the one thing you probably like the most about sodas and gatorade about to change. fabulousness for the weekend, it is 4:00 and this is "the now tampa bay". good afternoon i'm laura harris. >> and i'm paul lagrone, we are going to start with extra security around a tampa synagogue and preschool. >> we go to the school where a desecrated american flag was frowned -- found new property. >> it was found right on the sidewalk in front of the synagogue as you can imagine certainly unsettling news, policing the message against people of the jewish faith and more than 3000 adults and kids come here to worship, there is a preschool behind those walls open to all faiths, parents and members got this letter telling close eye, they are not sure what was written they won't release because it is part of the investigation. the senior rabbi told me the remarks blamed jews for world problems. here is what he had to say. >> we have robust security, continue to have it. we will continue to have it and that should be all of the assurance the kids are safety employees are safe. i have been talking to families whose kids go to the preschool we are working on that right now, we will have a live update at 5:00. back to. breaking news, two missing divers found dead inside of this cave, notice the eagles nest. this is video of what it looks they went into the cave yesterday but never came out, rescue divers found the men this morning at about 260 feet underwater. officers say the cave attracts divers from all over the world. struck 22 days until the election and breaking news a brand-new university poll has come in having clinton leading trump in florida by 4%.>> depending on how the third- party undecided voters go. with this we compare that to an average of the four most national polls giving clinton an eight point lead, 47% to 39%. clinton is going into third and final debate with a stronger lead if the polls are true, by the way the debate is wednesday night at the university of pence rallying voters in columbus. you can see him just leaving the stage, ohio another swing state in the poll, we did mention florida and ohio numbers. trump and clinton are both pulling in 45% of the vote in ohio. check check out the first day of early voting in georgia. hundreds of peoe voting. the election director estimates in this county alone there were more than 400 people lined up by 8:30 this morning. early voting in florida starts monday. tonight in florida the u.s. senate debate, marco rubio facing off against patrick murphy for the first time. it will be at the university of florida in orlando. mobile app or facebook page. a mixture of cheers and started walking away from amy schumer's campus store last night, nicole grigg just got back from talking to the guy who had the guts to go on stage and talent to the comedian. nicole is printed -- putting the finishing touches on the story. cooperation between democrats and republicans. in north carolina where the gop office was firebombed. nobody was inside when a bottle filled with something flammable was thrown through the window.>> it is meant to scare and intimidate people from volunteering. >> police don't have any suspects but donald trump tweeted the animals representing hillary clinton are behind this attack. clinton's campaign called the attack horrific and unacceptable. founder says someone is trying to cut him off from the internet. the now's todd walker with who might be trying to plug the wikileaks >> this tweet was sent saying its leader's internet had been cut by a state party, the group famous for leaking government documents as activated its contingency plans other than this not much is known about for this to be a government attack. this is coming right after we are hearing the buzz about us cyber attacks or the us gearing up to launch cyber capabilities around the world. it is possible. >> a cyber security expert says there is not enough information to draw conclusions his internet could have been simply cut off by his provider. th h weekend. shortly before wikileaks said there were rumors he may have died, all of this happening at the same time the cia has been asked to report a retaliatory cyber attack against russia.>> it is reasonable to say this is the new type of warfare. >> wikileaks has gone on to tweet more about the clinton for the now, i'm todd walker. let's look live outside at the boulevard bridge, it seems like things are moving fine, sunny but heating up for the start of the week. >> it is in fact tomorrow we made it to 90. we have some rain over the courtney campbell and a few showers around the area. you can see it is just these working their way across the state, the same pattern we have seen four days not a lot of coverage, but a few showers to show the contrast look at how beautiful and sunny it is at the mainsail beach on santa maria island. a mixture of conditions tonight, overall if you plan to barbecue outside tonight conditions are looking good. any showers we see are moving through quickly from east to west and temperatures will be sunset dropping to the 70 shortly after with partly cloudy skies tonight. as far as the cooler air we have been advertising, i have got a real treat for you with the weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes. this is pretty scary, the scary incident that brought a whole bunch of wildcats to florida to live forever. we will explain you are just so you know from now long if you yell out you're going to get thrown out. >> things went from funny to not so funny for some during amy schumer's show in tampa last night as she started bashing donald trump your >> the now's nicole grigg found the man who went one-on-one with amy schumer the onstage. >> it started out as request. >> who is a trump supporter put your hand up. >> amy schumer going on a political rant during her tampa show. >> she said i don't want anybody was short-lived. >> that man would be david. >> she said you, come on up. >> tell me why trump has your vote.