Its 4 00, time for the now tampa bay. Here we go off and running on a thursday. First to the child protective investigator arrested for allegedly falsifying records. This as the department is facing tremendous workload and down an investigator. Eric waxler joins us live from the pasco Sheriffs Office. Eric, this case is where a baby was born addicted to drugs. Wonder could it have been prevented if the investigator did her job. Instead this woman, christie microby was fired and arrested. She was involved in the case of a father and pregnant wife suspected of using drugs. Instead of testing them, she skipped the test and said they were clean and falsified the records. Baby addict to hydrocodone. She said the reason she did it is she wanted to close the case quickly. Thats absolutely unacceptable. The sheriff did acknowledge the cpi unit is about 15 investigators short right now and overworked with cases. But thats no excuse to break the law. Those children are still in their parents custody. And the Sheriffs Office is looking into other cases that she handled to see if she has waxler for the now tampa bay. Meanwhile u. S. Surgeon generals taking action to stop the open at especially opeoi d addiction. A picture a High School Student sent to friends is jokes that are not appropriate. You see it here. If one more person makes fun of how i talk again and it has the picturbackpack. Thats what you see. Some other kids saw it too and got worried and told adults about it. The Sheriffs Office talked to the girl who made it and said she really meant it more as a joke. She is not being charged. She says she was not bullied. It had happened two months later, she could have charged under a new la we need to show you something. Look at this in pauls hand. Our nicole grigg picked up 30 tacks on a popular bike trail. Paul, this is right alg the pinellas bay way ridge. Nicoles story is resulting in action. The Florida Department of transportation went out and cleaned them off of the road and now theyre looking into who put these there. Pete beach, theres a hazard so small. Its kind of stupid. Reporter that you have to have just the right light to see what it is. Lets say someone isoiong d his bike everywhere. How would you feel if i threw giant nails and it gets in your tire. Five, six. Reporter so many tacks i just didnt feel safe leaving them. But there were just to 28, 29, 30. Okay. Reporter inside lennys surf and cycle shop just down the way havent seen any of these come in yet, any of our repairs. Thats going to be a big problem. Reporter for the bikers out there. Its going to be a whole lot worse. Reporter the st. Petersburgs Police Department says they have no reports of tacks in the bike lane. They say this could be hard to look, theyre so hard to s, i went ahead and circled them for you. Now, the Florida Department of transportation is in charge of the bridge and they think the shiny tiny tacks were left there on purpose. Reporting for the now, im nicole grigg. Here is the crazy part. This has happened before in 2014 when somebody was putting tacks along the fdot also got the same report along the causeway this april. Call your state or county officials in chargrtofular road this. Outside from our clds in the sky. It doesnt look too bad out there, shay. Just a little cloud cover. This could change if the tropical wave cos our way. Yeah. That wont be until eane again, theres a lot of uncertainty about the path and the intensity of the storm. Name yet. Take a look across tampa bay. We are nice and dry. Clouds are building and showers trying to work their way inland. Not a lot of that is holding together. So we are relatively dry. So lets talk tropics. All right. Here is our storm system that were keepg on. At th point, pretty disorganized as it is getting torn apart a bit as it is moving generally Dominican Republic and into haiti. The chance of it becoming an organized storm has come down to 70 from 80 earlier today. It wont be as strong if it does develop. But it will likely develop into a numbered or named system before this is said and done. By sunday night, it is approaching south florida. And thats what the spaghetti agreement of. And then after that, you can see how the Spaghetti Models really spread out. Anything from going into the western gulf in the direction of mexico, all the way up staying on the east coast of florida. At this point in time, theres a pretty large cone of uncertainty in the latter part of the storm system which means for early next week. Ive got more on some of the more reliable models, where they are showing the storm is headed and what that could mean for rainfall totals in our area if this storm does impact us. I will have more also, you know, just over the next couple of days, we will have our typical summertime pattern. I will help you time out the bee to take a dip in the pool to beat the heat. Thats coming up in my next forecast. Thank you, shay. Breaking today, two well known florida attorneys will never be able to practice in the state because of a court ruling. In fact, when yogoogle their law firm, it says permanently have been permanently disbarred for their roles in a defamation trial involving bubba the love sponge. Earlier this year the Court Granted the attorneys request to be permanently disbarred. The other two said they should not be permanently disbarred but the court ruled permanent disbarment. Thats effective immediately. We have breaking news we want to update you on out of the persian gulf today. The u. S. Navy has fired warning shots at an iranian boat. The vessel was harassing the navy ship. This is video of the just posted on youtube today. At one point iranian boat came within 200 yards of the navy vessel. This is the latest in an all too close for comfort december. Iran has been flexing its muscle ever since. Hillary clinton is campaigning in nevada. She was speaking in reno. Big news on clinton, we are expecting another email dump by wiki leaks. The owner will relre damaging emails from inside the clinton camp. He wants to stop Hillary Clinton from becoming president. Dona showing up on a ballot in one state. And we will tell you about the