The Sheriffs Office says its going to rerelease more information a little later this morning. Edward snowden is asking president obama to pardon him. As Andrew Spencer shows us snowden says the leaks were moral and ethical. Reporter president obama doesnt seem to be softening his stan o asked if theres a chance the nsa would pardon him the manner in which mr. Snowden chose to disclose the information damaged the United States. Harmed our national security. Put the American People at greater risk. Reporter Edward Snowden argues his leaks about massive government surveillance programs were a public service. In a video interview with the guardian he says without the off. The former contractor fled the country three years ago, hes charged with espionage. Not everyone agrees what snowden did was wrong. Oliver stone who directed a new film about him praised his actions in an interview with cnn. The United States government developed and deployed a massive global Surveillance System without democratic consent. And it was one person who revealed that, that was mr. Snowden. He did so with convic reporter Joseph Gordon 11it stars in the film snowden which is in theaters this weekend. A quickthinking mom walking her dog helped deputies nab two teens on a crime spree. Two cars were broken into in seminole yesterday morning. Judy nearly walked up to one of the crimes in progress. She noticed two teens from car tocar and called 911. Arrested. I feel really good that i was able to help people get their stolen things back. Im glad that i took action to call 911. Pinellas investigators are looking for other suspects. Deputies say the 15yearold committed five felonies in the past year. And is already on a special list they monitor for high risk juvenile offenders. A Pinellas County mom is furious about a man from her neighborho w gun. Lisa green says her 8yearold was two blocks from home sunday night when it happened. He apparently volunteered along with other kids to be starts for a game. Police say while the man used poor judgment it appears there was no intent to cause harm. State Attorneys Office in fact ruled a crime wasnt committed but green says she wants something done because her son was shot so many times. Verbal consent or written consent and if that bb would have hit him in the eye or any place else it could have killed my son. Green says she plans to fight this decision because she wants more to be done. Authorities are now offering a 10,000 reward for information leading to the person who set a fort pierce mosque on fire sunday. Members of the Islamic Center of for the pierce say the arrest arson terrorized the community on one of the most holy days. The city says a new fence will be installed around the pulse nightclub property coming monday. Memorial items will be moved to the Orange County regional History Center. That new fence will featurary commemorative screen cuffed in art from local residents. The History Center will start to pick up memorial items on friday. George michael zimmerman. Expected back on the witness stand this morning for a different case. Yesterday George Zimmerman testified against the man accused of shooting at him. In 2015 police say Matthew Apperson and zimmerman had a confrontation on a street in lake worth. Officers say appeson opened fire but only hit zimmermans truck. Prior to the events Trayvon Martin trial . Yes, sir. Ok. Prior to that i was working as forensic loan analyst for of that day i havent been able to find consistent work. Officials say zimmerman and appe rson have a history of run ins. Appersons attorneys are arguing self defense. A man accused of trying to kill a truck driver in altamnte springs near orlandos trial starts today. Of a crowded publix. Records show mcgees cell phone, that he searched news stories about the robbery. Good morning. Its wednesday. Were checking in on julia, our Tropical Storm. We have now been impacted by three Tropical Storms so far this season. I think this will have a lesser effect of the earlier two. We had colin and hermine. Not going to be anywhere near the rain we got with this. You can see the bulk of the moisture is well to the and east. 40 mileperhour winds. We should get an update from the National Hurricane center in a few minutes but the track is generally going to be riding the coast, just a big rain event for them. Gusty winds, sure but not winds that cause significant damage here. As we check on the back side of julia, we have moisture from the gulf. If youre watching from largo, its raining on you now, not heavily but it will be periodic showers that will be on the keep that in mind. Manatee, sarasota and everything moving from southwest to northeast. All the action wants to join up with julia to the north. That is where our flow is going to be coming from today and we have plenty of water to our west. So well continue with on and off rain and at times it will be heavier. Hour by hour forecast will take you through the afternoon with temperatures in the mid and upper 80s. Drier forecast in the extended coming up in a few minutes. Lets look at part of the morning commute. This is i4 at state road 574. Pretty smoothsailing now. Not a lot of traffic this morning but janelle is watching the Traffic Cameras and will have a full look at the morning commute coming up in 15 minutes. The Hillsborough County a meeting is not going as planned. The current proposal has controversial rules for uber been set yet. Hubbards marina is holding a