Transcripts For WFTS The Now Tampa Bay 20161104

Reporter i talked to a legal expert he told me since drunk however with the enhanced penalties for leaving the scene of the accident involving injury or death, he could still face up to 30 years in prison. Keep in mind, he is 71 years old. Live in bartow, ryan raiche the now tampa bay. America decides in four days think of it this way we are a long weekend away at this point the political and landscape all over the eastern part of the country today. It is coming out that trump is coming back to tampa first thing tomorrow. Tim kaine is rocking with jon bon jovi in st. Petersburg tonight and then the president is coming to orlando sunday. First, trump hitting up three other battleground states something to say about the jobs were learning a body has been found near a metal storage case. A woman was chained inside. The man suspected of kidnapping her, shot and killed her there for two months. Her boyfriend, 32yearold Charlie Carver is still missing but they found his truck as well. A body ill unidentified has been found. They arrested the property owner, 45yearold Todd Christopher kohlhepp, a registered sex offender who has a previous Sexual Assault charge against him. Brown thinks er property. Guilty on all counts. Thats the verdict for these two former allies for new Jersey Governor Chris Christie over their role in the so called bridgedate scandal. Thats when the bridge looked like this three years ago causing a traffic mess for a governor who didnt support the governor. Bridget kelly and bill baroni are planning to appeal. We are four days away from the election and a scary headline. There are threats that al qaeda may be plotting an attack before election day. Reporter fbi officials are warning that al qaeda, a name we time could be argumenting an attack in new york, virginia or texas. Security is always high in new york city and armed police are definitely making themselves visible. One terrorism and National Security expert said a let is ails possible. It wouldnt be a surprising target for al qaeda. Having said that al qaeda has capability within the United States. Reporter bottom line she says dont be afraid to vote on monday or election day on tuesday. Federal officials are look nought validity of the threat looking into the validity of the threats. Some rake break out of breaking news out of new york. Two sergeants in new york have been shot, one of them in pretty bad shape. The other is expected to okay. This happened in the bronx during some kind of burglary or Home Invasion. Well get more information on that. Meanwhile, the theater where the paris attacked happened reopened. There are new pictures of the renovation. Sting will perform for the reopening on november 12th. He said the concert will honor all right. I really like this next story. At 227,000 tons, this is the new beast of the seas. Wait until you seat outside of the thing. The largest cruiseship ever will be docking in Fort Lauderdale tomorrow. Do you want to get on it . Let me put this giant ship in it can hold 100 more than a standard cruiseship. 16 guest decks, 24 guest elevators and a part trig in a r partridge in a pear tree. Royal caribbean will start a permanent schedule out of port ashley glarks the glass, the new baby. Weve got to convince our bosses. Got to talk to matt and nick. All right. As far as the weather is concerned, i dont think anyone will be complaining. Take a lock at the look at the main sail beach in on anna little bit of green as the front approaches around 8 00 at night. Look at how it rings itself out, maybe into eastern polk or Highlands County close to midnight. Really, this shouldnt be causing you problems. It will move through pretty through, we will not notice a big drop. By tomorrow morning it will be dry with a nice mix of sun and clouds throughout the day. Take a look at where our dew point is right now. Remember, this is a measure of moisture. This is a sign of how much humidity there s68 is where there is. 68 is where were at. Our the mid to upper 80s the last few days, really humid. Were going to see them dropping to the upper 50s, maybe 60. You wont feel it until sunday morning into monday. Thats when this will be a lot or noticeable. Whats ahead . Were tracking storm technology. Well have more coming up. Their phones over the possibility of them exploding. Now theres another item that could explode that many more of us have in our house right now. A recall that could affect a lot of households. Make sure you check to see what kind of washing machine you have. Samsung is recalling 3 million top loading washing machines because these things can actually explode. So far more than 700 have done. That 900 have been hurt when the top blows off. These are pictures of the loaders sold through march of 2011 through this month. We put a link on our website abcactionnews. Com. That happens when i try to do too much laundry at one time. Thats why we dont allow you to do that. You get what you pay forks right . Some direct customers said theyre not seeing fox news or cnn channels their plan. The company has responded said they are aware the channels are mission. Thats what they said. Theyre currently working on the technical difficulties. As soon as we hear a status update, well let you know. All right. To be in chicago right now, look at this, cubs fans living the dream. Nigh as magnificent mile. You can see the players raising their trophies. The street is covered in blue confetti. They havent sthene in 108 scene that in 108 years. People packed in grant park, a big rally. Earliest mats put early estimates put it at 5 million. 