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They are dropping in from all over the world, paying to jump out of planes over the bay area. That is not the most surprising part of this competition. It is 4 00 time for the now tampa bay. First up, money stolen from hardworking parents and children who love baseball. A Little League president for the past three accused of betraying summary people who knew and trusted him. We are going to the Little League ball field what was john farrar up to . Reporter he originally pocketed money from the Little League concessions stand, he then took even more money transferring from the leagues account into his own, he confessed after the treasurer 12,900 from the league during the last six month, police dont know what led him to taking the money, but they say he was recently evicted from his home. Records show he filed for bankruptcy three times last in 2013. He appeared in court today facing up to five years in prison. The league has already appointed a new president. Brendaliss gonzalez, the now tampa bay a quick update to some brein river area of Hillsborough County today we are finding out she is suffered from trauma to her upper body. No leads on suspects. Six days until election day, this is where the campaigns are spread out throughout the country. They are everywhere, donald trump making three stops in florida, miami, orlando and any minute. Early voting numbers indicate slightly more republicans have voted than democrats at this time, overall turnout is down from this time in 2012, may be because africanamerican turnout has dropped dramatically this election. This is a total appeal to the darker side, this is an appeal to say america is in trouble on the brink and falling. Nothing could be further from the truth. The man in the shades Vice President joe biden in tampa for the Clinton Campaign speaking about the republican scare tactics being used. The rally today at the museum of science and industry which was much smaller than previous events only a couple hundred people in attendance, but from tampa to the Vice President traveling south to rally in palm beach gardens. At an early voting site in broward county. She was then going to vegas for a rally in a few hours and then to arizona. Quite a busy day. Something graphic at this election bringing to the skies of tampa bay starting tomorrow. A plane flying a banner for an antiabortion campaign, we blurred out the picture because it was too graphic to show you. So graphic that twitter has censored many of the pictures that were online. The nonprofit created equal says they are not supporting a particular party just the candidate who is prolife. You spoke to them on the phone and asked them if they think the pictures are inappropriate for public particularly children and on the phone they said, unfortunately that is the price to pay in a country that kills babies. That will be happening also today, donald trump tweeting about the iowa officers that were gunned down this morning saying an attack on those who keep us safe is an attack on all of us. In the meantime bill clinton and tim kaine canceling the rally they were supposed to do together in des moines. Updates coming in about the murders of these Police Officers. These are the men who were killed early this morning. In an ambush style attack, man is under arrest right now suspected of shooting the officers. The first officer was shot at an intersection in a suburb northwest of des moines, iowa, he was found behind the steering will of his patrol car, just after 2 00 am this morning and 20 minutes after that two miles away the Second Police officer was shot, ambushed sitting in his patrol nows todd walker is gathering breaking details in the attack these are the officer shot and killed in separate ambush style attacks early this morning in the des moines metro area. Sergeant Anthony Beminio who was on the force since 2005 and urbandale Police Officer justin martin. And officer since 2015. A very helpless feeling at times, but the sorrow that comes with it someone close to you, these were our friends, our coworkers, we discussed at length at times the family of lawenforcement. This is the man responsible, 46yearold Michael Scott greene, he was known to police but it did not appear he made threats. He did not say anything when he attacked. It does not look like there was interaction between the officers. Whoever the coward is that shot emotions overflowing across the city. I want my dad to come home to me. And i want my friends to come home to me. And im sorry. Im here for you all. The suspect is in the hospital after suffering a seizure. Investigators hoping to learn more. Des moines is not a big city, we all know each other. We are heartbroken. I dont know what no words at times like this. For the now, im todd walker. Unexplainable, we know that greene was captured outside of des moines, he flagged down a driver and asked them to call 911. He was not armed when he was taken into custody. All right, something we have not seen any wild. A little bit of rain in some areas. It looks beautiful right now at got brain . A little bit. It should not be causing you any problems, light and quick moving showers, you can see more clock over at the mainsail beach in on anna maria island. As we look across tampa bay we see these little bits of green and these are just some isolated showers. I have had to highlight on the radar so you can see where the ring is. A lot of this is not reaching the ground. I wanted you to see the colors moving across the state so you can see where we have the isolated patches. But again not a ton of rain and if you are headed out to the amalie arena starting at 7 00 is the concert so you may encounter a brief shower but nothing to cause you problems, by 10 00 when the concert is over, rain unlikely at that ring should not cause you any problems. Be aware there is a slight chance for a brief passing shower. If you are planning for golf