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WFTS Action News At 6AM September 28, 2016

Accident. Fans across the country including here in the bay area are mourning his death and planning to pay tribute to him. Abc action News Reporter Rodney Dunigan live at Alonso High School. We found out a vigil is planned there tonight. Reporter 7 30 tonight family, friends and former teammates of this baseball player will meet here at the baseball field at 7 30 again to remember him and honor him tonight. In the meantime were learning new details about that accident weve learned that the baseball player Jose Fernandez actually had a fight with his pregnant girlfriend just hours before he went out on that boat, actually going out on the boat investigators say to clear his head a bit. Unfortunately just a few hours later Jose Fernandez along with two friends were killed when that 32foot fishing boat hit rocks near miami beach. A friend of one of the men actually urged him not to go out that night. He posted one last message on be careful. Friends of Jose Fernandez right here in tampa say he was a great man, this loss definitely devastating. He was just a wonderful young man. Always smiling, always laughing. Always just brought so much joy to everyone. Around him. I mean, he was really a very, very special kid and never forget the people that were always close to him. Reporter a mass for Jose Fernandez family and members of the florida marlins and that will be held thursday in miami. Back here live we are again learning new details about this crash. Alcohol and drugs not involved in this. Gma delving deeper into the investigation and much more at 7 00 this morning. For now reporting live in town n country, Rodney Dunigan, abc action news. 6 02. Breaking news from pinellas help to find her. Here she is, a picture of 85 yearold gertrude morin. Police say she suffers from dementia, may be confused. She was last seen driving her 2006 gold chrysler fourdoor sedan along 83rd avenue north. If you see her call police. Weve posted her photo on our Facebook Page so you can share it. Happening today a 71 yearold psychotherapist is expected in court after police say he fondled at least two female patients while treating now investigators are looking to see if there are any more possible victims. Lakeland Police Arrested Anthony Conte on two counts of felony sexual misconduct. Earlier this month investigators say two victims came forward saying he groped them multiple times. Detectives say he told patients they needed to get comfortable with how he was touching them to treat them for depression. Coming up, were going to have more on his very long career and new information in this case. Coming up in a live report at near san diego. A black man shot by police has now died. El cajon police releasing this overnight. The man has something in his hand and officers say he want into a shooting stance just before they fired. Before that this man apparently was acting strangely not following police commands. The shooting spark protests into the night. So far they have been peaceful and well keep monitoring the situ attack in a charlotte parking garage. Happened at the same time the protests were going on there. You can see several men here teeming up on one victim, kick him, drag him, at one point you see they even pulled his pants off. This morning officers announced they arrested one man for last weeks assault. We just got this mug shot of antonio gatewood. Gatewood is also charged with ethnic intimidation. Meanwhile, the Charlotte Police after a suspicious package was found inside. Breaking news from central florida. A raging 400acre wildfire for state road 50 stretching between brevard and eastern Orange County to close for hours overnight. These pictures taken by a forest officer. That fire forced lane closures of state road 50 at i95 but thankfully the flames diminished overnight allowing crews to r concerned they might have to evacuate nearby hotels. 6 05. In democracy 2016 despite most critics and pollsters saying donald trump lost the first president ial debate the republican nominee saying he came away the winner. Making a victory lap speech in his first post Debate Campaign rally in brevard county. The billionaire telling an energized crowd at the Melbourne Airport theres just one reason why clinton even has a chance to win the election. Got is the media. Without the Mainstream Media she would not even be here, folks. That i can tell you. She would not even be here. She would not have a chance. Trump also boasted he raised 18 million in the 24 hours after monday nights debate. The biggest oneday haul of his election campaign. On the democratic side, Vice President ial candidate tim kaine wrapped up three days of campaigning in our state yesterday. He met with supporters in orland important florida will be in the general election and why Hillary Clinton is the better candidate. Speaking of clinton, she held her first post debate rally yesterday in raleigh, north carolina. She told supporters how much effort it takes to follow the billionaires arguments. He made it very clear that he didnt prepare for that debate. At one point he was kind of digging me for spending time off the campaign trail to get of time and effort. Clinton is set to pick up another endorsement from a republican today. Former virginia senator john warner who served five terms in the senate will endorse clinton today. One of the Third Party Candidates hoping to get your vote will be in tampa tonight discussing issues directly affecting bay area voters. Green Party President ial nominee jill stein will be at the cuban club in ybor city tonight at 7 30. Plans to talk about Pinellas County sewage problem, aer damage to the florida aquifer by the mosaic sinkhole. Tomorrow stein campaigns in sarasota. The university