Hinds. Thank you for joining us tonight. Flooding on the Anclote River in pasco county tonight. Several areas in the area new york city are under evacuation in New Port Richey are under evacuation order. We penitentiary up with Good Samaritans helping the rescue efforts. Kellie cowan talked to two guys who are lending their time and their boat to rescue stranded neighbors. Anchor sorry about that, we will try get story in just a moment. Also in pasco county, governor rick scott touring the city for storm damage. Governor scott had an update from emergency officials on flooding. They are telling the governor the reason the area is seeing so much flooding is because of runoff starting south. Could the saw the damage and talked to home owners in thousand oaks, trinity and the governor said people need to take evacuation notices seriously. This is lifethreatening. Going to happen. We dont know if we are going to get more rain. There are other storms, and this is just the beginning of hurricane season. You can rebuild a house, you can move a house are be mobile and stuff liar that, but you cant change your life. You cant bring it back. Anchor county leaders say the number one task is draining the water. Governor scott said the state is looking into fixing the flooding problems in the community. Marco rubio visited areas hit he will help those cut through red tape in a roundtable discussion, he said he will make sure fema does not forget florida. And Sheriff Grady Judd announcing this morning that the body of missing teen austin welch was recovered from the peace river. Officials say welch dove in along with his mother after his younger sister slip and fell while fishing. The two women survived. Austin did not. His body found a few feet from rushing waters. Sheriff judd called austins actions heroic. Austin passed away saving the life of his sister. A sad event any time you lose a child and makes it extra sad when you think mom was here doing what she should do on a Labor Day Weekend. Spending time with her chi children. Haley an august under way to determine the official cause of death but Officials Say it appears that drowned. Tampa veterinary hospital ising can for help to find a vandal who destroyed their custom sign and left a real mess behind. It happened Early Saturday Morning just before 1 a. M. A surveillance camera caught the whole thing. You can see a group of people running past followed by another crowd walking and all of a sudden a person barrels into the sign, falls with it, and gets up to run away. The hospital says the sign is worth more than 2,000. They tell us they are a small familyowned business and they recognizes them. I think people arent thinking. I mean, thats, first of all, an expensive thing. They could have gotten hurt. But a huge inconvenience. I would rather as a Business Owner be taking care of people and their pets, and my employees, than worrying about a sign, especially on Labor Day Weekend. Mess around and add another three hours to my day yesterday, and i already worked 12 hours. Tampa police are investigating. If you know anything about who did this, give them a call. We are going t our top story tonight. The flooding in pasco county. Fox 13s kellie cowan spent the day with two men who are lending their efforts, their time and their boat to rescue stranded neighbors. You have the plug in. Not going nowhere without a plug. Reporter like so many in the area joe and eric are spending their Labor Day Weekend in a boat. But this is no pleasure cruise. [whistling] reporter joe and eric are on a mission to help pasco neighbors caught in floodwaters. Do you need anything . Most people are either watching sports or just out in the back having a good time with the family, but is my time to give back to the community and and do do my part in it, i guess. Stay to the right. We honestly we we just love helping people. Thats it. Reporter since hurricane hermine hit, they have been out navigating roads that are impassible to cars and checking in on those pinned in by the flooding on saturday, the Anclote River rose rapidly catching many neighbors offguard. Joe and eric went door to door to help rescue families. We came back, picked up two, brought them back. Came back. Reporter kids, adults and pets as well. You hold on little kitties, we will get you home. Reporter serious work. Housekeeping. Reporter by a pair of friends who are having fun doing it. You know, it is pretty there knowing that you can help somebody. I would hope that someone would help me, you know, in i was stuck. Reporter eric and joe brought 17 people and nine of their pets back to dry land saturday. Kitty cat. Reporter after rescuing her kittens and her owner, the pair found this mommy cat in need of their services as well. She will be reunited with her babies thanks to these extremely modest hometown heroes. I wouldnt say we are considered heroes. I would say Good Samaritans out reporter in new port ri richey, kellie cowan, fox 13 news. A large house fire and no hydrants in the area. Hernando county Fire Fighters say that was a recipe for an incredibly destructive fire this morning that broke out shortly after 12 30 a. M. It was fully engulfed in smoke and flames when crews arrived but due to the lack of fire hydrants they had to bring in water tankers and shuttle water to the scene. The home is a total loss. The two People Living there hurt. The red cross is helping them find a place to stay. St. Pete police say a man walking along 18th avenue south overnight was killed when he stepped into the street and was hit by an oncoming car. 54yearold emory carter was thrown to the roadside when the driver of a ford sedan hit him. Paramedics rushed carter to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. We are told there are no criminal charges pending. Detectives say alcohol was not a factor in the crash. Still ahead, celebrating for a good cause. Anchor behind the biggest charitable surf fest in the world bringing thousands