tomorrow i will show you the ring rain chances coming up. A few hours away from the final game of the world series. You are looking at a live picture of Progressive Field in cleveland. We are just getting word donald trump and Hillary Clinton have bought last minute commercials to run i just want to see my game. There is good news. Their creative way you might be able to get out of work tomorrow if you plan on staying right now, donald trump at the microphone in orlando. Guess who we just recognized the screen to donald trump. Lets listen in. She has no one to blame but herself, hillary is the one who set up the legal private email server to shield her criminal activity. Hillary is the one who engaged in a corrupt pay for play scheme in the state department, she lied so many times to congress and to the fbi. Hillary is the one who made 13 phones disappear. And who destroyed after, after receiving a congressional subpoena. Think of that. Unbelievable. Trump making three stops in florida today, another stop in pensacola tonight. Switching our focus, with the ambush style attacks on the Police Officers in iowa today we are looking into how often are way up this year. Including the officers killed today, 16 have died in ambush attacks between january and july compared to just three ambush deaths during the same time last year. This is according to the National Law Enforcement officers memorial fund. In all at least 150 officers have died in the line of duty this year alone. Heres what is more alarming, 52 shooting related deaths were office t the first time in three years more officers have died in shootings than traffic related accidents. In South Carolina we have a jury ready to go for a former officer murder trial, Michael Slager accused of killing walter scott at a traffic stop in april 2015. Scott was shot multiple times while trying to run away. A witness recorded the whole we know that one black man and 11 white men and women are on the jury. The prosecution tried challenging the defense that they did not pick certain jurors because of race but the defense fired back with reasons including one of them had trouble with english and another made antigun comments so the prosecutor dropped the challenge. Opening statements in this trial are set for tomorrow. An awful scene near jonesboro arkansas, two toddlers and an infant die in a house fire. A total of 11 people were in the house when it caught fire. Four adults and seven children. Another woman was hurt but it was hard to fight the fire because it is so dry and the fowler fire ended up damaging other structures and the woods nearby. This is it tonight game seven of the world the live picture you are seeing the traffic starting to build in the parking lot outside of Progressive Field. The cubs have clawed their way back from a three games to won one. First pitch 8 00. Once again the weather expected in the 70s some of the warmest weather for a world series first pitch. Tara molina is in cleveland. A huge night for cubs and indian fans, cleveland is already insane. Game seven, big night for everyone big nerves for everyone. Were talking about people who traveled to cleveland from all across the country and many of them are ticketless. You heard that right, World Series Game seven drawing cubs and indian fans from across the country many in cleveland just to be a part of the ambience. They are not going to the game but they will be here for the end tonight only one team can win it all. For two teamed with serious history there is a lot on the line. I call it the series of curses the biggest world series in the history. The biggest game. Seeing the vibe of cleveland after winning a championship in basketball and going to the world series a lot of cool stuff. Some real passion in cleveland on both sides of this, it makes sense whether tickets for the game tonight are absolutely insane. The average price, three 700 higher than any other baseball game. It should definitely be a night to remember, reporting from Cleveland Tara Molina for the now. I dont want to brag but i called this i said it would go seven games i said the cubs would win. We will see. School today. The cubs have tweeted out this superficial excuse notice reading in part, if you are familiar with sports narratives, game seven is kind of a big deal. We need all the support we can muster up. Some hoping they can use this for work tomorrow. I dont blame them. Not to be outdone, the indians have been writing excuses since last fall. Check out the email the indians of social media team sent to a professor trying to get him excused from class in 2015. Saying alex promises he will make up whatever work he misses and he will get an a in the class. I wonder if the lightning will write excuses. We know that they are going to the playoffs. I totally understand. It cleveland. John sable is there in a short sleeve shirt. It feels like it is winter in florida. I wonder which team will be more affected by this heat, 77 degrees in cleveland, that does not sound bad for us but remember, we are in the thick of fall, at 8 00 the temperature will be 66 degrees, on average for the day should be 57. Normally a game at 8 00 would be in the low 50s, possibly even the upper 40s. Lets take a look at what is going on outside of our area, we are seeing some cloud cover and we have had quite a bit of sunshine, still a warm day but a few extra showers and cleveland will be seeing be moving across and headed in our direction this will eventually bring us our cooler weekend, but for cleveland they will be seeing rain off and on even throughout the game. Isolated showers for our area tonight we continue to have the east to west flow mainly inland and then a few working across the coastline over the last couple of hours but nothing could to cause you any then we are dry overnight to see the rain chances coming back tomorrow. Right now temperatures outside ranging from 82 in lakeland to 87 in tampa, brooksville 86, sarasota 84, Sulfur Springs 82. Well above average temperatures again today but that is about to change, tomorrow we wake up to temperatures similar to what we have seen lately around 68 degrees. A slight chance for a brief for inland areas like poke or havent counted, through the afternoon the transferring continues across the state and we have a chance for a shower around 84 degrees the high for tomorrow. Extra clouds building ahead of the front and a little higher chance for showers. 