along ridge road. the water pump sits idle. i contacted two county commissioners listed on the sign this morning and upon returning today, we found a public works employee on sight making sure that the pump was on and working. i asked pasco county officials why the pump was left off while neighborhoods remained underwater. they pointed to the widening project. in an e-mail sent late this afternoon, a county attorn an ongoing dispute with the contractor for that project which it is in the process of resolving. it turns out the county delayed flipping the search to research if pumping flood water into this retention pond would impact the ridge road project site and who is responsible, the county or contractor for potential damages. the pump is online now but bass lake neighbors are hoping that the county can come up with a long-term fix. find out the solution to the problem. >> reporter: now, a lot of residents in bass lake wondering why one of the stand alone water pumps has not been placed here. there is a loflooding on this brook wood avenue. we want to mention that the pump was not previously used before for flood clean-up. it was one of four pumps that pasco county is renting additionally to help with problem areas. smith, abc action news. >> thank you, ryan. they are trying to get a handle how much damage was done to the businesses. businesses are encouraged to go online and fill out the survey. we have it on abcactionnews.com andor mobile app. they will help expedite disaster relief programs. now the most accurate weather team in florida, abc action weather. >> good evening, everybody. still tracking a few showers over to venice, these are quick movers. just like last night, they will be of off shore in another 15 to 20 minutes. the rest of the area is completely dry. very nice. but the humidity is definitely on the increase. temperatures today lmid- 90s. 93 in tampa. 95 in sarasota. there's the difference. the dew points are back up. so our little taste of fall, it's gone. partly cloudy skies overnight. the showers and storms will be back in the forecast for the other parts of our viewing we will talk about that to help make your weekend plans coming up. >> thank you, denis. breaking late this afternoon, winter haven police releasing video of burglars running wild inside a radio shack store. investigators saying these three guys busted through the glass last friday and started grabbing phones. they were in and out of the location in less than two minutes. if you know who these guys are or heard anything about this case, call winter haven police or crime stoppers. parent wants to see. teak a look. a s.w.a.t. team mobilizing next to your child's school serving a drug related search warrant. the home is located at the side entrance of glenn allen elementary school. officers finding crack, prescription pills, marijuana, and three children inside that home. police are now trying to find 51-year-old caroline kalante and plan to drug trafficking. state health officials understanding the number of infected pregnant women with zika virus right now to 84. officials speaking today in south florida. just one day after confirming a bib ewas born with microcephaly in miami. that comes as a worker at macdill air force base has contracted the zika virus. jarrod holbrook is joining us >> officials at macdill air force base did not send out an advisory on this public health official. we uncovered it through our records request. officials confirm at least one person working on the base contracted zika. officials say the person contracted the zika virus while traveling outside of the continental u.s. in july. in an e-mail following our request foanswers, officials state, quote, the squadron closely together to monitor the mosquito population, share information, and implementrol m risk for our population. it took officials two full business days to tell us when this happened. they say the person experienced symptoms mid to late july. macdill officials declined our request for an interview and refused to tell us if the person is living on base or in a different county. now, according to a federal military service members had or had conferred cases of zika. here is a breakdown by the branch the military. we're putting all of that on our website at abcactionnews.com. i'm investigator jarrod holbrook, taking action for you. >> thank you, jarrod. orange county deputies on the hunt tonight for a gunman who murdered a turkish tot onhis honeymoon. this happened overnight at the orlando resort. investigators say the 52- old man died while trying to protect his new wife from a would-be robber in the parking lot. his wife was not injured. deputies are working with her to create osite sketch of the killer. a 14-year-old south cold case eda to busse at his apartment back in 2002. authorities saying old joshua odom just walked into a des moines, iowa police he told detectives that he went with busse to his apartment for drinks and sex but instead decide today rob and kill him to buy drugs. tonight, pinellas county medical examiners are trying to figure out how a man died while in custody. donald's wife calling authorities to their home multiple times yesterday erratic ha. use of th deputies used a stun gun on unr later pronounced dead at the hospital. 