of people to florida this weekend. And a nice time in florida. Right, mike. Mi mike good day at the beach and more storms inland. We will look at the storms and its the final days of the ford freedom sales event. And the deals just got better. . Im free to do what i want and have a good time. . Just announced 0 financing plus 500 labor day cash across the entire 2016 ford lineup. And specially tagged vehicles get an extra 1000 smart bonus cash. And freedom to choose with ford. Americas bestselling brand. . Im free, baby . Hurry. Get 0 for 72 and 500 labor day cash across the entire ford lineup. Plus specially tagged vehicles get another 1000 while the kids are back while the kids are back in school well, the kids back in cool here in the bay area in weekend is the last hurrah for most of the country before summer ends. Haley reporting from cocoa beach on a surfing competition that brought thousands of people to our state this Labor Day Weekend to celebrate for a good cause. Reporter thousands of people packing cocoa beach this labor they are here to enjoy the sun, sand and, of course, the surf. This weekend marks the 31st annual National Kidney foundation rich, solid serve festival, the biggest charitable surf fest in the world. 00 of all the money raised goes directly to the National Kidney foundation of florida, and that money stays in florida and helps kidney patients that are on dialysis or in need of a transplant. Reporter the event has a little bit of everything from food and fun to competition. On the main stage and they are awesome and the really cool part of the event are the amateur surfer. Poly wogs 9 and and you and 4yearolds in the contest. They are fun to watch. Reporter if you stop by a chance to meet guests of honor like blake adams, a true fighter who just received his second kidney transplant back in december. When i was on dialysis, i couldnt play, like, i couldnt do wheelies on my bike. After i got my kidney transplant over again. Reporter each year the event continues to grow raising 4 million to date. It is really cool to see the Community Come out and support the cities behind us. West gate pier is here sponsoring the event. Long johns is a sponsor. A fun event to be a part of. Reporter gina benitez, fox 13 news. And most of us had sunny skies but people in the northeast are bracing for a as we. As we speak, coastal new jersey is bracing for hermines gusty winds and strong surf. Haley places like ocean city are not taking any cha chances. Business owners are spending thweekend stocking up onon s sandbags and moving inventory out of the way. Many are frustrated that the storm is hijacking the last unofficial tourist season and still they know they have to be ready. State of emergency for several counties including ocean city. A trippers dont come. People who have rented think, i am going to leave early friday and not stay friday and saturday, and people who are coming saturday say, i am going to wait until monday. But, you know, we will revamp. Haley Tropical Storm warnings remain in effect for most of the jersey coastline. And mike is here, mike, you know, its people forget that this is still going on out there mike amazing how far this system is coming. It is post tropical but the effects are still the same. The good news we talked about this last night at 6 00 and we were watching this storm as it moved eastnortheast and waiting for it to slow down and waiting for it to turn. It is still kind of waiting for that turn. The effects for the jersey coastline there for much of new england, midatlantic, kind of dodging a bullet with this. It is still going to be pretty bad. We are still going to see minor to moderate coastal flooding as we thought would be 24 hours ago and hermine continuing to throw curveballs out there. Aaron that map you showed yesterday the band of rain dragged all the way to the u. S. , the east coast. Mike we will get to that. I do want to get to this because sunday night, 6 00. We dont have too many of these shows in the fall, so it is weather trivia night. Aaron time to get a question wrong. [ laughter ] mike this has to do with hurricanes. While we were focusing in on hermine, were basically in the crosshair of two hurricanes that actually missed them thugh, one to the south and one to the north. They got spared too. What was the effect . Why did they get . The corolis effect, the pujiora, the k a dpshtion estrophic flow or the isotropic list. I made sure because last time i couldnt pronounce any of th these. Corosis effect is. I know what that is because i took entry level geography in college. Paid off one day. Mike 25 . Haley are all made up. Mike all of these are legitimate weather terms. I did think about making them up but legitimate weather terms. Think about it. Get it down. We will talk about this at 10 00 and go into more details with with exactly what the answer is, but i want to get to this because i mean, the weather has been so bad at the beaches for just the last four or five days. Finally get a break, and what a day it was. Beaches absolutely packed as they should be with this weather. Hilton, Clearwater Beach cam great weather out there right now. Sirata beach looking nice as well. We have boats on the water. The waves obviously down significantly from what they were. Inland, it is kind of a different story and a different story this evening. We will see big storms out there. A lot of you folks have evening we are going to have to check in with that and sure enough, down toward polk city, the north side of lakeland, au auburndale and haines city, this storm right here and there is a ton of lightning with this home run so if you are watching right flow haines city and you are planning on, perhaps, grilling outside or doing some outdoor activities, you will want to rethink that if that is over the next hour or so. This storm headed your way and with the lightning with this, you want to be indoors as that moves through. Beside that, not a whole lot of activity. Continue to expand inland through the rest of tonight. And currently 24. 