10 coverage. Not everybody getting what for sure. I have an update on the topics. Not out of the season yet, more coming up in just a bit. Am going to let you in on a black friday advertising secret. When you hear it you will probably say i knew that. The way you can predict what is going to be on sale. And you have got to come back to see this video. My goodness, why a day at the welcome back to the now tampa bay, amazon has already started their black friday sales. Already. Black friday is right after thanksgiving. Those too good to be true deals are starting to seem predictable if they are it is a good reason. Allow me 80 of the products and 43 of the prices promoted on the front pages of advertisements for the past two black fridays were identical. Market track looked into this, here is an example, wall street journal found stores tell the journal it is based on customer demand for favorite things and they are responding to what on a deal this year, chances are it will be back next year. Denis phillips is back there watching this like he is ready. All right. You have to check out this video, you see these surfers, that is what looks to be a giant shark in the water. You cant even look at it. Surfers paddling all around and it looks pretty scary. Once again happening in australia. Take a listen. Oh, my god we should warn them. Oh, my god. It all happened in australia, thankfully no one was hurt. I see your sharks and rays you this. This might not be the biggest petersburg home, why it is welcome back, right now a st. Petersburg neighborhood is dealing with this, thousands of bees. It is so bad neighbors have called getting anywhere. So now nicole grigg is finding out what can be done. There is nothing sweet about this. Darleen wakes up to dad bees under her porch light every morning. I have probably swept thousands upon thousands of them. That is honey on the wall. It is nearly impossible to even darleen feels hopeless because the bees are coming from the house next door. I asked him and he came and sprayed the foam stuff. The buzzing getting so bad. My son got stoned and my son. She has been calling the city since august, they have come out once to give video and then once last week. But they did not see enough bees to take action. They took vid a it was a health and welfare issue, but pittsburgh we saw them take this video and resent it to the city, you can see them coming out of this home under the air conditioner and you can see dad bees inside the window. The city tells me they are going to be back out first thing tomorrow morning to follow up. And they will issue a 100 fine the city can only member of the houses vacant or if the owner lets them in. If you are in darleens shoes, make a coat complaint if youre desperate file a private nuisance lawsuit but a lawyer will cost you. For the now, im nicole grigg. Right now a live look at the tao down 70 points ending below 18,000. It to did after the Federal Reserve Interest Rate announcement but then quickly went back up, heres what we know the feds decided to leave rates where there are but experts think they will go up in december. Staying on the money trail, more bad news for wells fargo. It could mean a check in the mail for homeowners, the bank agreed to pay 50 million to settle a lawsuit for overcharging hundreds of we are waiting on the judge to sign off on the settlement but it is expected for mortgages between 2005 and 2010. Lets take a live look, donald trump in orlando making three stops in florida. Polls have him gaining ground and he is doing better in clinton in the polls when it comes to honesty. A Washington Post abc news poll tied at 46 . When it comes to being honest, trustworthy that is another picture. The poll giving trump an eight point advantage over clinton. 46 to 38 . Two months ago they were tied in that category as well. Someone spraypainted vote trump and set this church on church in greenville two hours northwest of jackson, mississippi, there is also a lot of fire water and smoke damage inside. The Greenville Police chief says this is a form of voter intimidation. As of right now there are no suspects. Donald trump opening old wounds on the campaign trail during a speech in colorado. Trump talked about people being in the country illegally and committing crimes. One of the victims families wants trump to stop talk deborah along with a small toddler were killed by an illegal immigrant who had been arrested 16 times. Francis hernandes slammed into a woman and two other people at a baskinrobbins eight years ago killing them both. Trump says he has spoken to the victims families. But he does not want the tragedy used for political propaganda. For him to just throw it in nine days before the election, it is like where were you the last eight years . Trumps campaign used the tragedy to emphasize the need to enforce immigration laws and report criminals. A new look today at how Hurricane Matthew has changed the beaches in florida, these are before and after pictures. Of what it looks like near Saint Augustine just released. You can see the sand dunes have been washed away after the storm. There are pictures from Flagler Beach you can see and along the east coast. The storm surge washed over and damaged 15 of the sand dunes on the Florida Atlantic coast. With the track that matthew took . You can see the path here as we get closer to florida you can see the center of the storm remaining offshore in comparison to what some of our concerns were. The