Beautiful buildings that once stood talled and strong have been reduced to rubble. Nothing more than dust and piles of broken concrete. This is amatrice, the mayor there says most of his town is wiped out. The better picture from the sky shows blocks of buildings leveled. The electricity is gone. Cant see anything. Some people grabbed their phones and we made our way down the stairs to the garden. Reporter as the day goes on in central italy weve seen people in their pajamas and family pets buried feet under the rubble being pulled to stretchers. To safety. But it hasnt been easy. The region is remote and mountainous, troops havent even made it to every affected area. There are already reports of landslides and bridges on verge of collapse not to mention the roads in town are blocked. Its taken a bulldozer hours just to clear a path. The quake was so strong people felt it too. At the vatican wednesday morning we pray together for our brothers and sisters. The pope led a prayer for victims and families. And italys Prime Minister is headed to the disaster zone later today. Reporter in a statement to his country he said the priority right now is rescuing survivors. Saying no family, no city will be left alone. Reporter live still of the people there at the rubble. You can see the bulldozers at the bares of base of one of these buildings, still looking for people. Witnesses say rescuers are going from housetohouse, calling for anyone that may be trapped. If there is no answer sadly they thuft move on. Another powerful earthquake in central myanmar. This is a map of the u. S. Away in bangkok, thailand. The epicenter located 30 miles to the southeast of the ancient capital. Reports say that the quake severely damaged a number of buddhist temples there. To a developing story now from st. Petersburg Police Say Two people were shot at Bay Vista Park. The call came in 3 00 this morning. Anchor james tully has been live at the scene all morning. James, several hours have passed since the shoo to piece things together . Reporter after six hours crews are wrapping up and the call coming in after 3 00 a. M. Two men shot at Bay Vista Park in st. Pete. They are still alive, both being treatedded. No other suspects have been named at this hour. The men both in their late 20s. While we dont know what led to the shooting officials here tell me no one this should be common knowledge, should be per City Ordinance they can be cited for being here after dark. The latest from here proves it. Wrapping things up and piecing together what led to the two being shot. No other suspects named. They are both alive, being treated and recovering. When we learn more well bring it to you on air and online. Live in st. Pete, james tully, abc action news. Just in some sadness to pass founder and pastor of st. Lawrence catholic parish for 49 years has died this morning. He died in his home, he was 87 years old. Abc action news is sending a crew and well bring you latest on the now tampa bay at 4 00. 9 05. Warm and humid, not as hot this afternoon. We have temperatures now in the lower 80s. We should be about 90, 91 for i dont think were going to see that today. More cloud cover and northeast wind will continue to bring showers and storms. Notice over my shoulder already firing along 95. That is that northeast wind that is going to continue to allow for the showers and storms to develop and propagate towards the west so they arrive on the beaches later on this evening. So typical summer pattern setting up with hot and humid conditions, p. M. Storms and of course the tropics. Less than two hours away from Hurricane Hunters departing to investigate that tropical w temperatures today in the lower 90s. 10 00, 84 and storms. Pretty good shape and nothing unusual. Lets check the morning commute. It was a busy morning. A couple crashes but maybe just a lot of volume on the roads. And we still have slowdowns here through ybor city on i4 as you head into tampa. Still taking about 20 minutes to make the drive from 75 to again no crashes there. Just a lot of heavy volume. Checking on the average speed, looking for the slow spot, veterans expressway is winning this contest, 26 the average speed there. 38 on 275 from fletcher to i4, and 70 the average speed on i 75 from bruce b downs to i4. Back to you. We want to go back to Pinellas County now. Overnight fire forced people out of their homes. Investigators are trying to figure out what started this fire at the station sqre street in clearwater. You can see the fire there. It started in the 12th floor unit on the on the 12th floor. A viewer also shared cell phone video as the flames were still burning before 11 30 last night. Firefighters got there and not the flames out in minutes and crews say nobody was hurt. People said at first they thought it was a drill and then saw the flames. It kind of looked like a bonfire except the sticks and like the balcony, a flower pot or two flower pots actually. After nearly two hours they were all allowed to go home. Firefighters are still investigating. We have an update on the massive Apartment Fire in maryland earlier this month. Overnight Police Identified the two children killed in the explosion. Officials say an 8yearold and 3yearold both boys are among the seven people killed. The explosion at the Flower Branch apartments shook homes more than a mile away. Some people rert natural gas before the explosion. Officials also had been called to the building on july 25th by residents who reported smelling gas. New information now, the father of the south florida man who allegedly bit a mans face after killing him and his wife says his sons organs are failing. Dr. Haroff says his sons liver is failing possible due to chemical poisoning. Chemicals in the garage of john and michelle stevens. There are more tests being done if he was under the influence of other drugs. Back in florida Pinellas County investigators are trying to figure out how this car ended up in a retention pond. Overnight