42 suspected criminals are off the streets and the apartments are safer. multiple agencies teaming up for operation velvet revolver. deputies say they have responded to several shootings, drive-byes and cas at the apartment complex in the pa easier for some of you neighborhoods safer. county. more than 180 manate e neighborhoods have already started next door websites. a robber beating a veteran with his own walker. the attack, an outpouring of support for the man, donating $600 each to jeffrey. our camera rolling as police gave him that money, they announthe arrest of the they say attacked him. this is him. harold stewart. police saying that stewart beat him last friday at the mawal- 34th storth and stole $600 from him. hillary clinton says that t health care trump said that he was against the war in iraq. i'm putting thfrom the forum through the truth-o-meter. be privatized. and i do do just thahere supported by >>ki that claim in front of an audience of our nation's veterans in wednesday night's commander in chief forum. it's something that clinton and tim kaine have made before on the campaign trail. we sifted through press conferences rally speeches for answers but only finding trump wanting to give veterans a chase to see a private doctor. that proposal would not be a privatization making the claim mostly false. >> i happened to clinton tay against the war look at esquire magazine in '04. >> donald trump telling a large group of vets that he was we found the most damaging to trump's claim is a september 2002 interview with howard stern in which trump said that he supported the invasion. he only started publicly denouncing the war after it started. rating this as false. >> the candidates will go face- to-face in the first of four debates in less than three weeks. still to come, putting their lives in danger just to walk down the street. the two major safety features missing from a tampa neighborhood to protect pedestrians who say they have nearly been killed. and a florida wal-mart under fire after denis' forecast. the controversial display do mom rating 9/11. looking outside, it is nice across most of the area. the heat is not giving up. low to mid of 90s. it feels even higher than that. i'll let you know what is in store for the weekend coming z2454z zi0z >> a student attacking a male teacher in indianapolis. the school district investiga possible disagreement between the teacher and the attacker's brother. tonight abc action news rertrozyla reveals new me the neighborod safer. >> reporter: this is what we're talking about, sidewalks that seem to simply just end or in some cases don't exist at all. but soon that could be about to change. walking to pick her kids up from day care, rachel feels exposed. >> i feel unsafe and scared with my kids. >> reporter: she is often forced to walk them down the streets in the neighborhood with no sidewalks. a few weeks ago, a car nearly killed them. >> and the car is like coming and didn't see me. you almost hit us. so that's scary. >> there's no sidewalks. there's no lighting. there's potholes in the road. >> reporter: the university area community development corporation is partnering with hillsborough county and other community agencies to make things safer. >> every year we have several deaths because children are in the roadways, parents are in the roadways because there's no sidewalks. >> reporter: they're working to get grant money and enlist local businesses to not just add sidewalks but fix broken roads. >> it's really dark and there's no sidewalks. >> reporter: people rick allen whorls has the bike to get around helped weigh in. a car nearly hit him too. >> by the time i looked, the headlights are on any face. i got on the side of the road and prayed. nothing else to do but pray. they just fly. >> reporter: the final report should be in by the end of the year and upgrades made soon after. frederick and others are hoping that the changes will help save action news. >> we're hearing from a young florida surfer who survived a shark attack. he was in chest deep water when a shark bit his leg. he didn't realize what was going on until you saw blood in the water. his mother remembers that exact moment. >> i was kind of turned this way and i heard adam say why is austin screaming? we turned and look add at the water and he had a terrified. he wasn't crying but a scream as he >> he came around right here. and then he came around and scraped right there. >> family members rushed austin to the hospital where the 9- year-old had to undergo a two- hour surgery to fix two tendons in his leg. a deputy stopping to help this little bird who had twine wrapped around its peak. he pulled the bird from the middle of the road this lake. how sweet. >> pretty big peak too. >> it was. >> yeah. >> how about that weather out there today? the humidity was dropping. came back a little in the afternoon. >> this morning it felt good. >> yeah. we were warm but dry. the main sail showing the same area of rain. in fact you can literally take last night's newscast and it looks almost identical in terms of the weather. that thcrs sohern counties. for the rest of us, humidity is rising now. tomorrow morning, a great way to start your weekend. you will