20 times of the rally when barack obama was elected. They died the river blue. Since 1908. When you shop for generic drugs, you think youre getting more information on the breaking news out of new york where two sergeants were shot. One of them is not doing well. The other is expected to be okay. There are reports of either a burglary or Home Invasion that started this. There was also some kind of car crash involved. Youre looking at a live picture. We do note suspect has been shot and killed know the killed. No matter who wins, its historic. In florida the numbers have exceed the early voting total. I think were lucky to have this reporter melissa is giving student as free ride and the popular souls to the polls event has become a tradition. This tradition going on for quite awhile where we have communities of color going to the polls on sunday before election day. So far, fewer african than they have in 2012. If youre if you are wondering who they like so far, like so far, have some insight. The president ial have is another tradition. Their cookie faceoff is a tradition but never has the bakery accurate. Never has the bakery seen a blowout like this. This. In the past its been close, pretty close very close. Kind of different. Reporter of course, cookies may not be the best way to predict an election voting might be. Statewide republicans are predict the election but early voting might be. Statewide, republicans are ahead by about by just about 2,000 votes. In in Hillsborough County it is democrats ahead by democrats but thats votes. Whole story. In Hillsborough County theres a lot here in than republicans. 33 democrats than republicans. 30 pre have already voted but democrats have voted but 46 of registered r 36 of registered voted. Have voted. My apart. Reporter this election could come down metaphor because this election could come down to a slim percentage of voters. Number of voters. For the now tampa bay im adam winer. All right, right now when it comes to paying more for paying more for gas, that pipeline that the pipeline that exploded alabama, things are starting to look monday in alabama, things are starting to look a little the better, the crew working they think they will have it fixed before the weekend now, they think it will have over. It fixed before the weekend is over. It is the pipeline in the country, so a lot of places rely on the co gas getting it reopened a week after the accident means less of a one week after the accident means less of a chance of a it should stop gas fuel shortage and should stop gas prices from rising. , the price is looking . Going up. Laura, how are the some good news for you today compared to a looking . Compared to a week ago, tampa area is down. You can see that on her website. Down. Go to abcactionnews. Com traffic and all volve just go to abcactionnews. Com are of our gas it will show you the gas prices there. These green shades, that means it is going down down down continuing to going drop, they lost about 300,000 gallons barre of gas. By the way, four people are still in the gallons of gas. One person the hospital, one was damaged when Construction Equipment Construction Equipment. We know brand name drugs can be outray just outrageous and price for the generic version more than they should. More. The justice investigating the possibility that some drug the ju companies investigating the possibility together been working together to keep generic drug prices up. A report from prices up. A new report said the Justice Department naming specific drugs but says two dozen medications made by a dozen the Justice Department has been looking at two they said the different companies. This. Laura, weve already the fix is specific had specific cases. This is something many dont want to hear, want lawmaker think pricefixing many think the price fixing they sent this letter investigating. Insulin prices more than tripled between 2002 and 2013 going from by people with diabetes. Insulin prices tripled going from about 230 to 730 a year. Imagine the difference th right now there is right now there is no generic version for insulin. Version for insulin. All right. Lets talk about space. A satellite was supposed to launch a big new super weather sall postponed again. Postponed again. This is an issue with a rocket booster, no launch date yet what this is supposed to help meteorologists meteorologists at her storms by out highresolution pictures and more resolution pictures and more of them. Its also supposed to it is also supposed to warn us through solar storms that will about solar storms. I remember awhile back, i think this communitys existence, i remember a said it was a solar storm so a s powerful thought would put us back into the 18th if this turns if this theyre saying, what theyre were saying what they are descr describing is this is our satellite image satellite image. Its like taking this, looking at black it is like taking this looking at black and it in to an ultra hd color image. Mafnlgt we should have much more we should have much better imagery coming from the satellite from this new s coming from the satellite. It will help better hurricane tracking and also live global tracking, detection. Things should be coming some pretty cool things should be com the but hard to as far as see this coming to fruition. As far as the like i mentioned, this weekend looking fant ill have more on what you cran expect and how far the temperatures more on what you can expect and how fo thats coming up fall behind the front day forecast. Laura . A new health adjustments to make coming up in the four day forecast. A health concer its way into way into hospitals the country and its something weve never country, something we have never seen before. You are watching the now tampa youre watching the welcome back to the now tampa bay, there is something new going on inside hospitals that is concerning. A serious and sometimes deadly Fungal Infection is now in the United States for the first time ever. This is what the fungus looks like under a microscope, the cdc says the fungus shows up in hospitals and it is resistant to any drugs out there right no us since 2014 in these four states. Illinois, new york, maryland, new jersey, the most recent case was last month. One church has a controversial warning this election. Vote democrat and you will go to hell. Their words, not ours, a Catholic Church in san diego put in a bulletin the one they hand out it is a mortal sin to democratic positions on everything from samesex marriage to abortion. Voting democrat will doom supporters to hell. The spokesman for the san diego diocese, they say the messages do not reflect catholic teaching and are