detectives said they believed that car was stolen. Neighbors say they heard a loud crash 4 30 in the afternoon in tarpon springs. They came out an saw the back of the red car slowly sinking. One woman said she saw a young woman standing near the car with the minutes before it went into the water. Tarpon springs firefighters jumped into the water, got through the top of the sun roof to look for anybody inside. They say the car was empty. One neighbor said he considered to jump into the water himself when it first happened. I was thinking if i seen somebody i would go in and see if i could help them but if i didnt see anybody i wasnt going in there because the gators in there are five, six feet long. Deputies say the car doesnt belong to anyone who lives in the community. They did get in touch with the information comes out. To the latest on the spread of the zika virus. Yesterday the Florida Department of health announcing its investigating five new locally transmitted cases in florida. These are people who got it by a mosquito bite here in florida. And includes one in Pinellas County. Officials have documented exactly location of where the transmission occurred. Today rick scott will be in taa county leaders. Bob buckhorn is warning that the city cant wait any longer to take action against the spread of the zika virus. Wheres the clothes . Caught with her pants down literally. Still to come an officer pulls over a halfnaked woman but you wont believe what happened to the friend that came to pick her up from the Police Station. Plus, a cake controversy at california bakery. Why one of the cake designs is reactions on social media. Two bombings at a hotel in Southern Thailand killed one hotel employee, injured 29 others. That area of the country is increasingly the scene of attacks by islamic insurgents. Both bombs were planted inside cars. The first one exploded in the Hotel Parking lot. The second one 20 minutes later in overnight turkey launched a major operation to clear islamic militants out of a syrian town just out of its border. Its in a strategic location that lies at the western bank of the Euphrates River that crosses into syria. Turkey hopes freeing the town will allow aid workers to return and lessen the number of 9 13. An unusual fight caught on camera inside an oregon starbucks. You see a man wearing only his underwear tries to leave the starbucks but then is confronted by another man, thrown to the ground. They wrestle each other on the ground, customers in the starbucks say they quickly found places to hide fearing that situation would escalate and put them in danger. I was gunning for the bathroom. I was not sure what was going on. For all i know i could have been a crazy manac. A third man in the starbucks breaks up the fight and investigators still trying to figure out what the two men were fighting about but both were taken away by police in handcuffs. New this morning, police in michigan pulled over a woman for drunk driving only to find she was not wearing any pants. Officers are used to responding to unusual calls but this one left the officer a little baffled. Where are your clothes . Where is her pants . Right here. Why are your pants down pants were on the floor of the car. When asked how much she drank the woman responded too much, just take me to jail already. They did. It gets even stranger. When the woman called her friend for a ride home from the Police Station her friend also got arrested for dui and guess what . She was not wearing are you wearing any clothes under the shirt . Also pantless. The moral of the story, friends dont let friends dre and half naked. A mess after a taxi drives up on a busy sidewalk in san francisco. This horrific crash happened yesterday at a popular news stand in shoeshine station. Two men working were taken to the hospital with life threatening injuries. The driver of the taxi also hospitalized. Police are now trying to figure out why the driver lost control and ended up on the sidewalk. From rio to knocko the olympic flag is already in the the tokyo governor brought it back by plane yesterday after receiving it from the closing ceremonies sunday in rio. Preparations are already underway in tokyo. Construction on the main stadium should start the end of this year. Tokyo last hosted the olympics in 1964. An update on your 7day forecast. A lot of folks asking about the tropics. Well check in on conditions from yesterday to today. Quite a difference i think as far as the coming in from honeymoon island. Gorgeous shot. How romantic is that . Very nice. Indeed. That was after the storms by the way. We had nasty ones, really most of us stayed dry but the ones that fired up, we talked about this yesterday, holding on until after sunset and then they really get going. Upwards of 50, 60 Miles Per Hour wind gusts. Long gone but the pattern is already doing that in fact and then continue to move to the beaches by later this evening. Similar pattern to yesterday and the next few days really not much difference as we look at futurecast. Plan your afternoon and evening, by 2 00, 3 00, already seeing isolated storms across the inland sections, then everything heads to the gulf. Then well repeat as we head through tomorrow, once again. Heres the tropical wave, gaston is not going to bother low pressure is bringing very heavy rainfall to the islands. Hurricane hunters are going to investigate this system at 11 00 so well have a better idea of whether or not we have a tropical depression. In fact the visible satellite, sometimes you can pick out the low level center but i dont see anything. In fact under the canopy of thunderstorms we could have a depression under there. That is why the plane has to fly in and let us know that. That would of course make it buckets there. In fact some pockets of 3 to 5 inch totals. Steering currents, area i High Pressure to the north. Not going to curve out to sea, its going to sneak in under this high. This is like a cog, it cant really go north