of tampa setting another record, enrollment up for the 20th straight year. This years enrollment of grads and undergrads was more than 8,300. That is up 300 from last year and tripled the number of students from 20 years ago. The decision is in on an after School Program worshiping not that group will be allowed to stay at an Elementary School. Proposal flop. Weve got the video of a man trying to pop the question but welcome back. 6 10. The satanic temple getting approval to start a program at an Elementary School in portland, oregon. A leader says the club will focus on science, rational thinking and empathy for everyone. They say its an answer to the Good News Club of biblebased christian program. This is the mustsee video of the morning. A man about to propose to his girlfriend drops the ball by dropping the ring. Poor guy. The look on his face is priceless. Says it on the jumbotron for the big moment at the yankees game. You can see everyone around him trying to help him find that ring. Finally you see that . Relief. They did find it. It was in the cuff of that womans jeans. Despite the somewhat bumpy start to the lifelong commitment she said yes. He was mortified ivan, lets look at the showers. Were going to continue to see these moving inland. Sometimes i drop the clicker and have a hard time fining it and have to use the touchscreen. Im ok now. We look at matthew potentially developing this afternoon. Hurricane hunters on the way now. In fact they took off 40 minutes ago, they should arrive there and will be xraying the storm. Mid 73 in zephyrhills. 71 in brooksville. Well have 60s in fact on the way as we head through the next several days. Well talk more about the 7day forecast coming up. Also coming up accused child killer now free after spending half his life in prison. The new clues that overturned his conviction. Also new details on a chicken recall. Of 6 a 15. He served half his life in primp for a crime he says he didnt commit. And now hes free due to dna evidence. Investigators focused on him after he told a tv reporter he bought chips for the child and told him to go home. The day before police found the boy dead. The judge threw out the conviction after new dna tests showed he did not kill the child. He couldnt wait to hug his mom. As a free man. Its the best thing i could have. My mother was the only my stable. I wasnt going to give up on him. I did what release, enjoy a steak dinner with mom. Right now the mayor of kissimmee is in jail, she and her boyfriend are accused of stealing from a dead woman. Detectives say sarah shaw and her boyfriend were squatting in that deceased womans home. Since june of 2014. They say they used the womans id number and had utility bills account. The boyfriend is even accused of selling the dead womans car the owner died in 2011. A consumer alert. Head to the freezer for this one. Tyson foods now recalling 130,000 pounds of chicken nuggets. Chicken could have hard pieces of plastic in it. This is what the bag looks like. They were sold at Costco Stores nationwide. Full details at abcactionnews. Com now so you can share it. Dont be alarmed if you see lots of Police Activity on usf campus today. Officers are doing live demonstrations meant to keep students and staff safe. Usf is hosting its First Ever National Campus Safety event today. They are using officers on motorcycles, canines, horses, cars and bomb detection technology. To try to educate students on how to stay safe on campus and to prepare before a disaster hits. People could live on mars in the next 10 years. Transport system, a concept designed to fly cargo and eventually humans to the red planet. The process could involve launching would involve i should say, launching a reusable rocket booster simultaneously which would be used to refuel that spaceship midflight. One of the things the southwest monsoon does, brings rain and lightning and downpours in arizona. One of the other things, when the gusts come from the thunderstorms sandstorms and this duststorm by the way yesterday through phoenix, one of the bigger ones this season so far. Upwards of 4,000 feet. Blowing dust advisory issued there. Incredible scenes coming out of arizona. Well transition now into drier times ahead for the desert southwest. You see the counterclockwise flow there . Spawned everything. Back home, jumping to florida here and looking at the morning coastal showers, thats our pattern the neck few days. Inland afternoon thunderstorms, a westerly wind developed and that usually means morning coastal showers, sometimes a little stronger, so far this morning i think were doing pretty good. Some will manage to come in towards the latter part of the morning commute. Then well begin to fill in later this afternoon with not just showers but once we get enough heating i think well get thunderstorms going as well. Coverage 30 to 40 . Nothing widespread, not everyone going to difference will be, well start a little earlier, closer to 75 than we are across our inland areas. Lets check in on what we have Hurricane Hunters now its the current position by the way. They are going to investigate what could be today a tropical depression or Tropical Storm. Theyve already found winds upwards of 40 miles per hour, thats the current intensity. That enough would be a Tropical Storm. But what they have to find is and we have not had that yet. Its still an open tropical wave. That may have changed and thats why they are on their way to let us know. Of course that would be matthew. It will be eventually matthew. Whether its the next advisory or later on today. That will happen. The track continues as far as computer model forecast, in good agreement and is going to be headed west through the caribbean as it does in this area. This is the time frame. Saturday late into sunday morning. Where does