notice the humidity. it won't be as refreshing as the past couple of days. the showers are out of here. a couple of thunderstorms continue to pop up. otherwise the rest of the area is quiet. it will be dry tonight. most areas dry then we begin to moisture and a better chance of rains. you're good to go at least until 3:00, 4:00 in the low 90s. we will be hitting 95 in sarasota and 93 in tampa. look at the feels like temperatures. that's the sign that the humidity is back up when you're seeing feels like temperatures at 102 in plant city. 97 in lutz. that's going to be sticking around. we had our little breath of fresh air. i'm aphrase to say that summer is a couple of weeks from turning into fall. even then it's usually well into october and november before we start to see the long- term changes. go up north, the fall foliage will weeks. we're already into september. low 90s across the area under clear skies. satellite looks reminiscent of yesterday, doesn't it? east to west winds. north of i-4, completely dry. mostly cloud-free for that matter. tomorrow, we begin to see subtle changes. all of the dry air covering most of the area. clearly you can see where it is. there's the line. north it's dry. south it isn't. and that moisture is going to the drier air over the next few days, bringing things back to where they should be for mid- september. usually by september 15th, you can see this in the models, july and august, we're seeing numbers. we're almost to the end of the rainy season. mid-september it's usually gone. at least the ones that you can count on those daily afternoon storms. now it becomes a little more isolated and sparse. high temperatures, no changes there. low 90s and it than that because the humidity will be returning tomorrow. it will be around through the weekend. making your weekend plans now, you're good to go in terms of rainfall up until 3:00, 4:00. it will feel warmer. even in the morning, if you want to get work done outdoors, early on, you're going to feel it. this weekend is a good weekend to take the boat out. a light chop on the bay. water temperature 84. well. there are your tides. sunrise at 7:13. sunset at 7:41errtnight. no rain from i-4 north. only a couple of showers for the next few minutes down across the southern counties. notice tomorrow morning, upper 70s for forecast lows. aa big difference than what we have seen over the last two mornings. rain chances 30% the next few days. for high school football games tomorrow, a few more showers. but we can't write out an isolated watch that closely. the weekend looks good. at least until 4:00 or 5:00. and then by next week, it's back to normal with the rain chances back up to 40 percent to 50%. >> thanks, denis. a panama city wal-mart under fire over a display. >> take a look at this picture posted to twitter. the black coke zero cans center. the banner over it reads we will never forget. wal-mart initially approved the design but it has since been removed. still ahead, a key match-up in the bucs-falcons game centers around a local rookie. that's next in sports. >> no change in the vegas line on the bucs and falcons game. the team elevating peyton basher from the practice squad to take mike james' place as the number three running back. more importantly, this guy needs to post on special teams. the practice squad. the team resigned wide receiver spencer. now there has been a lot of praise rained down on rookie corner back hargraves the thd. all serv. he openea looft eyes around the league. come sunday, he will get his first for real run against one of the best wide receivers in the game, julio jones. >> vernon is a very competitive guy. and we've -- you know, we've brought him along where he can play so he's going to get his opportunities to get matched up against julio in this ball game. and julio is one of the top corners. there's no better way to measure where you're at than going against one of the best receivers in the nfl. >> meanwhile the bulls get ready for a tougher opponent in northern illinois. the bulls are 15-point favorites over the huskies. play on saturday. >> he's still questionable for saturday. but like i said, we feel differently around here. when they say two weeks, that's about one week for us. if they say two days, that's a day. so a little different. >> how about this, the rays signed ramirez. >> all right. >> what? >> great question. >> we have continuing coverage of today's top stories on abcactionnews.com. >> and we will see you right tonight, breaking news. the fallout. donald trump under fire after saying american generals have been reduced to rubble. and trump talking about what's supposed to be his top secret security briefings. hillary clinton taking heat, saying no more ground troops in iraq and syria. but tonight, she is now fund-raising over what her team believes was an unfair forum. the deadly school shooting. a 14-year-old opening fire. the race to get students out, just days into the new school year. the warning tonight. the battery in a new smartphone igniting. the entire suv up in flames. the stunning escape. this murder suspect breaking free from inside this interrogation room. and you'll see it. and america strong tonight.

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