erosion would have been worse had the storms been closer to the coastline. Again we certainly have seen noticeable effects and the tropical season isnt over yet. This is a reminder we have a batch of storms just to the north of the Lesser Antilles to the northeast. There is a 20 chance this will develop into a topical system over the next five days and it is headed back to the atlantic. It is a fish storm nothing to worry about but a reminder that Hurricane Season lasts through november. As for our weather, there is a chance for some rain tomorrow i will time it out for you and show you who has the best by the time the next commercials are over, four people will have had their cars stolen, the mistake you are more cars are being stolen across the us than ever before, point the finger at yourself last year every 45 seconds a their key father in their car. And the problem is getting worse. According to National Insurance crime bureau the crimes of opportunity have gone up 31 the past three years, it may be higher because a lot of people dont want to admit they were crazy enough to leave their car unlocked. Stop doing that. 147,000 cars with the keys left inside were reported stolen from 2013 two 2015. Breaking it down stateby state, california had the most, florida number three, almost 10,000 stolen cars with the keys left inside. If you are flying for thanksgiving expect 27 million other people to do the same thing during the 12 days around the holiday that is up 2. 5 since last year. The sunday after thanksgiving for a lot of people that is real, the reason the request for exorcisms is on the rise in the United States and the way some priests on mind after welcome back, a headline you probably havent seen this political season, get your guns that is what people are doing now with six days to go before the election. We have some new research a major firearms manufacturer says gun sales are soaring. 66 increase in the Third Quarter earnings compared to the company says gun sales are up across the Industry Based on fbi data on background checks spikes in background checks. 2 more interest in gun ownership. Gun control is a contentious topic. Donald trump is against the ban on guns arguing for fewer gun restrictions. To call the president ial election devices is an understatement, when it comes to people who are married perhaps the debate tests the ties that bind. Mike sacks sat down with one married couple who not only have political views that are different they are voting against their own party candidates. Laura and herb hammer dont agree on who should be president. Trump. This couple is not used to agreeing on anything over there 57 years of marriage. We are individuals. People know that we are together, but they also know we are not together. You know . They consider her the sensible one. They consider me off the wall. They come to me for advice because they know he doesnt care. Registered democrat says about clinton. I dont think a woman has the mentality, personality. The wherewithal. She a registered republican says this. I dont think he has got the personality and patients because he flies off the handle so easy. It might just be an that is what i am afraid of. Theyre getting through the election the same way they get through everything else. I love him to death. She is a great old broad. Sometimes i get is aspirated but we have a sense of humor. My wife is very forgiving. Otherwise i would have been kicked to the curb. Im im mike sacks for the now. A statistic site estimates three out of 10 married couples have different viewpoints, twice as many have a man who was republican and a woman that is democrat. A quick update from yesterday, the 10yearold boy jack who just had a heart suddenly moved from a winndixie in westchase to cvs this is happening all across florida with winndixies closing. After the story aired the pharmacy ended up delivering jack this teddy bear and a gift card apologizing for the inconvenience, by the way if you were one of the people who had medicine transferred and you dont want it at cvs you can have them transfer it to wherever you want. We and i miss the fall weather we had last week. It wont be as impressive as the last go around but it will be pretty nice and noticeable. Take a look at the apollo beach camera, you can see how beautiful it is, a few extra clouds with a few isolated sprinkles and light showers working their way across the state, right now we are mostly working its way into tampa bay but take a look at the wider picture you can see isolated showers working across the state most of them well south of i4 this should not cause any problems on the road but you will notice this in comparison to how dry we have been lately. Futurecast predicting what we have been seeing going on by 8 00 nice and dry with clear skies across tampa bay and onto the north as early as 7 00 in the morning showers are developing on the east coast of florida and a few spots of green working into the highlands and eastern polk county. Not likely it will cause problems but it is something to be aware of. We had that east to west flow picking up extra moisture so maybe you will encounter a shower or struggles tomorrow, a 10 chance of that. Again a slightly higher chance inland because of the east to west flow, on friday this rain increase our chance for a few isolated showers across the area. Not to impactful, and then saturday that is when we see the temperatures dropping into the 60s, low to mid 60s to start the day and ending around 79, a pleasant afternoon with lower humidity, dont forget to set your clocks back saturday night or sunday in the morning and how awesome is that, an extra hour to hopefully get some sleep. Will have the sevenday forecast coming up on abc action news at 5 00 remember the missing Malaysian Airlines flight, it was flying toward the ocean with no one in control when it made its last satellite communities and. Searchers have been looking for the airliner since it disappeared. And analysis released today debris have been found. 