inappropriate. By descending into endorsing one party or another or suggesting outlandishly if you vote for one party you will go to help is just flat out wrong. The dicey says people sh one more concern for the message of the Church Building is also a place people are going to go to vote on tuesday. We are seeing the exact opposite message from a california mother, she took Donald Trumps slogan and changed it up to make america kind again. That is what she says, she even designed lawn signs and she is selling them online. And feelings going back and forth. It is for everybody, trump and clinton. I want to represent kindness. She has already sold 300 signs all across the country including in florida. We checked out her online page they go for 13, who is she voting for . She is not revealing that. Oftentimes we tell you about terrible stories like the then something awesome happens that always restores our faith in humanity. Tampa bay, we want to take a break from any negative or political news right now. Earlier this week members of the Tarpon Springs Little League found out they had been robbed by their own president. For thousands of dollars, but we found out support is pouring in from rivals. Don is the president of the largo Little League but one league is a huge fami leagues. The organization is run by volunteers we are on our free time with all the kids. They are showing commitment, news coming out of Tarpon Springs rattled her and 11 other League President in the community. This man the president of Tarpon Springs Little League admitted to stealing nearly 13,000 13,000 from the league account. Together and disguise it we wanted to help them out. It is just more cash they need to raise. We asked what their needs were at this time and we got a list. All of the market tubing, her league is trying to make sure the Concession Stands are up and running before the games next week. If you dont have the concession stand open youre not going to be able to stay a setback it can also help teach a valuable lesson her own boys are in Little League. To me, it is just giving back, paying it forward and to help them so they can continue doing things. For the now, im sarina fazan. What some say is a dreaded time this weekend yes you get an extra hour of sleep but then it gets dark way Daylight Saving time. Not savings she always tries to correct people on that. It will end at 2 00 sunday morning so turn your clock back saturday night. You should be able to use that at any time during the weekday. Getting the extra hour of sleep, it may be nice but it can give you major mood swings. It often throws off your bodys internal clock finds the extra hour of darkness in the evening can cause depression. Researchers find a number of people with depression jumped right after the end of Daylight Saving time. It started going down around two months after the change. The end of Daylight Saving time could do a number on the economy, a new study from j. P. Morgan chase showing we are more likely to spend money at time rather than at the end of it, that may be because with less sunlight at the end of the day we just want to go home after work. In case you didnt know, why we have Daylight Saving time to begin with, in the first place the idea was farmers pushing forward, that is a myth. We are being told it started in germany in 1916 as a way to try to save energy your History Lesson for the day, the us started doing it in 1918 for the same reason. Either way i am a fan of getting the extra hour of sleep. Im taking it all day to the bank and shay claims the weather will be beautiful this weekend. If you are wondering what time will the sun come up and set with this fall back . On saturday we are waking up sunday after the time change, the sun rises at 6 45 and sets at 5 42, so it is getting dark pretty early. I dont know about you but with little kids the fall back i never get the extra hour of sleep but i will try really hard this year. Take a look at what is going on , a frontal boundary to the north pushing through with the cooler air behind it, that will be settling right now east to west flow, a chance we could see an isolated shower but most of the area will be dry tonight, a light breeze out there and we will still have slightly cooler temperatures overnight especially to the north that i dont think it will be a real dramatic change tomorrow morning. It will be different to the afternoon. 83 degrees the current temperature in tampa, 84 branded, 82 lakeland, 81 brooksville, 79 crystal river, tomorrow we are looking at a breezy, the cooler air coming in behind the front and of course dont forget to turn back the clocks. Crossing our fingers. Monday and tuesday highs are still in the low 80s, so temperatures come down in the morning and in the afternoon, but it is not quite as dramatic as what we saw with the last strong cold front, this is your four day forecast at 4 00, denis is standing by with the sevenday forecast coming up rutgers university, three people were stabbed at the business school, the suspect is one of those three, he is now in custody. We dont know how badly hurt the victims are. We are trying to get more information on that right now. Also, donald trump at the microphone it in his second battleground state of the day. He is currently in ohio after that he will be going to about the jobs report that came out this morning he said earlier , there are only four days to go until the election is hopefully over. Until then clinton and trump are pulling out all the stops including in florida. Mike sacks with the lows and the highs. The fbi october surprise last week turned into clintons november pain. News of newly discovered emails evacuated evaporated her lead as their campaigns have slugged it out. If donald trump were to win the election we would have a commanderinchief who is completely out of his depth and whose ideas are currently dangerous. The Political Leadership at the department of justice is trying to protect hillary clinton. The big guns are coming out in full force, Melania Trump made a splash thursday. This is not an ordinary campaign. It is a movement. While president obama talked up clintons