feel closer to 100. Nocar l fothatre bupretty much what kids here are used to. Got breaking news to share with you right now out of saint loose, missouri. A suspicious package found outside of an elem school. Thats what have been evacuated. This all started around 2 00 there. Reports say a suspect placed a package on the front steps of that school and then just lt he small explosion and thought it was fireworks. Worried explosives might in be the package so the school had to be evacuated. The bomb squad and arson squad are on scene with a robot now. She disappeared 20 years ago. Happened to kristin smart. She was a freshman at poly Tech University in california when she disappeared after a party near the school. New information has led the fbi and police back to a field on campus. Theyre not saying what the formation is, but we know that theyre using cadaver dogs and heavy equipment as part of the search. Apple rolling out new products with new upgrades. How you can make the most money if youre looking to upgrade your for a the beach. Dinosaur footprints. These were in a beach in western australia. A woman cleared away the sand and found not one but three massive preserved footprints. They are 130 million years old. And scientists believe they were covered by the sand for nally revealed them. Youre watching the now tampa this is the best iphone that we have ever created. This is the iphone 7. There it is. The latest iphone set to hit the market sometime one feature that will save tons of phones, its waterproof. One downfall though, the headphone jack is gone. Thats what a lot of people are talking about. Instead your headphones plug into the lightning jack which is where you charge your phone. The special headphones will be included in the box as well as an adaptor if you want to use your own. The price starts at 649. Maybe you cant afford the to spend the money. You still might be able to get a deal on an upgrade from what both vizon and sprint say in the past once the new model comes out, the older version drops in price by about 100. You can also sell your old iphone, ashley. You can sell it. And there are options too. Not just one place to sell t you can maybe post it on craigslist e i vethose pulled it can be more complicated. You have to watch out for scams if you use these two avenues. Meet in a safe place like a police station. The easiest option is to turn it into your provider but you might not get the most money there. Here is another idea. Sell your phone to an independent third party. Amazon program can give you up to 265 for an old iphone 6. Best buy has a program like this too. Were borrowing more money than ever before for cars right now. The total americans owe is more than a trillion dollars. That new number is from experian automotive which is part of one of the largest credit bureaus. More people with good credit are choosing to buy used instead of new cars. They total more than 43 of the loans right now, up 10 from this same time last year. This may be because new car prices are up nearly 900 kelley blue book. Were talking with an american man fighting to get his familyut of wartorn sy the dangers d challenges they face. As we get closer to a 11 anniversary, a survivor from inside the pentagon is issuing today we learned that the u. S. House will vote on a controversial bill. The legislation already as well, makg s way to the president bere anniversary the terror attacks. T president expeed to veto it. Sisits with one survivor. Its been 15 years e the 9 11 attack on the pentagon. Does it seem like that ng to on time its 15 years and when i say 01 and its 16 now. And you brought us here the Bowling Alley with your great grouofladies. And watching you guys bowl, doing well beyond what i could ever bowl. The 95yearold lady. Especially iris over there. Right . What significance does bowling have for you . Bowli is it gives me something to do. It really does give me something to do, take my mind off of the 9 11. Even though i cant forget it. Away from where the plane hit the pentagon. You had just stepped away. What took you away from your desk at that moment . I had bn lected as the treasurer for e bowling alle and the Bowling League, im sorry. And what had happened is instead ro way if i would haveonthe ulhave be the the back way, saved wow. Yeah. If i would have stayed in that office when i left that office, i left four guys in there. All four of them parished. Between my office, the office next to us, and the one on th died. Its wonderful that youre here with us today. Its a tragedy that none of pentagon for almost 30 years . 29 years and three months. So 29 years and ree in the pep ing at the candidat year, who do you inmore likely to ep us safer . Who do you trust . Thats to answer. Right now hem. Why . Why . Because i havent seen the good side of either one of them. The thing that really bothers me most is youve got children. Except the children here, both hillary and do not all, always fussing and arguing and everything. I dont think thats a good example for children. So what woulyou ask them if they came to your Bowling League right here . Hillary clinton said im a senior citizen, im can join this league. What would you ask her if she what would you say to donald trump. I would say get your ball and let me see you roll. Hoeverol your vot for the now, im mike sax. I just wanted to let the matt left behind when he left us. Well, the fe of a fallen n ugropolice officer, Matthew Gerald says hehusband left her with one final gift, a baby. Onwefter her husband died in somehow knew she was pregnant even before she mi gotother and found tout found out for herself. Because i had suspected, i d i had brought it with me. Well, i took it. Well, within a second of that being done, the test read y. But at the same time, its exciting. He would miss with that one. So she says she immediately told her family, her inlaws anhusbands squad. Isery excid b scared to do this witht he husband. She said hanwa oin april. Well, former Tampa Bay Lightning coach says he bench any player atsi during the national anthem. His comments are now response to this protest telling you about here on the now. You see him sitting on the bench. He has been kneeling as of late. He is protesting racial the hockeyif any ed him. Players sit on the bench, they will sit the entire game. Its not clear if any players had planned to actually protest. Back to kaepernick for a minute. The nfl commissioner says he kaepernicks jersey is the number one selling jersey according to nfl. Com. He has pledged to donate 1 million to communities who are affected about the problems now he says he will donate proceeds from his jersey sales as well. All right, shay. Uhhuh. It was really nice yesterday. Uhhuh. Today it was pretty nice this morning. Then it got hot again. At least its not raining. Exactly. We have a lot to be thankful for, especially withll have a break here. You can see how gorgeous the skies are over clearwater beach. Plenty of sunshine. Were also seeing very dry conditions all across tampa bay. If you have any errands to run here before dinner, things ar lookinreally good. You dont have to worry about any downpours across the major roads and bridges. Acr s i75 into Sarasota County and a few st so temperatures across the area right now are ranginfrom the upper 80s to about 90. 