new problem theyre running into ahead of the first president ial debate. Also breaking right now, authorities in mississippi say two catholic nuns were found murdered north of jackson. A terrible story here. As we learn more, we pass along the updates to you. Youre watching the now tampa welcome back, everyone. We have an update on the sky after public and political backlash, the maker of that lifesaving allergy medication now says it will offer a discount. The cost for a twopack of pens jumped from 100 in 2009 to now 600 today. They can mean the difference betweeli and death for anyone who suffers from severe allergic reactions. Today nylan announced it will offer savings card worth 300 to people paying themselves. It will also expand who is eligible for Financial Assistance and also create a way for people to cut costs by buying directly from the company. Okay. I want you to see something. What youre looking at here is just some of the largest collection yet of brain scans in fetuses and newborns with the zika virus. The research was just published in the journal it looks into brain norms in a with microcephaly. Really tough for nonmedical professionals like me and you hard to tell. But this shows an abnormally small ad. Huffington post published an article about this today and says scans are important during pregnancy because a fetus that seems normal early in pregnancy may show zika later in scans. This is seriously. I understand why people are concerned. But there are things that you can do. You want to make sure that youre using mosquito repellent so youre not getting bit. Youre trying to get rid of freestanding water around your property and make sure that your screens are in tact. The doctor says if you do all ofhose things, it will reduce the chance thats you will get zika. He points out there are big Unanswered Questions about zika right now. Women in pregnancy versus later on and how long does zika stay in the system. The people who choose a moderator for the president ial debates are having trouble to figure out who will do it. Ey dont the moderator to become part of the story that happened between donald trump and megyn kelly. The commission is also worried that trump would ll out a moderator if he perceives Hillary Clinton has been a public figure for some 30 years. Its the whole journalistic integrity thing. In minnesota, some gop circles are worried about this. Trump and pences names werent on the minnesota secretary of their community indications director says they were waiting for a pledge from one of the alternate electors. One the filing is complete, the republican ticket should be listed shortly. We checked and wanted to see if their names were up at this point. We found trump and pences names there today. Circled in red. And as you see, we checked and circled in red, they are all on there. Ey are there in alphabetical order. New polls suggest Hillary Clinton continues to lead donald trump among likely voters across america. Take a look. A new reuters poll shows she has a 12 point lead over trump. On average, the average of the nation polls by real clear politics, that shows the gap between the candidates is smaller. Clinton leads trump 47 to 42 . Pushing to get support from minority voters. His much quoted question yesterday, what have you got to lose. A poll suggesting that his message is not getting through. 8 of africanamerican voters support trump. 87 support clinton. And among asian vors, 23 for trump, 66 for clinton. Av he b about the concerns of nfl players getting cet now a new study out today shows changing how kids practice football could be the answer to protecting they are heads at a young age. Researchers found that concussions are more likely to happen in practice than games for young kids. The problem is tackling drills. Teams should cut back on those drills or get rid of them altogether. Everybody made it out okay. Just scared. Firsthand look at the tornado damain indiana that hit yesterday. Eight tornadoes hit down in the state. Dozens were reported like this one here. The governor stopped by what was left of a starbucks flattened by storm. There it is. Cell phone video shot from a video across the street captured this to the moment that the strong winds toppled the building. We want to give you a live look over some of the damaged area. This is a live aerial view. The National Weather service says saw was an ef3. 165 Miles Per Hour winds that caused this mess. Thankfully no one was killed. No one was badly hurt. Its not just indiana. That same system hitting right across the border in canada. Look at this. Video capturing one tornado. It caused trees to topple over. It blew a trampoline into a tree. It damaged homes and downed power lines. Neighbors say they had to huddle in their garages just to wait and hope that that storm u yeah. Damage elsewhere in the country. Were watching this tropical wave headed for florida. And we have high temps locally. Yeah. It is hot out there. We havent had many storms to cool us down. The heat is definitely on. 93 in tampa right now. 49 in brandon 94 in brandon. The temperature is down to 88 degrees in many sebring down to as a result of a few showers. The main sail on anna marie island showing cloud thats have been building but not really seeing any rainfall out of there. You see people parked on the sand. Looking pretty decent. As you can see here on a wider look, we still have the northeasterly to southwesterly flow. And the majority of the showers and storms that have developed from been from polk county to hardee and is desoto, trying to their way to the manatee coastline. Not doing a good job of it. For the rest of tonight, theres a slight chance that you could encounter a shower or storm. But the models are not showing much rain for tonight. A few of the typical storms. Then we will be dry overnight. Once again tomorrow morning, youre waking up to nice dry conditions. Get the kids off to the bus stop or off to School Without having to worry about getting st orms wont develop until about noon inland. You have until about 2 00 or 3 00 closer to the coastline before you have shower or storm. You have a pretty good