strengths. She made me a better president. She understands policy and how the world works. Vice President Joe Biden sounded hopeful about clinton. We gain back the majority in the senate, they will be responsibly. Responsibility is in the eye of the beholder, this week cnn reported a senator fighting for his own political life in North Carolina told supporters it is his responsibility to do everything he can to block any clinton nominee to the supreme court. In the house, a handful of republicans have begun talking about impeaching clinton. With all the politicking reaching a fever pitch content election. The Unemployment Rate is under 5 and hourly wages grew at their fastest clip since 2009. But are those stats enough for clinton to overcome the fbi october surprise . We will find out tuesday. For the now, im mike sacks. The election and political backandforth negative advertisements and post on facebook may be doing a number on your nerves causing people to stop talking. We found it many complain there isnt much of a choice between president ial candidates. You probably cant make the same statement about dating websites. There is one for farmers, christians and now there is one for supporters of donald trump. It would be difficult. Trump singles online just wants to make America Great again. I told my current boyfriend if he votes for hillary we wont continue dating so i will look at this website. They say beauty is in the eye of the boulder and some are willing to look past their partners political beliefs. The person i meet, they are okay with any political issues. Kerry says if her date isnt on board the trump the isnt boyfriend material. It would be a dealbreaker. Dealbreaker. For me thats a guy who doesnt open up the door. On the other side of the ticket we havent found any dating website connecting hillary supporters. We found one for hillary supporters to connect with canadians if trump wins the election. Lets just say it is called maple match and it launches tomorrow. Heartbreaking news from yearold son has been diagnosed with cancer. He did not say which type but his son is being treated in the us right now. He and his wife made the announcement on facebook today saying there devastated. They are putting their careers on hold to make sure the child gets well. Noah is the oldest son, they also have an 11monthold named elias. Tampa bay ferry takes off fords first trip with passengers across the bay. Leaving st. Petersburg at 5 15 heading straight to tampa, at last check there were 72 seats available. The ferry can hold 149 people, it will go back and forth across the bay multiple times per day. Right now it is just friday nights and the weekend, there is food and drinks on board it takes 15 minutes to get across, Adult Tickets 10, eight get their. Get the tickets online or when you get on the boat. Something else worth checking out, the first ever world wing suit flying championship. Adam winer did a story on this earlier this week. Performance and acrobatic competitions folks are competing from 20 Different Countries is free to go and watch in zephyrhills at skydive city. We have all the information on abcactionnews. Com. Check an old style cell phone or pager but it is a revolutionary medical technology. We look at how this artificial pancreas is changing lives like never before. Jason has plenty to think about working in his lab but for the First Time Since he started his diabetes isnt on the list. 50 to 75 of the burden the socalled artificial pancreas. One of 123 people participating in a trial for the device, diagnosed with type i diabetes he welcomed the opportunity to live without the constant demand of his disease. You wake up first thing you do is look at your meter check your blood sugar and start your day like that. What will i eat how much insulin. The artificial him. So, it is seeing what my blood sugar is all the time. From the sensors that i am wearing. Right here. So the sensor is telling it my blood sugar and based on an algorithm it decides whether or not to give you insulin. To stop the insulin. It is a endocrinologist who has seen a difference. Over the last several months to one year it has been immensely helpful cutting down on the burden the workload and the biggest thing it has gotten a lot rid of bloke low blood sugar. It keeps his blood sugar from going too slow while he sleeps which can be deadly. A small box that has changed his life. It the potential to do the same for so many others. The fda recently approved the artificial pancreas. It will be available this spring with prescription. Im paul lagrone thats it for the now tampa bay. Live from the station taking action for you. A starbucks in your players home, the way the crime took a violent turn hours before gerald mccoy took the field for thursday night football. Good evening im jamison uhler. And im wendy ryan you are looking at the 17yearold suspect right here who was armed with a gun when he burglarized gerald mccoys home. Clifton french is live outside of the gated neighborhood. Clifton. Reporter police say heas and in this report it describes intense moments inside of the home where the teenager even pulled a gun. A start defensive player gerald mccoy took the field last night s family was recovering from a terrifying Home Invasion. Only 4 1 2 hours earlier a teenage boy walked into their nearly 3 million house or an unlocked door. Mccoys father and wife were road. It is astonishing. I cant believe something would happen in this neighborhood. 17yearold Justin Frazier was trying to steal a videogame system from the home when mccoys father confronted him there was a brief fight, frazier pulls a gun and then runs out of the home into a neighbors house where police found him. Mccoy senior broke his hand, two pelicans were found. Mccoys neighborhood seems to be well protected, there is a wall surrounding it, a security gate and a Security Guard with his own car. We did some digging and there has only been one other crime inside the reserved in the past year. That was a reported theft. Tonight it is not clear how frazier got into the neighborhood, but it proves crime this scary can happen anywhere and to anyone