News Conference to announce new Ferry Service throughout the beaches. It will be at 3 00 this afternoon. The ferry and Water Taxi Service scheduled to start on october 1st. The boats will operate fridays through sundays at nine different locations. To the latest in democracy 2016 Hillary Clinton is set to return to the campaign trail after her as lama zak reports from washington donald trump is facing a new problem from the new York Attorney general. President obama in his first solo appearance, took the idea that donald trump is better for working class americans really . This is the guy you want . To be championing working people . This guy who spent 70 years on this earth showing no concern he wont let you on his golf course reporter the president making the case for Hillary Clinton while flower deliveries pour into her chappaqua, new york home. As clinton recovers from pneumonia her Campaign Says she will be back on the trail tomorrow. And today trump will sit down with talk show host dr. Oz to presumably discuss the results of his physical last week. Im not going to ask questions he doesnt want answered. Reporter new headaches for the Trump Campaign. Newsweek this morning is expected to release a report that indicts and potential conflicts with national security. At the same time the new York Attorney general is opening an inquiry into the Trump Foundation and allegations that the nonprofit misappropriated some funds. The Trump Campaign fired back that the new York Attorney general is a partisan hack who has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. Meanwhile trump on the trail stayed mum on the issues and clintons health, instead unveiling his child care plan. We can provide six weeks of paid Maternity Leave to any whose plore doesnt provide the benefit. Reporter trump says he intends to pay for his program by cracking down on Unemployment Insurance fraud. Abc news, washington. 4 40. Wildlife officials expect sewage water dumped into the tampa bay is killing dozens of birds that washed up along the beaches over the last week. St. Petersburg dumped more than 70 million gallons of sewage water from its overwhelmed system during hurricane hermine. The Florida Shorebird Alliance says 45 juvenile black skimmers have been found dead over the last six days. She and other scientists around the bay area are convinced the deaths are connected to the sewage water. Every single one of them have died or showed presentation of dying in a convulsive state. She says one skimmer already tested positive for salmonella that she says could be related wildlife officials expect to release the full findings in the coming weeks. A burglar breaks into a florida home three days in a row. Steals a lot. Including the sink. Where it happened and how police say he got inside each time. He gets back in, opens up the back window and says youve got a flat tire. A bride in New Hampshire had to hitchhike on her wedding day. How long she was delayed that scared the waiting groom. Good night for the rays 4 45. Police in miami are looking for the man that broke into the same home three days in a row. He stole electronics, a bicycle, a ladder, even a sink. Helped himself to food in the fridge. He broke in through a window of that house on saturday, sunday and monday. A homeowner was out of town at the time. Police time but the burglar got away each time. Police released this Surveillance Video hoping someone knows who he is. Disturbing video shows a driver intentionally Ramming Police officers with his car at a gas station in phoenix. You see the car speeding towards them. One of the officers goes flying into the air, a second officer hits the ground and a third manages to get to the other side of the squad car before the crash. That attacker then crashed into the gas station. Driver struggled violently with officers. This is a violent cowardly act on our Police Officers and its simply unacceptable. Our phoenix Police Officers were targeted. We have all heard about officers being targeted and ambushed in communities across this nation. But this happened here. Police say the two officers who were hit are expected to make full recoveries. The 44yearold driver is now facing multiple charges including attempted first degree murder. A man from oklahoma and another from california are now both in jail for a crime that happened decades ago. The two were connected to the killings of two teenaged girls in california over 40 years ago. Officials say Larry Patterson and william harbor both now 65 years old kidnapped those girls and shot them in a wooded area. Detectives identified the two men by running preserved dna through new forensics testing. Crimes. An Atlanta Elementary School teacher is getting a lot of attention online for what she wears to school. Many say patrice browns outfits are too formfitting and may distract young boys from learning. Others say if she were skinny as opposed to occur vaishious no one would curveacious no one would complain. And theres a picture here that says funny how nobody posted this picture, the one that matters. Shes since deleted her Instagram Account and made it private. Blowers, vacuumsmulchek can be dangerous causing black and decker offering a free repair kit with a replacement fan cover. Many apple users complain a and ipads. If this happens to you, plug into a computer and connect to itunes to restore access. One of our floor directors broke their phone. Thats what happens folks. 