>> because i can't trust hillary. >> after the quick answer the comedian went after him. lying like hillary. >> his answer, security. >> within the first couple seconds i realized my answers would either be twisted turned or she was going to stomp them. >> i'm not voting for trump i am voting against hillary. >> schumer did not stop there. >> >> when the booing started, >> everybody points to the people that are booing. okay, >> after you can see people appearing to leave. a firestorm on social media, people who left the show asking for a refund, others telling and then there is some who are praising her for giving trump supporters out. this sort of political shaming party leaders are taking seriously. >> it is voter intimidation. >> the utilization of tools in the toolbox to intimidate, to infuse volunteers and voters with fear. >> we can expect more scenes like this until election. for the now, i'm nicole grigg. happening now, bernie sanders at the podium right now sanders campaigning for clinton in colorado this is the first day that mail in ballots went to the state today.>> billionaires , this handful of people with hundreds of billions of dollars between them have determined that owning the economy is not good enough. states government. but we are seeing is in state after state after state, these billionaires pouring in huge amounts of money to elect senators and congressmen. >> you are listening to bernie sanders live in colorado. interesting to point out the poll we just talked about had colorado in the poll voting hillary. 35% to 47%. later, bernie sanders will be moving to arizona, clinton is getting more help their dash there. arizona traditionally a red state, sanders will headline two campaign rallies tomorrow. clinton aides believe sanders can boost turnout with young people in arizona and then on wednesday debate night, chelsea clinton headlining a rally in arizona rounding out the week first lady michelle obama expecting to campaign in that state has not voted for a democratic presidential nominee since bill clinton 20 years ago in 1996. we are waiting to find out the name of the man who pasco county deputies shot and killed last night. it started when the man was fighting with his pregnant girlfriend at a house on blue jay drive. a neighbor heard him say he had a gun, the swat team found him in the bathroom with a knife. deputies him so they shot him. look at these new faces from tampa's big cat rescue, seven arriving today including bobcats, cougars and a leopard. the facility that were at had a ton of problems and was forced to give them up serious problems. one of which, a tiger getting loose because a gate was left open it ended up biting the sanctuary director. the animals at the facility across the country. >> we love being able to provide a permanent home for the cats we know when they come here they will live with us for the rest of their lives. we are able to do that because of the strong community support. >> not only do they have to be relocated, some of them might have been neglected. crews will figure out exactly how to best take care of them. something that affects your wallet, gas prices supposed to drop in the month of october, but so far they are not first it was hurricane matthew, now problems at major refineries. in four states they are only putting out 85% of gasoline and with hurricane matthew so many people hit the gas stations we had a demand issue. this is what is going on in tampa bay gas prices have gone up over $0.08 we are now paying $2.20 per gallon. nationwide it outside, it is warm we are talking about gas prices going down in october. prices and the temperatures going down. >> take a look at this, 90 degrees right now in tampa, a perfect beach day in october. on anna maria island even the water temperature is now back up to 80 degrees. so it is hot out there, with a lot of humidity but there are changes ahead you will be really excited about. 84 in zephyrhills, 85 brooksville, 85 lake wales. so here is what is headed our way, it will take a few days but friday we have a strong cool front approaching, it will push through early saturday and behind it is cooler, drier air will settle in i am talking cooler noticeably cooler for we may get a few showers through friday evening and early saturday morning but not a ton of rain and then it is going to be cooler and less humid into the weekend, these are the high temperatures, 79 as the high on saturday. 78 on sunday with the exception of the early morning shower possible on saturday it will be nice and dry throughout the day and all through sunday with a lot of sunshine, like fall getting excited we may have to break out the boots. this is what is brewing in the tropics in the caribbean, more on that where it is going and how likely it is to develop coming up. coming up the changes coming to sodas and even gatorade's that might make them not so great welcome back, creepy, crazy and now no longer for sale, target pulling clown masks from store shelves, weeks before halloween. the decision comes after all remember in tampa bay we have had young kids arrested for making these fake threats. despite the troubling headlines all of the clown talk has boosted the sales of scary clown masks by 300%. >> chances are your favorite drink is about to change, pepsi announcing they are cutting back on sugar in their shoulders to try to reduce the calories. >> the goal is to have 100 or fewer calories of its drinks by 2025. right now 40% meet the goal. pepsi owns brands