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Transcripts For WFTS Action News At 9AM 20161024

First at 9 00, democracy 2016. Ballots are being cast. Early voting has started in most bay area counties. James tully joins us at a polling sight in Hillsborough County. What kind of turnout are you seeing . Remember. Anyone registered to vote can vote early. We are here at the jimmy b. Keel library. This is where the supervisor of Elections Office told us would be one of the busier sites. Since 7 00 a. M. We have seen a steady stream of voters in and out. We havent done a head count but its steady. No secret that both president ial candidates have been suffering from low Favorability Ratings the last 12 months. While we wait to see how the early voting turnout compares to the last election, christian leaders are concerned. Its estimated 25 million same could happen this year. Almost everyone we spoke with this morning thinks turnout will be high with good reason. I cant think of an election in the recent past that i have been more concerned about in making sure my involve is cast and getting it out and making sure that you have your say. Reporter all but three bay area counties are voting early today. The exceptions are highlands and pass hardee, highlands and pasco county. To find the information and the times and polling locations, go to www. Abcactionnews. Com democrac y 2016. James tully, abc action news. Happening now, senator marco rubio is kicking off early voting in Hillsborough County. You are looking live at the Cypress Creek golf club near patrick murphy. He attended a hispanic festival in Central Florida and talked about innesting in education and improving investigating in education and improving health care. Rubio leads murphy by two points. Donald trump is in the middle of a threeday Campaign Swing through florida. He is holding rallies in st. Augustine then in tampa tonight. At 9 30, we will tell you about his visit and how he hopes to win voters. John bone jovi is bon jovi is coming to tampa in support of Hillary Clinton. It will occur three days before election day. We dont have any information on a time, location or how you can get tickets for the concert. Hillary clinton will be in broward county. Yesterday bill Clinton Campaigned for her at Pembroke Pines urging people to get out and vote. This is about choosing choosing empowerment over resentment, choosing cooperation over endless conflict. In the end, its about approaching our neighbors within our communities and our country and beyond the world with bridges, not walls. Hillary clintons running mate tim kaine will continue a swing through florida with events in miami and west palm beach. Tim kaine is focusing on florida. He is holding rallies in miami and palm beach. He told a crowd in clinton could work on building strong ties with puerto rico. Tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans have moved to Central Florida and the Clinton Campaign concentrated on getting their support. They are serious about fighting the zika virus and the financial problems facing puerto rico. A deadly plane crash at an airport in malta is caught on camera. It happened during take off killing all five people on board. The dash cam you see shows the actual impact. We will fast forward to the aftermath of the crash. Witnesses say the aircraft tipped to the right then crashed into the ground after lifting off then burst into flames. A part of the burning wreckage ended up on a road outside of the airport. It was heading to libyas coast to monitor migrant trafficking routes for the french government. We are off to a cool start to the day. Check out the temperatures in Citrus County where we started with the sunshine, Crystal River is up to 51. Lecanto 53. Inverness 58. Around Hillsborough County, things are warming up. Temperatures near 60 degrees. We are up to 64 in tampa. 61 in brandon. Lutz at 59. Now, as we move through the afternoon with that sunshine, we will warm up quickly. We started to see that happening. We are going to be at 81 as a high today. Lots of sunshine. Worry about any rainfall getting in your way today. That includes wherever you might be driving around. Janelle, how is it looking now. We had ups and downs. We started off with serious crashes overnight. We have one serious crash causing problems in hillsborough. The northbound lanes of 50th street under the selmon expressway is closed. This is a serious crash. Overturned vehicle involved. No word when they will reopen the lanes. In the meantime, use 301 or 22nd street to here we are at i75 and the Leeroy Selmon expressway. Traffic is flowing nicely. Hopping on the selmon, seven minutes into downtown. Back to you guys. Thank you, janelle. We want to get back to the crash that janelle was talking about on the selmon expressway in brandon. We are trying to get information about the crash. It happened this morning. Authorities closed the northbound lanes on the upper deck of the expressway and part of the interchange to i75 but accident. Tampa police are investigating a fatal crash that shut down half the gandy bridge late last night. That accident happened in the eastbound lanes involving a motorcycle and another vehicle. The eastbound lanes were shut down until 3 30 this morning. For the first time we have a description of a car that killed a woman in sarasota last week. The florida Highway Patrol believes its a light colored pt cruiser with a sun roof. It may have damage to the side. She was walking near her home when she was hit and killed. The driver did not stop. If you have any information on the case, contact crimestoppers or the florida Highway Patrol. A developing and tragic story. We are tracking new information in one of californias deadliest wrecks. 