it turn . How qu that would have a huge impact on whether this affects florida or not. Certainly cuba and the bahamas look to be in the path of this. By the way its not just rain, this is what it looks like now, a pretty potent storm. So we want this turn soon, if it happens a little later then we would have to talk about problems here for florida. Too early at this time to talk about anything past the next three days or so. Temperatures in the upper 80s for today. Typical for this time of year. 40 . That includes friday and into the upcoming weekend with no big changes as i see it overnight. Lows in the mid70s but we have dry air moving from above so then i think by friday morning some of us, especially on the nature coast will be waking up in the 60s with lower humidity. We have a couple of crashes. The interstates are clear now but a couple of pinellas westbound park at 43rd street north. Reports of westbound roadblock. Two lanes taken away. Also a crash in northern hillsborough county, county line road just west of i75, near the apex there, that is the intersection with 275 and 75, again this is just west of i75. Reports of roadblock there. Although traffic indicators were in the green so i think traffic is still pretty light, not causing huge delays. Your drive across the bridges, here the Howard Frankland 10 minutes to get across all three bridges. Its 6 21. Coming up still ahead a Career Change for jeb bush. The way hes rebranding himself after his failed president ial campaign. First at 6 22 new details coming up on good morning, america on that boat crash that killed Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez and two others. Text messages suggest he may have been upset about something. Reporter the families of ace pitcher jose friends emoleo macias and eddie rivero are sending the young men off. He wanted to support his friend. He died being a friend. He died being a really good friend. Reporter so far authorities are blaming only speed for the crash that sent fernandez speed boat hurling into the rocks early sunday morning. Reporter but friends reveal that fernandez was upset for some reason. In these Text Messages from town and rivero who was with fernandez at the time bernal is begging them not to go on the boat. Trying to keep it close to the shore if you go out, trust me, its not my time yet. Reporter the latest at 7 00 z246oz zy6z jeb bush starting a new career. Teaching at harvard. Hes going to be a guest instructor and speaker at the program on education policy and governance. Hell give his first lecture thursday at the university. Look at this here. This map. That is not your typical floor map you see at the entrance to an establishment. That is a San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernicks jersey, duct taped to the floor there. For people to wipe their feet on. Customers the crossroads rock and country bar in virginia beach. Kaepernick of course drew attention last month for not standing during the National Anthem before a Football Game but he said he was protesting racial injustices. The restaurants use of the jersey seems to have backfired. Offended patrons now complaining until they took it down. Some still not satisfied or pictured it up would be a better way. Some still not satisfied calling for a boycott. Next at 6 30 a for depression lands him in jail. The reason detectives say this case is only just beginning. Reaction coming in on the new deepwater horizon movie. Even before its released. One reason some relatives of those killed on the rig are not an investigation today with a therapist. Why officers are worried this case is only going to get bigger. Thank you for joining us on this wednesday. Im deiah riley. Good morning, im dan shaffer. Also breaking news overseas, a airstrike against isis that apparently went wrong. First ivan cabrera here with a check of the forecast. Were going to be talking about coastal showers the next flow that has developed. Inland afternoon thunderstorms, in fact some activity offshore now moving slowly east. I think most of the commute will be on the drier side. Sprinkles impacting with 19, otherwise looking good. Day planner upper 70s. Warming up to the mid80s with showers on and off. Moving westtoeast so by 4 00 we have showers, and thunderstorms as well. Temperatures today about 88. Lets check in on morning commute and head to the Traffic Center with janelle martinez. Starting on the interstates, dry on i4, i75, i275 all looking great. This is 275 through downtown tampa. Five minutes to get to the Howard Frankland bridge. Your drive times on the veterans expressway still in the green. We have one crash weve been following in pinellas, park boulevard at 43rd street north. Captain al is on his way to the scene. What is going on . Reporter good morning. We are just arriving at park boulevard at 43rd street there by the cheddars. You can see where theyve just moved a vehicle out of the roadway a moment ago. Just as we were getting here. So westbound on the right side, see the cars just getting through. Eastbound coming at you, they are coming through that light so what was blocked a few minutes ago is now reopened. Might be the righthand side. They removed the well see how that works. Dont go away. Now back to you. 6 32. To the breaking news we mentioned a few minutes ago. U. S. Military investigating an airstrike that Officials Say killed at least 13 civilians in kabul, afghanistan. Police chief there says the strike was from american backed forces targeting isis. That strike apparently hit a residential building. U. S. Spokesman confirms a counterterror operation was in the area but wouldnt comment further. In a few hours from now details about a lakeland therapist now in jail. Detectives say what was actually ha

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