like gatorade and tropicana. coca-cola will offer low- calorie or no calorie options in every city by 2020, pepsi's pledge comes after the world health organization recommended adults drink less sugar they also want countries to add a ballot in three cities. philadelphia the first major city to have the tax starting january. >> the big question is will you still like your favorite soda when it has less sugar cracks >> i guess we will have to wait and see. every now and then i treat myself to a little pop. the results are being counted in the mock presidential election the past has predicted the winner accurately. we will take you inside the following several big stories including a battle to take a key city from ices. trains are up and running once again in new jersey after the crash. >> here's what you need to know in iraq where the battle is happening to free more than 1 million people living at the mercy of the terrorist group happening in mosul right now, the operation started with iraqi and kurdish forces leading the charge. the us giving support. a cnn crew embedded with the troops got caught in some of the gunfire, take a listen. that has to be terrifying, thankfully they made it out okay. mosul is the largest city under ices control right now. the terrorists last stronghold. the other headline, new 3 weeks after this crash that killed one person and injured more than 100 others. a conductor must now ride in the main with the engineer. they can no longer go faster than five miles per hour at the terminals. the train their crashed was going 21 miles per hour. twice the speed limit, the investigation is far from over but initial results show the train's brakes were working but for some reason it 40 seconds before crashing. north carolina is still recovering from hurricane matthew. these are pictures from the state's governor, the good news most of the rivers have crested and are now receiving, but parts of the state are under flood warnings, the number of people killed from the storm is at 25. the governor revising the number to less than what was originally reported. taking a look at our bahamas a live picture from the bahamas, port nassau the hurricane center is keeping an ion something new happening in the caribbean. shay, hopefully nothing bad nothing that will come our way. >> it has a chance of developing into a tropical system over the next five days, a 60% chance of that happening but the good news, look at the spaghetti models where it is going if it develops, back to the atlantic. it could them more rain or gusty winds or increased sees. other than that the system will not have an impact on land. if it does develop anymore than just being a batch of showers and storms. will continue to monitor this and keep you posted, at this point it does not look like it rain chances overall going down ahead of the next cold front, i will show you what that does to our temperatures in the meantime coming up. 22 days before the election in florida voters have a win today a federal judge says you cannot toss out a mail-in ballot if the signature on the ballot does not match. the judge says he wants county election offices to notify voters first if their signature doesn't match what is on file. once voters are notified they have until 5:00 pm the day before the election to re-sign their ballot. students at usf counting up the votes in a mock presidential election. >> adam winer finds out why they call it a straw poll and how predictive these polls are. >> i voted for hillary for president and marco rubio for senate. >> i am voting republican vote for jill stein because i care about the environment. >> usf holding a campuswide straw poll. >> to get a sense of what the campus is thinking. about the upcoming election. organizers don't pretend this reflects also radiant for instance charlie won the straw poll in 2014 but lost the governorship to rick scott. chris lost the strobe poll in 2006 when he won the governorship, be better when it comes to the president. barack obama won the straw poll in 2020 12. >> we are doing this to have fun. >> fun is not what most people think of this season. >> within five minutes we had people knocking down our signs.>> what is the point of this cracks we are at a university. >> they go into vote for they get to the amendments and they say i don't know anything about this. it can be a wake-up call.>> the deadline to register in florida was delayed so students could register to vote for real at the tent 20 yards away. i'm adam winer for "the now tampa bay" high school graduation rates at a record high across the country. new numbers showing more than 83% of students are graduating, that is up more than 4% states started tracking the rates the same way, president obama credits the grant program for the changes. >> some were controversial, he says that is what is helping improve some of the lowest performing schools in the country helping schools invest in preschools. more students are demographic, there are big differences among ethnicities. asian-americans they had the highest graduation rate, native americans the lowest at nearly 72%. the good news, nearly every state has a boost in graduation rates in florida about 70% of students graduating from high school, a slight increase over the last few years, but a 6% increase since the traffic started. florida residents. and the store that just told its employees, sorry you have welcome back, a lot of stores are closing on thanksgiving so employees can spend time with families. a nice idea, less people should be shopping on thanksgiving but one retailer says no way. >> macy's announcing it will open at 5:00 on thanksgiving night, one hour earlier than last year. it is not closing until 2:00 a him and th three