45 mileperhour winds, weve had gusts but maximum sustained winds with Tropical Storm julia are 40 miles per hour. If you are just waking up you may have missed this. This newscast last night. Its the first warning issued. This is the track it took over over jacksonville now but the bulk of the weather is to the north and east. We have a good chunk of clear air here or at least not raining, then the plume of moisture coming in with the southwesterly flow. Were not directly impacted but we are going to get moisture. Its already raining in manatee, sarasota. Showers streaming in. Nothing severe but at times it will be heavy. So reduced visibility. Well check the roads and morning commute in a second. Its lingering tropical moisture that should be with us through the remainder of today. What will help as well with the intensification of the showers and thunderstorms as far as how heavy they will be, will be our sunshine up above. We wont have much but it will be the heating of the day that will provide us with more in the way of showers, even thunderstorms. Rain chances by the way, going down beginning friday and heading into the weekend so that is excellent news. You see here, no significant areas of widespread reds so were looking at an inch of rainfall that is about it for today as the moisture comes in. Pockets of heavier stuff but in general that will be the case. Upper 80s this afternoon with cloudy skies. Lower rain chances come back at us. Where we should be this time of year. 90 for friday into the weekend with coverage at 40 . 4 49. Threegame series against the toronto blue jays. And usf getting ready for its next Football Game against syracuse this weekend. Tom korun has more in your morning sports. Reporter good morning. If the blue jays miss out on the playoffs, they can look back on the late season run with the rays, who now won three of the last 5 against the blue jays. Tonight the rays would have won a three run homer by Alexy Ramirez in the insurance in the seventh. Soussa jr. Makes it 42. Danny farquar strikes out Edward Encarnacion with the bases loaded and rays beat the jays final 62. Hopefully willie tagarts team has their focus on syracuse this weekend and not on the seminoles in two weeks. Traveling to syracuse. Nothing finer than being unbeaten in the big game against fsu. Heres the coach. They will know its a tough mace to play in syracuse and they talk about the crowd and how hot it is, and all those things and were going we got to be conscious of all those things but we got not on top of that but a Football Team hoping to get back in the win column. I think when the film and loed at it probably saw where they can play better. Reporter thats your morning sports update. Enjoy your day. Its 4 51. Police in ohio are investigating a bizarre case. A heart found in a ziploc bag in the middle of a field. Our coroner is testing it to see if its human and where it came from. Research suggests you cant teach students sex education. How researchers say classes are influencing boys and girls. Well when i shop, my coupons are in a neat little stack, and my weekly ad is folded like this. Ready to go. Thats how i save a lot at publix. How bout you . Z23y6z zy6z y23y6y yy6y you know, some people, they shop all over town to save money. When you add it all up. Its a lot. Thats how i save at publix. How bout you . Publix. Where shopping is a pleasure. 4 54. Just got the latest update on Tropical Storm julia. No big change here. A big rainmaker the next few days because its going to move so slowly across the southeast, getting into coastal georgia and of course into the carolinas as well. Still lingering tropical moisture so well have the rain and showers heavy, some lightning strikes heading from southwest to northeast impacting manatee and sarasota so. A bit of a wet commute for you there. No widespread rains but by later today on and off showers, some heavy. More on that in the next hour. Kanye west tonight brings his st. Pablo tour to amalie arena. Hes a 22time grammy award winner, sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. Twice named time magazines 100 most influential people in the world. Tonights show is 8 00. 70 million gallons of sewage water was dumped into tampa bay during hurricane hermine. Now all that sewage is blamed for killing wildlife. The high number of birds being officials will release full findings. Two teens are accused of a crime spree in Pinellas County, the quick thinking mom who helps deputies catch them and a shocking look at one of the dead birds have been washing up across the bay area. Why sewage dumps may to be blame. Today was supposed to be the day the Public Transportation Commission Votes on controversial rules for Ridesharing Companies but that vote is called off. Well explain why and what could still happen today. Good morning, thank you for joining us on abc action news. Were following breaking news from usf. A car has crashed into an apartment building. James tully is on his way there. A few minutes. First lets check the forecast with ivan cabrera. New information on the latest Tropical Storm. Making number three so far this season. Colin, hermine. This one wont have as much impact. Nowhere near it. Across jacksonville, the latest advisory from the National Hurricane center, its just a big rain event. 40 mileanhour sustained winds. Some wind gusts across the coastal area of georgia and South Carolina but really its big rain
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