day with a lot of good hours to take a dip in the pool to beat the heat tomorrow or get the yard work done if you need to. Now is a great time to get the yard w. You know, this tropical wave is a good reminder that we are in the midst of hurricane season. With the chance for showers or for heavy rain and maybe even wind coming our way, its trmed out in your backyard. This rain affects the tampa bay area coming up in my next forecast. Go look at your microwave and then try to remember where and when you bought it. We have a recall that you need to know about. And the problem something that you will definitely want right now, whirlpool is recalling about 15,000 microwaves. A plastic component could catch fire. There have been five reported incidents. They were sold and used by Home Builders between january of 2014 to april of 2016. The serial tag number is on the you will find it. I have tweeted out the link. Find me ashleyg tv. Today on the now, were taking a look at the real cost of bringing a dog into your family. Tomorrow after all is national dog day, a day designed to help dogs get adopted. Thats caden, our producers adopted dog. Ashley, this is a personal question for me. My son says i owe him a dog. How much is it going to cost me . Lets see if i can help his dog and break down the numbers. The first year can cost about 1,300 to almost 1,800. Thats in the first year. It all depends on the breed. At includes spaying, neutering, medical fees, crate, toys and more. Annually lets talk about that. After that first year, youre looking to spend about 580 to 875 can depending on the size to henry deuce some of the costs, if you get a shelter or rescue group, a lot of those that we talked about are covered in the adoption fee. Aspca says get regular checkups because its less expensive to prevent an illness or catch it early. , usthe teeth. Dental disease leads to other problein the dog. Protect your dog from fleas and ticks as well. And consider pet health insurance. Paul, what does an adoption run . Youre looking at the numbers. Son a dog. Im under the g. More cute dogs to look at. These are local dogs. Take a look at this. This is a pet pal Animal Shelter in st. Petersburg. Fees range in prices. We have all kinds of dogs up for adoption. There is bonnie, bubbles. Who could resist bubbles. Look at that smile. Fees are about 200, they include spaying, neutering and micro chipping. Over to the Humane Society of there, pets and families, the fees also rangpuppies under foud spaying, neutering, deworming and the allimportant vaccines. Forecasters can now monitor almost eryiver and stream in the country in almost real time. How could this mean fast warnings when the water near you starts rising. Todd is plus the unusual explanation that a man for vandalizing a local purple heart monument. Havertys furniture helps your home look perfect even when life isnt. Pretty hey. Umm. Sign here . Sure, you got a pen . I do thanks sweetie. Y sale is on now at havertys. Life looks good. Purple heart recipients has been vandalized. Thman who did it is behind bars saying what he did is art. We talked to veterans today who is calling this something else. Reporter walk by this purple heart memorial downtown and you will hear this silence. What that is is kind of a healing place. Reportese ine area where vetera c connect with others who understand where they have been and what they might be going through. There are things that i dont want she never will. Reporter but this place of healing has its own healing to do. It was extreme disappointment for me. Reporter the monument spray painted. The old courthalso vaalized wednesday morning. We worked so hard and long to have this ment created. Reporter the man responsible, mcclean, who has served in the military was drunk. To take something that is truly about veterans and their families who have given there is absolutely no reason whatsoever that would ever be justified. Reporter alan hunt headed up the local chapter of the purple heart named in honor of aaron weaver. His brother ryan, who is also a post about the vandalism saying, quote, i was initially furious to see spray paint next to my brothers name. But i ask that everyone keep a kind heart. When these things are damaged, it affects manyof reporter there are roughly 21,000 veterans in citrus county. The county has designated parking spots all at government spots for method wounded in combat. They were designated a purple heart county in the past year. Which is why it took less than 12 hours for someone to restore the monument. Im grateful. Reporter jacqueline ingles, abc action news news. Take a look at this. With more aftershocks mber of p reaches at least according to the latest reports. An estimated 400 people are in the hospital. On a more positive note here, right now were hearing of an inspiring rescue story of an 8 yearold girl. We first told you about this right here on the now. Look at this. You can see emergency crews pulling her to safety. A bystander cheering beau girl in italian. She survived being trapped more and this is one of the more haunting imag that earthquake. The 13th century clock tower in the town literally frozen in town, 3 36, the very moment that the earthquake struck as people were eeping, unawar of wt was about to happen to them. Police are trying to figure out who is behind an attack at the American University in kabul, afghanistan. 13 people confirmed dead. Gunmen started shooting and detonating explosives. Police killed two of the suspects. A third blew himself up with a car bomb. No one has claimed responsility for the at. The state Department Says that no americans were killed. We want to go to shay now. I started asking her questions already at 10 00 this morning what this tropical wave means for us in florida. There is shay. Yeah. What are we expecting next week, shay . The questions keep coming in. As were asking a lot of questions as meteorologists as well. Ed models have been a little more consistent. Theyre not really nailing it down. So here is a potential path. Were looking at it approaching south florida by sunday night. And the latest path has it coming right up the we