239 people were on board. Some think it is a movie plot but according to the 50 exorcism priests in the United States requests are on the rise right here in our country. And exercised from saint mullarkey parish says more people are seeking help he gets 20 requests per week believes it is due to an ever growing number of people turning away from faith. It will lead us in one direction so there seems to be a correlation with people believe they are experiencing evil in their life at the same time faith in gods rest less relevant. The tv shows do not always give an accurate depiction. They always have to take place in a sacred place, there is no intense prayers and full demonic possession is rare. For how he unwinds after exorcisms, he goes to get ice cream at dairy queen. For the first time Glamour Magazine is honoring a man along with its female winners of the women of the year award. The first man of the year award goes to bono for helping get women and girls rights around the world. Glamour added the award because a lot of men are coming forward to help with gender equality. One of the glamorous women of the year, emily doe. She is emily doe because glamour is not revealing her identity, the woman who was assaulted at stanford university. This is video of the guy who spent three months in jail for what he did. She was chosen for the award not because she was a victim as a survivor. Kids are spending a lot of time sitting in the classroom right now and that may cause them to gain weight . They may be gaining more weight during summer break that is what a new study out found by tracking body mass index from canada guarded through second grade. Researchers dont know what is behind the trend but experts say possible reasons our children sleeping less in the Summer Spending more time front of the big screens. The video games. All right. She is the ultimate Cleveland Indians fan back to the world series for a moment because we do have some of her family here in tampa. We did a story on emily last week when she told us she watched the indians and she she wants them to win one more she even got a chance to throw out the first pitch on her 100th birthday. At 104 years young she looks like she is still enjoying life. We all remember that song, the cma awardwinning artists, tonight is the night i Just Announced in the last two hours beyonci will perform. Here is a live look at the red carpet may be too early for celebrities to be out there but they are getting everything ready to go for the 50th annual cma music awards posted by brad paisley and carrie underwood. You can watch it starting at 8 00. This saturday you can get free shots for your dog at the brewery in tampa running from 9 00 until 1 00. Get there early, it is only free for the first 1000 dogs, if you dont have a dog and you want one, because rescue groups will bring the adoptable pets to the event i have tweeted out the information you will need. Take a look at this sweet face this twoyearold sound, yesterday she was in a dangerous situation. Putting her greatgrandmother in harms way. As well. The simple act that sparked the chaos and the hero who was in the right place at the right time and saved the day. If you ever want to see what it is like to jump out of an airplane from 12,500 feet this is your chance. The first ever world wind suit adam winer went out to zephyrhills to see what it takes to risk your life for a few seconds of an unforgettable thrill. We are all adrenaline junkies. They jump out of planes from well over 12,000 feet in the air. They top well over 100 miles per hour. The risk is there but it is easily managed. Travis has done i feel safer than driving a car. The zephyrhills native grew up diving. You can use your arms, turn the torso. Today he is a sky dive instructor. Push your legs forward. You can imagine his excitement when he learned the first ever weaned suit championship. It is generally straight giving him homefield advantage. We are using parachutes to deploy and land safely. We have not figured out how to land them yet. The First Official wing shoot champion there are only about 100 people competing all week long, but many are from all over the world. Competitors like this man from finland. Know this place for sure. This adrenaline junkie says it is her second time here. I guess you have to be a little bit crazy in a good way. Of course she tells me she is in it to win it. In zephyrhills, adam winer abc action news. I thought he was going to jump. I would have to ask my wife if i could try it first im paul lagrone that is it for the now starts right now. Live from the station taking action for you, this is abc action news. Parents and the Community Outraged tonight after learning the president of a Little League is accused of taking thousands of dollars meant for children. Good evening antics are doing this im wendy ryan. And im jamison uhler. Brendaliss gonzalez is live at the Little League field with what may have motivated the meant to steal. Ror took money made at this concession stand meant for the kids. That is not all he did to end up with more than 12,900. She has Big Investments her pizza place and the team she sponsors. We have popsicles, snacks League President , john farrar admitted to stealing nearly 13,000. You stole from a child. He confessed after the League Treasurer asked for access into the leagues finances. He admitted to transferring money from the league into his business account. And there could be more. It is possible. They are reviewing financial documents. Investigators say he and his family had recently been evicted from he filed for bankruptcy three times. If you needed it the team would have been there to help you. Say that you need it. But to put a front on you are stealing from the team. From a child and families. Shes not letting the news lose her focus. They will overcome this and make it better for the league itself