11 feet. So still above major flood stage, but down from the crest that it was last night, late last night. 25. 1 feet. It wont drop below flood stage until midday tuesday, but it should drop below major flood stage later on this evening. Good news with the Anclote River there. Rainfall. Now this has been credible. The first few days of the month. We are at three inches in ta tampa. Yes areas that are well above that for the last few days. You look at where we are for the year, just shy of 50 inches. Typical year in tampa. We average about 46. 5 inches. So already above our yearly total. And here we are just in the first week of september. That is pretty incredible. 91 degrees our high today. 77 our low. So the heat starting to return across the area. 89 the current temperature. Dew point at 75. Other temps, 85 in New Port Richey, 84 76 in leesburg. With the showers rolling through. 93 down in lake placid. 93 in sebring. Here is the latest on hermine. And winds 70 miles per hour. Notice it is a little farther east and still moving to the eastnortheast. Still good news up there. Satellite and radar across rest of the state showing the showers and storms working southward with that northerly wind and this all extenldz now back to the east. There is hermine, right. You get that band kind of of moisture. The good news though as we head through the next couple of days the plume of moisture drops a little farther south and we drop our rain chances. Rain chances by the middle of the week significantly lower than what they have been. 76 for tonight. Evening storms and clearing. For tomorrow, 91, scattered afternoon storms building west. Here your sevenday forecast. Rain chances 50 for tomorrow. But by tuesday, 20 rain chances, highest rain chances tuesday will be to the south. Likewise wednesday and thursday and they will climb back up to where we typically should be 40 to 50 rain chances. Hey, kevin. Kevin the rays dont have a lot to brag about but had a chance to win a Season Series against a team most likely going to the playoffs. And Willie Taggert on the bulls Season Opener. He did like what he saw or the bigger question did his daughter. A complete update on the gators vo we went to hollywood to ask if americas favorites burgers, tacos and chili could taste just as great made with turkey. With just one bite, they knew. Now its your turn to make the switch. Z23ppz zy6z kevin sports willie kevin sports Willie Taggart well, Willie Taggert thought his gulf coast offense could have been a little better especially in the first half of the Season Opener but no denying that the bulls go the it going. Usf finished the night tying a School Record for most points in the taggert had to be pleased with how the bulls ay offense. Usf scored four touchdowns in the first 2 22. Two came on the very first plays of the drive. Quentin flowers led the offensive pile up 444 yards and finish night with four touchdowns, two in the air and two on the ground. Usfs defense can be better gave up 20 point against a soft, soft team here but also overall, the bulls boss liked what he saw on the night at times, but as you can see though, a need to whistle after the postgame news conference. At times at times i thought we were going fast and the tempo was going fast and a lot of good things happened to us. A lot of mistakes here and there and guy missed a block here and there and hurt tempo and you use your heart or blown coverage or blown assignment it slows down the tempo and that is when things didnt look well for us but we were going at a pace that we are capable of going. Good things happen for us. We can be better. Reporter definitely going to need new whistle though. Gators opened the season like they did a year ago. Unimpressive and this wasnt the opener and game two where carolina a year ago. Florida managed one touchdown against umass and they are a weak team, a team they were favored to beat by 36 points. Penalties were the main problem that slowed down the gators offense and offense that put the ball in the air 44 times. Luke del rio making his first start finding rhythm in the Fourth Quarter tossing the second touchdown. Perfect on special teams. The major problem last season. Freshman Eddie Pineiro connected on three field goals. And the coach was a little chilly after the game when asked about so many passes. No, i mean, thats kind of who we want to be a little bit. And i dont know, is that a lot or not enough . Or what do you think. More than any game last season. Really . Well, to me that wasnt very many. Offensive players, how many do we have . Seven. Didnt study enough. If you were going to ask questions, you got to know, nice question though. I like the way you prepare yourself coming to it. Thats good. I like that. Wow, he really got on him. The gators had 73 plays, 24 masses coach and 29 runs. The seminole have the opening week staged actual themselves. Tomorrow night fsu played in the citrus bowl against ole miss. Game is a sell out. The second time under jimbo shirt freshman. Francois will make the first start. The noles on dalvin cook to carry the in the opener with francois managing the oven. A strong statement with the big win over ole miss. The noles open the season ranked fourth in the nation, and one of the favorites to make his way to tampa, jimbo fisher likes this big test early. Atmosphere that, you know, if you were fortunate enough to get in a bull game, major playoff game, you get that atmosphere and environment. You get that again and i think it is Great National exposure and you get to play an opponent you dont always get to play, a topnotch opponent in a big situation like that on national tv and you get to find out where you are at. The bucs opening week roster seems complete. They brought back 9 players they cut for the practice squad and added former baltimore wide receiver Jeremy Butler from sarasota. Not getting the call bac