91 in tampa right w. Yakima sit see at 80. You can see where the rain has moved through an spots. W,at t futurecast, the rain chances and it all cuts off around 8 00 tonight. Once the sun sets, we will see drier conditions across the area. It will rema into the morning commute. And dry. Morning, 8 00, nice plenty of sunshine to start the day. By noon, we start to see the few showers bubbling up again inland and to the south of us. Through the rest of the afternoon, they start to pull farther north. Polk county will see rain tomorrow afternoon. Some of that will be likely to work its way across hillsborough county. Were not looking at a ton of s were looking at about 30 coverage. Most of it from tampa bay on south tomorrow. And then you can see the rain chances going up slightly we head into the weekend. But its still pretty reasonable. And with temperatures still near 90 degrees and lows overnight in the mid70 hopefully for this time of year you will find it comfortable. Denis is standing by and hell have the 7day forecast at abc action news at 5 00. Thank you, shay. Remember the bi headache we told you last month involving delta headline you may have encaught mperoutagc thpronly lasted five hours. But forced delta to cancel some 2300 flights ovthe course of three days. Part of the is price is giving the Hotel Vouchers to the stranded passengers. Flights to cuba. The first i fl thflight kicked off the Airlines First o destinations to the island. American offs ights to four different places in cuba this month. They will add a stop in havana te year. Lue had the first fligh la wee on average the flight will run no oil. 450 haia this developing story, protesters continue to block on of a Controversial Oil pipeline that starts in north dakota and would run through three other states. Many nativeamericans e cod impact their Drinking Water and sacred land. Julie richards tied herself to a bulldozer. Theres so manyf us united in this fight. Theres numbers and strong prayers. Agreed to halt construction until friday, thats when a federal judge will decide if the project can move forward. The nows todd walker is in north dakota. He digs deeper into this controversy tomorrow. Look for it right here on the now tampa bay. We have an update on the breaking news that we told you out green Party President ial candidate jill stein. An arrest warrant was just issued in north dakota for her. The sheriffs she spray painted constr aotesand trespass and mischief. She ote apove th message on the blade of a bulldozer. Her spesto do this. Illegal immigration arguably one of the polarizing issues this voting cycle. Most voters agree on one built between thanmexico. A new poll suggests six out of border wall. And ven out of ten are against the idea of deporting people who living in the United States illegalas you mig expece split over who would ha tlehe issue the best. 47 say th donald um do a better job. 49 side with Hillary Clinton. Another attempt to end the fiveyear cil war arg apt and fuing the geadmin store middle east and europe meetto come not come up with a sttegy. They er just this week, at people died in bombings in this is just some of the damage that youre looking the are rep gas attack a fourth city targeting opposition groups. Its estimated that the war has killed a quarter million peop and forced 5 million to escape the country. Welcomed its 10,000th refugee. One man has been working for years to get his family members out of the wartorn country. Its the lunch rush. People want their food. Er this is a typical day for obay. Working in the Family Restaurant between the classes that he is taking to become a surgeon. It becomes home, you know. Reporter and working to get his family members living in syria to safety. Try its difficult. I could have easily been one of the people who are dead in syria. Its tragic. And so i feel like i have to do something, you know. Reporter he was born in the u. S. After his parents left in the 1980s. I learned so much from this place. Reporter not all of his family was as fortunate. They cant leave because of the fear of getting killed family members in syrias unrest. Others have fled to neighboring lebanon where they face many of the same issues they have in syria. And they cant go back home. What is their choice . Reporter thats why since 2012, hes been working to get them to the u. S. Or any country where they will be safe. 7 days a week. Reporter he has completed the paperwork and reached out to local law but nothing so far. It would be am it would be amazing. But i meanmy hands are tied. There only so much at i can do. Reporter his family would love to stay in a if they could. Imssible. Kt eep e day de that they will be here with him god reporter for the now, im starts right now. No one knew. No l blown away. Righnow, a child month less station case that will make your stomach churn. The items at a mans house that made it easy him to lure chdril. Im jamison uhler. And im wendy ryan. Thank you for joining us. Polk county authorities wa man. He is accused of molesting small children and believe there are even more victims out there. Lets to find out how he lured kids to his home. Ryan. Reporter i think jims ho it all. Take a look athis front yard. A childs play house right there. I want to show you one other this small sign, the green sign driveway. It says caution, children at play. The sheriff says he used all of this to lure them over. It was a child magnet. Reporter children too young to know any bett l children wanted to go there topend time with papa jim. M ly had a dark et. Y shortly after arresting balone this summer on charges of child pope, they discovered some of the kids are local. Detectives ha boys but know there are more victims out there. Nancy says her grandkids hung out with him on several occasions. E ecspted nothinapg pears that either. She cannot believe all of this happened rigunder her nose, you awow by everything. The allegations