so it will head west. The question is how will it arrive when it gets to the bahamas this weekend . Will it be a Tropical Storm . A big rain event . Or some wind. Leaning towards the wind, look at the conditions, 58 to eventually temperature. That is conducive for not Just Development but you can go to very explosive development. This has to be watched very closely especially for south florida. The wind shear is another factor. Its very low. The forecast hasnt changed that much. It continues to hang to the north and west. What it doesnt show you, the intensity were looking at. That is still to be determined. In fact ive put both you and the gfs the european and morning. Put this in motion and you can see they are in pretty good agreement saturday into the midday hours. Still good agreement. Then sunday through the overnight of saturday and look at the euro there making landfall in south florida. The gfs stays behind and we continue with the clock, by the time we get to sunday night its already west of florida. And the gfs has it east of florida so huge differences here. This is just the position, theres huge differences as well in the intensity with the euro being th two so a lot to work through. The Hurricane Hunters help because they get that data. We punch that into the computer models and they tend to eventually come together here. 92 today. 95 or 98 the heat index this afternoon. Well continue with rain chances around 40 and again well watch the weekend depending on the tropics. 9 19. Unexpected check showing up in the mail. Hard to know what to keep and what to toss in the trash. John matarese shows us what to action settlement or scam that could cost you hundreds of dollars. Reporter these days there are so many Class Action Settlements that could bring you money such as money back from overpriced tuna fish, moldy washing machines and lots of other products. But how do you know if offers of free money are real or if you could be falling for a scam . Now everyone with a brain knows a check in the mail from an african prince wanting to share his fortune with you is but todays scammers are more sophisticated. Is this check real . Or bogus . The Consumer Federation of america says watch for these signs in un an unexpected check is phony. Only a partial payment. You have to send money to get the rest. Requires to you wire funds by Western Union or the company name on the check and company name on the envelope are different. Signs of a real check . Its a settlement from a class action suit. For less than 100. From the doesnt is that stink file fake checks that fool even savvy people. The Consumer Federation says beware of checks and letters showing legitimate logos. They often claim youve been chosen to be a mystery shopper and are all fake. Fall for it . And youll say doesnt that stink . No one will send you money in advance to do mystery shopping. Bottom line, if a check shows up unannounced in your mailbox make sure there are no Strings Attached if you cash it. Sometimes cashing a check means you go dont want, so you dont waste your money. Im john matarese. Abc action news. First i was shocked. Then i was surprised and then i thought well, you cant make everyone happy. A playful cake creation quickly turns into a heated debate. Why a bakery never imagined the sweet treat will uncover so many layers of controversy. Good morning. Im Lissette Campos with your positively tampa bay. Working women state conference, its happening here in the tampa bay area. 9 24. A california bakery is responding to major online backlash after they made this cake that you see here. That was a ken doll wearing a pink dress. The cake was a special request and was happy to make it now pictures posted online of that cake stirred up a real life lgbtq he debate. They start with the but the egg milk. Reporter at the kitchen carefully crafted cakes and desserts are made everyday. Except a special birthday request came with a problem on social media. I comments. The comments turned critical based on the post by a bakery owner. She said some people took the playful image and turned it into a real life lgbt debate. At first i was shocked. Then i was surprised and then i thought well, you cant make evan happy. Reporter the person who bought the cake who asked not to be on camera said it was for her friend. Never imagining a Sweet Surprise would turn sour. Pick on a cake. Reporter today Ashley Nelson came to pick a cake of her own and added another layer to the conversation. I feel like people should be free to be who they are and without having to worry about what other people think, and like i think its awesome. Reporter she says the controversy now is generating a nationwide response with some customers even stopping by to applaud the bakery. Im really grateful that people have supported us, and come out and colors. So to speak. The bakery owner says she did lose some followers on facebook due to the controversy but she says overall the response has been positive. She gained some followers as breaking now the death toll in italy continues to climb after that powerful earthquake leveled several remote towns. Were going to take to you the impact zone still ahead. Republican president ial nominee donald trump set to speak this afternoon in tampa. Passionate supporters gathering early here at the fairgrounds to make sure they get in. Ahead in a live report why they say trump is the right person to lead the country. Good morning. Thank you for joining us for abc action news at 9 30. Im dan shaffer. The latest on the devastating earthquake in central italy in a second. Lindsay logue with new developments. First with the forecast. Afternoon thunderstorms, a lot of sunshine, temperatures now in the low 80s. Already feels like 90s in spots. Just dont think well be 110 like we were yesterday although already getting up there with the low to mid90s, with the feelslike by the time we get to 4 00, showers and storms. Along 95, Brevard County getting in on that, t