13 people were killed and 31 hurted when a tour bus returning to los angeles from a casino trip slammed into the back of a semi early yesterday. At the time a road crew slowed down traffic on the highway. Authorities say the bus was causing it to plow about 15 feet into the trailer. California Highway Patrol says the bus was inspected in april and had no mechanical issues. Its not known if alcohol, drugs or take phage may have played a roll in the crash fatigue may have played a role in the crash. Rodney dunigan is live. The Hillsborough Classroom Teacher Association to address concerns today. Reporter thats right, deiah. They have a meeting set for this evening. Many parents watching this morning may be concerned after hearing about the district superintendent says despite any potential cuts, education will not be affected. The Hillsborough County School District is looking for ways to save more than 100 million this year. A recently hired outside consultant recommending a hiring freeze which could save superintendent jeff akins maintains any move being made is to put students first. Inside every classroom we have to ensure that we have our best teachers in front of our students. As we right size the organization, we have to honor that deal. Economy continues released the message on youtube in hopes of reassuring the public that education wont be affected by looming cuts. Many administrators say some those already employed by the district. We have to make sure that the very best people are in front of our students every single day. Then we have to take a look at all the other employees. Reporter the district has cut dozens of secretarial jobs with plans to cut back on busing for students. Some Hillsborough County teteachers fear their jobs are hanging in the balance as well. Todays Teacher Association it will focus on the teachers most affected and those that could possibly be out of a job. We will follow that meeting. You can keep up to date and online at www. Abcactionnews. Com. Reporting live in tampa, rodney dunigan, abc action news. Thank you, rodney. A scary scene in south florida. A car crashed into a Miami Gardens church right in the middle of service. The wreck sent debris flying and injured eight people. The driver swerved to avoid another car then lost control. The se of mount zion ame church. We heard allowed noise. I thought it was a bomb. Everybody was going out of the church. The accident left pieces of concrete scattered on the floor and in pews. One of the victims appears to have suffered a head injury. Coming up, iphone 7 owners are reporting glitches with the devices. What they say is going wrong two bodies and two officers shot at. Now the search is on to find the person connected to the happening in oklahoma, a manhunt is underway after two people were found dead and two officers wounded. Authorities are searching for this man, michael vans. They say he opened fire on officers. When they responded to reports was seriously hurt and returned fire. Vans was shot twice before fleeing. Authorities are looking for him and found two people dead who they say are the suspects relatives. He stole a patrol car and later ditched it and carjacked a woman. He was recently released from jail. A suspect drunk driver from new mexico crashed into a rescue helicopter. Of rescuing a crash victim. Pop was hurt. Tom hayden was died. His wife says he died in california after a long illness. He was also known for his marriage to actress jane fonda and trips to North Vietnam during the vietnam war. He served in the California State Assembly and only member of the radical 8 to achieve such distct mainstream political world. He was 76. A tense scene in france inside the refugee camp known as the jungle. Authorities started evicting migrants, seek asylum in france or go back to their country of origin. The first of hundreds of buses came to transport them to centers around france to apply for asylum. Many of the migrants are clashes between migrants and police broke out over the weekend. A number of places were destroyed by fire. Iraqi special forces are continuing to retake the city of mosul. Earlier today they shelled isis positions near the city. Human rights watch is requesting that there be a probe into a suspected air strike last week that killed 13 during the iraqi governments battle to retake mosul. The explosion apparently struck the womens section mosque. Do you have a new iphone 7 . You should know about glitches that owners are reporting. John matarese shows us the reporter issues and issues and when they might get fixed so you dont waste your money. Reporter an iphone mystery. Why are so many people with iphone 7s reporting glitches from increased data use to dropped calls. Some are blaming apple, some blame the carriers and others the users for the way they set antenna gate with the new iphone 7 but many users report some things they dont love. I like it so far. The home button is different. It doesnt go down like it did. I heard that sometimes they make a hissing noise depending on what apps you download. Reporter tech blogs report phones stuck in Airplane Mode and buddiesable volume controls. Consumer reports put the iphone 7 to the test. They say it has no major flaws, they say some of the improvements may not be as good as claimed. Consumer reports for instance says the new lightning another bud jack does ear bud jack does not result in better sound. Some verizon customers complain of dropped calls. I will use it and all of a sudden no service. Reporter he would be in the middle of a phone call when about a 30 seconds, 45 seconds it would come back up. Reporter he said the old iphone 6 never had the issue, even driving on the same roads. Reporter tech blogs report hundreds of complaints. Apple and verizon are not commenting, apple is working on a software fix. If you have iphone issues, reboot then check your settings. If not of