hours later at 5:00 am for black friday. also, staples decided it will close on thanksgiving this year. disney offering some sweet deals trying to get you in the park. >> extending its 12 month past to 13 only if you buy your ticket now through january 3. there are still blackout dates so you can't just use it choose but they start at $249. here is an effective campaign sign. >> one woman running for county treasurer is getting back to the basics being blonde she says i won't steal and i know how to count. she wants to make sure people know that. the straightforward message resonating with some voters one person asking on facebook how i can you count? she responded business and years in real estate pretty high. the voter replied, you got my vote. all right, we have all had the annoying neighbor with a dog that won't stop barking or maybe it is your dog and you can't control it. >> either way, you will want to hear how different places are happening right now, just into the newsroom donald trump's campaign announcing a $2 mli and a new leadership team in that state, 22 days to go before the election, trump playing catch-up. >> trumps wife making the big media rounds, she did interviews with anderson cooper and with fox. interviews will be aired tonight and tomorrow morning we will likely hear her take on the accusations women are media. has been very clear. >> one of his latest tweets referring to this. a new poll numbers he says great numbers especially after a total media hit job. we are learning his son-in- law has talked about starting a trump tv network if trump doesn't win the election according to the financial times, conversation with the network in the past couple of days. trump going all in with his message that the election is rigged. >> mike sacks gives the claims a closer look. >> the election is being rigged by corrupt media pushing completely false allegations and outright lies. in an effort to elect her president. >> that was trump on saturday. on sunday he put the claim in morning he says there is large- scale voter fraud happening on and before election day. >> if, in fact hillary clinton could orchestrate a conspiracy among the local county officials throughout the us to pull off some rigging of the election that would be a good reason to vote for her because you would have to be houdini. >> political lawyers has advised candidates of both parties running at all levels of government, if it is impossible why does he make the claims? >> the point is to delegitimize the election if he loses. >> so what is his advice? >> if you are a fair person and you want to look at the facts, then go talk to your secretary of state talked to the election officials and hear what they no interest in getting clinton elected. >> someone like trump supporting ohio secretary of state john houston. >> institutions like the election system is one of the bed rocks of american democracy, we should not question it. >> for the now, i'm mike sacks. we used to have hurricanes with afternoon thunderstorms and rain e freaking out because it is raining. take a look at this, hollywood boulevard live, it looks sunnier now than it did earlier today, listen, any rain is a big deal because it hasn't rained in 165 days. you know how it is. people forget how to drive in the rain. somebody said together we will it rains. la, where schools practice earthquake drills but no one has any clue what to do on a rainy morning. considering the rain we deal with regularly what do you say? >> it is hilarious. take a look right now they are nice and dry those little bits of green this is a three-hour loop and they didn't even amount to spnk is abnormal for them to see rain or more than a trace of rain between may to october. a big event in la, in our areas we have a few showers but no big deal. a brief shower with sprinkles you can see that it is very isolated. the rain chances are going down from where they have been today over the next couple of days. overnight tonight we are on the dry side and into tomorrow morning we start off with a few clouds, the rain is trying to work its way into the east coast of florida, it does not do a very good job, by noon a slight chance of a sprinkle in polk county but that is it, we are not looking at any high chances for rain in the days ahead, but of course what does we have seen 90 degrees in tampa, 84 is where we should be the record is 93. we are closer to the record then we are to the average temperatures and we should be starting off in the upper 60s, instead we will start off near 70 degrees each morning and our highs are going to be in the upper 80s to near 90 degrees for the next couple of days with at best a 10% chance of cool front comes in, we will have the forecast for my weekend coming up next. you may think a cell phone is the number one reason teenagers are getting into accidents, that is actually wrong, the person sitting next to them is the problem. last week we told you more teenagers are dying in car what makes a good passenger? listen up because these can go for anyone who is in the car driving or riding does not matter your age. first and foremost, don't talk to the driver unless you absolutely have to. it does distract them, secondly it is not just the driver who shouldn't be on their cell phone, the passenger should stay off their cell phone as well. and instead of being on the to change the ac and music and gps so the driver can keep both hands on the wheel. having a passenger act as the navigator puts one more set of eyes on the road. >> this is why i tell my kids i will turn this car around. if you know a family struggling to put food on the table there something you can do about it. rodney dunigan is at ministries to see what we can do. >> always a major