that works, check with your car so you dont waste your money. The ultimate fireworks display. A Japanese Company is working on a way to create manmade meteor showers. The plan is to send a satellite into space that carries hundreds of pellets. When its in the right spot it will be told to shoot the pellets back to earth sending them into the atmosphere creating a fake meteor shower. They plan to launch the first that is cool. The skies were clear. Im assuming that the pellets burn up. Absolutely. Yeah. Otherwise it makes me nervous. Exactly. Im skeptical. Take a look at the clearwater hyatt beach camera. The marina, its gorgeous out there. Blue skies and sunshine. Our temperatures, yes, started off nice and cool this morning. Its a beautiful start to the day. Per hour. Just a light breeze, nothing that will cause any problems today. The temperature in tampa is now at 64 degrees. Clearwater 67. St. Pete 68. Here is our northeast flow bringing in the cooler, drier air. And High Pressure is in control. So that means lots of sunshine. That will lead to a gradual warm up the next couple of days without any rain or big fronts coming through, we will see to remain on the low side. All in favor of great weather to head to the beach or go out for a bike ride or a jog in the morning or afternoon because it wont be oppressively humid until later in the week. 80 will be the high at clearwater beach. The water temperature is up to 75. Lots of sunshine. Really looking like a great day. Over the next few days, the overnight temperatures as well as the afternoon temperatures aron the cool side with temperatures near 50 degrees in the northern counties. Then as we get to the middle of the week, the overnight temperatures are in the upper 60s and 85 is the high on thursday with increased humidity again, it will feel hot and steamy in the afternoon. That continues into the weekend because, again, we dont have any big fronts to bring in another push of dry or cooler week. Looking good with rain unlikely. This is good news as we head into halloween on monday. Not looking at high chances for rain on that day as well. I will have more on that in a phone call. See you later. Its not something anybody expected. This guy, a teenager, wakes up from a coma speaking a take a look at this picture. It captures what words cant say. This mom being able to hold her son jayden for the first time in his life. Head after a lengthy and dangerous surgery to separate them Nicole Mcdonald cradled jayden at a new york hospital. The surgery took 27 hours. Jaydens breathing tube was just removed. His twin is progressing slower. Nicole held jayden in her arms for two hours. She wrote on facebook, quote, for over 13 months i dreamed of this moment. I look down at his face and saw him in a way that i have never seen him before. The highest peak has died. She was 77 when she died. She reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1975 at the age of 35. She died on thursday at a hospital outside of tokyo. Local media say she was diagnosed with cancer four years ago. Her last climb was japans mount funnel i didnt with a atlanta. A teen nearly killed woke up from a cuomo speaking spanish, a language he never spoke before. He was playing soccer and he was goalie. Another player kicked him in the head. He stopped breathing and was airlifted to the hospital where he spent several days in a cuomo. When he comma. When he woke comb spanish. Sometimes i feel like im not there. He told the local media he had Spanish Speaking friends that exposed him to the language and that may have played a role in his language change. The Leaning Tower of San Francisco, 58 Story Building is gain notoriety in california. What will be done about the donald trump rallying his supporters here at the state fairgrounds this evening. Coming up, what new polls reveal about his chances in must win florida. I just want her to get what she deserves. A father supporting the murder charges against his who she is accused of killing and why the dad says he has no sympathy for the teen. Good morning, im dan schaffer. Im deiah riley. A look dan shaffer. Im deiah riley shay has the weather. If only this weather could have landed on halloween. We talk about the bugs, it would have been perfect. Looking beautiful. Take a look across Hillsborough County. Will it work . Oh, its messing with me. Most of the temperatures are close to 60 degrees if not a little bit above right now. And i will get that touch screen touching again soon. All right. Take a look at the afternoon. We have warm and dry conditions, 81 is the high. Mostly clear tonight. No rain in sight throughout the day today and the rain chances go up a little bit this week. I will have more in the seven day forecast. Dan and donald trump is visiting tampa tonight. He is holding a rally at the mid Florida Credit Union ampitheatre. Ryan smith has a preview. Reporter the republican president ial candidate facing an uphill battle of sorts after some National Polls releasing showing a wide gap between the republican candidate and democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Tonight trump addresses his supporters here at the Florida State fairgrounds. Lead so ferreterring a 12 percentage point advantage of likely voters over donald trump. Its the first time in this contentious race she has lead by double digits. In florida, a must win swing state. Its a tight race. Cbs news reporting its poll showing clinton leading trump by three points. He spoke to supporters yesterday in naples. Numbers are looking phenomenal in florida. Dont believe the media. Even the media they cant help it. But the numbers are better than what they are saying. If you are interested in attending, the doors open at 4 00. The event kicks off at 7 00 right here at the

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