event bringing in plenty of families in need of help, metropolitan ministries will serve more than 18,000 families over thanksgiving and christmas. >> the reality is heartbreaking in our community, one in four children live in households that can't afford to put in -- food on the table. we are new in town we don't know nobody. >> able to reach out to metropolitan ministries for help taking advantage of a host of services. >> i can go to the clothes closet i can go to the food pantry and get meals. >> during holiday assistance registration starting today families with children as well as the elderly can sign up for the holiday tent program to ensure they a warm healthy meal on the holidays. >> this is for us to be able to offer what we take for granted. >> associate director of outreach says parents like this have a chance to make sure they have a gift under the that treats of their child. >> the staff side, the community side and what the clients serve is a whole different level. for the children, thankful for the need at hand. >> it shows they have respect for people that really need to take out their time to come help others in need. >> metropolitan ministries tell us the donations are always needed a small amount can help so much. consider this a donor nation of two dollars can help feed a family for the holidays. any little bit can help go to our website, abcactionnews.com where you will find all the information you need. reporting from tampa, rodney dunigan abc action news. we are about three hours away from the rocket launch at a flight facility in virginia carrying supplies to the international space station. the launch was delayed multiple times thanks to hurricane matthew and nicole and last night because they were having equipment issues. tampa bay is in between these outer circles. that means we should be able to see this rocket launch 3 to 5 minutes after it happens. >> here something else prequel, with the weather tonight you may be able to see this, you can catch the whole thing streaming on nasa tv. breast cancer is more likely to happen to african-american women than any other group. >> we look into at be behind the numbers. >> sandra robinson all smiles sitting with her husband. 11 years ago they were sitting in her doctor's office getting a diagnosis that would change her life. >> no one wants to hear that. >> doctors caught her cancer early during her annual mammogram, so she started treatment and is cancer free. >> did you think how important >> many women don't have access to annual mammograms and healthcare. in a recent study, it was found that may be the biggest reason behind the increasing amount of breast cancer deaths. like women are 43% more likely to die from breast cancer than white women. >> without access, without funding, without insurance the diagnosis >> it is an issue that breast radiologists see firsthand magnified by the effects of the great recession. >> a lot of them lost their jobs or postponed screenings. we are seeing women without a mammogram for up to eight years. >> that is why the doctor says his care network offers evening for sandra it is her continuing to live the life she loves. something she wishes for every woman regardless of race. >> you need to speak up for your health. >> just in, the results of the usf straw poll, the students elected clinton over trump. they also elected patrick murphy over marco rubio there, a dog in your neighborhood parking driving you crazy. there are nuisance ordinances around the country including in florida to report an annoying neighboring dog but a county in colorado is taking this a step further. >> they arc encouraging people to get proof of a nonstop barking dog with their cell works. >> we know all dogs bark but it is the yapper's the ones that keep you up at night, now adams county is saying you can use your own cell phone to record the yapping dogs and turn them in. >> man's best friend can be annoying. even to the point when animal control is called. >> the dog next-door might be barking for 15 or 20 minutes officer shows up the dog is quite. >> that is where the power of technology comes in, the county wants to put it in writing that you can use the video camera as evidence. >> if it is time stamped they can use that as one piece of evidence for us to decide if there is a code enforcement issue.>> dogs will bark, to the video. >> i don't like the idea of somebody snooping it is bad enough that you go out anyplace and more than likely you are on camera somewhere. >> adams county does not want anyone trespassing. but if you are on your property you are not breaking any laws you're helping us develop a case. >> how reliable will that be? >> i could get any dog in a and said look, this dog barks and he looks vicious. >> i'm paul lagrone and that is it for "the now tampa bay". "abc action news at 5:30" starts now. >> this is abc action news. the upsetting message directed at an entire community. and the changes in place to put parents at ease. a weekend diving trip takes a deadly turn. the two things that make one popular spot so dangerous. good evening everyone i'm jamison uhler. >> and i'm laura harris. we are learning that two divers died while exploring underwater caves in weeki wachee. we want to take a closer look at the area. patrick peacock and chris rittenmeyer were diving called closer look you can see from the video given to us from a different group of divers, unfortunately not the first time people have died. >> kera mashek diving into the area and what makes it so dangerous. >> and underwater wonderland. but there is a huge sign at the entrance warning you of the dangers before you go down under. the huge network of underwater

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